1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,195 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Groups 2 00:00:22,275 --> 00:00:26,235 Speaker 1: of Congressional Democrats have now separately called for investigations of 3 00:00:26,315 --> 00:00:31,155 Speaker 1: Galllooft and his influence on Congressional Republicans, Investigations by the 4 00:00:31,195 --> 00:00:34,795 Speaker 1: House Armed Services Committee, by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, 5 00:00:34,795 --> 00:00:37,795 Speaker 1: by the House Select Committee on China, and by the 6 00:00:37,795 --> 00:00:42,915 Speaker 1: House Oversight Committee. Investigations into the obvious security breaches and 7 00:00:42,955 --> 00:00:46,595 Speaker 1: the potential national security threat of relying on somebody who 8 00:00:46,675 --> 00:00:51,595 Speaker 1: may be a spy for China. Ray Epps is suing 9 00:00:51,715 --> 00:00:54,955 Speaker 1: Fox and Tucker Carlson for defamation and is using the 10 00:00:54,995 --> 00:00:58,275 Speaker 1: same local lawyer dominion voting systems used and based on 11 00:00:58,315 --> 00:01:00,355 Speaker 1: the filing, it looks like ray Apps will wind up 12 00:01:00,355 --> 00:01:04,635 Speaker 1: owning Tucker Carlson and maybe Fox as well, and Trump 13 00:01:04,955 --> 00:01:09,555 Speaker 1: stochastic terrorist who went to kill Obama after Trump doxed 14 00:01:09,595 --> 00:01:14,555 Speaker 1: Obama will stay in jail until trial. Let us start 15 00:01:14,555 --> 00:01:17,795 Speaker 1: with gall Luft and overside Chairman James Comer, and whether 16 00:01:17,835 --> 00:01:22,315 Speaker 1: Comer and his fellow travelers are Looft's minders or inventors, 17 00:01:22,875 --> 00:01:29,835 Speaker 1: or programmers or marionettes or what It is not quite 18 00:01:29,875 --> 00:01:33,555 Speaker 1: the full throated investigation of Jamie Comer and Ron Johnson 19 00:01:33,595 --> 00:01:36,715 Speaker 1: and Nancy Mace and Jim Jordan and all the others 20 00:01:36,915 --> 00:01:40,115 Speaker 1: who are figuratively in bed with a Chinese agent who 21 00:01:40,155 --> 00:01:43,395 Speaker 1: also works for Iran and is also an international fugitive 22 00:01:43,435 --> 00:01:46,995 Speaker 1: from justice, which I called for here yesterday. However, the 23 00:01:47,075 --> 00:01:51,115 Speaker 1: ranking Democrat on the scandal factory that Comer has turned 24 00:01:51,115 --> 00:01:55,275 Speaker 1: the Oversight Committee into is Jamie Raskin, and Jamie Raskin 25 00:01:55,395 --> 00:01:59,355 Speaker 1: and Congressman Dan Goldman have written to Comer quote, calling 26 00:01:59,395 --> 00:02:02,595 Speaker 1: for an investigation into whether Committee Republicans may have relied 27 00:02:02,635 --> 00:02:10,555 Speaker 1: on false statements or misinformation provided by Gallloft. Just as importantly, 28 00:02:10,635 --> 00:02:13,755 Speaker 1: Rascin and Goldman note that Comer and the Republicans have 29 00:02:13,875 --> 00:02:18,755 Speaker 1: refused to share any documents from or about Gallloft, or 30 00:02:18,795 --> 00:02:22,635 Speaker 1: any information provided by gall Looft with Democrats on the 31 00:02:22,635 --> 00:02:27,475 Speaker 1: same committee. Rascin and Goldman ad quote, given Chairman Comber's 32 00:02:27,475 --> 00:02:31,075 Speaker 1: own public endorsements of mister Luft's information, there is no 33 00:02:31,235 --> 00:02:35,915 Speaker 1: plausible basis for Republicans to withhold from Committee Democrats any 34 00:02:35,995 --> 00:02:40,835 Speaker 1: and all information un quote that Looft has provided, including 35 00:02:40,995 --> 00:02:44,515 Speaker 1: quote any information that led Committee Republicans to conclude that 36 00:02:44,595 --> 00:02:48,755 Speaker 1: Looft is a quote very credible witness despite being under 37 00:02:48,875 --> 00:02:55,595 Speaker 1: indictment and a fugitive from justice unquote, if the rascin 38 00:02:55,635 --> 00:02:59,155 Speaker 1: Goldman demand for an investigation into Looft and his influence 39 00:02:59,275 --> 00:03:02,195 Speaker 1: over Comer and the others is not sufficient evidence that 40 00:03:02,235 --> 00:03:04,595 Speaker 1: Comer has crawled out onto the very end of the 41 00:03:04,835 --> 00:03:09,995 Speaker 1: limb and then sawed it off behind him, Florida Congressman 42 00:03:10,075 --> 00:03:13,235 Speaker 1: Jared Moskowitz has asked how Select Committee on China Chair 43 00:03:13,315 --> 00:03:17,195 Speaker 1: Mike Gallagher to launch an investigation into Luft, who, as 44 00:03:17,235 --> 00:03:21,475 Speaker 1: Moscowitz wrote, Rogers is now quote charged with arms trafficking, 45 00:03:21,595 --> 00:03:26,195 Speaker 1: sanctions violations, and acting as an unregistered foreign agent for China. 46 00:03:27,155 --> 00:03:31,475 Speaker 1: Moskowitz just barely touched the charge that Loof bribed a 47 00:03:31,515 --> 00:03:35,195 Speaker 1: member of the transition team for the then President elect Trump, 48 00:03:35,515 --> 00:03:39,955 Speaker 1: widely reported to be the former CIA director James Woolsey. Quote. 49 00:03:40,235 --> 00:03:44,595 Speaker 1: Despite this damning eight count indictment, members of the majority 50 00:03:44,675 --> 00:03:47,675 Speaker 1: on the Oversight Committee are still trying to obtain mister 51 00:03:47,755 --> 00:03:52,475 Speaker 1: Loot's testimony to validate their conspiracy theories about the Biden family. 52 00:03:53,075 --> 00:03:56,995 Speaker 1: The lengths to which Chairman Comer and other members are 53 00:03:57,075 --> 00:04:01,035 Speaker 1: willing to go to sell these theories to the American 54 00:04:01,075 --> 00:04:05,955 Speaker 1: people and influence the twenty twenty four presidential election extend 55 00:04:06,155 --> 00:04:15,115 Speaker 1: into a dangerous realm, one that may jeopardize national security. Unquote, 56 00:04:16,315 --> 00:04:21,315 Speaker 1: and of course Congressman Marskowitz is goddamned right and what 57 00:04:21,395 --> 00:04:25,675 Speaker 1: he says cannot be repeated too often. Galllooft is credibly 58 00:04:25,715 --> 00:04:30,475 Speaker 1: accused of acting as an unregistered agent. Spy may not 59 00:04:30,515 --> 00:04:35,315 Speaker 1: be too strong a term for China. Key Republicans, including 60 00:04:35,315 --> 00:04:38,875 Speaker 1: the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, are relying for information, 61 00:04:39,275 --> 00:04:43,755 Speaker 1: whether the information is true, partially true, or utter contemptible 62 00:04:43,795 --> 00:04:49,475 Speaker 1: fiction that has been provided by a Chinese agent. As 63 00:04:49,555 --> 00:04:54,075 Speaker 1: Moskowitz writes to Gallagher, enabling a Chinese backed Iranian arms 64 00:04:54,075 --> 00:04:58,555 Speaker 1: supplier and making him a centerpiece of oversight investigations calls 65 00:04:58,555 --> 00:05:02,635 Speaker 1: into question whether the Chinese Communist Party has tainted the 66 00:05:02,715 --> 00:05:08,675 Speaker 1: Oversight Committee and its work. In his choice of the 67 00:05:08,715 --> 00:05:13,595 Speaker 1: word tainted, Representative Moscowitz is I feel being conservative and polite. 68 00:05:14,355 --> 00:05:19,835 Speaker 1: This is no longer about the corrupt, dishonest, shameful, sleezy 69 00:05:20,035 --> 00:05:24,875 Speaker 1: lies and defamation spread by this jackass comer and his 70 00:05:24,955 --> 00:05:29,035 Speaker 1: fellow jackass Republicans who will literally stop at nothing to 71 00:05:29,115 --> 00:05:32,955 Speaker 1: promote their own jackass careers and damage a present and 72 00:05:33,115 --> 00:05:36,955 Speaker 1: damage this country. This is beyond that. Now, this is 73 00:05:37,475 --> 00:05:41,875 Speaker 1: national security. This is the open question of what other 74 00:05:42,035 --> 00:05:47,115 Speaker 1: influence Gollloft and his Chinese interests, the ones he represents 75 00:05:47,275 --> 00:05:51,875 Speaker 1: have wielded on Comer and the others, if other representations 76 00:05:51,915 --> 00:05:57,795 Speaker 1: there may be. Jamie Comer is now doing exactly what 77 00:05:57,875 --> 00:06:01,715 Speaker 1: the Chinese would want him to do. Ron Johnson is 78 00:06:02,115 --> 00:06:05,195 Speaker 1: now doing exactly what the Chinese would want want him 79 00:06:05,235 --> 00:06:09,195 Speaker 1: to do. Nancy Mace is now doing exactly what the 80 00:06:09,315 --> 00:06:13,275 Speaker 1: Chinese would want her to do. Jim Jordan is now 81 00:06:13,315 --> 00:06:17,755 Speaker 1: doing exactly what the Chinese would want him to do. 82 00:06:20,795 --> 00:06:23,515 Speaker 1: Jared Moskowitz is clearly as pissed off about this as 83 00:06:23,555 --> 00:06:26,995 Speaker 1: you and I are. He has also asked Armed Services 84 00:06:26,995 --> 00:06:30,715 Speaker 1: Committee Chair Rogers and Foreign Affairs Committee Chair McFall to 85 00:06:30,835 --> 00:06:38,195 Speaker 1: conduct congressional briefings about goll Luft, quoting again on their own, 86 00:06:38,275 --> 00:06:41,115 Speaker 1: mister Luf's interactions with Iran and on behalf of the 87 00:06:41,155 --> 00:06:45,555 Speaker 1: People's Republic of China seriously threaten our national interests and 88 00:06:45,595 --> 00:06:50,355 Speaker 1: those of our allies. However, he continues, this individual has 89 00:06:50,395 --> 00:06:53,075 Speaker 1: been embraced and elevated by the chairman of the House 90 00:06:53,115 --> 00:06:56,475 Speaker 1: Oversight Committee, which I believe increases the risk to our 91 00:06:56,595 --> 00:07:00,155 Speaker 1: national security that mister Loof presents, as well as the 92 00:07:00,195 --> 00:07:03,195 Speaker 1: integrity of the committee. I ask that you hold a 93 00:07:03,235 --> 00:07:06,835 Speaker 1: briefing to examine the im pact of mister Luft's dealing 94 00:07:06,875 --> 00:07:12,035 Speaker 1: with Iran and China and any security breaches resulting from 95 00:07:12,035 --> 00:07:19,115 Speaker 1: his actions. Unquote. Moskowitz and Raskin and Goldman in tandem 96 00:07:19,195 --> 00:07:20,995 Speaker 1: are right on the money here, but these are only 97 00:07:21,035 --> 00:07:24,995 Speaker 1: first steps. This is now about James Comer and the 98 00:07:25,035 --> 00:07:31,435 Speaker 1: House Oversight Committee and what influence Chinese interests have over both. 99 00:07:33,195 --> 00:07:36,315 Speaker 1: This certainly needs to be examined within the non insane 100 00:07:36,395 --> 00:07:39,075 Speaker 1: parts of the House Republican Caucus, but it is too 101 00:07:39,155 --> 00:07:43,835 Speaker 1: important to be left in any venue in which amoral, irresponsible, 102 00:07:43,955 --> 00:07:48,675 Speaker 1: disloyal Republican political acts have a say or a vote. 103 00:07:48,795 --> 00:07:53,315 Speaker 1: If the questions are indeed about quote security breaches, quote 104 00:07:53,435 --> 00:07:58,115 Speaker 1: our national interests and those of our allies quote national security. 105 00:07:58,875 --> 00:08:01,355 Speaker 1: If those are the stakes, then the investigation needs to 106 00:08:01,395 --> 00:08:03,915 Speaker 1: be conducted by the Office of Homeland Security and the 107 00:08:03,915 --> 00:08:06,675 Speaker 1: Office of the Director drive National Intelligence. Because while the 108 00:08:06,755 --> 00:08:12,275 Speaker 1: big red, rotating blaring siren may be this man Gollloft, 109 00:08:13,315 --> 00:08:15,715 Speaker 1: he is not a sitting member of the House or 110 00:08:15,795 --> 00:08:19,875 Speaker 1: the Senate, and this nation needs to know immediately to 111 00:08:19,995 --> 00:08:25,235 Speaker 1: what degree if any Congressman Comber, Congressman Jordan, Congresswoman Mace, 112 00:08:25,475 --> 00:08:29,795 Speaker 1: Senator Johnson, and other Republicans may have been compromised by 113 00:08:29,875 --> 00:08:33,995 Speaker 1: China or may have been targets for compromise by China. 114 00:08:35,195 --> 00:08:39,115 Speaker 1: There is, It turns out, as the Republicans have been saying, 115 00:08:39,395 --> 00:08:43,195 Speaker 1: a foreign influenced scandal inside the government of the United States, 116 00:08:43,435 --> 00:08:46,995 Speaker 1: and it exists at this hour, and the smell is 117 00:08:47,035 --> 00:08:51,515 Speaker 1: coming from inside the offices of the House Committee on 118 00:08:51,755 --> 00:09:01,955 Speaker 1: Oversight and Accountability James Comer, Chairman. And now to the 119 00:09:02,155 --> 00:09:05,755 Speaker 1: unexpected good news from the Trump bid to get somebody 120 00:09:05,755 --> 00:09:09,475 Speaker 1: to attack Barack Obama or his family or just his 121 00:09:09,635 --> 00:09:16,035 Speaker 1: home by remote control. Taylor Taranto will now be held 122 00:09:16,075 --> 00:09:21,435 Speaker 1: without bail until trial. You will recall this terrifying timeline. 123 00:09:21,435 --> 00:09:24,635 Speaker 1: Sometime in late May or early June, Taylor Taranto, a 124 00:09:24,715 --> 00:09:28,915 Speaker 1: January sixth defendant not yet arrested, had begun living in 125 00:09:28,955 --> 00:09:34,195 Speaker 1: a van near the Washington Jail, where many conspirators, either 126 00:09:34,355 --> 00:09:40,875 Speaker 1: convicted or awaiting trial were serving their time. On Thursday, 127 00:09:40,955 --> 00:09:43,875 Speaker 1: June twenty eighth, Trump, who has refined the process of 128 00:09:44,195 --> 00:09:47,995 Speaker 1: terrorism by proxy to a science posted on social media 129 00:09:48,075 --> 00:09:53,395 Speaker 1: what he said was Barack Obama's home address. Taylor Toronto 130 00:09:53,675 --> 00:09:57,675 Speaker 1: reposted Trump's unspoken call for his cultists to go there 131 00:09:57,915 --> 00:10:01,275 Speaker 1: and added quote, we got those losers surrounded. See you 132 00:10:01,395 --> 00:10:06,915 Speaker 1: in hell, Podesta's and Obama's. Years later, Taylor Toronto began 133 00:10:06,955 --> 00:10:10,595 Speaker 1: to live stream from the Obama neighborhood, saying he had 134 00:10:10,675 --> 00:10:14,835 Speaker 1: quote control en quote of a block that he was 135 00:10:14,875 --> 00:10:19,675 Speaker 1: searching for quote entrance points and the quote tunnels underneath 136 00:10:19,715 --> 00:10:23,155 Speaker 1: their houses and was looking for quote a good angle 137 00:10:23,315 --> 00:10:28,875 Speaker 1: on a shot. Police arrested Taylor Toronto on the outstanding 138 00:10:28,955 --> 00:10:32,555 Speaker 1: January sixth warrants, and they found in his truck which 139 00:10:32,555 --> 00:10:36,355 Speaker 1: he was living in, two of the twenty guns registered 140 00:10:36,395 --> 00:10:38,555 Speaker 1: in his name, along with hundreds of rounds of ammunition. 141 00:10:40,875 --> 00:10:45,235 Speaker 1: Prosecutors understandably asked US Badgistrate Judge Zia Ferruki to detain 142 00:10:45,315 --> 00:10:48,275 Speaker 1: Toronto indefinitely. And that's when one of the creaking corners 143 00:10:48,275 --> 00:10:51,955 Speaker 1: of the law which Trump has so magnificently manipulated these 144 00:10:52,035 --> 00:10:55,755 Speaker 1: long eight years, seemed to come to his proxy's aid, 145 00:10:56,595 --> 00:11:00,235 Speaker 1: because Toronto had been arrested only on those January sixth 146 00:11:00,315 --> 00:11:03,955 Speaker 1: charges the only argument US attorneys could make for detaining 147 00:11:04,035 --> 00:11:08,795 Speaker 1: him without was this profoundly disturbed and clearly potentially violent 148 00:11:08,875 --> 00:11:15,675 Speaker 1: man's relative likelihood as a flight risk. Judge Faruki quite 149 00:11:15,755 --> 00:11:18,435 Speaker 1: reasonably asked what he was supposed to do about this 150 00:11:18,555 --> 00:11:22,355 Speaker 1: man if he was to find that Taranto was in 151 00:11:22,395 --> 00:11:27,835 Speaker 1: fact not a flight risk. Happily, Farruki found a way out. 152 00:11:27,875 --> 00:11:30,075 Speaker 1: He adjourned for nearly a week a hearing in which 153 00:11:30,075 --> 00:11:33,875 Speaker 1: Taranto's public defender demanded his release on bond, and yesterday 154 00:11:33,875 --> 00:11:39,075 Speaker 1: Farruki ordered the man held indefinitely while prosecutors develop other 155 00:11:39,195 --> 00:11:42,795 Speaker 1: charges against him. Faruki said, the quote temperature is way 156 00:11:42,835 --> 00:11:46,355 Speaker 1: too high in our political discussions unquote. He added that 157 00:11:46,395 --> 00:11:50,515 Speaker 1: the consequences could be quote catastrophic if Taranto were released 158 00:11:50,555 --> 00:11:53,355 Speaker 1: and was free to do the things that he thought 159 00:11:53,755 --> 00:11:57,395 Speaker 1: in his warped mind that elected officials were telling him 160 00:11:57,435 --> 00:12:03,155 Speaker 1: to do. Translation. Faraki believes Taranto could still be a 161 00:12:03,195 --> 00:12:07,315 Speaker 1: trump stochastic terrorist and could still easily head to Obama's 162 00:12:07,355 --> 00:12:13,195 Speaker 1: house or anywhere to do anything he thought would please Trump. 163 00:12:14,875 --> 00:12:19,235 Speaker 1: It is Dracula and Renfield all over again. The judge 164 00:12:19,235 --> 00:12:21,635 Speaker 1: said the nation had failed Taranto by not getting him 165 00:12:21,635 --> 00:12:24,795 Speaker 1: the help he needed for his PTSD after service INTERAQ. 166 00:12:24,835 --> 00:12:27,755 Speaker 1: And that is true, and frankly, unfortunately right now that 167 00:12:27,915 --> 00:12:31,915 Speaker 1: is irrelevant to the national safety. But without naming names, 168 00:12:31,955 --> 00:12:34,595 Speaker 1: the judge made it clear he thought others were morally 169 00:12:34,715 --> 00:12:38,795 Speaker 1: responsible for this nightmare. Quote where are the people telling 170 00:12:38,875 --> 00:12:43,995 Speaker 1: you do things? He asked, Taranto, where are they? They're 171 00:12:43,995 --> 00:12:50,715 Speaker 1: not here unquote. I'll take that question, judge. The leader 172 00:12:50,755 --> 00:12:54,075 Speaker 1: of them is in Florida. He is poisoning other minds 173 00:12:54,075 --> 00:12:56,955 Speaker 1: as we speak, and also as we speak, he is 174 00:12:56,995 --> 00:13:00,555 Speaker 1: trying to steal again the ultimate power of this nation. 175 00:13:04,995 --> 00:13:07,955 Speaker 1: And as I reported to you two days ago, Ray Epps, 176 00:13:08,595 --> 00:13:13,715 Speaker 1: hardly innocent but clearly a bystander, has indeed sued Fox 177 00:13:13,835 --> 00:13:18,715 Speaker 1: News for defamation and false light characterization. And he has 178 00:13:18,755 --> 00:13:21,835 Speaker 1: sued them in the same jurisdiction in Delaware using the 179 00:13:21,875 --> 00:13:25,355 Speaker 1: same local attorney Dominion used when Dominion won an eight 180 00:13:25,475 --> 00:13:28,395 Speaker 1: hundred million dollars settlement just before that trial was to begin, 181 00:13:29,355 --> 00:13:32,075 Speaker 1: and his lawsuit is peppered with references to the lies 182 00:13:32,155 --> 00:13:36,155 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson told about him that the suit claims destroyed 183 00:13:36,235 --> 00:13:38,795 Speaker 1: the lives of Epps and his wife and forced them 184 00:13:38,835 --> 00:13:41,595 Speaker 1: to flee their home and go live in an RV 185 00:13:41,915 --> 00:13:47,475 Speaker 1: in an undisclosed location. I have detailed the EPP's case 186 00:13:47,515 --> 00:13:52,955 Speaker 1: here Before the day Fox fired the vermin Tucker Carlson, 187 00:13:53,715 --> 00:13:56,875 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson was ready to do yet another segment, his 188 00:13:57,155 --> 00:14:01,995 Speaker 1: eighteenth or nineteenth or twentieth on how Ray Epps, a 189 00:14:02,075 --> 00:14:05,875 Speaker 1: staunch conservative, a true believer the election had been stolen 190 00:14:05,915 --> 00:14:09,595 Speaker 1: from Trump, had the night of January fifth and early 191 00:14:09,675 --> 00:14:13,755 Speaker 1: on the day of January sixth urge protesters, including the 192 00:14:13,795 --> 00:14:18,435 Speaker 1: infamous Moron Baked, Alaska, to go to the US capital 193 00:14:18,595 --> 00:14:22,715 Speaker 1: on the sixth, But when they got there and violence erupted, 194 00:14:22,755 --> 00:14:26,635 Speaker 1: Epps suddenly turned away. He never himself entered the capital. 195 00:14:26,715 --> 00:14:29,755 Speaker 1: He tried to stop the violence he encountered. Unlike literally 196 00:14:29,795 --> 00:14:34,195 Speaker 1: one thousand others, Ray Epps was not arrested, not yet Anyway, 197 00:14:36,075 --> 00:14:39,435 Speaker 1: Carlson and others on foxlaw Ingram did it at least 198 00:14:39,435 --> 00:14:44,035 Speaker 1: once concluded, fabricated that there was only one possible explanation 199 00:14:44,155 --> 00:14:48,155 Speaker 1: for this behavior, that they could not understand, that Epps 200 00:14:48,235 --> 00:14:54,915 Speaker 1: must be a provocateur, that he was planted by the FBI. Yeah, 201 00:14:54,995 --> 00:14:59,235 Speaker 1: the FBI, He was planted by the FBI to foment 202 00:14:59,435 --> 00:15:06,715 Speaker 1: an insurrection to make Trump look bad. In the diseased, vengeful, 203 00:15:06,835 --> 00:15:10,795 Speaker 1: racist mind of Tucker Carlson, two simple facts never broke 204 00:15:10,915 --> 00:15:16,235 Speaker 1: through the clutter. The FBI was under Donald Trump's control 205 00:15:16,395 --> 00:15:21,035 Speaker 1: at the time, and since there was no evidence, none 206 00:15:21,275 --> 00:15:25,475 Speaker 1: of anybody but Trump fomenting the coup attempt, that was 207 00:15:25,595 --> 00:15:30,915 Speaker 1: on his behalf. A logical person not filled with insane 208 00:15:31,155 --> 00:15:34,635 Speaker 1: rage like Tucker Carlson, would have recognized that Epps had 209 00:15:34,675 --> 00:15:38,955 Speaker 1: simply believed he was heading to a peaceful protest and 210 00:15:39,115 --> 00:15:42,075 Speaker 1: was appalled by the destruction and the violence and recoiled 211 00:15:42,115 --> 00:15:45,115 Speaker 1: like a responsible human being, the kind of person Tucker 212 00:15:45,155 --> 00:15:51,515 Speaker 1: Carlson deplores and mocks on an hourly basis. The EPP's 213 00:15:51,595 --> 00:15:54,755 Speaker 1: lawsuit is hardly a slam dunk, but it is filled 214 00:15:54,795 --> 00:15:57,875 Speaker 1: with things Carlson or his guests said that will be 215 00:15:58,035 --> 00:16:02,395 Speaker 1: nearly impossible for Fox to defend. Just six months ago, 216 00:16:02,515 --> 00:16:06,195 Speaker 1: Carlson again emphasized that Epps had not yet been charged. 217 00:16:06,515 --> 00:16:10,555 Speaker 1: Quote why is that, Well, let's just stop lying at 218 00:16:10,555 --> 00:16:14,755 Speaker 1: this point. It's pretty obvious why that is. In other 219 00:16:14,835 --> 00:16:19,515 Speaker 1: shows over an eighteen month span, Carlson and his guests 220 00:16:19,675 --> 00:16:24,315 Speaker 1: hammered Ray Epps again and again with no evidence, and 221 00:16:24,475 --> 00:16:27,875 Speaker 1: called him the quote stage manager of January sixth, the 222 00:16:27,955 --> 00:16:34,115 Speaker 1: quote smoking gun of the entire fed surrection. And then 223 00:16:34,155 --> 00:16:38,075 Speaker 1: there is one paragraph that is the most problematic for 224 00:16:38,155 --> 00:16:42,355 Speaker 1: Fox and for Carlson, and one wonders how or if 225 00:16:42,475 --> 00:16:46,155 Speaker 1: Epps will amend his lawsuit if Carlson picks this up 226 00:16:46,155 --> 00:16:48,915 Speaker 1: on his Twitter program, which I believe is called the 227 00:16:49,035 --> 00:16:54,355 Speaker 1: law of diminishing returns. During the last gasp of Tucker 228 00:16:54,395 --> 00:16:58,635 Speaker 1: Carlson on Fox, his big reveal of the unseen video 229 00:16:58,755 --> 00:17:01,675 Speaker 1: from January sixth that was personally handed to him by 230 00:17:01,715 --> 00:17:04,635 Speaker 1: the speaker weasel of the House, Kevin McCarthy, the review 231 00:17:04,955 --> 00:17:09,995 Speaker 1: that turned out to be so underwhelming, so boring, so 232 00:17:10,235 --> 00:17:13,155 Speaker 1: meaningless that Carlson only showed a few minutes of it, 233 00:17:13,195 --> 00:17:16,115 Speaker 1: and some of that two and three times per clip. 234 00:17:17,275 --> 00:17:21,315 Speaker 1: In that last gasp, Tucker Carlson and Fox News figuratively 235 00:17:21,395 --> 00:17:25,955 Speaker 1: hanged themselves in terms of this lawsuit. On March eleventh, 236 00:17:26,075 --> 00:17:31,235 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Tucker Carlson showed video that showed pretty 237 00:17:31,275 --> 00:17:35,515 Speaker 1: much nothing, but then he said that this video proved 238 00:17:36,195 --> 00:17:40,315 Speaker 1: the January sixth coup attempt was a false flag, quoting 239 00:17:40,355 --> 00:17:43,595 Speaker 1: the fired host that night March eleven. A lot of 240 00:17:43,595 --> 00:17:47,555 Speaker 1: this was clearly influenced by federal agents or informants. It 241 00:17:47,715 --> 00:17:51,035 Speaker 1: was okay, but I did not want to suggest someone 242 00:17:51,315 --> 00:17:53,955 Speaker 1: was a federal agent or informant unless I knew for 243 00:17:53,995 --> 00:17:56,915 Speaker 1: a fact, because you could really get someone in trouble, 244 00:17:57,035 --> 00:17:59,715 Speaker 1: right if you're like, this was the guy, and like, 245 00:18:00,355 --> 00:18:04,595 Speaker 1: we don't know, I do know for I mean, it's 246 00:18:04,875 --> 00:18:08,995 Speaker 1: very clear something very strange is going on with ray Epps. 247 00:18:09,475 --> 00:18:13,035 Speaker 1: We've named him repeatedly, We've invited him on the show repeatedly. 248 00:18:13,275 --> 00:18:16,035 Speaker 1: I mean, don't lie to my face. The ray Epps 249 00:18:16,035 --> 00:18:27,395 Speaker 1: thing isn't isn't organic sorry unquote amid Carlson's paranoia and 250 00:18:27,435 --> 00:18:32,195 Speaker 1: his condescension, and his trumpy and technique of dancing right 251 00:18:32,635 --> 00:18:36,675 Speaker 1: up to a legally actionable slander and then never actually 252 00:18:36,755 --> 00:18:42,435 Speaker 1: finishing the sentence, there is one larger issue in that quotation. 253 00:18:42,635 --> 00:18:45,315 Speaker 1: I just read that Fox will either have to bet 254 00:18:45,555 --> 00:18:49,275 Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars that no jury 255 00:18:49,315 --> 00:18:52,355 Speaker 1: will notice, or it will have to pay those same 256 00:18:52,635 --> 00:18:55,555 Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to ray Epps. 257 00:18:55,955 --> 00:18:58,835 Speaker 1: And the larger issue is this. It is a question 258 00:18:59,675 --> 00:19:03,635 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson said just one hundred words in that quote there. 259 00:19:04,195 --> 00:19:09,835 Speaker 1: Twice in those one hundred words he said federal agent. Twice. 260 00:19:09,835 --> 00:19:13,835 Speaker 1: In those one hundred words, he said informant. Twice in 261 00:19:13,835 --> 00:19:18,795 Speaker 1: those hundred words, he said ray Epps. Once he said 262 00:19:18,875 --> 00:19:22,155 Speaker 1: I knew for a fact. Once he said the ray 263 00:19:22,235 --> 00:19:25,555 Speaker 1: Epps thing isn't organic. Once he said, don't lie to 264 00:19:25,635 --> 00:19:29,515 Speaker 1: my face. So here is the question. If Tucker Carlson 265 00:19:29,715 --> 00:19:32,915 Speaker 1: was not trying to tell his audience on March eleventh 266 00:19:32,955 --> 00:19:35,715 Speaker 1: of this year that ray Epps was a federal agent 267 00:19:36,035 --> 00:19:39,275 Speaker 1: and an informant who influenced the events of January sixth, 268 00:19:39,555 --> 00:19:44,475 Speaker 1: what the hell else could Tucker Carlson have possibly been 269 00:19:45,275 --> 00:19:54,755 Speaker 1: trying to say? Also of interest here, Trump was ready 270 00:19:54,795 --> 00:19:58,595 Speaker 1: to announce during the twenty nineteen Stated the Union Address 271 00:19:58,995 --> 00:20:03,515 Speaker 1: that he was invoking the Insurrection Act and he would 272 00:20:03,515 --> 00:20:08,555 Speaker 1: deploy US troops to forcibly prevent a migrant caravan from 273 00:20:08,675 --> 00:20:13,755 Speaker 1: crossing our border. He was ready to do the unthinkable 274 00:20:13,795 --> 00:20:18,475 Speaker 1: to have American troops threaten or if necessary, shoot at, 275 00:20:19,235 --> 00:20:24,515 Speaker 1: or actually shoot asylum seekers. And it's not just Miles 276 00:20:24,595 --> 00:20:28,115 Speaker 1: Taylor's recollection of his role talking Trump out of it. 277 00:20:28,835 --> 00:20:35,515 Speaker 1: There is a contemporary, corroborating witness. That's next. This is countdown. 278 00:20:37,635 --> 00:20:40,435 Speaker 2: This is countdown with Keith Olberman. 279 00:20:47,835 --> 00:20:51,035 Speaker 1: Postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks, 280 00:20:51,075 --> 00:20:55,835 Speaker 1: some predictions. Dateline, Washington, days before the twenty nineteen Stated 281 00:20:55,835 --> 00:20:59,715 Speaker 1: the Union Address, Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff 282 00:20:59,795 --> 00:21:03,395 Speaker 1: Miles Taylor and his boss, Kristen Nielsen raced over to 283 00:21:03,435 --> 00:21:06,435 Speaker 1: the White House. He said, to talk Trump out of 284 00:21:06,475 --> 00:21:08,675 Speaker 1: the big splash he was going to make in the 285 00:21:08,715 --> 00:21:12,595 Speaker 1: annual address. Trump had decided he wanted to answer the 286 00:21:12,715 --> 00:21:18,395 Speaker 1: latest Fox News race hype outrage another migrant caravan headed 287 00:21:18,435 --> 00:21:21,475 Speaker 1: towards the US border. So Trump was just going to 288 00:21:21,835 --> 00:21:26,515 Speaker 1: invoke the Insurrection Act and authorize US troops to stand 289 00:21:26,595 --> 00:21:30,435 Speaker 1: on US soil, presumably with weapons drawn and maybe even 290 00:21:30,475 --> 00:21:33,435 Speaker 1: ready to be fired at the asylum seekers as they 291 00:21:33,475 --> 00:21:37,195 Speaker 1: approached the border. Quote Donald Trump was a few sentences 292 00:21:37,235 --> 00:21:40,675 Speaker 1: away from making it happen. I was there, Taylor writes 293 00:21:40,715 --> 00:21:44,435 Speaker 1: it in his new book Blowback. We know Trump was 294 00:21:44,475 --> 00:21:47,235 Speaker 1: ready to declare an insurrection during the Black Lives Matter 295 00:21:47,315 --> 00:21:50,035 Speaker 1: protests of twenty twenty, and he was looking for an 296 00:21:50,035 --> 00:21:52,515 Speaker 1: excuse to do it again later that year or early 297 00:21:52,555 --> 00:21:56,555 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one in order to unconstitutionally remain in office, 298 00:21:56,795 --> 00:21:59,995 Speaker 1: and his former Defense Secretary, Jim Mattis, knew the threats 299 00:22:00,035 --> 00:22:03,995 Speaker 1: were real throughout the administration, quoting him, I swore an 300 00:22:04,035 --> 00:22:06,835 Speaker 1: oath to supper and defend the Constitution. Never did I 301 00:22:06,915 --> 00:22:09,795 Speaker 1: dream that troops taking the same oath would be ordered, 302 00:22:09,875 --> 00:22:13,555 Speaker 1: under any circumstance, to violate the constitutional rights of their 303 00:22:13,595 --> 00:22:16,635 Speaker 1: fellow citizens. This is a good time to mention that 304 00:22:16,675 --> 00:22:20,635 Speaker 1: Miles Taylor is starting today in fact a new podcast 305 00:22:20,675 --> 00:22:25,835 Speaker 1: here in iHeart Politics Land The Whistleblowers, Miles Taylor will 306 00:22:25,875 --> 00:22:29,915 Speaker 1: be scaring the crap out of you retroactively. The new 307 00:22:29,995 --> 00:22:32,755 Speaker 1: series is devoted to the stories of high ranking officials 308 00:22:32,795 --> 00:22:36,675 Speaker 1: who sounded the alarm about corruption during the Trump administration. 309 00:22:37,115 --> 00:22:40,875 Speaker 1: People who were there because they believed in policy or 310 00:22:40,955 --> 00:22:43,555 Speaker 1: in the Republican Party, and they were suddenly faced with 311 00:22:43,635 --> 00:22:47,715 Speaker 1: the choice risking everything they had previously worked for to 312 00:22:47,875 --> 00:22:51,235 Speaker 1: tell the truth about the risk to democracy that Trump 313 00:22:51,355 --> 00:22:56,035 Speaker 1: posed and still poses. The Whistleblowers with Miles Taylor, Episode 314 00:22:56,075 --> 00:23:00,155 Speaker 1: one dropping today on iHeart or Wherever You podcast and 315 00:23:00,315 --> 00:23:04,435 Speaker 1: Dateline London. It has now been revealed that the unidentified 316 00:23:04,475 --> 00:23:08,675 Speaker 1: be BBC presenter who had been suspended after tabloid claims 317 00:23:08,675 --> 00:23:11,435 Speaker 1: that he paid about thirty five thousand pounds to a 318 00:23:11,475 --> 00:23:15,275 Speaker 1: young man for semi naked photographs, turned out to be 319 00:23:15,315 --> 00:23:18,355 Speaker 1: no less a figure than the country's leading newscaster, Hugh 320 00:23:18,555 --> 00:23:21,675 Speaker 1: Edwards of BBC News. At ten, he was the anchor 321 00:23:21,715 --> 00:23:24,995 Speaker 1: for the death of Queen Elizabeth, for the coronation, the elections, 322 00:23:25,195 --> 00:23:27,875 Speaker 1: the Olympics, the monthly live coverage of the monthly new 323 00:23:27,915 --> 00:23:32,075 Speaker 1: British Prime Minister. The scandal has consumed British media for 324 00:23:32,115 --> 00:23:36,235 Speaker 1: a week, even though a even the tabloid never printed 325 00:23:36,355 --> 00:23:39,955 Speaker 1: Edwards's name b The young man in the case was 326 00:23:39,995 --> 00:23:42,755 Speaker 1: of legal age and he insisted there was nothing illegal 327 00:23:42,795 --> 00:23:46,715 Speaker 1: and his parents had overreacted. C London Police set a 328 00:23:46,755 --> 00:23:49,675 Speaker 1: thorough review showed that that was correct. There were no crimes, 329 00:23:49,835 --> 00:23:53,795 Speaker 1: there'll be no charges d The BBC was excoriated for 330 00:23:53,915 --> 00:23:57,555 Speaker 1: not naming the presenter, even some other BBC stars demanded 331 00:23:57,595 --> 00:24:01,435 Speaker 1: that he out himself. While e it turns out the 332 00:24:01,475 --> 00:24:03,995 Speaker 1: BBC was in fact protecting the privacy of one of 333 00:24:04,035 --> 00:24:08,875 Speaker 1: its employees, Edwards, who has publicly acknowledged suffering from depression 334 00:24:09,275 --> 00:24:13,235 Speaker 1: and who has been hospitalized anew after another bout with depression, 335 00:24:13,595 --> 00:24:17,675 Speaker 1: which we know because f when his identity was finally 336 00:24:17,715 --> 00:24:20,275 Speaker 1: made public. It was made public in a statement issued 337 00:24:20,355 --> 00:24:25,915 Speaker 1: yesterday by his wife. He has five children. I'd just 338 00:24:25,995 --> 00:24:28,315 Speaker 1: like to mention I am available to succeed him on 339 00:24:28,355 --> 00:24:29,915 Speaker 1: News at ten, and I would be in fact the 340 00:24:29,915 --> 00:24:33,875 Speaker 1: best choice they could possibly make. While all this was happening, 341 00:24:34,235 --> 00:24:37,675 Speaker 1: the WhatsApp messages of the former British Prime Minister Boris 342 00:24:37,795 --> 00:24:41,435 Speaker 1: Johnson were required by court ruling to have been handed 343 00:24:41,515 --> 00:24:45,195 Speaker 1: over by Monday by the government to an inquiry into 344 00:24:45,235 --> 00:24:48,675 Speaker 1: how Johnson had violated COVID lockdown rules. And that still 345 00:24:48,755 --> 00:24:52,075 Speaker 1: hasn't happened, and nobody is talking about it. And because 346 00:24:52,115 --> 00:24:54,915 Speaker 1: it doesn't involve underwear, it got no coverage and this 347 00:24:54,995 --> 00:24:58,195 Speaker 1: story instead got all of it. I should also mention 348 00:24:58,355 --> 00:25:02,835 Speaker 1: one final point, point G, because British libel laws are 349 00:25:02,875 --> 00:25:06,595 Speaker 1: so much more stringent than are those here. No news 350 00:25:06,675 --> 00:25:10,635 Speaker 1: organization actually reported that it was Hugh Edwards, but the 351 00:25:10,715 --> 00:25:14,275 Speaker 1: cat was out of the bag for several days because 352 00:25:14,395 --> 00:25:17,755 Speaker 1: time after time over the last couple of days, British radio, 353 00:25:17,875 --> 00:25:22,915 Speaker 1: television and digital reporters made the same slip on air 354 00:25:23,195 --> 00:25:28,635 Speaker 1: online wherever intentional or otherwise. Instead of saying we still 355 00:25:28,675 --> 00:25:34,475 Speaker 1: don't know who the presenter is, they kept saying, yeah, 356 00:25:35,395 --> 00:25:56,515 Speaker 1: we still don't know, Hugh the presenter is, Oh, totally accidental, 357 00:25:56,955 --> 00:26:01,315 Speaker 1: no doubt. Still ahead on countdown. It's happened again. Somebody 358 00:26:01,355 --> 00:26:04,475 Speaker 1: else has told me a story about a day in 359 00:26:04,715 --> 00:26:07,275 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty at the Lake FLASCT Olympics where I was 360 00:26:07,595 --> 00:26:09,835 Speaker 1: up a mountain without an audio cassette, and I asked 361 00:26:09,835 --> 00:26:12,635 Speaker 1: a colleague from a rival wire service if I could 362 00:26:12,635 --> 00:26:15,075 Speaker 1: borrow his spare audio cassette so I could do my 363 00:26:15,115 --> 00:26:17,035 Speaker 1: interviews and not get fired. And the guy went no, 364 00:26:18,355 --> 00:26:21,355 Speaker 1: It's an unbelievable story. It gets more unbelievable every time 365 00:26:21,355 --> 00:26:23,435 Speaker 1: I think about it. Next in Things I promised not 366 00:26:23,555 --> 00:26:25,715 Speaker 1: to tell, but first time for the daily roundup of 367 00:26:25,715 --> 00:26:29,075 Speaker 1: the misgrants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute 368 00:26:29,235 --> 00:26:34,395 Speaker 1: two days worst persons in the world. The Bronze polster 369 00:26:34,515 --> 00:26:39,035 Speaker 1: Patrick Raffini. After the June inflation numbers hit yesterday three percent, 370 00:26:39,115 --> 00:26:42,915 Speaker 1: slowest pace in more than two years, Ruffini helpfully tweeted 371 00:26:43,275 --> 00:26:47,835 Speaker 1: reminder prices are still significantly above January twenty twenty twenty 372 00:26:47,835 --> 00:26:52,955 Speaker 1: one levels. Gosh, thanks Pat everybody for God. I'd also 373 00:26:52,995 --> 00:26:56,275 Speaker 1: like to note this reminder, prices are still significantly above 374 00:26:56,475 --> 00:26:59,795 Speaker 1: January twenty seventh, nineteen fifty nine levels. That was the 375 00:26:59,875 --> 00:27:01,955 Speaker 1: day I was born. And I'm not taking a rap 376 00:27:02,035 --> 00:27:07,275 Speaker 1: for that inflation, no, sirree Bob Patrick. The runner up 377 00:27:07,275 --> 00:27:10,155 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas the only Supreme Court justice with a for 378 00:27:10,395 --> 00:27:13,595 Speaker 1: sale sign growing out of his ass. Well, not the 379 00:27:13,635 --> 00:27:16,035 Speaker 1: only one, but you know what I mean. The Guardian 380 00:27:16,115 --> 00:27:18,715 Speaker 1: reporting that a bunch of lawyers who had business before 381 00:27:18,755 --> 00:27:21,435 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, including one of them that was in 382 00:27:21,475 --> 00:27:24,475 Speaker 1: the case that just ended affirmative action in college admissions, 383 00:27:24,875 --> 00:27:29,915 Speaker 1: have sent VENMO payments to Thomas's top aid's former top 384 00:27:29,915 --> 00:27:34,275 Speaker 1: aid now re John Vashist. Guardian says this seems to 385 00:27:34,315 --> 00:27:38,315 Speaker 1: be connected to Thomas's twenty nineteen Christmas party. How much 386 00:27:38,355 --> 00:27:41,315 Speaker 1: fun would that be? But the darn thing is seven 387 00:27:41,355 --> 00:27:44,035 Speaker 1: of the payments are from lawyers who were previously legal 388 00:27:44,115 --> 00:27:47,515 Speaker 1: clerks for Clarence Thomas, and three of them argued cases 389 00:27:47,555 --> 00:27:50,275 Speaker 1: before Thomas, and a fourth was in the Trump administration. 390 00:27:50,355 --> 00:27:53,475 Speaker 1: And honestly, this sounds like it could be innocent, but 391 00:27:53,515 --> 00:27:56,755 Speaker 1: good God, Clarence Thomas just doesn't care if it sounds 392 00:27:56,795 --> 00:27:59,675 Speaker 1: innocent or not, does he. By the way, you want 393 00:27:59,675 --> 00:28:02,315 Speaker 1: to know the name of another former Thomas Supreme Court clerk, 394 00:28:03,555 --> 00:28:08,955 Speaker 1: Laura Ingram. No, I'm not kidding, but the winner Barry Bonds. 395 00:28:09,195 --> 00:28:12,675 Speaker 1: Barry Bonds has finally begun the attempt to rehabilitate himself. 396 00:28:12,715 --> 00:28:15,075 Speaker 1: He wants to get into the Baseball Hall of Fame. 397 00:28:15,555 --> 00:28:19,355 Speaker 1: He's told a podcast quote. People have to understand something. 398 00:28:19,555 --> 00:28:21,995 Speaker 1: Is that the fact is that I was vindicated. I 399 00:28:22,035 --> 00:28:24,355 Speaker 1: went to court, I was in federal court, and I 400 00:28:24,395 --> 00:28:27,715 Speaker 1: won my case one hundred percent. Where is the vindication 401 00:28:27,795 --> 00:28:29,995 Speaker 1: of me in my own sport. That's what bothers me. 402 00:28:30,395 --> 00:28:33,555 Speaker 1: Major League Baseball already punished me. Why is the Hall 403 00:28:33,595 --> 00:28:36,315 Speaker 1: of Fame punishing me. It doesn't make sense. It makes 404 00:28:36,395 --> 00:28:38,715 Speaker 1: zero sense that you're being double punished for something that 405 00:28:38,715 --> 00:28:43,235 Speaker 1: you've already been punished for. Here's what Bonds has to understand. 406 00:28:43,595 --> 00:28:46,755 Speaker 1: He is other than the game fixers, the greatest cheat 407 00:28:46,835 --> 00:28:49,355 Speaker 1: in the history of the sport. By the way, the 408 00:28:49,435 --> 00:28:52,635 Speaker 1: game fixers from the nineteen nineteen World Series, they were 409 00:28:52,675 --> 00:28:56,795 Speaker 1: all quitted in court themselves. The Hall of Fame election 410 00:28:56,995 --> 00:29:00,475 Speaker 1: is not a court of law. Barry Bonds could have 411 00:29:00,475 --> 00:29:04,475 Speaker 1: been found guilty or not guilty, and neither verdict matters. 412 00:29:04,875 --> 00:29:08,355 Speaker 1: The eligibility rules are fluid and variable, and often that 413 00:29:08,475 --> 00:29:11,075 Speaker 1: is a problem when it comes to Bonds. It is 414 00:29:11,115 --> 00:29:14,315 Speaker 1: a blessing. Barry Bonds will never be in the Baseball 415 00:29:14,355 --> 00:29:17,675 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, and outside of the San Francisco Bay Area, 416 00:29:17,755 --> 00:29:20,835 Speaker 1: he will never be recognized as the holder of the 417 00:29:20,875 --> 00:29:24,795 Speaker 1: records for most homers in a season or most homers 418 00:29:24,995 --> 00:29:31,675 Speaker 1: in a career. Never Barry Bonds. No, no, You're not 419 00:29:31,755 --> 00:29:34,435 Speaker 1: going to Cooperstown unless you're willing to pay your way. 420 00:29:34,475 --> 00:29:53,395 Speaker 1: In Today's Worst Person in the World, arm goes off. 421 00:29:53,915 --> 00:29:56,555 Speaker 1: It is pitch black in my room at the Swiss 422 00:29:56,715 --> 00:30:03,835 Speaker 1: Acres Motel. It is Valentine's Day and I am still drunk. 423 00:30:05,755 --> 00:30:09,435 Speaker 1: Keith knew he was in trouble, but I was also 424 00:30:09,475 --> 00:30:11,595 Speaker 1: twenty one years old, and in fact, my twenty first 425 00:30:11,635 --> 00:30:18,195 Speaker 1: birthday had only been eighteen days earlier. So somehow I survived, showered, dressed, packed, 426 00:30:18,195 --> 00:30:21,195 Speaker 1: and I mean I packed two cassette tape recorders, four 427 00:30:21,275 --> 00:30:24,515 Speaker 1: sets of batteries, an audio processing machine that weighed like 428 00:30:24,595 --> 00:30:28,115 Speaker 1: fourteen pounds the nine volt batteries it took. I think 429 00:30:28,155 --> 00:30:31,435 Speaker 1: It was a dozen of them. A telephone, a backup telephone, 430 00:30:31,515 --> 00:30:36,115 Speaker 1: twelve assorted patch cords, two loose leaf notebooks, about eight pens, 431 00:30:36,155 --> 00:30:40,115 Speaker 1: two microphones, two extra pair of socks. Then I got dressed, 432 00:30:40,275 --> 00:30:44,995 Speaker 1: two full sets of thermal underwear, shirts, sweaters, snow pants, 433 00:30:45,155 --> 00:30:49,595 Speaker 1: snow shoes. Because it was eleven degrees below zero that morning. 434 00:30:50,715 --> 00:30:53,195 Speaker 1: I got something quick to eat at the commissary, and 435 00:30:53,235 --> 00:30:56,115 Speaker 1: I made it out somehow to the line for the 436 00:30:56,155 --> 00:30:59,595 Speaker 1: bus from the Lake Placid Olympics Center to the Lake 437 00:30:59,675 --> 00:31:03,755 Speaker 1: Placid Transportation Center to Lake Placid's own White Face Mountain, 438 00:31:04,075 --> 00:31:07,795 Speaker 1: then on to the snow track the open penned mountain 439 00:31:07,875 --> 00:31:10,515 Speaker 1: tractor that went up the side of Whiteface Mountain and 440 00:31:10,595 --> 00:31:13,235 Speaker 1: took me to the finish line of the nineteen eighty 441 00:31:13,435 --> 00:31:19,715 Speaker 1: Olympic Men's downhill ski final still drunk. That is how 442 00:31:19,755 --> 00:31:22,675 Speaker 1: a reporter covered the Olympics nearly forty three years ago. 443 00:31:23,155 --> 00:31:27,235 Speaker 1: You drank, you woke up, you went, you stood near 444 00:31:27,275 --> 00:31:30,075 Speaker 1: the finish line, and when the skiers completed their runs, 445 00:31:30,275 --> 00:31:33,155 Speaker 1: you hiked or wobbled over to them, and you took 446 00:31:33,195 --> 00:31:35,755 Speaker 1: out your microphone or your pen, and you interviewed them, 447 00:31:36,235 --> 00:31:39,355 Speaker 1: like two minutes after they had finished hurtling towards you 448 00:31:39,475 --> 00:31:42,715 Speaker 1: down the hill. You could see almost nothing of the 449 00:31:42,835 --> 00:31:46,755 Speaker 1: race from there. There were no TV monitors. Basically your 450 00:31:46,835 --> 00:31:49,115 Speaker 1: only clue was the sound of the crowd that would 451 00:31:49,155 --> 00:31:51,755 Speaker 1: give you about thirty seconds worth of warning that the 452 00:31:51,795 --> 00:31:54,635 Speaker 1: skier was coming over the near horizon and you should 453 00:31:54,675 --> 00:31:58,035 Speaker 1: be prepared to flee just in case he or she 454 00:31:58,435 --> 00:32:03,155 Speaker 1: wiped out. Also, you were on top of a mountain 455 00:32:03,435 --> 00:32:06,755 Speaker 1: at the dead point of winter, and whereas it might 456 00:32:06,795 --> 00:32:09,875 Speaker 1: have been a balmy eleven degrees below zero in the 457 00:32:09,875 --> 00:32:14,075 Speaker 1: comfort of the Swiss Acres motel with the wind chill, 458 00:32:14,115 --> 00:32:16,395 Speaker 1: at the base of the mountain, it was forty eight 459 00:32:16,475 --> 00:32:19,955 Speaker 1: below zero and there had already been four inches of 460 00:32:19,995 --> 00:32:24,675 Speaker 1: new snow since the sun came up, which is where 461 00:32:24,675 --> 00:32:28,395 Speaker 1: the still drunk part came in Handy, my boss is 462 00:32:28,435 --> 00:32:31,195 Speaker 1: at my first job, the thousand station radio network called 463 00:32:31,315 --> 00:32:34,395 Speaker 1: United Press International Audio, had decided the night before to 464 00:32:34,435 --> 00:32:39,235 Speaker 1: teach me how to drink while on assignment. My bosses 465 00:32:39,275 --> 00:32:41,475 Speaker 1: were the bureau manager for that part of you PI, 466 00:32:41,595 --> 00:32:44,795 Speaker 1: the late Stan Sabik, who had hired me, and Sam Rosen, 467 00:32:44,995 --> 00:32:47,875 Speaker 1: the sports director of the network, who not only somehow 468 00:32:47,915 --> 00:32:51,835 Speaker 1: survived being my first boss, but today, just forty three 469 00:32:51,915 --> 00:32:55,555 Speaker 1: years later, is still working as the television voice of 470 00:32:55,595 --> 00:32:58,155 Speaker 1: the New York Rangers hockey team and is in the 471 00:32:58,195 --> 00:33:00,915 Speaker 1: Hockey Hall of Fame. So I guess my reputation is 472 00:33:00,955 --> 00:33:04,435 Speaker 1: a tough employee is wildly overrated, or at least Sam thinks. 473 00:33:04,435 --> 00:33:09,355 Speaker 1: So Sam and Stan kept me drinking at the motel 474 00:33:09,435 --> 00:33:11,675 Speaker 1: until two am, knowing full well that I had to 475 00:33:11,715 --> 00:33:13,955 Speaker 1: get on the six am bus to go cover the 476 00:33:13,995 --> 00:33:16,595 Speaker 1: men's downhill, because it was the two of them who 477 00:33:16,595 --> 00:33:21,595 Speaker 1: had assigned me to go cover the men's downhill, and bluntly, 478 00:33:21,635 --> 00:33:25,195 Speaker 1: I was surprisingly pleased with myself that freezing morning because 479 00:33:25,195 --> 00:33:27,755 Speaker 1: I had indeed learned how to drink while on assignment. 480 00:33:28,315 --> 00:33:31,755 Speaker 1: I had somehow found the phone jack for the UPI 481 00:33:31,955 --> 00:33:35,435 Speaker 1: phone buried under all the new snow, which of course 482 00:33:35,595 --> 00:33:38,955 Speaker 1: was buried under all the old snow, attached the phone 483 00:33:38,995 --> 00:33:41,395 Speaker 1: to it, gott in a dial tone, called the office, 484 00:33:41,515 --> 00:33:44,435 Speaker 1: checked the alligator clips with which I would feed the tape, 485 00:33:44,475 --> 00:33:49,795 Speaker 1: and all was well until I went to put a 486 00:33:49,835 --> 00:33:58,595 Speaker 1: cassette tape into the cassette recorder. I didn't have one 487 00:33:58,835 --> 00:34:01,595 Speaker 1: fat lot of good two cassette tape machines gonna do 488 00:34:01,635 --> 00:34:05,835 Speaker 1: you without a cassette to sticking one of them? I 489 00:34:05,875 --> 00:34:10,635 Speaker 1: looked forlornly around the base of Whiteface Mountain, twelve hundred 490 00:34:10,675 --> 00:34:12,795 Speaker 1: feet above sea level as we were. There was a 491 00:34:12,835 --> 00:34:16,635 Speaker 1: surprisingly nice chalet and a decent restaurant, but there were 492 00:34:16,635 --> 00:34:20,795 Speaker 1: no radio shacks or other electronics stores. There was, however, 493 00:34:20,875 --> 00:34:25,955 Speaker 1: one other radio guy, Jack Briggs, from the Associated Press 494 00:34:26,035 --> 00:34:29,795 Speaker 1: Radio Network, the nominal arch rival to our own UPI Audio. 495 00:34:30,955 --> 00:34:32,755 Speaker 1: I knew Jack a little. He was a nice guy. 496 00:34:33,435 --> 00:34:36,475 Speaker 1: I went and explained my plight, making sure to blame 497 00:34:36,515 --> 00:34:40,955 Speaker 1: my bosses for my predicament. Oh man, he said, his 498 00:34:41,035 --> 00:34:45,435 Speaker 1: breath turning into first steam and then ice cubes. I'm 499 00:34:45,435 --> 00:34:50,635 Speaker 1: so sorry, but I can't give you a cassette. I'm sorry, 500 00:34:50,635 --> 00:34:57,675 Speaker 1: you're UPI, and I'm ap Oh how I laughed. That 501 00:34:57,715 --> 00:34:59,835 Speaker 1: was a great line to say to a rookie reporter, 502 00:34:59,955 --> 00:35:03,795 Speaker 1: still drunk thanks to the initiation rituals of his own bosses, 503 00:35:04,435 --> 00:35:07,995 Speaker 1: the possessor of one great buzz but zero audio cassettes. 504 00:35:09,435 --> 00:35:12,475 Speaker 1: Jack Briggs could tell I thought he was kidding. That's 505 00:35:12,515 --> 00:35:15,795 Speaker 1: when he said, I'm not kidding. Look. If my boss, 506 00:35:15,795 --> 00:35:19,795 Speaker 1: Shelby Whitfield, ever found out, he'd fire me. I suddenly 507 00:35:19,875 --> 00:35:24,355 Speaker 1: wasn't drunk anymore, not at all. My my boss will 508 00:35:24,675 --> 00:35:28,955 Speaker 1: will fire me. Briggs was adamant, I can't run the 509 00:35:29,035 --> 00:35:34,115 Speaker 1: risk of shellby finding out. I have to confess. I shouted, 510 00:35:34,915 --> 00:35:36,675 Speaker 1: how the hell is he gonna find out? 511 00:35:36,835 --> 00:35:37,115 Speaker 2: Jack? 512 00:35:38,955 --> 00:35:41,715 Speaker 1: I think subconsciously I was hoping to create an avalanche, 513 00:35:41,755 --> 00:35:43,395 Speaker 1: which would have been a better solution than the one 514 00:35:43,395 --> 00:35:46,195 Speaker 1: I was faced with. I said to him, there's you 515 00:35:46,915 --> 00:35:49,635 Speaker 1: and there's me, and we're on top of a goddamn 516 00:35:49,675 --> 00:35:52,995 Speaker 1: mountain and Shelby Whitfield, your boss is in Washington, DC, 517 00:35:53,635 --> 00:35:57,235 Speaker 1: and he's a drunk, and he's probably more drunk than 518 00:35:57,275 --> 00:36:00,315 Speaker 1: I am, and he'd probably thank you for helping me 519 00:36:00,355 --> 00:36:04,995 Speaker 1: to drink more. Briggs would not. Budge told him I 520 00:36:04,995 --> 00:36:06,955 Speaker 1: would pay him. I told him I would give him 521 00:36:06,995 --> 00:36:09,755 Speaker 1: the cassette back after I fed my boss the interviews 522 00:36:09,795 --> 00:36:11,915 Speaker 1: over the phone, so there'd be no evidence and he 523 00:36:11,915 --> 00:36:16,315 Speaker 1: wouldn't even have to do any interviews. No good, I'm sorry, 524 00:36:16,595 --> 00:36:18,155 Speaker 1: and I know you're going to tell this story about 525 00:36:18,155 --> 00:36:20,835 Speaker 1: me for a while. As he walked away from me, 526 00:36:20,955 --> 00:36:27,115 Speaker 1: I shouted after him. Forever turned out there was no 527 00:36:27,275 --> 00:36:30,635 Speaker 1: radio shack and no camaraderie, but there was a West 528 00:36:30,675 --> 00:36:34,155 Speaker 1: Coast newspaper reporter atop the mountain who heard some of 529 00:36:34,195 --> 00:36:37,595 Speaker 1: this conversation. I guess I yelled a little loudly at 530 00:36:37,675 --> 00:36:40,835 Speaker 1: mister Briggs. Some guy standing next to a Saint Bernard 531 00:36:40,915 --> 00:36:43,235 Speaker 1: told me to quiet down and mentioned something else about 532 00:36:43,235 --> 00:36:46,675 Speaker 1: the avalanches. Or maybe I dreamed that part. I don't know. Anyway, 533 00:36:46,675 --> 00:36:49,795 Speaker 1: the West Coast newspaper guy said he had a micro 534 00:36:49,875 --> 00:36:52,075 Speaker 1: cassette machine and he would loan it to me and 535 00:36:52,075 --> 00:36:53,555 Speaker 1: I could give it back to him at the media 536 00:36:53,595 --> 00:36:55,395 Speaker 1: center that day or the next one. But I had 537 00:36:55,395 --> 00:36:57,035 Speaker 1: to do him a favor because there was this really 538 00:36:57,115 --> 00:36:59,875 Speaker 1: cute reporter in our UPI bureau and he really wanted 539 00:36:59,875 --> 00:37:01,395 Speaker 1: to be introduced to her. And I said, I can 540 00:37:01,435 --> 00:37:04,075 Speaker 1: promise you nothing but a handshake, and he understood, and 541 00:37:04,155 --> 00:37:07,755 Speaker 1: that's how I did not get fired. But of course, 542 00:37:07,795 --> 00:37:11,075 Speaker 1: a story like this has punchlines, and this one has 543 00:37:11,195 --> 00:37:14,475 Speaker 1: two of them. The first is two years and a 544 00:37:14,515 --> 00:37:17,915 Speaker 1: couple of months later, Shelby Whitfield asked me to lunch. 545 00:37:18,555 --> 00:37:20,955 Speaker 1: He had left the Associated Press to run the sports 546 00:37:20,955 --> 00:37:23,995 Speaker 1: department at the ABC Radio network, back when that was 547 00:37:23,995 --> 00:37:27,315 Speaker 1: not only a thing but a big thing. We went 548 00:37:27,355 --> 00:37:30,555 Speaker 1: to a terrific New York City Chinese restaurant near ABC 549 00:37:30,835 --> 00:37:34,475 Speaker 1: called shun Lee, and Shelby Whitfield interviewed me for a 550 00:37:34,595 --> 00:37:36,995 Speaker 1: job when that kind of job paid eighty thousand a 551 00:37:37,075 --> 00:37:39,355 Speaker 1: year in my very nice studio apartment in a very 552 00:37:39,435 --> 00:37:41,915 Speaker 1: nice part of town costs less than five hundred dollars 553 00:37:41,915 --> 00:37:45,995 Speaker 1: a month later, in an interesting twist, I found out 554 00:37:45,995 --> 00:37:49,875 Speaker 1: that jobs didn't exist. I was mentioning the interview in 555 00:37:49,915 --> 00:37:52,835 Speaker 1: a press box somewhere I think Madison Square Garden, and 556 00:37:52,875 --> 00:37:56,715 Speaker 1: there was another kid reporter named Howie Rose, and how 557 00:37:56,715 --> 00:37:58,555 Speaker 1: he is still working, he does the New York Mets 558 00:37:58,555 --> 00:38:02,075 Speaker 1: games on the radio, and how he said, wait, they 559 00:38:02,155 --> 00:38:05,315 Speaker 1: interviewed me for that job last year, Just an excuse 560 00:38:05,355 --> 00:38:07,835 Speaker 1: for that damn Whitfield to go drink his lunch on 561 00:38:07,875 --> 00:38:12,955 Speaker 1: ABC's tab. Anyway, before we started the interview for the 562 00:38:13,035 --> 00:38:15,515 Speaker 1: job I did not know did not exist at ABC. 563 00:38:15,755 --> 00:38:18,275 Speaker 1: I told Shelby Whitfield the White Face Mountain, can I 564 00:38:18,315 --> 00:38:22,515 Speaker 1: borrow a cassette Jack Briggs story? And Shelby's exact reply was, 565 00:38:23,155 --> 00:38:25,235 Speaker 1: I don't know. Was I going to find out? There 566 00:38:25,315 --> 00:38:26,555 Speaker 1: was you and there was him, and you were on 567 00:38:26,595 --> 00:38:28,795 Speaker 1: top of a goddamn mountain and I was in Washington. 568 00:38:29,715 --> 00:38:34,235 Speaker 1: Only he didn't say goddamn that Briggs. He added, always 569 00:38:34,235 --> 00:38:36,195 Speaker 1: trying to suck up to me. I got to tell 570 00:38:36,195 --> 00:38:38,395 Speaker 1: you something I actually once promised I wouldn't tell you 571 00:38:38,435 --> 00:38:40,595 Speaker 1: if we ever met. This. When the Olympics were over 572 00:38:40,675 --> 00:38:43,675 Speaker 1: and came back to the office, he told me what happened. 573 00:38:43,675 --> 00:38:45,195 Speaker 1: He expected me to be happy or give him a 574 00:38:45,195 --> 00:38:47,475 Speaker 1: bonus or something. And I called him a little snitch. 575 00:38:48,475 --> 00:38:51,715 Speaker 1: Only Shelby didn't say snitch, just a word that rhymed 576 00:38:51,715 --> 00:38:55,675 Speaker 1: with it. The other punchline is from nineteen ninety two, 577 00:38:56,195 --> 00:39:00,195 Speaker 1: and remember this happened at the nineteen eighty Olympics. I 578 00:39:00,315 --> 00:39:02,595 Speaker 1: go to work at ESPN and come in a little 579 00:39:02,595 --> 00:39:05,115 Speaker 1: early to launch their radio network, a story I've told 580 00:39:05,155 --> 00:39:08,235 Speaker 1: here before. And there I find a friend of mine 581 00:39:08,275 --> 00:39:10,315 Speaker 1: since my radio days, who I have not seen in 582 00:39:10,355 --> 00:39:12,675 Speaker 1: a year or so, and he says, hey, last month, 583 00:39:12,715 --> 00:39:14,755 Speaker 1: I was at an NBA game in Washington. I ran 584 00:39:14,795 --> 00:39:17,315 Speaker 1: in at Jack Briggs. He heard you were going to ESPN. 585 00:39:17,355 --> 00:39:18,915 Speaker 1: He asked me if you were still telling that story 586 00:39:18,955 --> 00:39:21,675 Speaker 1: about the time you got stuck on Whiteface Mountain without 587 00:39:21,715 --> 00:39:23,755 Speaker 1: a cassette. And he was the only other reporter there, 588 00:39:23,875 --> 00:39:25,515 Speaker 1: and he wouldn't give you a spare and I told 589 00:39:25,595 --> 00:39:28,795 Speaker 1: him you were and I smiled, and I replied, I 590 00:39:28,835 --> 00:39:46,315 Speaker 1: hope you remembered to use the word forever. Just as 591 00:39:46,315 --> 00:39:48,875 Speaker 1: a bonus, I will close this episode with a couple 592 00:39:48,955 --> 00:39:53,275 Speaker 1: of reports from the nineteen eighty Olympics. I think I'm 593 00:39:53,315 --> 00:39:56,715 Speaker 1: sober on them. I think I've done all the damage 594 00:39:56,715 --> 00:39:58,355 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. Here are 595 00:39:58,355 --> 00:40:00,835 Speaker 1: the credits. Most of the music arrange produced and performed 596 00:40:01,075 --> 00:40:03,235 Speaker 1: by Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel. They are the 597 00:40:03,275 --> 00:40:06,915 Speaker 1: Countdown musical directors. Guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray, 598 00:40:07,315 --> 00:40:10,795 Speaker 1: all orchestration and keyboards by John Phillip Schanel, produced by 599 00:40:10,875 --> 00:40:14,955 Speaker 1: Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed 600 00:40:14,995 --> 00:40:18,075 Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed. Sports Music is the 601 00:40:18,115 --> 00:40:21,195 Speaker 1: Olderman theme from ESPN two and it was written by 602 00:40:21,235 --> 00:40:25,035 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Musical comments by 603 00:40:25,115 --> 00:40:28,395 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer 604 00:40:28,475 --> 00:40:31,355 Speaker 1: today was my friend John Dean, and everything else was 605 00:40:31,395 --> 00:40:35,035 Speaker 1: pretty much my fault. Don't forget Countdown Now also available 606 00:40:35,075 --> 00:40:40,435 Speaker 1: on YouTube subscribe there as well give yourself multiple options. 607 00:40:40,595 --> 00:40:42,755 Speaker 1: So that's Downtown for this the nine hundred and nineteenth 608 00:40:42,835 --> 00:40:46,435 Speaker 1: day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 609 00:40:46,435 --> 00:40:49,635 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States arrested him again while 610 00:40:49,675 --> 00:40:53,315 Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow bulletins 611 00:40:53,395 --> 00:40:56,595 Speaker 1: as the news warrants till then, I'm Keith Olraman, Good morning, 612 00:40:56,595 --> 00:40:59,515 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 613 00:41:13,715 --> 00:41:15,395 Speaker 2: There has been an awful lot of singing on the 614 00:41:15,395 --> 00:41:17,915 Speaker 2: slopes of White Faced Mountain during these Olympics, and most 615 00:41:17,915 --> 00:41:19,595 Speaker 2: of it has been done by the Austrians. 616 00:41:19,835 --> 00:41:20,475 Speaker 1: This didy is. 617 00:41:20,475 --> 00:41:23,155 Speaker 2: Barana Marie Moser Prol on Sunday can flit in an 618 00:41:23,155 --> 00:41:26,275 Speaker 2: Austrian sweep of the Olympic downhills. The downhill is the 619 00:41:26,395 --> 00:41:28,915 Speaker 2: skiing event as far as the Austrians are concerned, and 620 00:41:28,955 --> 00:41:31,475 Speaker 2: they were so confident of success that the Olympic team 621 00:41:31,475 --> 00:41:34,555 Speaker 2: had reserved an area house for a celebration center. The 622 00:41:34,595 --> 00:41:37,595 Speaker 2: honored stock and I'm Marie Moser Prol did not disappoint, 623 00:41:37,875 --> 00:41:40,275 Speaker 2: and for now the singing will continue both here and 624 00:41:40,355 --> 00:41:54,755 Speaker 2: in Austria. Keith Olberman, Lake Placid. Let's talk luge Louje 625 00:41:54,795 --> 00:41:56,835 Speaker 2: is a real fund sport here in the Winter Olympics. 626 00:41:56,875 --> 00:41:59,035 Speaker 2: It doesn't get an awful lot of publicity, and between 627 00:41:59,035 --> 00:42:01,475 Speaker 2: the Olympiads you tend to forget about it. That is 628 00:42:01,515 --> 00:42:03,995 Speaker 2: not fair. Louje, of course, is the event where a 629 00:42:04,035 --> 00:42:06,555 Speaker 2: guy or a earl, or two guys or two girls 630 00:42:06,595 --> 00:42:08,915 Speaker 2: lie down on this very small sled and rocket around 631 00:42:08,955 --> 00:42:12,555 Speaker 2: a refrigerated bank track feet first. He, she or they 632 00:42:12,635 --> 00:42:15,635 Speaker 2: have strings with which to control more or less where 633 00:42:15,675 --> 00:42:18,115 Speaker 2: they are going. This doesn't always work, of course, and 634 00:42:18,195 --> 00:42:21,115 Speaker 2: many as the time the luji lujer or lujis takes 635 00:42:21,115 --> 00:42:23,195 Speaker 2: to mid air when he hits one of those curves wrong. 636 00:42:23,915 --> 00:42:26,955 Speaker 2: If you can get used to the repetitiveness of competitive louge, 637 00:42:27,035 --> 00:42:29,555 Speaker 2: the sport becomes a part of your life. Some people 638 00:42:29,595 --> 00:42:32,715 Speaker 2: have an innate tendency to participate or watch. They, of course, 639 00:42:32,755 --> 00:42:37,355 Speaker 2: are the born lugers. There is an International Luge Federation Congress, 640 00:42:37,555 --> 00:42:39,355 Speaker 2: and I would suggest if they want to increase the 641 00:42:39,355 --> 00:42:40,355 Speaker 2: popularity of their. 642 00:42:40,235 --> 00:42:41,595 Speaker 1: Sport they do a little promotion. 643 00:42:42,235 --> 00:42:44,835 Speaker 2: Now, I wouldn't tamper with the sport itself. Rocketing around 644 00:42:44,875 --> 00:42:48,315 Speaker 2: a refrigerated bank track simply cannot be meddled with luge 645 00:42:48,395 --> 00:42:51,035 Speaker 2: purists even doubt the validity of the two man luge. 646 00:42:51,675 --> 00:42:54,035 Speaker 2: I would stick to those promotions To boost the sport's 647 00:42:54,075 --> 00:42:57,155 Speaker 2: acceptance with the public. We need a national luge league 648 00:42:57,195 --> 00:42:59,915 Speaker 2: and a luge Hall of Fame. The luge Hall of 649 00:42:59,995 --> 00:43:02,155 Speaker 2: Fame could be built in the shape of the bank track, 650 00:43:02,195 --> 00:43:05,635 Speaker 2: and it would naturally be refrigerated. Would enter at the top, 651 00:43:05,715 --> 00:43:07,515 Speaker 2: lie down on a real luge, and go through the 652 00:43:07,555 --> 00:43:10,715 Speaker 2: hall on their backs, watching overhead slide shows and glancing 653 00:43:10,835 --> 00:43:13,475 Speaker 2: quickly at plaques detailing the careers. 654 00:43:13,075 --> 00:43:14,355 Speaker 1: Of the world's great lougers. 655 00:43:14,995 --> 00:43:18,675 Speaker 2: Buttons and pins with choice catchphrases would also help luge. 656 00:43:18,995 --> 00:43:22,155 Speaker 2: How about I'm a loujer or born to luge, both 657 00:43:22,155 --> 00:43:24,795 Speaker 2: of which could also be turned into great popular music hits. 658 00:43:25,155 --> 00:43:27,955 Speaker 2: We would avoid degradations of the sport like no luge 659 00:43:28,035 --> 00:43:31,635 Speaker 2: is good luge, or the inaccurate insinuation that lujers travel 660 00:43:31,675 --> 00:43:34,195 Speaker 2: on their backs, because nobody would dare ride down that 661 00:43:34,315 --> 00:43:37,635 Speaker 2: course head first. And I would remind you, you knew 662 00:43:37,715 --> 00:43:42,195 Speaker 2: luge fan, you of the first promotional luge statement. For everything, 663 00:43:42,315 --> 00:43:45,355 Speaker 2: there is a season, a time to gain, and a 664 00:43:45,395 --> 00:43:49,795 Speaker 2: time to louge. I'm Keith Olberman and from Lake Placid. 665 00:43:50,195 --> 00:43:51,235 Speaker 2: That's my Side. 666 00:43:51,595 --> 00:43:55,195 Speaker 1: Count Down with Keith Olberman is a production of iHeartRadio. 667 00:43:55,475 --> 00:44:00,795 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 668 00:44:00,915 --> 00:44:02,875 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.