1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,075 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This 2 00:00:21,275 --> 00:00:25,355 Speaker 1: is Countdown for Tuesday, January twenty third, twenty twenty four, 3 00:00:25,595 --> 00:00:30,395 Speaker 1: day eight of Donald J. Trump's dementia crisis. We started 4 00:00:30,515 --> 00:00:33,915 Speaker 1: New Hampshire, where Nancy Mace has now joined Ron DeSantis 5 00:00:33,915 --> 00:00:37,115 Speaker 1: in endorsing their one time mortal enemy, and once again 6 00:00:37,635 --> 00:00:41,835 Speaker 1: the Rats are actually jumping on to the ship, and 7 00:00:42,075 --> 00:00:44,515 Speaker 1: New Hampshire, where Trump will actually do better than he 8 00:00:44,515 --> 00:00:46,555 Speaker 1: did last week in Iowa. But the media will tell 9 00:00:46,555 --> 00:00:48,475 Speaker 1: you the opposite, because most of them are either too 10 00:00:48,515 --> 00:00:52,675 Speaker 1: stupid or too terrified to reach an individual conclusion about anything. 11 00:00:53,675 --> 00:00:57,315 Speaker 1: Trump barely got fifty one percent of the vote in Iowa, 12 00:00:57,955 --> 00:00:59,755 Speaker 1: and he got what now turns out not to be 13 00:00:59,795 --> 00:01:02,675 Speaker 1: the support of eight percent of all Iowa Republicans, but 14 00:01:02,795 --> 00:01:06,035 Speaker 1: just seven percent of all Iowa Republicans. But math is hard, 15 00:01:06,915 --> 00:01:09,955 Speaker 1: and as late as last night, such austere news outlets 16 00:01:09,995 --> 00:01:14,515 Speaker 1: as the BBC were still declaring his Iowa win a landslide, 17 00:01:14,995 --> 00:01:18,035 Speaker 1: while suggesting New Hampshire, where the Boston Globe poll over 18 00:01:18,075 --> 00:01:20,275 Speaker 1: the weekend gives him fifty seven percent of the vote, 19 00:01:20,595 --> 00:01:24,755 Speaker 1: might be close. Might mean Republican Party anti trumpsm is 20 00:01:24,795 --> 00:01:29,675 Speaker 1: still alive, even though fifty seven percent for Trump is 21 00:01:29,995 --> 00:01:34,035 Speaker 1: more than fifty one percent for Trump. But for some reason, 22 00:01:34,075 --> 00:01:36,915 Speaker 1: they only see his margin versus the next closest opponents, 23 00:01:37,035 --> 00:01:39,635 Speaker 1: which is not the way elections work. But don't tell 24 00:01:39,675 --> 00:01:41,955 Speaker 1: Steve Kornaki that, or they'll have to carry him off 25 00:01:41,955 --> 00:01:45,235 Speaker 1: on a stretcher. I have no insight on what the 26 00:01:45,315 --> 00:01:47,515 Speaker 1: voting in New Hampshire will bring, except to note that 27 00:01:47,555 --> 00:01:50,115 Speaker 1: the whole bunch of other headlines from there were wrong. 28 00:01:50,515 --> 00:01:55,995 Speaker 1: DeSantis did not end his campaign Sunday. He suspended it 29 00:01:57,075 --> 00:02:01,395 Speaker 1: like Gramaswami suspended his. Because they may be idiots, but 30 00:02:01,435 --> 00:02:03,995 Speaker 1: they ain't stupid, and there is more than the average 31 00:02:04,075 --> 00:02:08,555 Speaker 1: randomness of chance at play here. If something forces Trump 32 00:02:08,675 --> 00:02:13,635 Speaker 1: out conviction confession, he goes completely off the deep end. 33 00:02:13,955 --> 00:02:18,235 Speaker 1: The actuarial tables come from him whatever they are ready 34 00:02:18,275 --> 00:02:21,515 Speaker 1: to jump back in. Although it is hard to see 35 00:02:21,555 --> 00:02:24,675 Speaker 1: how DeSantis would now be taken seriously even if Trump 36 00:02:24,755 --> 00:02:28,275 Speaker 1: were suddenly squirted out of the universe, as the cartoonist B. 37 00:02:28,435 --> 00:02:32,995 Speaker 1: Cliben once wrote, by forces beyond his comprehension. Success is 38 00:02:33,075 --> 00:02:36,315 Speaker 1: not final, Failure is not fatal. It is the courage 39 00:02:36,355 --> 00:02:40,555 Speaker 1: to continue that counts, DeSantis wrote above his dropout video, 40 00:02:40,875 --> 00:02:45,075 Speaker 1: attributing the quote to Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill never said that, 41 00:02:45,675 --> 00:02:48,475 Speaker 1: never said anything like that, although he did kind to 42 00:02:48,555 --> 00:02:53,075 Speaker 1: get the time frame right. As Tweeter Cheyenne eighty six notes, 43 00:02:53,235 --> 00:02:58,515 Speaker 1: the quote is from a nineteen thirty eight magazine advertisement 44 00:02:59,115 --> 00:03:02,795 Speaker 1: urging customers to maintain the pioneer American spirit of vision 45 00:03:02,875 --> 00:03:06,915 Speaker 1: and sturdy confidence, knowing that success was never final and 46 00:03:06,995 --> 00:03:10,875 Speaker 1: failure never fatal. It was courage that counted. And the 47 00:03:10,955 --> 00:03:14,235 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty eight advertising copy DeSantis thinks was said by 48 00:03:14,275 --> 00:03:18,835 Speaker 1: noted copywriter Winston Churchill concluded, live life, every golden minute 49 00:03:18,835 --> 00:03:23,515 Speaker 1: of it, Enjoy Budweiser, every golden drop of it. It's 50 00:03:23,555 --> 00:03:28,555 Speaker 1: a Budweiser ad. DeSantis's exit line is from a nineteen 51 00:03:28,635 --> 00:03:33,915 Speaker 1: thirty eight Budweiser ad. Nearly a year since DeSantis went 52 00:03:34,035 --> 00:03:37,115 Speaker 1: all anti woke over the beer can with the picture 53 00:03:37,155 --> 00:03:41,035 Speaker 1: of Dylan mulvaney on it, and DeSantis launched an investigation 54 00:03:41,155 --> 00:03:44,475 Speaker 1: in the company. In the company was Budweiser, and DeSantis 55 00:03:44,515 --> 00:03:47,355 Speaker 1: just quoted them and attributed to Churchill. And if there 56 00:03:47,395 --> 00:03:50,515 Speaker 1: is one way for a jamoke like DeSantis to end 57 00:03:50,595 --> 00:03:56,395 Speaker 1: up with five percent into Hampshire. That's the way. And then, 58 00:03:56,435 --> 00:04:00,155 Speaker 1: of course the Jamoke endorsed Trump exactly one week after 59 00:04:00,195 --> 00:04:02,715 Speaker 1: telling the truth about Trump one week. 60 00:04:02,995 --> 00:04:07,595 Speaker 2: You can be the most worthless Republican in America, but 61 00:04:07,675 --> 00:04:11,035 Speaker 2: if you kiss the ring, he'll say you're wonderful. You 62 00:04:11,115 --> 00:04:17,675 Speaker 2: can be the strongest, most dynamic, successful Republican and conservative 63 00:04:17,675 --> 00:04:20,755 Speaker 2: in America. But if you don't kiss that ring, then 64 00:04:20,795 --> 00:04:21,795 Speaker 2: he'll try to trash you. 65 00:04:21,915 --> 00:04:24,955 Speaker 1: DeSantis then added, I'd just like to say, pick a pear, 66 00:04:25,395 --> 00:04:28,955 Speaker 1: Pick a pear. Another sizzling summer is coming. It's time 67 00:04:28,995 --> 00:04:31,795 Speaker 1: to stock up on the cool, crisp taste of Budweiser 68 00:04:32,035 --> 00:04:35,035 Speaker 1: and Bud Light. So pick a pair of six packs, 69 00:04:35,075 --> 00:04:42,715 Speaker 1: and in conclusion, Anheuser Bush Saint Louis moron. And if 70 00:04:42,755 --> 00:04:47,555 Speaker 1: you think that's moronic, as I mentioned, Congresswoman Nancy Mace, 71 00:04:47,995 --> 00:04:50,115 Speaker 1: who may have been a Duncan yo yo in a 72 00:04:50,155 --> 00:04:53,435 Speaker 1: previous life and in fact maybe a Duncan yo yo 73 00:04:53,635 --> 00:04:58,955 Speaker 1: in this life, Nancy Mace endorsed Trump yesterday. This was 74 00:04:59,115 --> 00:05:03,275 Speaker 1: Nancy Mace on January eleventh, twenty twenty one. 75 00:05:03,675 --> 00:05:05,835 Speaker 3: I've talked to some of my on both sides of 76 00:05:05,875 --> 00:05:08,875 Speaker 3: the aisle today. I do believe there's an appetite, whether 77 00:05:08,915 --> 00:05:14,435 Speaker 3: that is censure or some other resolution or opportunity to 78 00:05:14,475 --> 00:05:16,595 Speaker 3: move forward. And somebody's got to be held accountable. And 79 00:05:16,635 --> 00:05:18,875 Speaker 3: we have to hold the president accountable for what happened, 80 00:05:19,555 --> 00:05:22,275 Speaker 3: the rhetoric leading up to this vote, the lies that 81 00:05:22,315 --> 00:05:26,195 Speaker 3: were told to the American people. This is what happens. 82 00:05:26,275 --> 00:05:29,315 Speaker 3: Rhetoric has real consequences, and people. 83 00:05:28,995 --> 00:05:33,395 Speaker 1: Died, and that's why she's endorsing Trump. Three years and 84 00:05:33,475 --> 00:05:37,115 Speaker 1: twelve days is a lot of time to bang your 85 00:05:37,115 --> 00:05:40,755 Speaker 1: head against the hardwood in the world of Nancy Mas 86 00:05:42,315 --> 00:05:45,115 Speaker 1: Trump himself had to pivot suddenly. Yesterday he had gotten 87 00:05:45,155 --> 00:05:49,115 Speaker 1: all geared up to testify at Ejen Carroll trial two 88 00:05:49,115 --> 00:05:51,955 Speaker 1: out of three. He in fact, had just spit posted 89 00:05:51,995 --> 00:05:54,315 Speaker 1: her literally forty two times in thirteen minutes, and was 90 00:05:54,355 --> 00:05:57,475 Speaker 1: sitting at the defense table next to Alina Habba, his 91 00:05:57,635 --> 00:06:01,395 Speaker 1: consciousness visiting and then departing our plane of existence every 92 00:06:01,475 --> 00:06:05,075 Speaker 1: ninety seconds or so, when the judge said one of 93 00:06:05,115 --> 00:06:07,995 Speaker 1: the jurors was sick and he would be postponing for 94 00:06:08,035 --> 00:06:11,595 Speaker 1: the day, and then Haba said her parents have COVID 95 00:06:11,915 --> 00:06:15,915 Speaker 1: and she tested negative, but she had a fever habba 96 00:06:15,995 --> 00:06:18,955 Speaker 1: hab a fever, and she asked the judge to delay 97 00:06:19,035 --> 00:06:22,435 Speaker 1: till Wednesday because the furer had to be in Hampshire today. 98 00:06:22,635 --> 00:06:24,515 Speaker 1: And the judge said, let's just get out of here 99 00:06:24,675 --> 00:06:27,955 Speaker 1: and we'll settle that later. And then the entire fascist 100 00:06:27,995 --> 00:06:30,675 Speaker 1: crowd shouted election interference. And then it turned out the 101 00:06:30,755 --> 00:06:33,635 Speaker 1: judge had delayed until Wednesday, and no, none of the 102 00:06:33,675 --> 00:06:37,915 Speaker 1: fascists said oops or anything. And before we get to 103 00:06:37,915 --> 00:06:41,515 Speaker 1: Trump's latest confirmation that his cheese whiz is fully and 104 00:06:41,675 --> 00:06:45,395 Speaker 1: rapidly sliding off his cracker, I wanted a wax philosophical 105 00:06:45,435 --> 00:06:49,155 Speaker 1: on you for a moment and quote the impeccable Brian Boutler, 106 00:06:49,355 --> 00:06:52,715 Speaker 1: who writes a terrific substat called off message, and who 107 00:06:52,875 --> 00:06:56,235 Speaker 1: rallied us all around the flag yesterday with this quote. 108 00:06:56,355 --> 00:07:00,275 Speaker 1: In some polls, Biden's actually less popular than Trump, but 109 00:07:00,435 --> 00:07:05,195 Speaker 1: many of Biden's detractors are soft disapprovers. They're not never Biden. 110 00:07:05,635 --> 00:07:10,555 Speaker 1: Trump's detractors, by contrast, nearly all despise him, and they 111 00:07:10,635 --> 00:07:15,675 Speaker 1: comprise a majority of the country. It suggests that anti 112 00:07:15,755 --> 00:07:19,275 Speaker 1: trump Ism is the most powerful force in American politics. 113 00:07:19,515 --> 00:07:23,435 Speaker 1: And if husband did well, an insurmountable obstacle to his 114 00:07:23,515 --> 00:07:26,595 Speaker 1: hold on power. It's a big part of why I 115 00:07:26,755 --> 00:07:30,995 Speaker 1: get frustrated when Democrats try to center politics around other 116 00:07:31,355 --> 00:07:38,755 Speaker 1: less potent things. Unquote, damn straight, Brian Boiler hate proudly, 117 00:07:38,875 --> 00:07:45,275 Speaker 1: my friends hate Trump proudly, and now to dementia watch 118 00:07:45,315 --> 00:07:57,275 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Thank you, Nancy Faust. So now we 119 00:07:57,355 --> 00:08:00,475 Speaker 1: know how to get the issue of Trump's mental decline 120 00:08:00,715 --> 00:08:04,435 Speaker 1: past the self censorship wall of the American political media 121 00:08:04,435 --> 00:08:08,515 Speaker 1: and industrial complex. We have to wait for another politician 122 00:08:08,675 --> 00:08:11,915 Speaker 1: to call him out on it, preferably one who was 123 00:08:12,035 --> 00:08:15,995 Speaker 1: collateral damage from a Trump dementia episode, as Nicki Haley was. 124 00:08:16,515 --> 00:08:21,595 Speaker 1: That way, see a terrorized, money obsessed quote journalists unquote 125 00:08:21,795 --> 00:08:25,075 Speaker 1: can say we didn't say he's losing his mind, she 126 00:08:25,435 --> 00:08:28,715 Speaker 1: said it, And if they're lucky, he will then come 127 00:08:28,755 --> 00:08:31,595 Speaker 1: back at her, and they can both sides the thing 128 00:08:31,675 --> 00:08:35,555 Speaker 1: to death, as they do everything else. This is literally 129 00:08:35,635 --> 00:08:39,195 Speaker 1: how this works. If Trump started speaking in tongues, they 130 00:08:39,195 --> 00:08:42,755 Speaker 1: could not say he was speaking in tongues. The closest 131 00:08:42,795 --> 00:08:44,635 Speaker 1: they could get to that would be to say he 132 00:08:44,715 --> 00:08:50,475 Speaker 1: appeared to be using language unfamiliar in the state. If 133 00:08:50,555 --> 00:08:54,395 Speaker 1: Nicki Haley says he's speaking in tens. They could run 134 00:08:54,435 --> 00:08:58,795 Speaker 1: that this way. If Trump regains power, they could print 135 00:08:58,795 --> 00:09:00,875 Speaker 1: out what they wrote about him or set about him, 136 00:09:00,955 --> 00:09:03,515 Speaker 1: and hold it up and say, we were only quoting her. 137 00:09:03,635 --> 00:09:06,955 Speaker 1: We didn't insult the few are ourselves, and they would 138 00:09:06,955 --> 00:09:09,755 Speaker 1: plead for the Trump dictatorship to let them keep publishing 139 00:09:10,035 --> 00:09:12,995 Speaker 1: or let wolf Blitzer stay on the air. Of course 140 00:09:13,595 --> 00:09:16,915 Speaker 1: they wouldn't let them keep publishing or let wolf Blitzer 141 00:09:16,915 --> 00:09:18,515 Speaker 1: stay on the air, and everybody will wind up in 142 00:09:18,515 --> 00:09:21,555 Speaker 1: the camp. But the networks in the newspapers don't realize 143 00:09:21,555 --> 00:09:26,515 Speaker 1: that anyway. For whatever else Haley does or does not 144 00:09:26,675 --> 00:09:30,875 Speaker 1: do in her life, she has mainstreamed the obviousness of 145 00:09:30,955 --> 00:09:34,715 Speaker 1: Trump's crisis, at least for the moment she has outed 146 00:09:35,235 --> 00:09:38,595 Speaker 1: what a sniveling little toady this sentient lawn ornament. At 147 00:09:38,675 --> 00:09:42,515 Speaker 1: least Stephanic is as she pursues the vice presidential nomination. 148 00:09:42,635 --> 00:09:47,555 Speaker 1: She will not get if you've missed this. Stephanic insists 149 00:09:48,035 --> 00:09:51,995 Speaker 1: that Trump did not confuse Nicky Haley and Nancy Pelosi. 150 00:09:52,235 --> 00:09:56,515 Speaker 1: It was, according to this woman's Stephanic, some sort of 151 00:09:56,755 --> 00:10:01,035 Speaker 1: allegory or another word. Stefanic is too dumb to know 152 00:10:01,835 --> 00:10:06,115 Speaker 1: he was insulting nicky Haley, she says, by linking her 153 00:10:06,155 --> 00:10:13,715 Speaker 1: to Pelosi because they both rely on Democrats. Honestly, Elise 154 00:10:13,755 --> 00:10:20,475 Speaker 1: Stephanic opens her mouth suddenly, I miss Sarah Palin, by 155 00:10:20,515 --> 00:10:25,795 Speaker 1: the way, the wages of sin over the weekend, Trump 156 00:10:26,715 --> 00:10:32,915 Speaker 1: mispronounced Stephanic's name. Might be part of his sun setting, 157 00:10:33,755 --> 00:10:36,515 Speaker 1: might not be part of his sun setting. Hell, I 158 00:10:36,555 --> 00:10:39,635 Speaker 1: may have mispronounced her name at one point. I mispronounced VIVAQ. 159 00:10:40,875 --> 00:10:43,595 Speaker 1: Might be relevant to this, might not. It's just hilarious, 160 00:10:43,915 --> 00:10:47,195 Speaker 1: given what a pretzel she twisted herself into trying to 161 00:10:47,235 --> 00:10:51,595 Speaker 1: prove she'd be a good slave for Trump. It is 162 00:10:51,675 --> 00:10:54,275 Speaker 1: important to note that the Haley Pelosi thing is just 163 00:10:54,395 --> 00:10:58,955 Speaker 1: the latest in this the latest series of confused identities 164 00:10:59,035 --> 00:11:03,315 Speaker 1: in Trump's statements. Trump showed signs of this sun setting 165 00:11:03,315 --> 00:11:06,715 Speaker 1: as early as twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, but the mistakes 166 00:11:07,435 --> 00:11:11,195 Speaker 1: are moving further and further away from adjacent memories or 167 00:11:11,275 --> 00:11:14,955 Speaker 1: adjacent identities. To be shown a picture of e. Gene 168 00:11:15,035 --> 00:11:17,115 Speaker 1: Carroll as part of that lawsuit and to be asked 169 00:11:17,235 --> 00:11:19,355 Speaker 1: who's that in the picture, and to say that's my 170 00:11:19,515 --> 00:11:24,435 Speaker 1: second wife, Marla, that's evidence of early confusion. But it's 171 00:11:24,475 --> 00:11:28,075 Speaker 1: more likely evidence of suppressed memory or maybe even whatever 172 00:11:28,155 --> 00:11:31,795 Speaker 1: Trump has that is like guilt. As I've said before, 173 00:11:31,795 --> 00:11:35,755 Speaker 1: calling Biden Obama is simply a series of links between 174 00:11:35,795 --> 00:11:38,715 Speaker 1: the two men dissolving inside his brain so that he 175 00:11:38,795 --> 00:11:43,075 Speaker 1: identifies them interchangeably. But the only thing NICKI Hanley has 176 00:11:43,115 --> 00:11:48,275 Speaker 1: in common with Nancy Pelosi three things, really is that 177 00:11:48,355 --> 00:11:52,475 Speaker 1: he hates them both. They are both women, and their 178 00:11:52,515 --> 00:11:57,995 Speaker 1: first names both start with M. Still, it's a good time, 179 00:11:58,035 --> 00:12:01,315 Speaker 1: I think, to review some of his recent moments, those 180 00:12:01,315 --> 00:12:03,555 Speaker 1: moments when a man with loved ones would hear one 181 00:12:03,595 --> 00:12:06,915 Speaker 1: of them say this happens to you. Consult your physician. 182 00:12:08,315 --> 00:12:13,435 Speaker 1: Yesterday Trump did one that would terrify Trump's doctor if 183 00:12:13,475 --> 00:12:16,235 Speaker 1: his last two doctors had not been a quack and 184 00:12:16,355 --> 00:12:20,715 Speaker 1: a drunk pill pushing quack turned congressman. We all know, 185 00:12:21,155 --> 00:12:23,995 Speaker 1: we all know too well, that Trump's mind is essentially 186 00:12:23,995 --> 00:12:26,955 Speaker 1: one long word association mad lib. He thinks of one 187 00:12:26,995 --> 00:12:29,635 Speaker 1: thing that reminds him of another. He talks about that, 188 00:12:29,915 --> 00:12:32,955 Speaker 1: then a third thing, then a fourth. But this from 189 00:12:33,035 --> 00:12:36,795 Speaker 1: late yesterday afternoon is different, and it's kind of a 190 00:12:36,835 --> 00:12:40,235 Speaker 1: scarier version of that. This is when one thing reminds 191 00:12:40,315 --> 00:12:43,435 Speaker 1: him of the second thing, and then the third, but 192 00:12:43,475 --> 00:12:45,795 Speaker 1: then he repeats the second thing. Then he goes on 193 00:12:45,795 --> 00:12:48,915 Speaker 1: to the fourth, and then he repeats the second thing again, 194 00:12:49,835 --> 00:12:55,715 Speaker 1: and curiously, the second is that drunk pill pushing quack 195 00:12:55,755 --> 00:12:59,995 Speaker 1: turned congressman Ronnie Jackson. I hope you are wearing a 196 00:13:00,035 --> 00:13:00,915 Speaker 1: seat belt for this. 197 00:13:01,195 --> 00:13:03,075 Speaker 4: Well, I think I'm a lot sharper than her. I 198 00:13:03,075 --> 00:13:05,195 Speaker 4: would do this. I would sit down right now and 199 00:13:05,235 --> 00:13:07,555 Speaker 4: take an aptitude test, and it would be my result 200 00:13:07,555 --> 00:13:09,795 Speaker 4: against her result, and she's not going to win. I 201 00:13:09,835 --> 00:13:12,955 Speaker 4: canna even come close to winning. In fact, when I 202 00:13:12,995 --> 00:13:15,435 Speaker 4: heard the word cognitive, you know, I've taken two of 203 00:13:15,475 --> 00:13:18,035 Speaker 4: them now. I took one with Doc Ronnie, who's now 204 00:13:18,075 --> 00:13:22,075 Speaker 4: a fantastic, you know, white House doctor and a fantastic 205 00:13:22,435 --> 00:13:27,635 Speaker 4: congressman from Texas, Admiral the White House doctor Jackson, Ronnie Jackson, 206 00:13:27,755 --> 00:13:30,715 Speaker 4: and he's now a great congressman from Texas. I took 207 00:13:31,635 --> 00:13:33,995 Speaker 4: one then, and I took one recently. I think the 208 00:13:34,035 --> 00:13:37,115 Speaker 4: result was announced, and it was I aced it twice. 209 00:13:37,195 --> 00:13:37,835 Speaker 4: I aced it. 210 00:13:37,955 --> 00:13:41,755 Speaker 1: Not great, Bob. Not remembering what you said a day 211 00:13:41,795 --> 00:13:44,235 Speaker 1: ago is one thing. Not remembering what you said a 212 00:13:44,275 --> 00:13:48,555 Speaker 1: sentence ago is is something somewhere in his head has 213 00:13:48,595 --> 00:13:54,195 Speaker 1: sprung a serious leak. That is just the latest Sunday 214 00:13:54,275 --> 00:13:57,675 Speaker 1: in New Hampshire. He pressed for this presidential immunity crap, 215 00:13:57,875 --> 00:14:00,195 Speaker 1: and he thought it would be a good idea to 216 00:14:00,475 --> 00:14:05,555 Speaker 1: justify it by comparing himself to pet priests. 217 00:14:05,955 --> 00:14:08,795 Speaker 4: You have a rogue cup, you know what. The road 218 00:14:08,835 --> 00:14:11,955 Speaker 4: cup is very seldom, but you have sped people. You 219 00:14:11,995 --> 00:14:13,875 Speaker 4: have people no matter where, no matter what. 220 00:14:14,995 --> 00:14:15,555 Speaker 1: In the church. 221 00:14:15,595 --> 00:14:16,995 Speaker 4: You have some people that aren't so good. 222 00:14:17,115 --> 00:14:19,555 Speaker 1: Right. And here are a couple of other weekend brain 223 00:14:19,755 --> 00:14:25,755 Speaker 1: short outs over tough words, words like dignitary and climate 224 00:14:26,715 --> 00:14:27,955 Speaker 1: and bank. 225 00:14:28,395 --> 00:14:30,555 Speaker 4: No, but can you imagine you're a foreign dignity and 226 00:14:30,555 --> 00:14:33,435 Speaker 4: you're coming into the United States. That's true, they don't 227 00:14:33,475 --> 00:14:37,555 Speaker 4: go far, but it's certainly not great for your clime. 228 00:14:37,915 --> 00:14:41,395 Speaker 4: Your clime, they call it climate. But we're also going 229 00:14:41,435 --> 00:14:45,235 Speaker 4: to play strong protections to stop banks and regulators from 230 00:14:45,755 --> 00:14:50,755 Speaker 4: trying to debank you from your you know, your political beliefs. 231 00:14:50,755 --> 00:14:53,115 Speaker 4: What they do, They want to dbank you, and we're 232 00:14:53,155 --> 00:14:54,075 Speaker 4: going to d bank. 233 00:14:54,475 --> 00:14:54,995 Speaker 3: Think of this. 234 00:14:55,475 --> 00:14:57,235 Speaker 4: They want to take away your rights, they want to 235 00:14:57,275 --> 00:15:00,195 Speaker 4: take away your country. The things you're doing all electric cars. 236 00:15:00,275 --> 00:15:00,915 Speaker 4: Give me a break. 237 00:15:01,155 --> 00:15:04,075 Speaker 1: These kids today with their rock and their roll. Am 238 00:15:04,075 --> 00:15:08,875 Speaker 1: I right? Oh boy? The mystery word there was d bank, 239 00:15:09,475 --> 00:15:12,955 Speaker 1: a new Republican buzz term for when banks refused to 240 00:15:12,955 --> 00:15:16,995 Speaker 1: provide services to people who are white supremacists or were 241 00:15:16,995 --> 00:15:20,675 Speaker 1: in on January sixth, or are Trump. And then, of 242 00:15:20,715 --> 00:15:27,875 Speaker 1: course we have the original citation in our catalog of 243 00:15:28,035 --> 00:15:31,875 Speaker 1: trump dementia crisis and the response, by the way. 244 00:15:31,755 --> 00:15:34,035 Speaker 4: They never reprought the crowd on January sixth. 245 00:15:34,035 --> 00:15:38,035 Speaker 5: You know Nicki Helly, Nicki Haley, Nicki Haley, you know 246 00:15:38,115 --> 00:15:40,835 Speaker 5: they do? You know they destroyed all of the information, 247 00:15:40,995 --> 00:15:43,915 Speaker 5: all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it, 248 00:15:44,355 --> 00:15:47,635 Speaker 5: all of it because of lots of things, like Nicki 249 00:15:47,675 --> 00:15:51,675 Speaker 5: Haley is in chajev security. We offered her ten thousand people. 250 00:15:52,075 --> 00:15:56,275 Speaker 6: Last night. Trump is at a rally and he's going 251 00:15:56,355 --> 00:15:59,355 Speaker 6: on and on mentioning me multiple times as to why 252 00:15:59,435 --> 00:16:05,075 Speaker 6: I didn't take security during the Capitol riots. I didn't 253 00:16:05,075 --> 00:16:09,235 Speaker 6: handle January sixth better, I wasn't even in DC on 254 00:16:09,355 --> 00:16:10,275 Speaker 6: January sixth. 255 00:16:10,995 --> 00:16:12,195 Speaker 1: I wasn't in office. 256 00:16:12,235 --> 00:16:17,195 Speaker 6: Then they're saying he got confused that he was talking 257 00:16:17,195 --> 00:16:19,875 Speaker 6: about something else, so I'm not Nancy Flose. He mentioned 258 00:16:19,915 --> 00:16:24,035 Speaker 6: me multiple times in that scenario. The concern I have 259 00:16:24,235 --> 00:16:29,035 Speaker 6: is I'm not saying anything derogatory, but when you're dealing 260 00:16:29,075 --> 00:16:34,155 Speaker 6: with the pressures of a presidency, we can't have someone 261 00:16:34,195 --> 00:16:38,715 Speaker 6: else that we question whether they're mentally fit to do this. 262 00:16:39,075 --> 00:16:40,115 Speaker 6: We can't. 263 00:16:40,475 --> 00:16:44,115 Speaker 1: And your weekly reminder that Trump is a walking confirmation 264 00:16:44,195 --> 00:16:48,955 Speaker 1: of that oldest saw in psychology. Your emotional health can 265 00:16:48,995 --> 00:16:52,795 Speaker 1: be quickly assessed by how accurately you can gauge what 266 00:16:52,915 --> 00:16:54,235 Speaker 1: others think of you. 267 00:16:54,515 --> 00:16:57,595 Speaker 4: I think cognitively I'm better than I was twenty years ago. 268 00:16:57,635 --> 00:17:08,875 Speaker 1: I don't know why, better better than what? Also of 269 00:17:08,955 --> 00:17:11,955 Speaker 1: interest here, it is finally time in this Ohio diner 270 00:17:12,115 --> 00:17:16,835 Speaker 1: with demagogues in disarray, for The New York Times to 271 00:17:17,155 --> 00:17:21,115 Speaker 1: fire Maureen Dowd. That's next. This is countdown. 272 00:17:22,675 --> 00:17:24,955 Speaker 3: This is countdown with Keith. 273 00:17:32,755 --> 00:17:36,315 Speaker 1: Postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks, 274 00:17:36,355 --> 00:17:40,715 Speaker 1: some predictions. Dateline New York Times Headquarters also known as 275 00:17:40,795 --> 00:17:47,675 Speaker 1: Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. Okay, that's it. It's time to 276 00:17:47,755 --> 00:17:52,275 Speaker 1: retire Maureene Dowd, or fire her, or just let her 277 00:17:52,355 --> 00:17:55,595 Speaker 1: keep writing, but only print one copy of her newspaper 278 00:17:55,715 --> 00:17:58,595 Speaker 1: with the column in it so she doesn't know she's 279 00:17:58,715 --> 00:18:02,355 Speaker 1: humiliating herself and the paper every week, and they stopped 280 00:18:02,555 --> 00:18:06,275 Speaker 1: running her. It can be He argued that Maureen Dowd's 281 00:18:06,395 --> 00:18:10,355 Speaker 1: shelf life expired around nineteen ninety six, but she keeps 282 00:18:10,435 --> 00:18:13,035 Speaker 1: right at it, churning out what is basically the same 283 00:18:13,355 --> 00:18:18,835 Speaker 1: column some strained not quite their analogy between the entertainment 284 00:18:18,875 --> 00:18:22,755 Speaker 1: world and politics. A couple times every week they provide 285 00:18:22,795 --> 00:18:27,515 Speaker 1: solid material for Twitter's NYT pitch bot, but they infuriate 286 00:18:27,595 --> 00:18:30,235 Speaker 1: basically the rest of the population, and she has now 287 00:18:30,315 --> 00:18:34,555 Speaker 1: reached a new high in low. It wasn't that this 288 00:18:34,795 --> 00:18:38,515 Speaker 1: Sunday's piece postulated a laugh out loud, bad solution to 289 00:18:38,595 --> 00:18:41,595 Speaker 1: the problem of Trump. Dowd wants to take page from 290 00:18:41,595 --> 00:18:45,115 Speaker 1: the Emmys, which nobody watches, and use it on Trump's 291 00:18:45,155 --> 00:18:48,955 Speaker 1: speeches when they're carried by TV news networks, which nobody watches. 292 00:18:49,755 --> 00:18:53,195 Speaker 1: The Emmys apparently speeded up the thank you process in 293 00:18:53,355 --> 00:18:56,755 Speaker 1: speeches by running a crawl of all the people the 294 00:18:56,795 --> 00:19:00,755 Speaker 1: winner wanted to thank A damn fine idea, by the way, well, 295 00:19:00,835 --> 00:19:05,395 Speaker 1: Dowd wants CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and ms NBC to 296 00:19:05,515 --> 00:19:09,795 Speaker 1: run Trump's speeches live, but with a crawl listing his 297 00:19:09,955 --> 00:19:13,235 Speaker 1: lies as he lies them. Cool. 298 00:19:13,555 --> 00:19:13,875 Speaker 3: Cool. 299 00:19:14,995 --> 00:19:18,515 Speaker 1: You know that nobody who believes him would watch his 300 00:19:18,595 --> 00:19:22,355 Speaker 1: speech on CBS or NBC or ABC, or at CNN 301 00:19:22,435 --> 00:19:26,915 Speaker 1: or MSNBC or PBS, Right, Maureen, That you could run 302 00:19:27,475 --> 00:19:30,795 Speaker 1: the same speech on those networks from Trump again and again, 303 00:19:30,835 --> 00:19:33,275 Speaker 1: and you just put up a different city locator in 304 00:19:33,275 --> 00:19:37,315 Speaker 1: the corner, and nobody watching would know the difference, right, Mareen? 305 00:19:37,995 --> 00:19:41,395 Speaker 1: That Trump long ago figured the root around for his lying. 306 00:19:41,435 --> 00:19:44,755 Speaker 1: He feeds it directly to the cult via a series 307 00:19:44,835 --> 00:19:49,195 Speaker 1: of streaming networks and Fox, which he controls or influences 308 00:19:49,315 --> 00:19:54,915 Speaker 1: or bullies, also correcting Republican lies in real time. Gosh, 309 00:19:54,955 --> 00:19:56,875 Speaker 1: I never thought of that. We tried that at MSNBC 310 00:19:56,995 --> 00:20:00,555 Speaker 1: during the Republican Convention in two thousand and eight, and 311 00:20:00,595 --> 00:20:03,075 Speaker 1: then again I tried it at Current TV in twenty eleven. 312 00:20:03,115 --> 00:20:06,835 Speaker 1: In twenty twelve, and the GOP immediately went straight to 313 00:20:06,995 --> 00:20:12,595 Speaker 1: retribution against the parent companies, particularly against NBC. They threatened 314 00:20:12,595 --> 00:20:16,195 Speaker 1: to boycott the presidential debate on NBC if I ever 315 00:20:16,195 --> 00:20:18,955 Speaker 1: said anything like that again. It was called the truth. 316 00:20:19,715 --> 00:20:25,475 Speaker 1: But the Dowd problem is not that bad old solutions 317 00:20:25,515 --> 00:20:27,715 Speaker 1: that solve nothing and will be seen by no one 318 00:20:27,795 --> 00:20:31,355 Speaker 1: formed the basis of her column. It's little both sides 319 00:20:31,395 --> 00:20:34,235 Speaker 1: this crap like this, in which it is clear that 320 00:20:34,395 --> 00:20:37,235 Speaker 1: reality is less important to Maureen Dowd and the New 321 00:20:37,315 --> 00:20:42,035 Speaker 1: York Times than is a nice parallel sentence structure. Quote. 322 00:20:43,195 --> 00:20:45,995 Speaker 1: Even after four years of Donald the Menace in the 323 00:20:45,995 --> 00:20:49,635 Speaker 1: White House, I am still gobsmacked that he could be 324 00:20:49,675 --> 00:20:52,555 Speaker 1: on his way to another stint as the leader of 325 00:20:52,595 --> 00:20:57,075 Speaker 1: the free world. As a parenthetical, how many of those 326 00:20:57,115 --> 00:21:01,075 Speaker 1: words have you not personally used this century? But given 327 00:21:01,115 --> 00:21:04,275 Speaker 1: his landslide in Iowa it wasn't a landslide. He won 328 00:21:04,275 --> 00:21:07,195 Speaker 1: by two and twenty two votes, we must accept it, 329 00:21:07,235 --> 00:21:10,755 Speaker 1: no matter how ludicrous it seems. So we're stuck with 330 00:21:11,035 --> 00:21:16,315 Speaker 1: two narcissistic circa eighty Pauls in a race most of 331 00:21:16,395 --> 00:21:19,115 Speaker 1: us don't want. One of them has been cut off 332 00:21:19,155 --> 00:21:21,875 Speaker 1: from a lot of media coverage because it fears about 333 00:21:21,875 --> 00:21:25,275 Speaker 1: his deteriorating performances. The other has been cut off by 334 00:21:25,315 --> 00:21:31,035 Speaker 1: some media outlets over fears about his deceptive performances, that 335 00:21:31,395 --> 00:21:37,275 Speaker 1: gratuitous and actually incorrect shot at President Biden, and the 336 00:21:37,315 --> 00:21:41,475 Speaker 1: deliberate ignoring of Trump's deteriorating mental health and his crisis 337 00:21:41,955 --> 00:21:45,315 Speaker 1: is appalling, given that democracy is on the line and 338 00:21:45,355 --> 00:21:49,555 Speaker 1: Biden's cognitive ability could kick Trump's cognitive ability down the stairs, 339 00:21:50,275 --> 00:21:52,315 Speaker 1: if Trump could ever get up a pair of stairs. 340 00:21:53,035 --> 00:21:56,235 Speaker 1: But it's even worse. Who in the hell is Maureen 341 00:21:56,435 --> 00:22:00,955 Speaker 1: Dowd to be throwing out age insults against Joe Biden 342 00:22:01,075 --> 00:22:04,435 Speaker 1: or Trump for that matter. Maureen Dowd admits to being 343 00:22:04,475 --> 00:22:07,915 Speaker 1: said seventy two years old. I don't think seventy two 344 00:22:07,995 --> 00:22:10,235 Speaker 1: years old is too old to be a newspaper columnist. 345 00:22:10,915 --> 00:22:12,715 Speaker 1: I don't think eighty five is too old to be 346 00:22:12,715 --> 00:22:15,475 Speaker 1: a president. I don't think sixty five is too old 347 00:22:15,475 --> 00:22:18,675 Speaker 1: to do a news podcast. But if I did, bluntly, 348 00:22:19,235 --> 00:22:22,395 Speaker 1: my opinion would be the height of hypocrisy and irrelevancy. 349 00:22:22,635 --> 00:22:28,995 Speaker 1: It isn't age, it's competence. My friend Norman Lloyd died 350 00:22:29,075 --> 00:22:33,515 Speaker 1: three years ago. He was one hundred and six. He 351 00:22:33,555 --> 00:22:36,715 Speaker 1: gave up playing tennis at ninety eight. He gave up 352 00:22:36,795 --> 00:22:39,595 Speaker 1: driving at one hundred, he gave up acting at one 353 00:22:39,635 --> 00:22:43,315 Speaker 1: hundred and two. He was sharper than I am. He 354 00:22:43,395 --> 00:22:46,635 Speaker 1: was sharper than I was forty years ago, and he 355 00:22:46,795 --> 00:22:50,555 Speaker 1: sure as hell was sharper than Maureen Dowd because it 356 00:22:50,675 --> 00:22:55,635 Speaker 1: isn't age, it's competence, and to ignore the fact that 357 00:22:55,675 --> 00:22:59,315 Speaker 1: Trump's confidence is banishing while taking an in ballid shot 358 00:22:59,355 --> 00:23:02,155 Speaker 1: at Biden's in by the way, the one thousand different 359 00:23:02,235 --> 00:23:06,195 Speaker 1: rewrite of your last good column about that young guy 360 00:23:06,275 --> 00:23:10,515 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton shows that Maureen Dowd's confidence is no longer 361 00:23:10,555 --> 00:23:21,515 Speaker 1: in question. It is utterly gone. Dateline Uray, Colorado, somebody 362 00:23:21,635 --> 00:23:25,555 Speaker 1: stole two hundred copies of the Orra County, Colorado Plane 363 00:23:25,635 --> 00:23:30,075 Speaker 1: Dealer from the newspaper racks last Thursday. Authorities don't have 364 00:23:30,155 --> 00:23:33,755 Speaker 1: the slightest idea of a suspect. And when I say 365 00:23:33,835 --> 00:23:37,115 Speaker 1: don't have the slightest idea, I mean they have a 366 00:23:37,155 --> 00:23:40,635 Speaker 1: pretty good guess. The plane Dealer had broken a story 367 00:23:40,675 --> 00:23:44,035 Speaker 1: about alleged rapes at an underage drinking party at the 368 00:23:44,075 --> 00:23:50,355 Speaker 1: home of the Ora County Police Chief Jeff Wood problem. 369 00:23:50,915 --> 00:23:55,875 Speaker 1: The Ora County, Colorado Plane Dealer has you know, subscribers, 370 00:23:56,675 --> 00:24:00,075 Speaker 1: and they get their copies by mail. Also, there's this 371 00:24:00,235 --> 00:24:05,515 Speaker 1: new internet things in Colorado and social media and what 372 00:24:05,595 --> 00:24:08,195 Speaker 1: the kids call the streisand effect, where you draw attention 373 00:24:08,235 --> 00:24:10,715 Speaker 1: to a story nobody knows about by complaining loudly about 374 00:24:10,715 --> 00:24:14,235 Speaker 1: that story. Publisher Mike Wiggins says this is not the 375 00:24:14,275 --> 00:24:16,715 Speaker 1: first time somebody's tried to stop one of their scoops. 376 00:24:17,115 --> 00:24:21,315 Speaker 1: Three years ago, they found a local campground flauning COVID restrictions. 377 00:24:21,635 --> 00:24:24,275 Speaker 1: They had a newspaper vending machine at the campground, and 378 00:24:24,395 --> 00:24:28,875 Speaker 1: some genius taped over the coinslot and put a sign 379 00:24:28,995 --> 00:24:32,435 Speaker 1: over the window of the newspaper box, and the sign read, 380 00:24:33,275 --> 00:24:58,835 Speaker 1: please remove this stell ahead on this all new edition 381 00:24:58,875 --> 00:25:02,155 Speaker 1: of Countdown. I had a moment of Marcel Proust worthy 382 00:25:02,475 --> 00:25:07,075 Speaker 1: regaining of time past yesterday. A friend gave me a 383 00:25:07,195 --> 00:25:09,995 Speaker 1: jacket with her company logo on it, and suddenly I 384 00:25:10,115 --> 00:25:13,795 Speaker 1: was back at my first job, being handed my official 385 00:25:13,955 --> 00:25:20,915 Speaker 1: UPI nineteen eighty Olympics Lake Placid Parka, a parka which 386 00:25:20,955 --> 00:25:26,715 Speaker 1: sadly was not down filled, nor foam filled, nor fur filled. 387 00:25:27,275 --> 00:25:30,715 Speaker 1: You will not repeat, not believe what it was filled with. 388 00:25:31,555 --> 00:25:34,395 Speaker 1: That's next in things I promised not to tell first 389 00:25:34,395 --> 00:25:36,355 Speaker 1: time for the daily roundup of the miscrants, morons and 390 00:25:36,435 --> 00:25:40,155 Speaker 1: Dunning Kruger effect specimens who constitute two days worse persons 391 00:25:40,155 --> 00:25:43,515 Speaker 1: in the world, The Bronze Worst, the Ron DeSantis never 392 00:25:43,555 --> 00:25:46,875 Speaker 1: backed down War Room. At one pm Sunday afternoon, it 393 00:25:46,915 --> 00:25:50,955 Speaker 1: tweeted quote South carolinea voter on why she is one 394 00:25:51,035 --> 00:25:57,275 Speaker 1: hundred percent sold on Rond de Santis, Carolinea, which is 395 00:25:57,315 --> 00:26:02,115 Speaker 1: why you never banned books from schools kids. That was 396 00:26:02,155 --> 00:26:04,595 Speaker 1: at one and then at three the Ron de Santa 397 00:26:05,595 --> 00:26:09,235 Speaker 1: never back down. War room surrendered, but they'll always have 398 00:26:09,435 --> 00:26:13,075 Speaker 1: South Carolinia. The runner up thirty two year old Nico 399 00:26:13,155 --> 00:26:18,275 Speaker 1: Dembrosio of Deask Planes, Illinois. He made national headlines early 400 00:26:18,315 --> 00:26:20,355 Speaker 1: in the month when he sued more than two dozen 401 00:26:20,395 --> 00:26:24,195 Speaker 1: women who ripped him. On a Facebook dayton page in 402 00:26:24,235 --> 00:26:27,195 Speaker 1: which women warn each other that their ex was a loser. 403 00:26:27,835 --> 00:26:31,595 Speaker 1: Very clingy, very fast was written about mister Dembrosio of 404 00:26:31,715 --> 00:26:36,795 Speaker 1: Fast Planes, flaunted money very awkwardly kept talking about how 405 00:26:36,835 --> 00:26:39,155 Speaker 1: I don't want to see his bad side, especially when 406 00:26:39,195 --> 00:26:43,155 Speaker 1: he was on business calls. That last comment turned out 407 00:26:43,195 --> 00:26:46,635 Speaker 1: to be far more important than anybody knew at the time. Friday, 408 00:26:46,675 --> 00:26:49,595 Speaker 1: mister dan Brosio was convicted on two counts of filing 409 00:26:49,595 --> 00:26:52,955 Speaker 1: a false tax return. He could get up to six years. 410 00:26:53,475 --> 00:26:56,675 Speaker 1: He was a functionary prosecutor said at a mob scheme 411 00:26:57,155 --> 00:27:03,155 Speaker 1: involving sweepstakes kiosks which skirt Illinois's laws against video punker 412 00:27:04,195 --> 00:27:07,195 Speaker 1: and yes, yes, you maybe should have skipped that lawsuit. 413 00:27:07,235 --> 00:27:09,835 Speaker 1: He was convicted in the same federal courthouse in which 414 00:27:09,835 --> 00:27:14,395 Speaker 1: he filed the dating lawsuit. But our winner is l 415 00:27:14,795 --> 00:27:19,315 Speaker 1: King the worst. She is some kind of country singer. 416 00:27:19,395 --> 00:27:21,515 Speaker 1: And I don't mean that in the positive way, like 417 00:27:21,555 --> 00:27:24,755 Speaker 1: she's some kind of country singer. I mean like her 418 00:27:24,795 --> 00:27:29,435 Speaker 1: career's probably over now. The Grand Old Opry has publicly 419 00:27:29,475 --> 00:27:33,275 Speaker 1: apologized for Miss King's performance at the Dolly Parton birthday 420 00:27:33,315 --> 00:27:38,515 Speaker 1: celebration last Friday. She was supposed to sing partons Marry Me. 421 00:27:39,395 --> 00:27:41,475 Speaker 1: The first sign of trepole was once she got on 422 00:27:41,515 --> 00:27:45,555 Speaker 1: the Grand Old Opry stage and MS King made up 423 00:27:45,675 --> 00:27:48,835 Speaker 1: new words to the song quote, I don't know the 424 00:27:48,915 --> 00:27:52,355 Speaker 1: lyrics to these things in this efing town. Don't tell 425 00:27:52,475 --> 00:27:56,475 Speaker 1: Dolly because it's her birthday. The next tell was when 426 00:27:56,515 --> 00:28:00,155 Speaker 1: Miss King announced, I'm not even gonna efing lie. Y'all 427 00:28:00,155 --> 00:28:03,875 Speaker 1: bought tickets for this spit, you ain't getting your money back. 428 00:28:04,795 --> 00:28:08,355 Speaker 1: As one audience goer pointed out, that performance was like 429 00:28:08,835 --> 00:28:13,835 Speaker 1: a lackluster karaoke performer, wasted out of their minds, and 430 00:28:13,915 --> 00:28:19,475 Speaker 1: the punchline el King is the daughter of one time 431 00:28:19,595 --> 00:28:25,875 Speaker 1: humor is turned Maga nut Rob Schneider elle she still 432 00:28:25,955 --> 00:28:27,915 Speaker 1: might not be the worst person, just in her own 433 00:28:27,995 --> 00:28:48,515 Speaker 1: family King two days worst par saving to the number 434 00:28:48,555 --> 00:28:50,875 Speaker 1: one story on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me 435 00:28:51,035 --> 00:28:53,035 Speaker 1: and things I promised not to tell. And a friend 436 00:28:53,115 --> 00:28:55,715 Speaker 1: of mine just gave me a piece of merch from 437 00:28:55,715 --> 00:28:59,435 Speaker 1: her workplace, and I had a multi dimensional flashback as 438 00:28:59,435 --> 00:29:04,395 Speaker 1: a result. Hold Weather Clothing her company logo over the breast, 439 00:29:05,075 --> 00:29:07,675 Speaker 1: and I was back on forty second Street in Manhattan 440 00:29:08,035 --> 00:29:12,475 Speaker 1: in late January, in the Year of Our Lord, nineteen eighty, 441 00:29:13,795 --> 00:29:17,675 Speaker 1: just before my twenty first birthday, weeks away from my 442 00:29:17,875 --> 00:29:21,675 Speaker 1: second out of town trip as a professional sportscaster to 443 00:29:21,835 --> 00:29:25,995 Speaker 1: Lake Placid, New York for the Winter Olympics, and my 444 00:29:26,075 --> 00:29:30,355 Speaker 1: employers had just handed me what they called a subarctic parka. 445 00:29:31,315 --> 00:29:34,315 Speaker 1: Only it was immediately clear to me that when the 446 00:29:34,355 --> 00:29:39,115 Speaker 1: thing got wet, it would probably melt. What is this, 447 00:29:39,595 --> 00:29:43,235 Speaker 1: I asked the United pres International Audio Office manager, Kathy Turner. 448 00:29:43,875 --> 00:29:50,915 Speaker 1: I crinkled the parka. It sounded like this, I said, 449 00:29:51,795 --> 00:29:58,875 Speaker 1: sounds like sounds like rolled up newspaper. Kathy Turner said, 450 00:29:59,035 --> 00:30:02,035 Speaker 1: somebody told me it's rolled up newspaper. I wouldn't wear 451 00:30:02,075 --> 00:30:06,915 Speaker 1: it on the beach. Kathy Turner was from Alaska. I 452 00:30:06,955 --> 00:30:08,995 Speaker 1: still lived with my folks. I took the thing home, 453 00:30:09,035 --> 00:30:12,155 Speaker 1: really wanting to find an excuse to wear the parka 454 00:30:12,555 --> 00:30:16,035 Speaker 1: that had a genuinely impressive cool logo over the chest 455 00:30:16,035 --> 00:30:20,795 Speaker 1: that read the news company UPI. My father looked at 456 00:30:20,795 --> 00:30:26,075 Speaker 1: the parka, he felt it, he crinkled it, and he laughed. 457 00:30:26,555 --> 00:30:28,635 Speaker 1: We'll go to the outdoor outfitter. We got a real one. 458 00:30:28,795 --> 00:30:32,355 Speaker 1: We off Saturday. I'll take you there Saturday. Thank god, 459 00:30:32,435 --> 00:30:35,595 Speaker 1: we went. The number of people who actually trusted our 460 00:30:35,635 --> 00:30:39,355 Speaker 1: employers and wore the thing in Lake Placid, where the 461 00:30:39,355 --> 00:30:42,435 Speaker 1: wind chills bottomed out at minus fifty during the nineteen 462 00:30:42,435 --> 00:30:45,715 Speaker 1: eighty Olympics. That number was very small, but all of 463 00:30:45,715 --> 00:30:48,195 Speaker 1: them wound up in the same van headed for a 464 00:30:48,235 --> 00:30:54,355 Speaker 1: ski shop to buy very overpriced real parkas. And we 465 00:30:54,435 --> 00:30:56,995 Speaker 1: did cut open one of the UPI coats, and we 466 00:30:56,995 --> 00:30:59,635 Speaker 1: were wrong. It was not filled with crumpled up newspaper. 467 00:31:00,355 --> 00:31:04,955 Speaker 1: It was filled with crumpled up construction paper like you 468 00:31:04,995 --> 00:31:10,955 Speaker 1: would get in school art class. Anyway, that flashback triggered 469 00:31:10,955 --> 00:31:14,115 Speaker 1: a whole series of them, and the biggest flashback of 470 00:31:14,155 --> 00:31:16,635 Speaker 1: them all. I got to cover hockey and that was great. 471 00:31:16,755 --> 00:31:19,075 Speaker 1: I got to cover figure skating and that was great. 472 00:31:19,315 --> 00:31:21,795 Speaker 1: I got to cover louge and that was great. But 473 00:31:21,915 --> 00:31:27,955 Speaker 1: I had to cover skiing, and covering the skiing was 474 00:31:28,035 --> 00:31:31,635 Speaker 1: the primary flashback, which I'll get to in a moment. 475 00:31:31,675 --> 00:31:34,035 Speaker 1: First you flashback. 476 00:31:41,235 --> 00:31:42,875 Speaker 7: There has been an awful lot of singing on the 477 00:31:42,915 --> 00:31:45,395 Speaker 7: slopes of White Faced Mountain during these Olympics, and most 478 00:31:45,435 --> 00:31:45,875 Speaker 7: of it has. 479 00:31:45,755 --> 00:31:47,075 Speaker 1: Been done by the Austrians. 480 00:31:47,315 --> 00:31:50,195 Speaker 7: This didy is Barana. Marie Moser Prol on Sunday can 481 00:31:50,235 --> 00:31:52,595 Speaker 7: put in an Austrian sweep of the Olympic downhills. 482 00:31:52,835 --> 00:31:53,715 Speaker 1: The downhill is. 483 00:31:53,675 --> 00:31:56,155 Speaker 7: The skiing event as far as the Austrians are concerned, 484 00:31:56,315 --> 00:31:58,715 Speaker 7: and they were so confident of success that the Olympic 485 00:31:58,755 --> 00:32:01,715 Speaker 7: team had reserved an area house for a celebration center. 486 00:32:01,955 --> 00:32:05,195 Speaker 7: Leona Stock and I'm Marie Moser Prol did not this point, 487 00:32:05,355 --> 00:32:07,755 Speaker 7: and for now the singing will continue both here and 488 00:32:07,835 --> 00:32:08,635 Speaker 7: in Austria. 489 00:32:08,755 --> 00:32:21,155 Speaker 1: Keith Oberman Lake Classim. The alarm goes off. It is 490 00:32:21,275 --> 00:32:24,795 Speaker 1: pitch black in my room at the Swiss Acres Motel. 491 00:32:25,475 --> 00:32:32,995 Speaker 1: It is Valentine's Day and I am still drunk. Keith 492 00:32:33,075 --> 00:32:36,755 Speaker 1: knew he was in trouble, but I was also twenty 493 00:32:36,755 --> 00:32:38,995 Speaker 1: one years old, and in fact, my twenty first birthday 494 00:32:38,995 --> 00:32:45,155 Speaker 1: had only been eighteen days earlier. So somehow I survived, showered, dressed, packed, 495 00:32:45,155 --> 00:32:48,195 Speaker 1: and I mean I packed two cassette tape recorders, four 496 00:32:48,235 --> 00:32:51,475 Speaker 1: sets of batteries, an audio processing machine that weighed like 497 00:32:51,555 --> 00:32:55,115 Speaker 1: fourteen pounds. The nine volt batteries it took, I think 498 00:32:55,115 --> 00:32:58,395 Speaker 1: it was a dozen of them, a telephone, a backup telephone, 499 00:32:58,515 --> 00:33:03,075 Speaker 1: twelve assorted patch chords, two loose leaf notebooks, about eight pens, 500 00:33:03,155 --> 00:33:07,075 Speaker 1: two microphones, two extra pair of socks, and I got dressed, 501 00:33:07,275 --> 00:33:11,915 Speaker 1: two full sets of thermal underwear, shirts, sweaters, snow pants, 502 00:33:12,115 --> 00:33:16,595 Speaker 1: snow shoes because it was eleven degrees below zero that morning. 503 00:33:17,715 --> 00:33:20,155 Speaker 1: I got something quick to eat at the commissary, and 504 00:33:20,195 --> 00:33:23,115 Speaker 1: I made it out somehow to the line for the 505 00:33:23,155 --> 00:33:26,555 Speaker 1: bus from the Lake Placid Olympics Center to the Lake 506 00:33:26,675 --> 00:33:30,755 Speaker 1: Placid Transportation Center to Lake Placid's own White Face Mountain, 507 00:33:31,035 --> 00:33:35,195 Speaker 1: then onto the snow track the open penned mountain tractor 508 00:33:35,195 --> 00:33:37,795 Speaker 1: that went up the side of Whiteface Mountain and took 509 00:33:37,795 --> 00:33:40,875 Speaker 1: me to the finish line of the nineteen eighty Olympic 510 00:33:40,995 --> 00:33:46,795 Speaker 1: Men's downhill ski final still drunk. That is how a 511 00:33:46,875 --> 00:33:50,715 Speaker 1: reporter covered the Olympics nearly forty three years ago. You drank, 512 00:33:51,355 --> 00:33:54,915 Speaker 1: you woke up, you went, You stood near the finish line, 513 00:33:54,955 --> 00:33:58,115 Speaker 1: and when the skiers completed their runs, you hiked or 514 00:33:58,235 --> 00:34:01,035 Speaker 1: wobbled over to them and you took out your microphone 515 00:34:01,075 --> 00:34:04,195 Speaker 1: or your pen and you interviewed them, like two minutes 516 00:34:04,235 --> 00:34:07,155 Speaker 1: after they had finished hurtling towards you down the hill. 517 00:34:08,355 --> 00:34:10,675 Speaker 1: You could see almost nothing of the race from there. 518 00:34:11,075 --> 00:34:14,515 Speaker 1: There were no TV monitors. Basically your only clue was 519 00:34:14,555 --> 00:34:16,635 Speaker 1: the sound of the crowd that would give you about 520 00:34:16,635 --> 00:34:19,595 Speaker 1: thirty seconds worth of warning that the skier was coming 521 00:34:19,595 --> 00:34:22,355 Speaker 1: over the near horizon and you should be prepared to 522 00:34:22,515 --> 00:34:27,675 Speaker 1: flee just in case he or she wiped out. Also, 523 00:34:28,595 --> 00:34:31,475 Speaker 1: you were on top of a mountain at the dead 524 00:34:31,595 --> 00:34:34,275 Speaker 1: point of winter, and whereas it might have been a 525 00:34:34,395 --> 00:34:37,675 Speaker 1: balney eleven degrees below zero in the comfort of the 526 00:34:37,715 --> 00:34:41,555 Speaker 1: Swiss Acres motel with the wind chill, at the base 527 00:34:41,595 --> 00:34:45,115 Speaker 1: of the mountain, it was forty eight below zero and 528 00:34:45,155 --> 00:34:48,035 Speaker 1: there had already been four inches of new snow since 529 00:34:48,115 --> 00:34:52,475 Speaker 1: the sun came up, which is where the still drunk 530 00:34:52,515 --> 00:34:56,275 Speaker 1: part came in handy. My boss is at my first job, 531 00:34:56,355 --> 00:34:59,715 Speaker 1: the thousand station radio network called United Press International Audio, 532 00:35:00,075 --> 00:35:02,595 Speaker 1: had decided the night before to teach me how to 533 00:35:02,835 --> 00:35:07,315 Speaker 1: drink while on assignment. My bosses were the bureau manager 534 00:35:07,355 --> 00:35:09,835 Speaker 1: for that part of UPI, the late Stan Sabik, who 535 00:35:09,835 --> 00:35:12,875 Speaker 1: had hired me, and Sam Rosen, the sports director of 536 00:35:12,915 --> 00:35:16,795 Speaker 1: the network, who not only somehow survived being my first boss, 537 00:35:16,795 --> 00:35:20,835 Speaker 1: but today, just forty three years later, is still working 538 00:35:21,235 --> 00:35:23,795 Speaker 1: as the television voice of the New York Rangers hockey 539 00:35:23,795 --> 00:35:26,435 Speaker 1: team and is in the Hockey Hall of Fame. So 540 00:35:26,475 --> 00:35:30,195 Speaker 1: I guess my reputation is a tough employee is wildly overrated, 541 00:35:30,275 --> 00:35:35,075 Speaker 1: or at least Sam thinks. So Sam and Stan kept 542 00:35:35,115 --> 00:35:37,875 Speaker 1: me drinking at the motel until two am, knowing full 543 00:35:37,915 --> 00:35:40,035 Speaker 1: well that I had to get on the six am 544 00:35:40,035 --> 00:35:42,475 Speaker 1: bus to go cover the men's downhill because it was 545 00:35:42,515 --> 00:35:44,595 Speaker 1: the two of them who had assigned me to go 546 00:35:44,595 --> 00:35:50,155 Speaker 1: cover the men's downhill, And bluntly, I was surprisingly pleased 547 00:35:50,195 --> 00:35:53,155 Speaker 1: with myself that freezing morning because I had indeed learned 548 00:35:53,155 --> 00:35:56,795 Speaker 1: how to drink while on assignment. I had somehow found 549 00:35:56,835 --> 00:36:00,555 Speaker 1: the phone jack for the UPI phone buried under all 550 00:36:00,635 --> 00:36:03,515 Speaker 1: the new snow, which, of course was buried under all 551 00:36:03,515 --> 00:36:06,595 Speaker 1: the old snow. Attached the phone to it, got in 552 00:36:06,635 --> 00:36:09,795 Speaker 1: a dial tone, called the office, checked the alligator clips 553 00:36:09,835 --> 00:36:12,195 Speaker 1: with which I would feed the tape, and all was 554 00:36:12,235 --> 00:36:17,995 Speaker 1: well until I went to put a cassette tape into 555 00:36:18,075 --> 00:36:26,435 Speaker 1: the cassette recorder. I didn't have one fat lot of 556 00:36:26,475 --> 00:36:29,115 Speaker 1: good two cassette tape machines, gonna do you without a 557 00:36:29,155 --> 00:36:34,155 Speaker 1: cassette to sticking one of them. I looked forlornly around 558 00:36:34,195 --> 00:36:38,635 Speaker 1: the base of Whiteface Mountain, twelve hundred feet above sea level. 559 00:36:38,635 --> 00:36:41,435 Speaker 1: As we were. There was a surprisingly nice chalet and 560 00:36:41,515 --> 00:36:44,795 Speaker 1: a decent restaurant, but there were no radio shacks or 561 00:36:44,835 --> 00:36:49,355 Speaker 1: other electronics stores. There was, however, one other radio guy, 562 00:36:49,995 --> 00:36:54,395 Speaker 1: Jack Briggs, from the Associated Press Radio Network, the nominal 563 00:36:54,595 --> 00:36:58,555 Speaker 1: arch rival to our own UPI Audio. I knew Jack 564 00:36:58,555 --> 00:37:00,915 Speaker 1: a little. He was a nice guy. I went and 565 00:37:00,955 --> 00:37:04,115 Speaker 1: explained my plight, making sure to blame my bosses for 566 00:37:04,195 --> 00:37:08,875 Speaker 1: my prediction. Oh man, he said, his breath turning into 567 00:37:08,875 --> 00:37:13,915 Speaker 1: first steam and then ice cubes. I'm so sorry, but 568 00:37:14,515 --> 00:37:18,755 Speaker 1: I can't give you a cassette. I'm sorry you're UPI, 569 00:37:18,915 --> 00:37:24,955 Speaker 1: and I'm ap oh, how I laughed. That was a 570 00:37:24,995 --> 00:37:27,715 Speaker 1: great line to say to a rookie reporter still drunk. 571 00:37:28,115 --> 00:37:31,515 Speaker 1: Thanks to the initiation rituals of his own bosses, the 572 00:37:31,595 --> 00:37:36,635 Speaker 1: possessor of one great buzz but zero audio cassettes, Jack 573 00:37:36,675 --> 00:37:39,635 Speaker 1: Briggs could tell I thought he was kidding. That's when 574 00:37:39,635 --> 00:37:43,075 Speaker 1: he said, I'm not kidding. Look if my boss, Shelby 575 00:37:43,115 --> 00:37:47,035 Speaker 1: Whitfield ever found out, he'd fire me. I suddenly wasn't 576 00:37:47,115 --> 00:37:52,315 Speaker 1: drunk anymore, not at all. My boss will will will 577 00:37:52,355 --> 00:37:56,195 Speaker 1: fire me. Briggs was adamant. I can't run the risk 578 00:37:56,235 --> 00:38:01,075 Speaker 1: of Shelby finding out. I have to confess. I shouted, 579 00:38:01,875 --> 00:38:03,635 Speaker 1: how the hell is he gonna find out? 580 00:38:03,795 --> 00:38:04,075 Speaker 3: Jack? 581 00:38:05,915 --> 00:38:08,715 Speaker 1: I think subconsciously I was hoping to create an avalanche, 582 00:38:08,715 --> 00:38:10,355 Speaker 1: which would have been a better solution than the one 583 00:38:10,395 --> 00:38:13,195 Speaker 1: I was faced with. I said to him, there's you 584 00:38:13,875 --> 00:38:17,035 Speaker 1: and there's me, and we're on top of a goddamn mountain, 585 00:38:17,235 --> 00:38:20,715 Speaker 1: and Shelby Whitfield, your boss is in Washington, DC, and 586 00:38:20,795 --> 00:38:24,635 Speaker 1: he's a drunk, and he's probably more drunk than I am, 587 00:38:25,715 --> 00:38:28,035 Speaker 1: and he'd probably thank you for helping me to drink more. 588 00:38:29,595 --> 00:38:32,315 Speaker 1: Briggs would not budge. I told him I would pay 589 00:38:32,395 --> 00:38:34,595 Speaker 1: him I told him I would give him the cassette 590 00:38:34,635 --> 00:38:37,315 Speaker 1: back after I fed my boss the interviews over the phone, 591 00:38:37,475 --> 00:38:39,515 Speaker 1: so there'd be no evidence and he wouldn't even have 592 00:38:39,555 --> 00:38:43,795 Speaker 1: to do any interviews. No good, I'm sorry, and I 593 00:38:43,835 --> 00:38:45,315 Speaker 1: know you're going to tell this story about me for 594 00:38:45,355 --> 00:38:48,435 Speaker 1: a while. As he walked away from me, I shouted 595 00:38:48,475 --> 00:38:54,915 Speaker 1: after him. Forever. Turned out there was no radio shack 596 00:38:55,715 --> 00:38:58,435 Speaker 1: and no camaraderie, but there was a West Coast newspaper 597 00:38:58,475 --> 00:39:01,955 Speaker 1: reporter atop the mountain who heard some of this conversation. 598 00:39:02,715 --> 00:39:06,195 Speaker 1: I guess I yelled a little loudly, Briggs. Some guy 599 00:39:06,315 --> 00:39:08,675 Speaker 1: standing next to a Saint Bernard told me to quiet 600 00:39:08,715 --> 00:39:11,275 Speaker 1: down and mentioned something else about the avalanches. Or maybe 601 00:39:11,275 --> 00:39:14,035 Speaker 1: I dreamed that part. I don't know. Anyway, the West 602 00:39:14,035 --> 00:39:17,755 Speaker 1: Coast newspaper guy said he had a micro cassette machine 603 00:39:17,795 --> 00:39:19,355 Speaker 1: and he would loan it to me and I could 604 00:39:19,355 --> 00:39:20,955 Speaker 1: give it back to him at the media center that 605 00:39:21,075 --> 00:39:22,555 Speaker 1: day or the next one. But I had to do 606 00:39:22,595 --> 00:39:24,795 Speaker 1: him a favor because there was this really cute reporter 607 00:39:24,875 --> 00:39:26,955 Speaker 1: in our Upi bureau and he really wanted to be 608 00:39:27,035 --> 00:39:28,875 Speaker 1: introduced to her. And I said, I can promise you 609 00:39:28,955 --> 00:39:31,475 Speaker 1: nothing but a handshake. And he understood, and that's how 610 00:39:31,475 --> 00:39:35,195 Speaker 1: I did not get fired. But of course a story 611 00:39:35,315 --> 00:39:39,155 Speaker 1: like this has punchlines, and this one has two of them. 612 00:39:39,515 --> 00:39:42,675 Speaker 1: The first is two years and a couple of months later, 613 00:39:42,835 --> 00:39:46,275 Speaker 1: Shelby Whitfield asked me to lunch. He had left the 614 00:39:46,275 --> 00:39:48,915 Speaker 1: Associated Press to run the sports department at the ABC 615 00:39:49,155 --> 00:39:51,915 Speaker 1: Radio network, back when that was not only a thing, 616 00:39:52,075 --> 00:39:55,315 Speaker 1: but a big thing. We went to a terrific New 617 00:39:55,435 --> 00:39:59,835 Speaker 1: York City Chinese restaurant near ABC called shun Lee, and 618 00:39:59,915 --> 00:40:02,515 Speaker 1: Shelby Whitfield interviewed me for a job when that kind 619 00:40:02,515 --> 00:40:04,915 Speaker 1: of job paid eighty thousand a year in my very 620 00:40:04,995 --> 00:40:07,115 Speaker 1: nice studio apartment in a very nice part of town 621 00:40:07,275 --> 00:40:11,475 Speaker 1: costs less than five hundred dollars a month later, in 622 00:40:11,515 --> 00:40:14,995 Speaker 1: an interesting twist, I found out that jobs didn't exist. 623 00:40:15,555 --> 00:40:18,075 Speaker 1: I was mentioning the interview in a press box somewhere 624 00:40:18,275 --> 00:40:20,755 Speaker 1: I think Madison Square Garden, and there was another kid 625 00:40:20,795 --> 00:40:24,475 Speaker 1: reporter named how He Rose, and how he is still working. 626 00:40:24,475 --> 00:40:26,355 Speaker 1: He does the New York Mets games on the radio. 627 00:40:26,755 --> 00:40:29,955 Speaker 1: And how He said, wait, they interviewed me for that 628 00:40:30,315 --> 00:40:33,355 Speaker 1: job last year. Just an excuse for that Damn Whitfield 629 00:40:33,595 --> 00:40:38,675 Speaker 1: to go drink his lunch on ABC's tab. Anyway, before 630 00:40:38,715 --> 00:40:40,715 Speaker 1: we started the interview for the job I did not 631 00:40:40,875 --> 00:40:43,915 Speaker 1: know did not exist at ABC. I told Shelby Whitfield 632 00:40:43,915 --> 00:40:46,395 Speaker 1: the white Face Mountain, can I borrow a cassette Jack 633 00:40:46,435 --> 00:40:50,475 Speaker 1: Briggs story? And Shelby's exact reply was, I don't know. 634 00:40:50,715 --> 00:40:52,675 Speaker 1: Was I going to find out? There was you and 635 00:40:52,675 --> 00:40:53,955 Speaker 1: there was him, and you were on top of a 636 00:40:53,955 --> 00:40:57,315 Speaker 1: goddamn mountain and I was in Washington. Only he didn't 637 00:40:57,315 --> 00:41:01,795 Speaker 1: say goddamn that Briggs. He added, always trying to suck 638 00:41:01,915 --> 00:41:04,155 Speaker 1: up to me, I gotta tell you something. I actually 639 00:41:04,195 --> 00:41:06,155 Speaker 1: once prom I wouldn't tell you if we ever met this. 640 00:41:06,515 --> 00:41:08,835 Speaker 1: When the Olympics were over and came back to the office, 641 00:41:09,475 --> 00:41:11,395 Speaker 1: he told me what happened. He expected me to be 642 00:41:11,395 --> 00:41:13,315 Speaker 1: happy or give him a bonus or something, and I 643 00:41:13,315 --> 00:41:16,955 Speaker 1: called him a little snitch. Only Shelby didn't say snitch, 644 00:41:17,635 --> 00:41:21,235 Speaker 1: just a word that rhymed with it. The other punch 645 00:41:21,275 --> 00:41:24,155 Speaker 1: line is from nineteen ninety two. And remember this happened 646 00:41:24,155 --> 00:41:28,075 Speaker 1: at the nineteen eighty Olympics. I go to work at 647 00:41:28,355 --> 00:41:30,515 Speaker 1: ESPN and come in a little early to launch their 648 00:41:30,635 --> 00:41:33,515 Speaker 1: radio network, a story I've told here before, and there 649 00:41:34,275 --> 00:41:36,315 Speaker 1: I find a friend of mine since my radio days 650 00:41:36,315 --> 00:41:37,955 Speaker 1: who I have not seen in a year or so, 651 00:41:38,075 --> 00:41:40,115 Speaker 1: and he says, hey, last month, I was at an 652 00:41:40,235 --> 00:41:42,715 Speaker 1: NBA game in Washington. I ran it at Jack Briggs. 653 00:41:42,995 --> 00:41:44,675 Speaker 1: He heard you were going to ESPN. He asked me 654 00:41:44,675 --> 00:41:46,835 Speaker 1: if you were still telling that story about the time 655 00:41:46,875 --> 00:41:49,195 Speaker 1: you got stuck on Whiteface Mountain without a cassette, And 656 00:41:49,235 --> 00:41:51,395 Speaker 1: he was the only other reporter there, and he wouldn't 657 00:41:51,435 --> 00:41:53,075 Speaker 1: give you a spare. And I told him you were, 658 00:41:53,755 --> 00:41:56,755 Speaker 1: and I smiled, and I replied, I hope you remembered 659 00:41:56,795 --> 00:42:14,235 Speaker 1: to use the word forever. I've done all the damage 660 00:42:14,235 --> 00:42:16,555 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown Musical 661 00:42:16,555 --> 00:42:19,595 Speaker 1: directors Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanelle arranged, produced, and 662 00:42:19,635 --> 00:42:23,195 Speaker 1: performed most of our music. Mister Ray on guitars, bass 663 00:42:23,235 --> 00:42:26,235 Speaker 1: and drums. Mister Chanelle handled the orchestration and the keyboards, 664 00:42:26,715 --> 00:42:29,995 Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including 665 00:42:30,035 --> 00:42:32,875 Speaker 1: some of the Beethoven compositions, arranged and performed by No 666 00:42:32,995 --> 00:42:36,315 Speaker 1: Horns Allowed. The sports music is the Olderman theme from 667 00:42:36,515 --> 00:42:40,195 Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. 668 00:42:40,635 --> 00:42:43,915 Speaker 1: Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss, 669 00:42:43,915 --> 00:42:46,955 Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today is 670 00:42:46,995 --> 00:42:49,955 Speaker 1: my friend Larry David, and everything else was, as always 671 00:42:50,075 --> 00:42:53,275 Speaker 1: pretty much my fault. That's countdown for this the two 672 00:42:53,355 --> 00:42:56,115 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty eighth day until the twenty twenty four 673 00:42:56,235 --> 00:43:01,675 Speaker 1: US presidential election, the thirteenth day since dementia Jay Trump's 674 00:43:01,675 --> 00:43:04,155 Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the 675 00:43:04,235 --> 00:43:08,395 Speaker 1: United States. Use the Fourteenth Amendment, the Insurrection Act, the 676 00:43:08,595 --> 00:43:13,155 Speaker 1: justice system, and involuntary commitment to stop him from doing 677 00:43:13,155 --> 00:43:17,035 Speaker 1: it again while we still can. The next scheduled contdown 678 00:43:17,075 --> 00:43:19,875 Speaker 1: is tomorrow. Bulletin says the news warrants till then, I'm 679 00:43:19,915 --> 00:43:24,155 Speaker 1: Keith Ulreman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 680 00:43:41,475 --> 00:43:45,435 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olreman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 681 00:43:45,595 --> 00:43:50,515 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 682 00:43:50,755 --> 00:43:52,755 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.