Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Sure,
Speaker 1: he violated Judge mer Schawan's expanded gag order on day one,
Speaker 1: and yes, he once again threatened that if he is
Speaker 1: not elected, the country will cease to exist. And yes,
Speaker 1: he called immigrants animals. Yet incredibly, Trump has done something worse.
Speaker 1: He has threatened to federalize state and local police. His
Speaker 1: persecution of minorities, starting with Latinos, moving on to Blacks
Speaker 1: and Middle Easterners, and when he runs out of all
Speaker 1: them Jews, that will be conducted at least in part
Speaker 1: by cops, local cops, cops, you know. To make that possible,
Speaker 1: Trump will have to take over the police everywhere. Promising
Speaker 1: death and destruction and making a stochastic assassination threat against
Speaker 1: President Biden is one kind of thing. This, This is
Speaker 1: pure and immediate American dictatorship. Trump Grand Rapids, Michigan, surrounded
Speaker 1: by cops at a fascist rally.
Speaker 2: Somebody said, how will you get these criminals out? I say,
Speaker 2: the sheriffs, the police, the police officers, the police, law enforcement.
Speaker 1: In their local communities.
Speaker 2: They know every bad kid, They know every bad person.
Speaker 2: They know their first name, their middle name, they know
Speaker 2: their phone numbers, they have their cell phones, they have
Speaker 2: everything about them. They know exactly what to do and
Speaker 2: how to do it. These guys know exactly what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about. But we have to let them do their job.
Speaker 2: And we're going to work out a federal immunity for
Speaker 2: police so they're allowed to do their job without losing
Speaker 2: their house and their pension everything else when when the
Speaker 2: liberal governors and mayors don't back them.
Speaker 1: The indemnify them thing is not new. He promised that
Speaker 1: last December, and I'll circle back to its implications in
Speaker 1: a moment. But one of those implications that by indemnifying
Speaker 1: cops against prosecution for strong actions, he would be making
Speaker 1: them personally loyal to him. That was only an implication,
Speaker 1: and an unofficial implication at that. He has now said,
Speaker 1: federal immunity the cops, the cops in your town, the
Speaker 1: cops on your street, the cops in your family, would
Speaker 1: be federalized and they would work for Trump. In putting
Speaker 1: it into these terms, Trump has shown you as clearly
Speaker 1: as ever before the America he intends to sentence the
Speaker 1: rest of us to next January twentieth. There are no laws,
Speaker 1: there are no governors. There are no mayors, there are
Speaker 1: no local governments, there is no appeal. There is only him.
Speaker 1: He has the military. He will use it on the
Speaker 1: streets against protesters. He may declare a state of insurrection
Speaker 1: during his inaugural address. Thus the protesters could be anybody
Speaker 1: you me, a Democratic Speaker of the House, Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: a news reporter. He doesn't like voters, he doesn't like
Speaker 1: judges who try to stop him. He will usurp the
Speaker 1: federal government and replace it with those personally loyal to him.
Speaker 1: And the first show of force will be the purge
Speaker 1: of minorities. And if you belong to any minority group,
Speaker 1: and spoiler alert, we all belong to some minority group.
Speaker 1: You may think you are here legally. But if your
Speaker 1: local cop, your local Trump cop, federalized by Trump, indemnified
Speaker 1: by Trump, beholden to Trump. If your local cop says no,
Speaker 1: he thinks he heard somewhere that you are here illegally,
Speaker 1: Guess where you are going. You are going to Trump Camp.
Speaker 1: A judge is going to stop it. A judge Trump appointed.
Speaker 1: A judge in a red state, a judge Trump didn't
Speaker 1: appoint in a blue state. Who knows that if he
Speaker 1: crosses Trump, he will be the next to go to
Speaker 1: Trump camp and die there fast or slow. And this
Speaker 1: nightmare all starts with the cops, because Trump's recitation of
Speaker 1: their omniscience is a wild exaggeration, but not a total one.
Speaker 1: And this nation, especially its Republicans and its magas, and
Speaker 1: its fascists and its racists and its lunatics, is a
Speaker 1: nation riddled with snitches and sadists and grudge holders and
Speaker 1: people who do not value human life. And a lot
Speaker 1: of them just happened to be not all of them,
Speaker 1: not exclusively, it's not one hundred percent, but a lot
Speaker 1: of them just happened to be cops right now. And
Speaker 1: then there are also lots of non cop people who
Speaker 1: you would now bet your life on being there to
Speaker 1: defend you if they dragged you away and said, oh,
Speaker 1: new rule, your grandmother can't prove her immigration here was documented.
Speaker 1: That means you are no longer a citizen. Well surprised
Speaker 1: those people you would bet your life on will first
Speaker 1: worry about whether their grandmother can prove the same thing,
Speaker 1: or if that cop there knows the unfortunate fact about them,
Speaker 1: or their friend or their cousin, or or it all
Speaker 1: arts with the cops. And Trump just said he would
Speaker 1: federalize the cops. And again, this is only the second
Speaker 1: time he has said, and said it obliquely enough that
Speaker 1: nearly every reporter, every news outlet missed it that he
Speaker 1: would be indemnifying all the police everywhere in the country.
Speaker 1: They shoot somebody, they cannot be arrested, they cannot be sued,
Speaker 1: they cannot be stopped. And for this they personally have
Speaker 1: only one man to think Trump last December eighteenth, Durhma Hampshire, I.
Speaker 2: Am also going to indemnify all police offices.
Speaker 1: This is a big thing, and it's a brand new.
Speaker 2: Thing, and I think it's so important. I'm going to indemnify,
Speaker 2: through the federal government, all police officers and law enforcement
Speaker 2: officials throughout.
Speaker 1: The United States from being destroyed by the radical left
Speaker 1: for taking.
Speaker 2: Strong actions against crime.
Speaker 1: Of all of Trump's threats, even the idea of imposing
Speaker 1: the Insurrection Act on January twentieth and bringing the military
Speaker 1: out to arrest Fannie Willis and Jack Smith and Gretchen
Speaker 1: Whitmer and Joe Biden and Juan Merschan's daughter and whoever
Speaker 1: else he really doesn't like that day, of all of
Speaker 1: his threats. His many mortal dangers to representative government in
Speaker 1: this country, the one about the cops is the most
Speaker 1: dangerous because it is the one that is the most
Speaker 1: immediately actionable. Give Trump the cops, and he will turn
Speaker 1: every American cop into a lawless storm trooper, and every
Speaker 1: domestic police force into a miniature SS. And he can
Speaker 1: do it virtually overnight. He can co opt every law
Speaker 1: officer in this country, seven hundred thousand of them, by
Speaker 1: the way. They are all armed, and in the last
Speaker 1: year nearly all of them have been equipped, if they
Speaker 1: were not already, with military style weapons and vehicles and
Speaker 1: surveillance equipment, and make each and every one of them,
Speaker 1: in essence untouchable by law, beholden to no one responsibly,
Speaker 1: ultimately only to the person who liberated them from all
Speaker 1: of these annoying restraints. Trump and federalized so they can
Speaker 1: raid homes in their own communities and drag out our
Speaker 1: neighbors and our friends and our relatives off to the camps.
Speaker 1: And when they are all in the camps, who's next.
Speaker 1: The election of Donald Trump would not be a disaster
Speaker 1: for democracy in this country. It would be a door
Speaker 1: locking all of us except a chosen few chosen by
Speaker 1: Trump locking us into a prison cell from which there
Speaker 1: is not only no appeal and from which there is
Speaker 1: not only no escape, but from which, the moment we
Speaker 1: are inside, the doors are removed. Federalizing and indemnifying local police.
Speaker 1: I'm going to indemnify, through the federal government, all police officers.
Speaker 1: That was what he said in December. What do you
Speaker 1: think that means? Indemnified, relieved of legal liability for their actions.
Speaker 1: That means that the next Derek Chauvin who tortures George
Speaker 1: Floyd to death on a Minneapolis city street with witnesses,
Speaker 1: that cop cannot be arrested, cannot be prosecuted, cannot be sued,
Speaker 1: cannot be stopped to try to would probably be breaking
Speaker 1: a new Trump law. And if there are no longer
Speaker 1: any means of stopping the cops from ha people or
Speaker 1: beating people or killing people, cops will no longer have
Speaker 1: any need to even pretend that the people they are
Speaker 1: harassing or beating or killing are actually guilty of anything.
Speaker 1: They are. Then the SS to use the fascists term
Speaker 1: illegals trying to escape shot while trying to escape the police.
Speaker 1: Where are you going next? After that? Happens to your
Speaker 1: local police review board, the one the cops just abolished.
Speaker 1: But what about people who are not quote illegal, but
Speaker 1: just happen to be named, just to pick a few
Speaker 1: names at random, say Nicholas Fuentes or Anna Paulina Luna
Speaker 1: or Raphael Cruz or mark O Rubio or Michelle Tafoya
Speaker 1: or Rachel Campos, Duffy or Ben Dominich. Somebody with a
Speaker 1: name like that born here. We're near here, after whom
Speaker 1: Trump sends his local cops and those people Fuente's Luna, Cruz, Rubio, Tafoya,
Speaker 1: Campo s Duffy, Dominic any of them. Those people run
Speaker 1: out of fear, out of panic, they run and they
Speaker 1: get shot. Who investigates that. Let's mix in one more
Speaker 1: degree of horror. What if they aren't quote illegal and
Speaker 1: they did not run, but the cops Trump's cops say
Speaker 1: they tried to run. Oh, we'll look at the body cameras. Now,
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate. We shot mister Olderman, but we mistook him
Speaker 1: for a suspect from Honduras who was wanted for being
Speaker 1: here illegally. We already know wide swaths of the nation's
Speaker 1: seven hundred thousand cops in eighteen thousand, state and local
Speaker 1: police forces range from wild conservatism to full on fascism
Speaker 1: and white supremacism and QAnon and election denialism and trump Ism.
Speaker 1: We already know that since nine to eleven, the nation's
Speaker 1: police forces have equipped themselves as if all of the
Speaker 1: world's terrorists are going to descend on them personally late
Speaker 1: this afternoon. I have previously cited the example of Franklin, Indiana,
Speaker 1: population twenty five thousand, where the cops there bought themselves
Speaker 1: an m RAP, a mine resistant armored vehicle for Franklin, Indiana,
Speaker 1: an m RAP, just like a dozen other small county
Speaker 1: police forces bought in the last decade, a dozen small
Speaker 1: county police forces, just in Indiana. Trump's plan here is
Speaker 1: not to get a little loose, a little lax on
Speaker 1: reading suspects their miranda rights. It's detaining them without charge,
Speaker 1: then detaining the judge who points out that they've been
Speaker 1: detained without charge, then detaining the protesters who protest the
Speaker 1: detention of the cop and the suspect and the judge
Speaker 1: and anybody else who complained, and then if that doesn't work,
Speaker 1: having the cops shoot them shoot us. This remember would
Speaker 1: be in addition to using the National Guard to quell
Speaker 1: peaceful political protests. This would be in addition to what
Speaker 1: Trump staffers would not deny or at least considerations of
Speaker 1: invoking the Insurrection Act on January twentieth, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: This would be in addition to Trump's jovial promise to
Speaker 1: be a dictator, but only on day one. Haha, I'm
Speaker 1: only kidding. No, I'm not, Yes, i am No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: And by the way, as if we needed one more
Speaker 1: twist of this nightmare, remember who all this is being
Speaker 1: done for. Trump doesn't give a rats ass if there
Speaker 1: are people here without documentation and whether they are expelled
Speaker 1: or not. Hell, he's employed hundreds building his buildings. He
Speaker 1: has no interest in law or order except how to
Speaker 1: evade both of them himself. This is all to keep
Speaker 1: up a steady supply of minority people to victimize. This
Speaker 1: is his Roman colosseum, his slaves fighting lions. This is
Speaker 1: all because he long ago recognized his support is from
Speaker 1: Satan lists and the mentally ill, and those who believe
Speaker 1: in racial purity and the poisoning of the national blood
Speaker 1: and all the other things. Trump read in that book
Speaker 1: of Hitler's speeches that he used to keep in a
Speaker 1: table by his bedside thirty five years ago, the book
Speaker 1: Ivanna told us about because if you want to know
Speaker 1: why Hitler's plan worked in a place like Germany and
Speaker 1: why it can work here today next year, it's because,
Speaker 1: as a memorable edition of the Twilight Zone show was titled,
Speaker 1: sixty years ago, people are alike all over, federalized local
Speaker 1: police indemnified federalized local Trump police stand by for the
Speaker 1: Trump waff. Compared to that. Trump's legal stuff pales in comparison,
Speaker 1: of course, but it merits mentioned. As noted yesterday, Judge
Speaker 1: Marshan identify her he's the judge in the Stormy Daniel's
Speaker 1: hush money election interference Trump trial. Judge Marschan did expand
Speaker 1: the gag order in his case to include his own daughter,
Speaker 1: who Trump kept attacking, and before the business day had
Speaker 1: even begun yesterday, Trump posted pinned to the top of
Speaker 1: his feed a six and a half minute video attack
Speaker 1: on her by fire News by the impeccably stupid Brian Killmead,
Speaker 1: repeating the lie that she was behind a Twitter feed
Speaker 1: showing a picture of Trump behind bars. Kill Mead starting
Speaker 1: with what he called some dispute about the photo, jumping
Speaker 1: to if I'm Trump, I'm concerned about that, and finally
Speaker 1: erasing any margin for error by stating by lying, by
Speaker 1: jumping to the conclusion in about two seconds flat quote
Speaker 1: the judge has a daughter who feels this way. We
Speaker 1: know Trump was forbidden from personally commenting on the families
Speaker 1: of court officials, like the judge's daughter and other members
Speaker 1: of the family of the judge. Does repeating the comments
Speaker 1: of others, the lies of others, the stochastic invitations to
Speaker 1: attack the members of the judges family. Does just repeating
Speaker 1: others doing that? Does that count as violating the gag order?
Speaker 1: On the social media site, Trump bones Judge. Here's an idea.
Speaker 1: Let's find out, cancel his bail, prepare for an onslaught
Speaker 1: of legal actions to prevent what you're going to do.
Speaker 1: But let's see. Let somebody stand up and see. Let's
Speaker 1: find out what the law actually means in this country.
Speaker 1: Let's see if we can drag Trump's useless, murderous, mass
Speaker 1: murder fascist ass off to Rikers Island until further notice
Speaker 1: and until he indemnifies the guards there. Once again, I
Speaker 1: am compelled to offer comic relief, even if it's only
Speaker 1: for myself. This this is from Trump's second stop yesterday,
Speaker 1: the one after the one in which he promised to
Speaker 1: federalize all the cops. This is from Green Bay, Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: and the guy speaking before him the warm up act
Speaker 1: is Glenn Grothman, Republican Congressman from the Wisconsin eighth Glenn
Speaker 1: is only sixty eight years old, and Glenn has only
Speaker 1: been a lawyer and a state and congressional legislator, So
Speaker 1: he's never had a real job in his life, and
Speaker 1: judging by what happens to him at the end of
Speaker 1: this clip here, he's never going to have a real
Speaker 1: job in his life. Who is the only person who
Speaker 1: can continue to allow us to buy gas powered cars?
Speaker 1: In twenty thirty two, Donald John Trump, for some reason,
Speaker 1: one of the most powerful pieces of television art I
Speaker 1: have ever seen in my life life immediately popped into
Speaker 1: my head after that. It was an anti smoking public
Speaker 1: service announcement that aired in nineteen eighty six. It begins
Speaker 1: with the letters white on black in an otherwise blank screen.
Speaker 1: You'll Wrinner nineteen twenty to nineteen eighty five. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: the late Yu'll Brinner, I really.
Speaker 3: Wanted to make a commercial when I discovered that I
Speaker 3: was that sick and my time was so limited. Wanted
Speaker 3: to make that commercial that says simply not a time gone.
Speaker 3: I tell you, don't smoke. Whatever you do, just don't.
Speaker 1: Smoke Donald John Trump, As the late comic genius Bill
Speaker 1: Hicks said about that You'll Brenner spot. But it can
Speaker 1: also apply, I guess to Glenn Grothman coughing his way
Speaker 1: through the atmosphere. He wants to make sure Trump keeps
Speaker 1: poisoning anyone. Remember when you Brenner died and came out
Speaker 1: with that commercial after he was dead. You remember that,
Speaker 1: I'm Yil Brenner and I'm dead now? This guy Shalon?
Speaker 1: What the F's this guy Sellen? Also of interest here
Speaker 1: this ban on religious messages on the eggs at the
Speaker 1: White House Easter egg roll, the one imposed by Gerald
Speaker 1: Ford and the American egg Board of nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 1: Even the Daily Caller has now acknowledged it got the
Speaker 1: story wrong. President Biden had nothing to do with it,
Speaker 1: retracted the story, apologized for the story. You know who
Speaker 1: did not acknowledge he got it wrong, who did not retract?
Speaker 1: Which Republican leader has a head that most looks like
Speaker 1: an egg, only with less intelligence inside his head than
Speaker 1: in the average egg. Think of an egg wearing horn
Speaker 1: rimmed glasses and a perpetual look of condescension and the
Speaker 1: habit of getting something this wrong, like every week you
Speaker 1: got his identity, yet I'll confirm it for you. That's next.
Speaker 1: This is countdown. That's a tease. This is countdown with
Speaker 1: Keith Oberman still ahead of us on this editionive countdown.
Speaker 1: How much would they have to pay you to fall
Speaker 1: off a cliff? I mean a small cliff. Let me
Speaker 1: ratchet up the proposition just a little bit. What if
Speaker 1: it's a small cliff and you don't get seriously hurt,
Speaker 1: although you will be sore for a month and twenty
Speaker 1: years later, the whole left side of your body will
Speaker 1: start having painful but not exactly crippling problems. Oh and
Speaker 1: you won't know that you're going to fall off the
Speaker 1: small cliff until like ten seconds before you fall off
Speaker 1: the small cliff. For me, the answer turned out to
Speaker 1: be like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars up front,
Speaker 1: and an addition one hundred and fifty grand later, the
Speaker 1: saga of cliff diving, unintentional cliff diving in things I
Speaker 1: promised not to tell. Next first, still more idiots to
Speaker 1: talk about in this case besides me, the daily roundup
Speaker 1: of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who
Speaker 1: constitute two days worst persons in the I Fell.
Speaker 4: Off a cliff worsesplat.
Speaker 1: We start with the bronze worse speaker, Mike Johnson. It's
Speaker 1: not that creepy look on his face that stop me. Lord,
Speaker 1: I fear I'm going to do it again. And Lord,
Speaker 1: I have also mangleth the anti porn app that look.
Speaker 1: It's not that, it's not the fake piousness. It's not
Speaker 1: the farm he owns where he seemingly grows rakes and
Speaker 1: raises them from seedlings to full glorious heights and then
Speaker 1: steps on every single last one of them. It's the
Speaker 1: fact that he never wears a rhetorical seat belt. There
Speaker 1: is no front windshield. He has not gone through as
Speaker 1: Speaker of the House eleven thirty six yesterday morning, and
Speaker 1: he subtweets Sean Hannity. This guy follows Sean Hannity, even
Speaker 1: though all the Speakers of the House since Newt Gingrich
Speaker 1: who have followed Sean Hannity have gone down in flames.
Speaker 1: Literally every one of them except Bayner has been fired
Speaker 1: from the job. In any event, he's following Hannity about
Speaker 1: this fabricated story about Biden's trans Day proclamation and the
Speaker 1: phony Easter egg no religious symbols crisis, the only thing
Speaker 1: the Republicans are worried about. Mike Johnson writes, Biden is
Speaker 1: either more than happy to offend millions of Christians, or
Speaker 1: he has no idea what he is signing, which is
Speaker 1: more alarming. One hour later, the Daily Caller, the Tucker
Speaker 1: Carlson invention, which started this invention, this crap by literally
Speaker 1: published a lie that Biden had ordered that there be
Speaker 1: no religious symbols on the eggs at the White House
Speaker 1: Easter event, like eggs have the slightest thing to do
Speaker 1: with the story of the Resurrection of Christ. As the
Speaker 1: Great Bill Hicks once said, could you have not come
Speaker 1: up with something a little bit more creative, at least
Speaker 1: something wondrous, like a worm carrying Lincoln logs across my
Speaker 1: sock drawer? In any event, the Daily Caller was it
Speaker 1: made up? This story that Biden had ordered that there
Speaker 1: be no religious symbols on the eggs at the White
Speaker 1: House Easter egg roll. We're on day four of this imbecility,
Speaker 1: which continues The Daily Caller an hour after Mike Johnson
Speaker 1: wrote that the Daily Caller retracted its story and apologized
Speaker 1: for it. The Daily Caller, to my knowledge, has never
Speaker 1: retracted nor apologized for or anything in its existence, including
Speaker 1: that time that Tucker Carlson stole my identity and pretended
Speaker 1: to be me in an interview in what was probably
Speaker 1: an actual lawbreaking event. The Daily Caller retracted this story.
Speaker 1: It said it had no idea that the no symbols
Speaker 1: rule for the eggs in the National egg roll was
Speaker 1: established in nineteen seventy six during Gerald Ford's Easter egg
Speaker 1: roll at the behest of the National egg Board. The
Speaker 1: Daily Caller bright bart news for dumb people, not well
Speaker 1: dumber people, retracted and apologized. Speaker Johnson he has not,
Speaker 1: and that was his third post about this non existent story.
Speaker 1: The President has called Mike Johnson thoroughly uninformed. And it
Speaker 1: is the most succinct destriction of this nerd yet and
Speaker 1: I say nerd as a nerd. This nerd embarrasses other nerds.
Speaker 1: He's an eleven year old trying to rule over a
Speaker 1: bunch of fifteen year olds. The silver worser Fox quote
Speaker 1: News unquote, which also hasn't retracted the story yet. Per
Speaker 1: the website The Intercept, Fox has just issued a job
Speaker 1: posting seeking to hire a corporate trust and safety behavioral
Speaker 1: analyst responsible for identifying misinformation and disinformation throughout the entire
Speaker 1: Fox company misinformation and disinformation wait for or against against?
Speaker 1: A Fox employee is going to be in charge of
Speaker 1: rooting out stuff that's wrong at Fox. Stuff that's incorrect, disinformation, misinformation, murdoc,
Speaker 1: information that's unpossible. Does Maria Bartiromo know about this? Does
Speaker 1: Ingram know? My god?
Speaker 4: What about Jesse Waters? Won't anybody think about the children?
Speaker 4: Won't anybody think about the children like Jesse Waters. Fox
Speaker 4: does not identify a salary for its miss in misinformation
Speaker 4: data analyst, but it does note one extraordinary job benefit
Speaker 4: of the new job. You do not actually have to
Speaker 4: work in any Fox office. But our winner the Worst
Speaker 4: the Worst Person's Hall of Famer class of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 4: Tall Sea Gabbard. It's been a tough week for Robert F.
Speaker 4: Kennedy Junior. He picked a running mate who turned out
Speaker 4: last year to have suggested at a medical conference that
Speaker 4: you could maybe replace in vitro fertilization, which she called
Speaker 4: a lie with two hours a day of exposure to sunshine,
Speaker 4: and because she got like a million dollars in her
Speaker 4: divorce settlement from the co founder of Google. None of
Speaker 4: the medical professionals then hooted her off the stage, nor
Speaker 4: did they throw rocks at the stage or anything anyway.
Speaker 4: That was the new vice president. Then RFK Junior posed
Speaker 4: with Mike Flynn. Yet the fascist propaganda media all turned
Speaker 4: on him and they said nobody should vote for him.
Speaker 4: This is the first bipartisan agreement on politics in this
Speaker 4: country in seven.
Speaker 1: Hundred and forty eight years. And now Talca Gabbard says,
Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy Junior asked her to be his vice president.
Speaker 1: I met with Kennedy several times and we have become
Speaker 1: good friends. He asked if I would be his rendingmate.
Speaker 1: After your careful consideration, I respectfully declined. Now there's a
Speaker 1: reason to suspect this might not be true. The reason well,
Speaker 1: Tlsey Gabbard issued a statement about it, as if anybody
Speaker 1: had asked her. So while we are here, not only
Speaker 1: did Tulci Gabbard turn down RFK Junior's offer to be
Speaker 1: his running mate, but so did I. And when I
Speaker 1: say I turned down is offered to be his vice president.
Speaker 1: There was no offer from Kennedy and I didn't turn
Speaker 1: it down. On the other hand, Robert F. Kennedy Junior
Speaker 1: would not have been coherent long enough to have any
Speaker 1: idea what did or didn't happen on this topic? Would he? Tulsey?
Speaker 1: He offered to make me vice president and to make
Speaker 1: me missus Junior as well. Gabbard two days worst person
Speaker 1: and to the number one story on the countdown and
Speaker 1: my favorite topic, me and things I promised not to tell.
Speaker 1: And it was this time of year in nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: six when my agent called me at ESPN. There's an
Speaker 1: ad agency in Santa Monica. They just called me, would
Speaker 1: you like to do two commercials for Boston Market? I answered,
Speaker 1: with profound indifference, Okay, would you like to do two
Speaker 1: commercials for Boston Market for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars?
Speaker 1: I believe my next words were, well, I can't do
Speaker 1: them today, but sure they faxed me the scripts. They're
Speaker 1: actually pretty funny, very well done. I think you like them,
Speaker 1: I believe. My next next words were, if I don't
Speaker 1: have to kill anybody in them, call them back and
Speaker 1: say yes and get the money. Since the idea was
Speaker 1: these ads would run on sports telecasts, most of them
Speaker 1: on ESPN. My yes got back to management at ESPN
Speaker 1: pretty quickly. You can't do these, one of the executives explained, dismissively.
Speaker 1: We don't let anybody do commercials. I laughed. Every one
Speaker 1: of us has done the this is Sports Center commercials.
Speaker 1: Some of us have written that this is Sports Center commercials.
Speaker 1: You don't even give us days off for making them,
Speaker 1: let alone give us money. This is money I don't
Speaker 1: have to ask you for. The executive shook his head.
Speaker 1: Those aren't commercials. Those are promotional announcements. They're in your contract.
Speaker 1: Nobody here does commercials, I said. Chris Berman has done
Speaker 1: a beer commercial in three out of the last five
Speaker 1: Super Bowls. My commercial is just for food. Well, he's Berman,
Speaker 1: I pointed out. I went to high school with him,
Speaker 1: and I was the star of their most popular program,
Speaker 1: a little thing called Sports Center TV. Guiy had just
Speaker 1: named us one of the top ten shows on TV shows,
Speaker 1: not sports shows. Austin Seinfeld. Sorry, well, now I got
Speaker 1: a little angry, which never happened to me at ESPN,
Speaker 1: and I went to my ace in the hole. My
Speaker 1: contract expires in like ten months, and you know I
Speaker 1: intend to leave, and during those ten months, you're going
Speaker 1: to pay me about two hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: So Boston Market is going to pay me two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars for two days work instead of
Speaker 1: ten month's work. Plus they're going to take me out
Speaker 1: first class to LA for a couple of days, and
Speaker 1: they're probably going to do some radio spots and I'll
Speaker 1: make another twenty five grant. So you're giving me a choice,
Speaker 1: make say, two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars in
Speaker 1: like five days for them, or make two hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty thousand dollars here between now and next September when
Speaker 1: I'm planning and leaving. Anyway, if you make me choose
Speaker 1: between those two, which do you expect me to choose?
Speaker 1: The executive coughed. We'll get back to an hour later.
Speaker 1: He got back to me by phone. Okay, we see
Speaker 1: your point, But there's still two problems. We can't just
Speaker 1: let everybody do commercials. I said, well, you know, why
Speaker 1: don't you just let anybody who went to the high
Speaker 1: school that Berman and I went to do commercials. He
Speaker 1: did not laugh at that. Well, how about only your
Speaker 1: regular weekday sports center anchors get to do commercials. There
Speaker 1: was a grunt and a maybe. Then we got to
Speaker 1: the gist of the real problem. Here's the real problem.
Speaker 1: People on your show, they'll be resentful. And I said,
Speaker 1: why will they be resentful? Because the production assistants are
Speaker 1: expecting that they're going to get their own commercials too.
Speaker 1: And I said, how about this, the day I'm out
Speaker 1: there actually shooting the commercial, I will get Boston Market
Speaker 1: to like cater dinner for the show staff, even if
Speaker 1: I have to pay for it myself. There was a
Speaker 1: long silence. Would management be included in that? And can
Speaker 1: we get all the side dishes too? I swear to
Speaker 1: God so off. I flew at the beginning of December,
Speaker 1: during a winter that had gone frigid in October in Bristol, Connecticut,
Speaker 1: and the next thing I knew, I was on the
Speaker 1: beach in Malibu at Leo Corrio State Park. The crew
Speaker 1: is complaining because it is raining lightly and only about
Speaker 1: fifty five degrees. To me, fresh from the hinterlands and
Speaker 1: having not been back to la since I had moved
Speaker 1: out in nineteen ninety too, it's like I'm in Tahiti
Speaker 1: and my agent was right. The scripts were funny and original.
Speaker 1: They were as send up of the old Calvin Kleine
Speaker 1: obsession perfume commercials. There are two extremely thin models and
Speaker 1: they are filmed writhing in frustration on the beach on
Speaker 1: the big rock outcroppings at Leo Correo State Park. She
Speaker 1: is supposed to say, emptiness, How can I fill this
Speaker 1: empty void of emptiness? They are in black and white,
Speaker 1: but I emerge from behind a rock or wherever I'm
Speaker 1: in color. They are in black and white, and I
Speaker 1: say when they say, don't know what to do about
Speaker 1: this emptiness, I say eat something. I then sell the sandwich.
Speaker 1: Then it cuts to a shot of me walking them
Speaker 1: down the beach with my arm over each of their shoulders,
Speaker 1: telling them eating is a good thing, and who's wearing
Speaker 1: cologne or who likes sports or other stupid things like that.
Speaker 1: For a quarter of a million dollars, well we start
Speaker 1: at this at eight am, and the producer and the
Speaker 1: director John say to me and the two models and
Speaker 1: the crew, look, this rain is just going to get
Speaker 1: heavier as the day goes on. So what we want
Speaker 1: to do is not take a break for lunch. We'll
Speaker 1: just shoot until like two pm, and then you can
Speaker 1: have lunch, or you can take your lunch with you,
Speaker 1: and you'll all get paid for a full day. And
Speaker 1: everybody agrees. The actress agrees, and she swears as she agrees.
Speaker 1: The actress is named Una. Una is from Chicago, and
Speaker 1: it will soon prove Una swears more than a long shortman.
Speaker 1: This blanking cold can blank my blanking blank. To be fair,
Speaker 1: Una and the guy are dressed in Calvin Klein rags
Speaker 1: and they are there and they are from there, and
Speaker 1: they are freezing while I am wearing a production company
Speaker 1: brand new suit and shoes, and to me it feels
Speaker 1: like it's Tahiti. We take a couple of hours where
Speaker 1: we do all the shots where I emerge from behind
Speaker 1: the rocks, or go around the rocks, or over the rocks,
Speaker 1: or I look over the rocks, and the director finally says, okay,
Speaker 1: we got five good options. Let's set up for the
Speaker 1: walk down the beach with your arms around each other's shoulders.
Speaker 1: By now it's noon or twelve thirty. And as they
Speaker 1: move the cameras and the rain starts to move from
Speaker 1: a mist to like a light rain, two prop guys
Speaker 1: bring out rakes and I'm sitting with the crew and
Speaker 1: I've been asking them questions all morning, in between takes
Speaker 1: about how this is all being arranged and made and lit.
Speaker 1: And I say, rakes, what do you need rakes for
Speaker 1: on a commercial? And they say you'll see. And then
Speaker 1: each time me and Una and the guy walk down
Speaker 1: the beach and the director says cut, we go back
Speaker 1: to the starting point. Now out come two stage hands
Speaker 1: with rakes and they rake the sand on the beach smooth,
Speaker 1: and I say, oh, footprints. So each time I walk
Speaker 1: down this damp beach with the range just a little
Speaker 1: harder than it was the take before, in my brand
Speaker 1: new dress shoes, what I'm basically doing is polling the
Speaker 1: soles of these brand new shoes on damp sand. I mean,
Speaker 1: by the time the director John says we are done,
Speaker 1: these soles of these shoes are so shiny I could
Speaker 1: go ice skating in these shoes. And John comes over
Speaker 1: and he says, listen, we got another half an hour.
Speaker 1: Can we go back and try a new way for
Speaker 1: you to appear on the rocks? I mean, can you
Speaker 1: Can you climb rocks at all? And I say, yeah, actually,
Speaker 1: I'm surprisingly good at it. You wouldn't think so, but
Speaker 1: I can climb rocks. And he points to one rock
Speaker 1: out cropping on the beach. Maybe it's eighteen twenty feet high,
Speaker 1: and he says, try to climb up that and go
Speaker 1: as high as you can. If there's nothing that will
Speaker 1: support you, we'll forget it. And I try, and sure enough,
Speaker 1: I get up near the top and there is a
Speaker 1: perfect little shelf in the rock that I can comfortably
Speaker 1: stand on. And the director points the camera up and
Speaker 1: he says, oh, damn, the angle's too tough. I can't
Speaker 1: swing the camera down fast enough for when you say
Speaker 1: eat something, so I refocus on the models. It won't work.
Speaker 1: Is there anything lower on the rock where you could stand?
Speaker 1: Can you come down? And I said, I think so.
Speaker 1: I think I can come down a little bit. Well,
Speaker 1: little did I know. Sure enough, maybe nine ten feet
Speaker 1: from the beach, up in the sky, there is another
Speaker 1: little foothold on this rock outcropping. It is not big
Speaker 1: enough for me to put both my feet on it.
Speaker 1: But I say, if you don't mind me holding onto
Speaker 1: the rock as I say, eat something, I can do
Speaker 1: it from here. And the director says, okay, let's try it.
Speaker 1: And I climb down the rock and he's moving the
Speaker 1: camera and I put my left foot on this flat part,
Speaker 1: which is nine or ten feet up from the beach,
Speaker 1: and for a couple of seconds everything is fine. I'm good.
Speaker 1: And that's when I feel that my left shoe, my
Speaker 1: brand new left shoe, straight from the floor, shiine catalog,
Speaker 1: bright and shiny and now having been polished by four
Speaker 1: hours of walking up and down on a wet beach,
Speaker 1: complete with two guys there to rake the beach and
Speaker 1: make sure it is as shy as it possibly can be.
Speaker 1: My left shoe, slipperier than a diamond, is now moving
Speaker 1: of its own accord. I'm holding. I'm doing a good
Speaker 1: rock climbing job, but the shoe, the shoe is not holding. Hey,
Speaker 1: I say, with some alarm, I'm about to fall off.
Speaker 1: I hit the sand no more than five seconds later,
Speaker 1: so that's about a sixteen foot drop. From my head
Speaker 1: to the beach, and for weeks, for years still to
Speaker 1: this day, it has amazed me more than anything else
Speaker 1: that happened. It has amazed me how much went through
Speaker 1: my mind before I crashed. In fact, before I actually fell.
Speaker 1: I know, I did a quick height calculation. Yeah, fifteen
Speaker 1: sixteen feet. I recognized that the outcropping was so vertical
Speaker 1: that I was unlikely to hit any of the rock
Speaker 1: on the way down. But just the same, I remember
Speaker 1: that the rocks continue under the sand. See. I took
Speaker 1: two years of geology, and this was going to be
Speaker 1: a hard landing. More amazingly than all that, Though I
Speaker 1: had taken judo as a kid, I hated every minute
Speaker 1: of judo. Nineteen sixty five, nineteen sixty six, so twenty
Speaker 1: six and twenty seven years before we shot this commercial,
Speaker 1: I was in the studio, the Judo studio in White Plains,
Speaker 1: New York, the day of the nineteen sixty five Northeast blackout,
Speaker 1: and the only happy memory of the entire judo experience
Speaker 1: I had was one hour instructor Bob Durocher locked us
Speaker 1: in the dojo that had been converted from a store
Speaker 1: that had a front door that was set in several
Speaker 1: feet from the street so they could put display cases up.
Speaker 1: And now it's pitch black. So he went out and
Speaker 1: got his Volkswagen Carmen Gia drove it up over the
Speaker 1: sidewalk into that set in entryway of this converted storefront.
Speaker 1: He put his beams on. He flooded the dojo with
Speaker 1: enough light that we kids could change out of our
Speaker 1: judo stuff and back into our regular clothes and wait
Speaker 1: for our parents to come get us. He did a
Speaker 1: great job. I didn't like the judo so much, but
Speaker 1: his blackout operations practice was superb. So now, with all
Speaker 1: of this having gone through my head in a second,
Speaker 1: I began to fall, and everything else from that year
Speaker 1: of once a week judo classes comes back to me. Relax,
Speaker 1: as you drop, the more of your body that hits,
Speaker 1: the less you'll get hurt. Hands protect the head. Drop
Speaker 1: like a sack of sand. I did not hit the sand,
Speaker 1: per se. I kind of splattered on my left side
Speaker 1: swap as I rolled over onto my back and took
Speaker 1: a breath and sat up. Of all people, Una was
Speaker 1: the first to race over to me. You want some
Speaker 1: blank and tea, I said, no, thanks, Let me see
Speaker 1: if I'm dead. Tried to help me to my feet,
Speaker 1: but I felt some very sharp pain, which suggested we
Speaker 1: should slow down. The problem was, though, even if I
Speaker 1: needed an ambulance, there was no way to get one
Speaker 1: down to where we were shooting, As that rock out
Speaker 1: cropping that I had just fallen from suggested, I like
Speaker 1: to call it a cliff every now and again. Leo
Speaker 1: Correo State Park had a real cliff in it and
Speaker 1: a flight of stairs, I mean one hundred steps, two
Speaker 1: hundred steps up to the Pacific Coast Highway and a park.
Speaker 1: Sure enough, I was able to stand, but I couldn't
Speaker 1: move easily. Everything hurt. So the two biggest members of
Speaker 1: the crew let me drape my arms over their shoulders,
Speaker 1: exactly the way I had draped my arms over their
Speaker 1: shoulders of the models during the beach shot. I stopped
Speaker 1: for a second. Hey, Ona, you sure you don't want
Speaker 1: to Frankin carry me up the stairs, she said, with
Speaker 1: genuine sincerity. Now that's blank and funny. Seemed to me
Speaker 1: like it took about a month to get up those stairs.
Speaker 1: I assumed there would be an ambulance waiting by this point. Instead,
Speaker 1: there was a park ranger. This is a state park.
Speaker 1: I have to see you first, then I have to
Speaker 1: call the fire department. I said, well, this pain on
Speaker 1: my side here, this feels like fire, but I don't
Speaker 1: think it's actually fire. He called the fire department. They
Speaker 1: showed up, They assessed me. They called the ambulance. At
Speaker 1: some point, probably when I was being half dragged up
Speaker 1: the steps, something happened on the impact side. If I
Speaker 1: now tried to lower my left arm from way above
Speaker 1: my head, I got severe shooting, burning pain from my
Speaker 1: left arm pit to about my left knee. Cleverly, I
Speaker 1: figured out not to do that. Keep your left arm
Speaker 1: above your head and it won't hurt. I use the
Speaker 1: restroom in the ranger station. There was no blood, so
Speaker 1: no kidney damage. I'm okay. It does, however, hurt, and
Speaker 1: something could be broken. Now I go back outside, my
Speaker 1: arm above my head like I'm signaling for a cab
Speaker 1: on the streets of New York City. And the ambulance
Speaker 1: shows up and the AMTS tell me to get on
Speaker 1: there gurney, and I said, I can't. I can't lower
Speaker 1: my arm unless I want excruciating pain. I can't move
Speaker 1: my arm. I have to stay in this position. Looking
Speaker 1: like a Flamenco dancer. But I said, listen, can you
Speaker 1: lock the wheels on this gurney? And they said, sure
Speaker 1: we can, of course we can. And I said, just
Speaker 1: lock the wheels and I'll just back up onto the
Speaker 1: end of it and I'll fall backwards. And it worked,
Speaker 1: and so with my left arm still extended over my head,
Speaker 1: they loaded me into the ambulance. Apparently, when I fell
Speaker 1: from that rock or cliff as I call it, it
Speaker 1: looked like I had been shot. Fifty sixty people on
Speaker 1: a commercial crew. The shooting day is over. They have
Speaker 1: missed lunch. There is a very nice catered lunch sitting there.
Speaker 1: And they told me later that everybody was so disturbed
Speaker 1: by what happened to me that only three people even
Speaker 1: took something to go and know. The director was not
Speaker 1: filming as I fell. Sadly, so we hit every pothole
Speaker 1: on Pacific Coast Highway on the trip from the beach
Speaker 1: to the hospital. Oh ah, ooh, I call my agent
Speaker 1: from my cell phone, she laughed. I called ESPN actually
Speaker 1: to check on the catered dinner. Oh what's new? Oh,
Speaker 1: I fell off a cliff shooting the commercial, They laughed,
Speaker 1: and I'm lying there in the emergency room waiting for
Speaker 1: X rays when my cell phone rings again and I
Speaker 1: reach into my left pocket and I had the phone
Speaker 1: halfway to my ear when I realized my left side
Speaker 1: does not hurt anymore at all. It does not hurt
Speaker 1: at all. Well, that was a quick recovery. I sat up.
Speaker 1: My left side felt fine. In fact, it felt great,
Speaker 1: and a nurse came over and suggested I should lie
Speaker 1: back down again. I said, why, somehow I got better
Speaker 1: on the trip from all the potholes and just lying here.
Speaker 1: In fact, I feel great. Did you guys remove my
Speaker 1: left leg while I wasn't looking? Did you replace it
Speaker 1: with the left leg that I had when I was twelve?
Speaker 1: Because I could hop back to Connecticut on my left
Speaker 1: leg right now. Just cancel the flight, she laughed. She said, no,
Speaker 1: what I was feeling would be the morphine they gave
Speaker 1: me so they could twist me around and take the
Speaker 1: X rays they needed. And I said, please never ever
Speaker 1: give me any more of that ever again. Thank you.
Speaker 1: My Judo flashback, as it turned out, had done the job.
Speaker 1: I had broken nothing. The er doctor complimented me on
Speaker 1: my fall, and he said I probably had six or
Speaker 1: eight different sprains on my left side. It would hurt,
Speaker 1: but it would keep getting better and I'd be able
Speaker 1: to make my flight home the day after next. He
Speaker 1: was completely right, although I now I found twenty five
Speaker 1: years later that it's beginning to hurt like I just
Speaker 1: fell off the cliff. Anyway, I went back to the hotel.
Speaker 1: I ate well, I slept well, I managed to walk
Speaker 1: around with the help of a cane. I went back
Speaker 1: for day two of the commercial shoot. This one is
Speaker 1: in a mansion in Pasadena, a room teeming full of
Speaker 1: UNA's lying on the floor. They're photographs through chandeliers. They're lazy,
Speaker 1: rich kids who also need to be told to eat something.
Speaker 1: I arrived and walked into applause from the crew, and
Speaker 1: I delivered a well rehearsed line. And now for my
Speaker 1: next trick, which is when the director John came over
Speaker 1: and apologized, and he said he thought this entry into
Speaker 1: shot for me would be way easier. What I had
Speaker 1: to do is lie on the floor, then sit up
Speaker 1: and deliver the line eat something. If you can sit up,
Speaker 1: he said, that is. If you can't, we can do
Speaker 1: something else. Can you sit up? And I thought about
Speaker 1: it and I rubbed my lower back, and I said,
Speaker 1: based on the day so far, yeah, I could, but
Speaker 1: probably only six or seven times. And I said, while
Speaker 1: I can sit up, it's clear to me one of
Speaker 1: those bad sprains was in the muscles somewhere of my
Speaker 1: lower back. And if I try to lay back down,
Speaker 1: I lose control. I'll just crash back to the floor.
Speaker 1: That actually happened getting out of bed this morning. So
Speaker 1: after each take, the same two guys who had walked
Speaker 1: me up the stairs after I fell at the beach
Speaker 1: gently held my arms and shoulders and lowered me back
Speaker 1: to lying on the floor. We got what we needed.
Speaker 1: I went back to the hotel. I had dinner with
Speaker 1: some friends. The next day. I was a little sore,
Speaker 1: but perfectly fine to get back on the plane east,
Speaker 1: and sure enough, only time ever I had a west
Speaker 1: to east tailwind. The flight from lax to Newark took
Speaker 1: three hours and forty eight minutes. We traversed the country
Speaker 1: like a dart shot from a gun or an Olderman
Speaker 1: falling from a rock out cropping. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: the commercial was an immediate success, unlike any that Boston
Speaker 1: Market had ever done before. In those days, they were
Speaker 1: packed each night for dinner at every location, selling half
Speaker 1: chicken and full meals with potatoes and salads, and they
Speaker 1: were getting an average of twelve dollars out of every customer.
Speaker 1: The rest of the day the place was empty. The
Speaker 1: idea behind my commercials. They were designed to bring in
Speaker 1: a lunch crowd a sandwich and a soda and a
Speaker 1: bag of chips for four dollars. Soon they were swamped
Speaker 1: at lunchtime. Boston Market ordered three more commercials, these to
Speaker 1: be shot in a studio in New York. They offered
Speaker 1: me fifty grand a day. An entire new career vista
Speaker 1: was opening in front of me. I was, for a
Speaker 1: week or two in early nineteen ninety seven the most
Speaker 1: successful male commercial actor in the country. We shot those
Speaker 1: three spots. I interrupted a grunge concert to shout eat
Speaker 1: something at the band, and then I got carried off
Speaker 1: by the crowd in a mosh pit. And I interrupted
Speaker 1: a Romeo soap opera surgeon coming on to his nurse
Speaker 1: by rising from the operating table to shout eat something.
Speaker 1: And then we did something with ballplayers at stadium on
Speaker 1: Randall's Island. And I remember nothing of that because, unlike
Speaker 1: the first two. They never edited the film because that's
Speaker 1: when it happened, their equivalent of falling off the cliff.
Speaker 1: I will confess it had not occurred to me. Then again,
Speaker 1: I did not own Boston Market. I did not work
Speaker 1: for their marketing department. I did not run the ad
Speaker 1: agency they employed. But none of them anticipated it either.
Speaker 1: After the first few weeks of giddy glee about the
Speaker 1: lunch crowds I had brought them, somebody noticed something unfortunate
Speaker 1: and unexpected. Basically, for every four dollar lunch they were
Speaker 1: now selling, they were selling one fewer twelve dollars dinner.
Speaker 1: They had not gained any new customers. They had just
Speaker 1: managed to get their customers to each spend eight dollars less.
Speaker 1: These very well made, very memorable commercials worked very very well.
Speaker 1: And the problem with that was each time they did work,
Speaker 1: it costs by Boston Market eight dollars. By the end
Speaker 1: of nineteen ninety seven, Boston Market was something like nine
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars in debt. It had filed for bankruptcy
Speaker 1: and had been taken over by McDonald's. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: I got my money, and in the twenty five years
Speaker 1: plus since Boston Market has not once used a celebrity
Speaker 1: endorser to try to sell their food. Oh and there
Speaker 1: was one other positive outcome from my header off that
Speaker 1: cliff that December, so many Decembers ago. The AD Agency
Speaker 1: actually received the award. I did not, so I can't
Speaker 1: quote the title of it for you. I don't know
Speaker 1: which group gave it to us, but the Eat Something
Speaker 1: campaign it actually won an award because apparently my shouting
Speaker 1: eat something at Una and the others that somehow cuts
Speaker 1: through to some victims of some eating disorders. What I
Speaker 1: was told was we got an award from a national
Speaker 1: Bolimia association. As the years go by, my one regret
Speaker 1: about this, other than the slight resistance I get when
Speaker 1: I try to turn my head to the left, my
Speaker 1: one real regret is it's not on film. I've done
Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here in this case. Literally,
Speaker 1: thank you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors Brian Ray and
Speaker 1: John Phillip Schanel arranged, produced and performed most of our music.
Speaker 1: Mister Ray on guitars, bass and drums. Mister Chanale handled
Speaker 1: orchestration and keyboards. It was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music,
Speaker 1: including some of the Beethoven compositions were arranged and performed
Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports music is
Speaker 1: the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis,
Speaker 1: courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our satirical and pithy musical comments
Speaker 1: are by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever.
Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend Howard Feineman. Everything else
Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault, including falling off that got
Speaker 1: blank rock. So that's countdown for this the two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventeenth day until the twenty twenty four presidential election,
Speaker 1: the one and eighty fourth day since dementia Jay Trump's
Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the
Speaker 1: United States. Use the Fourteenth Amendment, use the not regularly
Speaker 1: given elector objection option. The Supreme Court hath given us,
Speaker 1: use the Insurrection Act to use the justice system, use
Speaker 1: the mental health system in order to stop him from
Speaker 1: doing it again while we still can. The next scheduled
Speaker 1: countdown is tomorrow, and again that might not happen. It
Speaker 1: might be abridged. That's the likelier outcome depending on a
Speaker 1: routine medical procedure. Bulletins as the news warrants. Hopefully none
Speaker 1: of them boughtins are about me. Till then, I'm Keith Olberman.
Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck the fs.
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