1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Oldman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:26,635 --> 00:00:31,115 Speaker 1: The Corrupt Trump. Judge Hileen Cannon must vacate her Special 3 00:00:31,155 --> 00:00:33,755 Speaker 1: Master Order immediately, and if she refuses to do so, 4 00:00:34,115 --> 00:00:37,955 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice must ignore her Special Master Order immediately. 5 00:00:38,195 --> 00:00:40,395 Speaker 1: And if she tries to intervene on behalf of her 6 00:00:40,435 --> 00:00:43,635 Speaker 1: Special Master Order, she must be arrested on charges of 7 00:00:43,755 --> 00:00:46,675 Speaker 1: being an accessory after the fact. Because now we know 8 00:00:47,395 --> 00:00:52,275 Speaker 1: Donald Trump stole nuclear secrets and repeatedly refused to give 9 00:00:52,315 --> 00:00:55,355 Speaker 1: them back, and they were recovered only a month ago tomorrow, 10 00:00:55,355 --> 00:00:58,515 Speaker 1: and they threatened the nuclear stability of the entire planet. 11 00:00:58,555 --> 00:01:01,435 Speaker 1: And we do not have time for a little Trump 12 00:01:01,595 --> 00:01:05,475 Speaker 1: bought and paid for judicial ass clowns, because at the 13 00:01:05,475 --> 00:01:08,755 Speaker 1: core of this disaster, unprecedented in our history, an ex 14 00:01:08,795 --> 00:01:12,355 Speaker 1: president who is a nuclear kleptomaniac and a nuclear spy 15 00:01:12,475 --> 00:01:15,395 Speaker 1: and a nuclear terrorist and is trying to regain the 16 00:01:15,395 --> 00:01:18,475 Speaker 1: White House so he can steal more nuclear secrets. At 17 00:01:18,515 --> 00:01:21,795 Speaker 1: the core of this disaster, the only question of moral 18 00:01:21,835 --> 00:01:24,715 Speaker 1: importance or not is whether or not we should bother 19 00:01:24,835 --> 00:01:30,515 Speaker 1: to give him a goddamned trial. I will always be 20 00:01:30,555 --> 00:01:33,235 Speaker 1: a believer in trial by jury and the fullness of 21 00:01:33,315 --> 00:01:36,835 Speaker 1: due process and a deep skeptic about the death penalty. 22 00:01:37,115 --> 00:01:42,315 Speaker 1: But we have a nuclear thief, a nuclear terrorist hiding 23 00:01:42,755 --> 00:01:46,235 Speaker 1: behind our court system right now, hiding behind a judge 24 00:01:46,435 --> 00:01:50,075 Speaker 1: he appointed, and six more of them on the appellate court. 25 00:01:50,355 --> 00:01:55,275 Speaker 1: And I just don't think Trump's quote rights unquote matter anymore. 26 00:01:55,715 --> 00:02:00,395 Speaker 1: He stole nuclear secrets. They were not back in government 27 00:02:00,435 --> 00:02:03,515 Speaker 1: hands until after the FBI had to conduct a raid 28 00:02:03,595 --> 00:02:07,475 Speaker 1: that was only necessary because he made it necessary. And 29 00:02:07,555 --> 00:02:13,235 Speaker 1: they describe, per the Washington Post, a foreign government's military defenses, 30 00:02:13,355 --> 00:02:18,075 Speaker 1: including its nuclear capabilities. And it was found by FBI 31 00:02:18,195 --> 00:02:23,475 Speaker 1: agents who searched former President Trump's Marilago residence and private 32 00:02:23,515 --> 00:02:27,675 Speaker 1: club last month. And I I just don't care about 33 00:02:27,795 --> 00:02:31,555 Speaker 1: anything here except the answers to these questions. Why is 34 00:02:31,595 --> 00:02:35,235 Speaker 1: he not in an army stockade or a naval brig 35 00:02:35,475 --> 00:02:39,875 Speaker 1: as we speak. Why has the entire Marilago property not 36 00:02:39,995 --> 00:02:43,835 Speaker 1: been sealed off? And why has the Bedminster Golf Club 37 00:02:43,835 --> 00:02:46,235 Speaker 1: in New Jersey not been sealed off? And why has 38 00:02:46,275 --> 00:02:48,435 Speaker 1: all of Trump Tower around the corner from me not 39 00:02:48,515 --> 00:02:51,435 Speaker 1: been sealed off? All of them sealed off and closed 40 00:02:51,435 --> 00:02:55,115 Speaker 1: to the public indefinitely, months, years, whatever, until we are 41 00:02:55,155 --> 00:02:59,235 Speaker 1: confident there are no more documents describing a foreign government's 42 00:02:59,275 --> 00:03:03,115 Speaker 1: military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, out of the thousands 43 00:03:03,115 --> 00:03:08,075 Speaker 1: of documents stolen by this traitor Trump. This goes even 44 00:03:08,115 --> 00:03:12,355 Speaker 1: beyond the question of right or wrong. This is safety. 45 00:03:13,115 --> 00:03:18,155 Speaker 1: We don't know whose nuclear capabilities Trump had documents about. 46 00:03:18,475 --> 00:03:21,235 Speaker 1: We don't know if or to whom he showed them. 47 00:03:21,515 --> 00:03:24,155 Speaker 1: We don't know if or to whom he sold them. 48 00:03:24,435 --> 00:03:27,075 Speaker 1: We don't know if that one document mentioned is a 49 00:03:27,155 --> 00:03:30,275 Speaker 1: page long or a thousand. We don't know if that 50 00:03:30,355 --> 00:03:33,155 Speaker 1: one document could tell a foreign power how to destroy 51 00:03:33,355 --> 00:03:38,955 Speaker 1: Israel or Iran, Cambodia or Canada. We don't know if 52 00:03:38,995 --> 00:03:43,315 Speaker 1: the mere existence of that document could tell a foreign power. 53 00:03:43,355 --> 00:03:47,435 Speaker 1: How we find out about who has nuclear capabilities and 54 00:03:47,475 --> 00:03:55,755 Speaker 1: who doesn't, or what kind. For seven wearying, crushing years 55 00:03:55,835 --> 00:04:01,435 Speaker 1: after nine eleven, the Republican Party under George Bush and 56 00:04:01,515 --> 00:04:06,835 Speaker 1: Dick Cheney terrified this country with the prospect of loose 57 00:04:07,155 --> 00:04:12,675 Speaker 1: nukes moving around, unguarded, in this country or in Iraq, 58 00:04:13,315 --> 00:04:21,475 Speaker 1: or in anywhere, nuclear terrorism, dirty bombs, unimaginable risks. Well, 59 00:04:21,555 --> 00:04:25,115 Speaker 1: this document is the written equivalent of a loose nuke, 60 00:04:25,515 --> 00:04:30,075 Speaker 1: of nuclear terrorism, of a dirty bomb, and Trump is 61 00:04:30,515 --> 00:04:36,635 Speaker 1: the unimaginable risk. What if he had possession of the 62 00:04:36,715 --> 00:04:43,675 Speaker 1: smallest imaginable nuclear weapon, the proverbial fanciful suitcase bomb, what 63 00:04:43,795 --> 00:04:47,555 Speaker 1: would we as a society do. Then we would get 64 00:04:47,595 --> 00:04:50,915 Speaker 1: it back from him, we would secure it, we would 65 00:04:50,955 --> 00:04:53,035 Speaker 1: see if he had more within reach. And after the 66 00:04:53,075 --> 00:04:55,995 Speaker 1: first few moments of interaction about this, he would be 67 00:04:56,035 --> 00:04:58,835 Speaker 1: at best thrown to the ground and detained by the 68 00:04:58,915 --> 00:05:02,235 Speaker 1: FBI or the cops, or the military police or whoever. 69 00:05:02,915 --> 00:05:05,955 Speaker 1: And if a judge, I mean a real judge, not 70 00:05:06,075 --> 00:05:10,875 Speaker 1: this Eileen Cannon Trump employee number three six, were to 71 00:05:10,955 --> 00:05:14,035 Speaker 1: have issued an order preventing the government from getting that 72 00:05:14,235 --> 00:05:18,915 Speaker 1: smallest nuclear weapon back, she would not be permitted to interfere. 73 00:05:21,075 --> 00:05:24,835 Speaker 1: When it is secret information about the nuclear capabilities of 74 00:05:24,875 --> 00:05:28,315 Speaker 1: a foreign nation, and obviously it is therefore also information 75 00:05:28,355 --> 00:05:32,435 Speaker 1: about how this nation ascertains such information, you have a 76 00:05:32,515 --> 00:05:38,755 Speaker 1: situation not unlike active war. It is amazing, It is 77 00:05:38,835 --> 00:05:43,795 Speaker 1: to some degree slightly heartening that knowing what the Department 78 00:05:43,835 --> 00:05:46,435 Speaker 1: of Justice has known about this document since it was 79 00:05:46,515 --> 00:05:49,955 Speaker 1: retrieved on August eighth, and even before then, when it 80 00:05:49,995 --> 00:05:53,235 Speaker 1: was proved as probable cause to obtain the warrant for 81 00:05:53,275 --> 00:05:57,435 Speaker 1: the search. It is somewhat heartening that the government has 82 00:05:57,475 --> 00:06:02,115 Speaker 1: been as calm as it has been regarding Trump, because 83 00:06:02,155 --> 00:06:06,995 Speaker 1: the threat Donald Trump represents has to be neutralized, not 84 00:06:07,155 --> 00:06:10,875 Speaker 1: the person, not his life, but, as I phrased it earlier, 85 00:06:11,155 --> 00:06:15,875 Speaker 1: his nuclear kleptomania. And there is no evidence that Trump 86 00:06:15,955 --> 00:06:22,755 Speaker 1: the threat has been slowed down, let alone neutralized. The 87 00:06:22,835 --> 00:06:27,675 Speaker 1: Washington Post reporting on the document a document describing a 88 00:06:27,835 --> 00:06:33,395 Speaker 1: foreign government's military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, should not 89 00:06:33,475 --> 00:06:37,275 Speaker 1: have been an utter surprise to you. It reported. The 90 00:06:37,315 --> 00:06:40,715 Speaker 1: newspaper did on August eleven that the FBI was looking 91 00:06:40,835 --> 00:06:44,675 Speaker 1: for at least one such document. We didn't know how 92 00:06:44,715 --> 00:06:48,835 Speaker 1: to qualify it or quantify it, but the Post's reporting 93 00:06:49,355 --> 00:06:52,555 Speaker 1: was then confirmed by the release of the Marilago search warrant. 94 00:06:53,675 --> 00:06:58,195 Speaker 1: This reporting is only stage three. The first statute in 95 00:06:58,275 --> 00:07:01,795 Speaker 1: that search warrant that was identified which the judge agreed 96 00:07:01,995 --> 00:07:06,035 Speaker 1: there was probable cause to believe law had been broken, 97 00:07:06,555 --> 00:07:10,955 Speaker 1: was eighteen US Code seven nine, three paragraphs E and F. 98 00:07:11,155 --> 00:07:15,835 Speaker 1: It is legal ease at its worst, but an abbreviated form. 99 00:07:15,875 --> 00:07:21,075 Speaker 1: It reads thus, lee quote, whoever having unauthorized possession of 100 00:07:22,395 --> 00:07:27,795 Speaker 1: access to or control over any document, writing, code, book, etcetera. 101 00:07:28,075 --> 00:07:32,515 Speaker 1: Relating to the national defense, which information possessor has reason 102 00:07:32,555 --> 00:07:35,155 Speaker 1: to believe could be used to the injury of the 103 00:07:35,235 --> 00:07:42,995 Speaker 1: United States or the advantage of any foreign nation. Willfully communicates, delivers, etcetera, 104 00:07:43,155 --> 00:07:47,435 Speaker 1: or attempts to communicate, deliver, etcetera to any person not 105 00:07:48,035 --> 00:07:52,755 Speaker 1: entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and 106 00:07:52,875 --> 00:07:56,315 Speaker 1: fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of 107 00:07:56,355 --> 00:08:01,555 Speaker 1: the United States entitled to receive it, or f permits 108 00:08:01,635 --> 00:08:06,155 Speaker 1: the same to be removed from its proper place of custody, 109 00:08:06,315 --> 00:08:09,315 Speaker 1: shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more 110 00:08:09,355 --> 00:08:13,435 Speaker 1: than ten years, or both. Trump would appear to be 111 00:08:13,435 --> 00:08:19,875 Speaker 1: guilty of having unauthorized possession and willful retention and failure 112 00:08:19,915 --> 00:08:23,515 Speaker 1: to return to the officer entitled to receive it. Those 113 00:08:23,635 --> 00:08:29,675 Speaker 1: can be filed as separate counts. That's ten years each 114 00:08:30,915 --> 00:08:38,275 Speaker 1: thirty years for one document. Some final thoughts from others 115 00:08:38,355 --> 00:08:43,435 Speaker 1: here one quote. Anybody who takes classified information outside of 116 00:08:43,435 --> 00:08:45,955 Speaker 1: the places it is supposed to be should give that 117 00:08:46,075 --> 00:08:52,075 Speaker 1: information back. That includes president's former presidents who said that, Well, 118 00:08:52,075 --> 00:08:55,795 Speaker 1: that was Mike Pompeo. Trump's first CIA director and his 119 00:08:55,915 --> 00:09:00,915 Speaker 1: last Secretary of State. Another quote, government documents were taken, 120 00:09:01,435 --> 00:09:05,755 Speaker 1: classified information was taken and not handled appropriate. And there's 121 00:09:05,795 --> 00:09:09,475 Speaker 1: some evidence to suggest that investigators were deceived. And who 122 00:09:09,515 --> 00:09:16,235 Speaker 1: said that William Barr Trump's attorney general. And lastly, quote 123 00:09:17,315 --> 00:09:22,035 Speaker 1: Affid David heavily redacted nothing mentioned on nuclear a total 124 00:09:22,115 --> 00:09:25,275 Speaker 1: public relations subterfuge by the FBI and d o j 125 00:09:26,195 --> 00:09:31,715 Speaker 1: end quote. And we know who said that, Mr nuclear 126 00:09:32,195 --> 00:09:38,595 Speaker 1: klepto maniac, Donald Trump boasting on August that nothing about 127 00:09:38,635 --> 00:09:44,875 Speaker 1: the search warrant about Mari Lago mentioned nuclear. Well, now 128 00:09:44,915 --> 00:09:49,955 Speaker 1: it has mentioned nuclear don And this is impossibly dangerous 129 00:09:50,275 --> 00:09:55,115 Speaker 1: and at the same time implausibly simple. Judge Cannon must 130 00:09:55,435 --> 00:09:58,955 Speaker 1: vacate that special Master order and let the people of 131 00:09:59,035 --> 00:10:04,115 Speaker 1: this country defend themselves against a nuclear cleptomaniac and a 132 00:10:04,235 --> 00:10:08,515 Speaker 1: nuclear terrorist and a nuclear thief named Donald Trump. And 133 00:10:08,595 --> 00:10:12,315 Speaker 1: if she fails to do so, she must be arrested 134 00:10:12,355 --> 00:10:16,315 Speaker 1: for posing a clear and present danger to the nuclear 135 00:10:16,435 --> 00:10:20,315 Speaker 1: safety of this and other countries. And Trump must be 136 00:10:20,515 --> 00:10:25,755 Speaker 1: arrested and detained in a secure facility until we are certain, 137 00:10:26,155 --> 00:10:30,195 Speaker 1: beyond all possible doubt that he does not have or 138 00:10:30,395 --> 00:10:34,595 Speaker 1: did not have more of this nation's nuclear secrets. And 139 00:10:34,835 --> 00:10:37,995 Speaker 1: after we are certain of that, and not before, we 140 00:10:38,115 --> 00:10:42,675 Speaker 1: can begin to decide how many decades he needs to 141 00:10:42,755 --> 00:10:48,635 Speaker 1: be sentenced to prison for or if that punishment is insufficient. 142 00:10:49,915 --> 00:10:53,755 Speaker 1: Let me modify what I said to you yesterday. You 143 00:10:53,795 --> 00:11:11,875 Speaker 1: guys can arrest Trump whenever you want, but detain him today. 144 00:11:12,875 --> 00:11:17,435 Speaker 1: All right, let me move on. Still ahead on countdown. 145 00:11:18,475 --> 00:11:22,315 Speaker 1: They've used the fourteenth Amendment to remove an insurrectionist county 146 00:11:22,315 --> 00:11:25,555 Speaker 1: commissioner in New Mexico. I am not holding out much 147 00:11:25,595 --> 00:11:28,475 Speaker 1: hope that this will start a trend because there are 148 00:11:28,515 --> 00:11:33,155 Speaker 1: a lot of cowards among our pro democracy forces. Sports. 149 00:11:33,635 --> 00:11:37,115 Speaker 1: You picked a fine time to retire Dave Stuart's nimber 150 00:11:38,555 --> 00:11:42,275 Speaker 1: if you know, you know, If you don't know, oh, 151 00:11:42,355 --> 00:11:46,115 Speaker 1: I'll explain, and so will Nancy Faust. And when I 152 00:11:46,235 --> 00:11:49,155 Speaker 1: broke in as the sportscaster for maybe the best local 153 00:11:49,235 --> 00:11:53,115 Speaker 1: newscast in America. After about a month they told me 154 00:11:53,635 --> 00:11:58,875 Speaker 1: to stop making jokes about sports. I didn't last there 155 00:11:58,955 --> 00:12:01,555 Speaker 1: very long. Things I promised not to tell. That's next, 156 00:12:01,555 --> 00:12:24,755 Speaker 1: this discountdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman coming up. Wait, 157 00:12:24,835 --> 00:12:28,555 Speaker 1: what you can actually use the Fourteenth Amendment against insurrectionists. 158 00:12:29,195 --> 00:12:31,915 Speaker 1: They've done it. I'm not that hopeful about it, but 159 00:12:31,955 --> 00:12:34,515 Speaker 1: they've done it. That's a head first. In each edition 160 00:12:34,515 --> 00:12:36,555 Speaker 1: of Countdown, we feature a dog in need whom you 161 00:12:36,595 --> 00:12:39,035 Speaker 1: can help. Every dog has its day. We go to 162 00:12:39,075 --> 00:12:42,875 Speaker 1: Atlanta and an eight pound poodle puppy named Cider, and 163 00:12:42,915 --> 00:12:45,635 Speaker 1: thank goodness, I can't show you a photo. Pounds in 164 00:12:45,795 --> 00:12:49,195 Speaker 1: pounds is doing a fundraiser via Cuddly to save this 165 00:12:49,235 --> 00:12:54,555 Speaker 1: poor guy found wandering, bleeding months old, with infections and 166 00:12:54,635 --> 00:12:57,755 Speaker 1: maggots and jaundice. He will need about four thousand dollars 167 00:12:57,755 --> 00:13:00,315 Speaker 1: to recover. And if you say why spend four thousand 168 00:13:00,315 --> 00:13:04,115 Speaker 1: dollars on one sick dog, the answer is where better 169 00:13:04,155 --> 00:13:06,835 Speaker 1: could the four thousand dollars ago? If you want to 170 00:13:06,875 --> 00:13:09,475 Speaker 1: donate Decider, you can go directly to Cuddley and search 171 00:13:09,515 --> 00:13:11,795 Speaker 1: for hounds and pounds and Cider, or just look for 172 00:13:11,875 --> 00:13:14,755 Speaker 1: my tweet about Cider on my dog account at Tom 173 00:13:14,835 --> 00:13:39,875 Speaker 1: Jumbo Grumbo and I thank you very much. Coming up 174 00:13:39,875 --> 00:13:43,355 Speaker 1: on Countdown, baseball pitching great Dave Stewart against his number 175 00:13:43,395 --> 00:13:47,955 Speaker 1: retired Sunday, But will they ever be able to retire 176 00:13:48,035 --> 00:13:53,235 Speaker 1: the story of Dave Stewart and lose seal. You don't 177 00:13:53,395 --> 00:13:58,035 Speaker 1: know the story of Dave Stewart and Lucille. Oh, that's 178 00:13:58,155 --> 00:14:01,315 Speaker 1: some story. I just happen to have a copy of 179 00:14:01,355 --> 00:14:04,475 Speaker 1: it right over here. Coming up first postscripts to the 180 00:14:04,475 --> 00:14:15,475 Speaker 1: New US. Some headlines, some thoughts, some snark. Dateline Santa Fe, 181 00:14:15,555 --> 00:14:20,035 Speaker 1: New Mexico. We'll look here. Somebody actually facing consequences for 182 00:14:20,075 --> 00:14:23,475 Speaker 1: the January six coup. For the first time since eighteen 183 00:14:23,515 --> 00:14:27,355 Speaker 1: sixty nine, Fourteenth Amendment has been successfully invoked to remove 184 00:14:27,515 --> 00:14:31,195 Speaker 1: a sitting official from office. It's Coy Griffin. You've seen him. 185 00:14:31,235 --> 00:14:34,395 Speaker 1: He made a video on January six basically said look 186 00:14:34,435 --> 00:14:39,555 Speaker 1: at me, confessing he's the founder of Cowboys for Trump 187 00:14:39,635 --> 00:14:42,475 Speaker 1: and he is all had no cattle. He's now been 188 00:14:42,555 --> 00:14:45,755 Speaker 1: kicked out as Commissioner of Otero County by a New 189 00:14:45,795 --> 00:14:49,755 Speaker 1: Mexico judge. We're betting on an appeal. Section three of 190 00:14:49,795 --> 00:14:53,155 Speaker 1: the Fourteenth Amendment bars insurrectionists from office. It dates to 191 00:14:53,195 --> 00:14:56,075 Speaker 1: the Civil War and quoting it in full, no person 192 00:14:56,115 --> 00:14:59,075 Speaker 1: shall be a senator or representative in Congress, or a 193 00:14:59,195 --> 00:15:02,555 Speaker 1: lector of President and Vice President, or hold any office 194 00:15:02,595 --> 00:15:06,075 Speaker 1: civil or military under the United States or under any 195 00:15:06,115 --> 00:15:09,035 Speaker 1: State who having previously taken an oath as a member 196 00:15:09,035 --> 00:15:10,915 Speaker 1: of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, 197 00:15:11,035 --> 00:15:13,315 Speaker 1: or as a member of any State legislature, or as 198 00:15:13,355 --> 00:15:16,875 Speaker 1: an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support 199 00:15:16,915 --> 00:15:19,995 Speaker 1: the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in 200 00:15:19,995 --> 00:15:23,275 Speaker 1: insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or 201 00:15:23,315 --> 00:15:27,155 Speaker 1: comfort to the enemies thereof. The only problem with that 202 00:15:27,275 --> 00:15:30,675 Speaker 1: is it does not spell out how you use it. Well, 203 00:15:30,675 --> 00:15:33,155 Speaker 1: they have used it in New Mexico on Coy Griffin. 204 00:15:33,155 --> 00:15:35,195 Speaker 1: Now to use it on a hundred forty seven Republican 205 00:15:35,235 --> 00:15:38,915 Speaker 1: members of Congress who supported insurrection the night of January six. 206 00:15:40,035 --> 00:15:43,355 Speaker 1: As to Griffin, Vice has quoted him as saying, it 207 00:15:43,515 --> 00:15:48,075 Speaker 1: makes me mistrust the government even more. Oh, no, how 208 00:15:48,115 --> 00:15:53,115 Speaker 1: will we function? Dateline Coffee County, Georgia next, Well, if 209 00:15:53,115 --> 00:15:56,075 Speaker 1: you're betting bet on Cathy Latham to be next. She 210 00:15:56,195 --> 00:15:59,635 Speaker 1: is the former Republican fascist chairwoman of that county, northeast 211 00:15:59,635 --> 00:16:03,075 Speaker 1: of Tallahassee, Florida, but not not quite as northeast as 212 00:16:03,195 --> 00:16:07,995 Speaker 1: lumber City, Georgia. CNN has obtained video of Latham escorting 213 00:16:08,075 --> 00:16:12,115 Speaker 1: two of Sydney Powell's henchmen into the County election offices 214 00:16:12,235 --> 00:16:15,995 Speaker 1: on just a coincidence, the same day as the Coffee 215 00:16:15,995 --> 00:16:19,635 Speaker 1: County voting system was breached. The two men shown in 216 00:16:19,715 --> 00:16:23,635 Speaker 1: the video, named Scott Hall and Paul Maggio, have acknowledged 217 00:16:23,795 --> 00:16:27,595 Speaker 1: they did indeed get into a voting machine in Coffee County, Georgia, 218 00:16:27,755 --> 00:16:31,195 Speaker 1: and they did so at Sydney Powell's behest. The Fulton 219 00:16:31,195 --> 00:16:33,195 Speaker 1: County d A is looking at the tape, so too 220 00:16:33,235 --> 00:16:37,475 Speaker 1: is the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and Dateline Washington concluding 221 00:16:37,515 --> 00:16:40,075 Speaker 1: the hat trick for a guy who was more than 222 00:16:40,155 --> 00:16:43,715 Speaker 1: ready to become attorney general and then you know, overthrow 223 00:16:43,755 --> 00:16:46,915 Speaker 1: of the government. Jeff Clark sure doesn't seem to be 224 00:16:46,955 --> 00:16:50,915 Speaker 1: proud of it. Reuters reporting that Jeffrey Clark has asked 225 00:16:50,915 --> 00:16:54,195 Speaker 1: the Board of Professional Responsibility of the District of Columbia 226 00:16:54,275 --> 00:16:59,355 Speaker 1: BAR to keep its proposed punishment of him under seal. 227 00:16:59,755 --> 00:17:02,235 Speaker 1: In fact, it, according to Ruter's Clarke try to get 228 00:17:02,315 --> 00:17:04,915 Speaker 1: everything about his punishment by the d C BAR ARCT 229 00:17:05,035 --> 00:17:09,795 Speaker 1: quote pending federal investigations. Curiously, Jeff Clark, another one of 230 00:17:09,835 --> 00:17:15,395 Speaker 1: these Federalist Society fascists, has the same attorney as another 231 00:17:16,075 --> 00:17:37,115 Speaker 1: federalist society fascist named John Eastman. This is Sports Center. Wait, 232 00:17:37,315 --> 00:17:44,915 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Alberman 233 00:17:45,555 --> 00:17:49,155 Speaker 1: in sports. Baseball's minor leaguers, who have been dragged around 234 00:17:49,195 --> 00:17:51,515 Speaker 1: by Major League Baseball ever since the last of the 235 00:17:51,595 --> 00:17:55,315 Speaker 1: independent big city minor league teams died in the nineteen fifties, 236 00:17:55,755 --> 00:17:59,875 Speaker 1: may have finally seen an end to their virtual indentured servitude. 237 00:18:00,275 --> 00:18:03,435 Speaker 1: The Athletic reports that more than half of all minor 238 00:18:03,515 --> 00:18:08,275 Speaker 1: league players have returned signed union authorization cards that would 239 00:18:08,275 --> 00:18:12,435 Speaker 1: make the Major League Baseball Players Union their official bargaining 240 00:18:12,555 --> 00:18:16,675 Speaker 1: unit too. At the highest rung, minor league baseball players 241 00:18:16,675 --> 00:18:19,555 Speaker 1: make an average of fourteen thousand dollars a season. At 242 00:18:19,555 --> 00:18:21,835 Speaker 1: the lowest run, it's about forty eight hundred a year. 243 00:18:22,315 --> 00:18:25,075 Speaker 1: Nearly all minor league players have no chance at ever 244 00:18:25,195 --> 00:18:27,955 Speaker 1: making the millions in the majors. They are there to 245 00:18:28,075 --> 00:18:31,035 Speaker 1: provide nothing more than live, real game practice for the 246 00:18:31,075 --> 00:18:33,755 Speaker 1: actual prospects. But for God's sakes, don't tell them that. 247 00:18:34,315 --> 00:18:36,475 Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears have put out their plan for a 248 00:18:36,515 --> 00:18:40,395 Speaker 1: new stadium a dome at the current three acre site 249 00:18:40,395 --> 00:18:43,355 Speaker 1: of Arlington Park in Illinois. They say they planned to 250 00:18:43,395 --> 00:18:45,675 Speaker 1: play their games there, and since it will be a dome, 251 00:18:45,755 --> 00:18:47,755 Speaker 1: you can play the Super Bowl in Chicago and the 252 00:18:47,795 --> 00:18:50,995 Speaker 1: Final Four, and lord knows what else. But before you 253 00:18:51,155 --> 00:18:55,075 Speaker 1: order your tickets to Bears Dome, a reminder that they 254 00:18:55,115 --> 00:18:59,075 Speaker 1: have used their current stadium, Soldier Field, since nineteen seventy one, 255 00:18:59,515 --> 00:19:02,075 Speaker 1: and it opened in nineteen four. And it's also been 256 00:19:02,115 --> 00:19:05,675 Speaker 1: home to the Chicago Rockets of the All America Football 257 00:19:05,715 --> 00:19:08,795 Speaker 1: Conference in the forties, the NFL Chicago Cardinals in nineteen 258 00:19:08,835 --> 00:19:11,395 Speaker 1: fifty nine, the Chicago Fire of the World Football League 259 00:19:11,435 --> 00:19:13,955 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy four, the Chicago Wins of the World 260 00:19:13,955 --> 00:19:17,035 Speaker 1: Football League in nineteen seventy five, the Chicago Blitz of 261 00:19:17,075 --> 00:19:19,475 Speaker 1: the United States Football League in the nineteen eighties. I 262 00:19:19,595 --> 00:19:23,595 Speaker 1: moderated a Democratic Primary presidential debate there. That's how often 263 00:19:23,635 --> 00:19:27,195 Speaker 1: this place is in use. And the Bears have been talking, 264 00:19:27,275 --> 00:19:31,115 Speaker 1: excuse me, the Bears have been talking about tearing this 265 00:19:31,315 --> 00:19:34,875 Speaker 1: place down and replacing it with a brand new stadium. 266 00:19:35,155 --> 00:19:38,955 Speaker 1: And they started talking about this in nineteen eighty nine. 267 00:19:39,435 --> 00:19:41,755 Speaker 1: They ought to build a stadium dedicated to the memory 268 00:19:41,795 --> 00:19:43,995 Speaker 1: of all the times they've talked about tearing down Soldier 269 00:19:44,035 --> 00:19:46,195 Speaker 1: Field and moving somewhere else, and there's something else about 270 00:19:46,195 --> 00:19:48,555 Speaker 1: the one from nineteen eighty nine. They wanted to build 271 00:19:48,595 --> 00:19:51,955 Speaker 1: not just a new stadium, but a dome. This is 272 00:19:51,995 --> 00:19:55,755 Speaker 1: where we came in. And the Oakland A's announced that 273 00:19:55,915 --> 00:19:59,435 Speaker 1: Sunday they will finally retire the uniform number thirty four, 274 00:19:59,555 --> 00:20:02,355 Speaker 1: once worn by their nineteen eighty nine World Series Most 275 00:20:02,395 --> 00:20:06,195 Speaker 1: Valuable Player pitcher Dave Stewart. Was announced in two thousand 276 00:20:06,275 --> 00:20:09,715 Speaker 1: nineteen with the original plan for the ceremony, and we 277 00:20:09,755 --> 00:20:13,035 Speaker 1: all know what happened. Then they will tell of Stewart's 278 00:20:13,075 --> 00:20:16,355 Speaker 1: career path from prospect with the Dodgers to wash out 279 00:20:16,395 --> 00:20:19,755 Speaker 1: to superstar with the A's, of his nickname Smoke, which 280 00:20:19,835 --> 00:20:23,035 Speaker 1: described his fastball and his glare, and his tenure as 281 00:20:23,075 --> 00:20:26,355 Speaker 1: the general manager of the San Diego Padres. I am 282 00:20:26,395 --> 00:20:30,075 Speaker 1: guessing they will not tell the story of the early 283 00:20:30,155 --> 00:20:36,155 Speaker 1: morning of January, a date which will live in infamy, 284 00:20:36,275 --> 00:20:39,715 Speaker 1: when Dave Stewart, then of the Texas Rangers, was arrested 285 00:20:39,755 --> 00:20:43,075 Speaker 1: by police in Los Angeles on suspicion of participating in 286 00:20:43,155 --> 00:20:46,635 Speaker 1: a lewd act in public at the corner of sixth 287 00:20:46,675 --> 00:20:51,995 Speaker 1: and Crocker Streets in his car with somebody named Lucille. 288 00:20:52,515 --> 00:20:59,115 Speaker 1: Except Lucille's real name was Elson Tyler. Two days later 289 00:20:59,475 --> 00:21:03,355 Speaker 1: came the occasion of the annual Baseball Writer's Dinner in Dallas. 290 00:21:03,395 --> 00:21:06,115 Speaker 1: The Good Guy Award for the Texas Rangers for the 291 00:21:06,155 --> 00:21:11,795 Speaker 1: season of ninety four was going to Dave Stewart. To 292 00:21:12,155 --> 00:21:17,195 Speaker 1: his eternal credit, Dave Stewart went to Texas and showed 293 00:21:17,275 --> 00:21:19,715 Speaker 1: up at the awards dinner anyway, and he got a 294 00:21:19,715 --> 00:21:22,715 Speaker 1: standing ovation, and he gave a brief speech of thanks, 295 00:21:22,835 --> 00:21:27,475 Speaker 1: and he left before anybody mentioned Lucille, at least loudly. 296 00:21:28,315 --> 00:21:30,515 Speaker 1: A month later, the way the story has been told 297 00:21:30,515 --> 00:21:33,155 Speaker 1: to me, Stewart was a little late reporting to spring training, 298 00:21:33,155 --> 00:21:36,035 Speaker 1: and callis tennis and practice were already well under way 299 00:21:36,435 --> 00:21:38,715 Speaker 1: when he finally stepped onto the field one morning at 300 00:21:38,755 --> 00:21:42,635 Speaker 1: Pompino Beach, Florida, and his fifty or sixty teammates all 301 00:21:42,715 --> 00:21:45,395 Speaker 1: stopped what they were doing and in unison turned to 302 00:21:45,475 --> 00:21:49,155 Speaker 1: him and sang the nineteen seventy seven Kenny Rogers hit, 303 00:21:49,435 --> 00:21:53,115 Speaker 1: you picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille. And 304 00:21:53,195 --> 00:21:58,115 Speaker 1: then on Wednesday, August five, Stewart went to the mound 305 00:21:58,155 --> 00:22:01,115 Speaker 1: as his Rangers faced the White Sox at Kemiskey Park 306 00:22:01,155 --> 00:22:06,835 Speaker 1: in Chicago, and guests. Who was the stadium organist at 307 00:22:06,875 --> 00:22:10,915 Speaker 1: that game and what she played when Dave Stewart took 308 00:22:10,955 --> 00:22:13,515 Speaker 1: them out? Why? It was none other than our own 309 00:22:13,715 --> 00:22:32,035 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. Fanta, do you leave me? Stay along with 310 00:22:32,115 --> 00:22:35,075 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust? Do you know what else? Wikipedia tells us 311 00:22:35,115 --> 00:22:37,195 Speaker 1: that you picked a fine time to leave me. Lucile 312 00:22:37,235 --> 00:22:39,955 Speaker 1: not only picked at number one in the US country charts, 313 00:22:40,115 --> 00:22:42,915 Speaker 1: but also number one in Canada, number one in the UK, 314 00:22:44,475 --> 00:23:02,035 Speaker 1: and number one in Yugoslavia. Still ahead some of my jobs, 315 00:23:02,035 --> 00:23:04,635 Speaker 1: I've gone better than you think. I mean, all told, 316 00:23:04,715 --> 00:23:08,315 Speaker 1: I spent ten years at MSNBC, and I spent twelve 317 00:23:08,395 --> 00:23:12,355 Speaker 1: years all told that ESPN. That ain't bad, But there 318 00:23:12,475 --> 00:23:15,515 Speaker 1: was one job I literally spent twice as long trying 319 00:23:15,555 --> 00:23:19,595 Speaker 1: to get started at as I spent actually working there 320 00:23:19,675 --> 00:23:23,435 Speaker 1: once I got it. Keith all Women Sports Center five, Boston. 321 00:23:23,955 --> 00:23:27,395 Speaker 1: Coming up first, the daily roundup of the miscrants, morons 322 00:23:27,395 --> 00:23:31,035 Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons 323 00:23:31,115 --> 00:23:35,715 Speaker 1: in the world Lebronze. It's hard to feel sorry for 324 00:23:35,755 --> 00:23:38,155 Speaker 1: the Ohio Republican Party, so I guess they are it 325 00:23:38,555 --> 00:23:42,235 Speaker 1: here the endgame all this time, and of course Republicans 326 00:23:42,275 --> 00:23:44,155 Speaker 1: have been too busy to notice anything other than the 327 00:23:44,155 --> 00:23:47,035 Speaker 1: fact that he got them power and money. But Trump's 328 00:23:47,195 --> 00:23:50,155 Speaker 1: endgame all this time has simply been to toss them 329 00:23:50,555 --> 00:23:53,075 Speaker 1: and all the other state Republican parties, and of course 330 00:23:53,075 --> 00:23:56,355 Speaker 1: the National Republican Party tossed them out as soon as 331 00:23:56,395 --> 00:23:59,475 Speaker 1: they were no longer of any use to him. My 332 00:23:59,555 --> 00:24:03,635 Speaker 1: evidence for this news organizations in Ohio and nationwide have 333 00:24:03,715 --> 00:24:07,595 Speaker 1: received an email blastroom Trump's minions announcing he will travel 334 00:24:07,675 --> 00:24:10,675 Speaker 1: to Youngstown, Ohio on the seventeenth, the week from Saturday, 335 00:24:10,715 --> 00:24:15,555 Speaker 1: to campaign for Senate hopeful JD. Vance and quote the 336 00:24:15,835 --> 00:24:23,275 Speaker 1: entire Ohio Trump ticket. That's the way it goes, Like 337 00:24:23,355 --> 00:24:26,755 Speaker 1: any parasite. Trump will use you Republicans until he's consumed 338 00:24:26,755 --> 00:24:29,515 Speaker 1: your insides and turned you into zombies, and then he'll 339 00:24:29,515 --> 00:24:33,155 Speaker 1: shed you. Then again, your Republicans were all zombies anyway, 340 00:24:33,355 --> 00:24:40,635 Speaker 1: the entire Ohio Trump ticket Republicans by Felicia the runner up. 341 00:24:40,675 --> 00:24:44,435 Speaker 1: He's back literally the very inaptly named Proud Boys founder 342 00:24:44,475 --> 00:24:47,515 Speaker 1: Gavin mckinnis, who staged his own arrest during a webcast, 343 00:24:47,595 --> 00:24:51,075 Speaker 1: evidently evidently so he could leave for vacation early in 344 00:24:51,115 --> 00:24:54,515 Speaker 1: the South France, associates claimed he'd been grabbed by the 345 00:24:54,595 --> 00:24:58,475 Speaker 1: FBI and was quote rotting in jail. Now mckinnis has 346 00:24:59,035 --> 00:25:02,155 Speaker 1: fest up in part he posted a photo to Telegram 347 00:25:02,155 --> 00:25:05,035 Speaker 1: from the top of boats somewhere and he resumed his show. 348 00:25:05,515 --> 00:25:08,955 Speaker 1: Some of his fans are now calling him Gavin Smolette 349 00:25:09,155 --> 00:25:12,715 Speaker 1: or simply Jussie. Some have insisted he's quote made a 350 00:25:12,795 --> 00:25:14,995 Speaker 1: mockery of the Proud Boys, as if such a thing 351 00:25:15,035 --> 00:25:18,915 Speaker 1: were possible. But our winner, the new British Prime Minister, 352 00:25:19,075 --> 00:25:22,235 Speaker 1: Liz Angry Tweetie bird Trust and no it's not because 353 00:25:22,235 --> 00:25:24,795 Speaker 1: of policy. It's not because she wasn't elected and she 354 00:25:24,875 --> 00:25:27,835 Speaker 1: still running the country. No, it's because of Twitter. The 355 00:25:27,875 --> 00:25:30,555 Speaker 1: tweets have been coming at her fast and furious, at 356 00:25:30,595 --> 00:25:37,875 Speaker 1: compliments and insults alike, all too at Liz Trusts problem. 357 00:25:37,955 --> 00:25:41,395 Speaker 1: She isn't at Liz Trust. The Prime Minister is in 358 00:25:41,475 --> 00:25:46,955 Speaker 1: fact at trust Liz for why for why? Because in 359 00:25:47,035 --> 00:25:50,515 Speaker 1: May two thousand nine, an ordinary civilian British woman claimed 360 00:25:50,515 --> 00:25:54,595 Speaker 1: that handle her name is Liz Trustle and she's at 361 00:25:54,715 --> 00:25:57,995 Speaker 1: Liz Trust. She was pretty much inactive on Twitter from 362 00:25:57,995 --> 00:26:00,795 Speaker 1: March two thou eighteen until like Monday, when she started 363 00:26:00,835 --> 00:26:04,555 Speaker 1: to respond to the insults, warnings, trolling and whatnot. Sweet 364 00:26:04,915 --> 00:26:08,835 Speaker 1: Prime Minister sent congratulations, so Liz Trussell replied asking for 365 00:26:08,875 --> 00:26:12,315 Speaker 1: Swedish meatballs. The former head of the UK Greens got 366 00:26:12,315 --> 00:26:15,235 Speaker 1: it wrong. Some voter wrote to complain that Liz Trust 367 00:26:15,315 --> 00:26:19,115 Speaker 1: demonstrates total absence of class by blanking, as in shunning 368 00:26:19,675 --> 00:26:22,755 Speaker 1: the runner up in the race when her win is announced, 369 00:26:22,755 --> 00:26:25,195 Speaker 1: to which Liz Trussell replied she was sorry, but at 370 00:26:25,195 --> 00:26:27,995 Speaker 1: the time she was at Nando's, which is a famous 371 00:26:28,075 --> 00:26:32,075 Speaker 1: chicken restaurant in London. As you may know at Hillary 372 00:26:32,115 --> 00:26:34,675 Speaker 1: on Twitter is not Hillary Clinton. It's just an ordinary 373 00:26:34,675 --> 00:26:39,795 Speaker 1: San Franciscan named Hillary Hartley. You should see her incoming tweets. 374 00:26:39,795 --> 00:26:42,675 Speaker 1: But why hasn't a British politician who is now Prime Minister, 375 00:26:42,795 --> 00:26:47,515 Speaker 1: like Liz Trust bought the handle at Liz Trust from 376 00:26:47,515 --> 00:26:49,675 Speaker 1: this Liz trustle. I mean, how much could it cost? 377 00:26:50,755 --> 00:26:54,075 Speaker 1: Plus there is a nightmare scenario which I have not 378 00:26:54,155 --> 00:26:59,595 Speaker 1: seen addressed elsewhere. There is in South Carolina in the 379 00:26:59,755 --> 00:27:04,515 Speaker 1: US of a working away diligently in real estate on 380 00:27:04,715 --> 00:27:10,795 Speaker 1: another Liz trustle British Prime Minister Liz pay the two 381 00:27:10,835 --> 00:27:29,475 Speaker 1: dollars trusts two days worst person in the world to 382 00:27:29,635 --> 00:27:32,155 Speaker 1: the number one story on the Countdown and my favorite topic, 383 00:27:32,275 --> 00:27:36,435 Speaker 1: me and things I promised not to tell. Thirty eight 384 00:27:36,515 --> 00:27:39,555 Speaker 1: years ago this week I turned in my resignation at 385 00:27:39,635 --> 00:27:42,355 Speaker 1: Channel five in Boston. I stayed there almost two months 386 00:27:42,355 --> 00:27:44,955 Speaker 1: more at their request, but it still meant I had 387 00:27:45,075 --> 00:27:49,675 Speaker 1: tried to get a job the one there for twice 388 00:27:49,715 --> 00:27:53,475 Speaker 1: as long as I actually worked there. At Boston Red 389 00:27:53,475 --> 00:27:57,155 Speaker 1: Sox spring training, in fellow named Bob Clark introduced himself 390 00:27:57,195 --> 00:28:00,035 Speaker 1: as the sports producer at this Boston station and said 391 00:28:00,075 --> 00:28:02,195 Speaker 1: they were all fans of my CNN work, and that 392 00:28:02,275 --> 00:28:05,475 Speaker 1: there would be a job opening that summer sports anchor, 393 00:28:05,595 --> 00:28:07,355 Speaker 1: and could he go to his bosses and say I 394 00:28:07,395 --> 00:28:09,115 Speaker 1: was interested in And And I said sure, And in fact, 395 00:28:09,115 --> 00:28:11,075 Speaker 1: if he wanted me to go with him to tell 396 00:28:11,115 --> 00:28:13,035 Speaker 1: his bosses that, or if he needed me to carry 397 00:28:13,075 --> 00:28:14,915 Speaker 1: him to go, tell his bosses that, I was ready. 398 00:28:16,395 --> 00:28:20,555 Speaker 1: Things advanced so quickly that by Monday, July three, I 399 00:28:20,555 --> 00:28:23,795 Speaker 1: found myself flying up from New York with my agent, 400 00:28:23,955 --> 00:28:26,155 Speaker 1: and as Boston appeared out the window of the plane, 401 00:28:26,235 --> 00:28:30,515 Speaker 1: she said, you will own this town. Not so much 402 00:28:31,435 --> 00:28:34,635 Speaker 1: maybe later. I went out to the station's headquarters in 403 00:28:34,635 --> 00:28:39,315 Speaker 1: a barren suburb called Needham, and interviewed with everybody, sports producers, 404 00:28:39,315 --> 00:28:42,755 Speaker 1: the news director, finally the general manager. Everybody beamed at 405 00:28:42,795 --> 00:28:46,475 Speaker 1: me and all was going great, having laughed at several 406 00:28:46,515 --> 00:28:48,875 Speaker 1: of my jokes and told me he loved my tape. 407 00:28:48,875 --> 00:28:51,395 Speaker 1: The general manager a man named Coppery Smith. It was 408 00:28:51,435 --> 00:28:53,555 Speaker 1: about to usher me out of his office with a 409 00:28:53,555 --> 00:28:57,155 Speaker 1: big hand on my shoulder when I made a terrible, 410 00:28:57,275 --> 00:29:01,955 Speaker 1: terrible mistake. I told him we had met before, when 411 00:29:01,995 --> 00:29:04,315 Speaker 1: I was a TV intern and he was the general 412 00:29:04,355 --> 00:29:07,715 Speaker 1: man a year of his parent company's station in New York. 413 00:29:08,315 --> 00:29:10,635 Speaker 1: I remember him looking at me quizzically, and only later 414 00:29:10,675 --> 00:29:12,995 Speaker 1: did I find out that all of his people had 415 00:29:13,075 --> 00:29:16,075 Speaker 1: lied to him without telling me, and they had told 416 00:29:16,195 --> 00:29:19,475 Speaker 1: him I was twenty eight years old. They did not 417 00:29:19,555 --> 00:29:23,275 Speaker 1: tell me that since I was twenty four years old. 418 00:29:24,235 --> 00:29:27,275 Speaker 1: Copper Smith's last year at Channel five in New York 419 00:29:27,955 --> 00:29:30,635 Speaker 1: had been nineteen seventy eight, and even giving me the 420 00:29:30,675 --> 00:29:32,715 Speaker 1: benefit of the aged doubt, he decided I was no 421 00:29:32,835 --> 00:29:37,395 Speaker 1: longer anything older than twenty six and ultimately he thought 422 00:29:37,435 --> 00:29:39,235 Speaker 1: that was too young to be a sports anchor in 423 00:29:39,235 --> 00:29:42,075 Speaker 1: a major television market, back when those used to be 424 00:29:42,115 --> 00:29:46,875 Speaker 1: important jobs. That paid important money. They're sportscasters. Since the 425 00:29:46,915 --> 00:29:49,035 Speaker 1: station had gone on the air in the nineteen fifties, 426 00:29:49,035 --> 00:29:52,315 Speaker 1: had been an avuncular, pleasant, gifted man named Don Gillis, 427 00:29:52,355 --> 00:29:55,235 Speaker 1: but he was cutting back where they had decided to 428 00:29:55,235 --> 00:29:59,075 Speaker 1: cut him back to special feature duty. The next day, 429 00:29:59,075 --> 00:30:00,835 Speaker 1: back in New York City, I went out to find 430 00:30:00,875 --> 00:30:04,595 Speaker 1: out if the Boston newspapers had found anything out about 431 00:30:04,715 --> 00:30:07,915 Speaker 1: my surreptitious trip there. I went to a place so 432 00:30:08,035 --> 00:30:11,675 Speaker 1: wonderful and now so impossible to explain to anybody, the 433 00:30:11,795 --> 00:30:15,075 Speaker 1: out of town newspaper and magazine shop in the lobby 434 00:30:15,155 --> 00:30:18,795 Speaker 1: of the pan And Building, adjacent to the Grand Central 435 00:30:18,835 --> 00:30:22,155 Speaker 1: train station. This was one of the smaller of the 436 00:30:22,195 --> 00:30:24,755 Speaker 1: out of town news stands in New York. It carried 437 00:30:24,795 --> 00:30:28,915 Speaker 1: about two hundred different American newspapers, dozens more from around 438 00:30:28,915 --> 00:30:34,235 Speaker 1: the world, and every imaginable international magazine was always packed. 439 00:30:34,755 --> 00:30:39,635 Speaker 1: Its entire glory has been wiped out by the Internet anyway. 440 00:30:39,675 --> 00:30:42,395 Speaker 1: I bought the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald from 441 00:30:42,435 --> 00:30:45,035 Speaker 1: the same day, and there it was, on page thirty 442 00:30:45,035 --> 00:30:47,395 Speaker 1: two of the Globe, a headline over a feature by 443 00:30:47,395 --> 00:30:52,795 Speaker 1: the TV sports columnist Jack Craig. Gillis departing soon on Horizon. 444 00:30:53,155 --> 00:30:59,235 Speaker 1: Overman's credentials good Young Keith Overman of Cable News Network 445 00:30:59,355 --> 00:31:02,675 Speaker 1: CNN reportedly was very favorably interviewed at Channel five yesterday, 446 00:31:02,835 --> 00:31:05,475 Speaker 1: possibly signaling the end of the Don Gillis era more 447 00:31:05,555 --> 00:31:11,195 Speaker 1: quickly than anticipated. I was young then, but look, credentials good, 448 00:31:11,275 --> 00:31:14,995 Speaker 1: it said in the headline. This was it the start 449 00:31:15,035 --> 00:31:18,115 Speaker 1: of my TV career for real. No more having to 450 00:31:18,195 --> 00:31:24,075 Speaker 1: explain to doubting athletes, doubting colleagues, doubting relatives, doubting team 451 00:31:24,115 --> 00:31:27,795 Speaker 1: executives that there really was a TV place called Cable 452 00:31:27,875 --> 00:31:31,835 Speaker 1: News Network parenthesis CNN, big money in big fame, and 453 00:31:31,915 --> 00:31:34,395 Speaker 1: one of the best sports cities in the nation. As 454 00:31:34,435 --> 00:31:37,555 Speaker 1: even the Globes article noted, there is a hitch. Alberman's 455 00:31:37,595 --> 00:31:39,955 Speaker 1: contract with CNN does not expire until next May, and 456 00:31:39,955 --> 00:31:42,675 Speaker 1: whether he would be let out for Channel five is uncertain. Well, 457 00:31:42,755 --> 00:31:46,555 Speaker 1: sure it was, but CNN would be nice guys about it, right. 458 00:31:46,915 --> 00:31:51,115 Speaker 1: This was real TV, not some perpetual verge of bankruptcy 459 00:31:51,235 --> 00:31:54,115 Speaker 1: cable thing. It was really just a big delusion by 460 00:31:54,155 --> 00:31:57,355 Speaker 1: Ted Turner. And they needed eight cameras in New York, 461 00:31:57,355 --> 00:31:59,675 Speaker 1: but they could only afford seven, so after being used 462 00:31:59,675 --> 00:32:02,515 Speaker 1: in the field for ten hours, one cameraman would have 463 00:32:02,595 --> 00:32:05,675 Speaker 1: to lash his camera to a tripod for the wide 464 00:32:05,675 --> 00:32:09,395 Speaker 1: shot shot for the nightly Sandy Freeman audio talk show. 465 00:32:10,435 --> 00:32:13,515 Speaker 1: Even after the inevitable occurred one night and the overwork 466 00:32:13,595 --> 00:32:18,115 Speaker 1: camera burst into flames on live TV, CNN would understand 467 00:32:22,835 --> 00:32:25,035 Speaker 1: by the way Sandy Freeman was replaced about a year 468 00:32:25,115 --> 00:32:29,315 Speaker 1: later by Larry King. That's how long ago this actually was. Anyway, 469 00:32:29,595 --> 00:32:33,995 Speaker 1: CNN's less than happy reaction to this was academic. I 470 00:32:34,075 --> 00:32:37,075 Speaker 1: had unwittingly blown it when I revealed to that guy 471 00:32:37,115 --> 00:32:39,395 Speaker 1: copper Smith that I was not twenty eight years old. 472 00:32:39,755 --> 00:32:43,435 Speaker 1: Sure enough. On August, w c b B Channel five 473 00:32:43,515 --> 00:32:46,875 Speaker 1: Boston announced the hiring of a Miami sportscaster named Lee 474 00:32:46,955 --> 00:32:50,635 Speaker 1: Webb to succeed Don Gillis. Webb was a lot of things, 475 00:32:51,035 --> 00:32:53,635 Speaker 1: and he wasn't a lot of other things, but hot damn. 476 00:32:53,635 --> 00:32:55,595 Speaker 1: He was thirty years old, and that made him the 477 00:32:55,715 --> 00:32:58,235 Speaker 1: man in the eyes of the general manager, Mr. Copper Smith. 478 00:32:59,635 --> 00:33:01,835 Speaker 1: On the other hand, copper Smith thought his station should 479 00:33:01,875 --> 00:33:05,475 Speaker 1: still hire me as a reporter. The news director, a 480 00:33:05,475 --> 00:33:07,875 Speaker 1: man who went by the imposing name of Philip Scribner 481 00:33:07,915 --> 00:33:11,515 Speaker 1: Balboni offered me a spot as a feature news reporter 482 00:33:11,595 --> 00:33:14,835 Speaker 1: a producer, and I would look for offbeat, unusual, unique 483 00:33:14,915 --> 00:33:17,715 Speaker 1: stories and go cover them. It was not the sports 484 00:33:17,755 --> 00:33:21,235 Speaker 1: anchor's job, but it wasn't CNN either. L U CBB 485 00:33:21,395 --> 00:33:25,115 Speaker 1: would also wait until CNN finally accepted that it was 486 00:33:25,195 --> 00:33:28,395 Speaker 1: over between the two of us. Whenever that was then, 487 00:33:28,675 --> 00:33:32,275 Speaker 1: three more things happened in quick succession. Channel five hired 488 00:33:32,315 --> 00:33:34,475 Speaker 1: a new sports director, a producer who would run the 489 00:33:34,555 --> 00:33:38,515 Speaker 1: department and set its editorial tone. His name was Mike Fernandez, 490 00:33:38,995 --> 00:33:40,955 Speaker 1: and even after working with him for six months, the 491 00:33:41,035 --> 00:33:42,715 Speaker 1: only thing I knew about him was that he had 492 00:33:42,755 --> 00:33:46,595 Speaker 1: no sense of humor. He understood that I was making jokes, 493 00:33:46,635 --> 00:33:48,955 Speaker 1: but he never got one of them. And his principal 494 00:33:49,075 --> 00:33:52,555 Speaker 1: interest in sports was apparently determining which players were don 495 00:33:52,715 --> 00:33:55,755 Speaker 1: Jans so he could refer to them endlessly in the 496 00:33:55,835 --> 00:34:00,995 Speaker 1: office as quote swordsman. The second thing that happened was 497 00:34:01,075 --> 00:34:03,955 Speaker 1: that the sports reporter at Channel five, Bob Ryan, already 498 00:34:04,035 --> 00:34:06,275 Speaker 1: very famous at the Buston Globe later even more so 499 00:34:06,555 --> 00:34:09,515 Speaker 1: nationally at ESPN, told management he just could not do 500 00:34:09,675 --> 00:34:12,315 Speaker 1: both the TV and newspaper jobs anymore and he needed 501 00:34:12,355 --> 00:34:16,515 Speaker 1: to quit mind you, this was how important sports was 502 00:34:16,635 --> 00:34:19,315 Speaker 1: on local TV in Boston. In three they had an 503 00:34:19,355 --> 00:34:23,035 Speaker 1: on air sportscast. You're a weekend sportscast. You're a sportscaster emeritus, 504 00:34:23,435 --> 00:34:27,315 Speaker 1: and an on air sports reporter, plus all the producers 505 00:34:27,675 --> 00:34:31,035 Speaker 1: and the off air sports director. Often the sportscast in 506 00:34:31,115 --> 00:34:33,555 Speaker 1: the hour long six o'clock news, and there was only 507 00:34:33,595 --> 00:34:36,995 Speaker 1: the one hour of news. The sportscast lasted ten minutes. 508 00:34:37,915 --> 00:34:40,795 Speaker 1: So now, having already offered me the feature news reporting job, 509 00:34:40,875 --> 00:34:44,355 Speaker 1: news director Philip Scribner Balboni offered me my choice of 510 00:34:44,475 --> 00:34:48,395 Speaker 1: that job or Bob Ryan's sports reporting job. And while 511 00:34:48,435 --> 00:34:52,195 Speaker 1: I was debating that, I managed to resist all efforts 512 00:34:52,275 --> 00:34:55,515 Speaker 1: to turn me into a newsman for fifteen years. While 513 00:34:55,555 --> 00:34:59,995 Speaker 1: I was debating that, another Boston station suddenly jumped into 514 00:35:00,035 --> 00:35:03,595 Speaker 1: the fray. Channel seven was a perennial also ran compared 515 00:35:03,635 --> 00:35:05,715 Speaker 1: to Channel five, whose news casts were among the best, 516 00:35:05,795 --> 00:35:08,235 Speaker 1: if not the best, in the country. Without as much 517 00:35:08,275 --> 00:35:11,675 Speaker 1: as asking me to even come visit, Channel seven offered 518 00:35:11,715 --> 00:35:15,155 Speaker 1: me the job as its sports director, anchored the sports 519 00:35:15,235 --> 00:35:17,835 Speaker 1: at six and eleven, run the department, and get much 520 00:35:17,875 --> 00:35:21,315 Speaker 1: more money than Channel five. It offered me, and I 521 00:35:21,475 --> 00:35:25,515 Speaker 1: turned it down out of loyalty to Channel five because 522 00:35:25,595 --> 00:35:32,115 Speaker 1: they asked first. I turned it down. Mon Channel five 523 00:35:32,235 --> 00:35:35,915 Speaker 1: was out in the as I said, Barren Suburbs. Channel 524 00:35:35,955 --> 00:35:39,355 Speaker 1: seven was in downtown Boston. I would be making like 525 00:35:39,475 --> 00:35:43,755 Speaker 1: a hundred thousand a year at age five, with no responsibilities, 526 00:35:43,835 --> 00:35:51,115 Speaker 1: living and working in downtown Boston in four moron. So anyway, 527 00:35:51,155 --> 00:35:53,875 Speaker 1: I get to Boston at the end of April four 528 00:35:54,075 --> 00:35:57,115 Speaker 1: at Channel five, and on my first day out in 529 00:35:57,155 --> 00:36:00,035 Speaker 1: the Barren suburbs, I walk up a circular staircase to 530 00:36:00,155 --> 00:36:02,995 Speaker 1: the sports department office and I hit my head on 531 00:36:03,155 --> 00:36:05,435 Speaker 1: the staircase and bled so my They all thought I 532 00:36:05,475 --> 00:36:08,275 Speaker 1: was going to need stitches. And I went back to 533 00:36:08,355 --> 00:36:10,835 Speaker 1: the half a house I had moved to, one of 534 00:36:10,955 --> 00:36:14,955 Speaker 1: exactly two rental properties in the entire town of Nida, Massachusetts, 535 00:36:15,435 --> 00:36:18,755 Speaker 1: and I thought, what the hell have I done? No 536 00:36:19,275 --> 00:36:22,395 Speaker 1: things improved. I was not just in the field. I 537 00:36:22,475 --> 00:36:25,075 Speaker 1: did a lot of substitute anchoring, especially on weekends, and 538 00:36:25,155 --> 00:36:28,275 Speaker 1: the first time I did that, Susan Warnick, one of 539 00:36:28,315 --> 00:36:31,395 Speaker 1: our reporters and the wife of the big sportscaster in town, 540 00:36:31,475 --> 00:36:34,595 Speaker 1: Bob Lobell from Channel four. Susan came up to me 541 00:36:34,835 --> 00:36:37,035 Speaker 1: in the office on Monday and gave me a big 542 00:36:37,155 --> 00:36:39,835 Speaker 1: wet kiss on the lips and said, you were terrific. 543 00:36:40,115 --> 00:36:44,955 Speaker 1: Lobel is scared, Crapless, I love you. The first time 544 00:36:45,035 --> 00:36:47,955 Speaker 1: I did a live shot before Celtics game at Boston Garden, 545 00:36:47,995 --> 00:36:50,875 Speaker 1: I wandered around the arena without being recognized. Once two 546 00:36:50,955 --> 00:36:53,315 Speaker 1: weeks later, I went back to the Garden and I 547 00:36:53,355 --> 00:36:55,835 Speaker 1: went to get a hot dog and turned to find 548 00:36:55,875 --> 00:36:58,635 Speaker 1: a crowd of several dozen viewers, all shouting at me 549 00:36:58,755 --> 00:37:04,515 Speaker 1: in the singular language of the Boston sports fan. On Monday, Balboni, 550 00:37:04,595 --> 00:37:06,275 Speaker 1: the news director, called me in and said he wanted 551 00:37:06,315 --> 00:37:09,875 Speaker 1: me to start anchoring every night on the eleven o'clock news. 552 00:37:10,115 --> 00:37:12,515 Speaker 1: Lee Web would continue on the six but the intimation 553 00:37:12,755 --> 00:37:14,955 Speaker 1: was if it went the way he thought it was 554 00:37:15,035 --> 00:37:19,075 Speaker 1: going to, I would get that show too. But the 555 00:37:19,155 --> 00:37:21,635 Speaker 1: problem was, and I don't know if you've noticed this, 556 00:37:22,475 --> 00:37:25,835 Speaker 1: but occasionally I like to make jokes, Okay, I need 557 00:37:25,955 --> 00:37:28,875 Speaker 1: to make jokes. And several of the executives at the 558 00:37:28,915 --> 00:37:32,475 Speaker 1: station were real fans of the Red Sox and Celtics 559 00:37:32,515 --> 00:37:36,795 Speaker 1: and Patriots and Bruins, and they did not like the jokes, 560 00:37:37,835 --> 00:37:42,275 Speaker 1: even if the viewers liked the jokes. They didn't. One day, 561 00:37:42,315 --> 00:37:44,955 Speaker 1: I was supposed to go with a cameraman to shoot 562 00:37:44,955 --> 00:37:47,835 Speaker 1: a piece in which I pretended to interview the Green Monster, 563 00:37:47,955 --> 00:37:50,075 Speaker 1: the famed left field wall at Fenway Park. The punch 564 00:37:50,115 --> 00:37:52,635 Speaker 1: line was it would turn out the Green Monster didn't 565 00:37:52,675 --> 00:37:57,275 Speaker 1: like baseball. Not a bad idea for Just as we're 566 00:37:57,355 --> 00:38:00,755 Speaker 1: leaving the station, the sports director, Fernandy said, change of plans, 567 00:38:01,115 --> 00:38:03,595 Speaker 1: needs you to go to Smithfield. That was where the 568 00:38:03,635 --> 00:38:07,955 Speaker 1: football team held its training camp. Patriots just put their 569 00:38:07,995 --> 00:38:11,915 Speaker 1: backup middle lineback on waivers, go get some sound. He 570 00:38:11,995 --> 00:38:14,795 Speaker 1: didn't need any sound. The executives who didn't like my 571 00:38:14,915 --> 00:38:17,195 Speaker 1: jokes had gotten the executive who didn't get my jokes 572 00:38:17,275 --> 00:38:19,235 Speaker 1: to stop giving me the chance to do my jokes. 573 00:38:19,795 --> 00:38:21,715 Speaker 1: It was an hour and a half to Smithfield. I 574 00:38:21,795 --> 00:38:25,195 Speaker 1: was done for the day. I went home for a 575 00:38:25,235 --> 00:38:27,715 Speaker 1: little trip to New York. In early September, met with 576 00:38:27,835 --> 00:38:29,795 Speaker 1: my agent. Told her that after all the time and 577 00:38:29,835 --> 00:38:31,715 Speaker 1: all the energy we had spent to get that job, 578 00:38:31,835 --> 00:38:34,155 Speaker 1: this was the most impossible to imagine an outcome. But 579 00:38:34,235 --> 00:38:37,195 Speaker 1: it was the wrong station, in the wrong suburb, in 580 00:38:37,275 --> 00:38:40,395 Speaker 1: the right town, and I didn't know how we could 581 00:38:40,515 --> 00:38:44,235 Speaker 1: ever fix it. She agreed. She said I should go 582 00:38:44,315 --> 00:38:45,875 Speaker 1: in and tell the news director I wanted to quit, 583 00:38:45,915 --> 00:38:47,395 Speaker 1: and that I'd stay as long as he needed me, 584 00:38:47,875 --> 00:38:49,275 Speaker 1: but that if they weren't going to let me do 585 00:38:49,435 --> 00:38:52,835 Speaker 1: the jokes, what was the point. I was an okay reporter, 586 00:38:52,995 --> 00:38:55,715 Speaker 1: I was an okay sportscaster. But only with the jokes 587 00:38:55,875 --> 00:39:01,035 Speaker 1: was I me? So September Monday, the news director was 588 00:39:01,115 --> 00:39:04,115 Speaker 1: not happy. He offered, in fact, to fire Lee Webb 589 00:39:04,235 --> 00:39:07,115 Speaker 1: on the and give me the six o'clock show immediately, 590 00:39:07,395 --> 00:39:09,515 Speaker 1: like that night, like lead Lee Webb out of the 591 00:39:09,555 --> 00:39:12,315 Speaker 1: building that minute. But I told him that would mean 592 00:39:12,355 --> 00:39:14,995 Speaker 1: he would be keeping somebody who wanted to leave and 593 00:39:15,155 --> 00:39:19,075 Speaker 1: firing somebody who wanted to stay. He angrily agreed, and 594 00:39:19,155 --> 00:39:21,355 Speaker 1: I became a secret lame duck, and I stayed on 595 00:39:21,555 --> 00:39:23,955 Speaker 1: getting fewer and fewer chances to be me, although they 596 00:39:23,995 --> 00:39:25,955 Speaker 1: stuck to their end of it. They sent me to 597 00:39:25,995 --> 00:39:29,195 Speaker 1: cover the World Series in San Diego and Detroit, where 598 00:39:29,235 --> 00:39:31,435 Speaker 1: the guy next to me in the press box covering 599 00:39:31,475 --> 00:39:33,555 Speaker 1: it for Channel seven. The place I should have gone 600 00:39:33,595 --> 00:39:36,875 Speaker 1: to work was their new sports reporter, a just retired 601 00:39:36,915 --> 00:39:40,835 Speaker 1: Red Sox Hall of Fame player named Carlia Stremsky. I 602 00:39:40,915 --> 00:39:43,115 Speaker 1: hit a ball over here, I hit a ball over there. 603 00:39:43,355 --> 00:39:46,235 Speaker 1: I hit three balls over that roof. Then, when I 604 00:39:46,315 --> 00:39:49,875 Speaker 1: got back from the World Series, it happened on Friday 605 00:39:49,955 --> 00:39:54,955 Speaker 1: October that TV sports columnist from the Boston Globe, Jack Craig, 606 00:39:55,755 --> 00:39:58,075 Speaker 1: called me up at home and told me Channel five 607 00:39:58,275 --> 00:40:01,515 Speaker 1: was firing me because of bad ratings at eleven o'clock. 608 00:40:02,675 --> 00:40:04,675 Speaker 1: I didn't have bad ratings at eleven o'clock. In fact, 609 00:40:04,715 --> 00:40:07,555 Speaker 1: they had great ratings, and six weeks earlier they'd offered 610 00:40:07,595 --> 00:40:09,995 Speaker 1: me the six o'clock show as well. I hung up 611 00:40:10,035 --> 00:40:12,115 Speaker 1: with Craig to call my agent, and instead of a 612 00:40:12,195 --> 00:40:14,155 Speaker 1: dial tone, I heard the voice of the TV sports 613 00:40:14,195 --> 00:40:17,675 Speaker 1: columnists from the Boston Herald, Jim Baker. I had answered 614 00:40:17,755 --> 00:40:20,635 Speaker 1: his call fort rang. He told me Channel five was 615 00:40:20,715 --> 00:40:24,035 Speaker 1: firing me and Lee Web so it could instead hire 616 00:40:24,195 --> 00:40:27,955 Speaker 1: Ken the Hawk Harrelson, the former Red Sox star and 617 00:40:28,035 --> 00:40:32,355 Speaker 1: TV announcer who had moved to Chicago. So now I 618 00:40:32,435 --> 00:40:34,635 Speaker 1: call my agent. She says, You're deal with Channel five 619 00:40:34,795 --> 00:40:37,715 Speaker 1: is off. They want to make it look like you stink. 620 00:40:37,955 --> 00:40:39,835 Speaker 1: They want to make it look like they just fired you. 621 00:40:39,955 --> 00:40:42,075 Speaker 1: You called Jim Baker and Jack Craig right now and 622 00:40:42,115 --> 00:40:44,235 Speaker 1: tell them the whole story. Wherever you go next, it 623 00:40:44,315 --> 00:40:46,275 Speaker 1: has to be clear that you weren't fired, you quit, 624 00:40:46,635 --> 00:40:50,635 Speaker 1: and you stayed on because you're a pro, which you 625 00:40:50,715 --> 00:40:55,235 Speaker 1: know was true. So I called. I told both writers everything, 626 00:40:55,315 --> 00:40:57,075 Speaker 1: and two minutes after I got off the phone with 627 00:40:57,195 --> 00:40:59,595 Speaker 1: Jack Craig from The Globe, the phone rang and it 628 00:40:59,715 --> 00:41:02,195 Speaker 1: was Jim Baker from The Harold calling back, and he says, 629 00:41:02,235 --> 00:41:06,355 Speaker 1: you'll never believe this. Their negotiations with Hawk Harrelson are dead. 630 00:41:06,955 --> 00:41:11,555 Speaker 1: Apparently he wanted four hundred thousand dollars a year and 631 00:41:11,675 --> 00:41:14,075 Speaker 1: to guarantee that he only had to come in five 632 00:41:14,155 --> 00:41:16,915 Speaker 1: minutes before each show to get makeup and then read 633 00:41:16,995 --> 00:41:20,795 Speaker 1: the script that somebody else wrote. So you are now 634 00:41:20,995 --> 00:41:25,795 Speaker 1: our lead story. Sure enough. Fact page of the Boston Herald, Saturday, 635 00:41:25,835 --> 00:41:32,675 Speaker 1: October above the masthead overman quits Channel five at the 636 00:41:32,795 --> 00:41:35,835 Speaker 1: same hour, I was supposed to go to Morgantown, West Virginia, 637 00:41:37,395 --> 00:41:40,635 Speaker 1: the place that was designed simply to make that lovely 638 00:41:40,715 --> 00:41:44,875 Speaker 1: town of Niham, Massachusetts, look like I don't know, the riviera. 639 00:41:45,275 --> 00:41:47,195 Speaker 1: I was supposed to go to Morgantown to cover Doug 640 00:41:47,235 --> 00:41:49,995 Speaker 1: Flutie and Boston College against the University of West Virginia. 641 00:41:50,355 --> 00:41:54,235 Speaker 1: Since I lived between the television station and the airport, 642 00:41:54,315 --> 00:41:56,315 Speaker 1: the cameraman was going to swing by my house to 643 00:41:56,355 --> 00:41:59,595 Speaker 1: pick me up. Do it like seven am. He never showed. 644 00:42:00,195 --> 00:42:03,155 Speaker 1: By this point, I'm thinking I just had to call 645 00:42:03,275 --> 00:42:06,635 Speaker 1: my lying bosses, Lie ares in both Boston newspapers that 646 00:42:06,715 --> 00:42:08,555 Speaker 1: are on every new stand in the city and the 647 00:42:08,675 --> 00:42:11,595 Speaker 1: surrounding area. Why am I going to race the clock 648 00:42:12,235 --> 00:42:14,635 Speaker 1: to get to the airport on my own when this 649 00:42:14,995 --> 00:42:18,555 Speaker 1: idiot cameraman forgot to come get me. When we had 650 00:42:18,635 --> 00:42:20,915 Speaker 1: made the arrangements the day before, the cameraman had gotten 651 00:42:20,955 --> 00:42:24,315 Speaker 1: my name wrong and called me Dick. At least that's 652 00:42:24,355 --> 00:42:28,715 Speaker 1: why I thought he'd called me dick. Anyway, I was 653 00:42:28,795 --> 00:42:31,315 Speaker 1: twenty five. I went back to bed, and while I 654 00:42:31,395 --> 00:42:33,635 Speaker 1: was asleep, Channel five fired me from a job that 655 00:42:33,715 --> 00:42:35,835 Speaker 1: I had not only quit, but I had quit twice, 656 00:42:35,995 --> 00:42:38,715 Speaker 1: including on the front page of the newspapers that morning. 657 00:42:39,355 --> 00:42:42,035 Speaker 1: The Channel five people were furious. I put up a 658 00:42:42,075 --> 00:42:44,115 Speaker 1: brave front, but beneath the surface, I was a little 659 00:42:44,155 --> 00:42:48,235 Speaker 1: scared until two more things happened before I could move 660 00:42:48,275 --> 00:42:51,195 Speaker 1: back to New York. The news director Phil Balboni told 661 00:42:51,275 --> 00:42:53,515 Speaker 1: Craig of the Globe that it was all too bad 662 00:42:53,595 --> 00:42:58,675 Speaker 1: because quote Keith was potentially such a major talent. Oh 663 00:43:00,475 --> 00:43:03,195 Speaker 1: and then the general manager, Copper Smith, was so angry 664 00:43:03,435 --> 00:43:06,755 Speaker 1: that he told my agent he will never again work 665 00:43:06,915 --> 00:43:11,155 Speaker 1: in this business. I am not a big believer in 666 00:43:11,315 --> 00:43:16,955 Speaker 1: motivational quotes, but those two those really worked. Number one 667 00:43:17,115 --> 00:43:20,555 Speaker 1: and two on my all time list. And as always, 668 00:43:21,235 --> 00:43:24,715 Speaker 1: beyond that, there's a punchline. In two thousand seven, an 669 00:43:24,795 --> 00:43:28,795 Speaker 1: email popped into my inbox at MSNBC. It was glowing 670 00:43:29,115 --> 00:43:32,715 Speaker 1: and warm and lovely, and it indicated the writer was 671 00:43:32,755 --> 00:43:36,195 Speaker 1: a huge fan. It was signed your old Channel five 672 00:43:36,315 --> 00:43:41,355 Speaker 1: news director Phil Balboni. His email did not mention that 673 00:43:41,475 --> 00:43:55,235 Speaker 1: I was potentially such a major talent. I've done all 674 00:43:55,235 --> 00:43:57,595 Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. If you're listening to 675 00:43:57,715 --> 00:44:00,235 Speaker 1: me a favor, give this a good reviewer rating, or 676 00:44:00,235 --> 00:44:03,075 Speaker 1: whatever the kids do today. If you're not listening, I 677 00:44:03,115 --> 00:44:06,115 Speaker 1: don't know what to tell you. Countdown theme for Beethoven's 678 00:44:06,155 --> 00:44:10,235 Speaker 1: Ninth arranged, produced and performed by Countdown Musical directors Brian 679 00:44:10,315 --> 00:44:12,955 Speaker 1: Ray and John Philip Chanelle. All the orchestration and the 680 00:44:13,035 --> 00:44:16,235 Speaker 1: keyboards by John Philip Chanelle. The guitars bass and drums 681 00:44:16,275 --> 00:44:19,995 Speaker 1: by Brian Ray, produced by t k O Brothers. The 682 00:44:20,075 --> 00:44:22,635 Speaker 1: other Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by No 683 00:44:22,795 --> 00:44:26,555 Speaker 1: horns allowed. Our sports music the Olberman theme written by 684 00:44:26,635 --> 00:44:30,595 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Musical comments by 685 00:44:30,915 --> 00:44:34,675 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer 686 00:44:34,755 --> 00:44:37,915 Speaker 1: today was my dear friend John Deane. That's countdown for 687 00:44:37,955 --> 00:44:41,115 Speaker 1: this the six ninth day since Donald Trump's first attempted 688 00:44:41,195 --> 00:44:43,955 Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 689 00:44:44,635 --> 00:44:48,715 Speaker 1: Arrest him today. A new episode tomorrow. Till then, I'm 690 00:44:48,795 --> 00:44:52,115 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. 691 00:45:04,795 --> 00:45:08,355 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Alderman is a production of I heart Radio. 692 00:45:08,635 --> 00:45:11,515 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from I heart Radio, visit the i 693 00:45:11,675 --> 00:45:15,995 Speaker 1: heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.