1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,075 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 2 00:00:22,115 --> 00:00:25,635 Speaker 1: eight years now, little from Trump and his minions has 3 00:00:25,755 --> 00:00:32,355 Speaker 1: surprised me. Almost nothing surprises me anymore. This, this admission 4 00:00:32,635 --> 00:00:37,475 Speaker 1: of guilt from Trump attorney's spokesmodel Christina Bob last night, 5 00:00:38,315 --> 00:00:40,435 Speaker 1: this surprises me. 6 00:00:40,715 --> 00:00:43,195 Speaker 2: President is elected by the entire nation, and it should 7 00:00:43,235 --> 00:00:46,235 Speaker 2: be the entire nation who determines who they want for president, 8 00:00:46,635 --> 00:00:48,795 Speaker 2: whether they're guilty of insurrection or not. It's up to 9 00:00:48,835 --> 00:00:49,275 Speaker 2: the people. 10 00:00:49,675 --> 00:00:53,915 Speaker 1: That is a new one. The admission to be fair, 11 00:00:54,595 --> 00:00:56,915 Speaker 1: though why we are fair I do not know. The 12 00:00:57,195 --> 00:01:00,275 Speaker 1: semi admission that Trump sure as hell might be guilty 13 00:01:00,315 --> 00:01:05,035 Speaker 1: of insurrection. That is a new one. A new Trump events. 14 00:01:05,555 --> 00:01:11,875 Speaker 1: The guilty defense, the Trump is guilty defense, the new 15 00:01:12,035 --> 00:01:15,355 Speaker 1: Trump defense against the prosecutions by Jack Smith, He's guilty, 16 00:01:16,195 --> 00:01:19,115 Speaker 1: the new Trump defense against the prosecution by Fannie willis 17 00:01:19,395 --> 00:01:23,115 Speaker 1: also guilty, the new Trump defense against the fight against 18 00:01:23,155 --> 00:01:29,515 Speaker 1: the fabricated fantasy of presidential immunity. Still guilty, And especially 19 00:01:29,635 --> 00:01:33,235 Speaker 1: the new Trump defense against the fact of the disqualification 20 00:01:33,395 --> 00:01:42,275 Speaker 1: clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Guilty shmilty. There is in 21 00:01:42,315 --> 00:01:46,275 Speaker 1: that span of thirty words nearly that many factual errors. 22 00:01:46,915 --> 00:01:52,195 Speaker 1: There is much more smugness and condescension, and more cynicism, 23 00:01:52,635 --> 00:01:57,195 Speaker 1: and more anti democracy contempt, and more dictatorship in waiting. 24 00:01:58,235 --> 00:02:01,595 Speaker 1: The president is not elected by the entire nation if 25 00:02:01,715 --> 00:02:05,475 Speaker 1: he was, if she was, Hill or Ry Clinton would 26 00:02:05,515 --> 00:02:08,835 Speaker 1: be president for another year and seventeen days and then 27 00:02:08,875 --> 00:02:12,875 Speaker 1: she'd have to leave office. And the entire nation does 28 00:02:12,915 --> 00:02:15,275 Speaker 1: not determine who they want for president, not in terms 29 00:02:15,275 --> 00:02:19,995 Speaker 1: of constitutional eligibility. The entire nation voting unanimously could not 30 00:02:20,075 --> 00:02:23,635 Speaker 1: make Arnold Schwarzenegger president because he wasn't born here. And 31 00:02:23,675 --> 00:02:27,635 Speaker 1: the entire nation voting unanimously could not make Olivia Rodrigo 32 00:02:27,755 --> 00:02:29,955 Speaker 1: president because she was born in two thousand and three. 33 00:02:31,035 --> 00:02:36,315 Speaker 1: But the entire nation could determine, and not even unanimously, 34 00:02:37,395 --> 00:02:41,795 Speaker 1: that it wanted to change presidential eligibility. It could draft 35 00:02:42,315 --> 00:02:46,675 Speaker 1: or have its leaders draft and ratify a constitutional amendment 36 00:02:47,035 --> 00:02:50,435 Speaker 1: to alter presidential eligibility. All right. They did that in 37 00:02:50,475 --> 00:02:53,275 Speaker 1: eighteen sixty eight. It was called the fourteenth Amendment, and 38 00:02:53,315 --> 00:02:57,195 Speaker 1: it barred anybody who engaged in insurrection from holding any 39 00:02:57,315 --> 00:03:00,715 Speaker 1: national or state office, or any role even in the 40 00:03:00,755 --> 00:03:08,035 Speaker 1: electoral college, for all future time. And thanks Trump lawyer, 41 00:03:08,115 --> 00:03:11,955 Speaker 1: Christina Bob for coming out and in the least self 42 00:03:11,995 --> 00:03:14,595 Speaker 1: owning reading of these words admitting Trump may in fact 43 00:03:14,595 --> 00:03:17,635 Speaker 1: be guilty of insurrection, and all the other Trump lawyers 44 00:03:17,835 --> 00:03:20,835 Speaker 1: saying anything else are just doing what Trump lawyers and 45 00:03:20,875 --> 00:03:25,315 Speaker 1: Trump himself always do, lie and manipulate the legal system 46 00:03:25,515 --> 00:03:28,875 Speaker 1: and urinate on the Constitution in order to waste time 47 00:03:29,195 --> 00:03:31,955 Speaker 1: or enable him to get away with criminality or both. 48 00:03:33,515 --> 00:03:38,035 Speaker 1: Plus Christina Bob, who may be a bigger train wreck 49 00:03:38,155 --> 00:03:40,475 Speaker 1: even than Alena Habba, because at least if Trump is 50 00:03:40,515 --> 00:03:43,835 Speaker 1: ever whacked in a parking lot, Alina Habbo will be 51 00:03:43,835 --> 00:03:46,955 Speaker 1: able to apply her parking lot legal expertise to the 52 00:03:47,035 --> 00:03:50,955 Speaker 1: crisis of the moment. She said this on the Real 53 00:03:51,155 --> 00:03:57,235 Speaker 1: America's Voice streaming channel, as opposed to The America's Real 54 00:03:57,355 --> 00:04:01,475 Speaker 1: Voice streaming Channel or the Voice of Real America streaming channel. 55 00:04:01,955 --> 00:04:05,675 Speaker 1: It is the one thousand, one hun hundred and fifth 56 00:04:06,115 --> 00:04:12,875 Speaker 1: top rated website in America in News in America. So 57 00:04:12,955 --> 00:04:17,595 Speaker 1: nobody saw that organically, nor any caveats that it might 58 00:04:17,595 --> 00:04:20,435 Speaker 1: have dawned on her. She should probably drop in before 59 00:04:20,475 --> 00:04:22,915 Speaker 1: dementia Jay Trump. Here, she went on, and she confirmed 60 00:04:22,995 --> 00:04:27,515 Speaker 1: he might be guilty of insurrection or anything else, they 61 00:04:27,555 --> 00:04:31,915 Speaker 1: will have only seen or heard that clip virally. And 62 00:04:31,995 --> 00:04:38,115 Speaker 1: once again that means this is yet another Joe Biden 63 00:04:38,235 --> 00:04:45,155 Speaker 1: campaign commercial handed to them, pre produced. This doesn't even 64 00:04:45,315 --> 00:04:48,515 Speaker 1: require a lot of editing. I mean, you just slide 65 00:04:48,555 --> 00:04:52,235 Speaker 1: it into that Lyndon Johnson Daisy commercial template I've been using, 66 00:04:52,515 --> 00:04:55,195 Speaker 1: next to Trump admitting he was quoting Hitler, and next 67 00:04:55,195 --> 00:04:57,635 Speaker 1: to Trump boasting he would only be a dictator on 68 00:04:57,715 --> 00:05:19,755 Speaker 1: day one, ses five free These are the stakes. 69 00:05:20,875 --> 00:05:23,515 Speaker 2: It should be the entire nation who determines who they 70 00:05:23,595 --> 00:05:26,395 Speaker 2: want for president, whether they're guilty of insurrection or not. 71 00:05:26,515 --> 00:05:27,355 Speaker 2: It's up to the people. 72 00:05:27,715 --> 00:05:32,835 Speaker 1: We must either love each other are we must die. 73 00:05:33,235 --> 00:05:38,595 Speaker 1: Vote for President Biden on November fifth. The stakes are 74 00:05:38,715 --> 00:05:43,235 Speaker 1: too high for you to stay home. It would not 75 00:05:43,355 --> 00:05:46,715 Speaker 1: surprise me in the least to see that Biden ad 76 00:05:47,395 --> 00:05:50,995 Speaker 1: and soon CNN is reporting that the worm is about 77 00:05:51,035 --> 00:05:54,355 Speaker 1: to turn and quote as some of the younger aides 78 00:05:54,475 --> 00:05:58,155 Speaker 1: on Biden's re election campaign have been grimly joking, it's 79 00:05:58,195 --> 00:06:03,395 Speaker 1: about when to go full Hitler when the leading Republican 80 00:06:03,475 --> 00:06:06,915 Speaker 1: candidates speeches and actions go so far that the Biden 81 00:06:06,995 --> 00:06:10,075 Speaker 1: team goes all the way to a direct comparison to 82 00:06:10,155 --> 00:06:13,315 Speaker 1: the Nazi leader, rather than couching their attacks by saying 83 00:06:13,595 --> 00:06:19,835 Speaker 1: Trump quote parroted unquote him well, for the record, that's 84 00:06:20,915 --> 00:06:24,795 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, when Trump told his chief of staff that 85 00:06:24,915 --> 00:06:26,715 Speaker 1: Hitler did a lot of good things, and when he 86 00:06:26,835 --> 00:06:30,075 Speaker 1: insisted to General Kelly that Hitler's generals were always loyal 87 00:06:30,115 --> 00:06:33,035 Speaker 1: to him, unlike his own generals, and he denied Kelly's 88 00:06:33,035 --> 00:06:36,475 Speaker 1: claim that German generals ever tried to kill Hitler. But 89 00:06:36,595 --> 00:06:40,435 Speaker 1: I get the point in their hesitation. You have this 90 00:06:40,675 --> 00:06:44,475 Speaker 1: moment in the first quarter. CNN quotes an unnamed senior 91 00:06:44,555 --> 00:06:48,795 Speaker 1: Biden campaign strategist as saying, where Trump is continuing to 92 00:06:48,875 --> 00:06:52,195 Speaker 1: go full Maga extremist now in order to shore up 93 00:06:52,235 --> 00:06:55,395 Speaker 1: support in his own base. While he may be successful 94 00:06:55,475 --> 00:06:58,675 Speaker 1: in that effort, if we do our job, we'll point 95 00:06:58,715 --> 00:07:04,635 Speaker 1: out that everything he's saying is extreme and unpopular unquote 96 00:07:06,875 --> 00:07:16,115 Speaker 1: pro tip mention adoll. At the heart of the Biden 97 00:07:16,195 --> 00:07:20,595 Speaker 1: reelection campaign is the same myopia that has afflicted every 98 00:07:20,635 --> 00:07:25,755 Speaker 1: Democratic presidential campaign in my lifetime. The Republicans have been 99 00:07:25,835 --> 00:07:33,115 Speaker 1: running increasingly unhinged, increasingly despotic, increasingly dangerous, fire breathing, carnivorous 100 00:07:33,195 --> 00:07:37,035 Speaker 1: creatures think the martians from the War of the worlds 101 00:07:37,795 --> 00:07:41,115 Speaker 1: only have to add in Romney's comic relief. They have 102 00:07:41,275 --> 00:07:45,915 Speaker 1: been doing this since nineteen sixty four, and Barry Goldwater, 103 00:07:47,715 --> 00:07:51,795 Speaker 1: half of everybody in every Democratic campaign since nineteen sixty 104 00:07:51,835 --> 00:07:55,715 Speaker 1: four has wanted to say, let's run on our record, 105 00:07:55,835 --> 00:07:58,635 Speaker 1: and the other half has been saying, it's a goddamn 106 00:07:58,795 --> 00:08:01,915 Speaker 1: fire breathing creature from the War of the world. Maybe 107 00:08:02,035 --> 00:08:08,795 Speaker 1: we should hit them on that. You will recall that 108 00:08:08,955 --> 00:08:13,915 Speaker 1: the early pre campaign Biden ads last year now were 109 00:08:13,995 --> 00:08:18,195 Speaker 1: all proof of performance. Biden's accomplishments. He did this, he 110 00:08:18,275 --> 00:08:21,475 Speaker 1: did that, the economy is actually great. Anybody remember the pandemic, 111 00:08:21,875 --> 00:08:25,955 Speaker 1: And they made no impact. I noted that if they 112 00:08:26,195 --> 00:08:29,955 Speaker 1: really wanted to go with Biden's accomplishments, you would start 113 00:08:30,035 --> 00:08:33,195 Speaker 1: with the accomplishment for which any statues ever to be 114 00:08:33,315 --> 00:08:36,995 Speaker 1: built in his honor will be four. He kicked Trump's ass, 115 00:08:37,435 --> 00:08:41,715 Speaker 1: and he can kick Trump's ass again. And I mean 116 00:08:41,795 --> 00:08:46,555 Speaker 1: you can run both kinds of ads. In fact, the 117 00:08:46,595 --> 00:08:52,235 Speaker 1: people who still see ads on TV, on cable, on 118 00:08:52,395 --> 00:08:56,235 Speaker 1: streaming services on their phones, they would love you to 119 00:08:56,435 --> 00:08:59,595 Speaker 1: run both kinds of ads. In fact, they would love 120 00:08:59,675 --> 00:09:02,835 Speaker 1: you to run four hundred and forty six different kinds 121 00:09:02,875 --> 00:09:07,555 Speaker 1: of ads, so your ad does not begin to seem 122 00:09:08,195 --> 00:09:13,595 Speaker 1: like repetitive drip drip drip punishment. You know, like you 123 00:09:13,715 --> 00:09:20,315 Speaker 1: are cars for kids. Don't be cars for kids, be Geico. 124 00:09:21,195 --> 00:09:26,475 Speaker 1: How many different genres do they use? The lizard, the 125 00:09:26,595 --> 00:09:31,235 Speaker 1: stupid puns, the Ken Griffy commercials, the other sports ones. 126 00:09:31,315 --> 00:09:35,395 Speaker 1: They even brought back the goddamn cavemen last year. Do 127 00:09:35,995 --> 00:09:42,755 Speaker 1: all the advertisements? Roe v Wade, Handmad's Tale. Gas prices drop, 128 00:09:42,915 --> 00:09:47,195 Speaker 1: Wall Street booms, Inflation flat lines, prescription medicine prices drop, 129 00:09:47,515 --> 00:09:51,035 Speaker 1: joblessness ends. Trump is hitler, Trump is still hitler. Trump 130 00:09:51,035 --> 00:09:53,115 Speaker 1: admits he wants to be a dictator. Trump is an 131 00:09:53,155 --> 00:09:57,075 Speaker 1: insurrection Here's Trump's lawyer saying it doesn't matter if he's 132 00:09:57,115 --> 00:10:04,235 Speaker 1: an insurrectionist and drill down as the kids say, signs 133 00:10:04,275 --> 00:10:09,595 Speaker 1: of grow Trump inroads among Latinos. Do the spot doesn't 134 00:10:09,635 --> 00:10:12,155 Speaker 1: even need to be a thirty, let alone a sixty 135 00:10:12,315 --> 00:10:17,075 Speaker 1: fifteen seconds. Donald Trump plans to deport millions of Latinos, 136 00:10:17,275 --> 00:10:21,235 Speaker 1: legal immigrants and illegal immigrants. This means you vote for 137 00:10:21,355 --> 00:10:24,315 Speaker 1: Joe Biden or Trump will drop by and help you pack. 138 00:10:25,915 --> 00:10:28,555 Speaker 1: I mean, if you are joking out loud to reporters 139 00:10:28,835 --> 00:10:35,515 Speaker 1: about going full Hitler. Spots that accurately warn Latinos and 140 00:10:35,675 --> 00:10:42,435 Speaker 1: Blacks and gays and Palestinians and Jews and women that 141 00:10:42,595 --> 00:10:45,675 Speaker 1: Trump at his group of carnivorous creatures from the War 142 00:10:45,795 --> 00:10:48,635 Speaker 1: of the World's basically planned to kill them and eat them. 143 00:10:49,635 --> 00:10:55,435 Speaker 1: Those spots are actually pretty mild by contrast to going 144 00:10:55,875 --> 00:11:04,075 Speaker 1: full Hitler. Also go full Hitler. And oh, by the way, 145 00:11:04,155 --> 00:11:08,675 Speaker 1: if you don't have the Hitler spots ready now, start 146 00:11:09,435 --> 00:11:14,355 Speaker 1: now like work over this weekend. Because there are two 147 00:11:14,715 --> 00:11:17,635 Speaker 1: non violent images that to me have always pretty much 148 00:11:17,675 --> 00:11:22,675 Speaker 1: epitomized white supremacy and danger and violence from the right 149 00:11:22,875 --> 00:11:25,715 Speaker 1: in this country in the twentieth century. One was the 150 00:11:25,795 --> 00:11:28,475 Speaker 1: nineteen twenty five shot of fifty thousand members of the 151 00:11:28,595 --> 00:11:33,355 Speaker 1: ku Klux Klan, all in full hoods, marching down Pennsylvania Avenue. 152 00:11:34,275 --> 00:11:38,995 Speaker 1: The other was the photo from February twentieth, nineteen thirty nine, 153 00:11:39,035 --> 00:11:42,795 Speaker 1: when the German American bund rallied in New York City 154 00:11:43,475 --> 00:11:46,475 Speaker 1: and twenty two thousand of them showed up and when 155 00:11:46,515 --> 00:11:50,595 Speaker 1: a Jewish counter protester rushed the podium towards the trump 156 00:11:50,755 --> 00:11:54,755 Speaker 1: of his day. The American Nazi leader Fritz Kun. They 157 00:11:54,835 --> 00:11:58,675 Speaker 1: almost beat that counter protester to death. The twenty two 158 00:11:58,835 --> 00:12:08,835 Speaker 1: thousand Nazis were assembled inside Madison Garden. Trump told Breitbart 159 00:12:08,955 --> 00:12:11,755 Speaker 1: dot Com yesterday that he thinks he can win New 160 00:12:11,835 --> 00:12:15,955 Speaker 1: York State, and he thinks he can do it by 161 00:12:16,075 --> 00:12:21,795 Speaker 1: staging rallies there. Quote. It will be a heavy move. 162 00:12:22,635 --> 00:12:33,555 Speaker 1: I may rent Madison Square Garden unquote. Have the Hitler 163 00:12:33,635 --> 00:12:40,635 Speaker 1: spots ready, Trump, who last night officially appealed the Colorado 164 00:12:40,675 --> 00:12:45,035 Speaker 1: disqualification to the Supreme Court justices quote, is concerned that 165 00:12:45,115 --> 00:12:47,475 Speaker 1: they are going to look as if they're trying not 166 00:12:47,675 --> 00:12:52,235 Speaker 1: to rule in his favor and might rule against him. Unquote. 167 00:12:53,795 --> 00:12:56,515 Speaker 1: I will confess I missed that, so I assume you 168 00:12:56,675 --> 00:13:00,635 Speaker 1: might have. It's Maggie Haberman who is to Trump what 169 00:13:00,875 --> 00:13:03,715 Speaker 1: Kelly Ann Conway always has been to the liberal media, 170 00:13:04,155 --> 00:13:08,075 Speaker 1: the source and conduit and middlewoman who spends half their 171 00:13:08,155 --> 00:13:12,755 Speaker 1: time loudly attacking the people that they serve up Info two. 172 00:13:13,115 --> 00:13:16,955 Speaker 1: Conjob has long been the primary Trumpian leaking source to 173 00:13:17,155 --> 00:13:21,675 Speaker 1: the legacy media, especially the TV networks, especially NBC, and 174 00:13:21,835 --> 00:13:25,635 Speaker 1: Haberman has long been the legacy media is conduit and 175 00:13:25,835 --> 00:13:31,155 Speaker 1: leaker to Trump. So she may be onto something. The 176 00:13:31,355 --> 00:13:35,835 Speaker 1: Hill says Haberman said that that he's worried the Supreme 177 00:13:35,915 --> 00:13:38,675 Speaker 1: Court may rule against him just to look good, that 178 00:13:38,795 --> 00:13:44,075 Speaker 1: he said that sometime before. She said that on CNN 179 00:13:44,235 --> 00:13:47,275 Speaker 1: last week. And there are the two reasons I missed it, 180 00:13:47,995 --> 00:13:53,555 Speaker 1: The Hill and CNN. That Trump is having another one 181 00:13:53,595 --> 00:13:56,915 Speaker 1: of his Macbeth moments, in which, while his advisors tell 182 00:13:56,995 --> 00:14:00,155 Speaker 1: him it's not possible, he thinks the people he put 183 00:14:00,235 --> 00:14:03,955 Speaker 1: into lifetime positions of authority, who are thus not beholden 184 00:14:03,995 --> 00:14:08,955 Speaker 1: to anybody, not even to Harlan Crowe, people who have 185 00:14:09,035 --> 00:14:13,035 Speaker 1: already proven that they will betray the Constitution, he thinks, 186 00:14:13,075 --> 00:14:17,635 Speaker 1: for some reason, they could very easily betray him. It 187 00:14:17,835 --> 00:14:23,915 Speaker 1: is one of his few lucid thoughts, but it, and 188 00:14:24,075 --> 00:14:28,595 Speaker 1: at least one non lucid thought, underscore that Macbeth madness 189 00:14:28,875 --> 00:14:33,275 Speaker 1: is creeping in fighting for a position with all of 190 00:14:33,395 --> 00:14:38,875 Speaker 1: dementia Jay's other madnesses in that overcrowded crazy head of his. 191 00:14:40,675 --> 00:14:43,155 Speaker 1: By contrast, and I confess I also miss this in 192 00:14:43,235 --> 00:14:47,955 Speaker 1: addition to the novel I'm Guilty, Therefore, I'm innocent insurrection 193 00:14:48,115 --> 00:14:51,915 Speaker 1: defense floated by Christina Bob last night over the holiday, 194 00:14:52,515 --> 00:14:58,235 Speaker 1: Trump apparently tried out another novel answer. He tried to 195 00:14:58,475 --> 00:15:02,195 Speaker 1: invoke the Insurrection Act to stop January sixth, but the 196 00:15:02,355 --> 00:15:08,875 Speaker 1: previous owners of Twitter leaded his tweet because the president 197 00:15:09,755 --> 00:15:16,755 Speaker 1: can't invoke the Insurrection Act unless he tweets it with 198 00:15:16,915 --> 00:15:21,995 Speaker 1: a meme and at least two emoji. It's in the Constitution, 199 00:15:22,275 --> 00:15:25,395 Speaker 1: the emoji clause of the nine hundred and third Amendment, 200 00:15:27,435 --> 00:15:34,075 Speaker 1: ask Alina. Trump reposted something over the holiday from Rogan o'handley, 201 00:15:34,755 --> 00:15:38,195 Speaker 1: the guy who uses the handle d C Draino, which 202 00:15:38,315 --> 00:15:41,515 Speaker 1: is I think a tribute to what he drinks, in 203 00:15:41,635 --> 00:15:45,755 Speaker 1: which o'handley claims Twitter deleted Trump's tweet telling everybody to 204 00:15:45,835 --> 00:15:48,475 Speaker 1: go home five minutes after it was posted, which isn't true. 205 00:15:49,075 --> 00:15:52,355 Speaker 1: And maybe that was quote to limit his ability to 206 00:15:52,555 --> 00:15:58,395 Speaker 1: activate the Insurrection Act a stupid person's idea of a 207 00:15:58,475 --> 00:16:02,995 Speaker 1: deep thought. As noted in several places, much of Trump's 208 00:16:03,075 --> 00:16:06,875 Speaker 1: actual defense against the insurrection charge is the fact that 209 00:16:06,955 --> 00:16:10,035 Speaker 1: he did not invoke the Insurrection Act, and by not 210 00:16:10,275 --> 00:16:14,435 Speaker 1: invoking the Insurrection Act, he so enraged the oathkeepers and 211 00:16:14,595 --> 00:16:16,955 Speaker 1: others who thought that was the whole point of the 212 00:16:17,035 --> 00:16:20,355 Speaker 1: violence of January sixth, and they went and stormed the 213 00:16:20,435 --> 00:16:27,435 Speaker 1: Capitol anyway, So what he said he wasn't guilty of, 214 00:16:28,195 --> 00:16:31,075 Speaker 1: he now maybe wants you to think maybe he was 215 00:16:31,275 --> 00:16:35,795 Speaker 1: guilty of, which in a perverse way, lines up with 216 00:16:35,955 --> 00:16:39,075 Speaker 1: Christina Bob's whether they are guilty of insurrection or not. 217 00:16:41,235 --> 00:16:46,395 Speaker 1: And by the way, the momentum theory of justice may 218 00:16:46,555 --> 00:16:49,875 Speaker 1: now be coming into play. A challenge to Trump's eligibility 219 00:16:49,955 --> 00:16:52,755 Speaker 1: to be on the March fifth primary ballot in North 220 00:16:52,835 --> 00:16:56,315 Speaker 1: Carolina was slow walked by the state Board of Elections, 221 00:16:56,715 --> 00:16:59,235 Speaker 1: but now the voter who filed it has taken that 222 00:16:59,395 --> 00:17:02,475 Speaker 1: board to court and has urged the court to force 223 00:17:02,555 --> 00:17:06,835 Speaker 1: the board to hear the case before the primary. North 224 00:17:06,875 --> 00:17:10,955 Speaker 1: Carolina Republicans, meanwhile, are now planning a new instant law 225 00:17:11,555 --> 00:17:15,075 Speaker 1: in their state that would make it illegal to, I 226 00:17:15,155 --> 00:17:19,515 Speaker 1: don't know, to enforce the Constitution of the United States 227 00:17:19,995 --> 00:17:26,075 Speaker 1: while living in North Carolina. I guess not surprising really, 228 00:17:27,955 --> 00:17:30,635 Speaker 1: of course, there is no argument that the fourteenth Amendment 229 00:17:30,715 --> 00:17:37,555 Speaker 1: does not apply to insurrectionist congressman. Thus, yesterday in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 230 00:17:37,875 --> 00:17:41,035 Speaker 1: a former congressional candidate filed his own suit there to 231 00:17:41,195 --> 00:17:45,395 Speaker 1: force the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania to remove from 232 00:17:45,475 --> 00:17:50,235 Speaker 1: the congressional primary in the Pennsylvania tenth one Representative Scott 233 00:17:50,755 --> 00:17:56,195 Speaker 1: Gordon Perry. And I would have called Congressan Perry for 234 00:17:56,275 --> 00:18:02,475 Speaker 1: his reaction, but ooh snap, Jack Smith still has Perry's phone. 235 00:18:07,675 --> 00:18:10,835 Speaker 1: Also of interest here, vive Ramswami didn't want to be 236 00:18:10,955 --> 00:18:14,915 Speaker 1: on your smelly old CNN Republican debate next week anyway. 237 00:18:16,395 --> 00:18:21,755 Speaker 1: And the numbers are in. Twenty seven million, sixty four thousand, 238 00:18:22,035 --> 00:18:26,515 Speaker 1: nine hundred and fifty four. That is the total number 239 00:18:26,555 --> 00:18:30,755 Speaker 1: of podcast downloads and YouTube views for Countdown for the 240 00:18:30,835 --> 00:18:34,315 Speaker 1: year twenty twenty three. That is more than half a 241 00:18:34,395 --> 00:18:36,435 Speaker 1: million a week. And I don't even do a new 242 00:18:36,515 --> 00:18:39,875 Speaker 1: one every weekday, So thank you, and I will not 243 00:18:40,075 --> 00:18:43,515 Speaker 1: mention the number again except right now twenty seven million, 244 00:18:43,555 --> 00:18:46,675 Speaker 1: sixty four, nine hundred and fifty four. From here on in, 245 00:18:47,675 --> 00:18:50,355 Speaker 1: I won't mention it again. That's next. 246 00:18:50,395 --> 00:18:51,035 Speaker 2: This is Countdown. 247 00:18:52,755 --> 00:19:17,515 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Overman still to kell on Countdown. 248 00:19:17,635 --> 00:19:20,555 Speaker 1: Often I do not really know what has prompted me 249 00:19:20,675 --> 00:19:24,435 Speaker 1: to think of something I must tell in the regular segment, 250 00:19:24,515 --> 00:19:27,515 Speaker 1: things I promised not to tell other times. It's really 251 00:19:27,795 --> 00:19:30,835 Speaker 1: really easy to know what it is that prompted me. 252 00:19:31,595 --> 00:19:36,235 Speaker 1: There is a hockey goalie named Spencer Martin. He plays 253 00:19:36,275 --> 00:19:38,795 Speaker 1: with the Columbus Blue Jackets, and I saw part of 254 00:19:38,835 --> 00:19:41,435 Speaker 1: their game the other night, and oddly enough, Spencer Martin 255 00:19:41,515 --> 00:19:43,355 Speaker 1: made me think of a guy my dad used to 256 00:19:43,435 --> 00:19:49,555 Speaker 1: work with named Spencer Martin. I know. Spencer Martin was 257 00:19:49,595 --> 00:19:52,275 Speaker 1: the classic sports know it all who had no reservation 258 00:19:52,315 --> 00:19:54,795 Speaker 1: about getting into a trivia contest against a ten year 259 00:19:54,835 --> 00:19:59,275 Speaker 1: old kid and boasting he would kick the kid's ass. Well, 260 00:19:59,315 --> 00:20:01,795 Speaker 1: I was a kid. Not only did he not kick 261 00:20:01,915 --> 00:20:05,315 Speaker 1: my ass, but my dad had me participate in our 262 00:20:05,435 --> 00:20:11,475 Speaker 1: first joint grown up, mean spirited, practical joke against somebody 263 00:20:11,555 --> 00:20:17,675 Speaker 1: who really deserved it. Spencer Martin, not the goalie coming 264 00:20:17,755 --> 00:20:20,035 Speaker 1: up first time for the daily roundup of the other 265 00:20:20,075 --> 00:20:22,875 Speaker 1: people who deserve it, the misgrants, morons and Dunning Kruger 266 00:20:22,915 --> 00:20:28,235 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute two days worst person in the world, 267 00:20:29,035 --> 00:20:34,555 Speaker 1: the bronze worse Ted Cruz. Now, this isn't the politics 268 00:20:34,635 --> 00:20:37,715 Speaker 1: and the insurrection, though for those things clearly Texas should 269 00:20:37,795 --> 00:20:40,675 Speaker 1: vote him out of office and America should vote him 270 00:20:40,715 --> 00:20:45,835 Speaker 1: out of the country. This is for sports. Senator Cruz 271 00:20:45,995 --> 00:20:49,715 Speaker 1: attended the annual Sugar Bowl football game in New Orleans, 272 00:20:50,115 --> 00:20:54,715 Speaker 1: Texas versus Washington. He was dressed in University of Texas colors, 273 00:20:54,755 --> 00:20:57,675 Speaker 1: even though he attended Princeton and Harvard. The final score 274 00:20:58,275 --> 00:21:03,315 Speaker 1: Washington thirty seven, Texas thirty one. So what, well, there's 275 00:21:03,355 --> 00:21:07,075 Speaker 1: a pattern here. American League Championship series last fall was 276 00:21:07,115 --> 00:21:09,995 Speaker 1: between the Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros, So you 277 00:21:10,035 --> 00:21:12,755 Speaker 1: would think Cruz could not really have a loser in 278 00:21:12,835 --> 00:21:17,515 Speaker 1: that series, except he's from Houston and Calgary. But he's 279 00:21:17,835 --> 00:21:22,115 Speaker 1: from Houston, and he wore Houston Astros colors and Houston 280 00:21:22,195 --> 00:21:25,235 Speaker 1: Astros fans begged him not to go to the decisive 281 00:21:25,555 --> 00:21:28,155 Speaker 1: seventh game of that series, and he did anyway, and 282 00:21:28,315 --> 00:21:33,195 Speaker 1: the Astros lost, And according to Astro's beat writer Michael Schwab, 283 00:21:33,635 --> 00:21:37,995 Speaker 1: that meant Cruz attended five Astros playoff games last year 284 00:21:38,275 --> 00:21:43,115 Speaker 1: and they lost all five games he went to. Cruz 285 00:21:43,195 --> 00:21:45,955 Speaker 1: also posted on social media that he was at Baylor's 286 00:21:45,995 --> 00:21:49,955 Speaker 1: home football opener this past season. It lost to Texas State. 287 00:21:51,115 --> 00:21:53,075 Speaker 1: I didn't even know there was a Texas State, and 288 00:21:53,155 --> 00:21:55,835 Speaker 1: I was a sportscaster every day for like forty years. 289 00:21:56,635 --> 00:21:58,675 Speaker 1: And he was at the Texas A and M loss 290 00:21:58,715 --> 00:22:02,315 Speaker 1: to Alabama and the website. The Messenger says Cruz was 291 00:22:02,355 --> 00:22:05,755 Speaker 1: also at the Houston Rockets decisive seventh game of the 292 00:22:05,795 --> 00:22:10,515 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen Western Conference NBA Finals versus Golden State, Houston lost, 293 00:22:11,075 --> 00:22:13,635 Speaker 1: And he was at the NCAA Basketball Championship in twenty 294 00:22:13,835 --> 00:22:17,155 Speaker 1: nineteen where Texas Tech led by three points with twenty 295 00:22:17,195 --> 00:22:19,675 Speaker 1: two seconds left to play and they lost in overtime. 296 00:22:20,395 --> 00:22:23,675 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz is not at all happy at the general 297 00:22:23,795 --> 00:22:28,035 Speaker 1: consensus among Texas sports fans that there is a Ted 298 00:22:28,235 --> 00:22:34,275 Speaker 1: Cruz Texas sports jinx, and he is it just because 299 00:22:34,315 --> 00:22:37,875 Speaker 1: he's now on an zero for eight run. So whatever 300 00:22:37,995 --> 00:22:42,275 Speaker 1: you do, don't post anything about it on social media. 301 00:22:43,675 --> 00:22:48,235 Speaker 1: The rounder up worser vivek Ramaswami, he's the guy running 302 00:22:48,275 --> 00:22:51,275 Speaker 1: the vanity campaign for the Republican nomination. You know, in 303 00:22:51,395 --> 00:22:54,875 Speaker 1: your heart, you know he's right. If Trump is disqualified 304 00:22:55,395 --> 00:22:58,555 Speaker 1: and DeSantis falls off his high heels and is incapacitated, 305 00:22:58,955 --> 00:23:02,235 Speaker 1: I mean more incapacitated, and if Nikki Haley starts talking 306 00:23:02,275 --> 00:23:04,435 Speaker 1: about the Civil War and slavery and the real cause 307 00:23:04,915 --> 00:23:09,235 Speaker 1: government some more big Viv did not make the cut 308 00:23:10,075 --> 00:23:13,035 Speaker 1: for CNN's Republican Debate next week. You know how many 309 00:23:13,115 --> 00:23:17,075 Speaker 1: Republican debates. There have been two hundred and six, so 310 00:23:17,355 --> 00:23:20,275 Speaker 1: Ramaswami's response was, naturally, I didn't want to be in 311 00:23:20,355 --> 00:23:23,915 Speaker 1: your fake, phony, illegitimate debate at Iowa anyway, because I 312 00:23:24,075 --> 00:23:27,675 Speaker 1: got the plumb booking of the political season. I'm going 313 00:23:27,755 --> 00:23:32,875 Speaker 1: to do a live audience show hosted by Tim Poole, Tempoole, 314 00:23:34,475 --> 00:23:40,155 Speaker 1: Tim Tim Poole, Tim Tim Kast on Twitter X you 315 00:23:40,235 --> 00:23:43,435 Speaker 1: know the chubby bald kid who wears the fisherman's hat, 316 00:23:43,515 --> 00:23:46,235 Speaker 1: so you don't know that he's the chubby bald kid. 317 00:23:47,275 --> 00:23:50,235 Speaker 1: Ramaswami isn't at all upset that he didn't make the 318 00:23:50,475 --> 00:23:54,995 Speaker 1: high standards, finishing ten percent in at least one poll 319 00:23:55,115 --> 00:23:59,475 Speaker 1: in the last year in Iowa to make the CNN cut, 320 00:24:00,475 --> 00:24:03,155 Speaker 1: he's in single digits in Iowa. And to prove how 321 00:24:03,275 --> 00:24:05,435 Speaker 1: much he's not upset, he owned he wrote a two 322 00:24:05,595 --> 00:24:10,115 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty three word tweet calling out Van Jones, 323 00:24:10,515 --> 00:24:15,235 Speaker 1: Oliver Darcy, Caitlin Collins, and Anderson Cooper. But don't put 324 00:24:15,275 --> 00:24:18,115 Speaker 1: it in the paper that I was mad by the 325 00:24:18,115 --> 00:24:21,955 Speaker 1: way Anderson Cooper New Year's Eve? What was the deal 326 00:24:21,995 --> 00:24:25,115 Speaker 1: with his face? I don't want to say Anderson's had 327 00:24:25,115 --> 00:24:27,595 Speaker 1: some work done recently, but I was wondering what time 328 00:24:27,635 --> 00:24:29,795 Speaker 1: they had to get him back to Madame Tussaud's in 329 00:24:29,835 --> 00:24:34,395 Speaker 1: the morning. But our winner, the Glenn Beck Tool and 330 00:24:34,595 --> 00:24:39,915 Speaker 1: former actual ESPN and Kansas City sports commentator Jason Whitlock, 331 00:24:41,035 --> 00:24:43,955 Speaker 1: you have probably already heard that. On Monday, Whitlock tweeted 332 00:24:43,995 --> 00:24:47,755 Speaker 1: that society was collapsing because an ad that appeared when 333 00:24:47,795 --> 00:24:50,795 Speaker 1: he went to look at the NFL standings on ESPN's 334 00:24:50,835 --> 00:24:55,435 Speaker 1: website referred to a joke about a sexual act. He 335 00:24:55,635 --> 00:24:59,075 Speaker 1: screenshoted the ad and wrote above it only, how is 336 00:24:59,155 --> 00:25:04,595 Speaker 1: this possible? Appropriate question mark? About five thousand people had 337 00:25:04,915 --> 00:25:08,275 Speaker 1: explained to him that the only way that's possible is 338 00:25:08,355 --> 00:25:13,075 Speaker 1: that the computer run customized ad placement algorithms that usually 339 00:25:13,155 --> 00:25:16,515 Speaker 1: decide what ads you see or even what ads you 340 00:25:16,635 --> 00:25:20,235 Speaker 1: hear on this and other podcasts. They make their electronic 341 00:25:20,315 --> 00:25:25,675 Speaker 1: decisions based on your online history. If you go to 342 00:25:25,795 --> 00:25:29,275 Speaker 1: one thousand phishing websites a day, that ad on that 343 00:25:29,555 --> 00:25:32,755 Speaker 1: site in that spot is going to be from the 344 00:25:32,835 --> 00:25:37,555 Speaker 1: new rod and reel set at Dick's Sporting Goods. If 345 00:25:37,595 --> 00:25:40,435 Speaker 1: you go to one thousand porn websites a day, that 346 00:25:40,635 --> 00:25:44,035 Speaker 1: ad on that site in that spot is going to 347 00:25:44,115 --> 00:25:48,035 Speaker 1: be for a different kind of rod and reel and 348 00:25:48,115 --> 00:25:53,955 Speaker 1: a different kind of well sporting goods. Whitlock has now 349 00:25:54,115 --> 00:25:58,875 Speaker 1: answered this with another screenshot of another ad that he 350 00:25:58,995 --> 00:26:02,595 Speaker 1: has seen. The cleanest word in this ad is lick. 351 00:26:03,515 --> 00:26:05,955 Speaker 1: And because Elon Musk has destroyed Twitter so he can 352 00:26:06,035 --> 00:26:08,675 Speaker 1: use what's left of it to program his own AI projects, 353 00:26:09,035 --> 00:26:11,275 Speaker 1: Jason Whitlock has written a three hundred and fifty eight 354 00:26:11,355 --> 00:26:17,155 Speaker 1: word tweet, I mean Ramaswami is writing TLDR. I try 355 00:26:17,195 --> 00:26:19,915 Speaker 1: to explain Whitlock's paranoia, but it's better if I just 356 00:26:20,035 --> 00:26:24,235 Speaker 1: read it quote. They can rig up a million algorithms 357 00:26:24,635 --> 00:26:28,435 Speaker 1: and pay aggregators across the globe to write stories smearing me. 358 00:26:29,075 --> 00:26:33,995 Speaker 1: I do not care. I won't stop. I've made an 359 00:26:34,155 --> 00:26:39,835 Speaker 1: enemy of ESPN and the alphabet mafia that controls Disney. Dude, 360 00:26:40,915 --> 00:26:45,955 Speaker 1: nothing is rigged, nobody's getting paid. The guy rigging your 361 00:26:46,075 --> 00:26:52,035 Speaker 1: algorithm is you, and the aggregators are aggregating about you 362 00:26:52,235 --> 00:26:57,635 Speaker 1: because you are endlessly self owning. And if you think 363 00:26:58,035 --> 00:27:00,395 Speaker 1: ESPN we both used to work there. If you think 364 00:27:00,675 --> 00:27:03,195 Speaker 1: ESPN is taking the time and the money to do 365 00:27:03,355 --> 00:27:07,235 Speaker 1: this to you, just to you, it's ESPN. ESPN is 366 00:27:07,315 --> 00:27:10,315 Speaker 1: fighting to stay profitable right now. You think it has 367 00:27:10,395 --> 00:27:12,995 Speaker 1: the time or the money to assign one person to 368 00:27:13,075 --> 00:27:17,395 Speaker 1: sit there and program which ad you, Jason Whitlock get. 369 00:27:18,555 --> 00:27:21,155 Speaker 1: I mean it pretty much would be a choice budget wise. Well, 370 00:27:21,275 --> 00:27:24,155 Speaker 1: you can have somebody programming Witlock's ads twenty four hours 371 00:27:24,155 --> 00:27:27,315 Speaker 1: a day, but that means the noon Sports center has 372 00:27:27,355 --> 00:27:32,195 Speaker 1: to have no hosts. Plus, dude, even if you're not paranoid, 373 00:27:32,315 --> 00:27:37,275 Speaker 1: even if somebody were really doing this to you, just you, 374 00:27:38,435 --> 00:27:43,075 Speaker 1: you still fell for it, even if they are in 375 00:27:43,195 --> 00:27:48,355 Speaker 1: a van outside your house, monitoring your laptop and sending 376 00:27:48,475 --> 00:27:53,635 Speaker 1: these ads your way. Who chose to publicize that which 377 00:27:54,195 --> 00:27:58,395 Speaker 1: ESPN employee forced you to tweet about the first pornographic 378 00:27:58,515 --> 00:28:01,475 Speaker 1: ad you saw, and then to tweet about the second 379 00:28:01,515 --> 00:28:03,835 Speaker 1: pornographic ad you saw in write three hundred and fifty 380 00:28:03,835 --> 00:28:07,795 Speaker 1: eight goddamn word about it, and then to close out 381 00:28:07,955 --> 00:28:11,875 Speaker 1: the war and peace of tweets by saying that anybody 382 00:28:11,915 --> 00:28:14,115 Speaker 1: who tried to explain to you that the ads are 383 00:28:14,195 --> 00:28:19,315 Speaker 1: the result of your search history is quote retarded unquote 384 00:28:20,995 --> 00:28:25,155 Speaker 1: Disney make you do that too, Whitlock, like like Eiger 385 00:28:25,315 --> 00:28:30,715 Speaker 1: personally did that or Waltz cryogenically frozen head forced you 386 00:28:30,835 --> 00:28:37,675 Speaker 1: to do that. Holy cow. Jason Whitlock, I'm sorry, Witlock 387 00:28:38,555 --> 00:28:45,155 Speaker 1: two days worst person in the world. Hey, maybe you'll 388 00:28:45,155 --> 00:29:01,475 Speaker 1: get ads for Countdown now to the number one story 389 00:29:01,515 --> 00:29:04,835 Speaker 1: on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me but not 390 00:29:05,195 --> 00:29:08,835 Speaker 1: just me. With the kind of excitement of discovery usually 391 00:29:08,915 --> 00:29:12,835 Speaker 1: reserved for productive archaeological digs, the New York Public Library 392 00:29:12,915 --> 00:29:16,595 Speaker 1: announced two decades ago that it had unearthed the records 393 00:29:17,115 --> 00:29:21,915 Speaker 1: of Jack Kerouac's Summer League. Jack Carrollac, leader of the 394 00:29:21,955 --> 00:29:25,755 Speaker 1: Beat Poets, author of On the Road, inspiration to Bob Dylan, 395 00:29:26,395 --> 00:29:29,275 Speaker 1: referred to this thing the Summer League in some of 396 00:29:29,315 --> 00:29:33,115 Speaker 1: his writing, and for years scholars who devoted their lives 397 00:29:33,395 --> 00:29:36,635 Speaker 1: to studying Jack Kerouac had wondered exactly what the hell 398 00:29:36,675 --> 00:29:40,955 Speaker 1: he was talking about. Turns out he kind of invented 399 00:29:41,035 --> 00:29:46,355 Speaker 1: fantasy baseball, throwing marbles and toothpicks at even erasers against 400 00:29:46,395 --> 00:29:51,355 Speaker 1: a distant target. Jack Kerouac played season after season of 401 00:29:51,515 --> 00:29:55,395 Speaker 1: an imaginary baseball game from his teens into his thirties. 402 00:29:55,755 --> 00:29:58,955 Speaker 1: He meticulously recorded the statistics and the standings of his 403 00:29:59,035 --> 00:30:03,035 Speaker 1: apocryphal players and teams, going so far as to compile 404 00:30:03,315 --> 00:30:08,275 Speaker 1: daily mock newspaper paper and a newsletter called Jack Lewis's 405 00:30:08,435 --> 00:30:13,235 Speaker 1: Baseball Chatter. Therein were recorded the doings of the teams 406 00:30:13,275 --> 00:30:16,835 Speaker 1: that existed only in his mind and in Jack Lewis's 407 00:30:16,875 --> 00:30:21,235 Speaker 1: Baseball Chatter, the Saint Louis Cadillacs, the Cincinnati Blacks, the 408 00:30:21,315 --> 00:30:25,755 Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Plymouths, and the Boston Fords, the latter replete the 409 00:30:25,835 --> 00:30:30,955 Speaker 1: star centerfielder and basstealer Pancho Villa. True to the form 410 00:30:31,035 --> 00:30:35,835 Speaker 1: of later tabletop baseball games like APPA and Stratamatic, Keroak 411 00:30:35,955 --> 00:30:39,595 Speaker 1: devised performance cards for his players, who ran the gamut 412 00:30:39,675 --> 00:30:43,875 Speaker 1: from historical figures like the Mexican Revolutionary via to lou 413 00:30:43,955 --> 00:30:47,155 Speaker 1: gerrig to players cut out of whole cloth with eminently 414 00:30:47,275 --> 00:30:53,875 Speaker 1: baseballish names like Luis Tercerero and Charlie Custer. They later 415 00:30:53,995 --> 00:30:56,955 Speaker 1: published this as a book. When the book came out, 416 00:30:57,035 --> 00:31:00,515 Speaker 1: I was enthralled because I had thought I had been 417 00:31:00,595 --> 00:31:03,875 Speaker 1: the only kid who did this. My summer leagues came 418 00:31:03,915 --> 00:31:07,275 Speaker 1: in two stages. Not long after I discovered real baseball 419 00:31:07,275 --> 00:31:09,435 Speaker 1: at the age of eight in nineteen sixty seven, I 420 00:31:09,515 --> 00:31:14,875 Speaker 1: made up an entire parallel, non existent baseball universe. Just 421 00:31:15,195 --> 00:31:18,835 Speaker 1: like Jack Kerouac. Many of my teams had the names 422 00:31:18,915 --> 00:31:22,835 Speaker 1: of cars as the names of the teams, although not exactly. 423 00:31:22,955 --> 00:31:27,675 Speaker 1: The New York Thunderbirds named after the laughable Marionette TV series. 424 00:31:27,795 --> 00:31:32,275 Speaker 1: The Thunderbirds did battle with such rivals as the Lancing Tommyhawks. 425 00:31:32,995 --> 00:31:36,275 Speaker 1: Not Tomahawks, but Tommyhawks, That's what I thought. They were 426 00:31:36,355 --> 00:31:40,315 Speaker 1: called the Newark Bombers, the Montreal Spectrums, and the hated 427 00:31:40,795 --> 00:31:46,075 Speaker 1: Boston Princes. They played twenty seven inning long World Series games. 428 00:31:46,075 --> 00:31:48,555 Speaker 1: They had histories dating back to the nineteenth century. They 429 00:31:48,635 --> 00:31:55,595 Speaker 1: featured heroes named Jay Lartin, Roebel Barone, and Barney Schlitz. Later, 430 00:31:55,795 --> 00:31:58,515 Speaker 1: as a teenager, I got hold of a dice baseball 431 00:31:58,595 --> 00:32:02,475 Speaker 1: game called Extra Innings. Its manufacturers had made one fatal 432 00:32:02,635 --> 00:32:06,835 Speaker 1: marketing mistake. They included conversion chart that allowed you to 433 00:32:07,035 --> 00:32:12,115 Speaker 1: translate real life statistics or just made up statistics, into 434 00:32:12,155 --> 00:32:15,755 Speaker 1: the number sequences produced by three dice. Thus you could 435 00:32:15,755 --> 00:32:18,915 Speaker 1: not only incorporate the correct stats of real players, but 436 00:32:19,035 --> 00:32:23,915 Speaker 1: you could fix individual players performances. It was no trick 437 00:32:24,035 --> 00:32:27,915 Speaker 1: to endow star minor leaguer Bill McNulty, who never got 438 00:32:27,955 --> 00:32:30,275 Speaker 1: a real shot at the real big leagues with the 439 00:32:30,395 --> 00:32:33,995 Speaker 1: gifts of a sixty home run hitter. Bill McNulty promptly 440 00:32:34,035 --> 00:32:37,035 Speaker 1: went out and in my league hit sixty home runs. 441 00:32:37,915 --> 00:32:42,635 Speaker 1: Turns out, writer after writer and fan after fan and 442 00:32:42,835 --> 00:32:47,115 Speaker 1: player after player did one or maybe both of these things. 443 00:32:47,835 --> 00:32:51,435 Speaker 1: Keith Hernandez, former National League MVP, centerpiece of the Saint 444 00:32:51,515 --> 00:32:53,835 Speaker 1: Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets, part of their 445 00:32:53,915 --> 00:32:59,395 Speaker 1: eminent TV team for eighteen seasons, played stratomatic baseball real 446 00:32:59,515 --> 00:33:02,315 Speaker 1: players as a kid in the sixties. My ex tag 447 00:33:02,435 --> 00:33:05,075 Speaker 1: team partner at ESPN, Dan Patrick, use to play it, 448 00:33:05,155 --> 00:33:08,155 Speaker 1: but not as a kid, as a sports anchor at CNN, 449 00:33:08,915 --> 00:33:12,555 Speaker 1: usually against his pal Gary Miller, who we both worked 450 00:33:12,595 --> 00:33:14,875 Speaker 1: with at ESPN and who has made appearances here for 451 00:33:14,955 --> 00:33:17,675 Speaker 1: one of his other moments of greatness, the Soccer Breakdown. 452 00:33:18,115 --> 00:33:23,755 Speaker 1: In fact, Dan's home run call gone actually originates from 453 00:33:23,915 --> 00:33:28,035 Speaker 1: games of stratomatic baseball against Gary Miller. When the dice 454 00:33:28,115 --> 00:33:30,395 Speaker 1: would roll indicating a home run hit by one of 455 00:33:30,515 --> 00:33:36,115 Speaker 1: Dan's players, he would simply say gone. I am reminded 456 00:33:36,155 --> 00:33:38,955 Speaker 1: here of one of my favorite acts of subterfuge in 457 00:33:39,115 --> 00:33:42,555 Speaker 1: baseball history. For more than three quarters of a century, 458 00:33:42,675 --> 00:33:47,075 Speaker 1: all the baseball record books and encyclopedias included a second 459 00:33:47,155 --> 00:33:49,995 Speaker 1: baseman who played just one game in his life, for 460 00:33:50,075 --> 00:33:53,355 Speaker 1: the nineteen twelve Saint Louis Browns. His name was Lou Proctor. 461 00:33:53,875 --> 00:33:58,035 Speaker 1: Lou Proctor came up to bat once, and he walked. However, 462 00:33:59,315 --> 00:34:03,515 Speaker 1: there was no evidence of anybody named Lou Procter playing 463 00:34:03,675 --> 00:34:06,595 Speaker 1: anywhere in professional baseball that season, nor of any of 464 00:34:06,595 --> 00:34:09,355 Speaker 1: the years before or after it. There was no Loo 465 00:34:09,435 --> 00:34:12,315 Speaker 1: Procter among the amateur players of Saint Louis who might 466 00:34:12,355 --> 00:34:15,715 Speaker 1: have gotten a tryout late in the season with the Browns. Finally, 467 00:34:15,835 --> 00:34:19,315 Speaker 1: in the eighties, the startling discovery was made. There was 468 00:34:19,715 --> 00:34:23,755 Speaker 1: a Lou Proctor. He was at Sportsman's Park in Saint 469 00:34:23,835 --> 00:34:27,235 Speaker 1: Louis in nineteen twelve at the Browns games. But he 470 00:34:27,395 --> 00:34:31,675 Speaker 1: wasn't a player. He was the Western Union telegraph operator 471 00:34:31,715 --> 00:34:34,755 Speaker 1: who sent in the lineups and the batting orders and 472 00:34:34,835 --> 00:34:38,595 Speaker 1: the scores and everything else from the Browns games out 473 00:34:38,675 --> 00:34:40,955 Speaker 1: to the rest of the country, back in the pre TV, 474 00:34:41,475 --> 00:34:45,435 Speaker 1: pre radio, pre internet days when Western Union was the 475 00:34:45,515 --> 00:34:48,195 Speaker 1: way that information got out. And he always wanted to 476 00:34:48,235 --> 00:34:51,115 Speaker 1: be a big leaguer, so one day he just put 477 00:34:51,235 --> 00:34:56,075 Speaker 1: himself in the box score Proctor second base walk, and 478 00:34:56,155 --> 00:34:59,955 Speaker 1: he got away with it for like seventy years. Anyway, 479 00:35:00,755 --> 00:35:03,875 Speaker 1: back in the pure make believe days of my Thunderbirds, 480 00:35:03,955 --> 00:35:07,915 Speaker 1: my father can to briefly translate my imaginings into reality. 481 00:35:08,555 --> 00:35:12,155 Speaker 1: Annoyed by the endless chatter of the office baseball no 482 00:35:12,315 --> 00:35:14,995 Speaker 1: it All, Dad asked me once if I could convince 483 00:35:15,075 --> 00:35:18,795 Speaker 1: the man of the existence of a completely fictitious player, 484 00:35:19,635 --> 00:35:22,595 Speaker 1: take one of those names from your imaginary team, he suggested. 485 00:35:23,235 --> 00:35:25,915 Speaker 1: He'll ask you to name the lineup of some team 486 00:35:25,955 --> 00:35:28,515 Speaker 1: from the past, probably the Yankees. I'll get him on 487 00:35:28,555 --> 00:35:30,275 Speaker 1: the phone. You can talk to him. Just slip in 488 00:35:30,355 --> 00:35:33,235 Speaker 1: your imaginary guy. This is the kind of man, Keith, 489 00:35:33,235 --> 00:35:34,955 Speaker 1: you're going to meet a lot of as an adult, 490 00:35:35,155 --> 00:35:38,515 Speaker 1: the guy who already knew whatever you just told him. 491 00:35:38,995 --> 00:35:42,035 Speaker 1: If you really convince him this fake player is real, 492 00:35:42,115 --> 00:35:44,155 Speaker 1: he'll come around and he'll insist I don't know that 493 00:35:44,235 --> 00:35:48,115 Speaker 1: he met the guy or something. So Dad called up 494 00:35:48,155 --> 00:35:50,475 Speaker 1: from the office in New York City the following morning 495 00:35:50,515 --> 00:35:53,155 Speaker 1: and said he had completed the setup, and then he 496 00:35:53,235 --> 00:35:56,675 Speaker 1: called back a couple of minutes later. The blowhard one, 497 00:35:56,795 --> 00:36:00,035 Speaker 1: Spencer Martin, took the phone and began to quiz me 498 00:36:00,075 --> 00:36:03,235 Speaker 1: about the roster of the nineteen thirty nine New York 499 00:36:03,315 --> 00:36:07,715 Speaker 1: Yankees had already surprised and then silenced him by naming 500 00:36:07,795 --> 00:36:10,675 Speaker 1: the position players when I went in for the kill, 501 00:36:11,795 --> 00:36:14,595 Speaker 1: and the pictures, of course were roughing and Atlie Donald 502 00:36:14,795 --> 00:36:17,835 Speaker 1: and Spud Chandler and Johnny Murphy in the bullpen and 503 00:36:18,075 --> 00:36:24,195 Speaker 1: Talbot and the man snorted, Talbot. Talbot? Who Rick Talbot, 504 00:36:24,715 --> 00:36:27,195 Speaker 1: I replied, with as much dismissiveness as a ten year 505 00:36:27,235 --> 00:36:31,075 Speaker 1: old could muster seventeen wins and thirty nine and nineteen 506 00:36:31,155 --> 00:36:34,715 Speaker 1: wins the year later, no hit the Browns three hit 507 00:36:34,755 --> 00:36:37,075 Speaker 1: shutout against the Reds in Game three of the thirty 508 00:36:37,155 --> 00:36:42,755 Speaker 1: nine World Series. Rick talbot silence on phone calls from 509 00:36:42,795 --> 00:36:46,555 Speaker 1: Manhattan to the Suburbs in nineteen sixty nine still crackled. 510 00:36:47,395 --> 00:36:50,155 Speaker 1: I was wondering if mister Martin could somehow know that 511 00:36:50,315 --> 00:36:53,875 Speaker 1: Rick Talbot had been not with the nineteen thirty nine Yankees, 512 00:36:53,915 --> 00:36:58,635 Speaker 1: but the imaginary mainstay of the imaginary Brewster Hurricanes, who 513 00:36:58,835 --> 00:37:01,795 Speaker 1: I had moved in my imagination to Pittsburgh in nineteen 514 00:37:01,875 --> 00:37:06,395 Speaker 1: thirty eight. When finally he spoke up, Oh yeah, of course, Talbot. 515 00:37:07,675 --> 00:37:11,555 Speaker 1: I saw him pitch when I was a kid. Oh 516 00:37:11,795 --> 00:37:16,395 Speaker 1: was he mad when I told him I'd made him up. Quote. 517 00:37:16,475 --> 00:37:20,075 Speaker 1: Writers create vast kingdoms for themselves to control and to 518 00:37:20,235 --> 00:37:23,955 Speaker 1: let their imagination run loose. The Associated Press quoted a 519 00:37:24,075 --> 00:37:28,235 Speaker 1: Columbia professor and Douglas about Jack Kerouac and his summer league. 520 00:37:28,235 --> 00:37:31,435 Speaker 1: When the news of the league came out. You did 521 00:37:31,475 --> 00:37:34,395 Speaker 1: a nice job on Spencer Martin, my father said about 522 00:37:34,475 --> 00:37:37,355 Speaker 1: my league. Just don't forget which part is real and 523 00:37:37,435 --> 00:37:41,755 Speaker 1: which part you made up. Well, many many years later 524 00:37:41,875 --> 00:37:44,875 Speaker 1: now that has become slightly more difficult, because imagine my 525 00:37:45,075 --> 00:37:49,635 Speaker 1: shock two hockey seasons ago when the Vancouver Canucks brought 526 00:37:49,715 --> 00:38:08,475 Speaker 1: up a new goaltender named Spencer Martin. I've done all 527 00:38:08,515 --> 00:38:10,995 Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown. 528 00:38:11,075 --> 00:38:14,755 Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schaneale arranged, produced, 529 00:38:14,795 --> 00:38:18,435 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on guitars, 530 00:38:18,515 --> 00:38:22,795 Speaker 1: bass and drums. Mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards produced 531 00:38:22,795 --> 00:38:27,195 Speaker 1: by tk Obrams. Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, 532 00:38:27,235 --> 00:38:29,915 Speaker 1: were arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 533 00:38:30,475 --> 00:38:33,715 Speaker 1: Sports music is the Oberman theme from ESPN two, written 534 00:38:33,795 --> 00:38:38,115 Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN inc. Our satirical 535 00:38:38,155 --> 00:38:40,995 Speaker 1: and fifthy musical comments are by Nancy Faust, the best 536 00:38:40,995 --> 00:38:44,275 Speaker 1: baseball stadium morganist ever. Our announcer today was my friend 537 00:38:44,315 --> 00:38:48,315 Speaker 1: Howard Feineman, and everything else was pretty much my fault. Meanwhile, 538 00:38:48,675 --> 00:38:52,075 Speaker 1: I should mention that both Ted and Stevie sat in 539 00:38:52,235 --> 00:38:55,675 Speaker 1: on the recording of the last two segments of this show. Right, Steve, 540 00:38:56,235 --> 00:38:59,715 Speaker 1: say Hi, say something? Say something? 541 00:39:01,195 --> 00:39:01,355 Speaker 2: Ted? 542 00:39:01,515 --> 00:39:06,995 Speaker 1: Is you there? Are you down there? Hello? Stevie talks 543 00:39:07,115 --> 00:39:09,835 Speaker 1: all the time. Stevie barks all that, Steve, you want 544 00:39:09,875 --> 00:39:14,715 Speaker 1: to treat? Do you what a louder? Please? Do you 545 00:39:14,795 --> 00:39:19,195 Speaker 1: want to treat? Okay, she's at least validated my claim 546 00:39:19,235 --> 00:39:20,995 Speaker 1: that she's here. I'll get your treat in a minute. 547 00:39:21,875 --> 00:39:24,435 Speaker 1: That's countdown for this three hundred and four days until 548 00:39:24,475 --> 00:39:27,355 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four US presidential election and the one 549 00:39:27,435 --> 00:39:30,875 Speaker 1: thousand and ninety third day since Dementia j Trump's first 550 00:39:30,915 --> 00:39:34,035 Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 551 00:39:34,595 --> 00:39:37,915 Speaker 1: Use the Fourteenth Amendment, the Insurrection Act, and the justice 552 00:39:37,955 --> 00:39:41,435 Speaker 1: system to stop him from doing it again while we 553 00:39:41,675 --> 00:39:45,435 Speaker 1: still can. The next scheduled Countdown is tomorrow. Until then 554 00:39:46,395 --> 00:39:49,555 Speaker 1: where Stevie and Ted, I'm Keith Overman. Good morning, good afternoon, 555 00:39:49,675 --> 00:40:08,395 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. 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