1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:23,715 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Today 2 00:00:24,195 --> 00:00:33,395 Speaker 1: is the dawn of Trump's new policy destroy America literally well, 3 00:00:33,475 --> 00:00:37,835 Speaker 1: destroy the White House literally, and steal two hundred and 4 00:00:37,835 --> 00:00:40,915 Speaker 1: thirty million dollars literally from the government and pretend he's 5 00:00:40,915 --> 00:00:42,955 Speaker 1: going to give it to charity and give away one 6 00:00:42,995 --> 00:00:45,875 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy two million more dollars for two private 7 00:00:45,955 --> 00:00:50,355 Speaker 1: jets for Christy Nome and give Ukraine and eventually Europe 8 00:00:50,395 --> 00:00:54,315 Speaker 1: to putin and make America one party nation and get 9 00:00:54,355 --> 00:01:03,675 Speaker 1: elected democrats killed and destroy America literally. Well, okay, describing 10 00:01:03,715 --> 00:01:06,915 Speaker 1: this as Trump's new post policy to destroy steel, giveaway 11 00:01:06,955 --> 00:01:10,995 Speaker 1: and get elected democrats killed. Literally, that's not entirely fair 12 00:01:11,355 --> 00:01:16,635 Speaker 1: because it's not really new on the kill Democrats thing. 13 00:01:16,675 --> 00:01:19,795 Speaker 1: He's been sending out these stochastic signals to the psychopaths 14 00:01:19,875 --> 00:01:22,715 Speaker 1: and masochists and humanoids who support him since the day 15 00:01:22,755 --> 00:01:26,275 Speaker 1: he launched his candidacy for Dictator of the Universe and 16 00:01:26,395 --> 00:01:31,275 Speaker 1: Undeniable Supreme Being in twenty fifteen. But now he has 17 00:01:31,355 --> 00:01:35,595 Speaker 1: new allies like house Whip Tom Emmer, or as he 18 00:01:35,635 --> 00:01:38,995 Speaker 1: could be known Accessory before the fact. In the arrest 19 00:01:39,035 --> 00:01:44,155 Speaker 1: of Trump pardoned January sixth trader Christopher moynihan for allegedly 20 00:01:44,195 --> 00:01:48,195 Speaker 1: making a terroristic threat to quote eliminate House Minority Leader 21 00:01:48,235 --> 00:01:51,835 Speaker 1: a Keem Jeffries. And now Trump also has his own 22 00:01:51,875 --> 00:01:54,875 Speaker 1: mob of would be terrorists and killers and assassins out 23 00:01:54,875 --> 00:01:58,555 Speaker 1: there who are personally beholden to him because he pardoned 24 00:01:58,555 --> 00:02:01,395 Speaker 1: them when they tried to overthrow our form of government 25 00:02:01,395 --> 00:02:04,635 Speaker 1: and kill congressmen and senators on January sixth, twenty twenty. 26 00:02:05,235 --> 00:02:08,155 Speaker 1: You all remember that all Americans were briefed about that, 27 00:02:08,275 --> 00:02:10,795 Speaker 1: and they remember that except the stupid ones who we 28 00:02:10,835 --> 00:02:14,955 Speaker 1: didn't tell. And one of them decided to kill Minority 29 00:02:15,035 --> 00:02:17,595 Speaker 1: Leader Jeffries and went to do so. Eight days after 30 00:02:17,675 --> 00:02:21,875 Speaker 1: Trump whore Emmer, the Republican House Whip referred to the 31 00:02:21,955 --> 00:02:26,275 Speaker 1: quote terrorist wing of the Democratic Party and its quote 32 00:02:26,395 --> 00:02:29,795 Speaker 1: hate America rally and frankly, the guy they arrested for 33 00:02:29,875 --> 00:02:33,115 Speaker 1: trying to kill Jeffries his defense should be but Tom 34 00:02:33,235 --> 00:02:34,875 Speaker 1: Emmer said he was a terrorist. 35 00:02:35,355 --> 00:02:41,075 Speaker 2: So these Democrats can pease their radical pro terrorist wing. 36 00:02:41,835 --> 00:02:45,635 Speaker 1: That is what they are. Tom Emmer. On October tenth, 37 00:02:45,995 --> 00:02:51,835 Speaker 1: Christopher moynihan in text messages, by the way, maga gotta 38 00:02:51,875 --> 00:02:56,995 Speaker 1: stop texting Christopher moynihan in text messages revealed Tuesday. Quote 39 00:02:57,155 --> 00:02:59,635 Speaker 1: a Keem Jeffries makes a new speech in a few 40 00:02:59,715 --> 00:03:04,235 Speaker 1: days in NYC. I cannot allow this terrorist to live. Unquote. 41 00:03:05,395 --> 00:03:09,395 Speaker 1: The speech was Monday, Wynehan was arrested Sunday. Speaker Mike 42 00:03:09,475 --> 00:03:12,995 Speaker 1: Johnson apparently the most uninformed man in America. If Trump 43 00:03:13,035 --> 00:03:16,875 Speaker 1: has written it, threatened it, spouted it, or knocked it 44 00:03:16,915 --> 00:03:19,915 Speaker 1: down to the bulldozer, Mike has heard nothing about it. 45 00:03:20,475 --> 00:03:23,155 Speaker 1: Wait until he learns that Lindbergh has just landed in 46 00:03:23,195 --> 00:03:28,315 Speaker 1: Paris for this attempted political assassination of his counterpart in 47 00:03:28,355 --> 00:03:32,835 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. Mike Johnson blames the Democratic Party. 48 00:03:33,075 --> 00:03:35,075 Speaker 2: Getting back to the threat to hiking Jeffries. 49 00:03:35,155 --> 00:03:38,315 Speaker 3: This is one of the number of individuals in the 50 00:03:38,395 --> 00:03:41,075 Speaker 3: party as a result of January sixth who have been 51 00:03:41,275 --> 00:03:43,235 Speaker 3: rearrested on various charges. 52 00:03:43,555 --> 00:03:46,075 Speaker 2: Did President Trump make a mistake by just offering up 53 00:03:46,115 --> 00:03:49,315 Speaker 2: a blanket part for every single person that was convicted 54 00:03:49,315 --> 00:03:51,675 Speaker 2: as a result. I don't know any of any of 55 00:03:51,715 --> 00:03:53,595 Speaker 2: the details of this at all. This is the left 56 00:03:54,075 --> 00:03:56,355 Speaker 2: in almost every case that is advancing is and not 57 00:03:56,435 --> 00:03:57,995 Speaker 2: the right. So let's not make it a part as 58 00:03:58,035 --> 00:03:59,835 Speaker 2: an issue. You don't want me to go there. Elected 59 00:03:59,835 --> 00:04:03,595 Speaker 2: officials participating in a rally that was paid for by 60 00:04:03,635 --> 00:04:08,115 Speaker 2: Sourus Soros, sponsored by communists with signs and placards and 61 00:04:09,155 --> 00:04:11,915 Speaker 2: mantras that were repeated that we should bring death to 62 00:04:12,155 --> 00:04:14,915 Speaker 2: you fascist politicians. What they mean is they call every 63 00:04:14,955 --> 00:04:17,395 Speaker 2: Republican of fascist. Now they're calling for the death of 64 00:04:17,435 --> 00:04:18,235 Speaker 2: elected officials. 65 00:04:18,915 --> 00:04:24,115 Speaker 1: Yeah, George Sorows paid for all the frog costumes and 66 00:04:24,235 --> 00:04:27,915 Speaker 1: for all the January sixth terrorists to threaten the king. 67 00:04:28,035 --> 00:04:32,355 Speaker 1: Jeffreys and Mike Johnson says, I don't want to make 68 00:04:32,395 --> 00:04:35,515 Speaker 1: this partisan, so let me just insist that the left 69 00:04:35,595 --> 00:04:40,155 Speaker 1: is entirely at fault. Just the left go back to 70 00:04:40,195 --> 00:04:44,475 Speaker 1: your porn app Emmer went back to the terrorism well 71 00:04:44,555 --> 00:04:48,315 Speaker 1: on Tuesday, insisting, I guess that invisible no King's protesters 72 00:04:48,355 --> 00:04:53,035 Speaker 1: committed invisible violence last Saturday, so quote Democrats can appease 73 00:04:53,075 --> 00:04:57,315 Speaker 1: their radical pro terrorist wing. And then yesterday the worst 74 00:04:57,995 --> 00:05:04,315 Speaker 1: weakest bully character in this timeline, Tom Holman, Tom, I'll 75 00:05:04,315 --> 00:05:08,355 Speaker 1: take it with me, Homan, Tom, I'll have it to go. Homan. 76 00:05:08,955 --> 00:05:16,915 Speaker 1: Tom My name literally spells ho Man Homan. He went 77 00:05:16,955 --> 00:05:18,035 Speaker 1: back to this crap too. 78 00:05:18,595 --> 00:05:20,515 Speaker 2: They're not pulling back how they continue to do it? 79 00:05:20,595 --> 00:05:22,715 Speaker 2: This weekend at the No King's protests, I watched more 80 00:05:22,755 --> 00:05:23,195 Speaker 2: of the rhetoric. 81 00:05:23,635 --> 00:05:25,955 Speaker 3: They've lost their minds, and I'm telling you the Bloodshe's 82 00:05:26,035 --> 00:05:28,515 Speaker 3: not over if we don't address their rhetoric. 83 00:05:28,915 --> 00:05:31,315 Speaker 1: Is there any way to get Tom Holman to shut 84 00:05:31,355 --> 00:05:35,395 Speaker 1: the f up? Oh right? Fifty thousand dollars in a 85 00:05:35,475 --> 00:05:39,115 Speaker 1: kava bag. By the way, what's wrong with his voice there? 86 00:05:39,595 --> 00:05:43,275 Speaker 1: Did he really say pro TETs? I was listening to 87 00:05:43,315 --> 00:05:49,075 Speaker 1: the protests for all my jovial Well, we're all gonna 88 00:05:49,115 --> 00:05:52,795 Speaker 1: die any who bon on me here. There is a second, 89 00:05:52,875 --> 00:05:56,075 Speaker 1: possibly more malicious component to Trump's long hinted at never 90 00:05:56,155 --> 00:05:59,635 Speaker 1: spelled out. That's why they call it stochastic terrorism. NBC 91 00:05:59,835 --> 00:06:03,675 Speaker 1: reports that Eric Swallwell, the California congressman, has gotten multiple 92 00:06:03,755 --> 00:06:07,915 Speaker 1: threatening messages from Wow, I'm gonna guess that they were Trumpists, 93 00:06:08,435 --> 00:06:11,915 Speaker 1: just a stab in the dark there, and Swalwell has 94 00:06:11,915 --> 00:06:15,715 Speaker 1: reported them to the Department of Justice, which has done nothing. 95 00:06:16,875 --> 00:06:18,835 Speaker 1: They want to put some guy in jail for threatening 96 00:06:18,875 --> 00:06:24,715 Speaker 1: the Maga FOP and Erzat's Russian propagandist Benny Johnson. Swalwell 97 00:06:24,795 --> 00:06:29,635 Speaker 1: sitting congressoon nothing. This segues into the one party nation 98 00:06:29,875 --> 00:06:34,075 Speaker 1: thing you know about the Komy prosecution and Letitia James 99 00:06:34,555 --> 00:06:37,395 Speaker 1: and the arrests of Brad Lander and Senator Alex Padilla 100 00:06:37,475 --> 00:06:40,755 Speaker 1: and Representative Lamonica MacIvor of New Jersey when they were 101 00:06:40,795 --> 00:06:46,395 Speaker 1: assaulted by ice ISIS agents. Well, the Komy and James 102 00:06:46,395 --> 00:06:49,075 Speaker 1: cases appear to be collapsing because the prosecutor is not 103 00:06:49,075 --> 00:06:51,595 Speaker 1: only an idiot, but nobody seems to be able to 104 00:06:51,675 --> 00:06:55,355 Speaker 1: prove she was legally appointed. Makaiv to her credit, has 105 00:06:55,395 --> 00:06:58,195 Speaker 1: decided to try to hoist Trump on his own petard 106 00:06:58,835 --> 00:07:01,635 Speaker 1: like comy. She has filed to dismiss based on selective 107 00:07:01,635 --> 00:07:06,035 Speaker 1: and vindictive prosecution, but she has added some thing cited 108 00:07:06,195 --> 00:07:11,875 Speaker 1: a little Supreme Court case called Trump the United States, 109 00:07:11,915 --> 00:07:15,235 Speaker 1: in which, as a result of which Congresswoman Mackivor is 110 00:07:15,235 --> 00:07:21,275 Speaker 1: claiming legislative immunity she was conducting official oversight duties in 111 00:07:21,315 --> 00:07:24,595 Speaker 1: her role as a member of the House. And arresting 112 00:07:24,635 --> 00:07:28,195 Speaker 1: her and putting her on jail and no trial. Just 113 00:07:28,355 --> 00:07:33,555 Speaker 1: starting the trial is another ice pick to the neck 114 00:07:33,595 --> 00:07:36,875 Speaker 1: of democracy because as a representative she cannot accept pro 115 00:07:36,955 --> 00:07:40,115 Speaker 1: bono legal aid. So whether or not there ever is 116 00:07:40,155 --> 00:07:42,995 Speaker 1: a trial, she has to pay for a lawyer when 117 00:07:43,035 --> 00:07:47,195 Speaker 1: this is ICE's fault ices. And then of course there's 118 00:07:47,275 --> 00:07:50,795 Speaker 1: knocking down the White House and replacing it with Marrilago 119 00:07:50,995 --> 00:07:55,435 Speaker 1: parking lots only with umbrellas and a ballroom. Because when 120 00:07:55,435 --> 00:08:00,235 Speaker 1: I think Trump, I think that guy is a dancer. 121 00:08:02,715 --> 00:08:09,155 Speaker 1: The analogies right themselves. One in particular, years ago, I 122 00:08:09,195 --> 00:08:14,355 Speaker 1: remember having a cordial territorial conversation over imagery about Trump 123 00:08:14,555 --> 00:08:18,955 Speaker 1: with another Trump resistance figure. I think this was twenty seventeen, 124 00:08:19,035 --> 00:08:23,115 Speaker 1: maybe twenty sixteen. I said, you know, it's obvious Trump 125 00:08:23,155 --> 00:08:27,995 Speaker 1: behaves like the character Anthony in the horrifying Twilight Zone 126 00:08:27,995 --> 00:08:31,355 Speaker 1: episode It's a Good Life, where it appears that a 127 00:08:31,395 --> 00:08:36,035 Speaker 1: little boy stunningly portrayed by the actor William Moomey, can 128 00:08:36,075 --> 00:08:40,995 Speaker 1: make things disappear and make it snow in summer, and 129 00:08:41,115 --> 00:08:45,235 Speaker 1: can kill people just with his mind. And he has 130 00:08:45,275 --> 00:08:49,795 Speaker 1: apparently already destroyed everything in the world except for a 131 00:08:49,875 --> 00:08:53,835 Speaker 1: block or two of his hometown, and the terrified adults 132 00:08:53,875 --> 00:08:56,875 Speaker 1: who are left are just humoring him rather than taking 133 00:08:56,915 --> 00:08:59,435 Speaker 1: the advice of one of them to kill him while 134 00:08:59,475 --> 00:09:03,075 Speaker 1: he's distracted, and they don't kill him, and he turns 135 00:09:03,115 --> 00:09:05,915 Speaker 1: the guy into a jacket the box and his wife 136 00:09:05,995 --> 00:09:10,595 Speaker 1: has to suppress her screams because otherwise she will be next. 137 00:09:11,515 --> 00:09:17,275 Speaker 1: So two of us agreed, Hey, Anthony, that's Trump and 138 00:09:17,595 --> 00:09:21,795 Speaker 1: the ones around the Anthony those are the Republicans. And 139 00:09:21,875 --> 00:09:25,915 Speaker 1: I forget how we decided to share the Anthony comp 140 00:09:27,075 --> 00:09:29,955 Speaker 1: But regardless, I truly doubt either of us were first 141 00:09:30,275 --> 00:09:34,955 Speaker 1: to think of this. I imagine one of Trump's ex wives 142 00:09:34,995 --> 00:09:37,835 Speaker 1: thought of this. And I note that Josh Marshall of 143 00:09:37,875 --> 00:09:41,955 Speaker 1: TPM has now invoked Anthony and claimed Trump has shifted 144 00:09:41,995 --> 00:09:45,835 Speaker 1: into new territory like Anthony, and I applaud the reference, 145 00:09:45,875 --> 00:09:49,835 Speaker 1: and I love Josh, but I doubt only the newness. Still, 146 00:09:49,955 --> 00:09:55,075 Speaker 1: Josh raises one really good point that needs Anthony for explanation. 147 00:09:55,475 --> 00:09:59,955 Speaker 1: We get why Trump does Putin's bidding, why he is 148 00:10:00,115 --> 00:10:03,875 Speaker 1: Putin's whore, We get why Trump wants two hundred and 149 00:10:03,915 --> 00:10:07,355 Speaker 1: thirty million dollars, and by the way, Congressman Raskin says, 150 00:10:07,755 --> 00:10:12,515 Speaker 1: Trump can do this in secret and only afterwards will 151 00:10:12,555 --> 00:10:14,995 Speaker 1: we find out it has already happened. He can get 152 00:10:14,995 --> 00:10:17,315 Speaker 1: the two hundred and thirty million dollars and not make 153 00:10:17,355 --> 00:10:19,595 Speaker 1: any kind of announcement from the Department of Justice in 154 00:10:19,635 --> 00:10:23,755 Speaker 1: a settlement on which he is both the settler and 155 00:10:23,795 --> 00:10:28,835 Speaker 1: the settled. Nice we get why he would do anything 156 00:10:28,875 --> 00:10:31,555 Speaker 1: to win a Nobel prize, although he seemed just as 157 00:10:31,675 --> 00:10:35,035 Speaker 1: pleased the other day to get a small Peacemaker Award 158 00:10:35,235 --> 00:10:38,595 Speaker 1: from the Richard Nixon Foundation, an award you could describe 159 00:10:38,595 --> 00:10:42,315 Speaker 1: as a small dick award. We get the grift, we 160 00:10:42,395 --> 00:10:45,755 Speaker 1: get the graft, We get the humiliating of the underlings. 161 00:10:47,235 --> 00:10:52,515 Speaker 1: The ballroom and knocking down the White House. Nobody gets that. 162 00:10:53,395 --> 00:10:56,315 Speaker 1: Who the f wants a ballroom at the White House. 163 00:10:58,075 --> 00:11:01,115 Speaker 1: Lots of presidents have made lots of structural improvements to 164 00:11:01,155 --> 00:11:03,755 Speaker 1: the White House. Hell, it's been remodeled or cleaned up 165 00:11:03,835 --> 00:11:06,475 Speaker 1: or hollowed out by everybody from John Adams to Harry Truman. 166 00:11:07,315 --> 00:11:12,235 Speaker 1: But you upend the world, destroy what little goodness there 167 00:11:12,355 --> 00:11:15,155 Speaker 1: is in the world, in order to get yourself into 168 00:11:15,195 --> 00:11:18,635 Speaker 1: the White House as president, to control the White House. 169 00:11:18,795 --> 00:11:20,835 Speaker 1: And so the first thing you do is knock part 170 00:11:20,875 --> 00:11:26,115 Speaker 1: of it down rather than remodel. On the off chance 171 00:11:26,155 --> 00:11:28,555 Speaker 1: that if in ten or twenty years it is still 172 00:11:28,595 --> 00:11:32,675 Speaker 1: legal to say the word Trump out loud in this country, 173 00:11:32,995 --> 00:11:36,115 Speaker 1: which I doubt one of the few positives you could 174 00:11:36,155 --> 00:11:38,995 Speaker 1: have said was yeah, yeah, he nearly killed us all 175 00:11:39,475 --> 00:11:41,395 Speaker 1: and he was mad as a hatter. Funny the way 176 00:11:41,395 --> 00:11:43,795 Speaker 1: that all turned out. But he did a nice job 177 00:11:43,875 --> 00:11:47,155 Speaker 1: fixing up the East Wing. Those are the Trump restorations. 178 00:11:47,195 --> 00:11:51,115 Speaker 1: I can still say Trump without going to jail, right, No, 179 00:11:51,275 --> 00:11:59,155 Speaker 1: knock it down just cuz just cause you can, because 180 00:11:59,195 --> 00:12:01,875 Speaker 1: you're Anthony from the Twilight Zone, and you can wish 181 00:12:01,955 --> 00:12:05,355 Speaker 1: it into the cornfield. You can do it if you're 182 00:12:05,395 --> 00:12:12,075 Speaker 1: Trump because it gives you something to do. I will 183 00:12:12,075 --> 00:12:15,435 Speaker 1: add I have some personal experience with this. Eighteen years ago, 184 00:12:15,555 --> 00:12:18,475 Speaker 1: Katie Turrer and I bought into a Trump building here. 185 00:12:18,515 --> 00:12:22,115 Speaker 1: We got an apartment, well I bought. She tore down 186 00:12:22,155 --> 00:12:24,195 Speaker 1: curtains without checking to see if they were custom and 187 00:12:24,235 --> 00:12:28,435 Speaker 1: motorized and cost twenty five thousand dollars to replace. Anyway, 188 00:12:29,555 --> 00:12:32,795 Speaker 1: Trump wrote me a fan letter not long after, in 189 00:12:32,875 --> 00:12:36,635 Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, I think, just at the point his building 190 00:12:36,675 --> 00:12:40,235 Speaker 1: began to fall apart. The elevators didn't run anymore and 191 00:12:40,275 --> 00:12:44,395 Speaker 1: the heating broke down. And I'm no dummy. He's always 192 00:12:44,475 --> 00:12:47,315 Speaker 1: been Anthony from the Twilight Zone. So I wrote him 193 00:12:47,355 --> 00:12:49,515 Speaker 1: back after his fan letter to me, and I thanked 194 00:12:49,595 --> 00:12:53,915 Speaker 1: him for his kind words, and I played him. I 195 00:12:53,995 --> 00:12:58,635 Speaker 1: know you don't own the building, sir, but as the 196 00:12:58,635 --> 00:13:02,515 Speaker 1: son of an architect, I understand the pride of the builder, 197 00:13:02,555 --> 00:13:06,475 Speaker 1: Anthony Donald. I know you'd take it personally because it 198 00:13:06,515 --> 00:13:09,035 Speaker 1: has your name on it, and the building staff is 199 00:13:09,075 --> 00:13:11,195 Speaker 1: doing great, but I think your builders from twenty five 200 00:13:11,275 --> 00:13:14,195 Speaker 1: years ago may have taken advantage of your kind nature. 201 00:13:14,675 --> 00:13:20,115 Speaker 1: And the phone rang two or three days later, and 202 00:13:20,195 --> 00:13:22,635 Speaker 1: it was one of his chief flunkies, and he said 203 00:13:22,635 --> 00:13:25,795 Speaker 1: Trump had gotten my letter and really appreciated it and 204 00:13:25,955 --> 00:13:28,235 Speaker 1: was delighted. I lived there, and he'd be coming over 205 00:13:28,315 --> 00:13:30,995 Speaker 1: to see the problem's first hand. And sure enough, there 206 00:13:30,995 --> 00:13:34,195 Speaker 1: he was in the lobby waiting for me. And he 207 00:13:34,195 --> 00:13:36,635 Speaker 1: couldn't have greased me more if I had been a 208 00:13:36,755 --> 00:13:41,355 Speaker 1: maserati with squeaky axles. And he promised that the heat 209 00:13:41,355 --> 00:13:43,795 Speaker 1: would be improved and the elevators would run on time, 210 00:13:43,875 --> 00:13:46,715 Speaker 1: and he strode off, and a week later they began 211 00:13:47,115 --> 00:13:53,515 Speaker 1: construction on a new revolving door on the south side 212 00:13:53,515 --> 00:14:00,115 Speaker 1: of the lobby and the complete remodeling of the gym, 213 00:14:00,995 --> 00:14:03,515 Speaker 1: because that's what he saw last on his way out, 214 00:14:03,835 --> 00:14:07,075 Speaker 1: and frankly, would he listen to anybody, but about building 215 00:14:07,155 --> 00:14:09,835 Speaker 1: stuff when he could listen to those voices inside his 216 00:14:09,915 --> 00:14:13,675 Speaker 1: head that he always listens to. And that's why, Josh, 217 00:14:13,715 --> 00:14:16,235 Speaker 1: he's building a ballroom and knocking down the East Wing. 218 00:14:16,315 --> 00:14:19,595 Speaker 1: Because to a psychopath like Trump, the act of building 219 00:14:20,515 --> 00:14:24,115 Speaker 1: is the same as the act of destructing and destruction. 220 00:14:25,355 --> 00:14:30,675 Speaker 1: It isn't Trump built this or Trump destroyed that. Those 221 00:14:30,955 --> 00:14:34,355 Speaker 1: are the same. To him. The only thing he can 222 00:14:34,435 --> 00:14:41,875 Speaker 1: process is I Trump, I Trump Trump did this boom 223 00:14:41,875 --> 00:14:47,075 Speaker 1: boom boom bang bang bang fall fall fall. So he 224 00:14:47,155 --> 00:14:57,075 Speaker 1: knocks down the East Wing and knocks down democracy and 225 00:14:57,155 --> 00:15:00,075 Speaker 1: tries to get Democrats killed by somebody else. Of course, 226 00:15:02,475 --> 00:15:07,075 Speaker 1: wish it into the cornfield, everybody wish it into the cornfield. 227 00:15:34,195 --> 00:15:38,355 Speaker 1: Then there are the baseline stupid people in his thrall, 228 00:15:38,635 --> 00:15:41,395 Speaker 1: in Anthony's thrall here, And I want to thank one 229 00:15:41,395 --> 00:15:45,995 Speaker 1: of the stupidest, Jamie Comer. Bless you, bless you for 230 00:15:46,075 --> 00:15:48,595 Speaker 1: bringing trump Steen back to the front of the picture. 231 00:15:49,475 --> 00:15:53,195 Speaker 1: Holy cow, Just when you think you've dug down far 232 00:15:53,315 --> 00:15:57,275 Speaker 1: enough to actually find how low Comber's intelligence is and 233 00:15:57,475 --> 00:16:01,835 Speaker 1: in the process also reach the Earth's creamy nugat center, 234 00:16:02,955 --> 00:16:05,155 Speaker 1: turns out you still have deeper to go, Oh, he's 235 00:16:05,235 --> 00:16:10,035 Speaker 1: dumber than you thought. Way in the Trump the tighter ship. 236 00:16:10,075 --> 00:16:15,875 Speaker 1: Can't release the Epstein files, he says, because you've heard this. 237 00:16:16,395 --> 00:16:21,235 Speaker 1: Because we can't release the Epstein files because because they 238 00:16:21,235 --> 00:16:22,555 Speaker 1: would clear Trump. 239 00:16:22,875 --> 00:16:26,595 Speaker 3: The evidence we've gathered does not implicate President Trump in 240 00:16:26,635 --> 00:16:32,155 Speaker 3: any way. Public reporting, survivor testimony, and official documents show 241 00:16:32,195 --> 00:16:36,715 Speaker 3: that Bill Clinton had far closer ties to Epstein. 242 00:16:37,155 --> 00:16:41,475 Speaker 1: So Comer says, they implicate Bill Clinton and they clear Trump. 243 00:16:41,675 --> 00:16:45,275 Speaker 1: So whatever you do, don't release them and clear Trump 244 00:16:45,555 --> 00:16:49,475 Speaker 1: and send Clinton to the Big House. What Republican would 245 00:16:49,475 --> 00:16:52,915 Speaker 1: want those things to happen? My god, that would be 246 00:16:52,995 --> 00:16:56,515 Speaker 1: terrible for the Republicans if it cleared Trump and sent 247 00:16:56,595 --> 00:16:59,195 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton to the to the to the Big House. 248 00:17:00,355 --> 00:17:08,355 Speaker 1: Are the magas buying this? The one who literally cheers 249 00:17:09,155 --> 00:17:12,675 Speaker 1: ai images of Trump shitting on him from a plane, 250 00:17:13,115 --> 00:17:18,955 Speaker 1: is he buying this? Are he and the others are? 251 00:17:19,275 --> 00:17:22,795 Speaker 1: Are they even buying this? Can't release the Epstein files 252 00:17:22,795 --> 00:17:26,715 Speaker 1: because they clear Trump and implicate Bell Clinton. Thank you, 253 00:17:26,915 --> 00:17:40,115 Speaker 1: Jamie Comer. Meantime, can we stop with the Democratic self flagellation? 254 00:17:40,355 --> 00:17:43,715 Speaker 1: Gallup is out with its new political party identification pulling 255 00:17:43,835 --> 00:17:46,875 Speaker 1: and guess which Party is in front by seven points. No, 256 00:17:47,275 --> 00:17:53,235 Speaker 1: it's not Jamie Comer's party, it's the real Democrats. Surprise, 257 00:17:55,075 --> 00:17:58,355 Speaker 1: Forty eight percent of Americans identify as Democrats forty one 258 00:17:58,435 --> 00:18:02,795 Speaker 1: percent as Republicans. That margin seven points is larger than 259 00:18:02,795 --> 00:18:05,155 Speaker 1: the advantage the Democrats had in the third quarter of 260 00:18:05,155 --> 00:18:09,075 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, a year before Democracy took back the House. 261 00:18:10,235 --> 00:18:13,995 Speaker 1: The great polster Elliott Morris of Strengthened Numbers notes seven 262 00:18:14,035 --> 00:18:17,595 Speaker 1: points is almost as big as the Dems had during 263 00:18:17,675 --> 00:18:21,675 Speaker 1: Obama's re election campaign. He also notes that if you 264 00:18:21,675 --> 00:18:25,115 Speaker 1: are still panicking over the hard numbers about increased actual 265 00:18:25,155 --> 00:18:30,315 Speaker 1: registrations as Republicans or Democrats, stop doing that. Most of 266 00:18:30,355 --> 00:18:32,835 Speaker 1: the data was old, and this is an off year. 267 00:18:32,875 --> 00:18:37,075 Speaker 1: There are almost no elections, thus almost no new registrations, 268 00:18:37,275 --> 00:18:42,555 Speaker 1: almost no meaning to those registrations that do happen, Which 269 00:18:42,595 --> 00:18:45,515 Speaker 1: is a reminder that the next time somebody tells you 270 00:18:45,555 --> 00:18:49,995 Speaker 1: the Democratic brand is fatally wounded and moderate this and 271 00:18:50,075 --> 00:18:53,875 Speaker 1: republican permanent majority, that remind them that poor opinions of 272 00:18:53,875 --> 00:18:56,995 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party as an entity is not an indicator 273 00:18:56,995 --> 00:19:00,435 Speaker 1: that people have stopped being Democrats. It is, however, an 274 00:19:00,435 --> 00:19:03,115 Speaker 1: indicator that Democrats are pissed at how poorly the party 275 00:19:03,195 --> 00:19:07,795 Speaker 1: is run. Sepidly it is fighting back against Trump's latest coup, 276 00:19:08,195 --> 00:19:11,795 Speaker 1: how it seems to somehow always snatch defeat from the 277 00:19:11,915 --> 00:19:16,035 Speaker 1: jaws of victory. Most of the people unhappy with the 278 00:19:16,035 --> 00:19:20,675 Speaker 1: Democrats are the Democrats, which takes us lastly to Maine 279 00:19:20,755 --> 00:19:30,995 Speaker 1: and Graham Platner. Hello, mister Platner, Graham Plattner, you out, 280 00:19:31,475 --> 00:19:36,315 Speaker 1: get out, Get the f out, the populist candidate for 281 00:19:36,355 --> 00:19:38,795 Speaker 1: the Democratic nomination for the Senate to run against Susan 282 00:19:38,795 --> 00:19:41,835 Speaker 1: Collins in Maine. And he said stupid things on Reddit 283 00:19:41,955 --> 00:19:46,955 Speaker 1: years ago. And then he also revealed Monday night he's 284 00:19:47,035 --> 00:19:50,475 Speaker 1: had a you know, a Nazi deathhead skull tattoo on 285 00:19:50,515 --> 00:19:54,075 Speaker 1: his chest for like eighteen years, and he didn't know. 286 00:19:54,875 --> 00:19:57,395 Speaker 1: He didn't know. Now he knew he had a tattoo. 287 00:19:58,035 --> 00:20:01,435 Speaker 1: He didn't know it was a Nazi death's head tattoo. 288 00:20:02,155 --> 00:20:04,195 Speaker 1: It would have been better if he didn't know he 289 00:20:04,195 --> 00:20:06,395 Speaker 1: had a tat because that would make him just an 290 00:20:06,435 --> 00:20:10,795 Speaker 1: eccentric with a really high pain threshold. No, No, he's 291 00:20:11,635 --> 00:20:15,915 Speaker 1: had a Nazi death's head skull tattoo on his chessince 292 00:20:15,955 --> 00:20:18,755 Speaker 1: two thousand and seven and he ran for Senate, and 293 00:20:18,795 --> 00:20:20,795 Speaker 1: then somebody told him it was a Nazi tattoo, so 294 00:20:20,875 --> 00:20:22,515 Speaker 1: he did what anybody would do that he released the 295 00:20:22,555 --> 00:20:28,835 Speaker 1: topless video of himself drunk dancing at a wedding showing 296 00:20:28,875 --> 00:20:33,275 Speaker 1: the tattoo on a podcast. Didn't occur to him to 297 00:20:33,315 --> 00:20:35,875 Speaker 1: call a news conference at a tattoo parlor and answer 298 00:20:35,995 --> 00:20:38,115 Speaker 1: questions about it and how he could have been so 299 00:20:38,315 --> 00:20:42,275 Speaker 1: stupid while he was getting the tattoo covered over or 300 00:20:42,275 --> 00:20:46,155 Speaker 1: turned into a bunny rabbit or just removed, like you 301 00:20:46,235 --> 00:20:49,115 Speaker 1: would if you suddenly found out your cool tattoo from 302 00:20:49,115 --> 00:20:51,635 Speaker 1: when you were in the army or something was actually 303 00:20:51,675 --> 00:20:54,595 Speaker 1: a Nazi tattoo, like you would if you weren't a Nazi. 304 00:20:56,715 --> 00:20:59,715 Speaker 1: Platner said later he was already planning to have it 305 00:20:59,755 --> 00:21:03,195 Speaker 1: removed in the near future. Later and then he claimed 306 00:21:03,395 --> 00:21:06,195 Speaker 1: late yesterday he's now had it removed or covered over 307 00:21:06,355 --> 00:21:09,355 Speaker 1: or something. Fingers crossed. He hasn't had it covered over 308 00:21:09,475 --> 00:21:15,115 Speaker 1: with like a picture Hitler or Trump. And Bernie Sanders 309 00:21:15,155 --> 00:21:18,315 Speaker 1: is still endorsing Platner, and other people are still supporting Platner, 310 00:21:18,355 --> 00:21:21,355 Speaker 1: and I supported him on this podcast last week, especially 311 00:21:21,435 --> 00:21:24,875 Speaker 1: since the Shumerian candidate for the Senate bid is seventy 312 00:21:24,955 --> 00:21:28,035 Speaker 1: nine year old term limited main Governor Janet Mills, an 313 00:21:28,035 --> 00:21:31,715 Speaker 1: excellent Democrat who would instantly make Susan Collins look like 314 00:21:31,755 --> 00:21:36,995 Speaker 1: a kid because Susan Collins is only seventy two And okay, 315 00:21:37,115 --> 00:21:40,235 Speaker 1: so what That's not the point right now. The point is, 316 00:21:40,675 --> 00:21:45,115 Speaker 1: this isn't Maga, This isn't Paul Ngracia admitting to being 317 00:21:45,195 --> 00:21:48,715 Speaker 1: a bit of a Nazi and if you criticize him, 318 00:21:48,755 --> 00:21:50,955 Speaker 1: he sends his mommy to your office to try to 319 00:21:51,035 --> 00:21:55,075 Speaker 1: threaten you over insults to her thirty year old son. No, no, 320 00:21:55,195 --> 00:21:58,995 Speaker 1: this isn't the looney Party. We have to remain nothing 321 00:21:58,995 --> 00:22:04,035 Speaker 1: worse than the slightly silly Party. Maybe Mills ultimately is 322 00:22:04,035 --> 00:22:07,555 Speaker 1: the Democratic nominee. Maybe it's somebody else, God knows. There 323 00:22:07,635 --> 00:22:09,955 Speaker 1: must be a populist Democrat in Maine who has not 324 00:22:10,115 --> 00:22:14,035 Speaker 1: had a Nazi tattoo, or at least has had the 325 00:22:14,075 --> 00:22:18,715 Speaker 1: minimum intelligence required like an IQ of ffect fourteen, to 326 00:22:18,835 --> 00:22:21,915 Speaker 1: immediately get the tattoo removed with the media at present 327 00:22:22,795 --> 00:22:26,675 Speaker 1: and apologizing that it was been there in the first place, 328 00:22:26,955 --> 00:22:29,195 Speaker 1: and he screwed up and look at him, showing his 329 00:22:29,355 --> 00:22:32,915 Speaker 1: pain tolerance by getting it removed with all the cameras rolling. 330 00:22:35,915 --> 00:22:38,755 Speaker 1: He didn't have the common sense to get the tattoo 331 00:22:38,835 --> 00:22:46,555 Speaker 1: removed first, or in public, or for God's sakes, be creative, 332 00:22:46,635 --> 00:22:49,835 Speaker 1: think big, be big, my friend, do it at a 333 00:22:49,835 --> 00:22:55,755 Speaker 1: fundraiser for people who are too destitute to get their 334 00:22:55,875 --> 00:22:58,795 Speaker 1: Nazi tattoos removed. I don't care. Do it as a 335 00:22:58,875 --> 00:23:06,915 Speaker 1: charity event. Listen, years ago, the infamous ex girlfriend and 336 00:23:06,955 --> 00:23:12,755 Speaker 1: I got dogs and rings and cohabitation and more or 337 00:23:12,875 --> 00:23:16,995 Speaker 1: less matching tattoos. And since we broke up, every once 338 00:23:17,035 --> 00:23:18,915 Speaker 1: in a while, every couple of years, I think about 339 00:23:18,915 --> 00:23:24,835 Speaker 1: getting my tattoo burned off or changed. And all my 340 00:23:25,075 --> 00:23:30,515 Speaker 1: tattoo is is an olive branch. Just doesn't feel right. 341 00:23:34,275 --> 00:23:37,515 Speaker 1: She wanted to get a KO on the back of 342 00:23:37,555 --> 00:23:40,355 Speaker 1: her neck, and I said, I love you. It's a 343 00:23:40,395 --> 00:23:46,475 Speaker 1: wonderful gesture. Just get the oh. Not only is that 344 00:23:46,515 --> 00:23:50,475 Speaker 1: a sufficient gesture for me, I'll know what it means. 345 00:23:50,875 --> 00:23:55,155 Speaker 1: But look, what if we actually, uh, we don't get married, 346 00:23:56,555 --> 00:24:00,235 Speaker 1: then you have just an O that could just stand 347 00:24:00,315 --> 00:24:04,395 Speaker 1: for your name, or you could just make up a story. 348 00:24:04,715 --> 00:24:08,355 Speaker 1: He doesn't have my initials on your neck, and you 349 00:24:08,435 --> 00:24:12,595 Speaker 1: never have to. I don't know, get it burned off. 350 00:24:13,955 --> 00:24:15,635 Speaker 1: I had real insight, I would have said, you never 351 00:24:15,835 --> 00:24:21,075 Speaker 1: have to explain it to RFK Junior. Graham Plattner's tattoo 352 00:24:22,435 --> 00:24:27,675 Speaker 1: or X tattoo is disqualifying. But if somehow you don't 353 00:24:27,715 --> 00:24:31,595 Speaker 1: think so Bernie, then the fact that he didn't do 354 00:24:31,755 --> 00:24:37,355 Speaker 1: anything about it is even more disqualifying, because that is 355 00:24:37,395 --> 00:24:40,795 Speaker 1: about his judgment. And the point about Graham Platner's judgment 356 00:24:40,955 --> 00:24:49,115 Speaker 1: is he clearly doesn't have any judgments. 357 00:24:57,835 --> 00:25:04,115 Speaker 4: This is sports Senate, Wait, check that not anymore. This 358 00:25:05,075 --> 00:25:08,755 Speaker 4: is countdown with Keith Ulberman. 359 00:25:09,075 --> 00:25:12,915 Speaker 1: I have a sports note. I just have to share this. 360 00:25:13,155 --> 00:25:17,875 Speaker 1: It's a baseball history geek note. The San Francisco Giants 361 00:25:17,915 --> 00:25:21,875 Speaker 1: have hired the University of Tennessee's baseball coach Tony Vottello 362 00:25:22,435 --> 00:25:26,315 Speaker 1: as their new manager. I am somebody who thinks that 363 00:25:26,435 --> 00:25:28,795 Speaker 1: ninety eight out of one hundred current Major League baseball 364 00:25:28,795 --> 00:25:31,995 Speaker 1: players have unprecedented skills. They can throw and hit and 365 00:25:32,035 --> 00:25:34,995 Speaker 1: feel better than anybody who ever came before them, but 366 00:25:36,475 --> 00:25:38,515 Speaker 1: only two out of the same one hundred can actually 367 00:25:38,515 --> 00:25:44,795 Speaker 1: play baseball without written instructions. As such, I think hiring 368 00:25:44,795 --> 00:25:47,595 Speaker 1: a college coach who is used to teaching fundamentals might 369 00:25:47,635 --> 00:25:50,715 Speaker 1: be a good thing, but I do want to correct 370 00:25:50,755 --> 00:25:54,195 Speaker 1: a historical mistake that is becoming the headline about the 371 00:25:54,275 --> 00:25:57,795 Speaker 1: hiring of Tony Vottello from Tennessee to go directly from 372 00:25:57,835 --> 00:26:00,355 Speaker 1: college to manage a major league ball club. He would 373 00:26:00,395 --> 00:26:04,275 Speaker 1: not be the first college coach hired directly to manage 374 00:26:04,275 --> 00:26:07,235 Speaker 1: a major league team, even though he had no previous 375 00:26:07,275 --> 00:26:10,995 Speaker 1: pro experience. Been a couple of guys who've been college 376 00:26:10,995 --> 00:26:15,155 Speaker 1: coaches and then became managers. Branch Rickey was at the 377 00:26:15,235 --> 00:26:19,915 Speaker 1: University of Michigan. Hugo Bezdeck went from Oregon to the 378 00:26:19,955 --> 00:26:23,635 Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Pirates in nineteen seventeen. But Hugo Bezdeck had managed 379 00:26:23,675 --> 00:26:27,435 Speaker 1: in the miners before he went to Oregon. But this 380 00:26:27,915 --> 00:26:31,555 Speaker 1: Vitello route one day, your college coach who's never been 381 00:26:31,595 --> 00:26:35,195 Speaker 1: a pro manager or coach, next day or pro manager. 382 00:26:36,475 --> 00:26:40,355 Speaker 1: That has happened before. Admittedly it has not happened since 383 00:26:40,435 --> 00:26:44,595 Speaker 1: nineteen off seven, and even more admittedly it didn't go 384 00:26:44,675 --> 00:26:50,595 Speaker 1: real well. But when Cy Young gave up as player 385 00:26:50,675 --> 00:26:53,315 Speaker 1: manager of the Boston Red Sox after six games in 386 00:26:53,435 --> 00:26:56,755 Speaker 1: nineteen oh seven, when he said I'm going from Cy 387 00:26:56,875 --> 00:27:02,155 Speaker 1: Young to Sayonara, the Red Sox hired the Illinois baseball coach, 388 00:27:02,195 --> 00:27:04,555 Speaker 1: and he was a famous one named George Huff as 389 00:27:04,675 --> 00:27:08,075 Speaker 1: the manager. Get here to Boston as quickly as you 390 00:27:08,115 --> 00:27:13,315 Speaker 1: can get a high speed train. George Huff had played 391 00:27:13,355 --> 00:27:16,595 Speaker 1: a little in the low baseball miners in the nineteenth century, 392 00:27:16,595 --> 00:27:19,755 Speaker 1: but he had no managerial or coaching experience in the pros. 393 00:27:20,395 --> 00:27:25,075 Speaker 1: And it did not go well. He quit after eight games. 394 00:27:25,835 --> 00:27:28,555 Speaker 1: He rushed back to the University of Illinois and he 395 00:27:28,635 --> 00:27:32,675 Speaker 1: stayed there. And I'm not wishing the Giants any problems 396 00:27:32,755 --> 00:27:37,035 Speaker 1: or anything bad, but nineteen oh seven was about as 397 00:27:37,075 --> 00:27:39,995 Speaker 1: bad a year for managers on a baseball team as 398 00:27:39,995 --> 00:27:43,715 Speaker 1: you could ever think of. The original Red Sox manager 399 00:27:43,715 --> 00:27:47,675 Speaker 1: in nineteen oh seven, Chick Stall ended his life in 400 00:27:47,755 --> 00:27:51,795 Speaker 1: spring training. Something about a woman, not his wife. We're 401 00:27:51,875 --> 00:27:55,835 Speaker 1: still not sure what happened. Then they said, okay, Cy Young, 402 00:27:56,075 --> 00:27:58,315 Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame even though we don't have a 403 00:27:58,315 --> 00:28:01,435 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame yet, and immortal, the best pitcher ever. 404 00:28:02,235 --> 00:28:04,555 Speaker 1: You'll be the player manager six games and he went, 405 00:28:05,075 --> 00:28:09,195 Speaker 1: I'm done. Then the Illinois experiment, George Huff, hope you 406 00:28:09,195 --> 00:28:12,595 Speaker 1: bought a round ticket. Then they pointed at the first 407 00:28:12,595 --> 00:28:16,555 Speaker 1: baseman what's your name, Unglaub, you're the new manager. That 408 00:28:16,635 --> 00:28:19,155 Speaker 1: didn't work either. So the Red Sox then bought a 409 00:28:19,195 --> 00:28:21,675 Speaker 1: catcher named Deacon Jim McGuire, who was kind of a 410 00:28:21,675 --> 00:28:24,795 Speaker 1: player coach with the Yankees. They bought him on waivers. 411 00:28:25,635 --> 00:28:28,235 Speaker 1: They made him the manager. Where'd you get this guy? 412 00:28:28,355 --> 00:28:30,235 Speaker 1: We bought him on waivers. The Yankees didn't want him 413 00:28:30,275 --> 00:28:34,155 Speaker 1: anymore as the eighth string catcher. He's our new manager. Sure, whatever, 414 00:28:34,835 --> 00:28:37,275 Speaker 1: he's not dead, is he now? Oh? He's great. Then 415 00:28:39,635 --> 00:28:45,035 Speaker 1: five managers in three months, including the college guy who 416 00:28:45,035 --> 00:28:49,115 Speaker 1: didn't make it to two weeks. As it would prove, 417 00:28:49,315 --> 00:28:52,715 Speaker 1: the Red Sox would go through seven managers, including two 418 00:28:52,795 --> 00:28:59,635 Speaker 1: Hall of famers, in three seasons. So Tony Vittello, who 419 00:28:59,715 --> 00:29:01,235 Speaker 1: by the way, took a pay cut to go from 420 00:29:01,235 --> 00:29:03,755 Speaker 1: the University of Tennessee to manage for the San Francisco Giants, 421 00:29:04,755 --> 00:29:13,795 Speaker 1: say this, I mean it sincerely, bon Chance. Also of 422 00:29:13,835 --> 00:29:17,915 Speaker 1: interest here, remember the Washington Post writer who reassured us 423 00:29:17,955 --> 00:29:21,235 Speaker 1: that whether Trump or Hillary won in twenty sixteen, everything 424 00:29:21,275 --> 00:29:27,995 Speaker 1: will be fine. She's back with even more stupid. Speaking 425 00:29:27,995 --> 00:29:31,675 Speaker 1: of even more stupid, Andrew Cuomo apparently thinks the New 426 00:29:31,755 --> 00:29:40,835 Speaker 1: York Mets play football. That's next. This is Countdown. This 427 00:29:40,995 --> 00:29:49,075 Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith Oberman. Oberman. This is Countdown with 428 00:29:49,235 --> 00:30:12,635 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman. There's a reason I had both John and 429 00:30:12,715 --> 00:30:15,595 Speaker 1: Larry introduce this segment. I'll explain it at the end 430 00:30:15,595 --> 00:30:18,915 Speaker 1: of the program, but still ahead on this all new 431 00:30:18,955 --> 00:30:24,675 Speaker 1: episode of Countdown. Howard Stern talked me out of going 432 00:30:24,755 --> 00:30:31,115 Speaker 1: to Boston University. You heard me. He still doubts this happened, 433 00:30:31,115 --> 00:30:33,515 Speaker 1: but every passing year I am more and more convinced. 434 00:30:33,795 --> 00:30:37,795 Speaker 1: Now it happened. That was him. Fifty one years ago, 435 00:30:38,715 --> 00:30:41,875 Speaker 1: Howard Stern talked me out of going to Boston University 436 00:30:42,835 --> 00:30:44,355 Speaker 1: when they were going to pay for the whole thing. 437 00:30:44,595 --> 00:30:48,835 Speaker 1: It had to have been him. Maybe it was fifty 438 00:30:48,875 --> 00:30:51,555 Speaker 1: one years ago. Today, certainly we are within a couple 439 00:30:51,555 --> 00:30:58,395 Speaker 1: of weeks of the exact anniversary. My life changed because 440 00:30:58,435 --> 00:31:02,155 Speaker 1: I met Howard Stern when I was fifteen and he 441 00:31:02,315 --> 00:31:06,875 Speaker 1: was twenty, and he was complet well, he was complaining. 442 00:31:07,995 --> 00:31:11,675 Speaker 1: It had to have been him. I'll lay the evidence 443 00:31:11,675 --> 00:31:14,075 Speaker 1: out for you. You make the call. Next. In things 444 00:31:14,115 --> 00:31:16,555 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell first, believe it or not, 445 00:31:16,595 --> 00:31:19,235 Speaker 1: there's still more new idiots to talk about. The roundup 446 00:31:19,235 --> 00:31:22,195 Speaker 1: of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who 447 00:31:22,275 --> 00:31:27,515 Speaker 1: constitute today's other worst persons in the world. And by 448 00:31:27,555 --> 00:31:30,355 Speaker 1: the way, I'm very grateful to Howard. Nothing against bu 449 00:31:31,035 --> 00:31:36,195 Speaker 1: just worked out, okay at the Brons, worse, ABC, Disney 450 00:31:36,235 --> 00:31:40,675 Speaker 1: and Bob Iger. Yes, when push came to shove about 451 00:31:40,755 --> 00:31:43,435 Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel, they did the right thing, but for the 452 00:31:43,475 --> 00:31:49,395 Speaker 1: wrong reasons. Anybody remember that when Trump claimed he'd got 453 00:31:49,595 --> 00:31:51,475 Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel fired, and then the next thing you know, 454 00:31:51,555 --> 00:31:54,195 Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel was back on the air, and he didn't 455 00:31:54,235 --> 00:31:57,075 Speaker 1: really apologize, and he didn't make a donation, and he 456 00:31:57,155 --> 00:31:59,955 Speaker 1: never said anything about what was that guy's name, Kirk, 457 00:32:00,715 --> 00:32:05,595 Speaker 1: He never said anything bad about him anyway that Remember 458 00:32:05,595 --> 00:32:09,035 Speaker 1: the big l they hung around Trump's neck and the 459 00:32:09,195 --> 00:32:12,875 Speaker 1: entire right wing anybody remember that. No, Well, it was 460 00:32:12,915 --> 00:32:15,515 Speaker 1: not done for the best of reasons. This is why 461 00:32:15,515 --> 00:32:17,875 Speaker 1: it was done. It was done for the most effective 462 00:32:17,875 --> 00:32:20,715 Speaker 1: of reasons and the most important of reasons for us 463 00:32:20,755 --> 00:32:26,835 Speaker 1: going forward. This is from Oliver Darcy's Invaluable Status newsletter. 464 00:32:28,275 --> 00:32:30,475 Speaker 1: We're getting our first look at the scale of the 465 00:32:30,475 --> 00:32:33,635 Speaker 1: fallout Disney felt after Yankee Jimmy Kimmel off the air 466 00:32:34,075 --> 00:32:37,875 Speaker 1: when Eiger and Dana Walden blinked under pressure from Brendan Carr, 467 00:32:37,955 --> 00:32:42,075 Speaker 1: Remember Him and Maga Media sparked a significant subscriber revolt. 468 00:32:42,635 --> 00:32:45,595 Speaker 1: In other words, when they took Kimmel off the air 469 00:32:45,795 --> 00:32:49,395 Speaker 1: as his new show was about to be recorded. The 470 00:32:49,555 --> 00:32:55,515 Speaker 1: research firm Antenna reports three million people immediately canceled their 471 00:32:55,635 --> 00:33:00,155 Speaker 1: Disney Plus subscription and four million one hundred thousand cut 472 00:33:00,235 --> 00:33:04,155 Speaker 1: Hulu throughout the month of September, far exceeding the previous 473 00:33:04,155 --> 00:33:08,635 Speaker 1: three month averages. That meant the churn for Disney Plus 474 00:33:09,395 --> 00:33:14,075 Speaker 1: that's a TV streaming term for people leaving people coming 475 00:33:14,115 --> 00:33:18,075 Speaker 1: in sward to eight percent for Disney plus ten percent 476 00:33:18,115 --> 00:33:22,275 Speaker 1: for Hulu. The standard is the churn of Netflix, which 477 00:33:22,315 --> 00:33:25,875 Speaker 1: is two percent. Now, the good news in this is, 478 00:33:26,995 --> 00:33:30,035 Speaker 1: as often happens, when people do things for the wrong reasons, 479 00:33:30,435 --> 00:33:34,555 Speaker 1: we can use them against them again. Liberal and moderate 480 00:33:34,595 --> 00:33:39,195 Speaker 1: boycotts of those who cave to Trump work, work well, 481 00:33:39,915 --> 00:33:47,035 Speaker 1: work efficiently. We should do them daily Attention Columbia University, 482 00:33:47,875 --> 00:33:52,035 Speaker 1: Attention PEN. The right call at PEN is not merely 483 00:33:52,075 --> 00:33:54,195 Speaker 1: to back away from any deals they were about to 484 00:33:54,195 --> 00:33:58,635 Speaker 1: make with Trump, but to revoke his degree or at 485 00:33:58,715 --> 00:34:05,595 Speaker 1: least claim it's under investigation for irregularities. You could turn 486 00:34:05,795 --> 00:34:10,035 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's life into nothing but him attacking Pen over 487 00:34:10,115 --> 00:34:13,355 Speaker 1: his degree. He would forget everything else going on in 488 00:34:13,395 --> 00:34:16,115 Speaker 1: the world if you said to him Pen might be 489 00:34:16,195 --> 00:34:24,115 Speaker 1: withdrawing his degree, which is probably worth investigating anyway. The 490 00:34:24,195 --> 00:34:27,195 Speaker 1: gist of this is standing up to Trump is now 491 00:34:27,235 --> 00:34:34,435 Speaker 1: popular attention Democrats, speaking of which the runner up, Andrew Cuomo, 492 00:34:35,035 --> 00:34:39,795 Speaker 1: New York City mayor candidate, sort of. I don't know 493 00:34:39,835 --> 00:34:42,995 Speaker 1: now why I've been complaining about Andrew Cuomo when he 494 00:34:43,035 --> 00:34:47,315 Speaker 1: has been providing this much free entertainment. In fact, I'm 495 00:34:47,355 --> 00:34:49,715 Speaker 1: beginning to think it would be a bad idea if 496 00:34:49,715 --> 00:34:53,835 Speaker 1: he dropped out now and endorsed Zoran Mamdani. I don't 497 00:34:53,835 --> 00:34:57,755 Speaker 1: know what I've been complaining about. This is a self destruction, 498 00:34:58,035 --> 00:35:03,435 Speaker 1: self defenestration, self humiliation tour. And Andrew Cuomo makes it 499 00:35:03,515 --> 00:35:09,395 Speaker 1: better every day. Politico New York's Jeff Cotlan attended an 500 00:35:09,395 --> 00:35:14,075 Speaker 1: otherwise sparsely attended interview on stage, apparently at a church 501 00:35:14,195 --> 00:35:18,915 Speaker 1: of Cuomo. The other day. Cuomo was asked for reasons 502 00:35:18,955 --> 00:35:23,155 Speaker 1: I have no idea about his favorite sports comeback because 503 00:35:23,195 --> 00:35:26,995 Speaker 1: he needs a big comeback now, mister Cotland wrote, and 504 00:35:27,035 --> 00:35:30,995 Speaker 1: he answered, the nineteen sixty nine Mets were the greatest 505 00:35:30,995 --> 00:35:35,635 Speaker 1: comeback of all time. Cuomo says he's probably right about that. 506 00:35:36,435 --> 00:35:40,755 Speaker 1: He adds, it was the impossible impossible comeback. We're going 507 00:35:40,795 --> 00:35:47,755 Speaker 1: to be fine. We just need a field goal. There's 508 00:35:47,875 --> 00:35:51,995 Speaker 1: a true New Yorker. There's a man who remembers those 509 00:35:52,075 --> 00:35:58,315 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine Mets when they won the Super Bowl 510 00:35:58,915 --> 00:36:02,715 Speaker 1: on a field goal. And I guess that means the 511 00:36:02,715 --> 00:36:07,995 Speaker 1: New York Jets and Joe Namath played hockey and they 512 00:36:08,035 --> 00:36:18,395 Speaker 1: won the the Stanley, the the se Cup, or maybe 513 00:36:18,395 --> 00:36:22,275 Speaker 1: that was the New York Nights. The nineteen sixty nine 514 00:36:22,355 --> 00:36:24,835 Speaker 1: metsquare the greatest comeback of all time. It was the impossible, 515 00:36:24,835 --> 00:36:27,795 Speaker 1: impossible comeback. We're going to be fine. We just need 516 00:36:27,835 --> 00:36:34,475 Speaker 1: a field goal. Oh thank you, Andrew Cuomo. It's like, 517 00:36:34,515 --> 00:36:36,875 Speaker 1: I don't have to write this. It just happens, and 518 00:36:36,915 --> 00:36:39,435 Speaker 1: then they hand it to me, and that's two or 519 00:36:39,435 --> 00:36:41,355 Speaker 1: three minutes of my life. I don't have to devote 520 00:36:41,395 --> 00:36:46,435 Speaker 1: to writing. But the winner, speaking of the everlasting gift, 521 00:36:47,315 --> 00:36:52,235 Speaker 1: the overflowing toilet of stupidity, the worst, the Washington Post 522 00:36:52,715 --> 00:37:02,435 Speaker 1: and Kathleen Parker. They published this this week Sunday. In fact, 523 00:37:03,435 --> 00:37:07,795 Speaker 1: the headline was, is this the President We've been waiting for? 524 00:37:08,555 --> 00:37:13,915 Speaker 1: Trump's miraculous mid East peace deal is a moment of triumph? 525 00:37:14,155 --> 00:37:19,955 Speaker 1: That's the Washington Post. You remember the Washington Post. This 526 00:37:19,995 --> 00:37:23,275 Speaker 1: is the new Washington Post. Is this the president We've 527 00:37:23,315 --> 00:37:26,515 Speaker 1: been waiting for? Trump's miraculous Mid East peace deal is 528 00:37:26,555 --> 00:37:30,755 Speaker 1: a moment of triumph? By Kathleen Parker. Name sound familiar. 529 00:37:31,155 --> 00:37:34,715 Speaker 1: Every now and then, Kathleen Parker writes, Trump surprises us 530 00:37:34,715 --> 00:37:38,355 Speaker 1: by acting statesman like, usually just before he doesn't. Well. 531 00:37:38,355 --> 00:37:40,995 Speaker 1: I can't think of an example of this. This was 532 00:37:41,035 --> 00:37:43,155 Speaker 1: a case in point, she writes, as the President and 533 00:37:43,195 --> 00:37:45,875 Speaker 1: Middle Eastern leaders gathered in Egypt to sign the Trump 534 00:37:45,955 --> 00:37:48,955 Speaker 1: Peace plan to end the war in Gaza. By now 535 00:37:48,955 --> 00:37:51,635 Speaker 1: many have seen replays of the joyous reunions of hostages 536 00:37:51,635 --> 00:37:54,915 Speaker 1: and families, and of course the whole thing fell apart 537 00:37:54,995 --> 00:37:57,875 Speaker 1: within hours. And Trump doesn't care, because he just wants 538 00:37:57,875 --> 00:38:00,995 Speaker 1: the Nobel Prize, He just wants the headlines. He doesn't 539 00:38:00,995 --> 00:38:04,115 Speaker 1: care what happens thereafter. There's a Trump building across town 540 00:38:04,155 --> 00:38:05,715 Speaker 1: here in New York that I used to live in 541 00:38:06,035 --> 00:38:09,675 Speaker 1: and unlike the twenty fifth anniversary to the day that 542 00:38:09,715 --> 00:38:12,715 Speaker 1: the place opened, all the warranties ran out, and the 543 00:38:12,715 --> 00:38:16,435 Speaker 1: elevators stopped working, and the heat stopped working and stuff 544 00:38:16,475 --> 00:38:19,475 Speaker 1: started to fall off the walls. Because he doesn't have 545 00:38:19,515 --> 00:38:22,395 Speaker 1: a long term plan for anything, He just wants the now. 546 00:38:22,515 --> 00:38:25,435 Speaker 1: He doesn't understand the future. He doesn't know that it exists. 547 00:38:26,475 --> 00:38:29,675 Speaker 1: Kathleen Parker fell for it now. Does her name sound 548 00:38:29,675 --> 00:38:33,075 Speaker 1: familiar to you? It is two years now since she 549 00:38:33,115 --> 00:38:38,195 Speaker 1: attacked Senator John Fetterman over his policies. No over his 550 00:38:38,315 --> 00:38:42,715 Speaker 1: increasing right wing toadying. No over the fact that he 551 00:38:42,795 --> 00:38:45,675 Speaker 1: looks like the candimate from the Twilight Zone episode to 552 00:38:45,715 --> 00:38:50,155 Speaker 1: Serve Man. Nope over his hoodie. Kathleen Parker wrote in 553 00:38:50,195 --> 00:38:52,715 Speaker 1: September twenty twenty three, as little as I have loved 554 00:38:52,715 --> 00:38:55,115 Speaker 1: Republicans the past few years, coinciding with the rise of 555 00:38:55,155 --> 00:38:58,475 Speaker 1: our own little autocrat, at least Donald Trump knows how 556 00:38:58,515 --> 00:39:02,555 Speaker 1: to dress. I can't imagine that even he would demean 557 00:39:02,595 --> 00:39:06,795 Speaker 1: his officer, his country by dressing down. Wears a red 558 00:39:06,835 --> 00:39:14,515 Speaker 1: tie down to his ankles, wears bronzer unevenly applied, dyes 559 00:39:14,595 --> 00:39:22,715 Speaker 1: his hair with a mild coffee bean mix, dresses like 560 00:39:22,755 --> 00:39:27,915 Speaker 1: a cadaver, frankly, and of course he would never demean 561 00:39:27,955 --> 00:39:32,235 Speaker 1: his office with anything in terms of style or appearance. Ballrooms, 562 00:39:32,795 --> 00:39:36,515 Speaker 1: gold everywhere. One day he's going to come out and 563 00:39:36,555 --> 00:39:41,475 Speaker 1: he's going to be like one of those Egyptian pharaohs, 564 00:39:42,075 --> 00:39:48,355 Speaker 1: actually painted in gold. Kathleen Parker tacked Fetterman for his 565 00:39:48,395 --> 00:39:52,875 Speaker 1: hoodie and defended Trump, defended the Trump Peace Plan, the 566 00:39:53,075 --> 00:39:56,875 Speaker 1: twenty part twenty hour piast settlement to the Middle East. 567 00:39:57,635 --> 00:40:01,715 Speaker 1: Kathleen Parker was also the co anchor of CNN's eight 568 00:40:01,755 --> 00:40:07,435 Speaker 1: PM newscast with Elliot Spitzer that was up against Let's 569 00:40:07,435 --> 00:40:10,515 Speaker 1: see twenty ten. I think what was the was the 570 00:40:10,635 --> 00:40:16,035 Speaker 1: MSNBC show call for those days, was that up down 571 00:40:16,115 --> 00:40:22,835 Speaker 1: with Keith, Keith, Keith the somebody. Eventually they fired her 572 00:40:22,875 --> 00:40:24,915 Speaker 1: and just let Elliott Spitzer go on for a while. 573 00:40:25,875 --> 00:40:28,515 Speaker 1: But most famously, if the name Kathleen Parker rings a 574 00:40:28,555 --> 00:40:32,355 Speaker 1: bellots because of November fourth, twenty sixteen, it was her 575 00:40:32,435 --> 00:40:36,395 Speaker 1: column that was headlined, Calm down, We'll be fine no 576 00:40:36,475 --> 00:40:41,195 Speaker 1: matter who wins. After eighteen months of rabble rousing and 577 00:40:41,275 --> 00:40:43,395 Speaker 1: anger management, not in a good way. We've created a 578 00:40:43,395 --> 00:40:46,875 Speaker 1: sort of attempted nightmare of partisan division and revolutionary strife. 579 00:40:46,995 --> 00:40:49,435 Speaker 1: Never before has this country been so divided, goes the 580 00:40:49,515 --> 00:40:52,315 Speaker 1: usual chorus of pundits and commentators, except that is for 581 00:40:52,395 --> 00:40:56,035 Speaker 1: every other election year since voting began. Our founding fathers, 582 00:40:56,035 --> 00:40:58,595 Speaker 1: for all their cleverness, were hardly soft spoken. The Civil 583 00:40:58,635 --> 00:41:01,875 Speaker 1: War needs no editorial comments. The nineteen sixties weren't exactly 584 00:41:01,915 --> 00:41:04,475 Speaker 1: a paddle boat cruise down the Mississippi. In other words, 585 00:41:04,755 --> 00:41:08,475 Speaker 1: our politics have always been thus though with one significant difference. 586 00:41:09,795 --> 00:41:14,635 Speaker 1: Calm down, We'll be fine, no matter who wins that, 587 00:41:14,955 --> 00:41:19,675 Speaker 1: Kathleen Parker. The Washington Post has self destructed. Almost all 588 00:41:19,715 --> 00:41:22,995 Speaker 1: of its innovative and thoughtful reporters, columnists, and editors have 589 00:41:23,115 --> 00:41:26,755 Speaker 1: been forced out. It is editorially controlled by a couple 590 00:41:26,755 --> 00:41:30,515 Speaker 1: of Brits. The British are universally recognized as the worst 591 00:41:30,755 --> 00:41:35,555 Speaker 1: and least principal journalists this side of Moscow. The Post 592 00:41:35,635 --> 00:41:38,715 Speaker 1: hired an ombudsman, who is in fact a political censor, 593 00:41:38,995 --> 00:41:40,835 Speaker 1: who is there to make sure anything in the paper 594 00:41:41,035 --> 00:41:44,555 Speaker 1: will please Trump and not cause Jeff Bezos to have 595 00:41:44,635 --> 00:41:50,195 Speaker 1: to get off. Lauren Sanchez, its owner, has either gone 596 00:41:50,195 --> 00:41:53,915 Speaker 1: fully fascist or been blackmailed. Into acting fully fascist. And 597 00:41:53,995 --> 00:42:01,475 Speaker 1: yet somehow, somehow, Kathleen Parker is still there writing absolutely ludicrous, 598 00:42:01,715 --> 00:42:05,155 Speaker 1: ridiculous shit like calm down will be fine no matter 599 00:42:05,235 --> 00:42:08,115 Speaker 1: who wins. And now asking is this the president we've 600 00:42:08,155 --> 00:42:11,795 Speaker 1: been waiting for? Trump's miraculous Mid East peace deal is 601 00:42:11,835 --> 00:42:14,995 Speaker 1: a moment of triumph? Well, you got the moment part right, 602 00:42:15,035 --> 00:42:20,355 Speaker 1: didn't it, Kathleen. I'm hoping only that perhaps it will 603 00:42:20,355 --> 00:42:25,275 Speaker 1: prove someday that Kathleen Parker buys space in the Washington 604 00:42:25,315 --> 00:42:31,315 Speaker 1: Post pays them to print her dribble. Kathleen quick answers 605 00:42:31,315 --> 00:42:34,235 Speaker 1: to your questions, miss Parker, No, he's not the president 606 00:42:34,235 --> 00:42:37,995 Speaker 1: we've been waiting for, and no, the mid Deal is 607 00:42:38,035 --> 00:42:40,995 Speaker 1: not a moment of triumph. And no, you should not 608 00:42:41,075 --> 00:42:44,955 Speaker 1: be employed by any news outlet bigger than The Penny Saver, 609 00:42:45,595 --> 00:43:28,755 Speaker 1: Today's other worst person. And finally to the number one 610 00:43:28,795 --> 00:43:31,915 Speaker 1: story on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things. 611 00:43:31,955 --> 00:43:35,395 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell. The date on this one, 612 00:43:36,435 --> 00:43:40,435 Speaker 1: a Tuesday of this week in nineteen seventy four, is 613 00:43:40,475 --> 00:43:43,515 Speaker 1: a guess, and the other principal figure in the story 614 00:43:43,595 --> 00:43:48,075 Speaker 1: denies it was him. I usually hate such inexactitude, but 615 00:43:48,155 --> 00:43:50,275 Speaker 1: I think the story is worth it because the guy 616 00:43:50,315 --> 00:43:54,755 Speaker 1: who denies it was him was Howard Stern, and it 617 00:43:54,795 --> 00:43:58,595 Speaker 1: was him. I was fifteen years old and just starting 618 00:43:58,635 --> 00:44:01,635 Speaker 1: my college visits. My dad and I flew the very 619 00:44:01,635 --> 00:44:05,755 Speaker 1: inexpensive Eastern Shuttle to Boston and Commonwealth Avenue and the 620 00:44:05,795 --> 00:44:09,675 Speaker 1: Boston University School of Public Communications, which had surprised us 621 00:44:09,715 --> 00:44:12,195 Speaker 1: by not only offering me early admission when I had 622 00:44:12,235 --> 00:44:15,635 Speaker 1: not requested it, but which upon arrival knocked us over 623 00:44:15,715 --> 00:44:19,715 Speaker 1: by saying they wanted to offer me a merit scholarship, 624 00:44:19,755 --> 00:44:25,555 Speaker 1: a free ride, all expenses paid. To be fair. I 625 00:44:25,635 --> 00:44:27,755 Speaker 1: was the editor of the high school newspaper and editor 626 00:44:27,755 --> 00:44:30,115 Speaker 1: of the yearbook, sports director of the radio station. I'd 627 00:44:30,155 --> 00:44:32,595 Speaker 1: been in the drama group. I had researched and had 628 00:44:32,595 --> 00:44:35,595 Speaker 1: published a baseball reference book earlier that year, and I 629 00:44:35,715 --> 00:44:39,115 Speaker 1: was the associate editor of the first Guide to Sports Memorabilia. 630 00:44:39,315 --> 00:44:41,155 Speaker 1: And I had an internship lined up in the public 631 00:44:41,195 --> 00:44:44,235 Speaker 1: relations department of the Boston Celtics. So the admission was 632 00:44:44,235 --> 00:44:47,835 Speaker 1: not much of a surprise. The merit scholarship, let me 633 00:44:47,875 --> 00:44:52,835 Speaker 1: tell you, the merit scholarship appealed fantastically to my father. 634 00:44:53,835 --> 00:44:56,635 Speaker 1: My dad had already been socked for five years of 635 00:44:56,675 --> 00:45:00,795 Speaker 1: private school because I was too bored to do well 636 00:45:00,835 --> 00:45:04,755 Speaker 1: in public school, and now he was facing college money. 637 00:45:05,035 --> 00:45:08,995 Speaker 1: This was new territory in Olberman Land. Nobody that we 638 00:45:09,075 --> 00:45:12,635 Speaker 1: knew of on either side of my family had graduated 639 00:45:12,675 --> 00:45:15,595 Speaker 1: from a four year college since one of my great 640 00:45:15,635 --> 00:45:19,635 Speaker 1: grandfathers got a degree in wrought iron design round about 641 00:45:19,675 --> 00:45:23,395 Speaker 1: eighteen eighty five, and my dad had been offered a 642 00:45:23,395 --> 00:45:26,555 Speaker 1: scholarship at a top architecture college and could not afford 643 00:45:26,595 --> 00:45:29,675 Speaker 1: to take it. They were so poor he had to 644 00:45:29,675 --> 00:45:32,475 Speaker 1: go to work right out of high school or his 645 00:45:32,555 --> 00:45:36,275 Speaker 1: brother had no chance of finishing high school. Free college 646 00:45:36,755 --> 00:45:39,595 Speaker 1: and a good one in the field his son wanted 647 00:45:39,635 --> 00:45:44,075 Speaker 1: to go into. Dad liked this very much. The tour 648 00:45:44,715 --> 00:45:47,395 Speaker 1: of what was then called the School of Public Communications 649 00:45:47,395 --> 00:45:49,835 Speaker 1: went well. It was early fall, and there are a 650 00:45:49,835 --> 00:45:52,115 Speaker 1: few places in the Northeast that do not look their 651 00:45:52,155 --> 00:45:55,395 Speaker 1: best in early fall. We were in the middle of Boston, 652 00:45:55,475 --> 00:45:58,595 Speaker 1: but there were trees. It was far from home, but 653 00:45:58,635 --> 00:46:02,435 Speaker 1: it was down the block from Fenway Park. I think 654 00:46:02,555 --> 00:46:06,115 Speaker 1: the admissions director took us into the main studio of 655 00:46:06,235 --> 00:46:09,955 Speaker 1: the Boston University AM station and introduced us to the 656 00:46:09,995 --> 00:46:12,595 Speaker 1: disc jockey or pointed at him or something, and then 657 00:46:12,795 --> 00:46:16,275 Speaker 1: the admissions director left. He must have because what followed 658 00:46:16,635 --> 00:46:19,555 Speaker 1: in the studio was not what that guy wanted me 659 00:46:19,635 --> 00:46:23,315 Speaker 1: to hear. The disc jockey was a gaunt, kind of 660 00:46:23,515 --> 00:46:26,315 Speaker 1: greasy looking kid, with hair down to the floor and 661 00:46:26,355 --> 00:46:29,355 Speaker 1: the attitude of an inquisitor working on too little sleep. 662 00:46:29,875 --> 00:46:32,875 Speaker 1: He claimed to be a junior to me. He looked 663 00:46:32,875 --> 00:46:36,115 Speaker 1: to be about thirty years old. We were not introduced 664 00:46:36,115 --> 00:46:38,475 Speaker 1: by name, or if we were, I had forgotten his 665 00:46:38,595 --> 00:46:42,755 Speaker 1: by the time he finished saying it. Where from, kid, Westchester? 666 00:46:42,835 --> 00:46:45,235 Speaker 1: I told him, Oh, yeah, I'm from Long Island. You 667 00:46:45,235 --> 00:46:47,875 Speaker 1: got a problem with that, I said, Nah, I had 668 00:46:47,875 --> 00:46:51,635 Speaker 1: relatives on Long Island. Good answer, So you're applying here. 669 00:46:52,515 --> 00:46:55,875 Speaker 1: I told him about the Merit scholarship. Huh, Lodi da 670 00:46:56,355 --> 00:47:01,235 Speaker 1: some kind of phenom. I explained about the Celtics internship. Listen, kid, 671 00:47:01,435 --> 00:47:03,715 Speaker 1: you sound like you know what you're doing, so don't 672 00:47:03,755 --> 00:47:06,555 Speaker 1: make the same mistake Eye did. The first two years. 673 00:47:06,715 --> 00:47:08,955 Speaker 1: You don't get to take any radio or TV. Class's 674 00:47:08,995 --> 00:47:14,955 Speaker 1: just general studies. I suddenly remembered, having read that. I 675 00:47:14,995 --> 00:47:17,555 Speaker 1: asked him what was the point of just repeating high 676 00:47:17,555 --> 00:47:20,235 Speaker 1: school for two more years? Exactly okay, you get it. 677 00:47:20,915 --> 00:47:24,115 Speaker 1: And what's worse the grad students. They control the real 678 00:47:24,235 --> 00:47:28,035 Speaker 1: radio station. It's like organized crime. Here see this radio station, 679 00:47:28,395 --> 00:47:31,075 Speaker 1: this crap shack. You can only hear this in the dorms. 680 00:47:31,155 --> 00:47:33,635 Speaker 1: And it took me three years just to get two 681 00:47:33,675 --> 00:47:36,835 Speaker 1: shows a week here Tuesdays and Thursday's Middays. Nobody's in 682 00:47:36,915 --> 00:47:39,795 Speaker 1: the dorms mid days. Total waste of my time and 683 00:47:39,915 --> 00:47:44,075 Speaker 1: my exceptional talent. And so far the classes are crap. 684 00:47:44,675 --> 00:47:48,435 Speaker 1: So maybe what you do is keep the internship, but 685 00:47:48,715 --> 00:47:53,115 Speaker 1: ditch the scholarship. I think it was at this point 686 00:47:53,235 --> 00:47:55,555 Speaker 1: that my father said we had to get to the airport. 687 00:47:56,275 --> 00:48:00,995 Speaker 1: He did not want me hearing more about ditching the scholarship. 688 00:48:03,115 --> 00:48:06,635 Speaker 1: My college admissions had been this, maybe just go to 689 00:48:06,715 --> 00:48:08,515 Speaker 1: the best school and let the radio and TV stuff 690 00:48:08,555 --> 00:48:11,635 Speaker 1: come to me, but maybe go to a school that 691 00:48:11,835 --> 00:48:15,315 Speaker 1: was really good in radio and TV and let the 692 00:48:15,435 --> 00:48:19,715 Speaker 1: education just come to me. Then there was this Celtics internship, 693 00:48:19,755 --> 00:48:22,355 Speaker 1: confusing things even further. And now the offer of the 694 00:48:22,395 --> 00:48:26,995 Speaker 1: free ride from BU. So my radio TV schools were 695 00:48:27,035 --> 00:48:30,395 Speaker 1: BU with Ithaca College as the safety, and my good 696 00:48:30,435 --> 00:48:35,155 Speaker 1: schools were forgive me. Harvard and Cornell is my safety, 697 00:48:35,195 --> 00:48:37,475 Speaker 1: which is kind of unfair because my graduating class in 698 00:48:37,515 --> 00:48:39,835 Speaker 1: high school had like seventy kids in it, and four 699 00:48:39,915 --> 00:48:42,075 Speaker 1: of us were applying to Harvard, and two of them 700 00:48:42,075 --> 00:48:44,475 Speaker 1: had four point zero grade averages dating back to the 701 00:48:44,555 --> 00:48:46,995 Speaker 1: womb and I didn't. And my only chance they were 702 00:48:46,995 --> 00:48:49,115 Speaker 1: going to accept me would be because I would be 703 00:48:49,155 --> 00:48:53,355 Speaker 1: only sixteen. Bu was obviously a yes if they were 704 00:48:53,355 --> 00:48:55,195 Speaker 1: going to pay for it. Ithica was a yes. But 705 00:48:55,235 --> 00:48:57,795 Speaker 1: I got a tour of the dorms and the elevators 706 00:48:57,835 --> 00:49:01,635 Speaker 1: were full of trash. This is not a euphemism, This 707 00:49:01,675 --> 00:49:04,075 Speaker 1: is not a value judgment. The elevators had ankle high 708 00:49:04,075 --> 00:49:08,995 Speaker 1: garbage in them. Cornell had a communications program, but I 709 00:49:08,995 --> 00:49:11,795 Speaker 1: couldn't find out much about it, and I couldn't find 710 00:49:11,795 --> 00:49:14,675 Speaker 1: out much about the radio station except that it was 711 00:49:14,755 --> 00:49:18,315 Speaker 1: not dominated by grad students. Plus Cornell had accepted me, 712 00:49:18,395 --> 00:49:21,395 Speaker 1: and as I expected, Harvard had not. And not that 713 00:49:21,475 --> 00:49:23,435 Speaker 1: this still bothers me, but I remember that the letter 714 00:49:23,475 --> 00:49:25,515 Speaker 1: was dated April ninth, nineteen seventy five, and it was 715 00:49:25,555 --> 00:49:26,955 Speaker 1: waiting for me in the mail when I got back 716 00:49:26,995 --> 00:49:29,035 Speaker 1: from the Yankees home opener on the afternoon of Saturday, 717 00:49:29,035 --> 00:49:33,235 Speaker 1: April twelve. Not that it still bothers me freaking Harvard. 718 00:49:33,715 --> 00:49:36,435 Speaker 1: So I had like a week to choose between Cornell 719 00:49:36,555 --> 00:49:39,355 Speaker 1: and a scholarship to be you. And then somewhere I 720 00:49:39,395 --> 00:49:42,115 Speaker 1: read a story about how they had found a kid 721 00:49:42,235 --> 00:49:45,595 Speaker 1: dead in the hallway of that big freshman dorm we'd 722 00:49:45,635 --> 00:49:48,235 Speaker 1: seen in Boston, and I told my dad I would 723 00:49:48,235 --> 00:49:50,235 Speaker 1: thus never be comfortable there, And of course that was 724 00:49:50,275 --> 00:49:53,435 Speaker 1: just crap. I kept flashing back to what the kid 725 00:49:53,475 --> 00:49:56,715 Speaker 1: on the carrier current BU radio station with the stringy 726 00:49:56,715 --> 00:49:58,835 Speaker 1: hair down to the floor told me, and I kept thinking, 727 00:49:59,475 --> 00:50:02,635 Speaker 1: I'm not going to get any radio experience. Until late 728 00:50:02,795 --> 00:50:07,115 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven. I just couldn't do it, and so 729 00:50:07,235 --> 00:50:11,555 Speaker 1: I went to Cornell and Dad started writing checks. And 730 00:50:11,635 --> 00:50:13,395 Speaker 1: before I get to the punchline of this one, I 731 00:50:13,435 --> 00:50:16,875 Speaker 1: have to mention sophomore year. My dad drives me and 732 00:50:16,955 --> 00:50:19,155 Speaker 1: my stuff up to Cornell and he gets turned around 733 00:50:19,155 --> 00:50:21,475 Speaker 1: looking for my dorm, and I say, yeah, the good 734 00:50:21,475 --> 00:50:24,155 Speaker 1: part is where we are. If you take the next left, 735 00:50:24,235 --> 00:50:27,955 Speaker 1: we'll be at the Cornell Architecture School, and whereupon he 736 00:50:28,035 --> 00:50:29,955 Speaker 1: cuts me off and says, yeah, I know, it's Rand Hall, 737 00:50:30,115 --> 00:50:32,275 Speaker 1: next left, second building on the right. I said, how 738 00:50:32,315 --> 00:50:34,635 Speaker 1: do you know? That he says, Remember I told you 739 00:50:34,675 --> 00:50:37,315 Speaker 1: I was offered an architecture scholarship, but I couldn't take 740 00:50:37,315 --> 00:50:39,875 Speaker 1: it because we didn't have any money and your uncle 741 00:50:39,875 --> 00:50:42,235 Speaker 1: Bill wouldn't have been able to finish high school. And 742 00:50:42,315 --> 00:50:46,035 Speaker 1: I said yeah, and he said yeah. The scholarship was 743 00:50:46,035 --> 00:50:49,955 Speaker 1: to hear. During all the time I wrestled with which 744 00:50:49,995 --> 00:50:52,195 Speaker 1: college is to apply to, let alone which one to 745 00:50:52,275 --> 00:50:56,035 Speaker 1: go to. My dad never told me that. Probably the 746 00:50:56,075 --> 00:50:58,875 Speaker 1: first time I had respect for him as one sort 747 00:50:58,875 --> 00:51:05,115 Speaker 1: of adult to another, and I still do. Anyway, years 748 00:51:05,195 --> 00:51:07,635 Speaker 1: later or whenever it was, I'm doing sports in Los 749 00:51:07,675 --> 00:51:10,675 Speaker 1: Angeles and late on a Saturday night, this syndicated version 750 00:51:10,715 --> 00:51:13,315 Speaker 1: of some New York radio shock jock show comes on 751 00:51:13,355 --> 00:51:16,275 Speaker 1: the TV and I look and it's the Don't Make 752 00:51:16,355 --> 00:51:20,395 Speaker 1: My Mistake Kid kid from Boston University in nineteen seventy four. 753 00:51:20,435 --> 00:51:22,595 Speaker 1: His name turns out to be Howard Stern, and he 754 00:51:22,715 --> 00:51:29,275 Speaker 1: looks exactly the same. Years pass and for some reason, 755 00:51:29,275 --> 00:51:31,995 Speaker 1: when Howard Stern leaves AM radio to put his show 756 00:51:32,035 --> 00:51:35,155 Speaker 1: on satellite. The first day of the satellite show, he 757 00:51:35,195 --> 00:51:38,355 Speaker 1: invites people from TV networks and newspapers to cover the 758 00:51:38,395 --> 00:51:43,835 Speaker 1: big switch, and from NBC he asks for me. So 759 00:51:43,915 --> 00:51:45,755 Speaker 1: I got up and I go and I get a 760 00:51:45,795 --> 00:51:47,435 Speaker 1: moment with him, and I do a shtick for my 761 00:51:47,595 --> 00:51:49,995 Speaker 1: MSNBC show and then I say, listen, we've met and 762 00:51:50,035 --> 00:51:52,275 Speaker 1: he says nah, and I tell him and he says, 763 00:51:52,555 --> 00:51:56,115 Speaker 1: I don't remember meeting you, and I say, of course not. 764 00:51:56,275 --> 00:51:58,595 Speaker 1: I was fifteen and we were not really introduced. And 765 00:51:58,915 --> 00:52:00,635 Speaker 1: I mean, I had no idea it was you until 766 00:52:00,635 --> 00:52:02,835 Speaker 1: I saw you on TV. And he says it can't be. 767 00:52:02,875 --> 00:52:05,515 Speaker 1: And I say, when you were a junior at BU, 768 00:52:05,595 --> 00:52:08,755 Speaker 1: didn't you do only Tuesday and Thursday middays on the 769 00:52:08,835 --> 00:52:11,675 Speaker 1: carrier current station? And weren't you already bitter about it 770 00:52:11,915 --> 00:52:14,675 Speaker 1: and bitter about management? And he says, yeah, but I 771 00:52:14,675 --> 00:52:18,035 Speaker 1: don't remember meeting you. And so this was January two 772 00:52:18,075 --> 00:52:21,795 Speaker 1: thousand and six, and every time our paths have crossed since, 773 00:52:21,995 --> 00:52:25,435 Speaker 1: we basically have repeated this conversation live or by text 774 00:52:25,555 --> 00:52:27,715 Speaker 1: or whatever. And he insists, yeah, but I don't remember 775 00:52:27,715 --> 00:52:29,675 Speaker 1: meeting you. And I have to explain that we didn't 776 00:52:29,715 --> 00:52:32,395 Speaker 1: meet by name and I was much shorter than and 777 00:52:32,435 --> 00:52:35,155 Speaker 1: he says something like how would that work? And sooner 778 00:52:35,235 --> 00:52:38,715 Speaker 1: or later I just give up. But it was him 779 00:52:39,475 --> 00:52:41,715 Speaker 1: I met Howard Stern in nineteen seventy four when he 780 00:52:41,755 --> 00:52:43,555 Speaker 1: was twenty years old and I was fifteen, and he 781 00:52:44,195 --> 00:52:50,435 Speaker 1: personally talked me out of going to Boston University. Thank you, Howard, 782 00:52:51,235 --> 00:52:54,355 Speaker 1: and nicely as things worked out with Cornell and the 783 00:52:54,355 --> 00:52:57,795 Speaker 1: best radio training ground in the country that Cornell contained 784 00:52:58,155 --> 00:53:17,475 Speaker 1: and contains. Yes, I'm still bitter about Harvard. It had 785 00:53:17,515 --> 00:53:21,595 Speaker 1: to have been him, as I said to him, who 786 00:53:21,635 --> 00:53:26,035 Speaker 1: else could it have been. I've done all the damage 787 00:53:26,035 --> 00:53:27,675 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. Most of 788 00:53:27,675 --> 00:53:30,395 Speaker 1: our Countdown music was arranged, produced, and performed by Brian 789 00:53:30,475 --> 00:53:33,555 Speaker 1: Ray and John Phillip Shaneil. Our musical directors have Countdown 790 00:53:33,555 --> 00:53:35,995 Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Mister Ray on 791 00:53:36,035 --> 00:53:39,995 Speaker 1: the guitars, based on drums, mister Chanelle handling, orchestration and keyboards. 792 00:53:40,435 --> 00:53:42,915 Speaker 1: Our satirical and fifty musical comments are by the best 793 00:53:42,915 --> 00:53:46,675 Speaker 1: baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The Olderman theme from 794 00:53:46,875 --> 00:53:51,355 Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis, appears courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 795 00:53:51,675 --> 00:53:55,195 Speaker 1: That's the sports music. Other music arranged and performed by 796 00:53:55,195 --> 00:53:57,355 Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. It occurs to me, I 797 00:53:57,395 --> 00:54:00,315 Speaker 1: have not asked Howard about this in at least fifteen years, 798 00:54:00,915 --> 00:54:02,395 Speaker 1: it's time for me to go back and see if 799 00:54:02,435 --> 00:54:07,275 Speaker 1: his memory has improved. My announcer today was, as you 800 00:54:07,435 --> 00:54:10,835 Speaker 1: may have noticed, a duet my friends John Dean and 801 00:54:10,915 --> 00:54:14,035 Speaker 1: Larry David, and they're together here in this episode on 802 00:54:14,075 --> 00:54:17,595 Speaker 1: this date because they'll be happy to know Dodgers in five. 803 00:54:18,715 --> 00:54:22,235 Speaker 1: Everything else was as always my fault, and so that 804 00:54:22,395 --> 00:54:24,875 Speaker 1: is countdown for today, Day two hundred and seventy seven 805 00:54:25,195 --> 00:54:29,955 Speaker 1: of America held hostage again, just eighty six days until 806 00:54:29,955 --> 00:54:33,075 Speaker 1: the scheduled end of his lame duck and lame brained term, 807 00:54:33,435 --> 00:54:35,875 Speaker 1: unless he kills us all first, or he is removed 808 00:54:35,955 --> 00:54:39,435 Speaker 1: sooner by Maga and Epstein, or that pavement patch on 809 00:54:39,515 --> 00:54:43,795 Speaker 1: his hand or another stuck escalator or the psychopathy test 810 00:54:44,035 --> 00:54:47,835 Speaker 1: or tile and All, or his flying jet made out 811 00:54:47,875 --> 00:54:52,515 Speaker 1: of poop, or who knows. The next scheduled countdown is 812 00:54:52,555 --> 00:54:55,635 Speaker 1: Monday till then. I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, 813 00:54:55,915 --> 00:55:23,675 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is 814 00:55:23,675 --> 00:55:28,475 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit 815 00:55:28,555 --> 00:55:33,195 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.