1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,475 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:22,515 --> 00:00:25,675 Speaker 1: shooting at the Super Bowl Parade in Kansas City yesterday 3 00:00:25,755 --> 00:00:28,915 Speaker 1: was on the sixth anniversary of the shooting at Parkland 4 00:00:28,955 --> 00:00:32,355 Speaker 1: High School in Florida, And that seems at first like 5 00:00:32,475 --> 00:00:36,835 Speaker 1: an astonishing and horrifying coincidence of timing, until you do 6 00:00:36,875 --> 00:00:41,475 Speaker 1: a little work, very little work, and you find out 7 00:00:41,515 --> 00:00:45,555 Speaker 1: that yesterday was also the sixteenth anniversary of the shooting 8 00:00:45,595 --> 00:00:50,195 Speaker 1: at Northern Illinois University, and tomorrow will be the twenty 9 00:00:50,235 --> 00:00:53,195 Speaker 1: sixth anniversary of the stalker walking into his office in 10 00:00:53,235 --> 00:00:58,195 Speaker 1: California with a thousand rounds and shooting people there. Oh, 11 00:00:58,315 --> 00:01:01,395 Speaker 1: this past Monday was twelve years since the University of 12 00:01:01,395 --> 00:01:06,115 Speaker 1: Alabama at Huntsville shootings. Next will be the second anniversary 13 00:01:06,155 --> 00:01:09,395 Speaker 1: of the shooting in Portland during the protest for Racial justice, 14 00:01:09,435 --> 00:01:12,475 Speaker 1: and the seventeenth anniversary of the shooting at Bethel High 15 00:01:12,475 --> 00:01:15,235 Speaker 1: School in Alaska. And two days ago was the first 16 00:01:15,235 --> 00:01:18,675 Speaker 1: anniversary of the shooting at Michigan State three students dead 17 00:01:18,675 --> 00:01:22,395 Speaker 1: plus the gunmen. A week from today will be the 18 00:01:22,435 --> 00:01:25,515 Speaker 1: first anniversary of Pine Hills, Florida, three dead there. The 19 00:01:25,595 --> 00:01:28,275 Speaker 1: week from Sunday will be eight years since Heston, Kansas, 20 00:01:28,435 --> 00:01:30,395 Speaker 1: The week from Monday will be four years since the 21 00:01:30,435 --> 00:01:35,115 Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewery, and eight years since Tyrone, Missouri, when the 22 00:01:35,115 --> 00:01:38,635 Speaker 1: shooter went door to door, and a week from Tuesday 23 00:01:38,755 --> 00:01:44,715 Speaker 1: is Shardon High in Ohio. So that covers what sixteen 24 00:01:44,795 --> 00:01:51,475 Speaker 1: days worth of anniversaries. They happen because if they did 25 00:01:51,475 --> 00:01:58,755 Speaker 1: not happen, more Americans would not buy more guns. Every shooting. 26 00:01:58,795 --> 00:02:02,515 Speaker 1: Every year, more Americans buy more guns to feed their 27 00:02:02,555 --> 00:02:06,675 Speaker 1: fantasies that they will be the guys who stopped the 28 00:02:06,715 --> 00:02:11,115 Speaker 1: next one. About a million good guys who could have 29 00:02:11,315 --> 00:02:14,315 Speaker 1: legally owned and carried guns at the Super Bowl parade 30 00:02:14,315 --> 00:02:17,355 Speaker 1: in Kansas City yesterday did not stop it. Not because 31 00:02:17,395 --> 00:02:21,275 Speaker 1: they weren't brave, not because they weren't alert, not because 32 00:02:21,315 --> 00:02:26,395 Speaker 1: they were all unarmed, but because it's a fantasy. The 33 00:02:26,475 --> 00:02:31,715 Speaker 1: good guys who apparently did tackle a shooter yesterday. No guns. 34 00:02:33,275 --> 00:02:38,075 Speaker 1: Every shooting every year, more Americans then support more guns 35 00:02:38,275 --> 00:02:42,515 Speaker 1: for more police, to feed the other fantasy that more 36 00:02:42,595 --> 00:02:47,835 Speaker 1: cops with more guns will stop the next one. The 37 00:02:47,835 --> 00:02:51,355 Speaker 1: shooter captured in Kansas City yesterday not stopped by the police, 38 00:02:51,475 --> 00:02:55,515 Speaker 1: stopped by those unarmed civilians who tackled him, and the 39 00:02:55,515 --> 00:02:59,595 Speaker 1: police chief of Kansas City, Stacy Graves, then solemnly and 40 00:03:00,035 --> 00:03:04,595 Speaker 1: evidently completely convinced that the farcical statement she was making 41 00:03:04,835 --> 00:03:09,075 Speaker 1: was true. The police chief then said that citizens had 42 00:03:09,755 --> 00:03:16,115 Speaker 1: assisted the police in apprehending the suspect. A complete lie, 43 00:03:17,315 --> 00:03:23,755 Speaker 1: A complete lie. We have the laws that permit this 44 00:03:25,635 --> 00:03:29,755 Speaker 1: to happen literally every day of the calendar. And we 45 00:03:29,835 --> 00:03:32,315 Speaker 1: have the mindset that the solution to more guns is 46 00:03:32,395 --> 00:03:34,915 Speaker 1: more and more guns. And we have the other mindset 47 00:03:34,955 --> 00:03:38,155 Speaker 1: that even after Uvalde, the cops will take care of this. 48 00:03:38,235 --> 00:03:40,595 Speaker 1: So let's have more cops with more guns. We have 49 00:03:40,835 --> 00:03:47,315 Speaker 1: this because without it, the gun industry would collapse. Because 50 00:03:47,435 --> 00:03:51,475 Speaker 1: men and women, oddly enough, nearly every last one of 51 00:03:51,515 --> 00:03:55,715 Speaker 1: them a Republican lawmaker, they understand that profit is more 52 00:03:55,755 --> 00:03:59,515 Speaker 1: important than human life. As the lieutenant governor of Texas 53 00:03:59,555 --> 00:04:02,475 Speaker 1: said during the pandemic, we should be willing to die 54 00:04:02,635 --> 00:04:07,275 Speaker 1: to protect the economy for our grant kids. As this 55 00:04:08,235 --> 00:04:12,155 Speaker 1: gun fetishing idiot Trump said after the last shooting, not 56 00:04:12,315 --> 00:04:15,875 Speaker 1: the last shooting in Missouri today is the first day 57 00:04:15,915 --> 00:04:19,835 Speaker 1: anniversary of that one, but the last shooting in Iowa 58 00:04:20,115 --> 00:04:23,995 Speaker 1: a month ago. Trump said it was horrible, so surprising 59 00:04:23,995 --> 00:04:26,115 Speaker 1: to see it here. But we have to get over it. 60 00:04:26,155 --> 00:04:29,155 Speaker 1: We have to move forward. And of course he felt 61 00:04:29,155 --> 00:04:32,795 Speaker 1: that way didn't happen to him. And if you could 62 00:04:32,795 --> 00:04:35,995 Speaker 1: get all the politicians who have sold their souls to 63 00:04:36,195 --> 00:04:39,075 Speaker 1: force us to live like this and die like this 64 00:04:40,115 --> 00:04:43,275 Speaker 1: to protect the gun industry, if you could force them 65 00:04:43,355 --> 00:04:47,355 Speaker 1: to tell the truth, you would probably get answers very 66 00:04:47,435 --> 00:04:52,235 Speaker 1: much like Trump's real answer combined with my hypothetical answer. 67 00:04:53,315 --> 00:04:56,635 Speaker 1: So surprising to see it here, he said, which is 68 00:04:56,715 --> 00:04:59,835 Speaker 1: just a rationalized version of this doesn't happen to us, 69 00:05:00,435 --> 00:05:03,555 Speaker 1: happens to other people. So that's fine. And then that 70 00:05:03,675 --> 00:05:05,475 Speaker 1: other part we have to we get over it. We 71 00:05:05,555 --> 00:05:08,515 Speaker 1: have to move forward because we can't do anything that 72 00:05:08,515 --> 00:05:14,955 Speaker 1: would meddle with profits. We'd had the tobacco industry virtually 73 00:05:15,035 --> 00:05:19,195 Speaker 1: run this country and kill millions. We had the slavery 74 00:05:19,235 --> 00:05:23,715 Speaker 1: and plantation industry really run this country until the eighteen sixties, 75 00:05:23,755 --> 00:05:27,075 Speaker 1: and god knows how many human beings they killed, And 76 00:05:27,115 --> 00:05:31,195 Speaker 1: now we have the gun industry killing us off half 77 00:05:31,235 --> 00:05:32,515 Speaker 1: a dozen or so at a time. 78 00:05:33,075 --> 00:05:35,995 Speaker 2: During my four years, nothing happened, and there was great 79 00:05:36,035 --> 00:05:39,715 Speaker 2: pressure on me having to do with guns. We did nothing. 80 00:05:40,115 --> 00:05:43,075 Speaker 2: We didn't yield, and once you yield a little bit, 81 00:05:43,115 --> 00:05:45,995 Speaker 2: that's just the beginning. That's the avalanche begins. 82 00:05:47,155 --> 00:05:53,235 Speaker 1: We are owned by guns, and so we go on 83 00:05:54,275 --> 00:05:57,835 Speaker 1: calculating the averages and deciding if by age five it 84 00:05:57,955 --> 00:06:00,475 Speaker 1: is already too late to teach kids how to play 85 00:06:00,515 --> 00:06:05,115 Speaker 1: dead in their classrooms, And we go on listening to 86 00:06:05,235 --> 00:06:09,835 Speaker 1: fascist asshole madmen like Ron Desantists talk about fortifying schools 87 00:06:10,315 --> 00:06:14,515 Speaker 1: and fortifying movie theaters and fortifying churches, and we go 88 00:06:14,555 --> 00:06:18,595 Speaker 1: on listening to messianic buttonheads like Eric Adams talk about 89 00:06:18,635 --> 00:06:22,475 Speaker 1: giving more guns to more police, when police often turn 90 00:06:22,515 --> 00:06:25,875 Speaker 1: out either to be the murderers or the cowards who 91 00:06:25,955 --> 00:06:28,795 Speaker 1: idle in the hallways as the children of Uvalde are 92 00:06:28,835 --> 00:06:32,315 Speaker 1: executed one by one, And we go on listening to 93 00:06:32,355 --> 00:06:35,795 Speaker 1: the fatuous idiots like the Missouri House where the police 94 00:06:35,795 --> 00:06:38,515 Speaker 1: said we need laws to stop fourteen year olds from 95 00:06:38,555 --> 00:06:41,955 Speaker 1: walking down the streets of Saint Louis carrying ar fifteen's 96 00:06:42,275 --> 00:06:44,235 Speaker 1: and the House voted one hundred and four to thirty 97 00:06:44,315 --> 00:06:48,835 Speaker 1: nine to keep open carry legal in Missouri for kids, 98 00:06:50,395 --> 00:06:53,195 Speaker 1: And we go on listening to amorl monsters like Donald 99 00:06:53,235 --> 00:06:56,955 Speaker 1: Trump talk about arming teachers and bringing back firing squads, 100 00:06:56,955 --> 00:07:00,555 Speaker 1: and we listen to these paid scum Republicans bribed by 101 00:07:00,555 --> 00:07:03,875 Speaker 1: the gun manufacturers and the gun organizations, recite what they 102 00:07:03,875 --> 00:07:07,915 Speaker 1: have been paid to say about responsible gun owners, when 103 00:07:08,315 --> 00:07:11,635 Speaker 1: after half a million gun deaths in this country in 104 00:07:11,675 --> 00:07:14,595 Speaker 1: the last ten or twelve years, it is no longer 105 00:07:14,635 --> 00:07:18,995 Speaker 1: in doubt there are no longer any responsible gun owners. 106 00:07:22,435 --> 00:07:26,675 Speaker 1: On this nightmare so familiar, so routine, and so constant 107 00:07:26,875 --> 00:07:31,755 Speaker 1: that we no longer remember the details or the location, 108 00:07:32,435 --> 00:07:35,435 Speaker 1: or the motive or the sequence of them. And now 109 00:07:35,475 --> 00:07:38,475 Speaker 1: we are no longer even remembering that there was a 110 00:07:38,595 --> 00:07:41,835 Speaker 1: nightmare last night or the night before, and we're now 111 00:07:42,315 --> 00:07:45,755 Speaker 1: marbling them into other things in American life, as if 112 00:07:45,795 --> 00:07:50,195 Speaker 1: they were snowstorms or flight delays. And a hockey podcaster 113 00:07:50,395 --> 00:07:52,995 Speaker 1: begins by saying, well, it's tough to do this after 114 00:07:52,995 --> 00:07:56,035 Speaker 1: the Michigan State news, but let's talk about the Carolina 115 00:07:56,115 --> 00:07:59,675 Speaker 1: hurricanes needs at the deadline, and the New York Times 116 00:07:59,675 --> 00:08:03,555 Speaker 1: can run a sidebar that the shooting, well, it upended 117 00:08:03,595 --> 00:08:06,835 Speaker 1: the lives of thousand, but it also put the school 118 00:08:06,835 --> 00:08:10,595 Speaker 1: back in an uncomfortable spotlight, what with the sexual assault scandal. 119 00:08:10,635 --> 00:08:15,795 Speaker 1: There we go on in an unacceptable world in which 120 00:08:15,915 --> 00:08:22,355 Speaker 1: we are owned by guns. We go on to borrow 121 00:08:22,355 --> 00:08:27,875 Speaker 1: from Churchill in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, 122 00:08:28,515 --> 00:08:35,835 Speaker 1: resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, 123 00:08:36,915 --> 00:08:44,275 Speaker 1: all powerful to be impotent. The dead of Michigan State, 124 00:08:45,235 --> 00:08:49,555 Speaker 1: the dead of Las Vegas, the dead at the Pulse, 125 00:08:50,435 --> 00:08:55,235 Speaker 1: the dead at Well, why do we bother with individual 126 00:08:55,355 --> 00:09:00,795 Speaker 1: place names anymore? The dead of the killing field, the 127 00:09:00,835 --> 00:09:05,035 Speaker 1: dead of the transcendent national shooting Range that is the 128 00:09:05,155 --> 00:09:10,475 Speaker 1: United States of America. They are dead because somebody is 129 00:09:10,515 --> 00:09:16,195 Speaker 1: making money off them, and because Ted Cruz is making 130 00:09:16,235 --> 00:09:20,835 Speaker 1: money off them, and Marjorie Taylor Green is making money 131 00:09:20,875 --> 00:09:25,435 Speaker 1: off them, and every horror politician is making money off them, 132 00:09:25,755 --> 00:09:28,875 Speaker 1: and rarely even bothering any more to wash the money 133 00:09:28,875 --> 00:09:33,555 Speaker 1: through sea, pack or save America this, or shoot America, 134 00:09:33,635 --> 00:09:38,475 Speaker 1: that the donations come straight and unhidden, and whether it's 135 00:09:38,475 --> 00:09:42,675 Speaker 1: Trump or DeSantis or Poor soon to be very very surprised, 136 00:09:42,755 --> 00:09:47,235 Speaker 1: Nicki Haley, or just some other idiot free from morality 137 00:09:47,315 --> 00:09:50,955 Speaker 1: or conscience, whom the moneyed interests select. It is fair 138 00:09:50,995 --> 00:09:53,715 Speaker 1: to say that the Republican nominee for president in twenty 139 00:09:53,755 --> 00:09:56,915 Speaker 1: twenty four whoever that is will be underwritten by the 140 00:09:56,955 --> 00:10:00,875 Speaker 1: gun manufacturers and the gun lobby and their masters, the 141 00:10:01,035 --> 00:10:05,315 Speaker 1: death lobby, who pay good money to bad peace to 142 00:10:05,475 --> 00:10:09,275 Speaker 1: maintain not just our culture of guns and shooting and 143 00:10:09,515 --> 00:10:14,395 Speaker 1: dead children and thoughts and prayers, but also maintain the 144 00:10:14,395 --> 00:10:17,835 Speaker 1: world's culture of continuing to poison the atmosphere and kill 145 00:10:17,875 --> 00:10:21,515 Speaker 1: off the species one by one, because the one billion, 146 00:10:21,675 --> 00:10:25,475 Speaker 1: nine hundred and sixty three million dollars in profit made 147 00:10:25,555 --> 00:10:30,315 Speaker 1: last year by big Oil just isn't enough. Because they 148 00:10:30,395 --> 00:10:33,275 Speaker 1: stay up at night anguished by the thought that there 149 00:10:33,315 --> 00:10:39,195 Speaker 1: remains somewhere one dollar not yet stolen from a child 150 00:10:39,315 --> 00:10:42,875 Speaker 1: dying next to the earthquake rubble in Syria or Turkey, 151 00:10:43,195 --> 00:10:46,995 Speaker 1: one dollar yet to be pocketed by Darren Woods, the 152 00:10:47,115 --> 00:10:55,675 Speaker 1: CEO of Exxon Mobile. Away God intended it. It is economics, 153 00:10:56,715 --> 00:11:04,475 Speaker 1: and thus the only solution can also be economics, because 154 00:11:04,515 --> 00:11:06,835 Speaker 1: we will not defeat them in the states that are 155 00:11:06,835 --> 00:11:10,875 Speaker 1: already lost to the control of the death lobby. And 156 00:11:10,955 --> 00:11:14,235 Speaker 1: even if President Biden said tomorrow we are not owned 157 00:11:14,275 --> 00:11:16,955 Speaker 1: by guns, and I don't give a damn if I'm 158 00:11:16,955 --> 00:11:19,795 Speaker 1: re elected or even renominated, I'm going to issue four 159 00:11:19,875 --> 00:11:23,715 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty executive orders and take every damn gun 160 00:11:23,795 --> 00:11:26,355 Speaker 1: I can get off the streets. And if the House 161 00:11:26,395 --> 00:11:29,395 Speaker 1: and Senate won't reinstate the assault weapons man, I will 162 00:11:29,435 --> 00:11:32,275 Speaker 1: do so unilaterally and come and get me in the courts. 163 00:11:34,155 --> 00:11:40,155 Speaker 1: Even if Biden did that, we the anti death people, 164 00:11:41,035 --> 00:11:46,075 Speaker 1: we would lose in the Supreme Court, because Clarence Thomas 165 00:11:46,155 --> 00:11:49,715 Speaker 1: the whore is on the Supreme Court because of and 166 00:11:49,795 --> 00:11:53,235 Speaker 1: bought and paid for by the death lobby, and Samuel 167 00:11:53,275 --> 00:11:56,395 Speaker 1: Alito the whore is, and John Roberts the whore is, 168 00:11:56,915 --> 00:12:00,955 Speaker 1: and Neil Gorsich and drunken Brett Kavanaugh and Bible paralegal 169 00:12:01,035 --> 00:12:08,115 Speaker 1: Amy Coney Barrett. So we must ask ourselves, what economically 170 00:12:08,475 --> 00:12:12,995 Speaker 1: can we do to the gun lobby, to the oil lobby, 171 00:12:13,395 --> 00:12:17,475 Speaker 1: to the death lobby, and to their minions in the Senate, 172 00:12:17,515 --> 00:12:20,275 Speaker 1: in the House, and all the Senates and all the 173 00:12:20,315 --> 00:12:26,515 Speaker 1: houses in all the states in America and in this country. 174 00:12:26,555 --> 00:12:29,595 Speaker 1: There are only a couple of measures that might possibly work, 175 00:12:29,715 --> 00:12:33,275 Speaker 1: and might possibly work fast enough so that enough of 176 00:12:33,355 --> 00:12:37,395 Speaker 1: us won't be killed in next year's three hundred gun 177 00:12:37,435 --> 00:12:44,435 Speaker 1: massacres or the next decades three hundred climate crises. And 178 00:12:44,475 --> 00:12:46,795 Speaker 1: that one thing is to spare you the kind words, 179 00:12:47,355 --> 00:12:50,595 Speaker 1: the soft words, that one thing is economic civil war. 180 00:12:51,755 --> 00:12:57,075 Speaker 1: It can start simply, buy nothing from Texas, do not 181 00:12:57,275 --> 00:13:04,875 Speaker 1: go to Florida, do not patronize Missouri. We can start there, 182 00:13:05,715 --> 00:13:09,315 Speaker 1: and then we can get serious. It is a simple 183 00:13:09,435 --> 00:13:12,875 Speaker 1: mathematical fact that, with some exceptions, and a little more 184 00:13:12,995 --> 00:13:15,875 Speaker 1: nuanced than time permits me here, it is a simple 185 00:13:15,915 --> 00:13:19,915 Speaker 1: mathematical fact that the Blue states of this country keep 186 00:13:19,955 --> 00:13:24,035 Speaker 1: the Red states of this country from going bankrupt. It 187 00:13:24,115 --> 00:13:27,235 Speaker 1: is a simple mathematical fact that the Blue states pay 188 00:13:27,435 --> 00:13:30,395 Speaker 1: in more to the federal government than they ever get 189 00:13:30,395 --> 00:13:34,955 Speaker 1: back in services or infrastructure, or certainly in per capita representation. 190 00:13:35,715 --> 00:13:39,315 Speaker 1: New York pays a net twenty four billion a year, 191 00:13:40,115 --> 00:13:43,515 Speaker 1: California pays in a net fourteen billion, and most of 192 00:13:43,555 --> 00:13:49,115 Speaker 1: that goes to keeping Florida and Texas from starving. Florida 193 00:13:49,195 --> 00:13:53,595 Speaker 1: gets thirty six billion a year, more than it pays 194 00:13:53,675 --> 00:14:00,555 Speaker 1: in Texas, nearly that much. It is state to state socialism, 195 00:14:01,995 --> 00:14:06,235 Speaker 1: and we all know that we can't have socialism. And 196 00:14:06,315 --> 00:14:09,755 Speaker 1: it is a simple fact that the Blue states restrict 197 00:14:09,835 --> 00:14:14,195 Speaker 1: and regulate guns, and the Red states sell guns and 198 00:14:14,395 --> 00:14:20,195 Speaker 1: sell guns and sell guns and profit off dead children. 199 00:14:21,635 --> 00:14:26,075 Speaker 1: And when the political wars like Ted Cruz and Tucker 200 00:14:26,115 --> 00:14:32,715 Speaker 1: Carlson and Rupert Murdoch point to the gun carnage of Chicago, 201 00:14:32,795 --> 00:14:35,475 Speaker 1: they are actually pointing to the gun carnage of weapons 202 00:14:35,555 --> 00:14:41,715 Speaker 1: smuggled in from Indiana to Chicago. And it is also 203 00:14:41,755 --> 00:14:44,315 Speaker 1: a simple fact that we can dance around for decades 204 00:14:44,395 --> 00:14:47,115 Speaker 1: yet to come about how to stop the gun massacres 205 00:14:47,155 --> 00:14:51,715 Speaker 1: of February twenty forty seven and the chemical disasters of 206 00:14:52,075 --> 00:14:55,875 Speaker 1: June twenty sixty one so bad they reminded old timers 207 00:14:55,915 --> 00:15:00,635 Speaker 1: of where was that East Palestine, Ohio? Or we can 208 00:15:00,715 --> 00:15:02,795 Speaker 1: cut to the chase and put it this way, if 209 00:15:02,795 --> 00:15:06,675 Speaker 1: the Red States do not agree to strict and enforced 210 00:15:06,715 --> 00:15:12,035 Speaker 1: gun regulation and the removal and the outlawing of gun manufacture, 211 00:15:12,595 --> 00:15:14,875 Speaker 1: and a revision of the Second Amendment so that the 212 00:15:14,955 --> 00:15:18,275 Speaker 1: vagueness that isn't actually there but the death lobby has 213 00:15:18,275 --> 00:15:22,315 Speaker 1: spedisentury convincing millions. Is there that all doubt about the 214 00:15:22,355 --> 00:15:24,795 Speaker 1: Second Amendment be erased and replaced by the simple statement 215 00:15:24,795 --> 00:15:28,715 Speaker 1: that private gun ownership is illegal without a series of 216 00:15:28,755 --> 00:15:31,875 Speaker 1: licenses and mental health tests, and that the owner is 217 00:15:31,955 --> 00:15:34,115 Speaker 1: liable for whatever is done with his gun. And if 218 00:15:34,115 --> 00:15:37,275 Speaker 1: that includes murder, then the owner is liable for life imprisonment, 219 00:15:37,315 --> 00:15:39,595 Speaker 1: whether he fired the gun or not. If the Red 220 00:15:39,635 --> 00:15:42,235 Speaker 1: States do not agree to that, and by the way, 221 00:15:42,275 --> 00:15:45,715 Speaker 1: to reapportioned representation in the House and the Senate so 222 00:15:45,795 --> 00:15:48,875 Speaker 1: that Idaho does not have as many senators as a 223 00:15:48,995 --> 00:15:54,155 Speaker 1: real state and not a welfare state like Idaho, And 224 00:15:54,195 --> 00:15:56,355 Speaker 1: if they do not agree to the resignations of Chief 225 00:15:56,475 --> 00:16:00,715 Speaker 1: Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Barrett, Gorsch, Kavanaugh, and Thomas. 226 00:16:00,795 --> 00:16:03,235 Speaker 1: If the Red States do not agree to that, then 227 00:16:03,275 --> 00:16:08,555 Speaker 1: the Blue States will simply stop paying money into the 228 00:16:08,595 --> 00:16:11,675 Speaker 1: federal government, and the Blue states will simply spend that 229 00:16:11,755 --> 00:16:16,795 Speaker 1: money directly on their own citizens. And if the leaders 230 00:16:17,315 --> 00:16:19,595 Speaker 1: of our Blue states who will not comply with this, 231 00:16:20,195 --> 00:16:23,395 Speaker 1: then the only solution we have since the murders at 232 00:16:23,435 --> 00:16:28,395 Speaker 1: your town name here next week are profit streams for 233 00:16:28,555 --> 00:16:32,635 Speaker 1: many people, the only solution we have is to then 234 00:16:32,755 --> 00:16:37,035 Speaker 1: stop paying our federal taxes until our state leaders recognize 235 00:16:37,035 --> 00:16:39,555 Speaker 1: that the only way out of this nightmare is to 236 00:16:39,715 --> 00:16:43,875 Speaker 1: threaten the Red States and thus threaten the gun lobby, 237 00:16:44,315 --> 00:16:46,715 Speaker 1: and thus threaten the oil lobby and thus threaten the 238 00:16:46,755 --> 00:16:55,395 Speaker 1: death lobby with economic strangulation, economic civil war, to save 239 00:16:55,435 --> 00:17:01,835 Speaker 1: the country, to save the next six hundred thousand Americans 240 00:17:01,875 --> 00:17:05,955 Speaker 1: who will die by gun violence. So certainly by the 241 00:17:06,075 --> 00:17:09,755 Speaker 1: year twenty thirty five, if it does not get worse before, 242 00:17:09,795 --> 00:17:15,275 Speaker 1: then six hundred thousand, the same number who were killed 243 00:17:15,275 --> 00:17:19,795 Speaker 1: in the actual civil war. And if you ask yourself, 244 00:17:19,915 --> 00:17:24,035 Speaker 1: or you are asked, by what right we could threaten 245 00:17:24,155 --> 00:17:29,555 Speaker 1: economic civil war, just say this is constitutional under the 246 00:17:29,675 --> 00:17:36,155 Speaker 1: Second Amendment. Quote, a well regulated militia being necessary to 247 00:17:36,275 --> 00:17:39,875 Speaker 1: the security of a free state, the right of the 248 00:17:39,875 --> 00:17:42,835 Speaker 1: people to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed. 249 00:17:43,235 --> 00:17:46,755 Speaker 1: Our rights to the security of a free state have 250 00:17:46,875 --> 00:17:50,955 Speaker 1: been infringed upon by the gun lobby and the death lobby, 251 00:17:51,715 --> 00:17:54,755 Speaker 1: which has convinced generations of gun fetishists that an amendment 252 00:17:54,835 --> 00:17:58,315 Speaker 1: that does not contain the word own nor any synonym 253 00:17:58,395 --> 00:18:03,275 Speaker 1: for own, does contain it. The Constitution is a property document. 254 00:18:03,355 --> 00:18:06,595 Speaker 1: It mentions rights only fi fifteen times. It mentions voting 255 00:18:06,715 --> 00:18:09,155 Speaker 1: only thirty seven times. This is out of nearly eight 256 00:18:09,195 --> 00:18:12,155 Speaker 1: thousand words. But it mentions money and ownership one hundred 257 00:18:12,155 --> 00:18:17,835 Speaker 1: and three times. The Second Amendment is about making sure 258 00:18:17,875 --> 00:18:23,195 Speaker 1: nothing interferes with the well regulated militia. A well regulated 259 00:18:23,195 --> 00:18:27,435 Speaker 1: militia that is there protecting our rights as citizens to have, 260 00:18:27,675 --> 00:18:30,395 Speaker 1: as it says in the Second Amendment, the security of 261 00:18:30,475 --> 00:18:35,235 Speaker 1: a free state. Our Second Amendment rights have been trampled 262 00:18:35,275 --> 00:18:39,915 Speaker 1: on by Donald Trump and the Republicans, the anti Second 263 00:18:39,955 --> 00:18:44,995 Speaker 1: Amendment Republicans. We need to start enforcing the Second Amendment. 264 00:18:48,315 --> 00:18:50,995 Speaker 1: We need an economic civil war against the gun lobby 265 00:18:51,035 --> 00:18:53,595 Speaker 1: and the death lobby and those corrupted and financially insolvent 266 00:18:53,635 --> 00:18:55,475 Speaker 1: red states that stand in the way of peace and 267 00:18:55,515 --> 00:19:01,955 Speaker 1: security in this country because we are owned by guns. 268 00:19:03,515 --> 00:19:08,555 Speaker 1: But God damn it, we are not going to be 269 00:19:08,675 --> 00:19:17,035 Speaker 1: owned by guns any longer. This is countdown, with Keith 270 00:19:17,075 --> 00:19:41,235 Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead of us on countdown. There's a bunch 271 00:19:41,275 --> 00:19:43,955 Speaker 1: of news about Netflix, and I am in no mood 272 00:19:43,995 --> 00:19:46,595 Speaker 1: to tell you any of the news about Netflix, but 273 00:19:47,435 --> 00:19:50,435 Speaker 1: because we need something to help us through things like this, 274 00:19:51,555 --> 00:19:53,595 Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you only about the day I 275 00:19:53,715 --> 00:19:56,555 Speaker 1: met with Netflix about starting news on Netflix, and their 276 00:19:56,595 --> 00:20:01,355 Speaker 1: only concerns were what about the Italian subtitles and what 277 00:20:01,395 --> 00:20:05,675 Speaker 1: would happen if one day my show didn't upload things 278 00:20:05,675 --> 00:20:08,515 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell. Coming up first, Yes, it's 279 00:20:08,555 --> 00:20:11,955 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the other miscreants. Morons and Dunning 280 00:20:11,995 --> 00:20:15,555 Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. 281 00:20:16,275 --> 00:20:21,915 Speaker 1: The bronze worse Heraldo Rivera and News Nation. I have 282 00:20:21,995 --> 00:20:24,675 Speaker 1: noted before. News Nation is the Nick at Night of 283 00:20:24,715 --> 00:20:28,195 Speaker 1: cable television, the retirement home for all those faces you 284 00:20:28,755 --> 00:20:31,435 Speaker 1: vaguely remember from when cable was a big deal and 285 00:20:31,475 --> 00:20:36,715 Speaker 1: they were too sort of Dan Abrams at his MSNBC 286 00:20:36,875 --> 00:20:41,955 Speaker 1: hair weave, Chris Cuomo and his CNN belligerent refusal to 287 00:20:42,035 --> 00:20:47,435 Speaker 1: understand journalistic standards, conservative con man Steve krackour hell, they 288 00:20:47,435 --> 00:20:51,675 Speaker 1: even put George will and Mick mulvaney and Sean Spicer 289 00:20:51,755 --> 00:20:56,515 Speaker 1: on the air. And Heraldo Well, of course, Heraldo Rivera 290 00:20:56,715 --> 00:21:01,875 Speaker 1: is the Heraldo Rivera of Heraldo Rivera's still complaining that 291 00:21:02,075 --> 00:21:05,315 Speaker 1: NBC spent money to promote my new show on MSNBC 292 00:21:06,195 --> 00:21:09,915 Speaker 1: instead of more money to promote his extant show on CNBC. 293 00:21:11,315 --> 00:21:14,235 Speaker 1: He first issued this complaint in the summer of nineteen 294 00:21:14,355 --> 00:21:18,395 Speaker 1: ninety seven. While the inevitable has finally happened, News Nation 295 00:21:18,555 --> 00:21:23,115 Speaker 1: Quote announced Heraldo Rivera will join the channel as correspondent 296 00:21:23,155 --> 00:21:28,475 Speaker 1: at large, effective immediately. Oh knows. Does this mean we'll 297 00:21:28,475 --> 00:21:32,755 Speaker 1: see less of some of their hardworking female correspondents Kaylee 298 00:21:32,795 --> 00:21:37,075 Speaker 1: and Kelsey and Kelly and Marky and Marne. By the way, 299 00:21:37,115 --> 00:21:39,875 Speaker 1: I'm not making that up. Their website lists twenty three 300 00:21:39,955 --> 00:21:44,675 Speaker 1: female anchors and correspondents on News Nation, including Kaylee and 301 00:21:44,795 --> 00:21:49,435 Speaker 1: Kelsey and Kelly and Marky and Marnie and now Heraldo. 302 00:21:51,395 --> 00:21:54,275 Speaker 1: They're honors up the Daily Wire and doctor Greg Murphy. 303 00:21:54,755 --> 00:21:58,595 Speaker 1: The Ben Shapiro bullshit Service quotes somebody named Jeremy Boring 304 00:21:59,595 --> 00:22:02,955 Speaker 1: revealing the secret Democratic plot to replace the vice president 305 00:22:03,515 --> 00:22:07,115 Speaker 1: to pay Harris a five year, one hundred million dollar 306 00:22:07,275 --> 00:22:09,795 Speaker 1: deal to run a foundation for the next five years 307 00:22:09,995 --> 00:22:13,315 Speaker 1: so she could make twenty million dollars a year. And honestly, 308 00:22:13,395 --> 00:22:15,675 Speaker 1: I'm impressed that somebody from the Daily Wire got the 309 00:22:15,715 --> 00:22:20,155 Speaker 1: math right. As to Murphy, the congressman from North Carolina 310 00:22:20,195 --> 00:22:25,155 Speaker 1: and urologist, also misogynist and racist, apart from his bizarre 311 00:22:25,195 --> 00:22:27,755 Speaker 1: claim that Trump is less likely to have dementia than 312 00:22:27,795 --> 00:22:31,755 Speaker 1: Biden because Trump is smarter, which I guess he determined 313 00:22:31,795 --> 00:22:35,675 Speaker 1: during a sistoscopy of Trump's brain. By the way, that's 314 00:22:35,715 --> 00:22:39,715 Speaker 1: a great joke, but you're gonna have to google sistoscopy anyway. 315 00:22:39,755 --> 00:22:44,635 Speaker 1: Congressman Murphy has also told Fox that Vice President Kamala 316 00:22:44,635 --> 00:22:49,635 Speaker 1: Harris is stupid. Quote Kamala, good lord. We talked about 317 00:22:49,675 --> 00:22:52,555 Speaker 1: intelligence being a risk factor for dementia. Let's not even 318 00:22:52,595 --> 00:22:55,875 Speaker 1: go there. Unquote. Four years ago, Murphy called the vice 319 00:22:55,915 --> 00:22:58,995 Speaker 1: president quote a walking disaster. She was only picked for 320 00:22:59,035 --> 00:23:03,635 Speaker 1: her color and her race. Punchline, while insulting the intelligence 321 00:23:03,635 --> 00:23:08,275 Speaker 1: of the Vice president, Congressman Murphy mis pronounced her first name. 322 00:23:11,515 --> 00:23:19,035 Speaker 1: Well done, Greg MURPHFI but our winner the worst. Thomas J. 323 00:23:19,355 --> 00:23:23,395 Speaker 1: Method the latest to be arrested for the January sixth insurrection. 324 00:23:23,435 --> 00:23:27,595 Speaker 1: He's from Framingham, Massachusetts, and the FBI asked him to 325 00:23:27,635 --> 00:23:30,715 Speaker 1: produce two photos he had taken of himself inside the 326 00:23:30,715 --> 00:23:33,715 Speaker 1: Capitol rotunda on January sixth. He was quoted as saying 327 00:23:33,715 --> 00:23:36,515 Speaker 1: at the Capitol, we can overthrow this. I don't care 328 00:23:36,555 --> 00:23:39,795 Speaker 1: what happens as long as Trump maintains his presidency. I 329 00:23:39,795 --> 00:23:43,555 Speaker 1: have a feeling it's going to be Mayhem, chaos and pandemonium. 330 00:23:44,755 --> 00:23:47,315 Speaker 1: Or he probably said it this way, we can overthrow this. 331 00:23:47,515 --> 00:23:50,355 Speaker 1: I don't care what happens as long as Trump maintains 332 00:23:50,395 --> 00:23:55,075 Speaker 1: as presidency. I have a feeling, no, that's enough. It's 333 00:23:55,155 --> 00:24:00,555 Speaker 1: going towards carry grant. Anyway, the arrestee, mister Method, told 334 00:24:00,595 --> 00:24:02,995 Speaker 1: the FBI he had gone through the trash in his 335 00:24:03,115 --> 00:24:07,075 Speaker 1: phone and Google Photos in his phone, and unfortunately those 336 00:24:07,075 --> 00:24:09,475 Speaker 1: two images they wanted, they could not be recovered because 337 00:24:09,475 --> 00:24:12,675 Speaker 1: the trash automatically deleted them after two months. As sorry, 338 00:24:12,875 --> 00:24:15,675 Speaker 1: I can't give you the incriminating evidence you know I have. 339 00:24:15,955 --> 00:24:18,195 Speaker 1: So the FBI got a warrant and Google said, yeah, 340 00:24:18,235 --> 00:24:20,835 Speaker 1: they're over here and produce the images. And now he's 341 00:24:20,915 --> 00:24:28,075 Speaker 1: under arrest on felony and misdemeanor charges. Thomas J. Method, Yes, 342 00:24:28,195 --> 00:24:30,755 Speaker 1: I know you have seen this joke coming. I still 343 00:24:30,835 --> 00:24:35,915 Speaker 1: could not resist it. There was a madness to his method. 344 00:24:36,395 --> 00:24:55,195 Speaker 1: Two days worst person in the world. Finally to the 345 00:24:55,275 --> 00:24:57,835 Speaker 1: number one story on the Countdown and my favorite topic, 346 00:24:58,035 --> 00:25:00,875 Speaker 1: me and things I promised not to tell. And I 347 00:25:00,955 --> 00:25:05,115 Speaker 1: don't usually venture into financial commentary or advice. You will 348 00:25:05,115 --> 00:25:08,075 Speaker 1: remember the story of my great grandfather who gave away 349 00:25:08,235 --> 00:25:13,075 Speaker 1: the name General Motors for free. But I just read 350 00:25:13,115 --> 00:25:16,795 Speaker 1: of Netflix finally staunching the subscriber flow. It had lost 351 00:25:16,995 --> 00:25:19,475 Speaker 1: around a million, two hundred thousand households in the first 352 00:25:19,475 --> 00:25:22,115 Speaker 1: half of this year, but added about twice that many 353 00:25:22,115 --> 00:25:25,155 Speaker 1: in the third quarter thanks to such uplifting programming as 354 00:25:25,355 --> 00:25:31,555 Speaker 1: the Jeffrey Dahmer story. So yay corporate cannibalism profits. Anyway, 355 00:25:31,635 --> 00:25:35,435 Speaker 1: I had an experience with Netflix which so shook my 356 00:25:35,595 --> 00:25:39,475 Speaker 1: confidence in them that it made me fearful of even 357 00:25:39,595 --> 00:25:42,955 Speaker 1: playing their stuff on my big TV, because I was 358 00:25:42,995 --> 00:25:46,995 Speaker 1: wondering if their stuff would damage my big TV. This 359 00:25:47,235 --> 00:25:50,355 Speaker 1: is my favorite story of what happens when media management 360 00:25:50,395 --> 00:25:55,355 Speaker 1: misunderstands its own business and wrongly thinks superstitions and coincidences 361 00:25:55,835 --> 00:26:01,595 Speaker 1: are inviolable rules for success. This happened on June seventeenth, 362 00:26:01,755 --> 00:26:05,795 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, the day I found out about the vitality, 363 00:26:06,155 --> 00:26:14,075 Speaker 1: the importance, the absolute necessity of Netflix's Italian subtitles. I 364 00:26:14,075 --> 00:26:16,515 Speaker 1: don't want to exaggerate the importance of the two video 365 00:26:16,595 --> 00:26:20,075 Speaker 1: series I did for the GQ magazine site in twenty sixteen. 366 00:26:20,075 --> 00:26:23,235 Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen, The Closer and The Resistance. I mean, 367 00:26:23,275 --> 00:26:26,435 Speaker 1: for one thing, The Closer was so named because each 368 00:26:26,435 --> 00:26:28,915 Speaker 1: of the handful of us involved in its production could 369 00:26:28,915 --> 00:26:32,675 Speaker 1: not really conceive that there were enough morons and closeted 370 00:26:32,795 --> 00:26:35,635 Speaker 1: racists in this country to actually elect crazy Trump. We 371 00:26:35,835 --> 00:26:39,675 Speaker 1: grandly called the videos the closer because we expected our 372 00:26:39,835 --> 00:26:44,875 Speaker 1: expositions of Trump's essential fraudulents and dangerousness would close the 373 00:26:44,995 --> 00:26:51,955 Speaker 1: deal for Hillary Clinton. Uh huh, but people watch those videos. 374 00:26:52,235 --> 00:26:54,475 Speaker 1: I forget the final count, one hundred and eighty or 375 00:26:54,515 --> 00:26:58,715 Speaker 1: so episodes, four hundred million or so views, not plays, 376 00:26:59,115 --> 00:27:03,555 Speaker 1: but people actually viewing, essentially the whole piece. And CBS 377 00:27:03,555 --> 00:27:06,355 Speaker 1: News did a story once with the web analyzing platform 378 00:27:06,475 --> 00:27:09,435 Speaker 1: social Flow that showed that the first episode of The 379 00:27:09,475 --> 00:27:14,475 Speaker 1: Resistance from November sixteenth, twenty sixteen, was the top story 380 00:27:14,635 --> 00:27:17,955 Speaker 1: or video on Facebook through the first six months of 381 00:27:17,955 --> 00:27:21,235 Speaker 1: the Trump administration. The calculation, and lord knows what this 382 00:27:21,355 --> 00:27:25,195 Speaker 1: formula actually looks like, but the calculation was probably pretty 383 00:27:25,195 --> 00:27:29,755 Speaker 1: close that it reached fifty four million people, the equivalent 384 00:27:29,795 --> 00:27:32,675 Speaker 1: of one out of six of everybody in the country. 385 00:27:33,195 --> 00:27:36,875 Speaker 1: That's CBS News reporting this. Not my ego, and ego 386 00:27:37,075 --> 00:27:40,635 Speaker 1: is not the reason I mentioned this, well, it's not 387 00:27:40,675 --> 00:27:44,795 Speaker 1: the only reason I mentioned this. MSNBC had offered me 388 00:27:44,835 --> 00:27:47,195 Speaker 1: a new show in January of twenty sixteen, but I 389 00:27:47,195 --> 00:27:49,635 Speaker 1: would have hated it and you would not have watched it. 390 00:27:49,715 --> 00:27:52,475 Speaker 1: So it was not supposed to have any commentaries in it, 391 00:27:53,155 --> 00:27:55,875 Speaker 1: and a conservative co host was supposed to be there, 392 00:27:56,395 --> 00:27:58,355 Speaker 1: and the goal was she and I would be the 393 00:27:58,435 --> 00:28:03,635 Speaker 1: wacky couple who would find middle ground. Plus I would 394 00:28:03,675 --> 00:28:06,275 Speaker 1: have had to move to Laws even though I could 395 00:28:06,355 --> 00:28:09,435 Speaker 1: see the headquarters of NBC News out my bedroom window 396 00:28:09,475 --> 00:28:12,835 Speaker 1: in New York. And then when it was successful, the 397 00:28:12,875 --> 00:28:15,755 Speaker 1: producers wanted me to simply get on a plane from 398 00:28:15,755 --> 00:28:17,875 Speaker 1: Los Angeles and show up one morning in the New 399 00:28:17,955 --> 00:28:20,275 Speaker 1: York office of the president of NBC News, Andy Lack, 400 00:28:20,595 --> 00:28:23,275 Speaker 1: and tell him either we were scrapping the format and 401 00:28:23,315 --> 00:28:27,435 Speaker 1: relaunching Countdown that night, or I was quitting. In short, 402 00:28:27,635 --> 00:28:30,235 Speaker 1: they wanted me to do this lousy show and then 403 00:28:30,715 --> 00:28:33,915 Speaker 1: run a palace coup against the president of NBC News. 404 00:28:35,315 --> 00:28:38,875 Speaker 1: I passed. I put my energy and said into finding 405 00:28:38,915 --> 00:28:41,995 Speaker 1: a new platform for Countdown or a Countdown like show. 406 00:28:42,355 --> 00:28:44,315 Speaker 1: I had a deal in place to become the video 407 00:28:44,395 --> 00:28:49,315 Speaker 1: anchor of The Huffington Post, a daily exclusive commentary interviews, 408 00:28:49,395 --> 00:28:53,755 Speaker 1: features breaking news, funny stuff, whatever. Two days later. Two 409 00:28:53,875 --> 00:28:59,075 Speaker 1: days later, Arianna Huffington sold the Huffington Post no more deal. 410 00:28:59,795 --> 00:29:03,595 Speaker 1: Before and after this, some friends from Lionsgate Productions and 411 00:29:03,635 --> 00:29:05,595 Speaker 1: I were trying to sell to two Idea is pitching 412 00:29:05,915 --> 00:29:08,675 Speaker 1: to a series of forward looking media companies. One was 413 00:29:08,715 --> 00:29:11,315 Speaker 1: that they should be producing and running or posting or 414 00:29:11,355 --> 00:29:15,275 Speaker 1: streaming or whatever the series of my commentaries that became 415 00:29:15,435 --> 00:29:18,555 Speaker 1: The Closer and then The Resistance. I don't know what 416 00:29:18,635 --> 00:29:20,515 Speaker 1: that would have been worth, but I do know that 417 00:29:20,555 --> 00:29:23,955 Speaker 1: the tiny slice of the advertising GQ got just from 418 00:29:23,995 --> 00:29:26,595 Speaker 1: the commercials that would roll if you watched one of 419 00:29:26,595 --> 00:29:29,835 Speaker 1: the episodes on YouTube was well over a million dollars. 420 00:29:30,435 --> 00:29:33,475 Speaker 1: The overall profit might have been ten times that. Production 421 00:29:33,595 --> 00:29:38,435 Speaker 1: costs were like fifty thousand dollars. But I had a second, 422 00:29:38,555 --> 00:29:41,835 Speaker 1: bigger idea to pitch to these other companies. Who wants 423 00:29:41,875 --> 00:29:45,515 Speaker 1: to own the future of cable news when there isn't 424 00:29:45,555 --> 00:29:50,435 Speaker 1: any cable news anymore? I correctly predicted twenty twenty two 425 00:29:50,635 --> 00:29:53,675 Speaker 1: back in twenty sixteen. Who wants to own the future 426 00:29:53,715 --> 00:29:58,675 Speaker 1: of cable news when there isn't any cable anymore? Start 427 00:29:58,755 --> 00:30:02,235 Speaker 1: with just my commentaries, and as they make money for you, 428 00:30:02,315 --> 00:30:06,235 Speaker 1: build out if they work, you add my interviews and 429 00:30:06,395 --> 00:30:11,195 Speaker 1: my debates, and then somebody else's commentaries, and then some 430 00:30:11,275 --> 00:30:15,755 Speaker 1: conservatives commentaries, and then add all of what is now 431 00:30:15,875 --> 00:30:21,675 Speaker 1: cable news and put it on one streaming platform. We 432 00:30:21,715 --> 00:30:25,435 Speaker 1: rented a studio, We made a demo commentary, We made 433 00:30:25,475 --> 00:30:29,315 Speaker 1: what TV pitchmen call a deck. That's how I knew 434 00:30:29,315 --> 00:30:32,435 Speaker 1: the producers were serious. We met with HBO about this, 435 00:30:32,595 --> 00:30:35,835 Speaker 1: We met with something called Pop TV, The Daily Beast, Yahoo, 436 00:30:35,875 --> 00:30:40,635 Speaker 1: tune In, Sony, Epics, BBC, Hulu, Conde Nast. Ultimately that 437 00:30:40,715 --> 00:30:43,275 Speaker 1: led to the GQ series. But the one I had 438 00:30:43,315 --> 00:30:47,315 Speaker 1: the most hoped for was Netflix. The way I saw it, 439 00:30:47,355 --> 00:30:49,595 Speaker 1: they could start this tiny little thing in the corner 440 00:30:49,635 --> 00:30:55,675 Speaker 1: of their homepage called news Flicks, and you could click 441 00:30:55,755 --> 00:30:59,115 Speaker 1: on it, and someday there would be a menu with 442 00:30:59,395 --> 00:31:03,275 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman commentaries and I don't know, Glenn Beck commentaries 443 00:31:03,315 --> 00:31:07,355 Speaker 1: and Bill Maher commentary and Jesus H. Christ commentaries and 444 00:31:07,475 --> 00:31:12,275 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman newscast and lou Dobbs newscast and and all 445 00:31:12,355 --> 00:31:18,195 Speaker 1: of them partisan but collectively one giant, all encompassing by 446 00:31:18,475 --> 00:31:23,435 Speaker 1: partisan because of volume news and commentary site, the proverbial 447 00:31:23,955 --> 00:31:28,115 Speaker 1: marketplace of ideas, Duncan Donuts and Baskin Robbins and Pizza 448 00:31:28,195 --> 00:31:33,435 Speaker 1: Hut living together only as newscasters, you know, for kids. 449 00:31:35,835 --> 00:31:39,435 Speaker 1: I thought Netflix would see it immediately. They would own 450 00:31:40,275 --> 00:31:42,355 Speaker 1: news all of it. 451 00:31:42,395 --> 00:31:42,675 Speaker 2: I mean. 452 00:31:42,835 --> 00:31:46,235 Speaker 1: These were the people who realized America was too lazy 453 00:31:46,275 --> 00:31:48,995 Speaker 1: to go down to the video store anymore, so they 454 00:31:49,035 --> 00:31:53,395 Speaker 1: began to send America rented DVDs by mail, and people 455 00:31:53,515 --> 00:31:58,275 Speaker 1: actually returned the DVDs, And then they realized that America 456 00:31:58,315 --> 00:32:00,755 Speaker 1: was too lazy to return them anymore, and that the 457 00:32:00,835 --> 00:32:04,555 Speaker 1: optimum date to switch from DVDs to the then laugh 458 00:32:04,755 --> 00:32:11,715 Speaker 1: out loud bad concept of online video was precisely January sixteenth, 459 00:32:11,755 --> 00:32:14,915 Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. These guys had the gonads to 460 00:32:14,995 --> 00:32:19,715 Speaker 1: take a brilliantly successful, profitable new idea and gradually strangle 461 00:32:19,755 --> 00:32:23,595 Speaker 1: it and replace it with a different, brilliantly successful new idea. 462 00:32:24,435 --> 00:32:28,555 Speaker 1: I could not wait to meet them. My agent at 463 00:32:28,595 --> 00:32:31,435 Speaker 1: the time, I would be producer the head of television 464 00:32:31,475 --> 00:32:34,835 Speaker 1: of Lionsgate, like the chief of chief at Lionsgate. And 465 00:32:34,915 --> 00:32:38,195 Speaker 1: I went to the Netflix building in Beverly Hills at 466 00:32:38,275 --> 00:32:42,275 Speaker 1: ten thirty am Pacific daylight time on Friday, June seventeenth, 467 00:32:42,315 --> 00:32:46,475 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. It felt perfect. Netflix was still just down 468 00:32:46,515 --> 00:32:50,075 Speaker 1: from the corner of Alden and Maple. Twenty five years later, 469 00:32:50,115 --> 00:32:52,835 Speaker 1: I had lived two blocks away from Alden and Maple. 470 00:32:52,875 --> 00:32:58,195 Speaker 1: It was a four minute walktops. Yeah, The two people 471 00:32:58,235 --> 00:33:01,355 Speaker 1: there from Netflix were vice presidents. Wish I remembered their names. 472 00:33:01,755 --> 00:33:05,035 Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe they're still there. I deliberately locked 473 00:33:05,075 --> 00:33:07,675 Speaker 1: the names from my memory after this. One was in 474 00:33:07,795 --> 00:33:11,755 Speaker 1: charge of documentaries, one was in charge of non fiction series. 475 00:33:11,875 --> 00:33:13,955 Speaker 1: One was a man, one was a woman. I did 476 00:33:13,995 --> 00:33:16,235 Speaker 1: most of the talking, and I said, start with these 477 00:33:16,315 --> 00:33:19,755 Speaker 1: daily commentaries. You'll never have a better launch window than 478 00:33:19,795 --> 00:33:22,555 Speaker 1: the four months before the election. We could have one 479 00:33:22,595 --> 00:33:27,195 Speaker 1: ready for you to upload by Monday. This is lowest risk, 480 00:33:27,435 --> 00:33:31,595 Speaker 1: highest reward. How would you like to own the news 481 00:33:32,355 --> 00:33:35,195 Speaker 1: or if it doesn't work for some reason, you spend 482 00:33:35,355 --> 00:33:39,155 Speaker 1: I don't know, one hundred thousand dollars. The man spoke first. 483 00:33:40,075 --> 00:33:42,715 Speaker 1: But if you're going to do these daily, how are 484 00:33:42,755 --> 00:33:46,235 Speaker 1: people going to binge watch them? I mean, the first 485 00:33:46,235 --> 00:33:50,315 Speaker 1: time somebody comes to Netflix to see your commentaries, there's 486 00:33:50,355 --> 00:33:54,435 Speaker 1: only going to be one to watch. I took a 487 00:33:54,555 --> 00:33:57,235 Speaker 1: quick breath and explained that could be a drawback. On 488 00:33:57,275 --> 00:33:59,195 Speaker 1: the other hand, within four weeks there would be twenty 489 00:33:59,275 --> 00:34:02,355 Speaker 1: of them to binge. We could even start with five 490 00:34:02,475 --> 00:34:05,395 Speaker 1: or ten evergreen commentaries, so that when they come to 491 00:34:05,395 --> 00:34:08,755 Speaker 1: see the official premiere they watch that, then ten more 492 00:34:09,075 --> 00:34:13,715 Speaker 1: first day, and and you guys keep telling the press 493 00:34:13,715 --> 00:34:15,635 Speaker 1: that your problem is people binge, and then they don't 494 00:34:15,675 --> 00:34:18,155 Speaker 1: come back for another five days or a week. This way, 495 00:34:18,275 --> 00:34:20,995 Speaker 1: at least some of them would come back every day 496 00:34:21,075 --> 00:34:24,675 Speaker 1: to your website. You'd begin to solve your frequency of 497 00:34:24,755 --> 00:34:28,035 Speaker 1: visitation problem, wouldn't you. I mean, you're the executives. I'm 498 00:34:28,115 --> 00:34:31,915 Speaker 1: just the talent, the meat puppet. But isn't that then 499 00:34:31,955 --> 00:34:34,875 Speaker 1: the woman interrupted me, okay, yeah, that would help, and 500 00:34:34,915 --> 00:34:37,995 Speaker 1: I like starting with ten, But what about the subtitles? 501 00:34:40,035 --> 00:34:43,715 Speaker 1: There was a long pause. Then the head of Lionsgates 502 00:34:43,715 --> 00:34:49,275 Speaker 1: said what subtitles? The man said, well, everything we run 503 00:34:49,355 --> 00:34:51,995 Speaker 1: is subtitled in the language of each country we run 504 00:34:52,035 --> 00:34:54,355 Speaker 1: it in. So your commentary would have to have subtitles 505 00:34:54,595 --> 00:34:59,475 Speaker 1: added in like sixteen different languages. That usually takes three months. 506 00:34:59,715 --> 00:35:02,315 Speaker 1: Could you do commentaries today that would still work in September? 507 00:35:05,555 --> 00:35:11,675 Speaker 1: I said, well no, But why do you need subtitles? 508 00:35:11,715 --> 00:35:14,795 Speaker 1: Why do you need, say, Italian subtitles, or any subtitles. 509 00:35:14,835 --> 00:35:18,675 Speaker 1: I mean, it's very unlikely. I said that people worldwide 510 00:35:18,675 --> 00:35:22,155 Speaker 1: who are interested enough in American politics to watch commentaries 511 00:35:22,155 --> 00:35:26,635 Speaker 1: about American politics don't already speak English. The woman looked 512 00:35:26,835 --> 00:35:31,035 Speaker 1: aghast I mean the coloring of her face changed, but 513 00:35:31,715 --> 00:35:36,555 Speaker 1: the subtitles. She said, we always have subtitles, We always 514 00:35:36,555 --> 00:35:39,675 Speaker 1: do it that way here, And I said, well, yeah, 515 00:35:39,715 --> 00:35:42,955 Speaker 1: I understand, but see this would be for news flicks, 516 00:35:43,235 --> 00:35:47,875 Speaker 1: not Netflix per se. See you could adapt your rules 517 00:35:48,435 --> 00:35:52,115 Speaker 1: to fit the urgency of timeliness. I mean, MSNBC has 518 00:35:52,115 --> 00:35:55,155 Speaker 1: a profit of like five hundred million a year because 519 00:35:55,195 --> 00:35:58,755 Speaker 1: of timeliness and their last in profit in cable news. 520 00:35:58,835 --> 00:36:01,675 Speaker 1: Couldn't you adjust slightly for five hundred million a year? 521 00:36:02,555 --> 00:36:05,955 Speaker 1: The man now looked a gas couldn't this is the 522 00:36:05,995 --> 00:36:10,915 Speaker 1: Netflix rule. We can't change a rule. I began to 523 00:36:10,995 --> 00:36:16,795 Speaker 1: feel not happy. The man spoke again. Plus, what about 524 00:36:16,795 --> 00:36:20,635 Speaker 1: the twelve oh one rule? We all looked at each other. 525 00:36:21,115 --> 00:36:23,355 Speaker 1: You said, the commentaries would probably work best at eight 526 00:36:23,435 --> 00:36:25,915 Speaker 1: or nine pm, But in all of our countries, anything 527 00:36:25,955 --> 00:36:29,075 Speaker 1: new gets posted at exactly twelve oh one am local time, 528 00:36:29,355 --> 00:36:32,035 Speaker 1: only at twelve oh one am, so anything you did 529 00:36:32,075 --> 00:36:35,755 Speaker 1: today could not possibly run until twelve oh one am tomorrow. 530 00:36:37,755 --> 00:36:40,755 Speaker 1: I was still reeling from the Italian subtitles. Now there 531 00:36:40,795 --> 00:36:44,435 Speaker 1: was also an unbreakable twelve oh one tomorrow rule. I 532 00:36:44,555 --> 00:36:47,195 Speaker 1: was thinking of getting up and leaving, but the woman 533 00:36:47,235 --> 00:36:49,795 Speaker 1: apparently had one more gut punch to throw at me. 534 00:36:50,595 --> 00:36:53,435 Speaker 1: I also wanted to know if we somehow were able 535 00:36:53,475 --> 00:36:56,915 Speaker 1: to turn the subtitles around with lightning speed, or skip them, 536 00:36:57,035 --> 00:36:59,115 Speaker 1: or do them and say only two or three hours. 537 00:36:59,555 --> 00:37:02,475 Speaker 1: The man interrupted, plus the hours until it's twelve oh one, 538 00:37:02,515 --> 00:37:05,875 Speaker 1: don't forget them. She nodded, yes, plus the hours until 539 00:37:05,875 --> 00:37:07,755 Speaker 1: it's twelve o one. If we could somehow do that. 540 00:37:08,355 --> 00:37:10,955 Speaker 1: What would happen if one day something went wrong technically 541 00:37:11,355 --> 00:37:13,475 Speaker 1: and we couldn't upload that day and people came to 542 00:37:13,515 --> 00:37:15,755 Speaker 1: the site and there wasn't a new one. What if 543 00:37:15,755 --> 00:37:20,395 Speaker 1: it doesn't upload? Well? I had an answer to that, 544 00:37:21,075 --> 00:37:23,475 Speaker 1: but I did not say it out loud. I said 545 00:37:23,475 --> 00:37:25,515 Speaker 1: it a few minutes later to the head of lions Gate, 546 00:37:25,555 --> 00:37:27,915 Speaker 1: after we had said goodbye to mister and missus vice 547 00:37:27,955 --> 00:37:30,915 Speaker 1: president in the lobby of the Netflix building, I said, 548 00:37:30,915 --> 00:37:34,715 Speaker 1: good God. These people are in the uploading business. They 549 00:37:34,755 --> 00:37:39,075 Speaker 1: have been uploading for nine years. They aren't sure they 550 00:37:39,115 --> 00:37:43,315 Speaker 1: can upload. What equipment have they been uploading with? Are 551 00:37:43,315 --> 00:37:47,115 Speaker 1: they uploading from Kevin Spacey's nineteen ninety six Dell laptop? 552 00:37:49,715 --> 00:37:51,675 Speaker 1: As I left to get in the car to go 553 00:37:51,755 --> 00:37:55,115 Speaker 1: to Lax to fly home to New York, totally disappointed. 554 00:37:55,395 --> 00:37:59,395 Speaker 1: The Lionsgate guy was just shaking his head. I'm sorry, 555 00:38:00,115 --> 00:38:05,115 Speaker 1: I had no idea. I call you later at exactly 556 00:38:05,195 --> 00:38:11,875 Speaker 1: twelve oh one am with Italian subtitles. What if it 557 00:38:11,955 --> 00:38:14,355 Speaker 1: doesn't upload, he said as he walked away from me. 558 00:38:14,475 --> 00:38:16,555 Speaker 1: Christ I got to get my broker on the phone. 559 00:38:16,755 --> 00:38:32,235 Speaker 1: I got to sell all my Netflix stock. I've done 560 00:38:32,275 --> 00:38:34,835 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown. 561 00:38:34,875 --> 00:38:38,515 Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Chanelle have arranged, produced, 562 00:38:38,515 --> 00:38:42,155 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. As always. Mister Ray 563 00:38:42,235 --> 00:38:45,435 Speaker 1: was on guitars, bass and drums. Mister Shanelle handled orchestration 564 00:38:45,515 --> 00:38:49,035 Speaker 1: and keyboards, and was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, 565 00:38:49,075 --> 00:38:52,075 Speaker 1: including some of the Beethoven compositions, arranged and performed by 566 00:38:52,115 --> 00:38:55,475 Speaker 1: No Horns Allowed. The sports music is the Olderman theme 567 00:38:55,475 --> 00:38:58,355 Speaker 1: from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis Court to 568 00:38:58,395 --> 00:39:01,555 Speaker 1: see of ESPN inc Now. Our satirical and pithy musical 569 00:39:01,555 --> 00:39:04,995 Speaker 1: comments are by Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever. 570 00:39:05,555 --> 00:39:08,515 Speaker 1: My announcer today is my friend John Dean. Everything else 571 00:39:08,595 --> 00:39:11,275 Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this 572 00:39:11,355 --> 00:39:14,435 Speaker 1: the two hundred and sixty fifth day until the twenty 573 00:39:14,595 --> 00:39:19,115 Speaker 1: twenty four US presidential election, and the thirty fourth day 574 00:39:19,235 --> 00:39:22,715 Speaker 1: since dementia. Jay Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 575 00:39:22,755 --> 00:39:26,075 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. Use the fourteenth Amendment, 576 00:39:26,115 --> 00:39:29,235 Speaker 1: the Insurrection Act, the justice system, and the mental health 577 00:39:29,275 --> 00:39:32,195 Speaker 1: system to stop him from doing it again while we 578 00:39:32,315 --> 00:39:36,275 Speaker 1: still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. The official 579 00:39:36,315 --> 00:39:39,915 Speaker 1: position on that is it's iffy. My voice has pleasantly 580 00:39:39,995 --> 00:39:42,915 Speaker 1: surprised me by carrying me all the way through to 581 00:39:42,995 --> 00:39:45,755 Speaker 1: the end of this show, which will occur when I 582 00:39:45,875 --> 00:39:50,195 Speaker 1: say bulletins as the news warrants. Till then, I'm Keith Olderman. 583 00:39:50,235 --> 00:40:12,235 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown 584 00:40:12,275 --> 00:40:16,035 Speaker 1: with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 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