1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:26,595 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. We 2 00:00:26,715 --> 00:00:33,235 Speaker 1: Now rejoin your originally scheduled Epstein scandal already in progress. 3 00:00:34,555 --> 00:00:40,155 Speaker 1: Iran attacked ten Middle Eastern nations in retaliation. The old 4 00:00:40,195 --> 00:00:42,835 Speaker 1: Iatola from nineteen eighty nine is being replaced by the 5 00:00:42,875 --> 00:00:46,835 Speaker 1: new Iatola from twenty twenty six. One of Trump's biggest 6 00:00:46,875 --> 00:00:50,395 Speaker 1: idiot supporters, Senator Mullen, thought he was the Iatola from 7 00:00:50,515 --> 00:00:55,195 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine. And the polling was so bad twenty 8 00:00:55,235 --> 00:00:59,955 Speaker 1: seven percent of Americans, only half of Republicans approved of 9 00:00:59,995 --> 00:01:04,155 Speaker 1: Trump's war for regime change that Trump immediately stopped calling 10 00:01:04,155 --> 00:01:07,155 Speaker 1: it a war and yesterday started saying it was just 11 00:01:07,195 --> 00:01:10,235 Speaker 1: about regime change and it would be over in four weeks, 12 00:01:10,755 --> 00:01:13,995 Speaker 1: while Lindsey Graham started saying it wasn't about regime change, 13 00:01:14,035 --> 00:01:17,195 Speaker 1: but it was a war. And they all leaked that 14 00:01:17,315 --> 00:01:20,355 Speaker 1: we were talked into it by the Saudis and the Israelis. 15 00:01:20,635 --> 00:01:24,995 Speaker 1: It wasn't our fault. I didn't do it. And the 16 00:01:25,075 --> 00:01:31,835 Speaker 1: trump Stein story still broke through Donnie's Iran go boom 17 00:01:31,995 --> 00:01:38,155 Speaker 1: plan in new and unexpected and powerful ways, startlingly from 18 00:01:38,315 --> 00:01:43,675 Speaker 1: of all places, Albuquerque, New Mexico, there. The Albuquerque Journal 19 00:01:43,715 --> 00:01:48,755 Speaker 1: reveals a new Trump Epstein scandal from the first Trump dictatorship, 20 00:01:49,035 --> 00:01:53,115 Speaker 1: which sure reads like Trump's twenty nineteen Department of Justice 21 00:01:53,395 --> 00:01:58,235 Speaker 1: deliberately sabotaged the State of New Mexico's investigation of Epstein's 22 00:01:58,475 --> 00:02:02,875 Speaker 1: Zorro ranch outside Santa Fe, which Epstein used as a 23 00:02:02,915 --> 00:02:07,555 Speaker 1: base for sex, traffic, king, and financial crimes. The paper 24 00:02:07,635 --> 00:02:11,195 Speaker 1: quotes the then Attorney General of New Mexico, Hector Baldaras, 25 00:02:11,435 --> 00:02:15,515 Speaker 1: who says he was asked by Trump's federal prosecutors in 26 00:02:15,555 --> 00:02:20,355 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, before Epstein was dead, before he was in jail, 27 00:02:20,875 --> 00:02:25,275 Speaker 1: to stop New Mexico's investigation of that ranch so they 28 00:02:25,275 --> 00:02:29,675 Speaker 1: could fold the prosecution of Epstein for his operations there 29 00:02:30,275 --> 00:02:36,195 Speaker 1: into quoting baldarus a multi jurisdictional, multi state focus that 30 00:02:36,235 --> 00:02:41,795 Speaker 1: would prevent duplicative prosecution and conflicting statements. And the FEDS 31 00:02:41,835 --> 00:02:45,995 Speaker 1: took all of the New Mexico Epstein information and all 32 00:02:46,115 --> 00:02:49,155 Speaker 1: of the New Mexico Epstein evidence and took over the 33 00:02:49,155 --> 00:02:52,875 Speaker 1: New Mexico Epstein investigation and promised to bring New Mexico 34 00:02:52,875 --> 00:02:56,195 Speaker 1: into the national investigation and give it its own cases 35 00:02:56,195 --> 00:03:00,795 Speaker 1: to prosecute in New Mexico and the FEDS then disappeared 36 00:03:01,475 --> 00:03:06,235 Speaker 1: and disappeared all of it. According to Attorney General Baldaris, 37 00:03:06,395 --> 00:03:09,315 Speaker 1: Trump's people took the New Mexico investigation of Epstein and 38 00:03:09,435 --> 00:03:14,875 Speaker 1: quote gutted it. Baldaris and New Mexico went back to 39 00:03:14,915 --> 00:03:18,955 Speaker 1: the Trump administration even after Epstein's death, went back in 40 00:03:19,035 --> 00:03:24,155 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, urging the government to seize the Epstein ranch 41 00:03:24,915 --> 00:03:28,475 Speaker 1: to preserve the evidence so they could at least prosecute 42 00:03:28,475 --> 00:03:33,315 Speaker 1: his co conspirators who were still alive and more crickets. 43 00:03:34,155 --> 00:03:37,715 Speaker 1: In short, the Trump investigation of Epstein in New Mexico 44 00:03:37,955 --> 00:03:43,755 Speaker 1: died before Epstein did. The Albuquerque Journal also reports the 45 00:03:43,795 --> 00:03:47,155 Speaker 1: New Mexico State Legislature has created a four member truth 46 00:03:47,155 --> 00:03:52,235 Speaker 1: Commission to investigate Zoro Ranch now and what Epstein did there, 47 00:03:52,795 --> 00:03:55,515 Speaker 1: And the current Attorney General of the state is joining in, 48 00:03:55,835 --> 00:03:59,235 Speaker 1: and they might be able to salvage some prosecutions of 49 00:03:59,315 --> 00:04:03,155 Speaker 1: co conspirators, but it's dicey after all this time. The 50 00:04:03,195 --> 00:04:06,795 Speaker 1: point of course is that this is happening six years later, 51 00:04:07,795 --> 00:04:11,355 Speaker 1: because we all know Trump's people covered up Epstein. His 52 00:04:11,435 --> 00:04:15,515 Speaker 1: first Labor Secretary, alex Acosta, was George W. Bush's US 53 00:04:15,635 --> 00:04:18,515 Speaker 1: attorney for the Southern District of Florida who cut the 54 00:04:18,555 --> 00:04:21,515 Speaker 1: sweetheart deal with Epstein in the first place, and Pam 55 00:04:21,635 --> 00:04:24,875 Speaker 1: Bondi was the Attorney General of the State of Florida 56 00:04:25,035 --> 00:04:28,395 Speaker 1: who sat there inertly for the last eight years of 57 00:04:28,435 --> 00:04:35,395 Speaker 1: Epstein's life. Their Republican and later Maga passive, aggressive, well 58 00:04:35,595 --> 00:04:39,515 Speaker 1: just passive handling of Epstein is well known, though often 59 00:04:39,595 --> 00:04:42,715 Speaker 1: forgotten in this mess. But a lengthy analysis by The 60 00:04:42,715 --> 00:04:46,035 Speaker 1: New York Times yesterday opened up yet another new vein 61 00:04:46,435 --> 00:04:52,075 Speaker 1: in the Trump's deein scandal. Iran, Iran who the British 62 00:04:52,075 --> 00:04:54,995 Speaker 1: have arrested. The former Prince Andrew as you know, and 63 00:04:55,115 --> 00:04:58,555 Speaker 1: the man who was British ambassador to this country specifically 64 00:04:58,555 --> 00:05:01,715 Speaker 1: because he got along so well with Trump, arrested on 65 00:05:01,955 --> 00:05:06,315 Speaker 1: accusations that they each gave Epstein the insider warnings and 66 00:05:06,395 --> 00:05:10,955 Speaker 1: tips and heads ups on crucial governmental economic decisions and 67 00:05:11,035 --> 00:05:15,595 Speaker 1: even changes in the Prime Minister. There are criminal investigations 68 00:05:15,595 --> 00:05:19,195 Speaker 1: of prominent politicians in Norway and France who were connected 69 00:05:19,435 --> 00:05:23,595 Speaker 1: to Epstein. A top French political figure had to quit 70 00:05:23,755 --> 00:05:26,995 Speaker 1: a charity job and is up the creek without a paddle. 71 00:05:27,195 --> 00:05:29,795 Speaker 1: A picture was released of Epstein with the now National 72 00:05:29,795 --> 00:05:33,915 Speaker 1: Security Advisor of Slovakia and oops, let me update that 73 00:05:33,955 --> 00:05:44,315 Speaker 1: he's the now ex national Security Advisor of Slovakia. Here nothing, Certainly, 74 00:05:44,355 --> 00:05:47,115 Speaker 1: the point of the Times piece is the missed opportunities 75 00:05:47,115 --> 00:05:50,315 Speaker 1: to prosecute the other men inside the Epstein sex ring, 76 00:05:50,515 --> 00:05:54,195 Speaker 1: and the women too. But like the Albuquerque Journal piece, 77 00:05:54,755 --> 00:05:58,075 Speaker 1: it is now bigger than that. The Epstein scandal is 78 00:05:58,155 --> 00:06:02,555 Speaker 1: about twenty five percent bigger now than it was before 79 00:06:02,635 --> 00:06:07,635 Speaker 1: Trump bomb Duran. What about all the banks? What about 80 00:06:07,635 --> 00:06:12,195 Speaker 1: all the influence peddling? What about the international element? Who 81 00:06:12,235 --> 00:06:16,755 Speaker 1: paid for whatever Epstein gave Andrew and Lord Mandelsson for 82 00:06:16,875 --> 00:06:20,795 Speaker 1: whatever they gave him? And who did Epstein give all 83 00:06:20,875 --> 00:06:26,675 Speaker 1: of that British Insider Info two? And most importantly, what 84 00:06:26,955 --> 00:06:30,475 Speaker 1: role did Trump and people working for Trump play in 85 00:06:30,675 --> 00:06:36,275 Speaker 1: burying it all of it in twenty seventeen, eighteen, nineteen 86 00:06:36,595 --> 00:06:39,755 Speaker 1: twenty and what role are they playing now in keeping 87 00:06:39,795 --> 00:06:43,755 Speaker 1: it buried. England is prepared to put a member of 88 00:06:43,835 --> 00:06:49,795 Speaker 1: its royal family, albeit a scandalized, broken one, in a 89 00:06:49,835 --> 00:06:56,035 Speaker 1: country that believes in the Eurovision Song Contest. Despite those caveats, 90 00:06:56,155 --> 00:06:58,835 Speaker 1: they're willing to put somebody in the Royal family. This 91 00:06:59,035 --> 00:07:03,755 Speaker 1: matters to them in prison for his connections to Epstein. 92 00:07:05,475 --> 00:07:09,155 Speaker 1: Our president and the people working for our president. Based 93 00:07:09,155 --> 00:07:12,235 Speaker 1: on the Albuquerque Journal report and the former Attorney General 94 00:07:12,235 --> 00:07:16,035 Speaker 1: of New Mexico quoted on the record, they are protecting 95 00:07:16,155 --> 00:07:20,795 Speaker 1: Epstein even in death. And god knows how many Epstein 96 00:07:20,915 --> 00:07:28,675 Speaker 1: adjacents they are covering up for. At this moment, What 97 00:07:28,795 --> 00:07:32,755 Speaker 1: did Trump know and when did he know it? And 98 00:07:32,835 --> 00:07:36,355 Speaker 1: who did Trump know? And how long has he known them? 99 00:07:37,475 --> 00:07:41,395 Speaker 1: And when will the national news organizations there are still 100 00:07:41,435 --> 00:07:45,355 Speaker 1: some national news organizations, aren't there going to jump on 101 00:07:45,515 --> 00:07:48,635 Speaker 1: what came out of New Mexico yesterday? What about the 102 00:07:48,755 --> 00:07:53,155 Speaker 1: ranch and the entire untapped field glimpsed at in the 103 00:07:53,195 --> 00:07:56,475 Speaker 1: Times yesterday? What about the banks? What about the clients? 104 00:07:56,515 --> 00:08:01,715 Speaker 1: What about the co conspirators? Like I said Saturday morning 105 00:08:01,835 --> 00:08:04,995 Speaker 1: and woke up yesterday morning to find myself meme for 106 00:08:05,075 --> 00:08:10,195 Speaker 1: it twice, never for a moment forget. Trump bombed Iran 107 00:08:10,595 --> 00:08:17,395 Speaker 1: to keep a diseased, delusional criminal in power himself and 108 00:08:18,715 --> 00:08:25,195 Speaker 1: its Operation Epic Fury because Operation Epstein Diversion didn't sound 109 00:08:25,475 --> 00:08:32,515 Speaker 1: war fightery enough. Also it didn't work. The twin problems 110 00:08:32,515 --> 00:08:35,515 Speaker 1: for Trump are these the pressure against the side of 111 00:08:35,555 --> 00:08:40,595 Speaker 1: his head provided by Epstein, and every newly recognized tendril 112 00:08:40,635 --> 00:08:43,555 Speaker 1: of the Epstein monster is strong enough that he can 113 00:08:43,595 --> 00:08:48,835 Speaker 1: literally assassinate a universally hated Iranian cleric, and it can 114 00:08:48,915 --> 00:08:53,715 Speaker 1: alter the Epstein power index so little that, within thirty 115 00:08:53,755 --> 00:08:56,755 Speaker 1: six hours of the bombing run the likely Chair of 116 00:08:56,835 --> 00:09:00,075 Speaker 1: House Oversight if the Democrats win the midterms, Robert Garcia 117 00:09:00,075 --> 00:09:04,355 Speaker 1: of California can be asked on national television if if 118 00:09:04,395 --> 00:09:07,115 Speaker 1: he gets it's the gabble, he will pursue an interview 119 00:09:07,115 --> 00:09:10,715 Speaker 1: with Trump about Epstein. Now that the idiot Jamie Comer 120 00:09:10,915 --> 00:09:15,355 Speaker 1: broke the seal and interviewed President Clinton about Epstein, and 121 00:09:15,435 --> 00:09:19,075 Speaker 1: Garcia can not only answer without worrying about how's this 122 00:09:19,155 --> 00:09:22,115 Speaker 1: gonna look in light of Iran, he can answer with 123 00:09:22,195 --> 00:09:29,515 Speaker 1: one word quote absolutely. That's the first twin. The second 124 00:09:29,635 --> 00:09:33,235 Speaker 1: Trump twin problem is the sudden realization that Trump can 125 00:09:33,555 --> 00:09:36,395 Speaker 1: suddenly back away, run away, pretend he was never at 126 00:09:36,555 --> 00:09:41,915 Speaker 1: regime change and regime decapitation and war in Iran, say 127 00:09:41,955 --> 00:09:44,435 Speaker 1: as he did at sunset last night, there were three 128 00:09:44,555 --> 00:09:48,035 Speaker 1: US service members dead quote and sadly there will likely 129 00:09:48,115 --> 00:09:51,075 Speaker 1: be mar before it ends. That's the way, it is 130 00:09:52,195 --> 00:09:58,195 Speaker 1: everything but a shrug emoji and a so what. But 131 00:09:59,075 --> 00:10:01,995 Speaker 1: that's not exactly how Ryan sees it, or the rest 132 00:10:01,995 --> 00:10:05,635 Speaker 1: of the Middle East, or Latin America or almost every 133 00:10:05,675 --> 00:10:09,235 Speaker 1: other country in the world. They would like to remind 134 00:10:09,315 --> 00:10:15,795 Speaker 1: him and you that the United States made the world, 135 00:10:16,035 --> 00:10:19,795 Speaker 1: and to our more immediate concern, the United States a 136 00:10:19,875 --> 00:10:23,635 Speaker 1: desperately more dangerous place today than it was Friday night 137 00:10:23,875 --> 00:10:28,515 Speaker 1: by trying and failing to distract from Epstein, because the 138 00:10:28,635 --> 00:10:34,195 Speaker 1: problem with regime change and regime decapitation is you give 139 00:10:34,515 --> 00:10:40,155 Speaker 1: everybody else the license to try it. I mean, the 140 00:10:40,195 --> 00:10:43,555 Speaker 1: American doctrine now simply is if they tell Trump he 141 00:10:43,595 --> 00:10:45,635 Speaker 1: can get away with it, he'll try It. Doesn't have 142 00:10:45,675 --> 00:10:49,075 Speaker 1: to be legal internationally, doesn't have to be legal domestically, 143 00:10:49,755 --> 00:10:56,275 Speaker 1: doesn't have to be necessary, doesn't necessarily have to not 144 00:10:56,395 --> 00:10:59,475 Speaker 1: confirm he was lying the last time he attacked the 145 00:10:59,475 --> 00:11:03,875 Speaker 1: country in question and said he destroyed everything there. The 146 00:11:03,915 --> 00:11:05,915 Speaker 1: only thing they had I have to assess in Iran 147 00:11:06,075 --> 00:11:10,595 Speaker 1: right now is can they get away with it? If 148 00:11:10,595 --> 00:11:13,795 Speaker 1: you captured, killed, or frightened Trump to death? What would 149 00:11:13,795 --> 00:11:17,675 Speaker 1: his successors do as retaliation? They're asking themselves in Iran 150 00:11:18,435 --> 00:11:20,515 Speaker 1: or more likely. What would he do since your mission 151 00:11:20,595 --> 00:11:24,835 Speaker 1: probably wouldn't work. Although with pig Hegseth and Tulsey Gabbard 152 00:11:24,835 --> 00:11:27,475 Speaker 1: in charge, I have to admit the chances are as 153 00:11:27,515 --> 00:11:33,555 Speaker 1: the kids say, non zero. But the problem behind the 154 00:11:33,555 --> 00:11:36,395 Speaker 1: problem with renditioning the president of Venezuela, no matter how 155 00:11:36,475 --> 00:11:39,795 Speaker 1: much of a scumbag he is, or killing the Holy 156 00:11:39,915 --> 00:11:42,435 Speaker 1: Pouba of Iran or whoever the hell he was, is 157 00:11:42,435 --> 00:11:46,115 Speaker 1: that the message regime decapitation is on the table is heard, 158 00:11:46,195 --> 00:11:48,915 Speaker 1: not just in Tehran. How many other enemies do we 159 00:11:48,995 --> 00:11:52,035 Speaker 1: have in the Middle East? What are the odds? Al 160 00:11:52,115 --> 00:11:56,515 Speaker 1: Qaeda was just reinvigorated by Trump's decision to play Allah here? 161 00:11:56,795 --> 00:12:00,155 Speaker 1: What about isis now? Never mind the Middle East? What 162 00:12:00,235 --> 00:12:03,115 Speaker 1: are you thinking? In Cuba? What are they seeing from 163 00:12:03,155 --> 00:12:08,435 Speaker 1: the headquarters of a death for it flailing bankrupt Cuban dictatorship. 164 00:12:09,475 --> 00:12:14,835 Speaker 1: Saturday morning, Trump blew up the Iranian Supreme Leader. Three 165 00:12:14,955 --> 00:12:18,315 Speaker 1: days earlier, somebody tried to run a kind of mini 166 00:12:18,435 --> 00:12:23,475 Speaker 1: Bay of Pigs operation out of Key West. Your president, 167 00:12:23,595 --> 00:12:28,555 Speaker 1: Miguel Diaz Kanal, And you're thinking, I can't go back, 168 00:12:29,035 --> 00:12:31,515 Speaker 1: and I can't stay where I am. I don't have 169 00:12:31,515 --> 00:12:36,235 Speaker 1: any money, I'm not that popular. The Americans are threatening us. 170 00:12:36,435 --> 00:12:42,835 Speaker 1: What are my choices? Well, Flea is obvious, negotiate, negotiates 171 00:12:42,955 --> 00:12:48,275 Speaker 1: really dubious. Ass Kamani or whatever the name of the 172 00:12:48,355 --> 00:12:53,595 Speaker 1: last of the Iatolas was, Hell asked the poor loser 173 00:12:53,595 --> 00:12:57,555 Speaker 1: from Venezuela. She doesn't have a job or a nobel. 174 00:12:58,555 --> 00:13:01,795 Speaker 1: You have to have at least thought. We can get 175 00:13:01,835 --> 00:13:05,555 Speaker 1: into Marylago. We can get in there. Eight days ago 176 00:13:05,595 --> 00:13:08,315 Speaker 1: a guy got into the perimeter with a gun and 177 00:13:08,435 --> 00:13:13,875 Speaker 1: a can of gas, a freaking gas can, and it 178 00:13:13,955 --> 00:13:16,675 Speaker 1: was way too long before two Secret Service and a 179 00:13:16,715 --> 00:13:21,715 Speaker 1: deputy sheriff shot the guy. One guy on foot. President 180 00:13:21,755 --> 00:13:24,755 Speaker 1: Diaz Knell is three hundred miles from marri Lago and 181 00:13:24,795 --> 00:13:28,355 Speaker 1: he has a vehicle, although to be fair, the vehicle 182 00:13:28,435 --> 00:13:30,555 Speaker 1: might be a nineteen fifty one Ford pickup that they 183 00:13:30,595 --> 00:13:34,875 Speaker 1: had turned into a tugboat. If it is somehow not 184 00:13:35,155 --> 00:13:40,675 Speaker 1: clear that I am not advocating this, I am just 185 00:13:40,795 --> 00:13:45,355 Speaker 1: emphasizing that if we start knocking off other world leaders, 186 00:13:45,915 --> 00:13:49,275 Speaker 1: sooner or later, one of them who thinks he's next 187 00:13:49,315 --> 00:13:52,115 Speaker 1: on the list is going to say f this and 188 00:13:52,195 --> 00:13:57,675 Speaker 1: go a little proactive. This does not ever seem to 189 00:13:57,715 --> 00:14:04,155 Speaker 1: have crossed Trump's mind or heg seths if it's switched 190 00:14:04,195 --> 00:14:09,955 Speaker 1: on to For all the paranoia about immigrants and foreigners 191 00:14:09,955 --> 00:14:15,315 Speaker 1: and great replacementors and apocryphal invasions by foreigners, they really 192 00:14:15,355 --> 00:14:18,195 Speaker 1: have not looked into what the end result is of 193 00:14:18,275 --> 00:14:24,755 Speaker 1: our own their own provocation of other crazy leaders, combined 194 00:14:24,795 --> 00:14:27,435 Speaker 1: with the number of idiots we have nominally protecting our 195 00:14:27,555 --> 00:14:31,875 Speaker 1: quote leaders unquote, combined with how Ham's strung, how pinioned 196 00:14:31,915 --> 00:14:35,115 Speaker 1: we would be if one of them other guys actually 197 00:14:35,155 --> 00:14:38,955 Speaker 1: tried to decapitate the American government. If Cuba decided to 198 00:14:39,035 --> 00:14:44,595 Speaker 1: take out Trump, what would we do? Nuke Cuba? That 199 00:14:44,915 --> 00:14:48,955 Speaker 1: would be a bit of a surprise on South Beach, 200 00:14:50,395 --> 00:14:52,315 Speaker 1: to say nothing of being a bit of a surprise 201 00:14:52,395 --> 00:14:56,275 Speaker 1: for our Caribbean and Latin American allies. And you know 202 00:14:56,995 --> 00:15:02,275 Speaker 1: it's the country with the Russia, which still has nominal 203 00:15:02,355 --> 00:15:08,395 Speaker 1: interest in Cuba. Exactly what would we do? Hell, after 204 00:15:08,435 --> 00:15:12,355 Speaker 1: that nutjob busted the perimeter at marri Lago, Trump decided 205 00:15:12,355 --> 00:15:15,835 Speaker 1: to take it as a compliment. Quote. You know, you 206 00:15:15,955 --> 00:15:18,675 Speaker 1: read about all these crazy shooters, but they only go 207 00:15:18,755 --> 00:15:23,195 Speaker 1: after consequential presidents. They don't go after non consequential presidents. 208 00:15:24,075 --> 00:15:28,355 Speaker 1: Congratulations Donnie. Hey, great guy who the gas can was 209 00:15:28,355 --> 00:15:32,915 Speaker 1: coming for you if you were in Cuba or anywhere else. 210 00:15:32,955 --> 00:15:36,395 Speaker 1: And you're thinking, say, look, how well this worked for 211 00:15:36,435 --> 00:15:40,915 Speaker 1: Trump and Iran, Maybe it could work for us in America. 212 00:15:41,195 --> 00:15:44,355 Speaker 1: You're reading that quote from President Looney Tunes they don't. 213 00:15:44,155 --> 00:15:46,115 Speaker 2: Go after non consequence of presidents. 214 00:15:46,195 --> 00:15:49,475 Speaker 1: And you're thinking, I am not certain we would meet 215 00:15:49,595 --> 00:15:54,795 Speaker 1: quite as much resistance as our generals are telling us. 216 00:15:56,795 --> 00:16:02,355 Speaker 1: How would we respond? Well, there is history. There is 217 00:16:02,515 --> 00:16:10,435 Speaker 1: recent history. Have you forgotten. I bet you've forgotten. Let's 218 00:16:10,475 --> 00:16:13,275 Speaker 1: look at how we did respond last time somebody tried this. 219 00:16:14,075 --> 00:16:17,955 Speaker 1: It is not generally included in the histories of this country. 220 00:16:18,075 --> 00:16:21,995 Speaker 1: Specifically not generally included in the history of nine to 221 00:16:22,035 --> 00:16:26,755 Speaker 1: eleven because the reality was bad enough. Spoiler alert the 222 00:16:26,835 --> 00:16:30,195 Speaker 1: terrorists one they accelerated the internal Cold Civil War here 223 00:16:30,235 --> 00:16:32,715 Speaker 1: in ways of which not even Newt Gingrich and Rush 224 00:16:32,755 --> 00:16:36,635 Speaker 1: Limbaugh could have dreamed. But the plane that crashed or 225 00:16:36,875 --> 00:16:42,075 Speaker 1: was crashed in Shanksville was headed for DC, and we 226 00:16:42,155 --> 00:16:47,395 Speaker 1: believe the White House. And if the only target wasn't Bush, 227 00:16:48,555 --> 00:16:51,115 Speaker 1: bin Laden didn't direct it there because he wanted to 228 00:16:51,435 --> 00:16:54,595 Speaker 1: level the East wings so he could put up a ballroom. 229 00:16:56,075 --> 00:16:58,475 Speaker 1: I mean, they did enough that horrible day. They wanted 230 00:16:58,475 --> 00:17:02,635 Speaker 1: to decapitate the government or cripple it. And how did 231 00:17:02,635 --> 00:17:06,715 Speaker 1: we respond to that? An attempt by foreigners to decapitate 232 00:17:06,755 --> 00:17:12,715 Speaker 1: the American government? We went into Afghanistan two months later, 233 00:17:14,075 --> 00:17:18,355 Speaker 1: and we went into Iraq a year after that. I'm 234 00:17:18,355 --> 00:17:20,235 Speaker 1: not saying that the first part of that was not 235 00:17:20,275 --> 00:17:23,155 Speaker 1: a good idea. I'm just saying it's hardly fair to 236 00:17:23,155 --> 00:17:26,875 Speaker 1: say we did nothing in response. But bluntly, we didn't 237 00:17:26,915 --> 00:17:32,515 Speaker 1: do very damn much, did we. And back to Iran 238 00:17:32,555 --> 00:17:41,835 Speaker 1: and whether or not after Operation Epstein Furry, oh fury, sorry, 239 00:17:42,035 --> 00:17:45,115 Speaker 1: or more seriously and more terrifyingly, if they might have 240 00:17:45,155 --> 00:17:48,035 Speaker 1: an operation, what's the difference? Now, let's go ahead and 241 00:17:48,075 --> 00:17:53,915 Speaker 1: try this. How much of a window are we providing? Hell, 242 00:17:53,995 --> 00:17:56,195 Speaker 1: how much of a window have we built in for 243 00:17:56,275 --> 00:18:00,075 Speaker 1: Iran to actually think about this? Saturday afternoon, Trump told 244 00:18:00,075 --> 00:18:02,955 Speaker 1: one of his pet propagandists that he has off ramps 245 00:18:02,955 --> 00:18:05,395 Speaker 1: now quote I can go along and take over the 246 00:18:05,395 --> 00:18:09,075 Speaker 1: whole thing quote or ended in two or three days, 247 00:18:09,275 --> 00:18:11,835 Speaker 1: until the Iranians see you again in a few years. 248 00:18:11,835 --> 00:18:15,395 Speaker 1: If you start rebuilding. And by rebuilding, he means the 249 00:18:15,475 --> 00:18:19,195 Speaker 1: nukes and missiles, you know, the ones he obliterated last July, 250 00:18:20,675 --> 00:18:26,395 Speaker 1: and I guess last Friday. This does not sound like 251 00:18:26,475 --> 00:18:29,395 Speaker 1: Trump wants the Iranians to live in constant fear of 252 00:18:29,555 --> 00:18:34,675 Speaker 1: more or of invasion, or anything whatsoever that might slow 253 00:18:34,755 --> 00:18:39,275 Speaker 1: them down for more than four weeks. In the slightest measure, 254 00:18:39,515 --> 00:18:45,075 Speaker 1: if they decided, you might think this war ended Saturday morning. Fool, 255 00:18:45,115 --> 00:18:50,715 Speaker 1: if you think it's over. Plus the attempt to avenge 256 00:18:50,795 --> 00:18:55,635 Speaker 1: our decapitation of their government by them decapitating our government 257 00:18:55,955 --> 00:19:00,395 Speaker 1: does not have to land this Thursday or something. It 258 00:19:00,515 --> 00:19:03,115 Speaker 1: used to be common knowledge in this country that the 259 00:19:03,155 --> 00:19:06,675 Speaker 1: seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in nineteen seventy 260 00:19:06,755 --> 00:19:10,875 Speaker 1: nine did not occur in a vacuum. It was not 261 00:19:10,995 --> 00:19:14,275 Speaker 1: a lightning bolt. The average American used to have some 262 00:19:14,555 --> 00:19:18,755 Speaker 1: vague awareness, at least that before the Iranian theocratic lunatics 263 00:19:18,875 --> 00:19:24,995 Speaker 1: overthrow their government, we overthrew their government. In nineteen forty one. 264 00:19:25,115 --> 00:19:29,355 Speaker 1: The allies, almost entirely Russians and British, forced out the 265 00:19:29,355 --> 00:19:33,395 Speaker 1: then Shah was kind of a progressive, certainly a secular ruler. 266 00:19:34,235 --> 00:19:38,235 Speaker 1: In nineteen fifty three, we and the British absolutely overthrew 267 00:19:38,395 --> 00:19:41,675 Speaker 1: the Prime Minister of Iran, the one who nationalized the 268 00:19:41,715 --> 00:19:48,275 Speaker 1: oil industry and introduced social security, social flipping security in 269 00:19:48,355 --> 00:19:51,515 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty three. In Iran, the coup was led by 270 00:19:51,555 --> 00:19:54,155 Speaker 1: the CIA, and as if we needed to put any 271 00:19:54,195 --> 00:19:58,635 Speaker 1: more American fingerprints on it, for eternity, it was led 272 00:19:58,675 --> 00:20:07,595 Speaker 1: by Teddy Roosevelt's grandson Kermit all Right, Ho, once again, 273 00:20:08,715 --> 00:20:11,395 Speaker 1: I am not for a second saying Iran was right. 274 00:20:14,075 --> 00:20:16,435 Speaker 1: Certainly it wasn't right in nineteen seventy nine to seize 275 00:20:16,475 --> 00:20:20,635 Speaker 1: almost nothing but ordinary embassy staffers, civilians, hold them hostage 276 00:20:20,635 --> 00:20:23,395 Speaker 1: for a year, and then use them a life or 277 00:20:23,595 --> 00:20:27,475 Speaker 1: death chip to fix the American election as part of 278 00:20:27,515 --> 00:20:32,115 Speaker 1: the treason committed on Ronald Reagan's behalf. I'm not defending 279 00:20:32,155 --> 00:20:34,395 Speaker 1: that or advocating it for a second, but I am 280 00:20:34,475 --> 00:20:38,675 Speaker 1: saying the Iranians were responding to America having succeeded at 281 00:20:38,675 --> 00:20:43,075 Speaker 1: regime change and decapitation in their country a quarter of 282 00:20:43,155 --> 00:20:49,915 Speaker 1: a century earlier. I mean, honest to God, somebody on 283 00:20:49,995 --> 00:20:52,355 Speaker 1: foot with a can of gasoline and a long gun 284 00:20:52,355 --> 00:20:54,915 Speaker 1: got into Mari Lago two weekends ago. And even if 285 00:20:54,955 --> 00:20:57,875 Speaker 1: you believe conspiracy theories. Another one got next to his 286 00:20:57,995 --> 00:21:02,195 Speaker 1: golf course, and another guy got within shooting distance of him. 287 00:21:02,595 --> 00:21:07,235 Speaker 1: This is all in the last what eighteens. And Trump 288 00:21:07,275 --> 00:21:11,875 Speaker 1: has hired the dumbest collection of department heads, and he's 289 00:21:11,995 --> 00:21:15,915 Speaker 1: purged the military and the intelligence communities of almost anybody 290 00:21:15,995 --> 00:21:23,155 Speaker 1: who was good at you know, military and intelligence. They 291 00:21:23,195 --> 00:21:26,355 Speaker 1: put out the obligatory picture of Trump getting briefed by 292 00:21:26,395 --> 00:21:29,755 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio and Susie Wiles, and I think a couple 293 00:21:29,755 --> 00:21:36,715 Speaker 1: of bartenders at marri Lago inside their blanket fort, and 294 00:21:36,795 --> 00:21:38,915 Speaker 1: depart from the fact that Trump looks like he just 295 00:21:38,995 --> 00:21:42,435 Speaker 1: crawled out from under his own bomb crater. Right behind 296 00:21:42,555 --> 00:21:45,955 Speaker 1: Trump in that photo is a giant map, a big 297 00:21:46,035 --> 00:21:48,555 Speaker 1: map on an easel, and pinned on the map is 298 00:21:48,595 --> 00:21:51,275 Speaker 1: the exact position of at least ten American vessels in 299 00:21:51,355 --> 00:21:55,115 Speaker 1: the gulfs and six American units in the theater, just 300 00:21:55,155 --> 00:21:57,755 Speaker 1: in case anybody in Iran would like to attack them, 301 00:21:59,555 --> 00:22:02,115 Speaker 1: or right down in their diary, I saw where they 302 00:22:02,115 --> 00:22:05,635 Speaker 1: are now if that wasn't bad enough. Friday afternoon, a 303 00:22:05,675 --> 00:22:08,435 Speaker 1: podcaster was at a restaurant down the street from the 304 00:22:08,435 --> 00:22:11,315 Speaker 1: White House, and four well dressed men were at a 305 00:22:11,355 --> 00:22:15,635 Speaker 1: neighboring table talking about the plans to bomb Iran later 306 00:22:15,715 --> 00:22:21,555 Speaker 1: that day. Trump himself thinks people trying to kill him 307 00:22:21,635 --> 00:22:26,275 Speaker 1: means he's comparable to JFK, and JFK was important because, quote, 308 00:22:26,315 --> 00:22:28,795 Speaker 1: he was there for a thousand days. As you know 309 00:22:28,915 --> 00:22:35,955 Speaker 1: the book a thousand days. It is sometimes better to 310 00:22:35,995 --> 00:22:45,475 Speaker 1: be lucky than good. Unfortunately, the Trumpists are neither to 311 00:22:45,715 --> 00:22:48,595 Speaker 1: use the old cynical cliche. I am not saying I 312 00:22:48,595 --> 00:22:51,835 Speaker 1: am in favor of regime change in this country, not 313 00:22:51,875 --> 00:22:57,115 Speaker 1: in favor of violent or non electoral regime change. But 314 00:22:57,675 --> 00:23:00,355 Speaker 1: from the perspective of the people who we just bombed, 315 00:23:00,875 --> 00:23:05,475 Speaker 1: I think empathetically, I can understand it. And I'd say 316 00:23:05,475 --> 00:23:07,595 Speaker 1: the odds are like seven out of ten that Trump 317 00:23:07,595 --> 00:23:10,235 Speaker 1: and the morons around him have not thought for one 318 00:23:10,315 --> 00:23:16,275 Speaker 1: minute that regimes in other countries saw Operation let's blow 319 00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:19,195 Speaker 1: up what we told you last summer we'd already blown up, 320 00:23:20,555 --> 00:23:26,235 Speaker 1: or Operation Eric Furry or whatever it is, and somebody 321 00:23:26,275 --> 00:23:28,435 Speaker 1: in one of those countries said, hey, wait, couldn't we 322 00:23:28,555 --> 00:23:34,195 Speaker 1: do that too. They could be saying it about doing 323 00:23:34,235 --> 00:23:37,675 Speaker 1: that now, or they could be saying it about doing 324 00:23:37,715 --> 00:23:40,835 Speaker 1: it in twenty five years from now. How does twenty 325 00:23:40,875 --> 00:23:45,755 Speaker 1: fifty one, sound for you for Iran's revenge. They could 326 00:23:45,795 --> 00:23:54,635 Speaker 1: be saying it in Tehran, or Caracas or Havana. Oh 327 00:23:54,715 --> 00:23:57,355 Speaker 1: and just as a punchline, you know who was supposed 328 00:23:57,395 --> 00:24:01,115 Speaker 1: to preside over a United Nations Security Council meeting today 329 00:24:01,795 --> 00:24:04,435 Speaker 1: as the US takes over the presidency of the Council 330 00:24:04,475 --> 00:24:16,515 Speaker 1: by rotation, Milania Trump. So the UN Security Council meeting 331 00:24:16,635 --> 00:24:48,635 Speaker 1: she's going to chair is about Epstein. Which country will 332 00:24:48,675 --> 00:24:56,555 Speaker 1: Milania be representing? By the way, got all the translators. Now, 333 00:24:57,355 --> 00:25:00,275 Speaker 1: I understand that the state of American media is trivial 334 00:25:00,275 --> 00:25:02,515 Speaker 1: compared to how many more people want to kill us 335 00:25:02,595 --> 00:25:05,635 Speaker 1: today than wanted to kill us Friday night. But there 336 00:25:05,715 --> 00:25:11,715 Speaker 1: is the little matter of CNN being sold to the fascists. Obviously, 337 00:25:11,795 --> 00:25:16,515 Speaker 1: speaking as an almost CNN original month fifteen, God helped me. 338 00:25:16,995 --> 00:25:21,515 Speaker 1: I agree Netflix owning CNN would have been better than 339 00:25:21,915 --> 00:25:27,595 Speaker 1: Ellison's Barry Weiss FASCISTI I went to Netflix in twenty 340 00:25:27,715 --> 00:25:30,755 Speaker 1: sixteen and said, you could own the news industry, could 341 00:25:30,795 --> 00:25:32,955 Speaker 1: have a little dot in the corner of your main 342 00:25:33,075 --> 00:25:35,755 Speaker 1: page that read news flicks, and you could have all 343 00:25:35,795 --> 00:25:38,755 Speaker 1: the commentators in all the political flavors you wanted, and 344 00:25:38,795 --> 00:25:44,835 Speaker 1: they went went about the Italian translations. I swear it 345 00:25:44,915 --> 00:25:47,755 Speaker 1: still would be better having Netflix getting a second bite 346 00:25:47,755 --> 00:25:51,835 Speaker 1: at that apple. But a reminder about CNN that since 347 00:25:51,875 --> 00:25:56,195 Speaker 1: the zaz Lab Chris Licked takeover, CNN has been running 348 00:25:56,235 --> 00:26:01,555 Speaker 1: on fumes and it has been utterly unreliable, especially in 349 00:26:01,675 --> 00:26:05,995 Speaker 1: its studio shows. They fired Jim Acosta and John Harwood. 350 00:26:06,115 --> 00:26:08,835 Speaker 1: They forced Don Lemon to quit. They let Jake Tapper 351 00:26:08,875 --> 00:26:13,395 Speaker 1: turn an actual newscast into Jake Tapper's Bash Biden Bookshop 352 00:26:13,515 --> 00:26:18,955 Speaker 1: QVC Network, and they started a Scott Jennings Nightly hate 353 00:26:18,995 --> 00:26:23,195 Speaker 1: Fest hour with Abby Phillip as his announcer. Only they 354 00:26:23,235 --> 00:26:27,435 Speaker 1: told her she was the anchor and she fell for it. 355 00:26:29,995 --> 00:26:34,995 Speaker 1: So a Barry Weiss CNN as opposed to the CNN 356 00:26:35,035 --> 00:26:39,155 Speaker 1: we have now. It's still a loss, but it's not 357 00:26:39,275 --> 00:26:44,355 Speaker 1: a fatal loss. Its audience was microscopic, and it is 358 00:26:44,395 --> 00:26:47,075 Speaker 1: being run by another one of these British fops who 359 00:26:47,115 --> 00:26:50,835 Speaker 1: failed there and came here like the guy who drove 360 00:26:50,875 --> 00:26:54,035 Speaker 1: the Washington Post into the ground. And this guy has 361 00:26:54,035 --> 00:26:56,875 Speaker 1: apparently decided that the goal of CNN is to produce 362 00:26:57,235 --> 00:27:04,675 Speaker 1: more thirty seven second long viral clips of Scott Jennets 363 00:27:06,435 --> 00:27:10,955 Speaker 1: thirty seven, which I think matches the total audience size. 364 00:27:11,795 --> 00:27:16,315 Speaker 1: CNN still does exceptional field reporting, especially of live big events, 365 00:27:17,155 --> 00:27:19,755 Speaker 1: and the point is that there is very little even 366 00:27:19,795 --> 00:27:23,875 Speaker 1: a bumbling moron like Barry Weiss can do about poisoning 367 00:27:23,955 --> 00:27:28,155 Speaker 1: live events or even controlling what her personnel say about 368 00:27:28,195 --> 00:27:32,475 Speaker 1: live events during live events. And truth be told, it's 369 00:27:32,555 --> 00:27:36,555 Speaker 1: very unlikely that they'll actually put Barry Weiss in charge 370 00:27:36,675 --> 00:27:39,875 Speaker 1: of CNN because she seems to need to devote all 371 00:27:39,915 --> 00:27:44,995 Speaker 1: of her energy to concentrating on screwing up CBS. It 372 00:27:45,075 --> 00:27:49,475 Speaker 1: takes a lot out of her. Omar l Ayat wrote 373 00:27:49,515 --> 00:27:53,675 Speaker 1: of CBS's special on Iran and its lineup Saturday, quote, 374 00:27:53,675 --> 00:27:57,115 Speaker 1: CBS News guests a senator who wants to bomb Iran, 375 00:27:57,515 --> 00:28:00,555 Speaker 1: a congressman who wants to bomb Iran, a general who 376 00:28:00,635 --> 00:28:04,635 Speaker 1: bombed Iran, a dissident who wants Iran bombed, and an 377 00:28:04,755 --> 00:28:12,915 Speaker 1: NSC official who wants Iran bombed, all perspectives covered. The point, obviously, 378 00:28:13,035 --> 00:28:16,035 Speaker 1: is whatever the Ellisons think will happen when they suddenly 379 00:28:16,075 --> 00:28:20,515 Speaker 1: swerve the CNN audience for their newscasts into oncoming right 380 00:28:20,555 --> 00:28:25,155 Speaker 1: wing traffic. What will happen is they'll all be killed 381 00:28:25,555 --> 00:28:32,755 Speaker 1: metaphorically like what's happened at the Washington Post and CBS. Now. 382 00:28:32,795 --> 00:28:37,235 Speaker 1: They may still believe they can absorb that CNN audience 383 00:28:37,275 --> 00:28:40,715 Speaker 1: into the Magaborg, but so far there is nothing to 384 00:28:40,835 --> 00:28:46,755 Speaker 1: support that. They would think that as the fool Weiss does. 385 00:28:46,795 --> 00:28:49,235 Speaker 1: Because these are people raised on forty years of Russi 386 00:28:49,315 --> 00:28:53,555 Speaker 1: Limbaugh and Fox News. They were fooled. Doesn't that mean 387 00:28:53,595 --> 00:28:57,555 Speaker 1: everybody else will be fooled? There is at heart the 388 00:28:57,595 --> 00:29:02,515 Speaker 1: conviction that liberals, especially liberal news viewers, are liberal only 389 00:29:02,555 --> 00:29:07,395 Speaker 1: because they are being brainwashed. Conservatives really think this way. 390 00:29:08,435 --> 00:29:13,155 Speaker 1: It couldn't possibly be because conservatives are wrong and from 391 00:29:13,235 --> 00:29:16,875 Speaker 1: Hell and we are right. It couldn't be that Saint 392 00:29:16,955 --> 00:29:20,635 Speaker 1: Rush of Limbaugh told them. It couldn't be that. Speaking 393 00:29:20,715 --> 00:29:25,595 Speaker 1: of Hell, An exiting CBS veteran news producer named Mary 394 00:29:25,595 --> 00:29:29,515 Speaker 1: Walsh wrote a reply all to her ex colleagues as 395 00:29:29,555 --> 00:29:33,595 Speaker 1: she left, I think the term escaped might be appropriate 396 00:29:33,595 --> 00:29:39,075 Speaker 1: here noted quote. We've been told to aim our reporting 397 00:29:39,115 --> 00:29:42,995 Speaker 1: at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I 398 00:29:42,995 --> 00:29:46,955 Speaker 1: don't know how to do that. This is something conservatives 399 00:29:46,955 --> 00:29:52,555 Speaker 1: will never understand nor believe. Conservatism like Nazism is about 400 00:29:52,635 --> 00:29:56,155 Speaker 1: indoctrination and obedience, and you had better learn to believe 401 00:29:56,195 --> 00:30:00,915 Speaker 1: that or else. Let me quote the gobels of our time, 402 00:30:01,475 --> 00:30:06,115 Speaker 1: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr at a Semi four conference about 403 00:30:06,155 --> 00:30:10,275 Speaker 1: restoring confidence in media, semaphore being a boutique news shop 404 00:30:10,475 --> 00:30:14,515 Speaker 1: that slants right but pretends to be objective and inspires 405 00:30:14,955 --> 00:30:21,235 Speaker 1: zero confidence. Car about CBS quote, I think they're doing 406 00:30:21,275 --> 00:30:24,475 Speaker 1: a great job. Vana the I'm sorry, I think they're 407 00:30:24,515 --> 00:30:26,275 Speaker 1: doing a great job. One of the things that I 408 00:30:26,315 --> 00:30:29,675 Speaker 1: really enjoy about CBS is they're trying to do something different. 409 00:30:30,195 --> 00:30:32,795 Speaker 1: So much of the legacy media can't stand that someone 410 00:30:32,875 --> 00:30:35,195 Speaker 1: is trying to do something new. Too much of the 411 00:30:35,315 --> 00:30:38,235 Speaker 1: national news media is simply drastically out of touch with 412 00:30:38,355 --> 00:30:42,795 Speaker 1: where the American people are. It has not once occurred 413 00:30:42,835 --> 00:30:46,275 Speaker 1: to Car that CBS's audience has been dying for years, 414 00:30:47,435 --> 00:30:52,715 Speaker 1: because well, television news has been dying for years, and CBS, 415 00:30:53,275 --> 00:30:55,995 Speaker 1: when it was already in last place, decided it was 416 00:30:56,035 --> 00:31:00,675 Speaker 1: going to try to dumb things down. This was in 417 00:31:00,715 --> 00:31:05,835 Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, trying to dumb it down for conservatives, 418 00:31:06,835 --> 00:31:09,195 Speaker 1: and then again, and then a third time, and then 419 00:31:09,195 --> 00:31:11,035 Speaker 1: a fourth time, and now they're doing it again, and 420 00:31:11,115 --> 00:31:14,355 Speaker 1: they're off what twenty percent since the fascists takeover twenty 421 00:31:14,355 --> 00:31:17,795 Speaker 1: percent in less than a year. But it's new, it's 422 00:31:17,835 --> 00:31:22,675 Speaker 1: got to work. Let me quote this car guy on 423 00:31:22,955 --> 00:31:26,955 Speaker 1: Maria Bartiromo on her show. I'm sorry to put that 424 00:31:26,995 --> 00:31:30,835 Speaker 1: image in your mind. These are two people whose combined 425 00:31:30,955 --> 00:31:36,155 Speaker 1: IQ could fit into a box of matches. Bartiromo quote, 426 00:31:36,795 --> 00:31:42,315 Speaker 1: Patriotism is spreading twine a broadcasts. Mister chairman, you announced 427 00:31:42,315 --> 00:31:47,595 Speaker 1: your Pledge America campaign, encouraging broadcast to add a pro 428 00:31:47,715 --> 00:31:51,075 Speaker 1: America content sech just starting each day with the star 429 00:31:51,315 --> 00:32:00,035 Speaker 1: spangled Bianna, a pledge of allegiances telleth Mula. FCC Chairman 430 00:32:00,075 --> 00:32:04,035 Speaker 1: Brendan Carr. We're in the midst of a great revival 431 00:32:04,955 --> 00:32:11,595 Speaker 1: and Trump is truly the political colossus of our time. Firstly, Sir, 432 00:32:12,395 --> 00:32:16,795 Speaker 1: the colossus was a big statue, usually one that they'd 433 00:32:16,795 --> 00:32:24,075 Speaker 1: build in water up to his his shorts. The statue 434 00:32:24,115 --> 00:32:26,835 Speaker 1: was way too big and it was made out of rocks, 435 00:32:27,835 --> 00:32:32,675 Speaker 1: not alive. So that's a good description of Trump. Secondly, Bartiromo, 436 00:32:32,955 --> 00:32:35,915 Speaker 1: do you remember when station's actually signed off every night 437 00:32:36,475 --> 00:32:41,155 Speaker 1: after the last show, after the the Late Show movie 438 00:32:41,435 --> 00:32:44,515 Speaker 1: Million dollar movie. They where they would sign off with 439 00:32:44,635 --> 00:32:47,275 Speaker 1: the star spangled banner. They played the star spangled banner 440 00:32:47,275 --> 00:32:51,395 Speaker 1: and then it was boo. Remember that that was the 441 00:32:51,435 --> 00:32:55,395 Speaker 1: audience's cue to stop paying attention and just fall asleep. 442 00:32:58,075 --> 00:33:05,475 Speaker 1: Now we don't need that, we have Maria Bartiromo. The 443 00:33:05,515 --> 00:33:10,035 Speaker 1: real problem relative to politics, relative to cable news, relative 444 00:33:10,075 --> 00:33:14,075 Speaker 1: to news news in American media right now is MS 445 00:33:14,115 --> 00:33:19,035 Speaker 1: NOW sucks. I mean, at a time when thoughtful, instructive 446 00:33:19,115 --> 00:33:22,715 Speaker 1: protest is desperately needed, I mean, you need some guy 447 00:33:22,755 --> 00:33:28,275 Speaker 1: out there going sir. Almost everything on the air is 448 00:33:28,315 --> 00:33:32,635 Speaker 1: doctrinaire bullshit, most of it presented in nineteen ninety seven 449 00:33:32,715 --> 00:33:38,235 Speaker 1: six people talking at one style featuring host anchors who 450 00:33:38,275 --> 00:33:42,195 Speaker 1: are so outdated and antidiluvian and repeating themselves for the 451 00:33:42,235 --> 00:33:45,355 Speaker 1: seven hundred and forty eighth time, that the entire prime 452 00:33:45,435 --> 00:33:51,115 Speaker 1: time lineup still consists of my former backup hosts whom 453 00:33:51,155 --> 00:33:56,075 Speaker 1: we spun off into their own shows like fifteen years ago. 454 00:33:59,035 --> 00:34:02,955 Speaker 1: But don't worry that there has not been one new 455 00:34:03,315 --> 00:34:07,075 Speaker 1: MS now prime time show that has actually succeeded that 456 00:34:07,195 --> 00:34:11,715 Speaker 1: I didn't create prior to twenty ten. That shouldn't make 457 00:34:11,755 --> 00:34:16,915 Speaker 1: you worry. The new boss there, somebody named Rebecca Cutler 458 00:34:17,515 --> 00:34:20,755 Speaker 1: revealed to the La Times that she had the solution 459 00:34:21,315 --> 00:34:25,595 Speaker 1: almost did it, the new fresh face that would lead 460 00:34:25,835 --> 00:34:31,195 Speaker 1: ms NOW Prime Time into the armageddon battles upcoming in 461 00:34:31,275 --> 00:34:35,235 Speaker 1: these midterms and in twenty twenty eight, only to see 462 00:34:35,275 --> 00:34:40,995 Speaker 1: her plan thwarted when the Golden Boy said no. Quoting 463 00:34:41,035 --> 00:34:45,395 Speaker 1: The Times, Cutler revealed that she received to go ahead 464 00:34:45,395 --> 00:34:54,155 Speaker 1: from her bosses at Versant to pursue Anderson Cooper, though 465 00:34:54,155 --> 00:35:01,955 Speaker 1: he ultimately re signed with CNN in three months. Anderson Cooper, 466 00:35:03,235 --> 00:35:06,635 Speaker 1: who ms NOW thought was the boy wonder in the future, 467 00:35:07,275 --> 00:35:11,875 Speaker 1: will turn fifty nine fing years old. He has been 468 00:35:11,915 --> 00:35:15,755 Speaker 1: on the air at CNN since two thousand and one. 469 00:35:15,915 --> 00:35:20,475 Speaker 1: He got there, I believe three four months before I did. 470 00:35:21,515 --> 00:35:24,435 Speaker 1: We were on the morning show together for a while, 471 00:35:25,195 --> 00:35:28,475 Speaker 1: the two of us, Paul is On and Jack Cafferty 472 00:35:28,475 --> 00:35:34,275 Speaker 1: and boy did we suck. Something like seventeen different CNN 473 00:35:34,315 --> 00:35:38,235 Speaker 1: presidents has spent untold millions of dollars promoting Anderson Cooper's 474 00:35:38,275 --> 00:35:41,675 Speaker 1: various shows, and his reporting from the field has been 475 00:35:41,755 --> 00:35:49,355 Speaker 1: good for the last quarter century, albeit superficial, but he's 476 00:35:49,515 --> 00:35:53,595 Speaker 1: never won his time slot in the ratings and more importantly, 477 00:35:53,595 --> 00:35:56,715 Speaker 1: I would like to ask you this as you contemplate 478 00:35:56,755 --> 00:36:00,715 Speaker 1: the idea that the head of MS now thought he 479 00:36:00,955 --> 00:36:06,155 Speaker 1: was the future of MS. Now, tell me one thing 480 00:36:06,915 --> 00:36:15,275 Speaker 1: about Trump, or politics, or or anything important that Anderson 481 00:36:15,435 --> 00:36:22,715 Speaker 1: Cooper has ever said on TV that you remember off 482 00:36:22,875 --> 00:36:30,075 Speaker 1: the top of your head. I'll wait, do do do do? 483 00:36:30,075 --> 00:36:30,355 Speaker 2: Do? 484 00:36:30,195 --> 00:36:30,235 Speaker 1: Do? 485 00:36:30,355 --> 00:36:40,955 Speaker 2: Do? 486 00:36:41,075 --> 00:36:48,195 Speaker 1: Well? He did once say back to you, Keith. Also 487 00:36:48,235 --> 00:36:53,555 Speaker 1: of interest here, Yes, the rumors are true, he's back. 488 00:36:54,915 --> 00:37:00,195 Speaker 1: Worst persons in the world is next, and the winner. 489 00:36:59,995 --> 00:37:05,595 Speaker 2: Is Bill Riley. 490 00:37:09,075 --> 00:37:10,435 Speaker 1: Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh 491 00:37:10,435 --> 00:37:15,275 Speaker 1: my god. Right you are, mister Mayhoffer. That's next, Missus Countdown. 492 00:37:18,435 --> 00:37:20,915 Speaker 1: Among his other credits, Moe used to host a TV 493 00:37:21,035 --> 00:37:26,155 Speaker 1: show called Things I Hate About You. I'm sure I've 494 00:37:26,195 --> 00:37:31,115 Speaker 1: seen that program. I believe it's now called Countdown with 495 00:37:31,235 --> 00:37:56,875 Speaker 1: Keith Overman. Well, if we're back in war in the 496 00:37:56,875 --> 00:37:59,595 Speaker 1: Middle East for no good reason, who better to bring 497 00:37:59,715 --> 00:38:06,195 Speaker 1: back here than Cheney? Dick Cheney, it was a nickname 498 00:38:07,635 --> 00:38:10,155 Speaker 1: still ahead on this volume of Countdown. I was telling 499 00:38:10,195 --> 00:38:12,675 Speaker 1: the story the other day of the day that I 500 00:38:12,715 --> 00:38:17,395 Speaker 1: met the great late American actor Walter Mathow, who died 501 00:38:17,635 --> 00:38:22,075 Speaker 1: incredibly more than a quarter of a century ago. The 502 00:38:22,115 --> 00:38:24,355 Speaker 1: only time I met him. He left such an impression 503 00:38:24,435 --> 00:38:27,795 Speaker 1: on me that when he died nearly a decade after that, 504 00:38:28,315 --> 00:38:32,475 Speaker 1: I burst into tears. On the list of the most 505 00:38:32,515 --> 00:38:36,195 Speaker 1: memorable people you've ever met, he may be number one 506 00:38:36,275 --> 00:38:40,435 Speaker 1: for me, certainly top five. The saga of now you 507 00:38:40,635 --> 00:38:45,955 Speaker 1: sign mine next in things I promised not to tell first, However, 508 00:38:46,035 --> 00:38:49,195 Speaker 1: we always have more new idiots to talk about. The 509 00:38:49,275 --> 00:38:52,595 Speaker 1: roundup of the miscrants, morons and dunning Kruger effects specimens 510 00:38:52,595 --> 00:38:59,155 Speaker 1: who constitute today's other worst persons in the world featuring 511 00:39:00,315 --> 00:39:10,875 Speaker 1: a reappearance by below. First the Bronze worse. Okay, so 512 00:39:10,915 --> 00:39:15,155 Speaker 1: the hockey thing and the Olympics. I think I've exhausted 513 00:39:15,155 --> 00:39:19,435 Speaker 1: that topic. The fools the US gold medal team made 514 00:39:19,515 --> 00:39:22,875 Speaker 1: out of themselves, both in the dressing room after they 515 00:39:22,915 --> 00:39:26,075 Speaker 1: won the gold medal and laughing at the women's team 516 00:39:26,115 --> 00:39:29,195 Speaker 1: when Trump made the misogynistic joke about that, and then 517 00:39:29,275 --> 00:39:32,835 Speaker 1: serving as political props being trotted out like a bunch 518 00:39:32,915 --> 00:39:36,915 Speaker 1: of meat puppets at the Trump State of the Union 519 00:39:37,315 --> 00:39:43,155 Speaker 1: marathon telethon that he gave and then turned out Cash 520 00:39:43,195 --> 00:39:46,035 Speaker 1: Patel had made such a fool of himself in the 521 00:39:46,115 --> 00:39:48,675 Speaker 1: dressing room after the gold medal game, that even Trump 522 00:39:48,755 --> 00:39:52,715 Speaker 1: was embarrassed. How stupid? How much of an asshole do 523 00:39:52,755 --> 00:39:56,355 Speaker 1: you have to be? Cash Battel that you embarrassed Trump? 524 00:39:57,715 --> 00:40:03,595 Speaker 1: And Austin Matthews, Mexican American captain of Canada's team after 525 00:40:03,635 --> 00:40:07,635 Speaker 1: Trump had threatened Mexico and Canada stood behind Trump and 526 00:40:07,715 --> 00:40:10,955 Speaker 1: grinned like an idiot, and somebody wrote, thank god his 527 00:40:11,075 --> 00:40:15,075 Speaker 1: hairline was not there to see it. Austin Matthews deserves 528 00:40:15,115 --> 00:40:17,595 Speaker 1: all this shit he gets and boy is he going 529 00:40:17,635 --> 00:40:20,955 Speaker 1: to And then, just to top it off, one of 530 00:40:20,995 --> 00:40:25,155 Speaker 1: the stupidest athletes in the world, a guy named Tage Thompson, 531 00:40:25,395 --> 00:40:28,875 Speaker 1: a brilliant hockey player and particularly goal scorer with the 532 00:40:28,875 --> 00:40:33,075 Speaker 1: Buffalo Sabers, not only wore a MAGA cap and then 533 00:40:33,155 --> 00:40:37,395 Speaker 1: complained about how we all made it political, wore the 534 00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:40,435 Speaker 1: MAGA cap to the White House and then into the 535 00:40:40,435 --> 00:40:44,035 Speaker 1: State of the Union address, and then when questioned about it, 536 00:40:44,035 --> 00:40:49,635 Speaker 1: he his answer basically was, but Jesus, now, just all 537 00:40:49,675 --> 00:40:52,355 Speaker 1: you have to know about this is that Tage Thompson 538 00:40:52,355 --> 00:40:55,755 Speaker 1: had a very brief career with the Saint Louis Blues, 539 00:40:55,795 --> 00:40:59,075 Speaker 1: his first National Hockey League team, played about sixty games there, 540 00:40:59,395 --> 00:41:03,075 Speaker 1: did nothing, and was traded to the Buffalo Sabers. So 541 00:41:03,235 --> 00:41:05,995 Speaker 1: I wrote, oh, look, Tage Thompson just doubled down on 542 00:41:06,075 --> 00:41:09,075 Speaker 1: his career ender and pretended it had something to do 543 00:41:09,115 --> 00:41:12,995 Speaker 1: with his religion, and linked to an US magazine feature 544 00:41:13,035 --> 00:41:15,795 Speaker 1: about Tage Thompson and how Jesus told him to wear 545 00:41:15,835 --> 00:41:19,875 Speaker 1: the hat. And someone from Saint Louis, a proud American 546 00:41:20,075 --> 00:41:26,515 Speaker 1: CPA wife, mom, former Mizzoo cheerleader. Judging by the picture, 547 00:41:27,195 --> 00:41:32,035 Speaker 1: it was uh, were they doing intercollegiate sports then? Or 548 00:41:32,075 --> 00:41:38,235 Speaker 1: had we invented basketball already? Anyway, Andrea Catherine Andrea Kay 549 00:41:38,355 --> 00:41:42,755 Speaker 1: at Saint Louis decided to retweet me and described what 550 00:41:42,875 --> 00:41:48,195 Speaker 1: I wrote about Tage Topson, thusly Keith Olriman attacking former 551 00:41:48,315 --> 00:41:54,035 Speaker 1: Saint Louis Blues legend Tage Topson. And this's the only 552 00:41:54,075 --> 00:41:56,875 Speaker 1: reason I quote all this. In his career with the 553 00:41:56,875 --> 00:42:02,795 Speaker 1: Saint Louis Blues, Tage Thompson scored three goals, won two 554 00:42:02,795 --> 00:42:07,555 Speaker 1: three three goals, So becoming a Saint Louis Blues legend 555 00:42:09,355 --> 00:42:12,515 Speaker 1: doesn't take as much effort as it used to. The 556 00:42:12,635 --> 00:42:17,435 Speaker 1: runner up Trump flunky Alena Habba. Remember Alena Habba in 557 00:42:17,515 --> 00:42:21,875 Speaker 1: the news every couple of days. First, one of his 558 00:42:22,155 --> 00:42:27,475 Speaker 1: attorneys got everything wrong, as his attorney lost cases. As 559 00:42:27,515 --> 00:42:31,515 Speaker 1: his attorney turned out her expertise was in parking lot law. 560 00:42:32,955 --> 00:42:36,195 Speaker 1: She was improperly serving as a US attorney. She was 561 00:42:36,315 --> 00:42:42,035 Speaker 1: advocating for eliminating automatic birthright citizenship when she was the 562 00:42:42,155 --> 00:42:47,795 Speaker 1: child of immigrants. She's pretty much vanished. However, she's back now, 563 00:42:47,835 --> 00:42:53,075 Speaker 1: having retweeted a violent threat on Twitter x a violent 564 00:42:53,195 --> 00:42:56,275 Speaker 1: threat made against a sitting judge. See if you can 565 00:42:56,355 --> 00:43:00,875 Speaker 1: spot the violent threat from Eric L. Darty, who is 566 00:43:00,915 --> 00:43:04,075 Speaker 1: one of these kids who appears to be fourteen or 567 00:43:04,115 --> 00:43:06,955 Speaker 1: fifteen years years old, but it's apparently an adult. And 568 00:43:06,995 --> 00:43:10,395 Speaker 1: he's part of a conservative think tank. And I know 569 00:43:10,675 --> 00:43:13,555 Speaker 1: think tank is a brand name. It's an oxy moron. 570 00:43:14,435 --> 00:43:17,755 Speaker 1: Eric Dherty is the moron in this oxy moron. Breaking 571 00:43:18,235 --> 00:43:25,315 Speaker 1: US Islamic judge Zahid Kwarishi faces calls to be impeached 572 00:43:25,675 --> 00:43:29,755 Speaker 1: after he well, he's Daugherty is the one putting out 573 00:43:29,795 --> 00:43:32,915 Speaker 1: the calls to impeach him. He's not facing it. You're 574 00:43:32,955 --> 00:43:36,915 Speaker 1: threatening him after he threatens to drag in Trump officials 575 00:43:37,115 --> 00:43:41,835 Speaker 1: if DHS keeps preventing illegal alien criminals from being released 576 00:43:41,835 --> 00:43:46,155 Speaker 1: into the community. Absolutely evil and depraved. It's called the law. 577 00:43:46,395 --> 00:43:50,435 Speaker 1: Eric L. Dherty, fifteen year old who's going on thirty. 578 00:43:50,555 --> 00:43:53,955 Speaker 1: Here we go. This is a capital letter's judicial coup 579 00:43:55,115 --> 00:44:00,235 Speaker 1: quote strike him down and remove him. Do you hear 580 00:44:00,275 --> 00:44:05,035 Speaker 1: a threat there? Strike him down? That's not a judicial term. 581 00:44:05,395 --> 00:44:07,715 Speaker 1: That's not a remove him from office. Tryes not a 582 00:44:07,755 --> 00:44:13,595 Speaker 1: synonym for overrule him. That's strike his decisions down now, okay, 583 00:44:14,195 --> 00:44:18,275 Speaker 1: strike him down. That is a threat against him. That 584 00:44:18,395 --> 00:44:23,475 Speaker 1: is an encouragement, a stochastic terrorist threat. And Alena Habba 585 00:44:23,755 --> 00:44:27,155 Speaker 1: retweeted this, adding I know a thing or two about 586 00:44:27,155 --> 00:44:30,075 Speaker 1: this judge. He has no business being on the bench. 587 00:44:30,715 --> 00:44:33,915 Speaker 1: And Alena Habba, you're still a lawyer. I guess technically, 588 00:44:34,355 --> 00:44:38,315 Speaker 1: after retweeting a threat against a sitting judge, I'm going 589 00:44:38,395 --> 00:44:39,875 Speaker 1: to guess they're never going to let you in a 590 00:44:39,875 --> 00:44:45,195 Speaker 1: courtroom again. Parking lots, yes, courtrooms now. But the winner, 591 00:44:45,235 --> 00:44:52,235 Speaker 1: those are just the orders, the worst. The winner below. 592 00:44:52,315 --> 00:44:58,355 Speaker 1: The clone. Oh Bill O'Reilly is now nine years removed 593 00:44:58,355 --> 00:45:02,755 Speaker 1: from his firing by Fox for harassment and harassment costs 594 00:45:03,795 --> 00:45:07,795 Speaker 1: millions and million dollars. He's fifteen years removed from his wife, 595 00:45:07,835 --> 00:45:10,635 Speaker 1: leaving him for a cop, and then him going to 596 00:45:10,675 --> 00:45:13,395 Speaker 1: the city to try to get the cop punished. He's 597 00:45:13,435 --> 00:45:16,715 Speaker 1: twenty years removed. That's roughly since he complained on the 598 00:45:16,755 --> 00:45:21,275 Speaker 1: air to John McCain about how there were attacks on 599 00:45:21,315 --> 00:45:26,755 Speaker 1: what O'Reilly literally called the white power structure of this country. 600 00:45:26,835 --> 00:45:29,675 Speaker 1: They're attacking the white power structure this country, the right 601 00:45:29,755 --> 00:45:35,035 Speaker 1: power structure that runs this country. So now Bill fulfills 602 00:45:35,115 --> 00:45:38,715 Speaker 1: his need to be an asshole, misogynist, white supremacist by 603 00:45:40,035 --> 00:45:44,435 Speaker 1: stopping passers by and bothering them. And I guess to 604 00:45:44,475 --> 00:45:48,235 Speaker 1: get he also has a website, and on this website, 605 00:45:48,275 --> 00:45:53,475 Speaker 1: Bill wants Robert de Niro imprisoned because he thinks Robert 606 00:45:53,475 --> 00:45:59,315 Speaker 1: de Niro threatened the president or Jesus or I don't 607 00:45:59,315 --> 00:46:02,435 Speaker 1: know who he thinks he threatened. This is not Eric L. 608 00:46:02,515 --> 00:46:07,035 Speaker 1: Daherty about the judge strike him down. That's one of 609 00:46:07,075 --> 00:46:09,515 Speaker 1: the reasons Eric L. Dherty and Alena Habbar on this 610 00:46:09,595 --> 00:46:13,755 Speaker 1: list for contrast. Remember, strike him down would be a threat, 611 00:46:13,875 --> 00:46:17,355 Speaker 1: a physical threat. Listen to what he is complaining about, 612 00:46:17,715 --> 00:46:22,795 Speaker 1: and then I'll give you the backstory here. First, Robert 613 00:46:22,875 --> 00:46:25,555 Speaker 1: de Niro once turned Bill O'Reilly down for an interview, 614 00:46:25,595 --> 00:46:29,275 Speaker 1: and apparently Robert de Niro was, if not Bill O'Reilly's 615 00:46:29,275 --> 00:46:33,035 Speaker 1: favorite actor, then one of his. Then he found out 616 00:46:33,555 --> 00:46:37,435 Speaker 1: that de Niro was a fan of Countdown, So now 617 00:46:37,915 --> 00:46:40,635 Speaker 1: he's been waiting for something to be able to say 618 00:46:40,675 --> 00:46:45,435 Speaker 1: about de Niro. Also, de Niro is fathering children in 619 00:46:45,195 --> 00:46:50,035 Speaker 1: his eighties and anyway, so de Niro is now somebody, 620 00:46:50,075 --> 00:46:53,075 Speaker 1: according to O'Reilly, who should be imprisoned. Denierro went on 621 00:46:53,115 --> 00:46:56,275 Speaker 1: Somebody's podcast and bashed Trump and, as it was described 622 00:46:56,315 --> 00:47:00,075 Speaker 1: by Mediaite quote was even brought to tears over the 623 00:47:00,115 --> 00:47:02,515 Speaker 1: state of the country. De Niro urged the public to 624 00:47:02,595 --> 00:47:06,395 Speaker 1: mobilize and continue protesting, and de Niro said, of Trump, 625 00:47:06,395 --> 00:47:09,355 Speaker 1: We've got to get rid of him. Is there a 626 00:47:09,395 --> 00:47:13,275 Speaker 1: threat in there? Do you hear a threat if you're 627 00:47:13,275 --> 00:47:16,635 Speaker 1: a paranoid seventy six year old who's best friend Trump? 628 00:47:17,515 --> 00:47:20,595 Speaker 1: Your only friend Trump? Used to go to ball games 629 00:47:20,595 --> 00:47:22,475 Speaker 1: with him, used to sit with him all night at 630 00:47:22,555 --> 00:47:26,795 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium, drinking milkshakes. Your best friend Trump president in 631 00:47:26,795 --> 00:47:29,475 Speaker 1: the United States. He no longer talks to you because 632 00:47:29,475 --> 00:47:32,675 Speaker 1: you're too toxic. If that's your life, you hear a 633 00:47:32,715 --> 00:47:38,835 Speaker 1: threat everywhere? Said Billow quote of de Niro, he said 634 00:47:38,835 --> 00:47:41,795 Speaker 1: the words we got to get rid of him three times. 635 00:47:42,395 --> 00:47:45,155 Speaker 1: Any interviewer other than Nicole Wallace would have said, what 636 00:47:45,195 --> 00:47:48,355 Speaker 1: do you mean by that? He's elected? Seventy seven million 637 00:47:48,355 --> 00:47:51,395 Speaker 1: people voted for him. What's we've got to get rid 638 00:47:51,475 --> 00:47:53,955 Speaker 1: of him? Are you talking about impeachment? What are you 639 00:47:54,035 --> 00:47:58,195 Speaker 1: talking about? Of course Nicole Wallace doesn't do that now, 640 00:47:58,555 --> 00:48:01,475 Speaker 1: she's a Republican. So if I'm watching this and I'm 641 00:48:01,475 --> 00:48:04,555 Speaker 1: the head of the Secret Service usc US Code eighth 642 00:48:04,755 --> 00:48:07,315 Speaker 1: seventy one, it is a crime to threaten not only 643 00:48:07,395 --> 00:48:09,795 Speaker 1: the President of the United States, but the vice president 644 00:48:09,875 --> 00:48:14,955 Speaker 1: and everybody else in succession. The TV series that was 645 00:48:14,955 --> 00:48:18,035 Speaker 1: actually about Fox and All, how they dealt with the 646 00:48:18,075 --> 00:48:21,515 Speaker 1: TV host an idiot asshole like O'Reilly that, oh different, 647 00:48:22,675 --> 00:48:25,955 Speaker 1: Let it be the Speaker of the House undown. You're 648 00:48:25,955 --> 00:48:30,835 Speaker 1: getting this now, O'Reilly thinks that because Robert de Niro 649 00:48:31,115 --> 00:48:34,555 Speaker 1: said to Nicole Wallace, who's not a government official, we 650 00:48:34,675 --> 00:48:38,235 Speaker 1: got to get rid of him, that he threatened to 651 00:48:38,435 --> 00:48:41,275 Speaker 1: assassinate the President of the United States and the vice 652 00:48:41,315 --> 00:48:44,075 Speaker 1: president and the Speaker of the House and everybody else 653 00:48:44,515 --> 00:48:46,635 Speaker 1: in the chain of succession for the president of the 654 00:48:46,715 --> 00:48:52,315 Speaker 1: United States. That's where Bill O'Reilly's head is at. I 655 00:48:52,395 --> 00:48:58,715 Speaker 1: use the term head carefully around Bill O'Reilly. Loofahs, loofahs. Okay, 656 00:48:58,795 --> 00:49:00,995 Speaker 1: so I'm the Secret Service director and I'm seeing this 657 00:49:01,075 --> 00:49:03,235 Speaker 1: three times. We've got to get rid of him. I 658 00:49:03,315 --> 00:49:05,435 Speaker 1: got agents pulling de niro in for a Q and 659 00:49:05,475 --> 00:49:08,715 Speaker 1: A and he better have a lawyer. Now. You could 660 00:49:08,755 --> 00:49:11,675 Speaker 1: charge him based upon his answers to the interrogation. If 661 00:49:11,715 --> 00:49:14,755 Speaker 1: he takes the fifth a refused answer on the grounds, 662 00:49:14,955 --> 00:49:17,675 Speaker 1: you could charge him. And if he were convicted, he'd 663 00:49:17,715 --> 00:49:20,635 Speaker 1: get five years in prison under this code. But I'd 664 00:49:20,675 --> 00:49:23,595 Speaker 1: make an example of this guy de Niro. Then I 665 00:49:23,595 --> 00:49:26,715 Speaker 1: wouldn't do it for vindictive or politics. I wouldn't do that. 666 00:49:26,955 --> 00:49:29,915 Speaker 1: But enough's enough on the threats. We got to get 667 00:49:29,995 --> 00:49:36,235 Speaker 1: rid of him. All all of Bill O'Reilly's attempts to 668 00:49:36,475 --> 00:49:40,915 Speaker 1: undermine his opponents end up blowing up in Bill O'Reilly's face, 669 00:49:41,275 --> 00:49:44,915 Speaker 1: like he's Boris bad enough from Boris and Natasha and 670 00:49:44,955 --> 00:49:49,875 Speaker 1: The Bullwinkle Show. Bill O'Reilly once started a petition to 671 00:49:49,995 --> 00:49:53,635 Speaker 1: have the eight pm hour on MSNBC given back to 672 00:49:53,715 --> 00:49:57,475 Speaker 1: Phil Donahue, who preceded me in it. He signed had 673 00:49:57,515 --> 00:50:01,835 Speaker 1: this petition up on the Fox website. So I got 674 00:50:01,995 --> 00:50:04,675 Speaker 1: my staff to line up in front of a compute 675 00:50:04,995 --> 00:50:06,835 Speaker 1: and we got everybody in the building so that as 676 00:50:06,915 --> 00:50:09,435 Speaker 1: you as you panned out from this computer, there was 677 00:50:09,435 --> 00:50:12,075 Speaker 1: a line of like two hundred people waiting to sign 678 00:50:12,235 --> 00:50:15,275 Speaker 1: the petition to get rid of me, to put to 679 00:50:15,355 --> 00:50:20,715 Speaker 1: put the late Phil Donahue back on at eight o'clock. 680 00:50:21,315 --> 00:50:23,395 Speaker 1: My thinking was, and the last guy signing it was, 681 00:50:23,395 --> 00:50:25,635 Speaker 1: of course me. My thinking was, if they got rid 682 00:50:25,675 --> 00:50:27,595 Speaker 1: of me, they'd have to pay me the money anyway, 683 00:50:27,915 --> 00:50:31,475 Speaker 1: and I was fine with that and Bill. So one 684 00:50:31,515 --> 00:50:33,075 Speaker 1: of the things that was said in there was we 685 00:50:33,155 --> 00:50:38,155 Speaker 1: got to get rid of olderman Bill. The phrase though, 686 00:50:38,275 --> 00:50:40,835 Speaker 1: we got to get rid of him. That's what Rupert 687 00:50:40,915 --> 00:50:45,035 Speaker 1: Murdoch said about you to his colleagues before he fired 688 00:50:45,075 --> 00:50:48,555 Speaker 1: your ass over all the women. And by the way, 689 00:50:48,595 --> 00:50:51,595 Speaker 1: don't Bill out, don't let de Niro know what you 690 00:50:51,675 --> 00:50:54,715 Speaker 1: said about him, because even at eighty six years old, 691 00:50:55,235 --> 00:50:59,875 Speaker 1: Bobby de Niro could kick your ass. One note about Bill. 692 00:50:59,915 --> 00:51:03,195 Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear Bill is back on the whatever 693 00:51:03,235 --> 00:51:05,715 Speaker 1: he's on, back stopping people on the street and saying 694 00:51:06,075 --> 00:51:09,155 Speaker 1: shit like this to them. After four days in the hospital. 695 00:51:09,195 --> 00:51:12,115 Speaker 1: He said he was stepping away from his work, which 696 00:51:12,155 --> 00:51:13,795 Speaker 1: was a surprise to those of us who didn't know 697 00:51:13,835 --> 00:51:16,515 Speaker 1: you any work. Four days in the hospital due to 698 00:51:16,515 --> 00:51:21,435 Speaker 1: a quote hereditary condition involving internal bleeding that took me 699 00:51:21,555 --> 00:51:25,475 Speaker 1: down temporarily. Now I have the best medical team, led 700 00:51:25,515 --> 00:51:29,075 Speaker 1: by doctor Ira Jacobson, trying to keep me on the field. 701 00:51:30,675 --> 00:51:32,995 Speaker 1: I'll tell you someday. The story about Bill's claim that 702 00:51:33,035 --> 00:51:35,355 Speaker 1: he tried out for the Mets as a pitcher, but 703 00:51:35,395 --> 00:51:38,355 Speaker 1: the Mets signed another guy instead named Tom sever who 704 00:51:38,435 --> 00:51:41,475 Speaker 1: was warming up next to him. Only the Mets signed 705 00:51:41,475 --> 00:51:44,875 Speaker 1: Tom sever in nineteen sixty six, and Bill O'Reilly, if 706 00:51:44,875 --> 00:51:46,395 Speaker 1: he had a try out with the Mets, would have 707 00:51:46,395 --> 00:51:49,755 Speaker 1: been nineteen seventy one. He made the story up. Thank god, 708 00:51:49,795 --> 00:51:52,835 Speaker 1: we don't have socialized medicine in this country. I'd be 709 00:51:52,955 --> 00:51:58,675 Speaker 1: in a dark container right now. Bill, You've been in 710 00:51:58,715 --> 00:52:04,835 Speaker 1: a dark container your whole life. It's called your whole life. 711 00:52:05,955 --> 00:52:10,395 Speaker 1: Blue O'Riley trying to get Robert de Niro arrested because 712 00:52:10,795 --> 00:52:13,475 Speaker 1: Robert de Niro is one thousand times the person Bill 713 00:52:13,515 --> 00:52:21,275 Speaker 1: o'reiley was today's other worst person, right you are, mister 714 00:52:22,035 --> 00:52:45,515 Speaker 1: Hoffer and the lad, I'm glad he's back finally, the 715 00:52:45,595 --> 00:52:48,155 Speaker 1: number one story on the countdown and my favorite topic 716 00:52:48,315 --> 00:52:50,995 Speaker 1: me and things for my career and my life. And 717 00:52:51,075 --> 00:52:53,515 Speaker 1: it is to me amazing, even after all this time, 718 00:52:54,115 --> 00:52:57,035 Speaker 1: that you could meet somebody just once in your life, 719 00:52:57,275 --> 00:53:01,235 Speaker 1: but years later be moved to tears upon learning of 720 00:53:01,235 --> 00:53:04,195 Speaker 1: their death. Then again, the man in question was named 721 00:53:04,235 --> 00:53:08,075 Speaker 1: Walter and if he was not the most popular American 722 00:53:08,075 --> 00:53:10,555 Speaker 1: comedic actor of the last half of the twentieth century, 723 00:53:10,635 --> 00:53:13,715 Speaker 1: he was close to it. And maybe more importantly, he 724 00:53:13,875 --> 00:53:17,795 Speaker 1: was the most skilled, minimal touch American actor of the 725 00:53:17,875 --> 00:53:20,195 Speaker 1: last half of the twentieth century. In other words, he 726 00:53:20,275 --> 00:53:22,635 Speaker 1: was the man who, on stage or on camera, seemed 727 00:53:22,675 --> 00:53:25,755 Speaker 1: to be doing the least amount of actual acting while 728 00:53:25,795 --> 00:53:28,835 Speaker 1: still keeping you utterly convinced that the guy you saw 729 00:53:28,875 --> 00:53:32,275 Speaker 1: on the screen was not Walter Mathow but was Oscar Madison, 730 00:53:32,675 --> 00:53:35,395 Speaker 1: and was not Walter Mathow, but was Max Goldman, and 731 00:53:35,475 --> 00:53:38,595 Speaker 1: was not Walter Mathow but was Willie Gingrich, and was 732 00:53:38,595 --> 00:53:41,995 Speaker 1: not Walter Mathow but was mel Miller. Even though mel 733 00:53:42,075 --> 00:53:44,635 Speaker 1: Miller had a Southern accent, smoked a pipe, had horn 734 00:53:44,755 --> 00:53:48,995 Speaker 1: rim glasses, and supposedly went to Vanderbilt, we all knew 735 00:53:49,155 --> 00:53:52,715 Speaker 1: Walter Mathow. It felt like we knew him personally because 736 00:53:52,755 --> 00:53:55,275 Speaker 1: he managed a miracle. Every time he performed. It was 737 00:53:55,395 --> 00:53:58,075 Speaker 1: all him up there, and yet at the same time 738 00:53:58,595 --> 00:54:03,075 Speaker 1: it was not him at all anyway. October first was 739 00:54:03,115 --> 00:54:05,875 Speaker 1: his birthday, which is what brought this extraordinary man to 740 00:54:05,915 --> 00:54:08,235 Speaker 1: the front of my mind again. I will get to 741 00:54:08,315 --> 00:54:11,635 Speaker 1: my meeting with him first. Walter Mathow's best friends as 742 00:54:11,675 --> 00:54:13,835 Speaker 1: an adult where his partner in half a dozen films, 743 00:54:13,915 --> 00:54:17,155 Speaker 1: Jack Lemon, and my dear friend Norman Lloyd, the one 744 00:54:17,195 --> 00:54:19,555 Speaker 1: man history of Hollywood, who he lost in twenty twenty 745 00:54:19,595 --> 00:54:22,355 Speaker 1: one at the age of one hundred and six. Norman 746 00:54:22,595 --> 00:54:26,915 Speaker 1: loved Walter, and Norman loved talking about Walter, and there 747 00:54:26,995 --> 00:54:29,555 Speaker 1: was an amazing amount of things to talk about about Walter. 748 00:54:30,515 --> 00:54:32,915 Speaker 1: Norman told me that on the last of the Grumpy 749 00:54:32,955 --> 00:54:35,915 Speaker 1: Old Men movies that he and Lemon made together, I 750 00:54:35,915 --> 00:54:38,515 Speaker 1: think it was called Grumpy Old Men were doing this 751 00:54:38,555 --> 00:54:41,795 Speaker 1: for the money. Mathow wanted to wrap up one day 752 00:54:41,835 --> 00:54:44,275 Speaker 1: of shooting quickly. He was scheduled to film a scene 753 00:54:44,315 --> 00:54:46,115 Speaker 1: in a water slide made up to look like a 754 00:54:46,155 --> 00:54:50,195 Speaker 1: sewer through which his character was escaping as the lunch 755 00:54:50,235 --> 00:54:52,755 Speaker 1: break was called. He said to Lemon, come on, Jack, 756 00:54:52,835 --> 00:54:55,435 Speaker 1: let's go rehearse the water slide thing. This way. We 757 00:54:55,475 --> 00:54:56,955 Speaker 1: can do it in one take. Get the hell out 758 00:54:56,955 --> 00:54:59,755 Speaker 1: of here anyway. Don't you have to wait an hour 759 00:54:59,795 --> 00:55:03,595 Speaker 1: after eating before you can shoot through a sewer. They 760 00:55:03,635 --> 00:55:06,795 Speaker 1: went to the sewer slide set. Walter Mathow grabbed the 761 00:55:06,915 --> 00:55:09,075 Speaker 1: raft he was supposed to ride, and he jumped in. 762 00:55:09,635 --> 00:55:11,835 Speaker 1: As he went through it, he studied all the corners 763 00:55:11,835 --> 00:55:13,835 Speaker 1: and where the cameras would be, so he knew where 764 00:55:13,875 --> 00:55:17,155 Speaker 1: to make his faces. And seconds later he was shooting 765 00:55:17,155 --> 00:55:18,795 Speaker 1: out the far end of the water slide onto the 766 00:55:18,795 --> 00:55:22,075 Speaker 1: giant inflatable twelve foot square air mattress placed there to 767 00:55:22,115 --> 00:55:24,755 Speaker 1: break his fall. Or he would have been doing that 768 00:55:25,155 --> 00:55:28,395 Speaker 1: except it was lunch and the teamsters had deflated the 769 00:55:28,435 --> 00:55:31,195 Speaker 1: mattress then moved it away because the set was on 770 00:55:31,275 --> 00:55:34,595 Speaker 1: lunch break. So Walter Mathow, then seventy three years old, 771 00:55:34,715 --> 00:55:38,595 Speaker 1: came flying out of the water slide onto the pavement. 772 00:55:39,635 --> 00:55:43,355 Speaker 1: He broke his collarbone, which is just about as painful 773 00:55:43,355 --> 00:55:48,315 Speaker 1: a thing as you can break. No, Walter Mathow screamed. Jack. 774 00:55:48,395 --> 00:55:51,115 Speaker 1: Lemon raced over to him, Walter, Walter, are you all right? No? 775 00:55:51,355 --> 00:55:56,435 Speaker 1: Not Jack call nine one one, oh oh, Lemon panicked, 776 00:55:56,635 --> 00:55:58,315 Speaker 1: Can I help you, Walter? Can I Can I get 777 00:55:58,315 --> 00:56:00,995 Speaker 1: you something? Walter? Yes, Jack, get me nine one one 778 00:56:01,235 --> 00:56:06,755 Speaker 1: ow o. Lemon continued to pay but till they come. 779 00:56:07,075 --> 00:56:11,395 Speaker 1: Are you okay, Walter? Are you comfortable? Walter Mathou was 780 00:56:11,435 --> 00:56:14,115 Speaker 1: in sheer agony, but he realized through the fog of 781 00:56:14,195 --> 00:56:17,635 Speaker 1: pain that one of the oldest jokes in show business 782 00:56:18,035 --> 00:56:22,395 Speaker 1: was actually happening to him. Finally, in real life. Am 783 00:56:22,395 --> 00:56:27,155 Speaker 1: I comfortable? I make a nice living? Jack Ow? How 784 00:56:30,235 --> 00:56:32,595 Speaker 1: my friend Norman Lloyd used to go hiking with Walter 785 00:56:32,675 --> 00:56:34,475 Speaker 1: Mathou in the Hollywood Hills, and he told me that 786 00:56:34,515 --> 00:56:37,995 Speaker 1: one day Walter was unusually quiet. The two had gone 787 00:56:38,075 --> 00:56:41,195 Speaker 1: a mile or so, and Mathow suddenly stopped and grabbed 788 00:56:41,195 --> 00:56:44,355 Speaker 1: Norman by the arm. Normy, did you know at the 789 00:56:44,475 --> 00:56:48,235 Speaker 1: end Beethoven was so deaf he thought he was painting? 790 00:56:49,315 --> 00:56:51,995 Speaker 1: Norman smiled, snorted, and started to say that was the 791 00:56:52,075 --> 00:56:55,035 Speaker 1: dumbest thing he'd ever heard. But halfway through Norman's sentence, 792 00:56:55,075 --> 00:56:57,835 Speaker 1: Mathow had already turned away from him and was back 793 00:56:57,875 --> 00:57:02,515 Speaker 1: walking again. Another mile passed in silence, and now Mathou 794 00:57:02,595 --> 00:57:05,115 Speaker 1: slowed down and faced his friend Normany, this is its important. 795 00:57:05,155 --> 00:57:08,195 Speaker 1: I have something to tell you. Norman said, His heart skipped. 796 00:57:08,235 --> 00:57:10,715 Speaker 1: He thought there was something wrong. What is it, Walt? 797 00:57:11,835 --> 00:57:13,915 Speaker 1: Did you know at the end Beethoven was so deaf 798 00:57:13,955 --> 00:57:18,275 Speaker 1: he thought he was painting? Now, Norman just shook his head. 799 00:57:18,715 --> 00:57:21,315 Speaker 1: As they completed their five mile hike through the hills, 800 00:57:21,315 --> 00:57:25,275 Speaker 1: Mathow stopped roughly once every mile and repeated the same line, 801 00:57:25,955 --> 00:57:27,955 Speaker 1: did you know at the end Beethoven was so deaf 802 00:57:27,995 --> 00:57:32,035 Speaker 1: he thought he was painting? Norman told me. It totally 803 00:57:32,155 --> 00:57:34,995 Speaker 1: unnerved me. When we got back to where we parked 804 00:57:34,995 --> 00:57:37,515 Speaker 1: our cars, I felt like I had to avenge myself somehow, 805 00:57:37,515 --> 00:57:40,475 Speaker 1: so I blurted out to him, Walt, did you know 806 00:57:40,555 --> 00:57:43,395 Speaker 1: at the end Beethoven was so deaf he thought he 807 00:57:43,475 --> 00:57:48,595 Speaker 1: was painting? Norman said. Mathow looked at him, screwing his 808 00:57:48,715 --> 00:57:52,195 Speaker 1: great craggy face into a resentful sneer as he did, 809 00:57:53,275 --> 00:57:56,115 Speaker 1: what the hell are you talking about? Thought he was painting? 810 00:57:56,155 --> 00:58:00,755 Speaker 1: That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. And as I said, 811 00:58:00,795 --> 00:58:03,115 Speaker 1: I met Walter Mathow once when I was a local 812 00:58:03,115 --> 00:58:05,795 Speaker 1: sportscaster in Los Angeles. I was invited to host a 813 00:58:05,915 --> 00:58:09,955 Speaker 1: charity event at the Hollywood Park Racetrack. I ordinarily did 814 00:58:09,955 --> 00:58:12,875 Speaker 1: not do these things because to do them I would 815 00:58:12,915 --> 00:58:17,115 Speaker 1: have to take the day off. But when the organizer said, oh, 816 00:58:17,275 --> 00:58:20,755 Speaker 1: and Walter Mathow will be there, I just asked for directions. 817 00:58:21,835 --> 00:58:24,155 Speaker 1: First time I had ever imagined what it was like 818 00:58:24,235 --> 00:58:27,675 Speaker 1: to be a sports writer or to be a sports broadcaster. 819 00:58:28,035 --> 00:58:29,875 Speaker 1: It was when I was nine years old and I 820 00:58:29,915 --> 00:58:33,755 Speaker 1: saw Walter Mathow portray Oscar Madison in the movie The 821 00:58:33,795 --> 00:58:36,435 Speaker 1: Odd Couple. It was exactly what I wanted to be 822 00:58:36,915 --> 00:58:40,035 Speaker 1: and where I wanted to live and how I wanted 823 00:58:40,035 --> 00:58:43,435 Speaker 1: to eat. And I wanted to get a chance to 824 00:58:43,595 --> 00:58:47,835 Speaker 1: tell him that. So at the charity dinner, I screwed 825 00:58:47,875 --> 00:58:50,755 Speaker 1: up my courage. I introduced myself. I told him all that, 826 00:58:50,795 --> 00:58:54,875 Speaker 1: and he replied, I hate you. I was so crushed 827 00:58:54,995 --> 00:59:00,515 Speaker 1: I almost passed out. And clearly Walter Mathow recognized this. No, no, no, 828 00:59:00,555 --> 00:59:02,675 Speaker 1: I don't hate your work. I watch you every night 829 00:59:02,715 --> 00:59:05,635 Speaker 1: on Channel two Action News, you and and Jim Lampley 830 00:59:05,715 --> 00:59:08,835 Speaker 1: and Bree Lampley and Jim Lampley. But I hate the 831 00:59:08,835 --> 00:59:10,875 Speaker 1: fact that you don't have an accent of any kind. 832 00:59:10,915 --> 00:59:15,835 Speaker 1: Where are you raised? Iowa? I did not know where 833 00:59:15,835 --> 00:59:18,195 Speaker 1: this conversation was going. I said, I was from the 834 00:59:18,195 --> 00:59:21,835 Speaker 1: Bronx originally, Is that right? I'm from Brooklyn? Could you 835 00:59:21,915 --> 00:59:24,995 Speaker 1: tell the hell kind of speech teacher did you have? You? 836 00:59:24,995 --> 00:59:28,115 Speaker 1: You sound like? Iowa explained, My father had said that 837 00:59:28,155 --> 00:59:29,995 Speaker 1: if I wanted to go into broadcasting, I could not 838 00:59:30,155 --> 00:59:33,515 Speaker 1: talk quote like the rest of us. Walter looked away 839 00:59:33,515 --> 00:59:35,875 Speaker 1: from me and then back, and he said, very wise words. 840 00:59:35,955 --> 00:59:40,915 Speaker 1: Your father was a speech teacher. No, I said, architect. 841 00:59:41,995 --> 00:59:44,595 Speaker 1: His eyes flared, How in the hell does that work? 842 00:59:45,755 --> 00:59:48,235 Speaker 1: I started to explain, when it suddenly dawned on me 843 00:59:48,275 --> 00:59:51,075 Speaker 1: that we were discussing this only because he said he 844 00:59:51,235 --> 00:59:53,795 Speaker 1: hated the fact that I did not have an accent. 845 00:59:55,275 --> 00:59:58,515 Speaker 1: I asked him, why, no accent means I can't do 846 00:59:58,555 --> 01:00:04,875 Speaker 1: an impression of you. Well, this caused me to pause. Impressions. 847 01:00:05,355 --> 01:00:10,075 Speaker 1: This is nineteen ninety one. In nineteen ninety one, Walter 848 01:00:10,195 --> 01:00:13,795 Speaker 1: Mathow was one of the top five most impersonated voices 849 01:00:14,155 --> 01:00:19,795 Speaker 1: in America. Anybody who did impressions, good or bad, professional 850 01:00:19,875 --> 01:00:24,595 Speaker 1: or amateur, anybody did a Walter Mathow. You did your 851 01:00:24,595 --> 01:00:27,195 Speaker 1: Sammy Davis, your Howard Cosell, your Walter Mathow. 852 01:00:28,275 --> 01:00:28,555 Speaker 2: Wait. 853 01:00:29,075 --> 01:00:34,515 Speaker 1: I said to him, you do impressions of sportscasters. Yes, 854 01:00:34,915 --> 01:00:38,715 Speaker 1: he said proudly. Would you like to hear them? I said, 855 01:00:38,835 --> 01:00:42,795 Speaker 1: I'll pay cash. Don't normally do these, but seeing you 856 01:00:42,835 --> 01:00:46,235 Speaker 1: are in the business, I will just for you. I 857 01:00:46,315 --> 01:00:49,315 Speaker 1: practiced these a lot. By the way, twenty years later, 858 01:00:49,355 --> 01:00:54,835 Speaker 1: Norman Lloyd confirmed for me Mathow did do sportscaster impressions. 859 01:00:55,115 --> 01:00:57,315 Speaker 1: He did practice them a lot. This was not some 860 01:00:57,435 --> 01:01:01,795 Speaker 1: sort of bit. Now back in nineteen ninety one, Mathow 861 01:01:01,875 --> 01:01:04,915 Speaker 1: cleared his throat, he shook his shoulders. Let's talk with 862 01:01:04,915 --> 01:01:10,075 Speaker 1: the best. And it sounds something like this. Hello, everybody, 863 01:01:10,115 --> 01:01:12,595 Speaker 1: this is Vin Scully at Dodger Stadium. What do you think? 864 01:01:13,795 --> 01:01:18,595 Speaker 1: It sounded exactly like Walter Mathow. Didn't sound like Vin Scully. 865 01:01:19,155 --> 01:01:21,915 Speaker 1: It didn't even sound like a bad impression of Vin Scully. 866 01:01:23,155 --> 01:01:25,555 Speaker 1: It didn't even sound like a bad impression of Walter Mathow. 867 01:01:25,635 --> 01:01:31,875 Speaker 1: It was just Walter Mathout talking. Thinking quickly, I said, uncanny, 868 01:01:31,915 --> 01:01:35,115 Speaker 1: mister Mathow, thank you. I work on Vinnie especially hot. 869 01:01:35,155 --> 01:01:37,395 Speaker 1: He's my favorite. Now the big mouth. Hello again, this 870 01:01:37,435 --> 01:01:39,635 Speaker 1: is Howard co Sell at ringside. How about that one? 871 01:01:39,675 --> 01:01:44,315 Speaker 1: I think I got most of the inflection. Goodness, mister Mathow, 872 01:01:44,355 --> 01:01:47,155 Speaker 1: it's like he's in the room with us. This went 873 01:01:47,195 --> 01:01:52,515 Speaker 1: on for many minutes, Kurt Goudie, Chick, hern Al Michaels, 874 01:01:52,555 --> 01:01:56,875 Speaker 1: several local LA radio announcers. I cursed myself for not 875 01:01:56,915 --> 01:01:59,715 Speaker 1: having brought a tape recorder with me. Walter Mathout did 876 01:01:59,715 --> 01:02:06,075 Speaker 1: impressions of sportscasters and they were all terrible, but he 877 01:02:06,115 --> 01:02:07,915 Speaker 1: said he couldn't do one of me because I had 878 01:02:07,955 --> 01:02:13,395 Speaker 1: no accent. I was complimented and crushed. After a very 879 01:02:13,475 --> 01:02:15,955 Speaker 1: nice event, saluting his friend and neighbor in the front 880 01:02:15,995 --> 01:02:19,595 Speaker 1: row seats at the Laker Games, doctor Robert Curlin. We 881 01:02:19,715 --> 01:02:21,995 Speaker 1: called it an evening, and as everybody got up to leave, 882 01:02:22,075 --> 01:02:24,955 Speaker 1: I asked Walter Mathow to autograph my program from the 883 01:02:24,995 --> 01:02:28,795 Speaker 1: dinner my pleasure. He said, nice work tonight, But I 884 01:02:28,795 --> 01:02:30,915 Speaker 1: still don't get how your father, the architect, was also 885 01:02:30,995 --> 01:02:34,715 Speaker 1: a speech teacher. But never mind. In the program, he 886 01:02:34,795 --> 01:02:42,955 Speaker 1: wrote this, listen, Keith quit kidding around. No, don't, Walter Mathow. 887 01:02:44,155 --> 01:02:47,715 Speaker 1: It was lovely. And then he did something that took 888 01:02:47,755 --> 01:02:50,635 Speaker 1: my breath away, something I have tried to do anytime 889 01:02:50,675 --> 01:02:55,715 Speaker 1: circumstances permitted me to. He picked up his program, he 890 01:02:55,835 --> 01:03:03,435 Speaker 1: handed it to me, and he said, now you sign mine. 891 01:03:03,595 --> 01:03:07,915 Speaker 1: Can you believe that I only met him the one time? 892 01:03:08,755 --> 01:03:12,515 Speaker 1: But that gesture stayed with me to such a degree 893 01:03:12,675 --> 01:03:16,075 Speaker 1: that this happened. Nine years later. I woke up at 894 01:03:16,075 --> 01:03:18,115 Speaker 1: the crack of dawn to go host the baseball game 895 01:03:18,155 --> 01:03:20,475 Speaker 1: of the week at Fox Studios in LA. It was 896 01:03:20,515 --> 01:03:24,875 Speaker 1: Saturday morning, July first, two thousand. It was nine years 897 01:03:25,475 --> 01:03:30,395 Speaker 1: and about two weeks after I met Walter Mathow, and 898 01:03:30,555 --> 01:03:32,955 Speaker 1: on the all news radio station, there was one big 899 01:03:32,995 --> 01:03:37,395 Speaker 1: story that morning in Los Angeles. Overnight the great actor 900 01:03:37,435 --> 01:03:44,235 Speaker 1: Walter Mathow had died heart attack, aged seventy nine. I 901 01:03:44,315 --> 01:04:00,195 Speaker 1: burst into tears. I've done all the damage I can 902 01:04:00,235 --> 01:04:04,195 Speaker 1: do here. Thank you for listening. Why doesn't he hear me? 903 01:04:04,755 --> 01:04:09,235 Speaker 1: I know I'm talking. I recognize my voice. Our musical 904 01:04:09,275 --> 01:04:12,995 Speaker 1: directors have Countdowner, John Phillip Schaneil on keyboards and handling 905 01:04:12,995 --> 01:04:16,915 Speaker 1: the orchestration, and Brian Ray on the guitars, bass, drums 906 01:04:17,275 --> 01:04:20,355 Speaker 1: and of course the whole vibe and their work is 907 01:04:20,395 --> 01:04:24,195 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium 908 01:04:24,235 --> 01:04:28,075 Speaker 1: organist ever, is responsible for the satirical and pithy musical 909 01:04:28,115 --> 01:04:32,635 Speaker 1: comments whenever we play the sports music. It's the Old 910 01:04:32,795 --> 01:04:37,035 Speaker 1: Alderman Show theme for ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren 911 01:04:37,075 --> 01:04:41,515 Speaker 1: Davis Curtisy of ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed 912 01:04:41,555 --> 01:04:44,755 Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was 913 01:04:44,795 --> 01:04:50,875 Speaker 1: my late enemy, Dick Cheney, because well we're bringing up Iran. 914 01:04:51,595 --> 01:04:57,755 Speaker 1: Who better to remember about Iraq than Cheney? Right, Dick? 915 01:04:59,395 --> 01:05:03,155 Speaker 1: This program was produced by Ted. Everything else was, as 916 01:05:03,195 --> 01:05:06,595 Speaker 1: always my fault. So that's countdown for today, Day four 917 01:05:06,675 --> 01:05:10,795 Speaker 1: hundred and seven of America held hostage again, just one 918 01:05:10,835 --> 01:05:13,795 Speaker 1: thousand and fifty four days until the scheduled end of 919 01:05:13,795 --> 01:05:17,075 Speaker 1: Trump's lame duck and lame brained term unless he is 920 01:05:17,115 --> 01:05:25,115 Speaker 1: removed sooner by Epstein. We have not forgotten Epstein. The 921 01:05:25,155 --> 01:05:28,875 Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is Thursday. Bulletin's as the news merits 922 01:05:29,475 --> 01:05:33,035 Speaker 1: until the next edition. I'm Keith Alderman. Good Morning, good afternoon, goodnight, 923 01:05:33,715 --> 01:05:52,675 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production 924 01:05:52,915 --> 01:05:58,155 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 925 01:05:58,275 --> 01:06:01,675 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.