1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,835 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:22,235 --> 00:00:26,875 Speaker 1: is losing his mind, and even more new polling suggests 3 00:00:26,915 --> 00:00:30,155 Speaker 1: now because of the convictions, he is losing the election 4 00:00:31,155 --> 00:00:34,435 Speaker 1: his mental unwellness first to the degree he still had it. 5 00:00:34,475 --> 00:00:40,075 Speaker 1: There is now no question that Trump is losing his mind. 6 00:00:40,195 --> 00:00:42,955 Speaker 1: Tell me where we would be to day if the 7 00:00:42,995 --> 00:00:45,315 Speaker 1: following sequence of events had occurred in just the last 8 00:00:45,355 --> 00:00:49,395 Speaker 1: five days. One if Joe Biden had met with dozens 9 00:00:49,435 --> 00:00:52,995 Speaker 1: of business leaders who had been supporting him, and the 10 00:00:53,035 --> 00:00:56,635 Speaker 1: business leaders walked out of the meeting shocked by his 11 00:00:56,635 --> 00:00:59,315 Speaker 1: inability to complete a thought or stay on one topic, 12 00:00:59,595 --> 00:01:02,675 Speaker 1: and the attendees reported they were shaken and now doubting 13 00:01:02,715 --> 00:01:05,675 Speaker 1: he could do the job, and now no longer supporting him. 14 00:01:06,515 --> 00:01:10,595 Speaker 1: Two if the next day Biden had celebrated a high 15 00:01:10,715 --> 00:01:14,635 Speaker 1: numbered birthday. Three if the day after that, Biden had 16 00:01:14,635 --> 00:01:18,715 Speaker 1: gone to a quote black church in Detroit, unquote, and 17 00:01:18,795 --> 00:01:23,115 Speaker 1: his surrogates claimed there were eight thousand African American supporters there, 18 00:01:23,315 --> 00:01:25,035 Speaker 1: when in fact, there were about one hundred people and 19 00:01:25,075 --> 00:01:29,955 Speaker 1: they were nearly all white guys. Four if Biden had 20 00:01:29,955 --> 00:01:32,835 Speaker 1: then joined a panel discussion in which he said that 21 00:01:33,155 --> 00:01:36,395 Speaker 1: Trump was such a weak opponent that he Biden was 22 00:01:36,475 --> 00:01:42,635 Speaker 1: considering losing next week's debate on purpose. Five if Biden 23 00:01:42,715 --> 00:01:46,035 Speaker 1: had again said he might not accept the outcome of 24 00:01:46,075 --> 00:01:47,995 Speaker 1: the election, only this time he had added that if 25 00:01:47,995 --> 00:01:51,275 Speaker 1: he lost, he would start an investigation of some kind. 26 00:01:52,195 --> 00:01:57,795 Speaker 1: Six if Biden's campaign had then doctored, altered, falsified video 27 00:01:58,035 --> 00:02:02,835 Speaker 1: of Trump doing ordinary things successfully to make him look 28 00:02:03,115 --> 00:02:07,675 Speaker 1: like he was hallucinating or lost. And then seven if 29 00:02:07,715 --> 00:02:09,995 Speaker 1: Biden had then given a speech in which he claimed 30 00:02:10,195 --> 00:02:13,915 Speaker 1: everybody agreed he was in full robust mental health because 31 00:02:13,955 --> 00:02:19,995 Speaker 1: he had passed a test administered by doctor Anthony Hopkins, 32 00:02:21,235 --> 00:02:27,315 Speaker 1: or doctor Anthony Bourdain or Anthony Michael Hall, any Anthony 33 00:02:27,355 --> 00:02:29,875 Speaker 1: except the doctor who had given him the theoretical test, 34 00:02:29,915 --> 00:02:34,395 Speaker 1: doctor Anthony Fauci. If that had happened to Joe Biden 35 00:02:34,555 --> 00:02:37,355 Speaker 1: in five days, if half of that had happened to 36 00:02:37,475 --> 00:02:40,635 Speaker 1: Joe Biden in five days, there would be nothing else 37 00:02:40,875 --> 00:02:48,035 Speaker 1: on television or on the internet. The snowball effect in progress. 38 00:02:48,195 --> 00:02:51,715 Speaker 1: Trump is losing his mind, and losing it fast. And 39 00:02:51,835 --> 00:02:55,755 Speaker 1: part of the problem is Trump is so crazy already, 40 00:02:56,035 --> 00:03:00,635 Speaker 1: so loudly, so often, that it all runs together and perversely, 41 00:03:00,995 --> 00:03:05,995 Speaker 1: each trump mental disaster stops seeming like it's part of 42 00:03:06,035 --> 00:03:08,835 Speaker 1: a sequence or part of the fabric of his being. 43 00:03:09,155 --> 00:03:13,435 Speaker 1: Each Trump mental disaster simply replaces the one before it. 44 00:03:14,475 --> 00:03:16,435 Speaker 1: I have a thought experiment about that I want to 45 00:03:16,435 --> 00:03:18,835 Speaker 1: do in real time in a few minutes to underscore 46 00:03:18,875 --> 00:03:23,315 Speaker 1: how that's even more true than you or I might realize. 47 00:03:23,355 --> 00:03:27,355 Speaker 1: But first, Trump is out of control, going downhill and 48 00:03:27,435 --> 00:03:30,035 Speaker 1: so fast that when he dropped the name of the 49 00:03:30,075 --> 00:03:34,075 Speaker 1: doctor who gave him the cognitive test, he mistakenly thinks 50 00:03:34,115 --> 00:03:37,395 Speaker 1: he he aced. He not only got the name wrong, 51 00:03:37,435 --> 00:03:40,435 Speaker 1: but he got it so wrong that even the Associated 52 00:03:40,555 --> 00:03:43,915 Speaker 1: Press noticed it and wrote a big story about it. 53 00:03:43,915 --> 00:03:52,675 Speaker 1: It's doctor Ronnie Jackson Jackson as in Jackson, I took 54 00:03:52,715 --> 00:03:58,675 Speaker 1: a cognitive test, and I ASTI doc Ronnie, Doctor Ronnie Johnson. 55 00:03:59,355 --> 00:04:03,235 Speaker 1: Does everyone know Ronnie Johnson, congressman from Texas. That was 56 00:04:03,275 --> 00:04:06,635 Speaker 1: a huge story Sunday. It dropped off the map because 57 00:04:06,715 --> 00:04:09,515 Speaker 1: nobody will connect the dots to every other piece of 58 00:04:09,555 --> 00:04:12,315 Speaker 1: Trump insanity, like the author of the new book on 59 00:04:12,395 --> 00:04:16,115 Speaker 1: the Apprentice TV series saying yesterday that Trump granted him 60 00:04:16,355 --> 00:04:18,715 Speaker 1: a one hour long interview in May twenty twenty one, 61 00:04:18,715 --> 00:04:20,555 Speaker 1: when nobody wanted to talk to Trump and then gave 62 00:04:20,635 --> 00:04:22,915 Speaker 1: him another interview a few months later, and Trump had 63 00:04:22,955 --> 00:04:27,595 Speaker 1: no memory of him or the interview or the topic. 64 00:04:29,195 --> 00:04:32,435 Speaker 1: And these pieces, this chain, this collapse, it goes back 65 00:04:32,795 --> 00:04:36,955 Speaker 1: not just weeks, not just months, not just years, but decades. 66 00:04:38,995 --> 00:04:42,835 Speaker 1: Given my analogy of Jackson and Johnson to Fauci and 67 00:04:42,955 --> 00:04:47,235 Speaker 1: anybody else named Anthony, there is this irony, more evidence 68 00:04:47,235 --> 00:04:49,715 Speaker 1: of the madness of Trump, and it is from Fauci, 69 00:04:49,795 --> 00:04:51,915 Speaker 1: and it is coming in his new memoir, which is 70 00:04:51,915 --> 00:04:55,875 Speaker 1: coming out next week. In it, Fauci details Trump's COVID 71 00:04:55,915 --> 00:04:59,755 Speaker 1: behavior and put it on the pile of things we've forgotten. 72 00:04:59,995 --> 00:05:03,595 Speaker 1: Trump knew how bad, how easily transmitted my air COVID 73 00:05:03,755 --> 00:05:07,555 Speaker 1: was in February twenty Remember he's on tape telling Bob 74 00:05:07,555 --> 00:05:09,955 Speaker 1: Woodward all that, and they lied about it for the 75 00:05:09,955 --> 00:05:13,035 Speaker 1: rest of his term, killing thousands of Americans who should 76 00:05:13,075 --> 00:05:18,075 Speaker 1: still be alive now. Fauci says, on June third, twenty twenty, 77 00:05:18,155 --> 00:05:21,955 Speaker 1: he had reminded a journalist that a vaccine, then still 78 00:05:21,995 --> 00:05:26,715 Speaker 1: in the developmental stages, would need boosters. That evening, he writes, 79 00:05:27,155 --> 00:05:30,195 Speaker 1: my cell phone rang and the caller, the President started 80 00:05:30,235 --> 00:05:34,275 Speaker 1: screaming at me. The President was irate, saying I could 81 00:05:34,315 --> 00:05:38,995 Speaker 1: not keep doing this to him. According to Fauci, Trump 82 00:05:38,995 --> 00:05:41,835 Speaker 1: told Fauci he had cost the US economy quote one 83 00:05:42,155 --> 00:05:52,635 Speaker 1: trillion fing dollars. Trump is losing his mind. This must 84 00:05:52,675 --> 00:05:55,395 Speaker 1: be the drum beat of the rest of the campaign. 85 00:05:56,515 --> 00:05:59,035 Speaker 1: Now there is good news, and at the risk of 86 00:05:59,075 --> 00:06:04,195 Speaker 1: sounding like Eric Blair, George orwell, it's triple plus good news. 87 00:06:04,435 --> 00:06:08,915 Speaker 1: The mainstream political media has just discovered something it evidently 88 00:06:08,995 --> 00:06:13,795 Speaker 1: did not know. A that elderly first offender Trump is 89 00:06:13,835 --> 00:06:17,275 Speaker 1: getting killed in the polls now because of the stormy 90 00:06:17,395 --> 00:06:22,395 Speaker 1: Daniel's election interference conviction, and b that this is actually 91 00:06:22,395 --> 00:06:25,075 Speaker 1: a headline story that they should write about and not 92 00:06:25,315 --> 00:06:30,675 Speaker 1: some PostScript and see that the Biden campaign yesterday took 93 00:06:30,955 --> 00:06:35,635 Speaker 1: the big leap forward and actually called Trump a quote 94 00:06:35,915 --> 00:06:42,555 Speaker 1: convicted criminal. New Ipsos poll for Politico yesterday, one third 95 00:06:43,075 --> 00:06:46,355 Speaker 1: of all voters one third say they are now less 96 00:06:46,435 --> 00:06:49,995 Speaker 1: likely to support Trump because of the convictions. Moreover, the 97 00:06:50,075 --> 00:06:54,715 Speaker 1: idea of a Trump persecution bounce is so obviously untrue. 98 00:06:55,515 --> 00:07:00,115 Speaker 1: Politico wrote this up as if it always knowed that 99 00:07:00,115 --> 00:07:03,675 Speaker 1: that was the case, rather than acknowledging that it and 100 00:07:03,715 --> 00:07:06,475 Speaker 1: the rest of the mainstrea in political media had served 101 00:07:06,555 --> 00:07:10,155 Speaker 1: as vessels for this nonsense that he was going to 102 00:07:10,155 --> 00:07:14,435 Speaker 1: improve his position by being convicted, a vessel for the 103 00:07:14,435 --> 00:07:18,875 Speaker 1: rest of that malarkey to use a term. Thirty three 104 00:07:19,115 --> 00:07:24,675 Speaker 1: percent less likely to vote for Trump because of convictions. Meanwhile, 105 00:07:24,755 --> 00:07:29,395 Speaker 1: seventeen percent said more likely those are Republicans who are 106 00:07:29,395 --> 00:07:32,675 Speaker 1: going to vote for him anyway. Among independents, the same 107 00:07:32,755 --> 00:07:35,515 Speaker 1: number a third less likely to vote for him, but 108 00:07:35,595 --> 00:07:41,035 Speaker 1: only twelve percent of independents more likely. IPSOS also dug 109 00:07:41,035 --> 00:07:44,955 Speaker 1: a little deeper, are the convictions important in your decision 110 00:07:45,355 --> 00:07:47,595 Speaker 1: whether or not to vote for Trump? And twenty two 111 00:07:47,715 --> 00:07:51,595 Speaker 1: percent say the convictions are important and make them less 112 00:07:51,675 --> 00:07:55,475 Speaker 1: likely to vote for him. That is a loss of 113 00:07:55,675 --> 00:08:00,235 Speaker 1: one in five Trump voters. YPSOS did a separate poll 114 00:08:00,235 --> 00:08:05,155 Speaker 1: for ABC looking for and grilling double haters voters who 115 00:08:05,195 --> 00:08:08,275 Speaker 1: do not like Trump and do not like Biden, well 116 00:08:08,315 --> 00:08:13,275 Speaker 1: beers don't like and theirs don't like. Two thirds of 117 00:08:13,275 --> 00:08:16,035 Speaker 1: those who will vote while holding their nose, two thirds 118 00:08:16,275 --> 00:08:20,035 Speaker 1: think that after the convictions, Trump should drop out of 119 00:08:20,115 --> 00:08:22,915 Speaker 1: the presidential race. Not just they don't support him that 120 00:08:22,995 --> 00:08:25,715 Speaker 1: much anymore or they're less likely blah, blah blah. Two 121 00:08:25,795 --> 00:08:31,475 Speaker 1: thirds of double haters want Trump off the ballot. More 122 00:08:31,555 --> 00:08:34,715 Speaker 1: new polling. Actually it's old polling. Bet somebody at the 123 00:08:34,715 --> 00:08:38,275 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal gets fired for reporting this in twenty sixteen. 124 00:08:38,275 --> 00:08:42,515 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, Trump won the vote of sixty five 125 00:08:42,555 --> 00:08:44,915 Speaker 1: and up. He got fifty one percent of it. In 126 00:08:44,955 --> 00:08:48,715 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, the Journal cites its own polling nationally and 127 00:08:48,835 --> 00:08:52,235 Speaker 1: in the swing states showing Trump has lost about a 128 00:08:52,315 --> 00:08:56,915 Speaker 1: tenth of that support. He is down to forty six percent. Biden, 129 00:08:56,955 --> 00:09:00,995 Speaker 1: who had forty eight percent of US old timey voters 130 00:09:01,155 --> 00:09:04,115 Speaker 1: four years ago, Biden still has forty eight percent of US. 131 00:09:04,675 --> 00:09:08,195 Speaker 1: That is now the winning score. And one last set 132 00:09:08,235 --> 00:09:13,395 Speaker 1: of polls, wider content, narrower geography, Vote Hub has found 133 00:09:13,475 --> 00:09:15,875 Speaker 1: enough swing state polls to come up with a swing 134 00:09:15,915 --> 00:09:20,115 Speaker 1: state pole average, and after the conviction, they continued to crawl. 135 00:09:20,555 --> 00:09:23,395 Speaker 1: Swing would honestly be too strong a term, but they 136 00:09:23,435 --> 00:09:27,955 Speaker 1: continue to crawl towards President Biden. On average, he is 137 00:09:27,995 --> 00:09:30,675 Speaker 1: up by a point in Michigan, by two tenths of 138 00:09:30,715 --> 00:09:33,435 Speaker 1: a point in Wisconsin. He has closed within two and 139 00:09:33,435 --> 00:09:36,755 Speaker 1: a half in Pennsylvania, three in Arizona, six in North Carolina, 140 00:09:36,915 --> 00:09:41,355 Speaker 1: and he's inside seven in Nevada and Georgia. Is it optimal? No? 141 00:09:41,675 --> 00:09:44,395 Speaker 1: Is it improvement. It's about twice as good as it 142 00:09:44,515 --> 00:09:50,795 Speaker 1: was before. And finally, finally, the Biden campaign has gone 143 00:09:51,235 --> 00:09:55,715 Speaker 1: gloves off on the central issue. If you didn't hear it, 144 00:09:56,115 --> 00:09:58,675 Speaker 1: here is the money shot. And I do mean money, 145 00:09:59,035 --> 00:10:02,555 Speaker 1: in part of a fifty million dollars Biden ad buy 146 00:10:03,555 --> 00:10:06,315 Speaker 1: just for the rest of this This election is between 147 00:10:06,315 --> 00:10:10,235 Speaker 1: a convicted criminal who's only out for himself and a 148 00:10:10,355 --> 00:10:14,315 Speaker 1: president who's fighting for your family. I'm Joe Biden, and 149 00:10:14,395 --> 00:10:21,475 Speaker 1: I have proved this message a convicted criminal. Amen, hallelujah. 150 00:10:21,995 --> 00:10:26,595 Speaker 1: Now I need to hear the president say that himself. 151 00:10:27,595 --> 00:10:30,555 Speaker 1: This is a hunch. There is no source for this, 152 00:10:31,235 --> 00:10:34,995 Speaker 1: just a hunch. I expect Joe Biden will call Trump 153 00:10:35,075 --> 00:10:37,035 Speaker 1: a criminal, but on the theory that you might as 154 00:10:37,035 --> 00:10:42,075 Speaker 1: well save that metaphorical shot for point blank range, and 155 00:10:42,235 --> 00:10:45,715 Speaker 1: also that Biden still has something almost extinct in politics 156 00:10:45,715 --> 00:10:49,675 Speaker 1: called standards and the knowledge that he would prefer to 157 00:10:49,715 --> 00:10:53,315 Speaker 1: say something like that to the man's face. I suspect, 158 00:10:54,115 --> 00:10:58,915 Speaker 1: I guess I hope President Biden will call Trump a criminal, 159 00:10:59,235 --> 00:11:02,755 Speaker 1: and he will do it at the debate A week 160 00:11:02,875 --> 00:11:15,235 Speaker 1: from Thursday, that, of course, if Trump shows up. Of course, 161 00:11:15,435 --> 00:11:18,755 Speaker 1: one of the main problems with the latest Trump story 162 00:11:19,035 --> 00:11:22,115 Speaker 1: is that by this time tomorrow we may not remember 163 00:11:22,355 --> 00:11:26,955 Speaker 1: the latest Trump story. If the man actually has one skill, 164 00:11:27,155 --> 00:11:31,915 Speaker 1: it is indefatigability. He has an infinite capacity to find 165 00:11:31,915 --> 00:11:33,875 Speaker 1: something new to send the rest of us to hell 166 00:11:33,955 --> 00:11:37,115 Speaker 1: with every day. And the reality is the rest of 167 00:11:37,195 --> 00:11:40,195 Speaker 1: us have lives that do not focus solely on ourselves 168 00:11:40,675 --> 00:11:44,315 Speaker 1: and are not as obsessive and neurotic and not quite 169 00:11:44,355 --> 00:11:49,435 Speaker 1: as human as his is. And therefore we cannot process 170 00:11:49,595 --> 00:11:52,515 Speaker 1: everything he does, and we certainly can't retain it. To 171 00:11:52,675 --> 00:11:56,035 Speaker 1: prove this, I want to do a real time thought experiment. 172 00:11:56,515 --> 00:11:59,195 Speaker 1: I have fished out of the closet the scripts for 173 00:11:59,235 --> 00:12:03,915 Speaker 1: the last two months of this podcast, So going back 174 00:12:03,915 --> 00:12:06,635 Speaker 1: to the middle of a and I'm going to read 175 00:12:06,795 --> 00:12:09,275 Speaker 1: just some of the headlines, just some of the cover 176 00:12:09,395 --> 00:12:11,915 Speaker 1: sheets from the last two months. And I want to 177 00:12:11,955 --> 00:12:15,035 Speaker 1: know you don't have to actually tell me, but I 178 00:12:15,075 --> 00:12:17,635 Speaker 1: want you to answer for yourself. How many of these 179 00:12:17,675 --> 00:12:21,555 Speaker 1: stories do you even remember, let alone remember how mad 180 00:12:21,595 --> 00:12:24,435 Speaker 1: they made you feel? And to address this issue of 181 00:12:24,515 --> 00:12:27,995 Speaker 1: why we cannot carry over our anger from one story 182 00:12:28,035 --> 00:12:31,515 Speaker 1: to the next. I guess each story is so appalling 183 00:12:32,155 --> 00:12:35,755 Speaker 1: and would have in previous incarnations of this country. Each 184 00:12:35,835 --> 00:12:39,315 Speaker 1: one of these stories would have been disqualifying for life. 185 00:12:39,435 --> 00:12:42,035 Speaker 1: And whoever did this, we would have never heard from 186 00:12:42,075 --> 00:12:45,195 Speaker 1: them again. And we will start at the top of 187 00:12:45,235 --> 00:12:50,355 Speaker 1: the pile. Last Thursday. So this was in Friday's episode, 188 00:12:50,555 --> 00:12:53,875 Speaker 1: but this is from last Thursday. Do you even remember this? 189 00:12:54,515 --> 00:12:58,315 Speaker 1: The headline on the cover sheet is the Trump plot. 190 00:12:58,795 --> 00:13:02,475 Speaker 1: He was supposed to talk to Capitol Hill Republicans about 191 00:13:02,595 --> 00:13:07,835 Speaker 1: overturning his convictions in ste dead he insulted Milwaukee. Remember this, 192 00:13:08,315 --> 00:13:11,275 Speaker 1: Trump to House Republicans. Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, 193 00:13:11,555 --> 00:13:14,515 Speaker 1: is a horrible city. Where did this go? Where did 194 00:13:14,515 --> 00:13:18,395 Speaker 1: the truth behind that that he had intended to talk 195 00:13:18,435 --> 00:13:20,675 Speaker 1: to all of them about what he said in his 196 00:13:20,755 --> 00:13:22,875 Speaker 1: May thirty first phone call to the Speaker of the House, 197 00:13:22,915 --> 00:13:25,795 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, which was about his convictions on the Stormy 198 00:13:25,875 --> 00:13:28,635 Speaker 1: Daniel's election interference case here in New York we have 199 00:13:28,755 --> 00:13:31,475 Speaker 1: to overturn this. Where did that story go that he 200 00:13:31,555 --> 00:13:36,635 Speaker 1: wants the House of Representatives to somehow overturn his convictions 201 00:13:36,635 --> 00:13:40,915 Speaker 1: in a New York State criminal case retroactively. I might add, 202 00:13:42,075 --> 00:13:45,115 Speaker 1: that's last Thursday. Where did that story go? What memory hold? 203 00:13:45,155 --> 00:13:48,835 Speaker 1: Did it drop into the Wednesday story the day before 204 00:13:49,955 --> 00:13:53,715 Speaker 1: how Congress was holding Garland in contempt for refusing to 205 00:13:53,755 --> 00:13:57,395 Speaker 1: turn over the tapes of his conversations Robert Hurri's conversations 206 00:13:57,715 --> 00:14:00,475 Speaker 1: with Biden, which of course they would have leaked and 207 00:14:00,555 --> 00:14:03,595 Speaker 1: used in campaign ads. Where did that story go? It 208 00:14:03,755 --> 00:14:07,195 Speaker 1: was last time Tuesday, and was my headline on Wednesday. 209 00:14:07,675 --> 00:14:12,235 Speaker 1: Trump floats planned to reinstate military draft. The entire lengthy 210 00:14:12,275 --> 00:14:15,835 Speaker 1: story in the Washington Post about this idea of mandatory 211 00:14:15,995 --> 00:14:21,275 Speaker 1: national service, including exams for every high school student male 212 00:14:21,395 --> 00:14:25,675 Speaker 1: or female aged seventeen eighteen, nineteen twenty and to be 213 00:14:25,795 --> 00:14:30,195 Speaker 1: assessed for which service they should go into and what 214 00:14:30,235 --> 00:14:32,675 Speaker 1: their military aptitudes would be. And if you didn't take 215 00:14:32,675 --> 00:14:35,475 Speaker 1: the exam, you wouldn't graduate, and if the school wouldn't 216 00:14:35,515 --> 00:14:39,395 Speaker 1: administer the exam, it wouldn't get federal funds. That story 217 00:14:39,955 --> 00:14:43,995 Speaker 1: happened a week ago today, and it's already disappeared. It 218 00:14:44,035 --> 00:14:47,235 Speaker 1: didn't even get any pickup just because Trump denied this 219 00:14:47,435 --> 00:14:50,795 Speaker 1: was his idea, as if he didn't use other people's 220 00:14:50,835 --> 00:14:53,555 Speaker 1: ideas at any point in his life, like every five minutes, 221 00:14:54,355 --> 00:14:57,595 Speaker 1: the story was denied and it was dropped, including by 222 00:14:57,595 --> 00:15:01,795 Speaker 1: the Washington Post. On the other hand, a Washington Post 223 00:15:01,835 --> 00:15:03,955 Speaker 1: does remain in the middle of a five alarm fire 224 00:15:03,995 --> 00:15:06,955 Speaker 1: inside its own building, But where are the other stories 225 00:15:06,995 --> 00:15:13,115 Speaker 1: about it? Last Monday polling, more polling on the convictions. 226 00:15:13,195 --> 00:15:15,755 Speaker 1: You remember the convictions? You remember the political impact of 227 00:15:15,795 --> 00:15:21,195 Speaker 1: the convictions? Twenty eight percent said the convictions would be 228 00:15:21,235 --> 00:15:23,995 Speaker 1: a major factor in their votes, and another seventeen percent 229 00:15:24,035 --> 00:15:28,075 Speaker 1: said it would be a minor factor. The Morning Consule 230 00:15:28,235 --> 00:15:32,635 Speaker 1: weekly tracking poll a week ago yesterday, let me quote 231 00:15:32,675 --> 00:15:36,115 Speaker 1: what I said then New York trial hurt Trump's image. 232 00:15:36,235 --> 00:15:38,995 Speaker 1: This is how Morning consult had phrased it. This is 233 00:15:39,115 --> 00:15:42,755 Speaker 1: the sixth successive week in which Biden's net favorability rating 234 00:15:42,955 --> 00:15:46,395 Speaker 1: has bettered Trump's, a trend that began as legal proceedings 235 00:15:46,395 --> 00:15:49,835 Speaker 1: in New York ramped up. The latest data shows Trump's 236 00:15:49,875 --> 00:15:55,315 Speaker 1: worst net favorability rating since late January. Where did that 237 00:15:55,475 --> 00:16:00,355 Speaker 1: polling go this one? Oh well, this is not about Trump, 238 00:16:00,395 --> 00:16:03,355 Speaker 1: so perhaps it registered a little bit longer. June sixth 239 00:16:03,555 --> 00:16:07,515 Speaker 1: timing is perfect in order to jail on d Day. Yes, 240 00:16:07,595 --> 00:16:12,395 Speaker 1: that was from last Thursday. Convictions cost Trump seven percent 241 00:16:12,755 --> 00:16:15,635 Speaker 1: in the polls, and the more important question, did he 242 00:16:15,835 --> 00:16:18,795 Speaker 1: do a quid pro quo with the Wall Street Journal? 243 00:16:18,995 --> 00:16:22,635 Speaker 1: Remember that extraordinary Wall Street Journal piece about how everybody's 244 00:16:22,995 --> 00:16:27,915 Speaker 1: worried again about Biden's age, except only Republicans were quoted 245 00:16:27,915 --> 00:16:31,435 Speaker 1: in it, and several Democrats by name Senators came out 246 00:16:31,515 --> 00:16:33,995 Speaker 1: and said, we were interviewed by the Wall Street Journal 247 00:16:33,995 --> 00:16:36,515 Speaker 1: and we said Biden's been fine, and our quotes were 248 00:16:36,515 --> 00:16:39,675 Speaker 1: not included in the article. The Wall Street Journal deliberately 249 00:16:39,755 --> 00:16:44,435 Speaker 1: skewed an article in Biden's detriment to Biden's detriment in 250 00:16:44,555 --> 00:16:49,075 Speaker 1: Trump's favor. At the same time, but Trump was saying 251 00:16:49,115 --> 00:16:52,515 Speaker 1: that he would free the reporter from the Wall Street Journal, 252 00:16:52,595 --> 00:16:57,275 Speaker 1: Evan Gershkovich, after he was elected, a clear indication that 253 00:16:57,315 --> 00:17:00,635 Speaker 1: there had been some contact between Trump and Putin to 254 00:17:00,875 --> 00:17:05,195 Speaker 1: prevent the release of an American hostage. This is from 255 00:17:05,475 --> 00:17:09,155 Speaker 1: the fifth of this month, and this story, with the 256 00:17:09,195 --> 00:17:12,355 Speaker 1: exception of a couple of tweets and occasional references by 257 00:17:12,355 --> 00:17:15,515 Speaker 1: the impeccable Brian Boutler, who I always cite here, this 258 00:17:15,595 --> 00:17:21,635 Speaker 1: story has disappeared. On the fourth Biden did call him convicted, 259 00:17:21,715 --> 00:17:28,035 Speaker 1: fellon Donald Trump and a story about from Pro Publica 260 00:17:28,115 --> 00:17:32,635 Speaker 1: that day about nine witnesses who spoke in favor of 261 00:17:32,675 --> 00:17:37,555 Speaker 1: Trump in some context who then got new jobs, more money, 262 00:17:37,795 --> 00:17:43,275 Speaker 1: stake in truth, social Boris Epstein, campaign manager, Susie Wiles, 263 00:17:43,635 --> 00:17:50,835 Speaker 1: various lawyers and spokespeople. That story's vanished. From the morning 264 00:17:50,995 --> 00:17:54,915 Speaker 1: of Saturday, June first, the new first polls after the convictions, 265 00:17:55,155 --> 00:17:58,835 Speaker 1: ten percent of GOP voters, eight percent of ardent Trump 266 00:17:58,875 --> 00:18:04,315 Speaker 1: supporters want him to drop out of the campaign. Where 267 00:18:04,315 --> 00:18:07,195 Speaker 1: did that story go? That's from the first of this month. 268 00:18:09,555 --> 00:18:12,475 Speaker 1: We figured out on May thirty first that if Trump, 269 00:18:12,555 --> 00:18:17,595 Speaker 1: as my headline wrote, Trump incredibly guilty, if verdicts cost 270 00:18:17,635 --> 00:18:22,715 Speaker 1: him two percent, he just lost the election. The flag story, well, 271 00:18:22,795 --> 00:18:24,995 Speaker 1: the flag story has lasted because you can only have 272 00:18:25,075 --> 00:18:27,395 Speaker 1: so many sam Alito stories at the same time. That 273 00:18:27,515 --> 00:18:30,995 Speaker 1: was May twenty ninth, And then moving on to the 274 00:18:31,035 --> 00:18:36,875 Speaker 1: point about ethnic cleansing, the story about Trump posting reposting 275 00:18:36,995 --> 00:18:40,155 Speaker 1: a video a fig Leaf deniable video. He didn't make 276 00:18:40,195 --> 00:18:42,955 Speaker 1: the video, he just posted the video. It was the 277 00:18:42,955 --> 00:18:47,235 Speaker 1: guy encountering Joe Scarborough at the New York Airport, rolling 278 00:18:47,275 --> 00:18:51,075 Speaker 1: his camera phone, swearing at Scarborough for twenty three seconds 279 00:18:51,715 --> 00:18:54,355 Speaker 1: and as I said, we've all done that, Joe Scarborough. 280 00:18:54,635 --> 00:18:58,235 Speaker 1: But the point was the quote was healed, get rid 281 00:18:58,275 --> 00:19:01,235 Speaker 1: of all you fing liberals. You liberals are gone. When 282 00:19:01,235 --> 00:19:04,675 Speaker 1: he efing wins, you efing blowjob liberals are done. Uncle 283 00:19:04,755 --> 00:19:08,235 Speaker 1: Donnie's going to take this election. Landslide, landslide, You fing 284 00:19:08,515 --> 00:19:12,635 Speaker 1: half a blowjob, landslide. Get the f out of here, scumbag. 285 00:19:13,395 --> 00:19:17,395 Speaker 1: And then Trump posted it so that people want to 286 00:19:17,555 --> 00:19:21,235 Speaker 1: know who are supporting him, that he is serious about 287 00:19:21,275 --> 00:19:25,075 Speaker 1: deporting people, and that well, we will start with immigrants, 288 00:19:25,595 --> 00:19:28,275 Speaker 1: but we will also move on, as he has said previously, 289 00:19:28,315 --> 00:19:33,315 Speaker 1: to those he wants retribution against and to terrorists and 290 00:19:33,355 --> 00:19:36,915 Speaker 1: potential terrorists. And if you are a one man government 291 00:19:37,275 --> 00:19:39,555 Speaker 1: and you run on a platform that you are going 292 00:19:39,595 --> 00:19:41,995 Speaker 1: to deport everybody who is a threat to this country, 293 00:19:42,235 --> 00:19:44,995 Speaker 1: all you have to do is point at somebody, could 294 00:19:44,995 --> 00:19:48,035 Speaker 1: be me, could be you could be Joe Scarborough, and 295 00:19:48,075 --> 00:19:51,235 Speaker 1: say you are a threat to this country. I am 296 00:19:51,275 --> 00:19:55,875 Speaker 1: having you arrested, especially if on their first day in office, 297 00:19:55,875 --> 00:19:58,795 Speaker 1: on January twentieth of next year, you have invoked the 298 00:19:58,795 --> 00:20:01,835 Speaker 1: Insurrection Act, which would legally give you the right to 299 00:20:01,915 --> 00:20:05,875 Speaker 1: do that. Trump moves towards f cleansing. May twenty eight, 300 00:20:05,875 --> 00:20:11,795 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, already off the radar. There is nothing 301 00:20:11,875 --> 00:20:14,595 Speaker 1: much particularly on May twenty seventh, but the week before 302 00:20:15,075 --> 00:20:20,515 Speaker 1: the sam Alito flag stories emphasized throughout the day. There 303 00:20:20,635 --> 00:20:25,635 Speaker 1: is a story from May twenty first about blowback against 304 00:20:25,675 --> 00:20:33,875 Speaker 1: Trump's third term talk. The Rematch wrote Bloomberg between Joe 305 00:20:33,875 --> 00:20:37,115 Speaker 1: Biden and Donald Trump draws near and political professionals are 306 00:20:37,155 --> 00:20:41,075 Speaker 1: detecting an unusual concern among some undecided voters that if 307 00:20:41,115 --> 00:20:44,635 Speaker 1: Trump returns to the White House, he'll refuse to step 308 00:20:44,715 --> 00:20:49,715 Speaker 1: down when his term is up. Sag Carpenter, vice president 309 00:20:49,755 --> 00:20:52,995 Speaker 1: at David Bender Research, noticed this fear in early April 310 00:20:53,035 --> 00:20:55,315 Speaker 1: while conducting focus groups of people who had voted for 311 00:20:55,355 --> 00:20:58,675 Speaker 1: Biden in twenty twenty but became disillusioned and we're considering 312 00:20:58,675 --> 00:21:01,955 Speaker 1: switching sides. We were talking to Latino men and Asian 313 00:21:01,995 --> 00:21:05,955 Speaker 1: American Pacific Islander women in battleground states, and they went 314 00:21:05,995 --> 00:21:08,995 Speaker 1: straight to the issue of what if Trump won't give 315 00:21:09,075 --> 00:21:12,595 Speaker 1: up power. It's not something we'd been testing for, but 316 00:21:12,755 --> 00:21:17,195 Speaker 1: we've been singing it so far, indicating a real concern there. 317 00:21:18,075 --> 00:21:20,955 Speaker 1: This is somebody who's done focus groups for Democrats for 318 00:21:21,035 --> 00:21:24,035 Speaker 1: ten years, and they were unprepared for the subject of 319 00:21:24,035 --> 00:21:27,235 Speaker 1: whether or not Trump would be willing to relinquish power 320 00:21:27,595 --> 00:21:30,955 Speaker 1: if he has given it again. That's May twenty first, 321 00:21:31,115 --> 00:21:38,995 Speaker 1: those quotes that story's vanished. Trump violated the gag order twice. 322 00:21:39,235 --> 00:21:42,195 Speaker 1: The Trump witness in the waning days of the case 323 00:21:42,275 --> 00:21:48,715 Speaker 1: in New York enrages the judge. We had more on 324 00:21:48,755 --> 00:21:54,955 Speaker 1: the Alido flag story May seventeenth, were the Michael Cohen 325 00:21:55,115 --> 00:22:00,755 Speaker 1: quotes the testimony at the trial May sixteenth, and now 326 00:22:00,795 --> 00:22:04,075 Speaker 1: we are a week and two days away from the 327 00:22:04,075 --> 00:22:07,155 Speaker 1: first of the two scheduled debates debates, and as I 328 00:22:07,195 --> 00:22:11,795 Speaker 1: said on the May sixteenth podcast, Trump lays groundwork to 329 00:22:11,875 --> 00:22:15,875 Speaker 1: back out of the debates he just agreed to. There 330 00:22:15,955 --> 00:22:18,955 Speaker 1: is always the chance I might be misreading this, I 331 00:22:18,995 --> 00:22:23,075 Speaker 1: said on the podcast episode one seven six from May sixteen, 332 00:22:24,475 --> 00:22:26,955 Speaker 1: But if you go through what happened yesterday, I don't 333 00:22:26,995 --> 00:22:30,715 Speaker 1: think I am. They agree to ABC and CNN as venues, 334 00:22:30,795 --> 00:22:34,795 Speaker 1: and Biden makes his video taunting Trump. CNN reports Trump 335 00:22:34,875 --> 00:22:38,115 Speaker 1: is irked that Biden has taken control of the debate narrative. 336 00:22:38,515 --> 00:22:42,995 Speaker 1: Trump then posts, please let this truth, meaning his post 337 00:22:43,475 --> 00:22:46,355 Speaker 1: serve to represent that I hereby accept debating Biden on 338 00:22:47,195 --> 00:22:50,995 Speaker 1: Fox News. The date will be Wednesday, October second. The 339 00:22:51,035 --> 00:22:53,875 Speaker 1: host will be Brett Baar and Martha McCallum. Thank you 340 00:22:55,075 --> 00:22:59,035 Speaker 1: the use of the word hereby. I noted indicated to 341 00:22:59,075 --> 00:23:01,115 Speaker 1: the Rubes that this was some sort of legal document 342 00:23:01,155 --> 00:23:03,755 Speaker 1: when it was not. There is no Fox debate. There 343 00:23:03,835 --> 00:23:06,515 Speaker 1: was not one scheduled, even when they announced the debates 344 00:23:06,555 --> 00:23:09,035 Speaker 1: originally in the middle of May. Not even Fox claimed 345 00:23:09,035 --> 00:23:12,555 Speaker 1: there was one. And then Biden's campaign statement came out 346 00:23:12,595 --> 00:23:15,475 Speaker 1: from Jen O'Malley Dylan. Trump has a long history of 347 00:23:15,515 --> 00:23:18,475 Speaker 1: playing games with debates, complaining about the rules, breaking those rules, 348 00:23:18,555 --> 00:23:21,035 Speaker 1: pulling out at the last minute. He said he would 349 00:23:21,075 --> 00:23:24,675 Speaker 1: debate President Biden anytime, anywhere, any place. In fact, he 350 00:23:24,755 --> 00:23:27,435 Speaker 1: said and posted it dozens of times, with varying degrees 351 00:23:27,675 --> 00:23:32,515 Speaker 1: of comprehension and basic grammar. President Biden made his terms 352 00:23:32,515 --> 00:23:34,875 Speaker 1: clear for two one on one debates, and Donald Trump 353 00:23:34,875 --> 00:23:38,635 Speaker 1: accepted those terms. No more games, no more chaos, no 354 00:23:38,755 --> 00:23:41,715 Speaker 1: more debate about debates. We'll see Donald Trump on June 355 00:23:41,715 --> 00:23:48,555 Speaker 1: twenty seventh in Atlanta. If he shows up so as 356 00:23:48,595 --> 00:23:50,635 Speaker 1: I said, then between now and June twenty seventh, my 357 00:23:50,675 --> 00:23:54,115 Speaker 1: prediction was he demands Biden reconfirm his commitment to this 358 00:23:54,275 --> 00:23:59,155 Speaker 1: apocryphal October second debate on Fox, Biden says, I never 359 00:23:59,195 --> 00:24:02,395 Speaker 1: agreed to that, and I never said anything up close 360 00:24:02,435 --> 00:24:06,035 Speaker 1: to agreeing to that, whereupon Trump says he has violated 361 00:24:06,075 --> 00:24:08,995 Speaker 1: the agreement. That is, Biden has violated the agreement. So 362 00:24:09,235 --> 00:24:13,275 Speaker 1: there won't be any debates. We'll see what happens. But 363 00:24:13,315 --> 00:24:20,235 Speaker 1: I just want to point out that was Wednesday, May fifteenth, 364 00:24:20,475 --> 00:24:24,075 Speaker 1: from the day before that Senator Tommy Tuberville confirmed the 365 00:24:24,115 --> 00:24:27,035 Speaker 1: Trump plot to evade the gag order. You remember those 366 00:24:27,955 --> 00:24:31,635 Speaker 1: senators and congressmen and other Republican derelicts showing up at 367 00:24:31,635 --> 00:24:34,755 Speaker 1: the courthouse in New York and being interviewed outside of it. 368 00:24:35,475 --> 00:24:41,795 Speaker 1: Anybody remember that story Going to the preceding week. Here's 369 00:24:42,195 --> 00:24:45,475 Speaker 1: something of a lighter note from the ninth of May. 370 00:24:45,515 --> 00:24:47,595 Speaker 1: Never hire a lawyer with a rating of three and 371 00:24:47,635 --> 00:24:51,435 Speaker 1: a half stars. This is a reference to Susan Necklace, 372 00:24:52,475 --> 00:24:55,275 Speaker 1: who managed to lose the Stormy Daniels during the second 373 00:24:55,315 --> 00:24:58,835 Speaker 1: day of cross examination in trump On trial. I did see, 374 00:24:58,875 --> 00:25:00,675 Speaker 1: and this is the first story. We have to go 375 00:25:00,755 --> 00:25:03,835 Speaker 1: back to May ninth to have seen an actual follow 376 00:25:03,915 --> 00:25:08,115 Speaker 1: up to this story, there's something about Susan necklace. Has 377 00:25:08,195 --> 00:25:11,315 Speaker 1: not had any connection nor made any comment about Trump, 378 00:25:11,515 --> 00:25:14,195 Speaker 1: has not been referred to by anybody in Trump's circles, 379 00:25:14,395 --> 00:25:17,675 Speaker 1: and has not appeared on any Trump documents relating to 380 00:25:17,675 --> 00:25:21,235 Speaker 1: the New York case since the trial ended. So that 381 00:25:21,315 --> 00:25:24,475 Speaker 1: was the only following up of anything that we've seen 382 00:25:24,515 --> 00:25:27,115 Speaker 1: in here on any serious basis. And it's about one 383 00:25:27,115 --> 00:25:31,195 Speaker 1: of his lawyers. From May eighth, This was the day 384 00:25:31,435 --> 00:25:35,875 Speaker 1: of the RFK junior brainworm story, and yet people are 385 00:25:35,915 --> 00:25:43,155 Speaker 1: still taking him seriously. Stormy Daniels testifies May seventh, Gnome 386 00:25:43,475 --> 00:25:46,195 Speaker 1: Trump and the MAGA belief they have the right to kill. 387 00:25:46,475 --> 00:25:51,515 Speaker 1: May sixth, the Christy Gnome murder of her daughter's puppy? 388 00:25:52,275 --> 00:25:55,555 Speaker 1: Where did that story go in one month and one week? 389 00:25:55,915 --> 00:26:00,035 Speaker 1: Wasn't she on one of the major Sunday shows a 390 00:26:00,035 --> 00:26:03,955 Speaker 1: week ago? Did anybody ask her about that? She said 391 00:26:04,275 --> 00:26:08,435 Speaker 1: over the weekend that she was being prosecuted and persecuted 392 00:26:08,595 --> 00:26:13,715 Speaker 1: by Democrats and liberals because they were afraid of her. Well, 393 00:26:14,115 --> 00:26:16,635 Speaker 1: perhaps what they were afraid of was that she would 394 00:26:16,715 --> 00:26:20,515 Speaker 1: shoot their dog. And yet where's the Christy Nomes story? 395 00:26:20,595 --> 00:26:23,635 Speaker 1: She is now being taken seriously to some degree. The 396 00:26:23,715 --> 00:26:27,355 Speaker 1: rehabilitation tour has continued sufficiently so that she's not going 397 00:26:27,395 --> 00:26:31,235 Speaker 1: to have to resign as governor in whichever Dakota she's 398 00:26:31,275 --> 00:26:34,955 Speaker 1: the governor of. Trump lies claims gag order prevents him 399 00:26:34,955 --> 00:26:38,035 Speaker 1: from testifying. May second, That got a little bit more, Carrie, 400 00:26:38,115 --> 00:26:41,595 Speaker 1: But again, is it front of mind? Trump violates d 401 00:26:41,755 --> 00:26:45,995 Speaker 1: C bail and DC gag order by attacking witness Cassidy Hutchinson. 402 00:26:46,195 --> 00:26:49,915 Speaker 1: That was the first of May the gag order and 403 00:26:50,075 --> 00:26:53,715 Speaker 1: bail violation. Then Trump confessed to the meaningful part of 404 00:26:53,715 --> 00:26:57,155 Speaker 1: her testimony that as his scum organized to attack the 405 00:26:57,195 --> 00:27:00,035 Speaker 1: capital and begin his coup attempt, he wanted to join 406 00:27:00,075 --> 00:27:03,635 Speaker 1: them and watch. He said, if you remember, in a SoundBite, 407 00:27:04,035 --> 00:27:07,275 Speaker 1: that he wanted to go to the capital on January sixth, 408 00:27:07,315 --> 00:27:10,555 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Tried to talk the Secret Service into it, 409 00:27:10,915 --> 00:27:13,715 Speaker 1: but that Cassidy Hutchinson was a liar because he never 410 00:27:13,795 --> 00:27:17,315 Speaker 1: tried to strangle one of the members of the Secret Service. 411 00:27:19,235 --> 00:27:21,835 Speaker 1: From the May first edition of this podcast, Trump all 412 00:27:21,835 --> 00:27:25,675 Speaker 1: but promises twenty twenty four election violence. Mershn threatens to 413 00:27:25,715 --> 00:27:29,435 Speaker 1: say and send him to jail. Trump does not dismiss 414 00:27:29,515 --> 00:27:33,435 Speaker 1: the possibility of political violence around the election, the interview 415 00:27:33,475 --> 00:27:36,595 Speaker 1: with Time magazine, the cover story with Time Magazine, Where 416 00:27:36,595 --> 00:27:39,995 Speaker 1: did that go? That's six weeks ago? Quoting Trump? If 417 00:27:40,035 --> 00:27:42,635 Speaker 1: we don't win, you know, it depends. It always depends 418 00:27:42,755 --> 00:27:45,755 Speaker 1: on the fairness of the election. The author asks him 419 00:27:45,755 --> 00:27:48,035 Speaker 1: about his social media posts in which Trump claimed a 420 00:27:48,075 --> 00:27:52,555 Speaker 1: stolen election allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, 421 00:27:52,555 --> 00:27:56,755 Speaker 1: and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Trump then denies, 422 00:27:56,795 --> 00:27:59,315 Speaker 1: he said that I never said that at all. I 423 00:27:59,355 --> 00:28:02,915 Speaker 1: never said that at all. Within moments of this lie, 424 00:28:04,795 --> 00:28:07,475 Speaker 1: it turned out he merely wrote it on truth social 425 00:28:07,555 --> 00:28:11,995 Speaker 1: on December third, twenty twenty two. Within moments Time Magazine, 426 00:28:12,475 --> 00:28:15,875 Speaker 1: he declares that the current government has quote broken the constitution. 427 00:28:16,035 --> 00:28:19,155 Speaker 1: They have gotten very far astray from our constitution. I'm 428 00:28:19,195 --> 00:28:21,395 Speaker 1: talking about the fascists and the people in our government 429 00:28:21,435 --> 00:28:25,195 Speaker 1: right now because I consider them the enemy within. I 430 00:28:25,235 --> 00:28:27,835 Speaker 1: think the enemy within in many cases, is much more 431 00:28:27,915 --> 00:28:30,875 Speaker 1: dangerous for our country than the outside enemies, et cetera. 432 00:28:31,275 --> 00:28:33,475 Speaker 1: About the twentieth time he had said something like that, 433 00:28:33,515 --> 00:28:36,475 Speaker 1: and he said that twice since then, and nobody flashed 434 00:28:36,475 --> 00:28:39,555 Speaker 1: back to the Time magazine cover from the end of April, 435 00:28:40,275 --> 00:28:43,955 Speaker 1: An Extraordinary Document, a revelation and the beginning of the 436 00:28:43,995 --> 00:28:47,275 Speaker 1: indication that Trump is in fact losing his mind at 437 00:28:47,315 --> 00:28:50,515 Speaker 1: a faster pace than ever before. We need a special 438 00:28:50,555 --> 00:28:54,475 Speaker 1: council to investigate the Supreme Court. I suggested on April thirtieth. 439 00:28:54,875 --> 00:28:57,435 Speaker 1: I suggested on April twenty six that Alito should wake 440 00:28:57,515 --> 00:29:00,115 Speaker 1: up and get mo all right, that's my pet project 441 00:29:00,155 --> 00:29:03,595 Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with Trump, really, and April 442 00:29:03,635 --> 00:29:06,915 Speaker 1: twenty fifth. From April twenty fourth, so this is the 443 00:29:07,075 --> 00:29:11,075 Speaker 1: end of April. Trump has already won the Supreme Court 444 00:29:11,115 --> 00:29:15,835 Speaker 1: presidential immunity case beginning today. I don't mean I said 445 00:29:15,835 --> 00:29:18,595 Speaker 1: at the time. They're actually going to make up an unconstitutional, 446 00:29:18,675 --> 00:29:23,915 Speaker 1: nonsensical political science fiction thing called presidential immunity know to 447 00:29:23,995 --> 00:29:26,435 Speaker 1: do its part in Trump's cover up of his January 448 00:29:26,515 --> 00:29:29,195 Speaker 1: sixth treason. The Supreme Court only has to do what 449 00:29:29,315 --> 00:29:33,395 Speaker 1: it has done, pretend, just like Trump is, pretending that 450 00:29:33,435 --> 00:29:38,315 Speaker 1: the concept of presidential immunity is just plausible enough that 451 00:29:38,395 --> 00:29:42,555 Speaker 1: it has to be debated and adjudicated. They've already done that. 452 00:29:42,955 --> 00:29:46,875 Speaker 1: The Samuel Alito conspiracy to delay justice to save Trump 453 00:29:47,595 --> 00:29:50,675 Speaker 1: is well underway. If only I had said he had 454 00:29:50,715 --> 00:29:55,155 Speaker 1: signaled it or raised a flag and then April twenty fourth, 455 00:29:55,235 --> 00:29:58,155 Speaker 1: the last one of these scripts in this stack, Trump 456 00:29:58,195 --> 00:30:01,435 Speaker 1: could face a month in jail for contempt of court 457 00:30:01,475 --> 00:30:04,075 Speaker 1: what the judge had said in the New York case, 458 00:30:04,715 --> 00:30:06,875 Speaker 1: and we never heard anything else about the gag order 459 00:30:06,995 --> 00:30:10,475 Speaker 1: or the violations of the gag order, or whether or 460 00:30:10,475 --> 00:30:13,955 Speaker 1: not he's going to spend time in jail, or well, 461 00:30:13,995 --> 00:30:16,475 Speaker 1: we'll hear more about that one. That is one of 462 00:30:16,515 --> 00:30:18,875 Speaker 1: the few cases, one of the few stories about Trump 463 00:30:18,915 --> 00:30:21,075 Speaker 1: that has to be revisited again because there is a 464 00:30:21,115 --> 00:30:24,035 Speaker 1: sentencing date. But all the other ones, which are just 465 00:30:24,115 --> 00:30:27,795 Speaker 1: as important, die on the vine because they don't have 466 00:30:28,155 --> 00:30:32,075 Speaker 1: sentencing dates or other official contexts to them. And this 467 00:30:32,315 --> 00:30:37,875 Speaker 1: is the real danger. We don't appreciate how much we 468 00:30:37,915 --> 00:30:41,475 Speaker 1: appreciate how bad Trump is, but we don't appreciate the 469 00:30:41,675 --> 00:30:46,595 Speaker 1: volume and the linkages between stories, and the repetitiveness of 470 00:30:46,635 --> 00:30:50,795 Speaker 1: these stories again and again, talking about the enemy within, 471 00:30:51,275 --> 00:30:55,115 Speaker 1: preparing his people for violence at the election one way 472 00:30:55,235 --> 00:30:58,435 Speaker 1: or the other, before the election, after the election, if 473 00:30:58,435 --> 00:31:01,515 Speaker 1: he loses, if he wins. All of this has been 474 00:31:01,595 --> 00:31:05,275 Speaker 1: laid out, and yet we have forgotten it because there's 475 00:31:05,555 --> 00:31:10,755 Speaker 1: just so much to process. That's the last two months. 476 00:31:11,275 --> 00:31:13,555 Speaker 1: Shall I get the last two years worth of scripts 477 00:31:13,555 --> 00:31:15,395 Speaker 1: out and do this. Have you got a day and 478 00:31:15,395 --> 00:31:20,235 Speaker 1: a half to listen? I will flash back now to 479 00:31:20,435 --> 00:31:23,595 Speaker 1: the old GQ series. First it was called The Closer 480 00:31:23,635 --> 00:31:26,115 Speaker 1: before the twenty sixteen election, and then when it didn't 481 00:31:26,115 --> 00:31:27,995 Speaker 1: turn out to be much of a closer, it was 482 00:31:28,035 --> 00:31:31,755 Speaker 1: called The Resistance. The first piece that I proposed to 483 00:31:31,835 --> 00:31:34,195 Speaker 1: do for GQ when I met with them in August 484 00:31:34,275 --> 00:31:38,515 Speaker 1: of twenty sixteen was a simple list of all of 485 00:31:38,555 --> 00:31:42,075 Speaker 1: the disqualifying things Donald Trump had done in his life 486 00:31:42,555 --> 00:31:46,595 Speaker 1: and in his campaign only to August that year, any 487 00:31:46,675 --> 00:31:49,035 Speaker 1: one of which I thought should have been enough to 488 00:31:49,155 --> 00:31:53,875 Speaker 1: make you not vote for him. The piece and the 489 00:31:53,955 --> 00:31:58,875 Speaker 1: GQ people were appalled at This was seventeen minutes long, 490 00:31:59,395 --> 00:32:03,275 Speaker 1: and no story was covered as fully in depth as 491 00:32:03,355 --> 00:32:05,955 Speaker 1: I just covered everything from the last two months. They 492 00:32:05,955 --> 00:32:09,995 Speaker 1: were all between five and fifteen seconds. It was a 493 00:32:10,115 --> 00:32:15,235 Speaker 1: list that was the point when possible, I dropped unnecessary verbs. 494 00:32:15,875 --> 00:32:19,355 Speaker 1: I wrote that thing as tightly as I could, and 495 00:32:19,435 --> 00:32:21,795 Speaker 1: the producers were well, could you make it three minutes? 496 00:32:21,795 --> 00:32:24,235 Speaker 1: And I went no. The point is that it takes 497 00:32:24,395 --> 00:32:27,475 Speaker 1: seventeen minutes of me talking as fast as I can 498 00:32:27,795 --> 00:32:31,235 Speaker 1: to get this entire list out. We put it out 499 00:32:31,235 --> 00:32:33,955 Speaker 1: at seventeen minutes and it got something like seventeen million 500 00:32:34,035 --> 00:32:39,275 Speaker 1: views the first week. This is the problem. Each atrocity 501 00:32:39,475 --> 00:32:43,395 Speaker 1: in Trump's life crowds out the previous one for those 502 00:32:43,435 --> 00:32:45,715 Speaker 1: who believe in him, for those who are taken in 503 00:32:45,755 --> 00:32:50,115 Speaker 1: by him, there is this sense of excitement and continual 504 00:32:50,315 --> 00:32:54,035 Speaker 1: change and something new, which they need because we are 505 00:32:54,115 --> 00:32:58,395 Speaker 1: living in a world of short attention spans, and his, 506 00:32:58,715 --> 00:33:02,595 Speaker 1: of all people in this country, have the shortest attention spans. 507 00:33:03,955 --> 00:33:06,915 Speaker 1: And the saddest part is that this election will be 508 00:33:06,995 --> 00:33:11,155 Speaker 1: decided by people who know almost none of this, none 509 00:33:11,195 --> 00:33:14,835 Speaker 1: of the negatives. Certainly they see the constant activity, They 510 00:33:14,875 --> 00:33:18,995 Speaker 1: see the vitality, and some degree this idea that Trump 511 00:33:19,515 --> 00:33:24,155 Speaker 1: is vital and energetic and young or younger anyway, and 512 00:33:24,235 --> 00:33:27,995 Speaker 1: Biden is the opposite. That's not a physical thing. That's 513 00:33:28,035 --> 00:33:31,955 Speaker 1: as simple. How much stuff are you doing? How much 514 00:33:32,235 --> 00:33:36,715 Speaker 1: are your arms flailing in the air? How much meaninglessness 515 00:33:36,795 --> 00:33:40,355 Speaker 1: is seen by the public. President of the United States. 516 00:33:40,435 --> 00:33:43,275 Speaker 1: Joe Biden has a job to do. It's a job 517 00:33:43,475 --> 00:33:46,075 Speaker 1: I could never do for one hour, and he does 518 00:33:46,115 --> 00:33:50,195 Speaker 1: it every day at an older age. But most of 519 00:33:50,195 --> 00:33:54,315 Speaker 1: it requires meetings and trips and conversations and debate and 520 00:33:54,435 --> 00:33:59,195 Speaker 1: thought internally in private, dealing with the most secure and 521 00:33:59,275 --> 00:34:02,355 Speaker 1: sensitive issues. Trump can just get in front of a 522 00:34:02,395 --> 00:34:05,835 Speaker 1: podium and ad lib and say anything he wants, no 523 00:34:05,875 --> 00:34:08,755 Speaker 1: matter how much it contradicts what he previously said, and 524 00:34:08,875 --> 00:34:11,475 Speaker 1: it can be as vile and virulent as he wants. 525 00:34:11,915 --> 00:34:16,675 Speaker 1: And what many people who will design this election see is, oh, 526 00:34:16,715 --> 00:34:19,755 Speaker 1: he's giving another speech. He flies around a lot, He 527 00:34:19,875 --> 00:34:25,835 Speaker 1: must have great stamina. So what do we do about this? 528 00:34:27,235 --> 00:34:29,915 Speaker 1: Are we doing enough? Am I doing enough to stop 529 00:34:29,955 --> 00:34:33,595 Speaker 1: this from happening? Are you? I do not want to 530 00:34:33,635 --> 00:34:38,315 Speaker 1: reduce my point here to a self promotional effort, but 531 00:34:38,435 --> 00:34:41,315 Speaker 1: I will say that there is something low effort that 532 00:34:41,355 --> 00:34:44,195 Speaker 1: you might be able to do. I have taken certain 533 00:34:44,195 --> 00:34:45,835 Speaker 1: steps in the last couple of days in which I 534 00:34:45,875 --> 00:34:49,435 Speaker 1: have swallowed my pride and asked for help from people 535 00:34:49,715 --> 00:34:52,035 Speaker 1: who I have not been in contact with for years, 536 00:34:52,315 --> 00:34:57,115 Speaker 1: who are perhaps avenues of publicity and distribution for this podcast. 537 00:34:57,355 --> 00:35:00,915 Speaker 1: When I asked a couple of weeks ago for everybody 538 00:35:00,955 --> 00:35:03,315 Speaker 1: who listens to this to take the episode they were 539 00:35:03,355 --> 00:35:06,195 Speaker 1: listening to and forward to somebody who did not listen 540 00:35:06,235 --> 00:35:09,355 Speaker 1: to it, I thought we might see some sort of response. 541 00:35:09,795 --> 00:35:14,075 Speaker 1: The download total increased by ten percent that day. At 542 00:35:14,115 --> 00:35:17,675 Speaker 1: it has maintained that we gained I'm not sure how 543 00:35:17,675 --> 00:35:21,315 Speaker 1: many thousand new subscribers to this podcast based on my 544 00:35:21,675 --> 00:35:25,515 Speaker 1: asking you to hit forward on the link to this 545 00:35:25,635 --> 00:35:29,075 Speaker 1: podcast to somebody you know who doesn't listen to it 546 00:35:29,395 --> 00:35:33,795 Speaker 1: and should not necessarily some Trump supporter. I'm not asking 547 00:35:33,835 --> 00:35:36,795 Speaker 1: you to start with a duel tomorrow morning in which 548 00:35:36,795 --> 00:35:39,315 Speaker 1: you can take ten paces and then say I support 549 00:35:39,435 --> 00:35:41,995 Speaker 1: Keith Alderman's podcast and the other one says I don't, 550 00:35:42,075 --> 00:35:44,275 Speaker 1: and then you see what happens, and maybe we get 551 00:35:44,315 --> 00:35:46,675 Speaker 1: Aaron Burr all over again. I'm not asking you to 552 00:35:46,715 --> 00:35:49,195 Speaker 1: do anything like that. I'm not saying send it to 553 00:35:49,195 --> 00:35:51,755 Speaker 1: somebody who supports Trump. If you can do that, so 554 00:35:51,835 --> 00:35:53,595 Speaker 1: much the better. But I'm just saying send it to 555 00:35:53,635 --> 00:35:58,635 Speaker 1: somebody who supports democracy in the United States, because I 556 00:35:58,635 --> 00:36:00,955 Speaker 1: think the point of this entire podcast is not so 557 00:36:01,075 --> 00:36:05,515 Speaker 1: much supportive Joe Biden, but support of, you know, representative 558 00:36:05,555 --> 00:36:09,595 Speaker 1: government here. So, as I said last time I asked you, 559 00:36:10,875 --> 00:36:14,955 Speaker 1: we went up ten percent. That's all we can do 560 00:36:15,115 --> 00:36:23,355 Speaker 1: right now, longest damn promo I've ever done, and Honestly, 561 00:36:23,395 --> 00:36:25,995 Speaker 1: that's not the point of it. The point of it is, 562 00:36:26,035 --> 00:36:28,275 Speaker 1: for the first time in my life, I actually think 563 00:36:28,635 --> 00:36:33,795 Speaker 1: a week in review, the cheapest form of journalism, A 564 00:36:33,875 --> 00:36:37,635 Speaker 1: week in review, might be of some value to remind 565 00:36:37,755 --> 00:36:42,275 Speaker 1: everybody as we continue to weigh waste high in the 566 00:36:42,315 --> 00:36:46,035 Speaker 1: oak meal that is Trump's mind, just to remind us 567 00:36:47,195 --> 00:36:51,355 Speaker 1: that it's snowing, and it's not just snowing. These aren't 568 00:36:51,395 --> 00:36:54,755 Speaker 1: just flurries. It's not just a couple of inches. Trump 569 00:36:54,835 --> 00:37:01,555 Speaker 1: is an ongoing avalanche. Anyway. Also have interest here the 570 00:37:01,635 --> 00:37:04,675 Speaker 1: daily example that the democracy survives not by our efforts, 571 00:37:04,715 --> 00:37:06,675 Speaker 1: but by the stupidity of those who would destroy it. 572 00:37:06,955 --> 00:37:10,955 Speaker 1: A Republican Senate candidate puts out a map on social 573 00:37:10,995 --> 00:37:14,395 Speaker 1: media purporting to show violent crime out of control in 574 00:37:14,475 --> 00:37:18,355 Speaker 1: his state. The map supposedly graphically shows where all the 575 00:37:18,515 --> 00:37:23,515 Speaker 1: shots have been fired, except it doesn't. Somehow, some way, 576 00:37:24,075 --> 00:37:27,435 Speaker 1: this idiot did not use the where all the shots 577 00:37:27,435 --> 00:37:31,675 Speaker 1: were fired map? He used the where are all the 578 00:37:31,835 --> 00:37:35,995 Speaker 1: water fountains map? Water fountains are out of control in 579 00:37:36,115 --> 00:37:43,955 Speaker 1: our state. That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown, 580 00:37:44,715 --> 00:38:08,635 Speaker 1: with Keith Olberman still ahead of us. On this edition 581 00:38:08,675 --> 00:38:12,035 Speaker 1: of countdown. After thirty five years, the national sports behemoth, 582 00:38:12,675 --> 00:38:15,155 Speaker 1: started by my old boss, Ted Turner, is about to 583 00:38:15,195 --> 00:38:17,715 Speaker 1: lose its rights to carry the games of the National 584 00:38:17,755 --> 00:38:23,155 Speaker 1: Basketball Association. Charles Barkley gone, although he can go to 585 00:38:23,195 --> 00:38:25,515 Speaker 1: another network if he wants. But this got me thinking 586 00:38:25,795 --> 00:38:28,235 Speaker 1: about the time Ted Turner not only nearly got the 587 00:38:28,315 --> 00:38:33,035 Speaker 1: National Football League games for Turner Sports, he nearly got 588 00:38:33,395 --> 00:38:36,955 Speaker 1: the entire National Football League, like he would have owned 589 00:38:37,075 --> 00:38:40,195 Speaker 1: the whole thing. It was a little quick sonic. It 590 00:38:40,235 --> 00:38:44,235 Speaker 1: was a long shot, but it could have happened instead 591 00:38:44,275 --> 00:38:46,795 Speaker 1: of getting the NFL. Though all Ted actually wound up 592 00:38:46,795 --> 00:38:51,915 Speaker 1: in sports that year was one hundred CNN Sports baseball caps. 593 00:38:53,115 --> 00:38:55,395 Speaker 1: That story coming up in Things I promised not to tell. 594 00:38:55,435 --> 00:38:58,195 Speaker 1: But first there are still more new idiots to talk about. 595 00:38:58,275 --> 00:39:00,955 Speaker 1: The daily roundup of the miscrants, morons and Dunning Kruger 596 00:39:00,955 --> 00:39:05,875 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute two days rife person's in the 597 00:39:05,915 --> 00:39:11,315 Speaker 1: world's but Ted Turner impression dishonorable mention to start Nut 598 00:39:11,355 --> 00:39:16,475 Speaker 1: Gingrich back again, Nut demanded that whoever flew the Palestinian 599 00:39:16,515 --> 00:39:19,595 Speaker 1: flag over the US Treasury Building on Sunday should be 600 00:39:19,635 --> 00:39:25,395 Speaker 1: summarily fired. What is it with these idiot Republicans and flags, 601 00:39:26,515 --> 00:39:31,395 Speaker 1: just to shut up about the flags. You failed about flags, 602 00:39:31,635 --> 00:39:36,195 Speaker 1: you are flagging about flags. It was the Pride flag 603 00:39:36,835 --> 00:39:40,675 Speaker 1: on Pride Day. It took new twenty four hours to 604 00:39:40,795 --> 00:39:44,715 Speaker 1: kill the post because he's not good at social media either. Again, 605 00:39:44,755 --> 00:39:46,395 Speaker 1: this is the same Nut Gingrich who said the New 606 00:39:46,475 --> 00:39:49,595 Speaker 1: York City subway is used only by quote elites, The 607 00:39:49,635 --> 00:39:52,155 Speaker 1: same one in nineteen ninety eight who planned to impeach 608 00:39:52,195 --> 00:39:54,715 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, and then the new president Al Gore would 609 00:39:54,755 --> 00:39:57,555 Speaker 1: pardon Bill Clinton, so he would impeach al Gore and 610 00:39:57,595 --> 00:40:00,115 Speaker 1: that would make Speaker of the House Nut Gingrich president. 611 00:40:01,315 --> 00:40:03,675 Speaker 1: And who was the only guy who lost his job 612 00:40:03,715 --> 00:40:06,795 Speaker 1: after all that. The same Newt Gingrich who last week 613 00:40:06,835 --> 00:40:11,555 Speaker 1: called the Vice President Kamala Harris quote really shallow, uneducated 614 00:40:11,635 --> 00:40:18,755 Speaker 1: and uneducatable person, Newt and a mirror wildly untrue. But 615 00:40:18,795 --> 00:40:21,435 Speaker 1: at minimum, Newt, we know this. The vice president can 616 00:40:21,475 --> 00:40:25,395 Speaker 1: tell the difference between a four color Palestinian flag and 617 00:40:25,475 --> 00:40:34,355 Speaker 1: a ten color rainbow Pride flag. The brons worse Anthony Hudson. 618 00:40:35,275 --> 00:40:38,115 Speaker 1: You may remember him from such failed bids for office 619 00:40:38,115 --> 00:40:41,435 Speaker 1: as running for president as a Republican this year. Now 620 00:40:41,915 --> 00:40:44,515 Speaker 1: he's trying to get the Republican nomination for Congress from 621 00:40:44,555 --> 00:40:48,595 Speaker 1: the Michigan eighth el Sir Anthony has a problem. The 622 00:40:48,635 --> 00:40:52,475 Speaker 1: primary is August sixth, and his biggest supporter, at least 623 00:40:52,515 --> 00:40:54,875 Speaker 1: the guy he thinks is his biggest supporter, will not 624 00:40:55,075 --> 00:40:59,035 Speaker 1: be there. The guy Anthony thinks is his biggest supporter, 625 00:40:59,675 --> 00:41:03,755 Speaker 1: he says, his biggest supporter is Martin Luther King Junior. 626 00:41:06,355 --> 00:41:09,555 Speaker 1: I have another dream. Yes, it is me, Martin Luther King. 627 00:41:10,675 --> 00:41:12,635 Speaker 2: I came back from the dead to say something. 628 00:41:12,875 --> 00:41:15,555 Speaker 1: As I was saying, I have another dream that Anthony 629 00:41:15,635 --> 00:41:19,035 Speaker 1: Hudson will be Michigan's eighth District's next congressman. Yes, I 630 00:41:19,075 --> 00:41:24,595 Speaker 1: have a dream again. Okay, Now I am going back 631 00:41:24,595 --> 00:41:26,995 Speaker 1: to where I came from, Dubai. My name is Anthony 632 00:41:27,075 --> 00:41:30,515 Speaker 1: Hudson and I approved this message. Anthony, who wears a 633 00:41:30,595 --> 00:41:34,395 Speaker 1: trucker's cap all the time because his head almost literally 634 00:41:34,435 --> 00:41:38,235 Speaker 1: comes to a point, looks kind of like a cartoon. 635 00:41:39,235 --> 00:41:42,675 Speaker 1: Anthony first responded to the backlash by writing a volunteer 636 00:41:42,755 --> 00:41:45,195 Speaker 1: gave my social media credentials to one of his friends, 637 00:41:45,315 --> 00:41:49,355 Speaker 1: who then posted an AI video without my knowledge. It 638 00:41:49,395 --> 00:41:53,075 Speaker 1: appears they not only used AI for MLK Junior's voice, 639 00:41:53,115 --> 00:41:55,795 Speaker 1: but also with my voice to make it appear more authentic. 640 00:41:56,595 --> 00:41:59,555 Speaker 1: He also says he fired that staffer. Well, then he 641 00:41:59,715 --> 00:42:03,435 Speaker 1: changed his mind. If MLK were alive today, he said 642 00:42:03,435 --> 00:42:05,595 Speaker 1: the next day, I do believe he would endorse me 643 00:42:05,795 --> 00:42:09,755 Speaker 1: and my vision for a better Michigan. Hodson says he's 644 00:42:09,795 --> 00:42:12,875 Speaker 1: given that staff for a raise. I'm gonna go out 645 00:42:12,915 --> 00:42:15,915 Speaker 1: on a limb here and say there is no staffer. 646 00:42:16,635 --> 00:42:20,555 Speaker 1: It was only Anthony himself or his staffer is Tim 647 00:42:20,555 --> 00:42:24,155 Speaker 1: Scott's fiance. Where the staffer goes to a different school, 648 00:42:24,195 --> 00:42:29,675 Speaker 1: you wouldn't know them. The runner up worser the Associated Press, Yes, 649 00:42:30,195 --> 00:42:34,595 Speaker 1: they noted the Jackson for Johnson for Jackson Trump gaff 650 00:42:34,675 --> 00:42:37,035 Speaker 1: and treated it like the big story it was. This 651 00:42:37,155 --> 00:42:39,795 Speaker 1: is only after they did it again. They've been doing 652 00:42:39,875 --> 00:42:43,315 Speaker 1: this a lot, as so many imperiled news organizations have 653 00:42:43,395 --> 00:42:47,115 Speaker 1: been doing, you know, preparing for fascism just in case. 654 00:42:47,475 --> 00:42:50,475 Speaker 1: By sucking up to Trump after he met with Senate 655 00:42:50,515 --> 00:42:54,395 Speaker 1: and House Republicans, you know, the Milwaukee is horrible meeting there. 656 00:42:54,475 --> 00:42:58,755 Speaker 1: I followed up on a story the AP tweeted Donald 657 00:42:58,835 --> 00:43:02,835 Speaker 1: Trump made a triumphant return to Capitol Hill on Thursday, 658 00:43:03,115 --> 00:43:06,715 Speaker 1: his first with lawmakers since the January sixth, twenty twenty 659 00:43:06,715 --> 00:43:11,715 Speaker 1: one attacks, embraced by energized House and Senate Republicans who 660 00:43:11,795 --> 00:43:22,115 Speaker 1: find themselves reinvigorated by his bid to retake the White House. Unquote. 661 00:43:22,515 --> 00:43:25,955 Speaker 1: The AP fortunately did not add quote. Let me tell 662 00:43:25,995 --> 00:43:28,435 Speaker 1: you this, and you're getting it straight from the horse. 663 00:43:28,755 --> 00:43:31,755 Speaker 1: Trump was better looking than Churchill. He was a better 664 00:43:31,835 --> 00:43:35,195 Speaker 1: dresser than Churchill. He had more hair than Churchill. He 665 00:43:35,235 --> 00:43:37,355 Speaker 1: told fun of your jokes, and he could dance the 666 00:43:37,435 --> 00:43:42,795 Speaker 1: pants off of Churchill. But our winner the worst, everybody's 667 00:43:42,795 --> 00:43:47,955 Speaker 1: favorite Republican candidate for Senator from Minnesota, Royce White, the 668 00:43:47,995 --> 00:43:52,155 Speaker 1: former pro basketball player whose career lasted exactly eight minutes 669 00:43:52,155 --> 00:43:56,715 Speaker 1: and fifty nine seconds. The publication The Minnesota Reformer reports 670 00:43:56,715 --> 00:44:00,315 Speaker 1: that White tweeted out a map showing that quote crime 671 00:44:00,355 --> 00:44:03,915 Speaker 1: in Minneapolis out of control. Turned out it was a 672 00:44:03,955 --> 00:44:06,275 Speaker 1: map of minneapspless, all right. It was a map of 673 00:44:06,355 --> 00:44:14,435 Speaker 1: all the drinking fountains in Minneapolis. When this was pointed 674 00:44:14,475 --> 00:44:17,635 Speaker 1: out to him that very few crimes in Minneapolis have 675 00:44:17,715 --> 00:44:21,035 Speaker 1: been committed by those drinking fountains, mister White deleted the 676 00:44:21,035 --> 00:44:23,795 Speaker 1: tweet and called everybody who had mocked him a quote 677 00:44:23,875 --> 00:44:27,915 Speaker 1: cuck unquote. He then tweeted out an actual map of 678 00:44:27,995 --> 00:44:31,635 Speaker 1: shots fired in Minneapolis, still insisting that crime here is 679 00:44:31,715 --> 00:44:36,075 Speaker 1: out of control, even though those shots showed the map 680 00:44:36,115 --> 00:44:40,515 Speaker 1: itself showed that shots are down seventeen percent year over 681 00:44:40,635 --> 00:44:46,435 Speaker 1: year and down one third from the three year average. 682 00:44:46,675 --> 00:44:48,275 Speaker 1: What a shot though, A guy who played in the 683 00:44:48,395 --> 00:44:50,835 Speaker 1: NBA but only for eight minutes and fifty nine seconds 684 00:44:50,875 --> 00:44:55,475 Speaker 1: wouldn't know anything about shots and shot averages. And remember 685 00:44:55,955 --> 00:45:00,915 Speaker 1: the real perpetrators there. Do not turn your back on 686 00:45:00,995 --> 00:45:07,315 Speaker 1: those Minnesota water fountains. Man Republican Minnesota Senate hopeful Royce White, 687 00:45:07,635 --> 00:45:11,515 Speaker 1: whose career in politics may not last as long as 688 00:45:11,595 --> 00:45:16,595 Speaker 1: his career in the NBA two days, worst person. 689 00:45:17,075 --> 00:45:31,235 Speaker 2: In the world, Get a man, fellow. 690 00:45:33,435 --> 00:45:35,435 Speaker 1: I have one more story to tell you about covering 691 00:45:35,435 --> 00:45:38,875 Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty two National Football League players strike, and 692 00:45:38,915 --> 00:45:41,915 Speaker 1: this is less about the strike itself and more about 693 00:45:41,955 --> 00:45:46,395 Speaker 1: the man for whom I covered it, Ted Turner. Ted 694 00:45:46,435 --> 00:45:49,195 Speaker 1: Turner had put CNN on the air just two years earlier, 695 00:45:49,475 --> 00:45:51,995 Speaker 1: and his sports guy Bill McPhail had interviewed me for 696 00:45:52,075 --> 00:45:54,675 Speaker 1: a job as their New York sports reporter. Even earlier 697 00:45:54,715 --> 00:45:57,955 Speaker 1: than that May of nineteen eighty and when I did 698 00:45:57,995 --> 00:46:00,195 Speaker 1: not get it, I was genuinely relieved, because I was 699 00:46:00,195 --> 00:46:02,635 Speaker 1: convinced there was no way they would ever get CNN 700 00:46:02,715 --> 00:46:07,035 Speaker 1: on the air, no chance. Ever. Obviously I did not 701 00:46:07,075 --> 00:46:11,395 Speaker 1: account for Ted Turner's stubbornness. Anyway, I wound up going 702 00:46:11,475 --> 00:46:14,075 Speaker 1: their freelance in nineteen eighty one, as I have related 703 00:46:14,075 --> 00:46:17,075 Speaker 1: in some detail here, when Lou Dobbs and his girlfriend, 704 00:46:17,075 --> 00:46:18,995 Speaker 1: the New York Sports reporter, had to get out of 705 00:46:18,995 --> 00:46:23,475 Speaker 1: town fast at the existence of missus Lou Dobbs. Eight 706 00:46:23,515 --> 00:46:26,435 Speaker 1: months later, as the nineteen eighty two NFL strike loomed, 707 00:46:26,475 --> 00:46:29,075 Speaker 1: they had made me staff and given me a contract, first, 708 00:46:29,115 --> 00:46:31,155 Speaker 1: offering me one thousand dollars less a year than they 709 00:46:31,155 --> 00:46:34,475 Speaker 1: were paying me freelance. Even CNN of nineteen eighty two 710 00:46:34,475 --> 00:46:38,875 Speaker 1: acknowledged the absurdity of that mathematical proposition. So I was 711 00:46:38,915 --> 00:46:42,795 Speaker 1: a vested already whining about Ted Turner, employee of CNN 712 00:46:42,795 --> 00:46:45,275 Speaker 1: when the football players walked out in strike in September 713 00:46:45,315 --> 00:46:49,075 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two, and that strike was my beat every 714 00:46:49,155 --> 00:46:52,515 Speaker 1: day from March to November. A day or so after 715 00:46:52,555 --> 00:46:54,755 Speaker 1: the strike began, we set up an interview with the 716 00:46:54,795 --> 00:46:58,595 Speaker 1: president of CBS Sports Neil Pilson about the effect that 717 00:46:58,635 --> 00:47:00,995 Speaker 1: the strike would have on TV Sports in general and 718 00:47:01,075 --> 00:47:04,115 Speaker 1: CBS Sports in particular, And as the camera crew and 719 00:47:04,155 --> 00:47:08,635 Speaker 1: I filed into his office, Pilson wearily said, nothing against 720 00:47:08,715 --> 00:47:11,155 Speaker 1: you guys, but I've done so many interviews already about 721 00:47:11,155 --> 00:47:13,355 Speaker 1: this strike that if you actually come up with a 722 00:47:13,435 --> 00:47:16,715 Speaker 1: question I haven't been asked already, I'll give you. Well. 723 00:47:16,715 --> 00:47:19,795 Speaker 1: We all leaned in towards him. Give us what the job? 724 00:47:20,115 --> 00:47:24,315 Speaker 1: A job interview at least fifty dollars, I'll give you 725 00:47:25,035 --> 00:47:29,235 Speaker 1: CBS Sports caps man. Not exactly a job, but better 726 00:47:29,275 --> 00:47:32,035 Speaker 1: than nothing. So we rolled tape and I said, so, 727 00:47:32,115 --> 00:47:33,995 Speaker 1: mister Pilson, in light of the strike, do you wish 728 00:47:34,195 --> 00:47:37,275 Speaker 1: CBS Sports did not have the Super Bowl this year? 729 00:47:37,355 --> 00:47:40,515 Speaker 1: As it does? And he laughed, and he took off 730 00:47:40,515 --> 00:47:42,355 Speaker 1: his mic, and he went over to his office phone. 731 00:47:42,395 --> 00:47:45,515 Speaker 1: He buzzed his assistant, bring in three caps, will you? 732 00:47:46,075 --> 00:47:47,995 Speaker 1: And he sat back down. He said, you guys, did it? 733 00:47:48,595 --> 00:47:50,715 Speaker 1: Nobody asked me that yet, and it's like the only 734 00:47:50,795 --> 00:47:54,795 Speaker 1: question that really interests me. You're still rolling. Neil Pilsen 735 00:47:54,835 --> 00:47:57,635 Speaker 1: then proceeded to give a lengthy and thoughtful answer about 736 00:47:57,635 --> 00:48:00,155 Speaker 1: how as long as the season was not canceled. It 737 00:48:00,235 --> 00:48:03,715 Speaker 1: was probably better to have the next Super Bowl because 738 00:48:03,755 --> 00:48:06,795 Speaker 1: people would be so grateful that after the strike they 739 00:48:06,795 --> 00:48:10,475 Speaker 1: wound up playing in any way. So now a week 740 00:48:10,595 --> 00:48:13,435 Speaker 1: goes by after that interview, and the bargaining sessions between 741 00:48:13,475 --> 00:48:15,435 Speaker 1: the players and the owners are taking place in a 742 00:48:15,475 --> 00:48:19,595 Speaker 1: Manhattan hotel, the Lows on Lexington Avenue, a dump with 743 00:48:19,715 --> 00:48:23,155 Speaker 1: a nice lobby. All that matters to me is the 744 00:48:23,155 --> 00:48:26,075 Speaker 1: Lows with the dump and the nice lobby is literally 745 00:48:26,155 --> 00:48:29,715 Speaker 1: three blocks from my apartment. The players and the owners 746 00:48:29,795 --> 00:48:33,075 Speaker 1: just march through a long hallway into private rooms. That's 747 00:48:33,115 --> 00:48:35,835 Speaker 1: all we see of them. It is not heavy lifting. 748 00:48:36,435 --> 00:48:38,835 Speaker 1: There are nice seats at least in that lobby, but 749 00:48:38,915 --> 00:48:41,715 Speaker 1: it is enlivened one day by news that our boss, 750 00:48:41,755 --> 00:48:44,595 Speaker 1: Ted Turner has asked the union if he can come 751 00:48:44,635 --> 00:48:48,195 Speaker 1: in and meet with their twenty odd player negotiating team 752 00:48:48,395 --> 00:48:51,435 Speaker 1: because he wants to pitch them on something. He was 753 00:48:51,475 --> 00:48:55,995 Speaker 1: in fact due there yesterday but was unavoidably detained. The 754 00:48:56,155 --> 00:48:59,675 Speaker 1: rumor the players told me never confirmed, was that while 755 00:48:59,755 --> 00:49:02,875 Speaker 1: changing planes in Chicago, Turner and an air hostess had 756 00:49:02,955 --> 00:49:07,835 Speaker 1: ensconced themselves in a dumpster or the other version was 757 00:49:07,835 --> 00:49:12,035 Speaker 1: in a janitor's closet for twelve hours of whoopee, and 758 00:49:12,075 --> 00:49:15,995 Speaker 1: that's why he was a day late. Anyway, I walk 759 00:49:16,075 --> 00:49:18,275 Speaker 1: into the Lows that morning and if somehow I had 760 00:49:18,355 --> 00:49:20,955 Speaker 1: not been able to recognize my camera crew, sure enough 761 00:49:21,275 --> 00:49:23,075 Speaker 1: it is the same two guys who had been with 762 00:49:23,075 --> 00:49:26,315 Speaker 1: me at Neil Pilson's office at CBS when I asked 763 00:49:26,395 --> 00:49:28,395 Speaker 1: him the question he had not been asked before, earning 764 00:49:28,475 --> 00:49:32,475 Speaker 1: us free CBS sports caps, and the cameraman and the 765 00:49:32,475 --> 00:49:36,115 Speaker 1: deck operator are of course wearing their CBS sports caps 766 00:49:36,155 --> 00:49:39,795 Speaker 1: and understand. In nineteen eighty two, CNN was not an upstart. 767 00:49:39,955 --> 00:49:42,595 Speaker 1: It was not the feisty outsider, It was not the 768 00:49:42,635 --> 00:49:48,155 Speaker 1: future of news. We were called pretend TV. It was 769 00:49:48,155 --> 00:49:53,235 Speaker 1: said that CNN stood for Chicken Noodle News. One day, 770 00:49:53,275 --> 00:49:55,475 Speaker 1: I called somebody up and asked for press credentials for 771 00:49:55,555 --> 00:49:58,915 Speaker 1: Cable News Network and the guy said, Cable News Network 772 00:49:59,115 --> 00:50:03,035 Speaker 1: either people own the news stands downtown. I had no 773 00:50:03,115 --> 00:50:04,875 Speaker 1: idea what he was talking about, so I went to 774 00:50:04,955 --> 00:50:06,635 Speaker 1: one of the newstands and I asked the guy who 775 00:50:06,675 --> 00:50:08,675 Speaker 1: owns this place? And he pointed to a plaque and 776 00:50:08,715 --> 00:50:14,315 Speaker 1: it said owned by Cabbell News Company. The Cabell News Company, 777 00:50:14,315 --> 00:50:18,035 Speaker 1: owner of downtown newstands, was better known than Cable News Network. 778 00:50:18,835 --> 00:50:23,195 Speaker 1: We got scoffed at in some arenas and venues like 779 00:50:23,235 --> 00:50:26,275 Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden in New York. Our crews were not 780 00:50:26,355 --> 00:50:29,555 Speaker 1: admitted because they were not in the Union, So the 781 00:50:29,595 --> 00:50:33,315 Speaker 1: CBS sports caps were an important, albeit borrowed touch of 782 00:50:33,395 --> 00:50:37,395 Speaker 1: legitimacy and dignity, especially for my cameraman and my deck guy. 783 00:50:38,875 --> 00:50:41,475 Speaker 1: So the three of us position ourselves in that long 784 00:50:41,635 --> 00:50:44,555 Speaker 1: haul in the lobby waiting for my boss, Ted Turner, 785 00:50:44,715 --> 00:50:47,155 Speaker 1: me holding the mic with the big red CNN logo 786 00:50:47,195 --> 00:50:49,395 Speaker 1: on the mic flag, and the crew wearing their gaudy 787 00:50:49,555 --> 00:50:53,755 Speaker 1: CBS sports caps, and in Ted walks emerging from the 788 00:50:53,795 --> 00:50:57,795 Speaker 1: brilliant early autumn sunshine, filtering in from behind him from 789 00:50:57,835 --> 00:51:01,115 Speaker 1: the street like this was a perfectly lit movie scene. 790 00:51:01,715 --> 00:51:04,835 Speaker 1: And he sees me and recognized me and smile and 791 00:51:04,915 --> 00:51:07,755 Speaker 1: comes over and beams hot, damn, it's my CNN crew, 792 00:51:08,315 --> 00:51:10,515 Speaker 1: And he shakes my hand and we roll tape and 793 00:51:10,515 --> 00:51:12,555 Speaker 1: I start to asking my first question, and suddenly the 794 00:51:12,675 --> 00:51:16,755 Speaker 1: joy drains from his face and he stops me. Old 795 00:51:16,835 --> 00:51:20,755 Speaker 1: it what they wearing on their heads? He gestures at 796 00:51:20,755 --> 00:51:23,275 Speaker 1: the cameraman and the deck guy, and I explained the baxter, 797 00:51:23,395 --> 00:51:25,955 Speaker 1: I don't give a damn who gave him them. This 798 00:51:26,035 --> 00:51:28,515 Speaker 1: is a CNN crew. They wearing CBS sports caps. Get 799 00:51:28,555 --> 00:51:31,115 Speaker 1: them off they damn heads, and he pushes me, I 800 00:51:31,155 --> 00:51:36,435 Speaker 1: mean really shoves me and strides past us. Now, even then, 801 00:51:37,795 --> 00:51:40,675 Speaker 1: I'm five six inches taller than Ted Turner and twenty 802 00:51:40,675 --> 00:51:43,875 Speaker 1: five pounds heavier at least, and maybe I can live 803 00:51:43,915 --> 00:51:46,435 Speaker 1: with my employer embarrassing me in public, but I do 804 00:51:46,515 --> 00:51:48,675 Speaker 1: not have to let him shove me in front of 805 00:51:48,675 --> 00:51:52,595 Speaker 1: all the other reporters. So for a second, I think, Ah, 806 00:51:52,675 --> 00:51:55,275 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna run down the hall and catch him 807 00:51:55,275 --> 00:51:59,315 Speaker 1: and horse collar the bastard from behind. About a year 808 00:51:59,355 --> 00:52:01,875 Speaker 1: into my TV career, I have already accepted that there 809 00:52:01,875 --> 00:52:04,475 Speaker 1: are positives to television, but I've also already learned nearly 810 00:52:04,475 --> 00:52:07,155 Speaker 1: all all the negatives. And not three months earlier, I 811 00:52:07,195 --> 00:52:09,875 Speaker 1: had gone over to ABC to interview with them about 812 00:52:09,915 --> 00:52:13,955 Speaker 1: going back to do radio sports. Seems to me, given 813 00:52:13,955 --> 00:52:15,955 Speaker 1: what I know about Ted Turner, dragging him to the 814 00:52:15,955 --> 00:52:18,435 Speaker 1: ground and then quitting TV forever would be a pretty 815 00:52:18,475 --> 00:52:23,155 Speaker 1: appropriate farewell. And then one word popped in my head. 816 00:52:24,795 --> 00:52:32,435 Speaker 1: Rent ah right, right, Rent, So quickly I go to 817 00:52:32,475 --> 00:52:36,395 Speaker 1: Plan B to be fair in thought, if not an action, 818 00:52:36,515 --> 00:52:39,155 Speaker 1: Ted Turner was right. Look pretty silly to have the 819 00:52:39,235 --> 00:52:43,795 Speaker 1: CNN camera crew wearing CBS sports caps while interviewing the 820 00:52:43,795 --> 00:52:45,635 Speaker 1: founder and owner of CNN, who, by the way, was 821 00:52:45,675 --> 00:52:48,075 Speaker 1: in the newspaper constantly because he kept saying he was 822 00:52:48,115 --> 00:52:51,955 Speaker 1: going to buy CBS. Plus, I still had a story 823 00:52:51,955 --> 00:52:53,515 Speaker 1: to do that day, and that crew is going to 824 00:52:53,555 --> 00:52:55,635 Speaker 1: have to go back into the room where Turner would 825 00:52:55,635 --> 00:52:57,915 Speaker 1: be meeting with the players about an hour later for 826 00:52:58,035 --> 00:53:01,555 Speaker 1: the proverbial spray shot that would give us some video 827 00:53:01,635 --> 00:53:04,555 Speaker 1: to use of their meeting, and simply having my guy 828 00:53:04,835 --> 00:53:08,795 Speaker 1: take their caps off was not going to suffice. So 829 00:53:08,875 --> 00:53:10,995 Speaker 1: I ran the three blocks back to my apartment to 830 00:53:11,035 --> 00:53:14,235 Speaker 1: grab the only bit of merch or swag produced in 831 00:53:14,275 --> 00:53:16,555 Speaker 1: the first two years of CNN, something they had and 832 00:53:16,635 --> 00:53:22,475 Speaker 1: apparently inexhaustible supply of CNN bumper stickers. I must have 833 00:53:22,555 --> 00:53:24,235 Speaker 1: had a hundred of them in my place alone, and 834 00:53:24,235 --> 00:53:27,515 Speaker 1: there were boxes and cartons and boxes and cartons of 835 00:53:27,555 --> 00:53:31,235 Speaker 1: them in the New York Bureau, which was funny enough 836 00:53:31,275 --> 00:53:32,755 Speaker 1: as it was, since I don't think all the people 837 00:53:32,755 --> 00:53:35,155 Speaker 1: who worked at CNN in New York in nineteen eighty 838 00:53:35,155 --> 00:53:40,075 Speaker 1: two owned six cars among them. Anyway, I trimmed a 839 00:53:40,115 --> 00:53:42,795 Speaker 1: couple of the stickers down to just the CNN logos 840 00:53:43,075 --> 00:53:45,875 Speaker 1: and raced back to the Crappy Low's hotel, and just 841 00:53:45,915 --> 00:53:47,715 Speaker 1: as they were calling for the crews to come in 842 00:53:47,755 --> 00:53:50,755 Speaker 1: to get the spray shots of Ted meeting with the players, 843 00:53:51,515 --> 00:53:55,315 Speaker 1: I put those CNN logo stickers over the CBS logos 844 00:53:55,355 --> 00:53:58,115 Speaker 1: on my guys caps, and to my delight, they stuck 845 00:53:58,115 --> 00:54:02,475 Speaker 1: in place a little large, but it worked. Minutes later, 846 00:54:02,915 --> 00:54:04,635 Speaker 1: the boys came out of the meeting room and the 847 00:54:04,795 --> 00:54:08,235 Speaker 1: cameraman was in hysterics. He wound the video back and 848 00:54:08,275 --> 00:54:10,515 Speaker 1: had me watch it through the viewfinder of the camera. 849 00:54:10,955 --> 00:54:13,315 Speaker 1: As soon as they had walked in, Turner started to 850 00:54:13,315 --> 00:54:15,195 Speaker 1: give them dirty looks, and then suddenly one of the 851 00:54:15,315 --> 00:54:18,955 Speaker 1: NFL players said, Hey, Ted, there's your crew. There's your 852 00:54:18,955 --> 00:54:23,635 Speaker 1: CNN crew. Hey CNN over here. Everybody was laughing, and 853 00:54:23,675 --> 00:54:27,035 Speaker 1: now Ted was beaming that them. That's my CNN crew, 854 00:54:27,035 --> 00:54:31,075 Speaker 1: all right, good work boys. When his meeting with the 855 00:54:31,075 --> 00:54:33,275 Speaker 1: players broke up an hour later, I got a message 856 00:54:33,275 --> 00:54:36,715 Speaker 1: from Ted's assistant to wait for him around a corner 857 00:54:36,755 --> 00:54:40,315 Speaker 1: from the main lobby so he could give me give 858 00:54:40,435 --> 00:54:43,515 Speaker 1: CNN exclusive details about what he was trying to sell 859 00:54:43,555 --> 00:54:45,995 Speaker 1: the players on. It was a series of exhibition games 860 00:54:46,355 --> 00:54:48,315 Speaker 1: so the striking players could make a little money on 861 00:54:48,355 --> 00:54:51,515 Speaker 1: the side that he could televise, and there would be 862 00:54:51,555 --> 00:54:53,915 Speaker 1: a pitch to the National Labor Relations Board that the 863 00:54:53,955 --> 00:54:57,075 Speaker 1: strike had been forced on the players by the owners, 864 00:54:57,275 --> 00:54:59,995 Speaker 1: which would have meant the players would have all become 865 00:55:00,115 --> 00:55:04,635 Speaker 1: free agents. Ted wanted them, all of them, every player 866 00:55:04,715 --> 00:55:07,515 Speaker 1: in the National Football League to sign instead with him. 867 00:55:07,995 --> 00:55:10,875 Speaker 1: He would create a twenty four team league. He would 868 00:55:10,915 --> 00:55:14,115 Speaker 1: give the Union half ownership of every team, he would 869 00:55:14,195 --> 00:55:16,635 Speaker 1: find backers for the other half, and all he wanted 870 00:55:17,115 --> 00:55:20,835 Speaker 1: was the TV rights. It didn't happen, obviously, but what 871 00:55:20,955 --> 00:55:25,275 Speaker 1: a breathtaking scheme. Anyway. Turner was all smiles when he 872 00:55:25,315 --> 00:55:27,275 Speaker 1: came out of the meeting to tell me before he 873 00:55:27,315 --> 00:55:28,875 Speaker 1: met with the rest of the press, and he said, 874 00:55:28,915 --> 00:55:30,915 Speaker 1: great with the hat, good work, but I have to 875 00:55:30,915 --> 00:55:32,995 Speaker 1: get you guys some real sea in ed sports has 876 00:55:32,995 --> 00:55:36,755 Speaker 1: for Christmas. Ted stayed another fifteen or twenty minutes doing 877 00:55:36,795 --> 00:55:40,275 Speaker 1: god knows what with God knows whom. I didn't see 878 00:55:40,275 --> 00:55:42,355 Speaker 1: any dumpsters in the hotel and then he left by 879 00:55:42,355 --> 00:55:44,515 Speaker 1: the main exit as the rest of the camera crews 880 00:55:44,515 --> 00:55:47,355 Speaker 1: and reporters trailed him. I went along just to see 881 00:55:47,355 --> 00:55:48,955 Speaker 1: if there was anything he hadn't told me, And as 882 00:55:48,955 --> 00:55:51,155 Speaker 1: he went out the doors to his car, he said, 883 00:55:51,315 --> 00:55:55,555 Speaker 1: see overman, and I said, don't forget the hats, and 884 00:55:55,635 --> 00:55:58,955 Speaker 1: Ted Turner gave me one of the dirtiest looks I 885 00:55:58,995 --> 00:56:05,075 Speaker 1: have ever gotten in my life. Sure enough, couple of 886 00:56:05,115 --> 00:56:08,035 Speaker 1: days before Christmas, I get a call from my boss 887 00:56:08,035 --> 00:56:10,195 Speaker 1: in Atlanta. I mean, just got a box of one 888 00:56:10,275 --> 00:56:14,275 Speaker 1: hundred CNN Sports Truckers caps from Ted Turner's office. I 889 00:56:14,275 --> 00:56:15,795 Speaker 1: don't know what the hell this is all about, but 890 00:56:15,835 --> 00:56:18,715 Speaker 1: his assistant says, if we wanted to know, we should 891 00:56:18,715 --> 00:56:21,995 Speaker 1: call you. I was very proud of making the correct 892 00:56:22,075 --> 00:56:26,435 Speaker 1: choice between correcting mistake and getting us all hats and 893 00:56:26,515 --> 00:56:32,315 Speaker 1: dissaulting him. There is one PostScript. Ted talked the players 894 00:56:32,355 --> 00:56:34,995 Speaker 1: into the exhibition games. I mentioned only two of them, 895 00:56:35,035 --> 00:56:37,835 Speaker 1: one at RFK Stadium in Washington, which I went to 896 00:56:37,995 --> 00:56:43,235 Speaker 1: on assignment. Seated next to Ted Turner. He had two 897 00:56:43,275 --> 00:56:47,115 Speaker 1: flasks with him. Anyway, the crowd was so small at 898 00:56:47,235 --> 00:56:49,755 Speaker 1: RFK Stadium in Washington that at one point they got 899 00:56:49,755 --> 00:56:52,595 Speaker 1: on the PA system and asked all the fans to 900 00:56:52,635 --> 00:56:55,635 Speaker 1: go sit down behind the player benches so the TV 901 00:56:55,715 --> 00:56:58,555 Speaker 1: shots of the game wouldn't show all those empty seats. 902 00:56:59,435 --> 00:57:02,475 Speaker 1: The other game was in the Los Angeles Coliseum. They 903 00:57:02,555 --> 00:57:06,715 Speaker 1: drew even less, maybe a thousand, probably more like five hundred, 904 00:57:07,395 --> 00:57:11,475 Speaker 1: five hundred fans in the LA Coliseum. Five hundred fans 905 00:57:11,515 --> 00:57:15,595 Speaker 1: looks like the raisins and rice pudding. But it was 906 00:57:15,675 --> 00:57:18,635 Speaker 1: the name of his ad hoc league with these games 907 00:57:18,635 --> 00:57:21,835 Speaker 1: in Washington and LA that still sticks with me. Forty 908 00:57:21,955 --> 00:57:25,675 Speaker 1: years later. Ted named it himself. I'm pretty sure he 909 00:57:25,715 --> 00:57:29,275 Speaker 1: did this deliberately. I know nobody else noticed it until 910 00:57:29,275 --> 00:57:32,235 Speaker 1: I made a big deal about it. Ted Turner called 911 00:57:32,235 --> 00:57:36,355 Speaker 1: his ill fated venture his Erzatz National Football League the 912 00:57:36,475 --> 00:57:43,355 Speaker 1: quote all Star Season, and I said, perfect. The acronym 913 00:57:43,395 --> 00:58:01,035 Speaker 1: you have built for it is a s S. Years later, 914 00:58:01,475 --> 00:58:04,515 Speaker 1: they gave Ted Turner a Lifetime Sports Emmy and I 915 00:58:04,835 --> 00:58:07,955 Speaker 1: a tribute to him on the ESPN two Show. And 916 00:58:07,995 --> 00:58:10,475 Speaker 1: a few days after that, a fan letter showed up 917 00:58:10,515 --> 00:58:13,675 Speaker 1: in my home mailbox. And I never used my home mailbox, 918 00:58:14,315 --> 00:58:17,355 Speaker 1: didn't want to give out my home address, and it 919 00:58:17,395 --> 00:58:19,795 Speaker 1: was a fan letter about the Turner Report and about 920 00:58:19,835 --> 00:58:22,435 Speaker 1: Ted Turner, and it ended keep up the good work, 921 00:58:23,115 --> 00:58:28,315 Speaker 1: signed Donald Trump, I swear I've done all the damage 922 00:58:28,315 --> 00:58:30,075 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. As the 923 00:58:30,075 --> 00:58:33,035 Speaker 1: first sign he was losing his mind, thank you for listening. Countdown. 924 00:58:33,075 --> 00:58:36,115 Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel arranged, produced, 925 00:58:36,155 --> 00:58:38,835 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on 926 00:58:38,875 --> 00:58:42,875 Speaker 1: the guitars, bass and drums. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. 927 00:58:43,115 --> 00:58:46,035 Speaker 1: He was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some 928 00:58:46,075 --> 00:58:49,155 Speaker 1: of the Beethoven compositions, arranged and performed by the group 929 00:58:49,195 --> 00:58:52,475 Speaker 1: No Horns Allowed. The sports music is the Olderman theme 930 00:58:52,515 --> 00:58:55,835 Speaker 1: from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis, courtesy of 931 00:58:56,075 --> 00:58:59,395 Speaker 1: ESPN Inc. Our satirical and fifthy musical comments are by 932 00:58:59,435 --> 00:59:03,155 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer 933 00:59:03,195 --> 00:59:06,915 Speaker 1: today was my friend Stevie Bands. Everything else was pretty 934 00:59:06,995 --> 00:59:09,595 Speaker 1: much my fault. And that's countdown for this. The one 935 00:59:09,675 --> 00:59:12,755 Speaker 1: hundred and forty second day until the twenty twenty four 936 00:59:12,835 --> 00:59:17,035 Speaker 1: presidential election. The two hundred and fifty ninth day since 937 00:59:17,115 --> 00:59:20,995 Speaker 1: convicted fellon Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 938 00:59:20,995 --> 00:59:24,235 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States, use the July eleventh 939 00:59:24,275 --> 00:59:28,755 Speaker 1: sentencing hearing, use the mental health system, use presidential immunity 940 00:59:28,795 --> 00:59:32,915 Speaker 1: if it happens. Use the Biden campaign budget to stop 941 00:59:32,995 --> 00:59:40,195 Speaker 1: him from doing it again while we still can. Thanks 942 00:59:40,275 --> 00:59:42,755 Speaker 1: for your inquiries about the dogs and their dental work. 943 00:59:42,915 --> 00:59:46,835 Speaker 1: Everything went aok. Stevie lost two teeth, Ted didn't lose 944 00:59:46,915 --> 00:59:50,115 Speaker 1: any They're fine, just a little sore. The next scheduled 945 00:59:50,155 --> 00:59:53,395 Speaker 1: countdown is tomorrow. Bulletin says the news warrants till then, 946 00:59:53,395 --> 00:59:57,395 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 947 00:59:57,835 --> 01:00:10,515 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Olreman is a production of iHeartRadio. 948 01:00:10,795 --> 01:00:16,115 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 949 01:00:16,235 --> 01:00:18,195 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.