1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,115 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio Sunday. 2 00:00:22,315 --> 00:00:26,475 Speaker 1: He got the name of his own doctor wrong. Now 3 00:00:26,835 --> 00:00:29,875 Speaker 1: he has gotten the name of the President of the 4 00:00:30,035 --> 00:00:37,635 Speaker 1: United States wrong. Who in the hell is Joe Bride? 5 00:00:38,835 --> 00:00:44,115 Speaker 1: Joe Bride? This guy is just the worst. Joe Biden's 6 00:00:44,155 --> 00:00:50,635 Speaker 1: forming granting mass thinking to rapid citizenship so they can vote. 7 00:00:50,875 --> 00:00:55,595 Speaker 1: Joe Bride. Trump's brain basically melting in the hot sun 8 00:00:55,715 --> 00:01:01,075 Speaker 1: in Milwaukee. Joe Bride, No, he's fine. Ask doctor Johnson, 9 00:01:01,795 --> 00:01:05,115 Speaker 1: Doctor Jackson, Doctor Johnson, Doctor Jackson, my sister, my daughter, 10 00:01:05,195 --> 00:01:11,115 Speaker 1: Joe Bride, asked Joe Bride. Trump also stepped into it again, 11 00:01:11,235 --> 00:01:14,155 Speaker 1: not in Milwaukee, but about it. His campaign had to 12 00:01:14,155 --> 00:01:17,435 Speaker 1: deny a heavily sourced report from the ABC television station 13 00:01:17,515 --> 00:01:21,195 Speaker 1: in Chicago that during the Republican convention in Milwaukee, the 14 00:01:21,235 --> 00:01:24,075 Speaker 1: place he called horrible last week, he will not even 15 00:01:24,115 --> 00:01:27,115 Speaker 1: stay in a hotel there. He will stay rather in 16 00:01:27,195 --> 00:01:32,395 Speaker 1: his building in Chicago and commute to Milwaukee. Just to 17 00:01:32,475 --> 00:01:34,555 Speaker 1: add a little to the sense of the scenes coming 18 00:01:34,595 --> 00:01:38,795 Speaker 1: apart the Wisconsin congressman who last week insisted Trump never 19 00:01:38,875 --> 00:01:42,475 Speaker 1: said a thing to the Republican House conclave about Milwaukee 20 00:01:42,515 --> 00:01:45,475 Speaker 1: being horrible, then an hour later went on television and 21 00:01:45,515 --> 00:01:49,635 Speaker 1: denied his own denial. Screwed up again in Milwaukee. This 22 00:01:49,835 --> 00:01:53,955 Speaker 1: is Congressman Brian's style. He's supposed to be saying that 23 00:01:54,075 --> 00:01:57,915 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is so old, or at least that Joe 24 00:01:57,955 --> 00:02:01,075 Speaker 1: Bride is so old. Instead he screws up, and he 25 00:02:01,155 --> 00:02:05,515 Speaker 1: makes the age joke about Trump and makes himself look 26 00:02:05,555 --> 00:02:08,675 Speaker 1: like an idiot. It's hard to believe Donald Trump was 27 00:02:08,675 --> 00:02:11,155 Speaker 1: first elected to the United States Senate when I was 28 00:02:11,435 --> 00:02:17,755 Speaker 1: negative eight years old. That's true. President Biden was elected 29 00:02:17,835 --> 00:02:21,195 Speaker 1: when I was negative eight years old. Sure, whatever you say, buddy, 30 00:02:21,195 --> 00:02:25,715 Speaker 1: tell it to Joe Bride. Meanwhile, Susie Wiles and Chris Losavita, 31 00:02:25,755 --> 00:02:29,355 Speaker 1: who are in essence running the Trump campaign, are reportedly 32 00:02:29,475 --> 00:02:34,155 Speaker 1: worried about Trump, specifically about his deteriorating mental condition. Can't 33 00:02:34,275 --> 00:02:39,315 Speaker 1: imagine why Joe Bride, and this is coming from two 34 00:02:39,395 --> 00:02:42,275 Speaker 1: former Republicans still plugged into that side of the ball. 35 00:02:42,675 --> 00:02:46,035 Speaker 1: Wiles and las Avita, per Rick Wilson are going to 36 00:02:46,155 --> 00:02:50,235 Speaker 1: friendly journalists now and quoting Wilson, are starting to whisper 37 00:02:50,355 --> 00:02:55,035 Speaker 1: that no one can control Trump. Former Republican Senate aide 38 00:02:55,075 --> 00:02:58,355 Speaker 1: Tom Nichols meanwhile put his finger to the wind and 39 00:02:58,395 --> 00:03:01,395 Speaker 1: then wrote that the flood of Trump campaign efforts to 40 00:03:01,435 --> 00:03:04,875 Speaker 1: make it look like no one can control President Biden 41 00:03:05,675 --> 00:03:09,355 Speaker 1: are making him suspicious. Nichols now writes, quote, Republicans and 42 00:03:09,395 --> 00:03:12,955 Speaker 1: their media ecosystem seem to be in a panic about 43 00:03:12,955 --> 00:03:16,755 Speaker 1: their candidate. If Trump is doing so well, why is 44 00:03:16,795 --> 00:03:20,275 Speaker 1: his campaign and its support system in right wing media 45 00:03:20,635 --> 00:03:26,875 Speaker 1: resorting to easily disproved lies because their candidate cannot remember 46 00:03:26,955 --> 00:03:30,995 Speaker 1: the name of the man he is running against. Meanwhile, 47 00:03:31,075 --> 00:03:35,795 Speaker 1: back at Joe Bride headquarters, I hate background insider how 48 00:03:35,835 --> 00:03:39,675 Speaker 1: it happens stories, but Politico has an unusually useful one. 49 00:03:39,835 --> 00:03:42,955 Speaker 1: Why the Biden campaign finally read the room and called 50 00:03:42,995 --> 00:03:46,075 Speaker 1: Trump a convicted criminal in its new ads going into 51 00:03:46,115 --> 00:03:49,195 Speaker 1: the swing States this month. It's got a Biden polster 52 00:03:49,395 --> 00:03:53,515 Speaker 1: on the record, but anonymous quoting We've seen in polling 53 00:03:53,635 --> 00:03:56,635 Speaker 1: since the conviction that the more the conviction is front 54 00:03:56,675 --> 00:04:00,475 Speaker 1: and center in voters' attention, the worse it is for Trump. 55 00:04:02,075 --> 00:04:06,355 Speaker 1: The pollster said. Their research conclude that Trump's conviction could 56 00:04:06,355 --> 00:04:09,595 Speaker 1: effectively be used in a broader depiction of Trump as 57 00:04:09,635 --> 00:04:13,875 Speaker 1: being self centered and unwilling to take responsibility for his actions, 58 00:04:14,275 --> 00:04:18,595 Speaker 1: quoting him. Trump has dug his own hole deeper on 59 00:04:18,715 --> 00:04:21,715 Speaker 1: the convictions, the poster said, and we're seeing him pay 60 00:04:21,755 --> 00:04:26,315 Speaker 1: the price for that in the polling. Maybe more impressively, 61 00:04:26,355 --> 00:04:30,275 Speaker 1: Politico also had Third Way co founder Matt Bennett underscoring 62 00:04:30,315 --> 00:04:34,675 Speaker 1: the fact that the convictions are really affecting independent voters, 63 00:04:35,115 --> 00:04:37,595 Speaker 1: quoting him. What the polling clearly shows is there is 64 00:04:37,635 --> 00:04:40,395 Speaker 1: a group of voters for whom the convictions matter, and 65 00:04:40,475 --> 00:04:42,675 Speaker 1: it is the voters who are going to decide the election. 66 00:04:43,075 --> 00:04:45,275 Speaker 1: A lot of us were skeptical that it would, but 67 00:04:45,355 --> 00:04:48,355 Speaker 1: I think it's clear that these voters were shaken by 68 00:04:48,395 --> 00:04:51,755 Speaker 1: the idea of a convicted felon becoming president. It's a 69 00:04:51,755 --> 00:04:54,915 Speaker 1: pretty potent argument to make for voters who are on 70 00:04:54,995 --> 00:04:59,075 Speaker 1: the fence unquote. Goddamn right. It is at the other 71 00:04:59,235 --> 00:05:01,755 Speaker 1: end of the journalism scale, though the Biden is going 72 00:05:01,795 --> 00:05:05,275 Speaker 1: to be replaced plot. Maybe he's going to be replaced 73 00:05:05,275 --> 00:05:08,595 Speaker 1: by Joe Bride. The Biden is going to be replaced. 74 00:05:08,675 --> 00:05:11,715 Speaker 1: Plot is ramping up again, and here's a shock. Three 75 00:05:11,835 --> 00:05:16,195 Speaker 1: names still pushing the thing are Mark Penn, Joe Klein, 76 00:05:16,875 --> 00:05:21,755 Speaker 1: and Kathleen Parker. You remember Kathleen Parker. She's the Washington 77 00:05:21,795 --> 00:05:24,635 Speaker 1: Post idiot who eight years ago managed to get not 78 00:05:24,875 --> 00:05:27,675 Speaker 1: just the election wrong, but managed to get it wrong 79 00:05:28,035 --> 00:05:32,315 Speaker 1: in both opposing directions. She wrote, no matter who won, 80 00:05:32,755 --> 00:05:36,395 Speaker 1: we would be fine. There would be no wall, Republicans 81 00:05:36,395 --> 00:05:39,515 Speaker 1: would contain Trump, and Hillary Clinton would be handled by 82 00:05:39,515 --> 00:05:45,275 Speaker 1: her handlers. Inexplicably, Parker is still at the Washington Post, 83 00:05:45,475 --> 00:05:48,635 Speaker 1: and now she is suggesting that Biden has not dropped 84 00:05:48,675 --> 00:05:53,275 Speaker 1: out only because Democrats don't believe Vice President Harris would win. 85 00:05:54,075 --> 00:05:59,035 Speaker 1: So her headline, Democrats are wrestling with an age old problem. 86 00:05:59,835 --> 00:06:05,195 Speaker 1: Maybe Hillary Clinton could come to the rescue. Unquote poker note, 87 00:06:05,235 --> 00:06:09,075 Speaker 1: Secretary Clinton has endorsed a Democratic congressional candidate, and she 88 00:06:09,275 --> 00:06:13,515 Speaker 1: thinks that means well, let me just quote this dribble. 89 00:06:14,235 --> 00:06:17,715 Speaker 1: The question is why, now, Why would she suddenly get 90 00:06:17,715 --> 00:06:20,915 Speaker 1: involved in a congressional race. We are left to speculate 91 00:06:20,955 --> 00:06:24,275 Speaker 1: about motive, but the effect of Clinton inserting herself into 92 00:06:24,275 --> 00:06:26,875 Speaker 1: the news cycle is to remind voters that, but for 93 00:06:26,955 --> 00:06:29,915 Speaker 1: her defeat in twenty sixteen, we wouldn't be stuck in 94 00:06:29,955 --> 00:06:34,035 Speaker 1: this old white man dilemma. No one has mentioned her 95 00:06:34,035 --> 00:06:37,635 Speaker 1: as a possible running mate for Biden far as I know, 96 00:06:38,235 --> 00:06:42,635 Speaker 1: but why not replace Harris with Clinton? At seventy six? 97 00:06:42,955 --> 00:06:45,275 Speaker 1: She might want no part of it, but it's hard 98 00:06:45,275 --> 00:06:48,555 Speaker 1: to retire when you feel your job isn't done. If 99 00:06:48,595 --> 00:06:51,475 Speaker 1: Biden needs to step down, even those who didn't vote 100 00:06:51,515 --> 00:06:54,355 Speaker 1: for Clinton would have confidence in her ability to keep 101 00:06:54,395 --> 00:06:58,035 Speaker 1: the country on track. It's just a thought, But worse 102 00:06:58,235 --> 00:07:03,275 Speaker 1: ideas have met with regrettable success. Unquote. Yeah, CNN once 103 00:07:03,315 --> 00:07:07,555 Speaker 1: thought Kathleen Parker co anchor their eight PM newscast, and 104 00:07:07,595 --> 00:07:10,355 Speaker 1: that had regrettable success. Oh no, it didn't. They fired 105 00:07:10,395 --> 00:07:13,675 Speaker 1: her after a couple of months. As to Mark Penn, 106 00:07:14,395 --> 00:07:19,075 Speaker 1: he is referenced in Britain's Daily Mails article about how 107 00:07:19,115 --> 00:07:21,835 Speaker 1: if the president struggles in the debate, a group of 108 00:07:21,875 --> 00:07:25,435 Speaker 1: Democratic elders will convene and blah blah blah blah blah. 109 00:07:25,475 --> 00:07:29,315 Speaker 1: You know the rest. Worse that British tabloid quotes the 110 00:07:29,355 --> 00:07:33,115 Speaker 1: former political columnist Joe Klein with one of the dumbest 111 00:07:33,115 --> 00:07:36,595 Speaker 1: things ever written. Kathleen Parker would not have written this 112 00:07:36,995 --> 00:07:40,955 Speaker 1: quote if Biden were to stand down. Quote a vigorous 113 00:07:41,035 --> 00:07:44,235 Speaker 1: young candidate. Don't ask me who could win over the 114 00:07:44,275 --> 00:07:49,315 Speaker 1: country with a single convention. Speech in August. In Kline scenario, 115 00:07:49,715 --> 00:07:53,875 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party savior would deliver an Obama asque inspirational 116 00:07:53,915 --> 00:07:57,555 Speaker 1: speech akin to Barack's famous two thousand and four Democratic 117 00:07:57,595 --> 00:08:01,795 Speaker 1: Convention address that would quickly bring together disaffected Democrats and 118 00:08:01,915 --> 00:08:07,195 Speaker 1: moderate independence unquote. All you really need to know about 119 00:08:07,315 --> 00:08:10,675 Speaker 1: Joe Klein's incompetence is he and I went to the 120 00:08:10,715 --> 00:08:13,835 Speaker 1: same prep school, not at the same time, but we 121 00:08:13,955 --> 00:08:17,795 Speaker 1: had the same immortal English teacher who reshaped us from 122 00:08:18,155 --> 00:08:22,875 Speaker 1: bad writers into well not so bad writers. The teacher's 123 00:08:22,955 --> 00:08:26,035 Speaker 1: name was Arthur Nathan, and twenty years ago Kleine and 124 00:08:26,075 --> 00:08:29,195 Speaker 1: I co chaired his retirement ceremony, for which a couple 125 00:08:29,155 --> 00:08:32,235 Speaker 1: of hundred students, maybe a quarter of all he ever taught, 126 00:08:32,515 --> 00:08:36,475 Speaker 1: traveled back here to thank him. This is the all 127 00:08:36,595 --> 00:08:40,835 Speaker 1: you really need to know about Klein part. Kleine emphasized 128 00:08:40,915 --> 00:08:43,275 Speaker 1: at that event that mister Nathing had taught him the 129 00:08:43,475 --> 00:08:46,635 Speaker 1: essence of good writing, namely that you must write as 130 00:08:46,635 --> 00:08:49,435 Speaker 1: if your name were in bold print at the end 131 00:08:49,515 --> 00:08:55,475 Speaker 1: of every page, every paragraph, perhaps every sentence. Joe Kline was, 132 00:08:55,515 --> 00:08:57,755 Speaker 1: of course, the man who wrote the novelized version of 133 00:08:57,755 --> 00:09:01,715 Speaker 1: the Bill Clinton campaign primary colors. What you may not 134 00:09:01,995 --> 00:09:05,555 Speaker 1: know about that is that Kleine, molded by Arthur Nathan 135 00:09:05,715 --> 00:09:10,915 Speaker 1: to remember that his words carried his very identity, originally 136 00:09:10,995 --> 00:09:43,035 Speaker 1: published his book Primary Colors anonymously. Meanwhile, almost as big 137 00:09:43,275 --> 00:09:47,595 Speaker 1: as Trump calling Joe Biden Joe Bride Rogers, Stone may 138 00:09:47,595 --> 00:09:51,995 Speaker 1: have conceivably cost Judge Eileen Cannon her job. In the 139 00:09:52,075 --> 00:09:55,915 Speaker 1: latest undercover audio released by my friend, the investigative journalist 140 00:09:55,995 --> 00:09:59,875 Speaker 1: Lauren Windsor and her colleague Ali Somarco, Stone at a 141 00:10:00,075 --> 00:10:04,435 Speaker 1: Catholics for Catholics event at Mary Lago made the mistake 142 00:10:04,475 --> 00:10:07,595 Speaker 1: of hinting that the fix could be in in Trump's 143 00:10:07,635 --> 00:10:11,915 Speaker 1: trial for stealing and keeping classified documents and other Espionage 144 00:10:11,995 --> 00:10:15,555 Speaker 1: Act crimes. That when the Trump appointed Cannon conducts a 145 00:10:15,595 --> 00:10:19,235 Speaker 1: hearing day after tomorrow on the Trump motions to dismiss 146 00:10:19,395 --> 00:10:22,355 Speaker 1: all or most of the charges on the fabricated premise 147 00:10:22,395 --> 00:10:27,555 Speaker 1: that the Special Council was unlawfully appointed, Stone seems, even 148 00:10:27,595 --> 00:10:32,515 Speaker 1: for him, unusually confident that Cannon really will throw the 149 00:10:32,595 --> 00:10:35,315 Speaker 1: case to Trump. I think the judge Stary Lords is 150 00:10:35,435 --> 00:10:41,555 Speaker 1: dismissing that Judges gets what Jack Smith could do about 151 00:10:41,595 --> 00:10:44,475 Speaker 1: that Cannon, whom Trump elevated to the bench after she 152 00:10:44,555 --> 00:10:48,355 Speaker 1: began as literally the flamenco and yoga correspondent of the 153 00:10:48,355 --> 00:10:53,355 Speaker 1: Miami Nuevo Herald newspaper. What Jack Smith could do is unclear. 154 00:10:53,795 --> 00:10:57,475 Speaker 1: There have already been complaints about Judge Cannon's conduct, especially 155 00:10:57,635 --> 00:11:01,915 Speaker 1: her slow walking this case and her overall obvious, painful 156 00:11:01,955 --> 00:11:07,235 Speaker 1: inability to do ordinary judge things like scheduling and ruling 157 00:11:07,755 --> 00:11:10,755 Speaker 1: that has all already made it to the Eleventh Circuit Court. 158 00:11:11,275 --> 00:11:15,235 Speaker 1: What Stone's words might do is even more speculative. As 159 00:11:15,275 --> 00:11:17,435 Speaker 1: close as he has been to Trump, He's not officially 160 00:11:17,435 --> 00:11:20,195 Speaker 1: involved in this case, but as long ago as April, 161 00:11:20,395 --> 00:11:24,635 Speaker 1: Trump's former attorney Ty Cobb said he thought her conduct 162 00:11:24,715 --> 00:11:28,275 Speaker 1: was so unprofessional, leaving aside the potentiality of it also 163 00:11:28,315 --> 00:11:32,755 Speaker 1: being corrupt, that Cobb expected the Eleventh Circuit to remove 164 00:11:33,235 --> 00:11:38,435 Speaker 1: Judge Cannon eventually. Unfortunately, from more of the windsor Somrco 165 00:11:38,555 --> 00:11:41,595 Speaker 1: recordings of Stone at marri Lago last month, if Canon 166 00:11:41,795 --> 00:11:45,835 Speaker 1: is defused and another judge takes over the Trump Document's case, 167 00:11:46,475 --> 00:11:50,915 Speaker 1: Stone ain't worried judges. He's got a million judges and 168 00:11:50,955 --> 00:11:54,515 Speaker 1: he expects to deploy them and lawyers and something closer 169 00:11:54,555 --> 00:11:58,115 Speaker 1: to his Brooks Brothers riot during the judicial selection of 170 00:11:58,275 --> 00:12:01,155 Speaker 1: George W. Bush as president in the early winter of 171 00:12:01,195 --> 00:12:04,875 Speaker 1: two thousand, rather than you know, the real riot at 172 00:12:04,915 --> 00:12:08,355 Speaker 1: the Capitol on January sixth. We're working on it. We're 173 00:12:08,395 --> 00:12:08,835 Speaker 1: working on it. 174 00:12:09,235 --> 00:12:13,995 Speaker 2: Lawyer's judges, technology, n there's some, but there are many 175 00:12:14,035 --> 00:12:14,555 Speaker 2: living guns. 176 00:12:14,755 --> 00:12:15,795 Speaker 1: Money is every level. 177 00:12:15,875 --> 00:12:19,555 Speaker 2: We here, we are doing that the residents trial, George's 178 00:12:19,595 --> 00:12:22,235 Speaker 2: fall in the hall. I think the judges are the 179 00:12:22,315 --> 00:12:28,235 Speaker 2: larger dismissing that judges gets to learn they're delayed in 180 00:12:28,275 --> 00:12:35,315 Speaker 2: New York City and they're now delayed to Washington. Stim 181 00:12:35,555 --> 00:12:39,515 Speaker 2: trials the election, which is the absolute key to be 182 00:12:39,635 --> 00:12:43,435 Speaker 2: able convinced peaker and the reason we lost the special trial. 183 00:12:44,315 --> 00:12:47,395 Speaker 2: Right now, if they steal the peoples of arts impossible, 184 00:12:47,675 --> 00:12:51,235 Speaker 2: SIOF is leading all the poll They walk to try 185 00:12:51,315 --> 00:12:55,715 Speaker 2: and suffer his money, suffered his time, and create the 186 00:12:55,875 --> 00:12:58,755 Speaker 2: reasons why their death is plausible in the. 187 00:12:58,875 --> 00:13:02,955 Speaker 1: Legal As to the more immediate legal issues, Trump's conciers 188 00:13:03,075 --> 00:13:15,995 Speaker 1: Judge Eileen Cannon conduct her hearing Friday. Meanwhile, if you're 189 00:13:16,035 --> 00:13:19,275 Speaker 1: wondering how many End of the World planks they can 190 00:13:19,355 --> 00:13:23,635 Speaker 1: fit into the Republican platform, here's another one. The Heritage 191 00:13:23,715 --> 00:13:27,675 Speaker 1: Foundation the puppeteers behind Project twenty twenty five, and thus 192 00:13:27,755 --> 00:13:31,635 Speaker 1: the puppeteers behind a Trump dictatorship have posted yet another 193 00:13:32,275 --> 00:13:35,835 Speaker 1: you have to keep working until you're dead peace quoting. 194 00:13:36,315 --> 00:13:41,195 Speaker 1: To restore social securities intent, policymakers should gradually increase the 195 00:13:41,315 --> 00:13:46,555 Speaker 1: normal retirement age from sixty seven to sixty nine or seventy, 196 00:13:47,035 --> 00:13:50,595 Speaker 1: moving the age up by one or two months per year, 197 00:13:51,195 --> 00:13:55,915 Speaker 1: and indexit to life expectancy. How do you not make 198 00:13:55,995 --> 00:14:00,195 Speaker 1: that into a Biden ad? I'm Joe Bride, and I 199 00:14:00,275 --> 00:14:04,315 Speaker 1: approve this message because the Republicans want you to work 200 00:14:04,395 --> 00:14:08,195 Speaker 1: till you die. A Steve Bannon update, It is now 201 00:14:08,275 --> 00:14:11,195 Speaker 1: reported that when his four month jail term starts on 202 00:14:11,315 --> 00:14:13,875 Speaker 1: July first, it will not be at some club fed, 203 00:14:14,315 --> 00:14:18,515 Speaker 1: but rather at the Federal Correction facility at Danbury, Connecticut, which, 204 00:14:18,555 --> 00:14:22,795 Speaker 1: among other unpleasant realities, is halfway between New York City 205 00:14:23,315 --> 00:14:28,275 Speaker 1: and ESPN World headquarters. Also, Bannon would be in jail 206 00:14:28,675 --> 00:14:31,915 Speaker 1: while he goes on trial here as part of that 207 00:14:32,155 --> 00:14:35,515 Speaker 1: Build the Wall financial scam that would be in September, 208 00:14:35,795 --> 00:14:39,075 Speaker 1: and if he thinks Danbury is fun, the expectation is 209 00:14:39,155 --> 00:14:41,675 Speaker 1: that when court is not in session in New York 210 00:14:41,875 --> 00:14:46,075 Speaker 1: they would keep him at the Rikers Island jail. I 211 00:14:46,155 --> 00:14:50,235 Speaker 1: mean Rikers Island. This is a jail jail. I have 212 00:14:50,475 --> 00:14:53,355 Speaker 1: been there, not as an inmate, but I have been there. 213 00:14:53,515 --> 00:14:57,635 Speaker 1: They have sent prisoners to Rikers and lost them. I 214 00:14:57,715 --> 00:15:00,515 Speaker 1: don't mean they died, I don't mean they escaped. I 215 00:15:00,595 --> 00:15:04,315 Speaker 1: mean they get sent there, and bureaucratically they get lost, 216 00:15:05,115 --> 00:15:08,555 Speaker 1: and I don't know that they stay and open a shoeshine, 217 00:15:08,635 --> 00:15:12,395 Speaker 1: stand in a cell block or something. Two other notes, 218 00:15:12,475 --> 00:15:16,395 Speaker 1: The Trump family Daily Self Unawareness Award actually does not 219 00:15:16,715 --> 00:15:20,755 Speaker 1: go to elderly offender Trump, even for Joe Bride, but 220 00:15:20,915 --> 00:15:24,995 Speaker 1: to his son, idiot Junior. Donald the second tweeted a 221 00:15:25,075 --> 00:15:29,875 Speaker 1: photo of CNN's anchor Jim Acosta and wrote, Lol, looks 222 00:15:29,955 --> 00:15:34,395 Speaker 1: like CNN fake news loser. Acosta got an embarrassingly bad 223 00:15:35,075 --> 00:15:41,275 Speaker 1: hair dye job, leaving his father's hair diary job out 224 00:15:41,315 --> 00:15:48,195 Speaker 1: of it. Talk about embarrassingly bad hair dye job, Remember that, 225 00:15:48,315 --> 00:15:52,675 Speaker 1: among the other living hells of his life, Don Junior 226 00:15:52,875 --> 00:15:55,955 Speaker 1: is the guy who, on some kind of regular basis, 227 00:15:56,595 --> 00:16:01,595 Speaker 1: mounts that gargoyle Kimberly Gilfoyle, who at age fifty five, 228 00:16:01,755 --> 00:16:04,155 Speaker 1: is trying to look thirty five and who now has 229 00:16:04,275 --> 00:16:07,075 Speaker 1: so much makeup and so much hair dye that she 230 00:16:07,155 --> 00:16:10,315 Speaker 1: looks like Betty Davis in the movie Whatever Happened to 231 00:16:10,475 --> 00:16:16,835 Speaker 1: Baby Jane? And lastly, there has been a Milania Trump 232 00:16:16,995 --> 00:16:22,035 Speaker 1: sighting the log Cabin. Republicans are holding a fundraiser at 233 00:16:22,075 --> 00:16:25,795 Speaker 1: Trump Tower on July eighth. It has been announced, and 234 00:16:26,075 --> 00:16:28,995 Speaker 1: she is going to be the host. And joke all 235 00:16:29,075 --> 00:16:32,675 Speaker 1: you want about a homophobic organization like the Republicans having 236 00:16:32,755 --> 00:16:37,195 Speaker 1: an LGBTQ arm and the most recent missus Trump being 237 00:16:37,275 --> 00:16:42,915 Speaker 1: their host, But the real news here is surprise, surprise, surprise, 238 00:16:43,435 --> 00:16:48,555 Speaker 1: we were all wrong. Milania Trump has not fled the 239 00:16:48,675 --> 00:16:58,915 Speaker 1: country speaking of unexpected sightings and fleeing. Jeff Bezos has 240 00:16:58,955 --> 00:17:01,355 Speaker 1: actually said something about the fact that the guys he 241 00:17:01,555 --> 00:17:06,635 Speaker 1: hired imploded his Washington Post out first, evacuating the staff 242 00:17:07,035 --> 00:17:10,355 Speaker 1: or the paper's reputation. He sent an email and it 243 00:17:10,475 --> 00:17:13,875 Speaker 1: is so vacuous and so vapid that if you told 244 00:17:13,915 --> 00:17:17,395 Speaker 1: me it was generated by artificial intelligence, I would argue 245 00:17:17,555 --> 00:17:20,915 Speaker 1: your use of the word intelligence, but I would applaud 246 00:17:21,395 --> 00:17:26,355 Speaker 1: your use of the word artificial That's next. This is 247 00:17:26,675 --> 00:17:34,875 Speaker 1: countdown with Joe Bride. Joe Bride, Willie Mays died yesterday. 248 00:17:36,115 --> 00:17:40,035 Speaker 1: Willy Mays was Baseball's greatest living player, the best defensive 249 00:17:40,075 --> 00:17:43,395 Speaker 1: athlete I have ever seen, and the author of the 250 00:17:43,435 --> 00:17:47,715 Speaker 1: most celebrated defensive play in baseball history, maybe in sports history, 251 00:17:48,595 --> 00:17:52,155 Speaker 1: and with timing that defies belief. Willie Mays died at 252 00:17:52,195 --> 00:17:56,755 Speaker 1: the age of ninety three, two days before his San 253 00:17:56,795 --> 00:17:59,835 Speaker 1: Francisco Giants and the Saint Louis Cardinals are to play 254 00:18:00,555 --> 00:18:04,275 Speaker 1: a salute to the Negro Leagues, the leagues in which 255 00:18:04,275 --> 00:18:09,475 Speaker 1: he began his career at the oldest ballpark in America, 256 00:18:09,555 --> 00:18:15,035 Speaker 1: Rickwood Field, where his Birmingham Black Barons played. I saw 257 00:18:15,115 --> 00:18:18,475 Speaker 1: William Mays play several times. I saw him play once 258 00:18:18,515 --> 00:18:21,555 Speaker 1: in Montreal, saw him in New York a lot. Saw 259 00:18:21,635 --> 00:18:23,515 Speaker 1: him in his last two years with the Mets. He 260 00:18:23,635 --> 00:18:27,395 Speaker 1: spoke at my high school right after his retirement, and 261 00:18:27,595 --> 00:18:32,275 Speaker 1: he was simply one of those athletes who seemed to 262 00:18:32,395 --> 00:18:37,555 Speaker 1: be seen and experiencing the world a few seconds before 263 00:18:37,635 --> 00:18:41,475 Speaker 1: the rest of us. The old cliche applied, where the 264 00:18:41,595 --> 00:18:45,115 Speaker 1: ball is going to be, not where it is. That's 265 00:18:45,195 --> 00:18:49,315 Speaker 1: where you will find Willie Mays. And I remember him 266 00:18:49,355 --> 00:18:53,275 Speaker 1: playing one game in his twenty three season National League career, 267 00:18:53,675 --> 00:18:57,475 Speaker 1: a career played entirely in a different world than ours. 268 00:18:58,195 --> 00:19:01,035 Speaker 1: He played it not in his customary center field for 269 00:19:01,075 --> 00:19:03,155 Speaker 1: the San Francisco Giants, but he played it in right 270 00:19:03,275 --> 00:19:06,235 Speaker 1: field because they wanted to give Willy a little bit 271 00:19:06,275 --> 00:19:09,755 Speaker 1: of a break since he was playing with a strained 272 00:19:10,355 --> 00:19:16,595 Speaker 1: groin muscle. And yet, for all his greatness and his longevity, 273 00:19:17,195 --> 00:19:21,555 Speaker 1: my thoughts flashed back, as they inevitably do, to the person. 274 00:19:22,515 --> 00:19:30,515 Speaker 1: He was singular, different, funny, unusual, and even at the 275 00:19:30,675 --> 00:19:34,355 Speaker 1: somber news of his passing, my thoughts flashed back to 276 00:19:34,435 --> 00:19:37,395 Speaker 1: the fact that it was Willie Mays who was on 277 00:19:37,555 --> 00:19:43,835 Speaker 1: the other end of the damnedest interview I ever did. 278 00:19:45,355 --> 00:19:47,955 Speaker 1: This was at my first job for my radio network 279 00:19:47,995 --> 00:19:51,795 Speaker 1: at UPI, when God helped me. Willie Mays was sixteen 280 00:19:51,915 --> 00:19:55,875 Speaker 1: years younger than I am now, and like I wasn't 281 00:19:55,955 --> 00:19:59,235 Speaker 1: scared enough to be on the phone with Willie Mays. 282 00:20:00,275 --> 00:20:05,035 Speaker 1: He started the interview by doing a bit, a bit twitch. 283 00:20:05,115 --> 00:20:07,475 Speaker 1: If I had done that bit, they would have fired me. 284 00:20:10,555 --> 00:20:13,755 Speaker 1: The other thing I think of is an amazing injustice 285 00:20:13,795 --> 00:20:16,995 Speaker 1: that befell Willie Mays, that nobody talks about and nobody 286 00:20:17,075 --> 00:20:21,835 Speaker 1: registers anymore. Okay, the first part. So it's a Saturday afternoon, 287 00:20:21,955 --> 00:20:26,155 Speaker 1: October twenty seventh, nineteen seventy nine, just forty three and 288 00:20:26,195 --> 00:20:29,115 Speaker 1: a half years ago, and Willie Mays has just been 289 00:20:29,315 --> 00:20:32,315 Speaker 1: banned from baseball because word has gotten out that he 290 00:20:32,355 --> 00:20:35,315 Speaker 1: has signed a contract to do promotional events for a 291 00:20:35,435 --> 00:20:38,595 Speaker 1: casino in Atlantic City, and there is a news conference 292 00:20:38,675 --> 00:20:42,795 Speaker 1: coming up in two days on Monday. Now, try explaining 293 00:20:42,915 --> 00:20:47,235 Speaker 1: this whole concept to any current sports fan. Any current 294 00:20:47,275 --> 00:20:50,115 Speaker 1: sports fan now used to seeing retired players on TV 295 00:20:50,275 --> 00:20:52,875 Speaker 1: telling them how to bet and who to bet on, 296 00:20:53,595 --> 00:20:57,315 Speaker 1: or the sportscasters doing the games giving you the latest 297 00:20:57,355 --> 00:21:00,275 Speaker 1: odds and how they have changed since the last period 298 00:21:00,395 --> 00:21:04,955 Speaker 1: or inning started. Plus this was like three months after 299 00:21:05,035 --> 00:21:07,595 Speaker 1: Willy Mays was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, 300 00:21:07,915 --> 00:21:12,195 Speaker 1: three months after the celebration of this brilliant career, and 301 00:21:12,315 --> 00:21:15,915 Speaker 1: now they've banned him for life for something that today 302 00:21:16,515 --> 00:21:19,315 Speaker 1: the commissioner would have sent him a note of congratulations, 303 00:21:19,475 --> 00:21:23,635 Speaker 1: to say nothing of a large paycheck. And nobody has 304 00:21:23,755 --> 00:21:26,395 Speaker 1: done an interview with Willy Mays yet because he has 305 00:21:26,435 --> 00:21:29,715 Speaker 1: been traveling, and my phone rings in my little cubby 306 00:21:29,755 --> 00:21:32,875 Speaker 1: hole at the United pres International Radio Network that I've 307 00:21:32,915 --> 00:21:37,955 Speaker 1: only been working at since August three months. That's how 308 00:21:38,035 --> 00:21:40,835 Speaker 1: long my full time broadcasting career has been to this point. 309 00:21:41,155 --> 00:21:43,755 Speaker 1: And on the phone is maybe the top baseball reporter 310 00:21:44,555 --> 00:21:48,195 Speaker 1: of the second half of the twentieth century. Keith, it's 311 00:21:48,275 --> 00:21:51,915 Speaker 1: Milt Richmond. This man once reported it in July nineteen 312 00:21:51,955 --> 00:21:55,195 Speaker 1: fifty five that if the Milwaukee Braves did not start winning, 313 00:21:55,395 --> 00:21:59,315 Speaker 1: that they would fire their manager. Exactly one year later, 314 00:21:59,955 --> 00:22:03,115 Speaker 1: and they didn't start winning, and exactly one year later 315 00:22:03,235 --> 00:22:07,515 Speaker 1: to the day, they fight their manager. Keith, write this 316 00:22:07,675 --> 00:22:11,315 Speaker 1: phone number down. It's Willie May's. Milt never got excited 317 00:22:11,315 --> 00:22:14,355 Speaker 1: about anything. He talked like this all the time. William 318 00:22:14,355 --> 00:22:17,275 Speaker 1: Mays is expecting your call for an interview about this 319 00:22:17,475 --> 00:22:21,395 Speaker 1: banishment story. And I squeaked yes, sir, And I went 320 00:22:21,515 --> 00:22:24,795 Speaker 1: into one of our recording studios and I dialed Willie 321 00:22:24,875 --> 00:22:29,675 Speaker 1: Mays's phone number. And I will not recreate the voice 322 00:22:30,195 --> 00:22:35,795 Speaker 1: that I heard answer Willie May's phone, because while doing 323 00:22:35,875 --> 00:22:38,235 Speaker 1: this voice was once considered to be a staple of 324 00:22:38,275 --> 00:22:42,235 Speaker 1: American humor, even American humor written or performed by liberals. 325 00:22:42,395 --> 00:22:46,435 Speaker 1: I mean, James Thurber's short stories are full of this voice. 326 00:22:46,915 --> 00:22:50,835 Speaker 1: The voice is wildly racist. It is racist enough that 327 00:22:50,915 --> 00:22:54,835 Speaker 1: if today you heard an African American man do it, 328 00:22:55,395 --> 00:23:00,195 Speaker 1: even Willie Mays, you probably say no, no, no, no, no, 329 00:23:00,515 --> 00:23:05,195 Speaker 1: still still racist. Don't don't, don't do it, Willie. It 330 00:23:05,675 --> 00:23:09,595 Speaker 1: was a voice similar to the actress Hattie McDaniel, who 331 00:23:09,635 --> 00:23:12,115 Speaker 1: won the Academy Award in nineteen thirty nine for Gone 332 00:23:12,195 --> 00:23:15,795 Speaker 1: with the Wind. She was a world class blues singer, 333 00:23:15,835 --> 00:23:18,635 Speaker 1: a top patriotic fundraiser during World War Two, and she 334 00:23:18,795 --> 00:23:23,875 Speaker 1: played maids housekeepers in maybe two hundred films. She also 335 00:23:23,955 --> 00:23:26,075 Speaker 1: played one on a famous radio show, and was paid 336 00:23:26,195 --> 00:23:30,115 Speaker 1: so little that while she was performing her role of 337 00:23:30,315 --> 00:23:33,395 Speaker 1: the pretend maid, she had to keep working as a 338 00:23:33,515 --> 00:23:38,395 Speaker 1: real maid. Okay, so I'm twenty years old and I 339 00:23:38,515 --> 00:23:41,275 Speaker 1: have to interview Willie Mays about him getting banned from baseball, 340 00:23:41,315 --> 00:23:43,715 Speaker 1: which is crazy enough. And I call and the phone 341 00:23:43,795 --> 00:23:46,915 Speaker 1: is answered, and a gravelly but feminine voice that sounded 342 00:23:46,995 --> 00:23:53,715 Speaker 1: exactly like Hattie McDaniel says, hello, mister Mays's residence, and 343 00:23:53,795 --> 00:23:57,675 Speaker 1: I'm a little throne, but I power through it somehow, 344 00:23:57,755 --> 00:24:00,555 Speaker 1: and I explain who I am, and she says ahah, 345 00:24:00,595 --> 00:24:03,195 Speaker 1: And I say where I'm calling from and she says ahah, 346 00:24:03,235 --> 00:24:06,555 Speaker 1: and I say, Milt Richmond said Mays was expecting my call, 347 00:24:07,155 --> 00:24:11,435 Speaker 1: and she interrupts and goes, this is Willie. The Hattie 348 00:24:11,475 --> 00:24:16,755 Speaker 1: McDaniel impersonation was being done by Willie Mays. Now I 349 00:24:16,835 --> 00:24:21,515 Speaker 1: do not have this on tape. Silly me. When my 350 00:24:21,715 --> 00:24:25,755 Speaker 1: bosses said you may not start recording before you get 351 00:24:25,955 --> 00:24:31,435 Speaker 1: express permission from the interviewee to start recording, I believed 352 00:24:31,515 --> 00:24:37,195 Speaker 1: them and I lived by that rule. Anybody else would 353 00:24:37,235 --> 00:24:39,635 Speaker 1: have a tape of this phone being answered and the 354 00:24:39,675 --> 00:24:43,115 Speaker 1: Hattie McDaniel impression done by Willie Mays, because the first 355 00:24:43,155 --> 00:24:45,075 Speaker 1: thing you do is record, so you don't have to 356 00:24:45,195 --> 00:24:49,075 Speaker 1: remember to record, because otherwise you'll forget to record. But 357 00:24:49,195 --> 00:24:51,675 Speaker 1: I'm afraid you are going to have to take my 358 00:24:51,835 --> 00:24:56,355 Speaker 1: word for this, because why would I make this up. 359 00:24:57,395 --> 00:25:01,715 Speaker 1: October twenty seventh, nineteen seventy nine, and I still haven't 360 00:25:01,755 --> 00:25:07,195 Speaker 1: recovered mister Mays's residence. Happy ninety second birthday, Willie Mays. 361 00:25:08,635 --> 00:25:12,435 Speaker 1: Now the injustice that Willy Mays suffered that nobody talks about. 362 00:25:12,515 --> 00:25:15,395 Speaker 1: In fact, I've never heard him talk about it. This 363 00:25:15,595 --> 00:25:18,915 Speaker 1: is something else that no fan believes today. The United 364 00:25:18,955 --> 00:25:22,795 Speaker 1: States military used to draft Major League baseball players and 365 00:25:23,035 --> 00:25:26,595 Speaker 1: NFL players and NBA players and send them into the 366 00:25:26,715 --> 00:25:30,075 Speaker 1: service in the middle of their seasons, in the primes 367 00:25:30,155 --> 00:25:33,675 Speaker 1: of their careers, even if there was no war in progress. 368 00:25:34,635 --> 00:25:37,435 Speaker 1: They only did it a couple of times after saying 369 00:25:37,515 --> 00:25:40,795 Speaker 1: nineteen forty five, and usually that was thinly veiled racist 370 00:25:40,835 --> 00:25:44,035 Speaker 1: political pressure, such as when they drafted Muhammad Ali in 371 00:25:44,115 --> 00:25:46,275 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six when he was heavyweight champion of the 372 00:25:46,355 --> 00:25:50,595 Speaker 1: world and an activist Muslim and he was twenty four 373 00:25:50,755 --> 00:25:54,715 Speaker 1: years old when everybody else getting drafted was eighteen. Remember that. 374 00:25:56,715 --> 00:26:00,315 Speaker 1: But in nineteen fifty two they also drafted Willie Mays. 375 00:26:01,115 --> 00:26:03,035 Speaker 1: He had come up from the Miners the year before 376 00:26:03,115 --> 00:26:05,595 Speaker 1: and had led the New York Giants feen games back 377 00:26:05,675 --> 00:26:07,635 Speaker 1: to the National League pennant, and he was the kind 378 00:26:07,675 --> 00:26:10,275 Speaker 1: of all around whirlwind of a player nobody had ever 379 00:26:10,435 --> 00:26:13,875 Speaker 1: seen before in Major League Baseball. And on May twenty ninth, 380 00:26:14,275 --> 00:26:18,035 Speaker 1: thirty four games into his second season boom, he was 381 00:26:18,155 --> 00:26:22,035 Speaker 1: drafted and inducted. And he missed the rest of that 382 00:26:22,275 --> 00:26:26,355 Speaker 1: season and all of the nineteen fifty three season. I 383 00:26:26,515 --> 00:26:30,955 Speaker 1: can't think of a parallel today. Maybe maybe they they 384 00:26:31,155 --> 00:26:34,875 Speaker 1: draft in the middle of his second season somebody like 385 00:26:34,995 --> 00:26:38,155 Speaker 1: Fernando Tatis and in the middle of May, he's gone 386 00:26:38,795 --> 00:26:40,635 Speaker 1: for the rest of this year and next year because 387 00:26:40,635 --> 00:26:45,555 Speaker 1: he has to go serve in the military. Now, they 388 00:26:45,675 --> 00:26:49,435 Speaker 1: didn't draft Mickey Mantle, who also broke in in New 389 00:26:49,515 --> 00:26:51,635 Speaker 1: York in nineteen fifty one, the way Mays did, And 390 00:26:51,755 --> 00:26:55,275 Speaker 1: to be fair, Mickey Mantle had about four hundred medical 391 00:26:55,395 --> 00:26:58,115 Speaker 1: problems that would have kept anybody out of the military, 392 00:26:58,195 --> 00:27:00,595 Speaker 1: and it was all legit. But they also didn't draft 393 00:27:00,955 --> 00:27:03,875 Speaker 1: the nineteen fifty one American League Rookie of the Year winner, 394 00:27:03,955 --> 00:27:06,315 Speaker 1: Gil mcdouge of the Yankees, who was a white guy, 395 00:27:07,075 --> 00:27:09,755 Speaker 1: or Walt Dropo, who was the Rookie of the Year 396 00:27:09,795 --> 00:27:13,235 Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty or Roy Sievers, who was the Rookie 397 00:27:13,235 --> 00:27:15,995 Speaker 1: of the Year in nineteen forty nine, or or you 398 00:27:16,115 --> 00:27:20,835 Speaker 1: get the point here. Now, trying to calculate should have 399 00:27:20,915 --> 00:27:23,315 Speaker 1: beens in sports is a risky enough business, but you 400 00:27:23,435 --> 00:27:26,115 Speaker 1: can get an approximation of what might have happened. If 401 00:27:26,155 --> 00:27:29,155 Speaker 1: a player hits twenty homers in his first year and 402 00:27:29,195 --> 00:27:32,195 Speaker 1: then misses two years, and then he comes back and 403 00:27:32,275 --> 00:27:34,555 Speaker 1: he hits forty one homers in his first year back, 404 00:27:34,795 --> 00:27:38,435 Speaker 1: you can excrapolate that he probably would have hit twenty 405 00:27:38,515 --> 00:27:41,595 Speaker 1: seven homers in the first missing year and thirty four 406 00:27:41,755 --> 00:27:45,555 Speaker 1: in the second missing year. Your numerical sequence is twenty 407 00:27:45,595 --> 00:27:48,715 Speaker 1: homers and twenty seven homers, then thirty four homers, then 408 00:27:48,795 --> 00:27:51,195 Speaker 1: forty one homers. You have to tinker a little bit 409 00:27:51,275 --> 00:27:53,835 Speaker 1: with it in Maze's case, because he didn't miss all 410 00:27:53,995 --> 00:27:56,555 Speaker 1: of that second season nineteen fifty two. He just missed 411 00:27:56,595 --> 00:27:59,795 Speaker 1: from June on and he'd had a slow start. He'd 412 00:27:59,835 --> 00:28:01,795 Speaker 1: only hit four homers in the first two months of 413 00:28:01,875 --> 00:28:04,915 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty two, so instead of twenty seven that year, 414 00:28:04,955 --> 00:28:07,715 Speaker 1: maybe he only hits twenty four that year. So a 415 00:28:07,835 --> 00:28:10,715 Speaker 1: good guess as to how many homers Willie Mays did 416 00:28:10,795 --> 00:28:13,315 Speaker 1: not get to hit because he got drafted and all 417 00:28:13,355 --> 00:28:16,395 Speaker 1: the white guys did not get drafted is all told 418 00:28:16,955 --> 00:28:22,275 Speaker 1: fifty four. In real life, playing between nineteen fifty one 419 00:28:22,395 --> 00:28:26,195 Speaker 1: and nineteen seventy three, Willy Mays finished with six hundred 420 00:28:26,235 --> 00:28:30,035 Speaker 1: and sixty home runs. For most of the nineteen sixties, 421 00:28:30,315 --> 00:28:33,075 Speaker 1: it was thought he was the man who would challenge 422 00:28:33,195 --> 00:28:37,155 Speaker 1: Babe Ruth's career record, not Hank Aaron, but Willie Mays. 423 00:28:38,315 --> 00:28:40,475 Speaker 1: Willie Mays hit six hundred and sixty homers, but if 424 00:28:40,475 --> 00:28:43,435 Speaker 1: you give him those fifty four more homers he might 425 00:28:43,515 --> 00:28:46,755 Speaker 1: have hit. If he hadn't been so curiously drafted in 426 00:28:46,875 --> 00:28:50,475 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty two, Willie Mays would have finished with seven 427 00:28:50,595 --> 00:28:54,795 Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen home runs, seven hundred and fourteen, which 428 00:28:54,875 --> 00:28:59,275 Speaker 1: is exactly how many Babe Ruth hit. So if he 429 00:28:59,315 --> 00:29:02,435 Speaker 1: doesn't get drafted, maybe in nineteen seventy two and nineteen 430 00:29:02,435 --> 00:29:05,115 Speaker 1: seventy three and nineteen seventy four, we are seeing Willie 431 00:29:05,155 --> 00:29:09,755 Speaker 1: Mays hit his seven hundredth career home run, challenging Babe 432 00:29:09,795 --> 00:29:12,915 Speaker 1: Ruth's record, and then tying and breaking Babe Ruth's record, 433 00:29:12,955 --> 00:29:16,155 Speaker 1: and then right behind him, Henry Aaron hits his seven 434 00:29:16,235 --> 00:29:18,675 Speaker 1: hundred and fifteenth homer and then his seven hundred and 435 00:29:18,715 --> 00:29:21,755 Speaker 1: sixteenth homer to break the all time record held by 436 00:29:23,595 --> 00:29:48,435 Speaker 1: Willie Mays, still ahead of us on this edition of Countdown. 437 00:29:48,515 --> 00:29:50,595 Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos is in the news, as you will hear 438 00:29:50,675 --> 00:29:52,715 Speaker 1: in a moment, And if Jeff Bezos is in the news, 439 00:29:52,755 --> 00:29:56,035 Speaker 1: then his fiance Lauren Sanchez is in the news, and 440 00:29:56,115 --> 00:29:59,195 Speaker 1: thus the fact that Trump's tabloid allies tried to blackmail 441 00:29:59,275 --> 00:30:01,715 Speaker 1: both of them is in the news. Anybody remember the 442 00:30:01,755 --> 00:30:05,195 Speaker 1: Stormy Daniels trial. We almost had a Lauren Sanchez trial, 443 00:30:05,675 --> 00:30:08,395 Speaker 1: and thus I am inevitably reminded that I used to 444 00:30:08,515 --> 00:30:13,075 Speaker 1: work both with her, a blackmail victim and a guy 445 00:30:13,155 --> 00:30:16,795 Speaker 1: who tried to blackmail David Letterman coming up in things 446 00:30:16,835 --> 00:30:20,475 Speaker 1: I promise not to tell, but first there's still more 447 00:30:20,595 --> 00:30:22,795 Speaker 1: new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the 448 00:30:22,835 --> 00:30:26,395 Speaker 1: mis grants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute 449 00:30:26,435 --> 00:30:31,315 Speaker 1: two days worst persons in the world. The bronze worse 450 00:30:32,155 --> 00:30:36,315 Speaker 1: Senator Josh Hawley you may remember him from his raised 451 00:30:36,475 --> 00:30:39,715 Speaker 1: fist to the traders just before the assault on the 452 00:30:39,795 --> 00:30:43,635 Speaker 1: Capitol on January sixth. Well Sir, one of his former 453 00:30:43,755 --> 00:30:48,755 Speaker 1: staffers is a financial backer of this new fascist disinfo site, 454 00:30:49,315 --> 00:30:52,475 Speaker 1: Washington Reporter. That's the place that made up a story 455 00:30:52,515 --> 00:30:55,995 Speaker 1: about Biden demanding that he and Trump could sit during 456 00:30:56,115 --> 00:31:00,315 Speaker 1: next week's debate, which CNN, which is running the debate, 457 00:31:00,395 --> 00:31:05,235 Speaker 1: immediately denied because it's not true, and Washington Reporter posted 458 00:31:05,275 --> 00:31:08,955 Speaker 1: it anyway. Because Washington Reporter has the journalistic chops of 459 00:31:09,195 --> 00:31:15,115 Speaker 1: cat turd. Hawley has helpfully retweeted that lie and adding 460 00:31:15,275 --> 00:31:19,115 Speaker 1: a President Biden. Quote, he can't stand for ninety minutes, 461 00:31:19,155 --> 00:31:21,595 Speaker 1: but he's one hundred percent able to be president. Have 462 00:31:21,835 --> 00:31:25,915 Speaker 1: fun explaining that. Well, to explain something to Josh Haley, 463 00:31:26,195 --> 00:31:29,635 Speaker 1: you have to speak slowly, as if you were talking 464 00:31:29,715 --> 00:31:32,795 Speaker 1: to a four year old child. Because one of the 465 00:31:32,915 --> 00:31:36,555 Speaker 1: things that the insurrection and the fascism makes us forget 466 00:31:36,555 --> 00:31:42,835 Speaker 1: about Josh Holly is that he's an idiot. So, Josh, Joshua, Josh, 467 00:31:43,195 --> 00:31:46,875 Speaker 1: look over here, look at the shiny object. Joe Biden's 468 00:31:46,955 --> 00:31:50,355 Speaker 1: last State of the Union address was sixty seven minutes, 469 00:31:50,955 --> 00:31:52,795 Speaker 1: and he stood up through the whole thing and he 470 00:31:52,955 --> 00:31:55,835 Speaker 1: was the only one talking. The one the year before 471 00:31:55,955 --> 00:32:00,275 Speaker 1: was seventy three minutes. Also, we're really going to talk 472 00:32:00,275 --> 00:32:04,555 Speaker 1: about standing and movement in government type things, mister Holly, 473 00:32:05,115 --> 00:32:07,675 Speaker 1: when the only thing you will be remembered for when 474 00:32:07,715 --> 00:32:10,515 Speaker 1: you're dead will be that image of you running for 475 00:32:10,635 --> 00:32:14,355 Speaker 1: your life from the same insurrectionists you had just saluted 476 00:32:14,675 --> 00:32:19,315 Speaker 1: during the coup attempt, running through the Capitol and creating 477 00:32:19,355 --> 00:32:23,515 Speaker 1: that freeze frame, forming with near perfect accuracy with your 478 00:32:23,555 --> 00:32:28,355 Speaker 1: own body a swastika. You can't stand for ninety minutes. 479 00:32:30,315 --> 00:32:32,275 Speaker 1: You can't run and look like a swastika. At the 480 00:32:32,315 --> 00:32:36,235 Speaker 1: same time, I'll give Biden credit for that. Hawley can 481 00:32:36,595 --> 00:32:40,155 Speaker 1: the runner's up worser the BBC. The BBC has an 482 00:32:40,195 --> 00:32:43,595 Speaker 1: email newsletter of its job postings, and the demon of 483 00:32:43,635 --> 00:32:48,075 Speaker 1: the twenty first century spellcheck has turned the latest edition 484 00:32:48,395 --> 00:32:52,195 Speaker 1: of its email job newsletter into a disaster. Now, not 485 00:32:52,315 --> 00:32:54,715 Speaker 1: the one at the top. There the opportunity to become 486 00:32:54,955 --> 00:32:59,195 Speaker 1: the assistant producer in charge of Sliced Bread. That's not 487 00:32:59,315 --> 00:33:02,115 Speaker 1: a typo, nor is it a toast related assignment. There's 488 00:33:02,115 --> 00:33:06,315 Speaker 1: actually a show called Sliced Bread. This is the one 489 00:33:06,355 --> 00:33:09,035 Speaker 1: at the bottom of this email, which is looking for 490 00:33:09,075 --> 00:33:13,035 Speaker 1: an assistant producer of classical music for BBC Audio North. 491 00:33:13,635 --> 00:33:15,875 Speaker 1: They note the job as part of the BBC's Quote 492 00:33:16,155 --> 00:33:20,275 Speaker 1: Extend program for disabled people unquote, and then comes the 493 00:33:20,355 --> 00:33:26,235 Speaker 1: shocker quote to apply. You should identify as dead, disabled 494 00:33:26,675 --> 00:33:35,195 Speaker 1: or neurodivergent. I identify you as dead. That's diverse hiring. 495 00:33:36,675 --> 00:33:38,795 Speaker 1: I would also explain a lot of the executives I've 496 00:33:38,835 --> 00:33:42,395 Speaker 1: worked for, especially at NBC. Oh they were dead on 497 00:33:42,475 --> 00:33:45,515 Speaker 1: a regular basis, a daily basis or intermittently or what 498 00:33:46,035 --> 00:33:49,915 Speaker 1: Oh okay, I get it. The typo is not hard 499 00:33:49,995 --> 00:33:52,835 Speaker 1: to unravel. It's supposed to read quote to apply, you 500 00:33:52,835 --> 00:33:58,795 Speaker 1: should identify as death disabled or neurodivergent. Although if they're 501 00:33:58,875 --> 00:34:02,795 Speaker 1: hiring dead people but our winner. Speaking of which, the 502 00:34:02,915 --> 00:34:07,115 Speaker 1: worst Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, depicted 503 00:34:07,195 --> 00:34:09,955 Speaker 1: in the gossip pages this week on vacation in Greece 504 00:34:10,235 --> 00:34:14,835 Speaker 1: with his carefully reconstructed fiance my former Fox Sports colleague 505 00:34:14,875 --> 00:34:18,835 Speaker 1: Lauren Sanchez. More about them coming up, but this about Bezos, 506 00:34:19,035 --> 00:34:22,795 Speaker 1: who has apparently been informed while on vacation that his 507 00:34:23,475 --> 00:34:27,195 Speaker 1: as they call corporate newspapers and newsletters, his little house 508 00:34:27,435 --> 00:34:31,155 Speaker 1: organ is burning to the ground. The new publisher of 509 00:34:31,195 --> 00:34:33,875 Speaker 1: the Washington Post tried to bury a story in that 510 00:34:34,075 --> 00:34:38,235 Speaker 1: paper about his past violations of every known journalistic principle 511 00:34:38,275 --> 00:34:41,155 Speaker 1: while he worked in England. He attacked another reporter at 512 00:34:41,275 --> 00:34:44,675 Speaker 1: NPR who uncovered it. He's brought in ex Murdoch people 513 00:34:44,755 --> 00:34:48,035 Speaker 1: to run the paper. And if democracy dies in darkness, 514 00:34:48,115 --> 00:34:50,915 Speaker 1: this publisher, Will Lewis, has just turned off all the 515 00:34:50,995 --> 00:34:54,395 Speaker 1: lights in the newsroom. The staff is in revolts, the 516 00:34:54,475 --> 00:34:57,555 Speaker 1: readers have fled, and mister Bezos has now decided to 517 00:34:57,595 --> 00:35:01,795 Speaker 1: send his employees an email of reassurance and a typo 518 00:35:01,995 --> 00:35:04,555 Speaker 1: like the BBC's Dead for Deaf That would have been 519 00:35:04,675 --> 00:35:10,915 Speaker 1: an improvement on this quote subject quality journalism. Team. I 520 00:35:11,075 --> 00:35:13,755 Speaker 1: know you've already heard this from Will, but I want 521 00:35:13,795 --> 00:35:17,075 Speaker 1: it to also weigh in directly. The journalistic standards and 522 00:35:17,155 --> 00:35:20,315 Speaker 1: ethics at the Post will not change. To be sure, 523 00:35:20,395 --> 00:35:23,195 Speaker 1: it can't be business as usual at the Post. The 524 00:35:23,355 --> 00:35:26,595 Speaker 1: world is evolving rapidly and we do need to change 525 00:35:26,635 --> 00:35:30,315 Speaker 1: as a business. With your support, we'll do that and 526 00:35:30,475 --> 00:35:34,155 Speaker 1: lead this great institution into the future. But as the 527 00:35:34,235 --> 00:35:37,035 Speaker 1: newsroom leaders who've been shaping and guiding our coverage, you 528 00:35:37,115 --> 00:35:39,915 Speaker 1: also know our standards at the Post have always been 529 00:35:40,155 --> 00:35:44,875 Speaker 1: very high. That can't change, and it won't. You have 530 00:35:45,235 --> 00:35:49,195 Speaker 1: my full commitment on maintaining equality, ethics and standards we 531 00:35:49,355 --> 00:35:53,315 Speaker 1: all believe in. A huge thank you for continuing to 532 00:35:53,395 --> 00:35:56,035 Speaker 1: do the work that makes us all proud and makes 533 00:35:56,115 --> 00:36:04,475 Speaker 1: this institution so important. Jeff, Wow, the latest estimate of 534 00:36:04,715 --> 00:36:07,555 Speaker 1: Jef bezos Is worth is two hundred and one billion, 535 00:36:07,875 --> 00:36:12,155 Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars. Yet he could not hire somebody 536 00:36:13,395 --> 00:36:16,715 Speaker 1: to write something better than that piece of crap, something 537 00:36:16,795 --> 00:36:19,355 Speaker 1: with at least some indication that he has an idea 538 00:36:19,395 --> 00:36:22,555 Speaker 1: of what the problem is at the Washington Post. There 539 00:36:22,595 --> 00:36:26,315 Speaker 1: are only four names in that entire email. One is Will, 540 00:36:26,675 --> 00:36:28,755 Speaker 1: the publisher, who Bezos is going to have to get 541 00:36:28,835 --> 00:36:31,915 Speaker 1: rid of, and the other three are quote the Post. 542 00:36:32,635 --> 00:36:34,795 Speaker 1: You could change just a few words in there and 543 00:36:34,915 --> 00:36:37,635 Speaker 1: tighten it up a little bit, and Bezos could repurpose 544 00:36:37,715 --> 00:36:42,115 Speaker 1: that email as the fortune in a fortune cookie. I mean, 545 00:36:42,155 --> 00:36:45,915 Speaker 1: how many platitudes can you fit into one paragraph? Post 546 00:36:45,995 --> 00:36:49,875 Speaker 1: will not change business as usual evolving rapidly. Change is 547 00:36:49,915 --> 00:36:54,435 Speaker 1: a business lead this great institution standards Post can't change. 548 00:36:54,635 --> 00:36:57,355 Speaker 1: You have my full commitment. Make us all proud. He's 549 00:36:57,395 --> 00:37:01,635 Speaker 1: got everything in there except push the envelope. Value added 550 00:37:02,275 --> 00:37:05,435 Speaker 1: failure is not an option to whom it may concern. 551 00:37:06,315 --> 00:37:12,035 Speaker 1: Employees must wash hands and let them eat cake. Jeff 552 00:37:12,515 --> 00:37:18,115 Speaker 1: ps Sanchez says, Hi Bezos emailing it in and two 553 00:37:18,275 --> 00:37:34,915 Speaker 1: days worst Parson and Lord. Jeff Bezos, the founder of 554 00:37:34,955 --> 00:37:38,395 Speaker 1: Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, was being blackmailed 555 00:37:38,395 --> 00:37:41,395 Speaker 1: by allies of Crazy Trump, who expected to get positive 556 00:37:41,435 --> 00:37:44,035 Speaker 1: coverage for their leader of their cult. What they had 557 00:37:44,155 --> 00:37:47,235 Speaker 1: on Bezos was he had a girlfriend. They had pictures. 558 00:37:47,275 --> 00:37:50,235 Speaker 1: It would cost him hundreds of millions of dollars. Were 559 00:37:50,275 --> 00:37:54,955 Speaker 1: his wife to find out, he said, that'll happen. In 560 00:37:55,075 --> 00:37:58,955 Speaker 1: February twenty nineteen, Jeff Bezos went public, said his marriage 561 00:37:59,075 --> 00:38:01,675 Speaker 1: was ending anyway. He was sorry about the pain this 562 00:38:01,875 --> 00:38:04,315 Speaker 1: caused his wife, but he would now give her all 563 00:38:04,435 --> 00:38:08,595 Speaker 1: she wanted, and the National Inquirer blackmailers could shove it 564 00:38:09,675 --> 00:38:12,195 Speaker 1: amid everything else. It suggested to me that when you 565 00:38:12,315 --> 00:38:15,395 Speaker 1: cannot figure out what happened to the people who once 566 00:38:15,475 --> 00:38:18,075 Speaker 1: seemed to have principles, or at least seemed to have 567 00:38:18,475 --> 00:38:23,915 Speaker 1: enmity towards crazy Trump, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, others, remember 568 00:38:24,035 --> 00:38:27,995 Speaker 1: that the odds were amazingly small that the first time 569 00:38:28,115 --> 00:38:31,875 Speaker 1: Trump's allies tried to blackmail somebody on his behalf, that 570 00:38:31,995 --> 00:38:34,875 Speaker 1: they would find in Jeff Bezos the one guy who 571 00:38:34,875 --> 00:38:39,355 Speaker 1: would say no on the first try. I don't think so. 572 00:38:40,355 --> 00:38:42,595 Speaker 1: I have assumed ever since that this process has been 573 00:38:42,675 --> 00:38:48,035 Speaker 1: utilized for years on Trump's behalf, in business, inside politics 574 00:38:48,475 --> 00:38:51,275 Speaker 1: and at its fringes, and that Bezos was not the 575 00:38:51,355 --> 00:38:54,075 Speaker 1: first victim of this, just the first victim who said, few, 576 00:38:54,195 --> 00:38:59,275 Speaker 1: this is why we have fuw money. But beneath all 577 00:38:59,355 --> 00:39:01,955 Speaker 1: that important stuff was yet another occasion where my jaw 578 00:39:02,155 --> 00:39:04,275 Speaker 1: dropped to the floor and I had to reattach it 579 00:39:04,315 --> 00:39:07,635 Speaker 1: with l Ohmer's glue. The woman at the center of 580 00:39:07,675 --> 00:39:09,995 Speaker 1: the blackmail, the woman for whom Jeff Bezos was going 581 00:39:10,035 --> 00:39:13,875 Speaker 1: to leave his wife, was named Lauren Sanchez, and like 582 00:39:13,955 --> 00:39:17,795 Speaker 1: everybody else in this twenty first century America, I used 583 00:39:17,835 --> 00:39:21,715 Speaker 1: to work with her. Lauren was a reporter and sometimes 584 00:39:21,835 --> 00:39:24,675 Speaker 1: anchor at Fox Sportsnet when I got there in nineteen 585 00:39:24,715 --> 00:39:28,195 Speaker 1: ninety eight. Only sometimes they wrote her a script once 586 00:39:28,275 --> 00:39:31,035 Speaker 1: that actually read Roger Clemens ra is one of the 587 00:39:31,115 --> 00:39:34,955 Speaker 1: greatest in his era, and she, of course read Roger Clemens' 588 00:39:35,035 --> 00:39:38,155 Speaker 1: era is one of the greatest in his er. She 589 00:39:38,315 --> 00:39:41,835 Speaker 1: was much better at interviewing Lakers players after games, particularly 590 00:39:41,875 --> 00:39:44,675 Speaker 1: Shaquille O'Neill, even though he was more than two feet 591 00:39:44,755 --> 00:39:46,795 Speaker 1: taller than she was, and she used to insist on 592 00:39:46,915 --> 00:39:52,795 Speaker 1: interviewing him standing up. These little visits looked so odd 593 00:39:53,155 --> 00:39:56,235 Speaker 1: on camera that I remember seeing one of her stories 594 00:39:56,315 --> 00:39:58,435 Speaker 1: being fed in from the LA Forum and I asked 595 00:39:58,475 --> 00:40:01,035 Speaker 1: the producer, were we actually putting that on the air 596 00:40:01,195 --> 00:40:05,315 Speaker 1: or just onto the gag reel for Christmas? We did 597 00:40:05,395 --> 00:40:07,795 Speaker 1: not overlap long there After, she gave birth to the 598 00:40:07,875 --> 00:40:10,435 Speaker 1: child of NFL tight end Tony Gonzales. Long after she 599 00:40:10,515 --> 00:40:13,635 Speaker 1: had ended her relationship with him. Lauren Sanchez was hired 600 00:40:13,675 --> 00:40:16,675 Speaker 1: to anchor the news on Channel thirteen, which is a 601 00:40:16,755 --> 00:40:19,755 Speaker 1: station that was apparently created because somebody would always have 602 00:40:19,955 --> 00:40:22,915 Speaker 1: to be in last place in the news ratings, and 603 00:40:23,035 --> 00:40:25,755 Speaker 1: it might as well be them. I was back visiting 604 00:40:25,875 --> 00:40:27,915 Speaker 1: in LA in the spring of two thousand and two 605 00:40:28,035 --> 00:40:30,555 Speaker 1: and dived in and out of as many newscasts as 606 00:40:30,595 --> 00:40:32,675 Speaker 1: I could so I could see what my two ex 607 00:40:32,795 --> 00:40:35,275 Speaker 1: employers there, and so many of my old colleagues and 608 00:40:35,395 --> 00:40:39,195 Speaker 1: rivals were doing. That's when I saw it the worst 609 00:40:39,635 --> 00:40:42,995 Speaker 1: or perhaps the best commercial for a local television news 610 00:40:43,155 --> 00:40:49,395 Speaker 1: sweeps series in human history in any language. Sweeps series 611 00:40:49,515 --> 00:40:52,315 Speaker 1: used to be local TVs bread and butter. During the 612 00:40:52,355 --> 00:40:55,155 Speaker 1: weeks when the local ratings were tabulated and used to 613 00:40:55,275 --> 00:40:58,795 Speaker 1: establish who was number one and thus how much everybody's 614 00:40:58,835 --> 00:41:02,115 Speaker 1: commercials would cost, each station would do a series of 615 00:41:02,275 --> 00:41:06,635 Speaker 1: special reports within each newscast. They were designed solely to 616 00:41:06,835 --> 00:41:10,715 Speaker 1: be advertised, to be sponsored, and to be as salacious 617 00:41:10,915 --> 00:41:15,035 Speaker 1: or silly or unbelievable or titillating or just as memorable 618 00:41:15,155 --> 00:41:18,275 Speaker 1: as possible. When I was in local news in LA 619 00:41:18,355 --> 00:41:20,435 Speaker 1: in the eighties and nineties, we had a series at 620 00:41:20,515 --> 00:41:23,235 Speaker 1: Channel two with a very good reporter named Dorothy Lucy, 621 00:41:23,475 --> 00:41:26,875 Speaker 1: and the series was called The Search for Slees. The 622 00:41:26,955 --> 00:41:30,995 Speaker 1: commercials for The Search for Slees showed her riding around 623 00:41:31,115 --> 00:41:33,475 Speaker 1: in a jacuzzi built into the back of a stretch 624 00:41:33,555 --> 00:41:35,915 Speaker 1: limo with an old guy with a beard and a 625 00:41:35,995 --> 00:41:39,075 Speaker 1: couple of bikini models in there too. That had been, 626 00:41:39,555 --> 00:41:42,955 Speaker 1: to my knowledge, the low point of the Sweeps series. 627 00:41:43,835 --> 00:41:46,795 Speaker 1: But now, as I watched in my hotel room in 628 00:41:46,875 --> 00:41:48,955 Speaker 1: Santa Monica in the spring of two thousand and two, 629 00:41:49,595 --> 00:41:52,115 Speaker 1: this is more or less what I heard the voiceover 630 00:41:52,155 --> 00:41:57,075 Speaker 1: announcer say. This week, a special report, ca COP thirteen 631 00:41:57,195 --> 00:42:03,835 Speaker 1: News anchor Lauren Sanchez brings you how to Meet a Baller. Ladies, 632 00:42:03,875 --> 00:42:08,475 Speaker 1: find out where to meet the athlete of your dreams, Lakerers, Clippers, Kings, Dodgers, Angels. 633 00:42:08,795 --> 00:42:12,755 Speaker 1: Do you want to meet him? Do you want to 634 00:42:13,595 --> 00:42:17,835 Speaker 1: get to know him? Do you want to date him? 635 00:42:18,395 --> 00:42:20,715 Speaker 1: How to beat a Baller? This week on the KCP 636 00:42:20,875 --> 00:42:24,715 Speaker 1: thirteen News at ten with Lauren Sanchez, How to Meet 637 00:42:24,875 --> 00:42:30,675 Speaker 1: a Baller. I'm not certain how they restored me to 638 00:42:30,795 --> 00:42:33,755 Speaker 1: human form from the puddle into which I had dissolved. 639 00:42:34,315 --> 00:42:36,555 Speaker 1: I do remember calling the desk to ask if it 640 00:42:36,675 --> 00:42:39,675 Speaker 1: was still Tuesday. It felt like I had been out 641 00:42:39,755 --> 00:42:46,075 Speaker 1: cold for several weeks. I was appalled, shocked, chagrined, nauseated, mortified, embarrassed, humiliated, 642 00:42:46,075 --> 00:42:49,675 Speaker 1: And then I stopped, and as an angelic choir sang 643 00:42:49,715 --> 00:42:52,875 Speaker 1: in the background, I changed my mind completely. This was 644 00:42:52,955 --> 00:42:56,915 Speaker 1: not Sweep's series madness. This was not a woman debasing 645 00:42:56,995 --> 00:43:00,555 Speaker 1: herself by teaching other women how to debase themselves, how 646 00:43:00,635 --> 00:43:05,995 Speaker 1: to meet dollars. This was, for perhaps the first time 647 00:43:06,075 --> 00:43:08,995 Speaker 1: in Sweeps series history, perhaps the first time in local 648 00:43:09,035 --> 00:43:14,435 Speaker 1: television news history, a true expert, lending her panoramic learned 649 00:43:14,755 --> 00:43:20,235 Speaker 1: comprehensive knowledge about one subject, requiring subtlety, insight, insider information, 650 00:43:20,635 --> 00:43:24,435 Speaker 1: and the selflessness to share it with mere ordinary women viewers. 651 00:43:25,875 --> 00:43:29,795 Speaker 1: How do you meet a baller? I would never have 652 00:43:29,955 --> 00:43:32,995 Speaker 1: known who to ask. I never would have known to 653 00:43:33,115 --> 00:43:38,915 Speaker 1: whom to send my wife or daughter or friend. Not really. 654 00:43:39,675 --> 00:43:44,195 Speaker 1: I knew there were experts, there were scholars, there were 655 00:43:44,275 --> 00:43:47,635 Speaker 1: fonts of wisdom. But Lauren Sanchez was the Einstein of 656 00:43:47,715 --> 00:43:52,555 Speaker 1: meeting ballers. And even in the glimmering light of knowledge 657 00:43:52,595 --> 00:43:55,515 Speaker 1: that radiated from her that week on Channel thirteen, Los Angeles, 658 00:43:55,555 --> 00:43:59,115 Speaker 1: two decades ago. Even in the blinding aura of her brilliance, 659 00:44:00,235 --> 00:44:03,235 Speaker 1: could she have known that the ultimate target of the 660 00:44:03,315 --> 00:44:07,555 Speaker 1: Little Sweep series should have been No, mere Tony Gonzalez? 661 00:44:07,675 --> 00:44:10,355 Speaker 1: Or do you want to meet him? Do you want 662 00:44:10,435 --> 00:44:13,035 Speaker 1: to get to know him? Do you want to date him? 663 00:44:13,355 --> 00:44:15,355 Speaker 1: It should have been do you want to meet him? 664 00:44:15,635 --> 00:44:17,155 Speaker 1: Do you want to get to know him? Do you 665 00:44:17,235 --> 00:44:22,675 Speaker 1: want to date him? How to meet a bezos in life? 666 00:44:23,795 --> 00:44:25,835 Speaker 1: You just don't expect people you worked with for a 667 00:44:25,915 --> 00:44:28,235 Speaker 1: few weeks, like Lauren Sanchez, to you wind up as 668 00:44:28,275 --> 00:44:33,115 Speaker 1: part of modern American history. It just seems unlikely, not 669 00:44:33,275 --> 00:44:35,715 Speaker 1: that they could be involved in a blackmail story like 670 00:44:35,915 --> 00:44:39,675 Speaker 1: hers and she was a victim, but that you could 671 00:44:39,675 --> 00:44:41,635 Speaker 1: have known her. And yet, for me this was the 672 00:44:41,715 --> 00:44:45,915 Speaker 1: second time. On October first, two thousand and nine, it 673 00:44:45,995 --> 00:44:48,435 Speaker 1: was the anniversary that reminded me of both of these stories, 674 00:44:48,995 --> 00:44:51,315 Speaker 1: my friend David Letterman came out onto the stage of 675 00:44:51,435 --> 00:44:53,555 Speaker 1: the CBS Late Night Show and revealed that he had 676 00:44:53,595 --> 00:44:57,315 Speaker 1: had a series of consensual relationships with women on his staff. 677 00:44:58,595 --> 00:45:01,955 Speaker 1: The studio audience laughed, assuming it was the start of 678 00:45:02,035 --> 00:45:04,715 Speaker 1: some bit in which the guys at the Hello O 679 00:45:04,835 --> 00:45:08,275 Speaker 1: Delhi would somehow of a roll of some sort. But 680 00:45:08,435 --> 00:45:11,915 Speaker 1: Dave went on and on and on, and finally revealed 681 00:45:11,955 --> 00:45:15,115 Speaker 1: he had been the victim of an extortion plot, and 682 00:45:15,235 --> 00:45:17,755 Speaker 1: that he and the Manhattan DA's office set up a 683 00:45:17,795 --> 00:45:20,635 Speaker 1: meeting with the blackmailer, who wanted two million dollars, with 684 00:45:20,795 --> 00:45:24,235 Speaker 1: the cover story being that he had written a screenplay 685 00:45:24,355 --> 00:45:28,235 Speaker 1: about Letterman that would reveal all the relationships, but he 686 00:45:28,315 --> 00:45:31,755 Speaker 1: would sell the quote screenplay unquote two Letterman for two 687 00:45:31,795 --> 00:45:37,355 Speaker 1: million dollars. Within hours, Letterman's blackmailer was identified by authorities. 688 00:45:37,395 --> 00:45:40,035 Speaker 1: I saw the name pop up on my computer terminal, NBC, 689 00:45:40,355 --> 00:45:43,635 Speaker 1: Robert Joel, Joe Halderman, and I looked at it, and 690 00:45:43,715 --> 00:45:48,715 Speaker 1: I said, of course, Joe Halderman. He had been the 691 00:45:48,755 --> 00:45:51,355 Speaker 1: assignment editor at CNN in New York from the day 692 00:45:51,395 --> 00:45:53,995 Speaker 1: I broke into television in August nineteen eighty one until 693 00:45:53,995 --> 00:45:57,595 Speaker 1: he left for CBS News a year later. All television 694 00:45:57,635 --> 00:46:01,235 Speaker 1: assignment editors have to deny reporters camera crews. There are 695 00:46:01,395 --> 00:46:05,195 Speaker 1: invariably scheduling conflicts, and ultimately there are always two stories 696 00:46:05,275 --> 00:46:09,595 Speaker 1: to shoot for every one camera crew available. But Halderman 697 00:46:09,715 --> 00:46:13,115 Speaker 1: used to enjoy denying us reporters crews. He used to 698 00:46:13,195 --> 00:46:15,955 Speaker 1: like to mock us, to make us grovel, and then 699 00:46:16,195 --> 00:46:18,395 Speaker 1: when you got to your story with your crew, he 700 00:46:18,435 --> 00:46:21,155 Speaker 1: would page them and tell them to go cover something 701 00:46:21,235 --> 00:46:25,995 Speaker 1: else and leave you stranded there. And personally he had 702 00:46:26,115 --> 00:46:30,635 Speaker 1: absolutely no redeeming qualities. If you could travel back in 703 00:46:30,755 --> 00:46:32,875 Speaker 1: time to the twenty two or twenty three year old 704 00:46:32,955 --> 00:46:35,635 Speaker 1: me and explain who David Letterman would be and what 705 00:46:35,755 --> 00:46:37,755 Speaker 1: his fame would be like, and how I'd be a 706 00:46:37,835 --> 00:46:40,555 Speaker 1: guest on his show one night when a presidential candidate 707 00:46:40,715 --> 00:46:43,355 Speaker 1: canceled at the last minute, and how somebody I already 708 00:46:43,435 --> 00:46:45,475 Speaker 1: knew and had worked with at age twenty two or 709 00:46:45,515 --> 00:46:48,755 Speaker 1: twenty three would try to blackmail him over staffers he'd 710 00:46:48,795 --> 00:46:52,235 Speaker 1: slept with, and could I I would have interrupted you 711 00:46:52,355 --> 00:46:54,555 Speaker 1: by that point and said, matter of factly, oh, it's 712 00:46:54,595 --> 00:46:57,715 Speaker 1: Joe Halderman, right, of course, Halderman, total creep. You say 713 00:46:57,795 --> 00:47:03,475 Speaker 1: he blackmails this letterbox guy. Frankly, forty year old me 714 00:47:03,715 --> 00:47:06,075 Speaker 1: probably could have figured out the whole Lauren Sanchez thing 715 00:47:06,155 --> 00:47:09,635 Speaker 1: for some time traveling quiz master as well. Although I 716 00:47:09,795 --> 00:47:12,755 Speaker 1: will make no comparison between Joe Halderman and Lauren Sanchez. 717 00:47:12,835 --> 00:47:17,395 Speaker 1: Lauren was very pleasant, and there is a lesson in 718 00:47:17,555 --> 00:47:21,235 Speaker 1: that for you. It's not just nostalgia. It's not a 719 00:47:21,395 --> 00:47:24,715 Speaker 1: brush with greatness, to use a lettermanesque term. Wherever you 720 00:47:24,835 --> 00:47:27,355 Speaker 1: are in life or in your career, you may have 721 00:47:27,515 --> 00:47:30,515 Speaker 1: yet to meet them, or you may have already met them. 722 00:47:30,995 --> 00:47:35,995 Speaker 1: But this I know to be true. You have your 723 00:47:36,115 --> 00:47:42,635 Speaker 1: own Lauren Sanchez and your own Joe Halderman already or 724 00:47:42,715 --> 00:47:46,395 Speaker 1: already in the past. And whatever your first impressions about 725 00:47:46,435 --> 00:47:49,955 Speaker 1: them were, or are or will be, you're damned right 726 00:47:50,075 --> 00:47:55,035 Speaker 1: they are. And also keep in mind that thought I 727 00:47:55,155 --> 00:47:59,675 Speaker 1: mentioned that I had about Bezos and the blackmail. Do 728 00:47:59,875 --> 00:48:03,595 Speaker 1: you really think he could have been the first one 729 00:48:04,395 --> 00:48:08,595 Speaker 1: they tried to blackmail into supporting Trump and the first 730 00:48:08,715 --> 00:48:14,115 Speaker 1: one turned them down and went public? Don't think so. 731 00:48:27,435 --> 00:48:29,875 Speaker 1: Did you see the pictures of Bezos and Lauren Sanchez 732 00:48:29,915 --> 00:48:33,315 Speaker 1: on vacation. In the pictures they are the same height. 733 00:48:35,155 --> 00:48:36,995 Speaker 1: Used to work with her, She's like five to two. 734 00:48:37,555 --> 00:48:40,515 Speaker 1: He claims to be five to seven. Maybe, along with 735 00:48:40,595 --> 00:48:43,275 Speaker 1: all the other work they threw in legbone extensions for free, 736 00:48:44,155 --> 00:48:45,915 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 737 00:48:45,955 --> 00:48:49,315 Speaker 1: you for listening. Contown musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip. 738 00:48:49,355 --> 00:48:52,475 Speaker 1: Shanelle arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. Mister 739 00:48:52,595 --> 00:48:55,035 Speaker 1: Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. Mister Chanelle 740 00:48:55,075 --> 00:48:58,595 Speaker 1: handled orchestration and keyboards. It was produced by Tko Brothers. 741 00:48:58,915 --> 00:49:02,115 Speaker 1: Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged 742 00:49:02,155 --> 00:49:05,395 Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. Sports music 743 00:49:05,515 --> 00:49:08,555 Speaker 1: is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch 744 00:49:08,595 --> 00:49:12,315 Speaker 1: Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our satirical and pithy 745 00:49:12,435 --> 00:49:15,835 Speaker 1: musical comments are by Nancy Faust. The best baseball stadium 746 00:49:15,955 --> 00:49:18,155 Speaker 1: organist ever our and out through today is my friend 747 00:49:18,235 --> 00:49:21,875 Speaker 1: Tony Kornheiser, And everything else was pretty much my fault. 748 00:49:22,555 --> 00:49:27,275 Speaker 1: Remember only you can promote Countdown the podcast. Send this 749 00:49:27,435 --> 00:49:30,635 Speaker 1: to somebody who hasn't listened to it yet. Thank you. 750 00:49:31,235 --> 00:49:33,915 Speaker 1: You need a receipt that is countdown for this. The 751 00:49:33,915 --> 00:49:36,635 Speaker 1: one hundred and forty first day until the twenty twenty 752 00:49:36,635 --> 00:49:40,195 Speaker 1: four presidential election, the one two hundred and sixtieth day 753 00:49:40,635 --> 00:49:44,475 Speaker 1: since convicted fellon Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the 754 00:49:44,515 --> 00:49:48,195 Speaker 1: democratically elected government of the United States. Use the July 755 00:49:48,355 --> 00:49:52,555 Speaker 1: eleventh sentencing hearing, use the mental health system, use presidential 756 00:49:52,595 --> 00:49:56,675 Speaker 1: immunity if it happens, use the Biden campaign ads to 757 00:49:56,995 --> 00:50:02,635 Speaker 1: stop him from doing it again. While we still damn. 758 00:50:03,955 --> 00:50:06,715 Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins is the news 759 00:50:06,755 --> 00:50:10,355 Speaker 1: warrants till then. I'm Keith Olremman. Good morning, good afternoon, 760 00:50:10,595 --> 00:50:25,555 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Joe brig Countdown with Keith 761 00:50:25,595 --> 00:50:30,635 Speaker 1: Olreman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 762 00:50:30,795 --> 00:50:34,795 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 763 00:50:34,875 --> 00:50:35,755 Speaker 1: your podcasts.