1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,955 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:23,835 --> 00:00:30,275 Speaker 1: I think I think Republicans may see a window to 3 00:00:30,555 --> 00:00:34,795 Speaker 1: exorcize Donald Trump from their party over the dinner with 4 00:00:34,875 --> 00:00:40,115 Speaker 1: Nick Fuentes and Kanye West. I think his vice president, 5 00:00:40,515 --> 00:00:44,155 Speaker 1: his envoy against anti Semitism. At least a dozen Republican 6 00:00:44,235 --> 00:00:48,995 Speaker 1: senators others all stampeding towards the Trumpian exit yesterday and 7 00:00:49,115 --> 00:00:52,275 Speaker 1: last night, and only a few of them even bothering 8 00:00:52,315 --> 00:00:55,875 Speaker 1: to try to both sides it as they climbed all 9 00:00:55,995 --> 00:00:58,835 Speaker 1: over each other to get to the door and pretend 10 00:00:58,915 --> 00:01:03,635 Speaker 1: to actually give a crap Relax, I am not interested in. 11 00:01:03,675 --> 00:01:08,635 Speaker 1: They're very flexible and utterly reversible and completely transparent morals. 12 00:01:09,075 --> 00:01:11,835 Speaker 1: They did this with the Access Hollywood tape too. They 13 00:01:11,835 --> 00:01:16,475 Speaker 1: don't care. Trump doesn't care. This is not about caring. 14 00:01:16,875 --> 00:01:19,235 Speaker 1: This is not about what's right. This is about the 15 00:01:19,235 --> 00:01:22,995 Speaker 1: political calculus. And if the cards continue to fall the 16 00:01:23,035 --> 00:01:26,195 Speaker 1: way they did yesterday, Trump will not be the Republican 17 00:01:26,235 --> 00:01:29,635 Speaker 1: nominee in two and that means Trump will become a 18 00:01:29,715 --> 00:01:34,875 Speaker 1: third party candidate because he has to. And this we want. 19 00:01:36,195 --> 00:01:39,675 Speaker 1: What matters right now is the language This time sounds 20 00:01:39,715 --> 00:01:43,875 Speaker 1: more like driving multiple stakes through the heart of the vampire, 21 00:01:44,355 --> 00:01:49,995 Speaker 1: and many key Republicans said important, albeit insincere and hypocritical 22 00:01:50,115 --> 00:01:54,875 Speaker 1: things about him not belonging in the party. This is 23 00:01:54,915 --> 00:01:58,035 Speaker 1: from Rick Scott, who a week ago today was running 24 00:01:58,075 --> 00:02:01,555 Speaker 1: point against Mitch McConnell for Donald Trump, and then a 25 00:02:01,595 --> 00:02:04,195 Speaker 1: week ago tonight, Trump had Kanye West and Nick Plente's 26 00:02:04,195 --> 00:02:07,595 Speaker 1: over to dinner quote, there's no room in the Republican 27 00:02:07,635 --> 00:02:13,515 Speaker 1: Party for white supremacy anti semitism. Should Trump then condemn 28 00:02:13,635 --> 00:02:18,235 Speaker 1: Puente's and or West. I think Republicans should all condemn 29 00:02:18,315 --> 00:02:23,155 Speaker 1: white supremacy and anti semitism. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. 30 00:02:23,395 --> 00:02:28,395 Speaker 1: President Trump hosting racist anti semites for dinner encourages other 31 00:02:28,675 --> 00:02:33,395 Speaker 1: racist anti semites. These attitudes are immoral and should not 32 00:02:33,475 --> 00:02:41,155 Speaker 1: be entertained. This is not the Republican Party. Well, uh, 33 00:02:41,275 --> 00:02:44,595 Speaker 1: yeah it is, but that's not important right now. The 34 00:02:44,755 --> 00:02:49,555 Speaker 1: version of that quote with ellipses is Trump dot dot 35 00:02:49,595 --> 00:02:54,395 Speaker 1: dot is not the Republican Party. Mitt Romney now with 36 00:02:54,555 --> 00:02:58,755 Speaker 1: new beard in progress, condemning and then adding quote, I 37 00:02:58,875 --> 00:03:02,395 Speaker 1: certainly don't want him hanging over our party like a gargoyle. 38 00:03:03,995 --> 00:03:06,595 Speaker 1: Let me repeat the key point. This is not about 39 00:03:06,675 --> 00:03:12,035 Speaker 1: Republican morals. There are no Republican morals. This is about reality. 40 00:03:12,075 --> 00:03:15,035 Speaker 1: If there are one hundred methods to keep Donald Trump 41 00:03:15,115 --> 00:03:19,275 Speaker 1: from returning to the wine house, and another hundred methods 42 00:03:19,315 --> 00:03:23,635 Speaker 1: to keep any Republican out, responsible, non fascist Americans have 43 00:03:23,715 --> 00:03:27,675 Speaker 1: to step on the gas on all two hundred methods simultaneously, 44 00:03:27,955 --> 00:03:31,075 Speaker 1: and one of them is the reminder that the best 45 00:03:31,115 --> 00:03:33,555 Speaker 1: odds of doing both of these things at the same 46 00:03:33,595 --> 00:03:37,155 Speaker 1: time is getting somebody else the Republican nomination and thus 47 00:03:37,195 --> 00:03:40,795 Speaker 1: forcing Trump onto a third party ticket, because Trump will 48 00:03:40,915 --> 00:03:44,875 Speaker 1: run under indictment. He would run from jail. Hell, there 49 00:03:44,915 --> 00:03:51,875 Speaker 1: are times I begin to think Trump might run posthumously anyway, 50 00:03:52,515 --> 00:03:57,875 Speaker 1: just as many Republicans went halfway. That must be said it. 51 00:03:57,875 --> 00:04:00,515 Speaker 1: It had to be somebody else's fault. Trump couldn't be 52 00:04:00,675 --> 00:04:05,715 Speaker 1: that evil, or they whispered, that's stupid. On Thune. I 53 00:04:05,795 --> 00:04:08,595 Speaker 1: don't know who's advising him on his staff, but I 54 00:04:08,635 --> 00:04:13,035 Speaker 1: hope that whoever that person it was got fired. The person, 55 00:04:13,075 --> 00:04:15,235 Speaker 1: of course is Trump. We all know that, John, Thank you, 56 00:04:15,435 --> 00:04:18,235 Speaker 1: Senator Tom Tillis. If the reports are true and the 57 00:04:18,275 --> 00:04:22,355 Speaker 1: President didn't know who he Fuentes was, whoever let him 58 00:04:22,355 --> 00:04:25,995 Speaker 1: in the room, should be fired. And that is actually 59 00:04:26,035 --> 00:04:29,195 Speaker 1: a lot less mealy mouthed than it sounds, because Tillis 60 00:04:29,275 --> 00:04:32,835 Speaker 1: is implying, if the reports are not true, the whoever 61 00:04:32,915 --> 00:04:35,435 Speaker 1: let him in the room was Trump, as we know 62 00:04:35,515 --> 00:04:38,395 Speaker 1: it was, and till Us is this close to saying 63 00:04:38,835 --> 00:04:43,275 Speaker 1: it's Trump who should be fired. John Cordon even called 64 00:04:43,315 --> 00:04:46,835 Speaker 1: it bad or perhaps that was Ted Cruz and Cornin 65 00:04:46,915 --> 00:04:51,155 Speaker 1: just cut and pasted Cruises remark, Senator Capito, ridiculous you 66 00:04:51,195 --> 00:04:54,715 Speaker 1: would do something with someone who espouses those views. Senator Ernst, 67 00:04:54,995 --> 00:04:58,115 Speaker 1: it is really ridiculous that he would do that. Senator Fisher, 68 00:04:58,195 --> 00:05:00,795 Speaker 1: I think it's wrong anytime you elevate comments that that 69 00:05:00,875 --> 00:05:06,355 Speaker 1: person says. Even Senator Susan Collins Trump quote should never 70 00:05:06,395 --> 00:05:10,435 Speaker 1: have had a meal or even a meeting with Nick Fuentes, which, 71 00:05:10,475 --> 00:05:12,915 Speaker 1: as an asside, goes into the Susan Collins Hall of 72 00:05:12,955 --> 00:05:17,635 Speaker 1: Fame because it implies that the meal among anti Semites 73 00:05:17,795 --> 00:05:22,435 Speaker 1: is far worse than a meeting among anti Semites. Marco 74 00:05:22,635 --> 00:05:28,795 Speaker 1: Rubio called Fuentes a quote ass clown unquote, but insisted 75 00:05:28,795 --> 00:05:32,835 Speaker 1: Trump is not an anti Semite. Spoiler alert, Sure he is. 76 00:05:33,835 --> 00:05:38,235 Speaker 1: Rubio said he hoped Trump would condemn Fuentes, Josh running 77 00:05:38,275 --> 00:05:42,795 Speaker 1: Man Holly, and Congressman Comber of the Maryland Thomas Allegations 78 00:05:42,995 --> 00:05:45,995 Speaker 1: tried to swerve it back to alon Omar and Holly. 79 00:05:46,115 --> 00:05:49,515 Speaker 1: The nitwit then went further and added, he supposed Trump 80 00:05:49,635 --> 00:05:54,115 Speaker 1: quote can have dinner with whomever he wants to. But 81 00:05:54,315 --> 00:05:57,195 Speaker 1: is interesting as anything said yesterday, and it is a 82 00:05:57,275 --> 00:06:01,715 Speaker 1: shocker considering the boiler plate pablum for which this guy 83 00:06:01,755 --> 00:06:05,395 Speaker 1: seems to be the exclusive American distributor what said by 84 00:06:05,835 --> 00:06:10,475 Speaker 1: Mike Pence. He went all extremes. There is no middle 85 00:06:10,555 --> 00:06:13,995 Speaker 1: in his statement about Trump and Fuentes and West of Trump, 86 00:06:14,035 --> 00:06:18,555 Speaker 1: he says, quote, I think he should apologize for it, 87 00:06:19,275 --> 00:06:23,195 Speaker 1: and he should denounce those individuals and their hateful rhetoric 88 00:06:23,595 --> 00:06:28,195 Speaker 1: without qualification. Then the nonsense at the other end of 89 00:06:28,195 --> 00:06:31,555 Speaker 1: the spectrum, echoing Rubio, I don't believe Donald Trump is 90 00:06:31,555 --> 00:06:34,155 Speaker 1: an anti Semite. I don't believe he's a racist or 91 00:06:34,275 --> 00:06:37,155 Speaker 1: a bigot. I would not have been his vice president 92 00:06:37,195 --> 00:06:42,435 Speaker 1: if he was. Mike, of course you would have. You 93 00:06:42,555 --> 00:06:45,635 Speaker 1: did for fourteen days after he encouraged his thugs to 94 00:06:45,955 --> 00:06:50,475 Speaker 1: hang you. I would not have been his vice president. 95 00:06:51,195 --> 00:06:52,995 Speaker 1: He would have been his vice president if he'd set 96 00:06:52,995 --> 00:06:57,795 Speaker 1: you on fire on day one. But Pence insisting Trump 97 00:06:57,835 --> 00:07:01,275 Speaker 1: should apologize circles back to my point. The Republicans are 98 00:07:01,355 --> 00:07:05,115 Speaker 1: useful in this society only because they individually and actively 99 00:07:05,435 --> 00:07:09,835 Speaker 1: describe the paths of their own political landscape, with none 100 00:07:09,835 --> 00:07:15,835 Speaker 1: of those cumbersome morals or values or laws getting in 101 00:07:15,875 --> 00:07:19,435 Speaker 1: the way of the pure, grunting thrust of their individual 102 00:07:19,555 --> 00:07:24,635 Speaker 1: lusts for power. Pence insists on an apology from Trump 103 00:07:24,835 --> 00:07:28,675 Speaker 1: about twenty's and West because Pence thinks his chances of 104 00:07:28,715 --> 00:07:31,715 Speaker 1: the presidential nomination are increased by insisting on an apology. 105 00:07:31,955 --> 00:07:33,955 Speaker 1: Just as Rick Scott said there is no room in 106 00:07:33,955 --> 00:07:36,675 Speaker 1: the Republican Party because somebody told him his chances of 107 00:07:36,755 --> 00:07:40,595 Speaker 1: becoming minority leader would shoot upwards if he did. Just 108 00:07:40,795 --> 00:07:44,275 Speaker 1: as Ron De Santis saying nothing is because that serves 109 00:07:44,395 --> 00:07:48,675 Speaker 1: him best, and Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, just as 110 00:07:48,755 --> 00:07:53,075 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy saying nothing, I guess saves him from yet 111 00:07:53,115 --> 00:07:56,795 Speaker 1: a third or fourth coat of that paint being applied 112 00:07:56,835 --> 00:08:01,035 Speaker 1: to the corner he has painted himself into. McCarthy if 113 00:08:01,075 --> 00:08:04,555 Speaker 1: he even can secure the speakership promised to Yank Congre 114 00:08:04,715 --> 00:08:07,315 Speaker 1: Somemen omar Off of her committees because of what the 115 00:08:07,355 --> 00:08:12,395 Speaker 1: Republicans falsely claim is her anti Semitism. Trump is strategizing 116 00:08:12,395 --> 00:08:15,795 Speaker 1: with his fellow anti Semites and tarring the Republican Party 117 00:08:15,835 --> 00:08:18,475 Speaker 1: with the stain, and McCarthy may not be able to 118 00:08:18,515 --> 00:08:22,835 Speaker 1: get away with silence, but it's his best bet given 119 00:08:22,835 --> 00:08:28,355 Speaker 1: the Omar situation. And then there is one more, even 120 00:08:28,795 --> 00:08:34,395 Speaker 1: more abject political calculation that shows where Trump stands after 121 00:08:34,435 --> 00:08:38,675 Speaker 1: the Fluentes fiasco, how much damage he has done to 122 00:08:38,795 --> 00:08:42,555 Speaker 1: himself in a week's time, and the mouth watering prospect 123 00:08:42,635 --> 00:08:46,955 Speaker 1: of the Republicans splitting into a mainstream party that nominates 124 00:08:46,955 --> 00:08:51,475 Speaker 1: somebody like de Santis and the completely crazy offshoot that 125 00:08:51,595 --> 00:08:56,195 Speaker 1: gets of the vote and sends a Democrat comfortably into 126 00:08:56,235 --> 00:09:00,875 Speaker 1: the White House in two years. Nobody is coming out 127 00:09:00,995 --> 00:09:04,395 Speaker 1: and saying Nick Fluentes is the direct cause of this 128 00:09:04,755 --> 00:09:08,995 Speaker 1: last abject political calculation. Lord knows Trump had already done 129 00:09:09,075 --> 00:09:11,915 Speaker 1: enough this month to make himself a political albatross in 130 00:09:11,955 --> 00:09:14,995 Speaker 1: real time, but the timing of this is more than 131 00:09:15,715 --> 00:09:19,235 Speaker 1: well just timing. Let me just quote this out of 132 00:09:19,235 --> 00:09:22,595 Speaker 1: the New York Times from last night. Donald J. Trump 133 00:09:22,635 --> 00:09:26,155 Speaker 1: will not cross the Florida state line to campaign with 134 00:09:26,955 --> 00:09:30,755 Speaker 1: herschel Walker during the final week of the Georgia Senate 135 00:09:30,835 --> 00:09:36,115 Speaker 1: runoff election, after both camps decided decided the former president's 136 00:09:36,115 --> 00:09:41,115 Speaker 1: appearance carried more political risks than rewards. Campaign officials for 137 00:09:41,155 --> 00:09:46,955 Speaker 1: the two Republicans said on Monday, when herschel Walker doesn't 138 00:09:46,995 --> 00:09:50,235 Speaker 1: want you to be seen anywhere near his erection, well, 139 00:09:50,275 --> 00:09:53,075 Speaker 1: first of all, this election is more than harseelwalk des 140 00:09:53,075 --> 00:09:56,235 Speaker 1: erection about the people. Well, first of all, this election 141 00:09:56,315 --> 00:09:59,635 Speaker 1: is more than herseelwalk des erections about the people. Well, 142 00:09:59,675 --> 00:10:02,475 Speaker 1: first of all, this election is more than herseelwalk des 143 00:10:02,515 --> 00:10:05,955 Speaker 1: erection about the people. Well. As a footnote to this, 144 00:10:07,275 --> 00:10:10,075 Speaker 1: at first, blush, it is kind of amazing that all 145 00:10:10,075 --> 00:10:14,475 Speaker 1: the Republican blowback is about Nick Fuentes and almost none 146 00:10:14,475 --> 00:10:18,995 Speaker 1: of it mentions Kanye West by name. I guess focus 147 00:10:19,035 --> 00:10:20,835 Speaker 1: groups in the Senate, in the House, and elsewhere in 148 00:10:20,875 --> 00:10:24,115 Speaker 1: the GOP say there is still some sort of overlap 149 00:10:24,355 --> 00:10:30,435 Speaker 1: between Republican voters and Kanye West bands. Please note West 150 00:10:30,475 --> 00:10:32,755 Speaker 1: and Fluentes were on a live stream last night, and 151 00:10:32,795 --> 00:10:36,995 Speaker 1: when the host would not instantly agree with West that 152 00:10:37,075 --> 00:10:40,115 Speaker 1: the media is run by the Jews to use their 153 00:10:40,275 --> 00:10:44,315 Speaker 1: terms and that those terms media and Jews are interchangeable. 154 00:10:44,355 --> 00:10:48,355 Speaker 1: When the host just stopped for almost literally a second 155 00:10:48,755 --> 00:10:52,035 Speaker 1: to say that the words were not entirely synonymous, Kanye 156 00:10:52,115 --> 00:10:55,435 Speaker 1: West got up and walked off the set because there 157 00:10:55,475 --> 00:11:01,115 Speaker 1: was not immediate agreement with his perfect rounded, well formed 158 00:11:01,395 --> 00:11:07,395 Speaker 1: anti semitism and hate the scum bag. And lastly, there 159 00:11:07,475 --> 00:11:11,275 Speaker 1: is Trump himself, joyfully back from his brief collision with 160 00:11:11,355 --> 00:11:14,675 Speaker 1: reality during his official announcement that he was running and 161 00:11:14,715 --> 00:11:19,755 Speaker 1: finding a nice juicy delusion to cower behind, dismissive and 162 00:11:19,875 --> 00:11:23,115 Speaker 1: offhand about twenty's and West and the dinner over the weekend, 163 00:11:23,555 --> 00:11:26,475 Speaker 1: and of course, as ever the real victim here, he 164 00:11:26,555 --> 00:11:29,355 Speaker 1: has now gone radio silent on these topics and instead 165 00:11:29,395 --> 00:11:34,555 Speaker 1: happily posted yet another confession in the nuclear documents gleptomania 166 00:11:34,675 --> 00:11:38,915 Speaker 1: case quote, when will you invade the other president's homes 167 00:11:38,915 --> 00:11:42,515 Speaker 1: in search of documents which are voluminous which they took 168 00:11:42,555 --> 00:11:48,275 Speaker 1: with them, but not nearly so openly and transparently as 169 00:11:48,315 --> 00:11:53,475 Speaker 1: I did? Subtracting the usual Trump crap for brains pretzel 170 00:11:53,515 --> 00:11:57,355 Speaker 1: logic from that sentence, Trump just admitted heat not only 171 00:11:57,475 --> 00:12:01,235 Speaker 1: took documents, but did so openly. That is such a 172 00:12:01,275 --> 00:12:05,955 Speaker 1: confession that even Jack Smith than Merrick Garland may have 173 00:12:06,075 --> 00:12:09,395 Speaker 1: noticed it. It is such a confession that I am 174 00:12:09,395 --> 00:12:13,275 Speaker 1: half expecting a quote today reading These attitudes about taking 175 00:12:13,315 --> 00:12:16,675 Speaker 1: documents are immoral and should not be entertained. This is 176 00:12:16,675 --> 00:12:36,315 Speaker 1: not the Republican Party, coming from Nick Fuentes. Still ahead 177 00:12:36,315 --> 00:12:39,515 Speaker 1: of curious twist in the other Trump saga because the 178 00:12:39,595 --> 00:12:43,635 Speaker 1: January sixth Committee takes five hours of testimony on the 179 00:12:43,675 --> 00:12:49,315 Speaker 1: record from Kelly an con job. The World Cup, the 180 00:12:49,355 --> 00:12:53,115 Speaker 1: soccer tournament may have triggered, at least it accelerated the 181 00:12:53,195 --> 00:12:57,155 Speaker 1: anti government protests in China. We know that because of 182 00:12:57,235 --> 00:13:00,675 Speaker 1: something the Chinese have done and in things I promised 183 00:13:00,675 --> 00:13:03,355 Speaker 1: not to tell. Have you heard the Fox Sports World 184 00:13:03,395 --> 00:13:07,555 Speaker 1: Cup commentator Alexey Lallis, the former player. A lot of 185 00:13:07,555 --> 00:13:11,475 Speaker 1: people are complaining me. I did a commercial with Alexei 186 00:13:11,555 --> 00:13:14,195 Speaker 1: Lallis a quarter century ago, and he was a gas 187 00:13:14,675 --> 00:13:18,075 Speaker 1: and I got to destroy his guitar in the middle 188 00:13:18,115 --> 00:13:22,595 Speaker 1: of the crowded and largely unprepared for it. ESPN Newsroom, 189 00:13:22,795 --> 00:13:27,395 Speaker 1: Come on, if you want to enjoy yourself, destroying a 190 00:13:27,475 --> 00:13:31,155 Speaker 1: guitar in the middle of a crowded workplace is really 191 00:13:31,195 --> 00:13:34,435 Speaker 1: near the top of your list. That's next. This is Countdown. 192 00:13:39,555 --> 00:13:46,395 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead on Countdown. 193 00:13:46,475 --> 00:13:51,355 Speaker 1: Top ten names for puppies for two, You bet I'm interested? 194 00:13:52,195 --> 00:13:54,715 Speaker 1: And if you don't, think sports and politics are attached 195 00:13:54,795 --> 00:13:58,195 Speaker 1: at the hip one of the accelerators of the anti 196 00:13:58,195 --> 00:14:03,035 Speaker 1: government protests in China the broadcasts of the World Cup 197 00:14:03,155 --> 00:14:07,515 Speaker 1: soccer tournament in tar And speaking of those World Cup broadcasts, 198 00:14:07,515 --> 00:14:10,835 Speaker 1: do you like Alexei Lialiss work for Fox? Well, let's 199 00:14:10,835 --> 00:14:14,155 Speaker 1: say yes and a let's say new Either way, I 200 00:14:14,235 --> 00:14:16,675 Speaker 1: did a commercial with him, and boy is that a 201 00:14:16,835 --> 00:14:19,755 Speaker 1: story coming up first? In each edition of Countdown, we 202 00:14:19,795 --> 00:14:21,955 Speaker 1: feature a dog in need you can help. Every dog 203 00:14:21,995 --> 00:14:26,075 Speaker 1: has its day. In New York, Luca's family became homeless, 204 00:14:26,515 --> 00:14:28,555 Speaker 1: and for some reason we think that's a good enough 205 00:14:28,595 --> 00:14:31,395 Speaker 1: reason to kill him. A year old, he needs to 206 00:14:31,435 --> 00:14:34,835 Speaker 1: be a solo dog, but he loves his humans, all humans. 207 00:14:35,035 --> 00:14:37,675 Speaker 1: He loves playing, and you can help save him. Remember 208 00:14:37,715 --> 00:14:41,195 Speaker 1: Elaine Boosler's offer to help underwrite your expenses if you 209 00:14:41,235 --> 00:14:44,315 Speaker 1: adopt Luca off the kill list in New York. If 210 00:14:44,315 --> 00:14:46,755 Speaker 1: you can help or just retweet, Luca will be the 211 00:14:46,795 --> 00:14:49,675 Speaker 1: pinned tweet at tom Jumbo Grumbo and also in my 212 00:14:49,755 --> 00:15:06,035 Speaker 1: personal feed I thank you and Luca thanks you. Postscripts 213 00:15:06,075 --> 00:15:10,555 Speaker 1: to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks, some predictions. Dateline, Washington, 214 00:15:10,675 --> 00:15:14,435 Speaker 1: Kelly and con Job testifies to the January sixth Committee 215 00:15:14,795 --> 00:15:18,755 Speaker 1: five hours on the record. CNN says it was mostly 216 00:15:18,795 --> 00:15:21,475 Speaker 1: about reports in several of the what is It Now 217 00:15:21,475 --> 00:15:26,075 Speaker 1: seven thirty nine seven or thirty nine seven, forty seven 218 00:15:26,355 --> 00:15:29,835 Speaker 1: forty different Trump tell All books that Kelly Ann con 219 00:15:29,955 --> 00:15:33,955 Speaker 1: Job quoted Trump to acquaintances as saying he wondered aloud 220 00:15:34,315 --> 00:15:37,555 Speaker 1: how he could have lost to effing Joe Biden in 221 00:15:37,595 --> 00:15:40,315 Speaker 1: the weeks before the Republicans put them out of business. 222 00:15:40,595 --> 00:15:44,115 Speaker 1: The January six Committee is desperately trying to establish under 223 00:15:44,195 --> 00:15:48,155 Speaker 1: oath that Trump knew he lost the election and inspired 224 00:15:48,195 --> 00:15:52,435 Speaker 1: the coup attempts. Anyway and Dateline Seattle, The new list 225 00:15:52,635 --> 00:15:55,995 Speaker 1: is out. Which new list? The most popular names for 226 00:15:56,035 --> 00:16:01,955 Speaker 1: American dogs and cats, puppies and kittens. Courtesy rover dot com. 227 00:16:02,075 --> 00:16:05,755 Speaker 1: You bet the big takeaway them is popular name for 228 00:16:05,875 --> 00:16:10,275 Speaker 1: female dogs is Luna, and the most popular name for 229 00:16:10,315 --> 00:16:16,315 Speaker 1: female cats is also Luna. Luna just replaced Bella among 230 00:16:16,435 --> 00:16:21,435 Speaker 1: girl dogs. The rest of that top ten Daisy, Lucy, Lily, Zoe, Lola, 231 00:16:21,835 --> 00:16:29,915 Speaker 1: Sadie Bailey, and Stella Stella. Top ten male dog names, 232 00:16:29,955 --> 00:16:36,835 Speaker 1: Max Again, Charlie, Cooper, Milo, Buddy, Rocky Bear, Teddy, Duke, Leo, 233 00:16:37,315 --> 00:16:40,475 Speaker 1: Oliver and Milo are the top two among male cats, 234 00:16:40,955 --> 00:16:44,555 Speaker 1: as to Teddy, placing eighth among the male dogs. My 235 00:16:44,635 --> 00:17:04,395 Speaker 1: guy Ted says, I guess so this is Sports Center. 236 00:17:04,875 --> 00:17:12,235 Speaker 1: Wait check that not anymore. This is countdown with Keith 237 00:17:13,155 --> 00:17:16,035 Speaker 1: in Sports. Next time somebody tells you sports is not 238 00:17:16,155 --> 00:17:20,595 Speaker 1: political or should not be asked them about this. Several 239 00:17:20,635 --> 00:17:25,675 Speaker 1: analysts agree the anti government protests in China accelerated when 240 00:17:25,795 --> 00:17:30,475 Speaker 1: Chinese soccer fans saw the first World Cup game broadcasts 241 00:17:30,515 --> 00:17:34,515 Speaker 1: from Qatar and they saw spectators there who were not 242 00:17:34,595 --> 00:17:38,435 Speaker 1: required to wear masks. The government had not informed them 243 00:17:38,435 --> 00:17:41,475 Speaker 1: that there were countries that had moved past masks scored 244 00:17:41,515 --> 00:17:44,635 Speaker 1: at least mandatory masks. If you have any doubts that 245 00:17:44,715 --> 00:17:48,675 Speaker 1: this story is true, the BBC lead correspondent in China, 246 00:17:48,715 --> 00:17:52,915 Speaker 1: Stephen McDonnell, reporting, quote, China Central Television is editing out 247 00:17:53,115 --> 00:17:56,595 Speaker 1: close ups of spectators in its coverage of the World Cup, 248 00:17:56,915 --> 00:18:03,195 Speaker 1: so Chinese viewers don't see thousands of fans without masks. Also, 249 00:18:03,275 --> 00:18:05,275 Speaker 1: an Iranian woman has been ex felt from one of 250 00:18:05,275 --> 00:18:09,475 Speaker 1: those stadiums for wearing a shirt reading women Life Freedom. 251 00:18:09,515 --> 00:18:12,315 Speaker 1: They also banned two idiots from England who are dressed 252 00:18:12,355 --> 00:18:16,715 Speaker 1: as medieval crusaders, complete with chain mail and helmets, who 253 00:18:16,755 --> 00:18:19,435 Speaker 1: apparently did not think it would bother anybody in the 254 00:18:19,475 --> 00:18:24,675 Speaker 1: Middle East, where the British and English crusaders, you know, crusaded. 255 00:18:25,475 --> 00:18:28,555 Speaker 1: A little closer to home, baseball's most underrated run producer 256 00:18:28,675 --> 00:18:32,915 Speaker 1: is changing teams. Jose bray U eight hundred sixty three RBI, 257 00:18:33,035 --> 00:18:35,035 Speaker 1: the second most since he came to the majors in 258 00:18:35,075 --> 00:18:39,075 Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen, signing with the Astros as a free agent. 259 00:18:39,515 --> 00:18:42,795 Speaker 1: His old team, the White Sox under owner Jerry Ryansdorff, 260 00:18:43,435 --> 00:18:47,515 Speaker 1: just watching. You know how old Jerry Ryanstorff is. He's 261 00:18:47,555 --> 00:19:10,035 Speaker 1: two hundred and six. Thank you, Nancy Faust, and you're welcome, 262 00:19:10,155 --> 00:19:13,715 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. A baseball deal that may happen, and may 263 00:19:13,755 --> 00:19:17,915 Speaker 1: happen soon. The free agent Dodgers shortstop trade Turner to 264 00:19:18,675 --> 00:19:22,195 Speaker 1: the Phillies. The Dodgers also reportedly met with free agent 265 00:19:22,235 --> 00:19:27,035 Speaker 1: pitcher Justin Verlander yesterday, most recently of Houston. Oh you 266 00:19:27,075 --> 00:19:30,875 Speaker 1: know how old Justin Verlander is, what do you mean 267 00:19:30,915 --> 00:19:35,835 Speaker 1: two six? He'll be forty Twitter and six, Twitter and six. 268 00:19:35,955 --> 00:19:37,995 Speaker 1: It's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Who said two 269 00:19:38,035 --> 00:19:51,555 Speaker 1: uter and six? Where you get a idea like that? Ahead, 270 00:19:51,595 --> 00:19:54,475 Speaker 1: Alexei Lalis is back in the news. I did a 271 00:19:54,515 --> 00:20:00,475 Speaker 1: commercial with him in six It was, frankly one of 272 00:20:00,515 --> 00:20:03,035 Speaker 1: the most fun things I've ever done in my career. 273 00:20:03,995 --> 00:20:08,675 Speaker 1: How often do you get to smash a guitar? Details 274 00:20:08,675 --> 00:20:11,595 Speaker 1: and the backstory of that smashed guitar and what happened 275 00:20:11,595 --> 00:20:14,195 Speaker 1: to it? Coming up first, the daily roundup of the miscreants, 276 00:20:14,235 --> 00:20:17,555 Speaker 1: morons and done in Kruger Effect specimens. Who constitute today's 277 00:20:17,595 --> 00:20:22,195 Speaker 1: worst persons in the world the Bronze If you missed it, 278 00:20:22,275 --> 00:20:27,435 Speaker 1: Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, possibly the stupidest person in America, 279 00:20:28,035 --> 00:20:31,915 Speaker 1: put out a holiday baking video. Well guess what turns out? 280 00:20:31,955 --> 00:20:36,835 Speaker 1: She can't send it and she can't cook. Senator Blackburn 281 00:20:36,915 --> 00:20:41,395 Speaker 1: told viewers to make cookies on wax paper, pre set 282 00:20:41,395 --> 00:20:44,915 Speaker 1: the oven to three degrees, and then put the cookies 283 00:20:45,075 --> 00:20:49,275 Speaker 1: and the wax paper into the oven. They must have 284 00:20:49,355 --> 00:20:53,195 Speaker 1: to keep a fire engine parked outside her House runner 285 00:20:53,275 --> 00:20:56,595 Speaker 1: up Jamie Mitchell of quote Gaze against groomers with a 286 00:20:56,715 --> 00:21:01,275 Speaker 1: solution to homophobic shootings like the one in Colorado Springs. Quote, 287 00:21:01,315 --> 00:21:04,355 Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna stop until we end this 288 00:21:04,955 --> 00:21:09,115 Speaker 1: agenda that is attacking children, which swapping a couple of 289 00:21:09,115 --> 00:21:11,395 Speaker 1: words is exactly what white people in the South said 290 00:21:11,395 --> 00:21:14,675 Speaker 1: about lynchings in the nineteen thirties. It's not just blaming 291 00:21:14,675 --> 00:21:17,715 Speaker 1: the victim. It is a veiled threat to continue to 292 00:21:17,835 --> 00:21:20,435 Speaker 1: kill the victims. And by the way, it's not that 293 00:21:20,595 --> 00:21:25,275 Speaker 1: veiled but our winners right wing stooge Stephen Crowder and 294 00:21:25,435 --> 00:21:30,675 Speaker 1: Elon Musk, also right wing stooge. Crowder tweets a screenshot 295 00:21:30,715 --> 00:21:36,635 Speaker 1: from something called Rebel News which reads Antifa extremist Stage 296 00:21:36,675 --> 00:21:41,155 Speaker 1: plans to burn down Tesla outlets for following Twitter bands. 297 00:21:41,955 --> 00:21:46,915 Speaker 1: Crowder adds the tolerant lift. First off, it's rebel News, 298 00:21:47,235 --> 00:21:51,155 Speaker 1: which is a propaganda site run by Canada's Really the 299 00:21:51,155 --> 00:21:54,675 Speaker 1: word I want here is challenged right winger ezra Levant. 300 00:21:55,275 --> 00:21:59,275 Speaker 1: But secondly, even if that were true, Antifa extremist stage 301 00:21:59,315 --> 00:22:04,275 Speaker 1: plans to burn down Tesla outlets following Twitter bands going 302 00:22:04,315 --> 00:22:06,955 Speaker 1: to the trouble of burning those things down would be unnecessary. 303 00:22:06,955 --> 00:22:09,715 Speaker 1: I mean, if anybody wants Elon Musk's tesla outlets to 304 00:22:09,795 --> 00:22:12,395 Speaker 1: burn down, you just stand there and wait until the 305 00:22:12,435 --> 00:22:18,515 Speaker 1: tesla's themselves spontaneously combust. Stephen convinced me I'm wrong. You 306 00:22:18,555 --> 00:22:22,915 Speaker 1: were born wrong, Crowder and Ellen. If my guns look 307 00:22:23,075 --> 00:22:27,115 Speaker 1: like my cause, don't anybody stand near me? Musk Today's 308 00:22:27,515 --> 00:22:44,315 Speaker 1: worst Persons and the world to the number one story 309 00:22:44,315 --> 00:22:46,755 Speaker 1: on the countdown on my favorite topic, me and things 310 00:22:46,795 --> 00:22:50,035 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell. And with the World Cup continuing, 311 00:22:50,755 --> 00:22:52,075 Speaker 1: I don't know if you think of that as good 312 00:22:52,075 --> 00:22:55,555 Speaker 1: news or bad news. I told you one ESPN World 313 00:22:55,635 --> 00:22:58,515 Speaker 1: Cup story last week, the saga of the well intentioned 314 00:22:58,595 --> 00:23:01,395 Speaker 1: Gary Miller going the extra mile to try to explain 315 00:23:01,435 --> 00:23:04,195 Speaker 1: the surfeit of red card penalties to the u S 316 00:23:04,235 --> 00:23:08,275 Speaker 1: audience during the soccer tournament, only to come a cropper 317 00:23:08,795 --> 00:23:10,955 Speaker 1: when he had to pronounce such names as Rigger, Bert 318 00:23:10,995 --> 00:23:17,595 Speaker 1: Bhang's Song and John Luca Polyuka and Babetto, and thus 319 00:23:17,675 --> 00:23:22,675 Speaker 1: creating the infamous soccer breakdown outtake tape. But there is 320 00:23:22,715 --> 00:23:25,715 Speaker 1: a second story worth telling about the World Cup, and 321 00:23:25,755 --> 00:23:28,435 Speaker 1: I was reminded of it when the long knives of 322 00:23:28,475 --> 00:23:31,275 Speaker 1: social media came out last week for Fox Sports World 323 00:23:31,315 --> 00:23:36,155 Speaker 1: Cup analysts and long ago American star Alexei Lalis. The 324 00:23:37,275 --> 00:23:40,275 Speaker 1: World Cup did not really do that much for American soccer, 325 00:23:40,395 --> 00:23:43,315 Speaker 1: which as you know, is the sport of the future 326 00:23:43,315 --> 00:23:47,395 Speaker 1: in this country and always will be. It did make 327 00:23:47,395 --> 00:23:51,195 Speaker 1: a lot of Americans into fans, but fans of European clubs, 328 00:23:51,275 --> 00:23:54,835 Speaker 1: especially the British clubs. But for a while, Alexei Lalas 329 00:23:54,875 --> 00:23:57,475 Speaker 1: with his shoulder length reddish blonde hair and his billy 330 00:23:57,555 --> 00:24:01,155 Speaker 1: goat beard and his anti establishment vibe, he was on 331 00:24:01,235 --> 00:24:05,555 Speaker 1: the front burners of American sports. So naturally ESPN wanted 332 00:24:05,595 --> 00:24:09,795 Speaker 1: him for the surrealist fake documentary commercials called This is 333 00:24:09,835 --> 00:24:13,075 Speaker 1: Sports Center, and sure enough he came to Bristol and 334 00:24:13,115 --> 00:24:16,435 Speaker 1: they devised a bid in which Gary Miller, John Luca 335 00:24:16,475 --> 00:24:19,555 Speaker 1: Polycas Gary Miller would be sitting at a desk in 336 00:24:19,595 --> 00:24:22,595 Speaker 1: the Sports Center newsroom as a top the adjoining desk, 337 00:24:22,715 --> 00:24:27,395 Speaker 1: Lallis sat cross legged, philosophizing on relaxation and vibes, and 338 00:24:27,515 --> 00:24:31,595 Speaker 1: finally playing Michael Rowe the boat Ashore on his guitar. 339 00:24:32,595 --> 00:24:34,595 Speaker 1: At that point the commercial turned into one of the 340 00:24:34,595 --> 00:24:40,075 Speaker 1: classic scenes from John Belushi's Animal House film, another sportscaster 341 00:24:40,355 --> 00:24:42,875 Speaker 1: was to storm into the newsroom, pull the guitar out 342 00:24:42,875 --> 00:24:46,715 Speaker 1: of Lallis's hands, and then smash it against a cubicle 343 00:24:46,755 --> 00:24:50,195 Speaker 1: wall with the greatest grunt he could achieve, and then 344 00:24:50,275 --> 00:24:53,755 Speaker 1: hand Lallis back whatever was left of the guitar, and 345 00:24:53,995 --> 00:25:00,195 Speaker 1: like Belushi, say sorry. Well, they asked me to be 346 00:25:00,235 --> 00:25:03,915 Speaker 1: the other sportscaster who smashes the guitar. So picture that 347 00:25:03,995 --> 00:25:07,195 Speaker 1: in your mom mind as I play what it sounded 348 00:25:07,235 --> 00:25:10,275 Speaker 1: like for twenty seconds or so. And then I have 349 00:25:10,715 --> 00:25:13,955 Speaker 1: what I think is a really good backstory about the 350 00:25:13,995 --> 00:25:16,475 Speaker 1: filming of this one. And I've been talking to you 351 00:25:16,515 --> 00:25:21,515 Speaker 1: all afternoon about the tension, about the darkness. We gotta 352 00:25:21,555 --> 00:25:40,875 Speaker 1: do something about that, Michael wrote, for time's sake, the 353 00:25:40,915 --> 00:25:44,995 Speaker 1: word sorry didn't make it. So the backstory, and it's 354 00:25:45,035 --> 00:25:48,435 Speaker 1: out of chronological order. The guitar that Alexei Laois was 355 00:25:48,435 --> 00:25:51,155 Speaker 1: playing was not the one I smashed. There was an 356 00:25:51,195 --> 00:25:54,035 Speaker 1: exact duplicate that had been bought. It had been taken apart, 357 00:25:54,115 --> 00:25:56,915 Speaker 1: it had been sawed, and basically it was put back 358 00:25:56,915 --> 00:26:00,155 Speaker 1: together with scotch tape. It would hold together long enough 359 00:26:00,155 --> 00:26:02,995 Speaker 1: for him to strum a few sour notes on it 360 00:26:03,355 --> 00:26:05,395 Speaker 1: and then for me to grab it and smash it. 361 00:26:05,915 --> 00:26:09,155 Speaker 1: They were confident it would not fly apart until I 362 00:26:09,235 --> 00:26:11,595 Speaker 1: hit the cubicle wall with it, but they still told 363 00:26:11,635 --> 00:26:15,115 Speaker 1: me to simply grab it, not yanket out of his hands, 364 00:26:15,755 --> 00:26:17,635 Speaker 1: or I might be left holding the neck of the 365 00:26:17,675 --> 00:26:21,955 Speaker 1: guitar and Alexey holding the rest of it. This was 366 00:26:22,075 --> 00:26:25,675 Speaker 1: especially problematic because we only had the one prop guitar. 367 00:26:26,795 --> 00:26:29,515 Speaker 1: That's right, We made the business end of that commercial 368 00:26:29,555 --> 00:26:33,195 Speaker 1: in one take. The this is Sports Center campaign not 369 00:26:33,275 --> 00:26:37,875 Speaker 1: only frequently achieved something approaching genius levels of originality and creativity, 370 00:26:37,915 --> 00:26:41,715 Speaker 1: but they were all done cheaper than local news promos 371 00:26:41,795 --> 00:26:47,315 Speaker 1: in Burlington, Vermont. In two we often shot three of 372 00:26:47,355 --> 00:26:51,195 Speaker 1: these commercials in one day, and it wasn't until the 373 00:26:51,235 --> 00:26:54,035 Speaker 1: second series of ads did the Sports Center anchors who 374 00:26:54,075 --> 00:26:57,275 Speaker 1: start in one or two or three even get credit 375 00:26:57,355 --> 00:27:00,995 Speaker 1: for a day off. In one of them, Charlie Sneiner 376 00:27:01,115 --> 00:27:03,075 Speaker 1: is trying to get his tape of highlights back from 377 00:27:03,115 --> 00:27:06,115 Speaker 1: the Harlem Globe trotters who are passing it around like 378 00:27:06,115 --> 00:27:09,275 Speaker 1: a basketball, and he says a little help that I'm 379 00:27:09,275 --> 00:27:12,115 Speaker 1: typing away at my computer, and I say sure, Charlie, 380 00:27:12,115 --> 00:27:14,395 Speaker 1: and I don't even look at him, let alone stop typing, 381 00:27:14,515 --> 00:27:18,075 Speaker 1: let alone give many help. And that's done because the 382 00:27:18,115 --> 00:27:21,675 Speaker 1: commercial was shot in the area right behind my desk, 383 00:27:22,115 --> 00:27:25,275 Speaker 1: because nobody was working there that day except me, and 384 00:27:25,355 --> 00:27:28,275 Speaker 1: it was around five PM, and I was, in fact 385 00:27:28,315 --> 00:27:31,675 Speaker 1: sitting at my desk writing the eleven PM Sports Center script. 386 00:27:32,235 --> 00:27:34,555 Speaker 1: And the original commercial script did not call for me 387 00:27:34,595 --> 00:27:37,635 Speaker 1: to even be in Charlie's commercial. But on the fly 388 00:27:37,795 --> 00:27:40,275 Speaker 1: the writer said, hey, Keith, can you give us one line? 389 00:27:40,755 --> 00:27:42,515 Speaker 1: And I said, as long as I can keep writing, 390 00:27:42,875 --> 00:27:47,315 Speaker 1: and they said perfect. And by the way, Charlie did 391 00:27:47,315 --> 00:27:50,795 Speaker 1: the commercial around five o'clock or so and then went 392 00:27:50,875 --> 00:27:54,715 Speaker 1: and anchored the six PM Sports Center. The spot we 393 00:27:54,835 --> 00:27:57,915 Speaker 1: did where hockey legend Gordy how beats me up while 394 00:27:57,955 --> 00:28:00,715 Speaker 1: I am trying to read through a script also shot 395 00:28:00,755 --> 00:28:03,275 Speaker 1: at my desk, also on a day I was anchoring 396 00:28:03,315 --> 00:28:07,995 Speaker 1: the show, and that was my real script. Anyway, back 397 00:28:08,035 --> 00:28:11,275 Speaker 1: to alex A. Lalis and the guitar, so we only 398 00:28:11,275 --> 00:28:13,395 Speaker 1: had the one prop guitar, and so we only had 399 00:28:13,395 --> 00:28:15,275 Speaker 1: the one take, and we were shooting it in the 400 00:28:15,315 --> 00:28:18,715 Speaker 1: actual Sports Center newsroom of course, in fact, they were 401 00:28:18,835 --> 00:28:21,635 Speaker 1: remodeling the real news room to accommodate the launch of 402 00:28:21,635 --> 00:28:26,675 Speaker 1: the new ESPN News network. So this was the temporary 403 00:28:26,835 --> 00:28:30,715 Speaker 1: even more crowded than usual newsroom. So the cameraman and 404 00:28:30,755 --> 00:28:32,835 Speaker 1: the producer and the writer and I walked through how 405 00:28:32,875 --> 00:28:35,035 Speaker 1: they thought it would work best, since I would have 406 00:28:35,075 --> 00:28:38,075 Speaker 1: to weave pass people who were really doing their jobs 407 00:28:38,075 --> 00:28:40,795 Speaker 1: and going to other deaths and talking to people and stuff. 408 00:28:41,515 --> 00:28:44,475 Speaker 1: They had two cameras in the little hallway that constituted 409 00:28:44,475 --> 00:28:48,075 Speaker 1: the temporary newsrooms northern border, and they put a third, 410 00:28:48,195 --> 00:28:50,635 Speaker 1: smaller camera on the floor where they guessed that a 411 00:28:50,675 --> 00:28:53,835 Speaker 1: piece of the guitar might land after I smashed it. 412 00:28:54,755 --> 00:28:56,515 Speaker 1: See if you can get the fret or something to 413 00:28:56,595 --> 00:28:59,395 Speaker 1: go here. The producer said that would make a great shot. 414 00:29:00,355 --> 00:29:01,875 Speaker 1: I asked him how in the hell I was supposed 415 00:29:01,915 --> 00:29:04,595 Speaker 1: to do that since we couldn't even practice the smash. 416 00:29:04,755 --> 00:29:09,915 Speaker 1: He said, well, honestly, I don't know. Telepathy. Maybe that 417 00:29:10,075 --> 00:29:13,435 Speaker 1: was the other salient part of the back story, since 418 00:29:13,475 --> 00:29:15,515 Speaker 1: we only had the one take and we wouldn't need 419 00:29:15,555 --> 00:29:17,395 Speaker 1: me doing a dry run because they didn't want the 420 00:29:17,395 --> 00:29:20,195 Speaker 1: guitar to fall apart in my hands. I would say 421 00:29:20,275 --> 00:29:23,755 Speaker 1: less than half the people crowded into the temporary newsroom 422 00:29:23,995 --> 00:29:27,435 Speaker 1: had any idea that when I came in i was 423 00:29:27,515 --> 00:29:30,035 Speaker 1: in the commercial let alone, that I was going to 424 00:29:30,195 --> 00:29:34,595 Speaker 1: actually and loudly destroy a guitar by smashing it against 425 00:29:34,635 --> 00:29:38,475 Speaker 1: a low cubicle wall. Even if the guitar has been 426 00:29:38,515 --> 00:29:41,075 Speaker 1: pre broken and taped back together, as that one was, 427 00:29:41,155 --> 00:29:44,795 Speaker 1: it is still going to make a lot of noise. Wait. 428 00:29:45,235 --> 00:29:47,755 Speaker 1: I said to my friend Hank, who wrote it. You're 429 00:29:47,755 --> 00:29:51,035 Speaker 1: not warning anybody, are you, your little devil? Hank got 430 00:29:51,035 --> 00:29:54,555 Speaker 1: a gleeful, evil glazed look in his eyes. No, isn't 431 00:29:54,595 --> 00:29:57,875 Speaker 1: that great. So they filmed the close ups of Gary, 432 00:29:57,915 --> 00:29:59,795 Speaker 1: and they filmed the close ups of Alexei. And then 433 00:29:59,835 --> 00:30:02,235 Speaker 1: they set me up to EDITR from a vestibule through 434 00:30:02,275 --> 00:30:05,355 Speaker 1: two swinging doors with windows in them, which was along 435 00:30:05,355 --> 00:30:07,875 Speaker 1: the periphery of the temporary newsroom. Then a right turn 436 00:30:08,155 --> 00:30:11,315 Speaker 1: and then about no, no fift to where Alexey and 437 00:30:11,355 --> 00:30:14,955 Speaker 1: Gary were still sitting. My target for exactly where I 438 00:30:14,955 --> 00:30:18,515 Speaker 1: should hit the guitar was clearly marked on the cubicle wall, 439 00:30:18,555 --> 00:30:21,275 Speaker 1: and they even put marks on the carpet of where 440 00:30:21,275 --> 00:30:23,235 Speaker 1: a couple of practice walks at shown would give me 441 00:30:23,235 --> 00:30:26,795 Speaker 1: the best chance at a solid stance when I swung 442 00:30:26,875 --> 00:30:31,635 Speaker 1: the guitar and sent it l kabonging to its doom, 443 00:30:31,675 --> 00:30:35,755 Speaker 1: and nobody ever said quiet role or here we go. 444 00:30:36,555 --> 00:30:38,395 Speaker 1: They told people in the room that they were just 445 00:30:38,435 --> 00:30:42,315 Speaker 1: shooting some cover angles on Gary and Alexei, and people 446 00:30:42,315 --> 00:30:45,475 Speaker 1: could say or move whatever and wherever they wanted to, 447 00:30:45,955 --> 00:30:49,155 Speaker 1: just along. They didn't get away of the cameras. Then 448 00:30:49,195 --> 00:30:52,195 Speaker 1: they just tapped the desks for Alexey and Gary to start, 449 00:30:52,515 --> 00:30:54,955 Speaker 1: and the producer waved to me and in I went, 450 00:30:55,275 --> 00:30:57,715 Speaker 1: trying to channel John Belushi when he takes the guitar 451 00:30:57,755 --> 00:30:59,675 Speaker 1: away from Stephen Bishop on the stairs of the Front 452 00:30:59,715 --> 00:31:03,355 Speaker 1: House and Animal House. I furrowed my brow and I 453 00:31:03,435 --> 00:31:07,515 Speaker 1: tried to fake some inem towards Alexei Lalis. I found 454 00:31:07,555 --> 00:31:10,275 Speaker 1: the emotion as I came through the doors. I kept 455 00:31:10,315 --> 00:31:12,595 Speaker 1: thinking that since I had been eight years old, I 456 00:31:12,635 --> 00:31:14,995 Speaker 1: had heard people call soccer the sport of the future 457 00:31:15,035 --> 00:31:17,115 Speaker 1: here and I was now thirty seven, and I was 458 00:31:17,235 --> 00:31:21,275 Speaker 1: damn tired of hearing it. Lallis was strumming on the 459 00:31:21,315 --> 00:31:25,715 Speaker 1: nearly neutered prop guitar. It made a sick sound. I 460 00:31:25,795 --> 00:31:28,115 Speaker 1: took my strides, I hit the marks, I grabbed the 461 00:31:28,115 --> 00:31:30,955 Speaker 1: guitar by the neck with my right hand and simultaneously 462 00:31:30,995 --> 00:31:34,035 Speaker 1: Alexei let go, and then with both hands, I swung 463 00:31:34,075 --> 00:31:36,515 Speaker 1: the guitar back over my head and smashed it right 464 00:31:36,555 --> 00:31:53,835 Speaker 1: on the mark. As you heard Michael Road. The Sports 465 00:31:53,835 --> 00:31:58,515 Speaker 1: Center newsroom promptly went silent for several seconds. The reaction 466 00:31:58,635 --> 00:32:01,315 Speaker 1: was identical to what it would have been had there 467 00:32:01,355 --> 00:32:04,395 Speaker 1: been no commercial being made and no cameras present. And 468 00:32:04,435 --> 00:32:08,395 Speaker 1: I just walked in and destroyed somebody's guitar, which I 469 00:32:08,435 --> 00:32:12,035 Speaker 1: guess a lot of people expected I might do someday, 470 00:32:12,075 --> 00:32:14,315 Speaker 1: because even a lot of the people who were surprised, 471 00:32:14,355 --> 00:32:19,355 Speaker 1: we're not surprised surprised. Craig Wax, the skinny research guy, 472 00:32:19,435 --> 00:32:22,555 Speaker 1: can be seen in the finished commercial, which is on YouTube, 473 00:32:22,675 --> 00:32:27,315 Speaker 1: for a second far left, just staring at me, like, yeah, well, 474 00:32:27,355 --> 00:32:30,355 Speaker 1: we always knew Keith would do something like that. After 475 00:32:30,395 --> 00:32:32,475 Speaker 1: I destroyed the guitar, and I have to say, I 476 00:32:32,515 --> 00:32:35,875 Speaker 1: did it really well. I kept moving for the plan 477 00:32:36,635 --> 00:32:38,955 Speaker 1: until I walked back through the swinging doors and out 478 00:32:38,955 --> 00:32:42,635 Speaker 1: of shot. The directors shouted cut. I walked back in, 479 00:32:42,915 --> 00:32:45,675 Speaker 1: and the crew gave me a round of applause, and 480 00:32:45,715 --> 00:32:47,795 Speaker 1: a couple of them were cheering out of all proportion, 481 00:32:47,835 --> 00:32:49,915 Speaker 1: even if I had done a good of a job 482 00:32:49,915 --> 00:32:52,515 Speaker 1: as I thought, came here, came here. The cameraman kept saying, 483 00:32:52,555 --> 00:32:57,155 Speaker 1: come here. That extra camera on the floor, They backed 484 00:32:57,155 --> 00:32:59,835 Speaker 1: the video tape up from it, and they showed it 485 00:32:59,875 --> 00:33:04,075 Speaker 1: to me. When I smashed the guitar, the fretboard, the 486 00:33:04,115 --> 00:33:07,115 Speaker 1: actual wood and metal piece on the neck flew off 487 00:33:07,555 --> 00:33:10,755 Speaker 1: and not only landed near the third camera's lens, it 488 00:33:10,915 --> 00:33:14,835 Speaker 1: hit it on the fly and it's stuck there. They 489 00:33:14,875 --> 00:33:17,635 Speaker 1: were as happy as if they were engineers imploding a 490 00:33:17,715 --> 00:33:20,595 Speaker 1: building for the first time and it had fallen exactly 491 00:33:20,635 --> 00:33:23,635 Speaker 1: as they had hoped. Plus, they showed me the playback 492 00:33:23,675 --> 00:33:26,435 Speaker 1: from the first camera, and there was an assignment desk 493 00:33:26,555 --> 00:33:28,635 Speaker 1: editor with her back to the action on the phone, 494 00:33:28,835 --> 00:33:31,755 Speaker 1: completely unaware of what was happening or even that they 495 00:33:31,755 --> 00:33:36,235 Speaker 1: were rolling film and videotape, and she literally jumped several 496 00:33:36,275 --> 00:33:40,835 Speaker 1: inches out of her seat of her chair. But to me, 497 00:33:40,915 --> 00:33:43,835 Speaker 1: the best part of this thing is Gary Miller. Even 498 00:33:43,875 --> 00:33:47,075 Speaker 1: if you know a loud noise is coming, it is 499 00:33:47,155 --> 00:33:49,635 Speaker 1: quite the effort to not flinch a little when it 500 00:33:49,715 --> 00:33:53,635 Speaker 1: happens basically right over your shoulder. I mean, ask the 501 00:33:53,715 --> 00:33:58,315 Speaker 1: little kid in the movie North by Northwest where even 502 00:33:58,315 --> 00:34:02,715 Speaker 1: Marie sat shoots carry Grant and he sticks his fingers 503 00:34:02,715 --> 00:34:04,795 Speaker 1: in his ears because it's take thirty seven and he 504 00:34:04,875 --> 00:34:08,875 Speaker 1: knows the noise is coming. I mean, you're aware of 505 00:34:08,915 --> 00:34:12,275 Speaker 1: it just for the possibility that somebody will screw it 506 00:34:12,355 --> 00:34:15,595 Speaker 1: up like me and debris will fly into the back 507 00:34:15,635 --> 00:34:18,635 Speaker 1: of your head. But if you watch Gary Miller in 508 00:34:18,635 --> 00:34:21,355 Speaker 1: this Sports Center commercial, he didn't even blink, just a 509 00:34:21,395 --> 00:34:27,315 Speaker 1: little dead pan head jerk. It's perfect. What also amazes 510 00:34:27,315 --> 00:34:29,235 Speaker 1: me is that we got all this done in twenty 511 00:34:29,275 --> 00:34:32,475 Speaker 1: four seconds of running time. Alexei goes on about negativity, 512 00:34:32,515 --> 00:34:34,355 Speaker 1: how they have to do something about it. He plays 513 00:34:34,435 --> 00:34:36,195 Speaker 1: enough of the song that you recognize it. You got 514 00:34:36,235 --> 00:34:39,435 Speaker 1: a shot at cheerleaders incongruously in the middle of the background. 515 00:34:39,835 --> 00:34:42,595 Speaker 1: I appear from nowhere, move over there, smash the guitar 516 00:34:42,635 --> 00:34:45,915 Speaker 1: while roaring spectacularly. I give him back the neck of 517 00:34:45,955 --> 00:34:48,595 Speaker 1: the thing. The only thing missing is that shot from 518 00:34:48,595 --> 00:34:50,995 Speaker 1: the fret bar flying into camera three. They explained they 519 00:34:50,995 --> 00:34:56,995 Speaker 1: didn't have the extra two seconds seen. I remember enjoying 520 00:34:57,115 --> 00:34:59,475 Speaker 1: doing this so much that I asked them for the 521 00:34:59,555 --> 00:35:01,875 Speaker 1: front of the body of the guitar, and I had 522 00:35:01,915 --> 00:35:05,635 Speaker 1: Alexei signed it to me on the spot. It framed 523 00:35:05,715 --> 00:35:09,755 Speaker 1: in my various offices for about fifteen years. In two 524 00:35:09,755 --> 00:35:13,235 Speaker 1: thousand fourteen, I was leaving the recording of Stephen Colbert's 525 00:35:13,275 --> 00:35:15,475 Speaker 1: final episode for Comedy Central. I was one of a 526 00:35:15,515 --> 00:35:18,155 Speaker 1: hundred guests, and I went out onto the street to 527 00:35:18,155 --> 00:35:20,835 Speaker 1: find a cab home and I got one, and in 528 00:35:20,955 --> 00:35:24,315 Speaker 1: getting into it, I nearly ran into Alexei Lalas, who 529 00:35:24,315 --> 00:35:27,275 Speaker 1: was one of the other hundred guests. I laughed, He laughed, 530 00:35:27,275 --> 00:35:28,755 Speaker 1: and he said, and I don't even have my guitar 531 00:35:28,835 --> 00:35:32,915 Speaker 1: with me. And one last note, I doubt this will 532 00:35:32,955 --> 00:35:35,915 Speaker 1: be of any practical use to you, but I must say, 533 00:35:36,355 --> 00:35:39,835 Speaker 1: as somebody who was accorded this rare privilege, not only 534 00:35:39,875 --> 00:35:43,515 Speaker 1: of doing this, but of doing this with impunity, and 535 00:35:43,595 --> 00:35:47,955 Speaker 1: doing this to applause. If you are trying to healthily 536 00:35:48,115 --> 00:35:53,195 Speaker 1: vent any frustrations or anger in your life, smashing a 537 00:35:53,235 --> 00:35:58,795 Speaker 1: guitar against a workplace cubicle wall is exactly as satisfying 538 00:35:58,995 --> 00:36:15,635 Speaker 1: as you would expect it would be. I've done all 539 00:36:15,635 --> 00:36:18,475 Speaker 1: the damage I can do here in this case. Literally. 540 00:36:19,555 --> 00:36:21,955 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. If you're not following or subscribed or 541 00:36:21,995 --> 00:36:24,395 Speaker 1: whatever to this podcast, please do so, and stop past 542 00:36:24,435 --> 00:36:26,115 Speaker 1: your buy in the street and get them too as well. 543 00:36:27,115 --> 00:36:29,715 Speaker 1: Here are our credits. Most of the music, including our 544 00:36:29,755 --> 00:36:33,075 Speaker 1: theme from Beethoven's Ninth, was arranged, produced, and performed by 545 00:36:33,275 --> 00:36:35,675 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Philip Chanelle. They are the Countdown 546 00:36:35,755 --> 00:36:39,835 Speaker 1: musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Chanelle. 547 00:36:40,555 --> 00:36:44,475 Speaker 1: Guitars except for the alex A. Lalas guitar, bass and 548 00:36:44,595 --> 00:36:47,515 Speaker 1: drums by Brian Ray, produced by t Ko Brothers. Other 549 00:36:47,515 --> 00:36:51,075 Speaker 1: Beethoven selections I've been arranged and performed by No Horns allowed. 550 00:36:51,475 --> 00:36:54,275 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Overman theme from me ESPN two, 551 00:36:54,515 --> 00:36:56,755 Speaker 1: and it was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of 552 00:36:57,035 --> 00:37:00,235 Speaker 1: ESPN Inc. Musical comments by Nancy Faust. The best baseball 553 00:37:00,275 --> 00:37:04,995 Speaker 1: stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was Tony Kornheiser. Everything 554 00:37:04,995 --> 00:37:07,995 Speaker 1: else is pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this, 555 00:37:08,195 --> 00:37:11,155 Speaker 1: the six d ninety three day since Donald Trump's first 556 00:37:11,155 --> 00:37:14,835 Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 557 00:37:15,515 --> 00:37:19,515 Speaker 1: Arrest him now while we still can. A new addition 558 00:37:19,555 --> 00:37:22,155 Speaker 1: tomorrow until ben On Keith ol Reman, Good morning, good afternoon, 559 00:37:22,155 --> 00:37:33,875 Speaker 1: good night, and good Luck. Countdown with Keith ol Reman 560 00:37:34,035 --> 00:37:37,435 Speaker 1: is a production of I heart Radio. 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