1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,515 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart 2 00:00:08,635 --> 00:00:28,475 Speaker 1: Radio No Pain. The athletes say no gain. Long ago 3 00:00:28,555 --> 00:00:31,195 Speaker 1: it occurred to me there was a corollary to that. Yes, 4 00:00:31,315 --> 00:00:37,035 Speaker 1: no pain, no gain plus no brain no pain. Here 5 00:00:37,155 --> 00:00:42,075 Speaker 1: is herschel Walker's latest lie about paying for a girlfriend's abortion, 6 00:00:42,595 --> 00:00:46,515 Speaker 1: seasoned Mother of my chib. So you're gonna seem a chip, 7 00:00:46,795 --> 00:00:48,875 Speaker 1: somebody given a tick so that they don't say this 8 00:00:48,955 --> 00:00:51,955 Speaker 1: a lot. Do you know what? I have no idea. 9 00:00:51,995 --> 00:00:55,955 Speaker 1: What they can be for is that your single. It 10 00:00:56,035 --> 00:00:58,195 Speaker 1: could be and it doesn't matter whether it's my saint 11 00:00:58,435 --> 00:01:02,355 Speaker 1: or not. That's my chick. NBC's interview with herschel Walker. 12 00:01:02,395 --> 00:01:05,155 Speaker 1: First it was all a lie. There was no girl friend. 13 00:01:05,315 --> 00:01:07,955 Speaker 1: Then the check was not his. Then the check was his, 14 00:01:08,315 --> 00:01:11,475 Speaker 1: but he didn't know who she was. Now, oh that check, Yes, 15 00:01:11,595 --> 00:01:13,675 Speaker 1: that's my check. But of course I cent her it 16 00:01:13,755 --> 00:01:15,635 Speaker 1: ch actually was the mother of my child, even though 17 00:01:15,995 --> 00:01:18,315 Speaker 1: the date on the check is years before the birth 18 00:01:18,355 --> 00:01:23,715 Speaker 1: of their child. I believe I surrendered the last of 19 00:01:23,755 --> 00:01:28,635 Speaker 1: my dark paranoia conspiracy theories in my twenties, but a 20 00:01:28,675 --> 00:01:31,875 Speaker 1: new one seems to be forming now. I think there 21 00:01:31,955 --> 00:01:36,355 Speaker 1: is a ranch somewhere where they take potential conservative candidates 22 00:01:36,475 --> 00:01:39,635 Speaker 1: from all around the world and test them to make 23 00:01:39,635 --> 00:01:42,635 Speaker 1: sure they are stupid enough to appeal to the public, 24 00:01:43,115 --> 00:01:45,835 Speaker 1: yet skilled enough that when caught in a lie, they 25 00:01:45,915 --> 00:01:49,355 Speaker 1: have another lie ready and waiting. If they are not 26 00:01:49,515 --> 00:01:53,475 Speaker 1: stupid enough, I assume that ranch hands hit them in 27 00:01:53,515 --> 00:01:56,115 Speaker 1: the head with a rock and make them more stupid. 28 00:01:58,395 --> 00:02:03,515 Speaker 1: End of conspiracy theory. Here is Mike Lee, seditionist sympathizer 29 00:02:03,595 --> 00:02:06,115 Speaker 1: running scared for real action to the Senate from Utah, 30 00:02:06,355 --> 00:02:09,715 Speaker 1: and the Salt Lake City Tribune invites Lee and his opponent, 31 00:02:09,715 --> 00:02:12,995 Speaker 1: Evan McMullen to write op ed pitches for their Candidasease 32 00:02:13,115 --> 00:02:18,035 Speaker 1: and mcmullans starts quote, I'm Evan McMullan and Senator Lee's 33 00:02:18,235 --> 00:02:21,675 Speaker 1: starts quote. Mike Lee serves as a United States Senator 34 00:02:22,115 --> 00:02:24,475 Speaker 1: and Mike Lee wrote about Mike Lee in the third 35 00:02:24,515 --> 00:02:29,195 Speaker 1: person twenty one times. The op ed is three words long, 36 00:02:29,795 --> 00:02:33,115 Speaker 1: twenty one times in the third person. Here's Ron Johnson 37 00:02:33,235 --> 00:02:36,555 Speaker 1: January six, messenger running scared for re election to the 38 00:02:36,595 --> 00:02:39,475 Speaker 1: Senate from Wisconsin. Scared enough to have hired as long 39 00:02:39,515 --> 00:02:43,595 Speaker 1: ago as July a law firm to handle a recount 40 00:02:44,035 --> 00:02:46,515 Speaker 1: of the election that has not happened yet, and the 41 00:02:46,595 --> 00:02:49,835 Speaker 1: law firm was named in some of the Department of 42 00:02:49,915 --> 00:02:53,755 Speaker 1: Justice subpoenas in the investigation of the fake electors coup, 43 00:02:54,115 --> 00:02:56,475 Speaker 1: because if you're Ron Johnson, the one thing you want 44 00:02:56,835 --> 00:02:59,875 Speaker 1: is to leave a trail of evidence before you commit 45 00:02:59,955 --> 00:03:05,195 Speaker 1: the crime. Here's Donald Trump, fresh off threatening Arkins who 46 00:03:05,195 --> 00:03:08,075 Speaker 1: happened to be Jewish and insinuating their first loyalty is 47 00:03:08,115 --> 00:03:11,835 Speaker 1: to Israel, supposedly having dinner this week with Kanye West, 48 00:03:12,195 --> 00:03:15,875 Speaker 1: fresh office series of escalating anti Semitic rants so powerful 49 00:03:16,075 --> 00:03:18,875 Speaker 1: that he has not just self defenstrated thrown himself out 50 00:03:18,915 --> 00:03:22,715 Speaker 1: of the professional seventh floor window, but first he's self immolated, 51 00:03:23,115 --> 00:03:25,475 Speaker 1: let himself on fire, and then thrown himself out of 52 00:03:25,475 --> 00:03:29,115 Speaker 1: the professional seventh floor window and somehow landed on top 53 00:03:29,155 --> 00:03:33,635 Speaker 1: of a pile of Candice Owen's business advice. And here's 54 00:03:33,675 --> 00:03:37,075 Speaker 1: Elon Musk, who may or may not be buying Twitter. 55 00:03:37,675 --> 00:03:39,875 Speaker 1: It's an even numbered day. I think that means he's 56 00:03:39,875 --> 00:03:43,075 Speaker 1: not buying Twitter. I'll have to check. And he's suing 57 00:03:43,115 --> 00:03:47,195 Speaker 1: everybody he jumps into support or endorse or defend or 58 00:03:47,235 --> 00:03:51,235 Speaker 1: amplify Kanye West anti Semitism, or Kanye West planned to 59 00:03:51,235 --> 00:03:55,275 Speaker 1: buy the hate website Parlor, and Musk tweets a meme 60 00:03:55,435 --> 00:03:58,715 Speaker 1: of himself wearing a Twitter logo reaching out to West 61 00:03:58,795 --> 00:04:03,235 Speaker 1: wearing a Parlor logo. Hi, I'm Elon Musk, and this 62 00:04:03,315 --> 00:04:07,035 Speaker 1: anti Semitism has my endorsement, and then he deletes the 63 00:04:07,075 --> 00:04:12,195 Speaker 1: tweet without comment. The terrifying thing in all of this 64 00:04:12,435 --> 00:04:16,435 Speaker 1: is America's political and public morons like Herschel Walker, and 65 00:04:16,555 --> 00:04:20,235 Speaker 1: Ron Johnson and Kanye West and Donald Freakin Trump and 66 00:04:20,315 --> 00:04:24,915 Speaker 1: Elon Musk. I know he's an import. America's political and 67 00:04:24,955 --> 00:04:29,075 Speaker 1: public morons might not be as moronic as some of 68 00:04:29,115 --> 00:04:32,235 Speaker 1: the entries from the rest of the world. If you 69 00:04:32,315 --> 00:04:37,315 Speaker 1: have not been following British politics this year, on July seven, 70 00:04:37,595 --> 00:04:41,515 Speaker 1: Prime Minister Boris Johnson was finally surgically removed from office, 71 00:04:42,115 --> 00:04:44,075 Speaker 1: with the plan being to have him stay on as 72 00:04:44,115 --> 00:04:47,995 Speaker 1: a caretaker until his Conservative party could choose his replacement. 73 00:04:48,035 --> 00:04:51,795 Speaker 1: It spent two months doing so, that is the equivalent 74 00:04:51,835 --> 00:04:56,355 Speaker 1: in American politics of about sixteen years, and on September six, 75 00:04:56,795 --> 00:05:02,075 Speaker 1: Liz Trusts succeeded Johnson as Prime Minister. On September twenty three, 76 00:05:02,155 --> 00:05:04,995 Speaker 1: in the middle of the British economic downturn. She and 77 00:05:05,035 --> 00:05:08,915 Speaker 1: her finance minister cut taxes for the rich and cut 78 00:05:08,955 --> 00:05:12,795 Speaker 1: taxes for the corporations. The British pound collapsed and economic 79 00:05:12,875 --> 00:05:19,955 Speaker 1: chaos ensued. So last Friday Liz Trust fired her Finance minister. Yesterday, 80 00:05:19,995 --> 00:05:24,155 Speaker 1: her new finance minister repudiated everything her old finance minister 81 00:05:24,195 --> 00:05:27,275 Speaker 1: had announced just three weeks earlier. And when it came 82 00:05:27,315 --> 00:05:29,795 Speaker 1: time for Prime Minister Trust to go to the House 83 00:05:29,795 --> 00:05:32,635 Speaker 1: of Commons and face the consequences on day forty two 84 00:05:32,635 --> 00:05:37,995 Speaker 1: of her administration, she showed up late until she got there. 85 00:05:38,035 --> 00:05:40,835 Speaker 1: In her place, the Conservative Party Leader of the House, 86 00:05:41,195 --> 00:05:45,395 Speaker 1: a woman named Penny Mordant, said the dumbest thing and 87 00:05:45,515 --> 00:05:49,875 Speaker 1: was rewarded by the longest sustained laughter of any politician 88 00:05:49,995 --> 00:05:53,675 Speaker 1: anywhere in living memory. The first voice you will hear 89 00:05:54,075 --> 00:05:57,435 Speaker 1: suggesting that Prime Minister Trust is cowering under a desk 90 00:05:57,555 --> 00:06:02,835 Speaker 1: somewhere is the Labor mp stella crazy. The second voice 91 00:06:02,875 --> 00:06:06,075 Speaker 1: is Penny Mordant, who answered the desk reference in such 92 00:06:06,115 --> 00:06:08,915 Speaker 1: a way that you have to think that if Liz 93 00:06:08,995 --> 00:06:14,315 Speaker 1: Trust isn't hiding under one now, she will be hiding 94 00:06:14,435 --> 00:06:17,995 Speaker 1: under a desk later. All we know right now is 95 00:06:18,075 --> 00:06:20,315 Speaker 1: unless she tells us otherwise that the Prime Minister is 96 00:06:20,395 --> 00:06:22,955 Speaker 1: powering under a desk and asking for it all to 97 00:06:23,035 --> 00:06:26,955 Speaker 1: go away. Is it about time she didn't let somebody 98 00:06:26,955 --> 00:06:29,115 Speaker 1: else who can make decisions on the British national interests 99 00:06:29,155 --> 00:06:33,635 Speaker 1: get in charge instead. Well, the Prime Minister is not 100 00:06:34,275 --> 00:06:40,915 Speaker 1: under a desk, is the I can assure. I could 101 00:06:40,915 --> 00:06:48,155 Speaker 1: assure the House. I can assure the House. I could 102 00:06:48,155 --> 00:06:54,035 Speaker 1: assure the House that she is with with regret. She 103 00:06:54,235 --> 00:06:58,515 Speaker 1: is not here for a very good reasons. But not 104 00:06:59,195 --> 00:07:03,075 Speaker 1: if you have to seriously assure the House and reassure 105 00:07:03,155 --> 00:07:05,555 Speaker 1: the public that the Prime Minister of your country is 106 00:07:05,595 --> 00:07:10,355 Speaker 1: not hiding under a desk. Guess what You're going to 107 00:07:10,435 --> 00:07:14,475 Speaker 1: need another new prime minister even though it appears you 108 00:07:14,555 --> 00:07:19,915 Speaker 1: ran out of qualified candidates several years ago. That reminded 109 00:07:19,915 --> 00:07:22,755 Speaker 1: me of a Saturday Night Live sketch that spoofed the 110 00:07:22,835 --> 00:07:26,555 Speaker 1: nuclear accident at the Three Mile Island Plant in Pennsylvania 111 00:07:26,555 --> 00:07:30,555 Speaker 1: in ninety nine. In it, President Carter has played by 112 00:07:30,635 --> 00:07:34,475 Speaker 1: Dan Ackroyd, is exposed to radiation and suddenly turns into 113 00:07:34,475 --> 00:07:38,635 Speaker 1: a giant. At a press conference, A reporter asks, is 114 00:07:38,675 --> 00:07:41,995 Speaker 1: it true that the president is one tall? The press 115 00:07:42,035 --> 00:07:47,315 Speaker 1: secretary played by the actor Richard Benjamin answers no. Absolutely not. 116 00:07:47,955 --> 00:07:50,835 Speaker 1: Another reporter than asked, is the president ninety ft tall? 117 00:07:51,275 --> 00:07:56,395 Speaker 1: The press secretary answers no comment. As I think of it, 118 00:07:56,395 --> 00:07:59,475 Speaker 1: it was around that time, just about when I saw 119 00:07:59,555 --> 00:08:04,075 Speaker 1: that sketch and the March nine college senior or just 120 00:08:04,155 --> 00:08:06,715 Speaker 1: turned twenty years old, about to make my way in 121 00:08:06,755 --> 00:08:09,235 Speaker 1: the world. That was when I first began to be 122 00:08:09,435 --> 00:08:12,715 Speaker 1: terrified by a sneaking and vague suspicion that has only 123 00:08:12,795 --> 00:08:16,395 Speaker 1: grown more and more clear, and more and more terrifying 124 00:08:16,475 --> 00:08:19,755 Speaker 1: as the decades have whizzed by. And for the last 125 00:08:19,755 --> 00:08:23,035 Speaker 1: ten or twenty years I have spoken of this sneaking, 126 00:08:23,235 --> 00:08:26,315 Speaker 1: vague suspicion to any younger person who has asked my 127 00:08:26,355 --> 00:08:29,595 Speaker 1: advice about almost anything. I said it to my two 128 00:08:29,715 --> 00:08:32,635 Speaker 1: year old nephew, and he looked at me with alarm 129 00:08:32,675 --> 00:08:36,395 Speaker 1: and resignation, and he said, I was afraid of that. 130 00:08:37,475 --> 00:08:41,795 Speaker 1: This suspicion, now confirmed by Liz Trusts and Elon Musk 131 00:08:42,275 --> 00:08:46,835 Speaker 1: and Kanye West and Donald Trump and all the other morons, 132 00:08:47,195 --> 00:08:54,275 Speaker 1: boils down to these four words. There are no adults. 133 00:09:06,315 --> 00:09:09,155 Speaker 1: There aren't still ahead uncountdown. The day I met Howard 134 00:09:09,235 --> 00:09:11,835 Speaker 1: Stern and he basically decided where I would be going 135 00:09:11,915 --> 00:09:15,675 Speaker 1: to college. There were no adults there too. He was 136 00:09:15,715 --> 00:09:19,355 Speaker 1: twenty years old at the time, and I was fifteen sports. 137 00:09:19,555 --> 00:09:21,795 Speaker 1: If all the teams that did really well in the 138 00:09:21,875 --> 00:09:24,235 Speaker 1: regular season get the crap kicked out of them in 139 00:09:24,235 --> 00:09:29,675 Speaker 1: the postseason, what exactly is the regular season? Four? Anyway, 140 00:09:29,675 --> 00:09:33,355 Speaker 1: why baseball should not let anybody actually answer that question? 141 00:09:34,115 --> 00:09:38,555 Speaker 1: And in worse persons, it's your chance to buy Donald 142 00:09:38,595 --> 00:09:51,595 Speaker 1: Trump's balls. That's next. This is Countdown? Does is Countdown? 143 00:09:52,635 --> 00:10:02,755 Speaker 1: With Keith Larry David doing his impression of the p 144 00:10:02,835 --> 00:10:06,915 Speaker 1: a announcer at Yankee Stadium the Late Shepherd still ahead 145 00:10:06,955 --> 00:10:11,035 Speaker 1: on Countdown. Trump's balls are for sale again, another new 146 00:10:11,075 --> 00:10:15,315 Speaker 1: taxpayer stadium boondoggle in the works. And the day that 147 00:10:15,435 --> 00:10:20,075 Speaker 1: Howard Stern decided where I would be going to college. First, 148 00:10:20,115 --> 00:10:22,115 Speaker 1: In each edition of Countdown, we feature a dog in 149 00:10:22,195 --> 00:10:24,315 Speaker 1: need whom you can help. Every dog has its day. 150 00:10:24,555 --> 00:10:28,395 Speaker 1: Some good news from Friday. Our Friday dog Smokey has 151 00:10:28,435 --> 00:10:32,075 Speaker 1: been reunited with his human back to the North Central 152 00:10:32,075 --> 00:10:34,835 Speaker 1: Pound in l A, where poor Jeezy has been adopted 153 00:10:34,875 --> 00:10:37,595 Speaker 1: and then returned twice. As a result, he may be 154 00:10:37,715 --> 00:10:41,075 Speaker 1: put on the kill list Geez is easy to leash 155 00:10:41,075 --> 00:10:43,795 Speaker 1: and to walk. He meets new people respectfully, but slowly. 156 00:10:44,155 --> 00:10:48,795 Speaker 1: He's got one negative. He guards his food, so do I. 157 00:10:49,555 --> 00:10:53,875 Speaker 1: This requires retraining or a logistical workaround, not death. If 158 00:10:53,875 --> 00:10:56,395 Speaker 1: you'd like to help Jeez get rescued and saved, he 159 00:10:56,395 --> 00:10:58,875 Speaker 1: will be in the pinned tweet at my account for 160 00:10:58,955 --> 00:11:01,915 Speaker 1: dogs in Need at tom Jumbo Grumbo. You can pledge 161 00:11:01,915 --> 00:11:05,075 Speaker 1: any amount to help defray the rescuees expenses, but just 162 00:11:05,195 --> 00:11:08,675 Speaker 1: retweeting his story will also help. And thank you for 163 00:11:08,755 --> 00:11:23,635 Speaker 1: doing so. Now postscripts to the news, some headlines, some inside, 164 00:11:23,755 --> 00:11:27,475 Speaker 1: some snark, dateline or um Utah one of two senatorial 165 00:11:27,515 --> 00:11:31,595 Speaker 1: debates last night at Utah Valley College, Independent Evan McMullen, 166 00:11:31,635 --> 00:11:36,035 Speaker 1: the former Republican attacking seditionist trump fist Senator Mike Lee 167 00:11:36,195 --> 00:11:40,355 Speaker 1: for well seditioning. For you to talk about the importance 168 00:11:40,395 --> 00:11:43,155 Speaker 1: of the electoral college, I think is rich. I think 169 00:11:43,195 --> 00:11:45,755 Speaker 1: you you know exactly how important it is, and I 170 00:11:45,795 --> 00:11:48,155 Speaker 1: think you knew how important it was when you sought 171 00:11:48,195 --> 00:11:50,875 Speaker 1: to urge the White House that had lost an election 172 00:11:50,955 --> 00:11:53,835 Speaker 1: to find fake lectures to overturn the will of the people. 173 00:11:54,515 --> 00:11:58,355 Speaker 1: Senator Leaf, that was the most egregious betrayal of our 174 00:11:58,475 --> 00:12:02,315 Speaker 1: nation's constitution in its history by a U. S. Senator. 175 00:12:02,355 --> 00:12:05,435 Speaker 1: I believe, and it will be your legacy. As McMullan 176 00:12:05,515 --> 00:12:09,115 Speaker 1: said that Senator Lee creepily walked towards him, then demanded 177 00:12:09,115 --> 00:12:13,075 Speaker 1: an apology and almost pulled off the Umbradge Act until 178 00:12:13,115 --> 00:12:14,995 Speaker 1: he then explained that he was not trying to overthrow 179 00:12:15,075 --> 00:12:18,155 Speaker 1: the government. He was just making phone calls to check 180 00:12:18,195 --> 00:12:21,435 Speaker 1: out rumors about other people doing the fake collector bit 181 00:12:22,035 --> 00:12:26,795 Speaker 1: and dateline ashributle Ohio. In the second Ohio Senate debate, JD. 182 00:12:26,995 --> 00:12:29,995 Speaker 1: Vance was caught in at least two lies, the most 183 00:12:30,035 --> 00:12:34,075 Speaker 1: egregious of them. Tim Ryan slammed him for tweeting on September, 184 00:12:35,275 --> 00:12:38,315 Speaker 1: just thirteen months ago, that Alex Jones was a more 185 00:12:38,355 --> 00:12:42,555 Speaker 1: credible source of information than was Rachel Meadow. The mightas 186 00:12:42,635 --> 00:12:45,475 Speaker 1: touched people were nice enough to splice together a few things, 187 00:12:45,515 --> 00:12:48,475 Speaker 1: first to hear the debate clip, then proof of the 188 00:12:48,595 --> 00:12:52,595 Speaker 1: lie that he made, and then Vance conveniently repeating the 189 00:12:52,675 --> 00:12:55,715 Speaker 1: lie that he just made. We are running for the 190 00:12:55,835 --> 00:12:59,955 Speaker 1: United States Senate. This is the highest office you could 191 00:12:59,995 --> 00:13:03,635 Speaker 1: get in this country except for president. And he's running 192 00:13:03,635 --> 00:13:07,915 Speaker 1: around acting these extremists, the most extreme people in the country. 193 00:13:07,915 --> 00:13:10,515 Speaker 1: A guy who done that denied Sandy Hawk. He's like, 194 00:13:10,555 --> 00:13:13,035 Speaker 1: you know, he's credible. I mean, you don't have to 195 00:13:15,075 --> 00:13:17,355 Speaker 1: we can talk about you know how I got hot 196 00:13:17,355 --> 00:13:21,235 Speaker 1: water with with my my uh with saying that Alex 197 00:13:21,315 --> 00:13:24,035 Speaker 1: Jones was a more credible source of information than Rachel Maddow. 198 00:13:24,395 --> 00:13:25,915 Speaker 1: But like, one of the things that I saw in 199 00:13:25,955 --> 00:13:29,675 Speaker 1: the reaction to that tweet was people are terrified of 200 00:13:29,875 --> 00:13:33,315 Speaker 1: unconventional people, of people who don't think the thoughts that 201 00:13:33,355 --> 00:13:36,435 Speaker 1: they're supposed to think. And that to me is like 202 00:13:36,555 --> 00:13:38,715 Speaker 1: the opposite of what you would want an elite. You 203 00:13:38,715 --> 00:13:41,275 Speaker 1: would want an elite that's willing to think outside the box, 204 00:13:41,275 --> 00:13:42,875 Speaker 1: that's willing to say, well, maybe this is like a 205 00:13:42,915 --> 00:13:47,075 Speaker 1: crazy idea, but maybe it's true. Brother, you're on tape. 206 00:13:47,035 --> 00:13:49,315 Speaker 1: I never said that. Tim. You go and run the 207 00:13:49,315 --> 00:13:51,995 Speaker 1: tape and find out exactly what it'll be like thirty 208 00:13:51,995 --> 00:13:55,075 Speaker 1: minutes and know you're lying. I had never said that. 209 00:13:55,355 --> 00:13:58,355 Speaker 1: Oops you mean oops? Don't you just say oops and 210 00:13:58,395 --> 00:14:17,155 Speaker 1: get out? This is Sports Center? Wait, check that not anymore. 211 00:14:17,795 --> 00:14:24,555 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Alberman in sports Continuing the 212 00:14:24,595 --> 00:14:28,275 Speaker 1: Ohio theme, Baseball ran smack into another brick wall. Last night, 213 00:14:28,315 --> 00:14:31,275 Speaker 1: the decisive fifth game of the Guardians Yankees American League 214 00:14:31,275 --> 00:14:35,635 Speaker 1: Division playoff series was delayed by rain at seven PM 215 00:14:35,635 --> 00:14:38,675 Speaker 1: when it was not raining, amid reports that the Yankees 216 00:14:38,755 --> 00:14:42,275 Speaker 1: delayed getting back to New York after Sunday's game, wanted 217 00:14:42,515 --> 00:14:46,715 Speaker 1: Monday's game postponed until today. When they finally did decide 218 00:14:46,755 --> 00:14:50,715 Speaker 1: to postpone it at nine pm, it had not yet 219 00:14:50,875 --> 00:14:53,915 Speaker 1: rained heavily and had not rained heavily for two and 220 00:14:53,995 --> 00:14:57,395 Speaker 1: a half hours. They will play the game, we think 221 00:14:57,635 --> 00:15:01,395 Speaker 1: at four oh seven Eastern today. Clear and chili. One 222 00:15:01,435 --> 00:15:04,395 Speaker 1: other thing is clear, and for that matter, kind of chili. 223 00:15:04,755 --> 00:15:07,875 Speaker 1: The teams with the four best records in the National League, 224 00:15:07,875 --> 00:15:09,995 Speaker 1: and at least four of the teams among those with 225 00:15:10,075 --> 00:15:12,955 Speaker 1: the six best records in the American League did not 226 00:15:13,155 --> 00:15:16,035 Speaker 1: make it to the penultimate round of the baseball playoffs. 227 00:15:16,195 --> 00:15:19,675 Speaker 1: The new idea to give the strongest club's first round 228 00:15:19,795 --> 00:15:24,675 Speaker 1: buys failed terribly. Now I like the Phillies way more 229 00:15:24,715 --> 00:15:27,915 Speaker 1: than I like the Braves, and Bob Melvin, who's Padres 230 00:15:27,995 --> 00:15:30,395 Speaker 1: upset the Dodgers, as a friend of mine. This is 231 00:15:30,395 --> 00:15:33,755 Speaker 1: not personal, but the National League Playoff for the World 232 00:15:33,795 --> 00:15:37,195 Speaker 1: Series is a third place team that finished eleven games 233 00:15:37,195 --> 00:15:40,595 Speaker 1: behind the leaders versus a second place team that finished 234 00:15:40,595 --> 00:15:43,635 Speaker 1: twenty two games behind the leader, And that just leads 235 00:15:43,715 --> 00:15:48,235 Speaker 1: to one question. What is baseball's regular season four It 236 00:15:48,435 --> 00:15:51,555 Speaker 1: used to be to decide the best team in each league, 237 00:15:52,355 --> 00:15:54,755 Speaker 1: or maybe the best two teams in each league after 238 00:15:54,795 --> 00:15:57,915 Speaker 1: they split into divisions over the course of a grueling 239 00:15:58,035 --> 00:16:00,275 Speaker 1: six month season in which all the teams played all 240 00:16:00,275 --> 00:16:03,075 Speaker 1: the other teams the same amount of games. Then those 241 00:16:03,115 --> 00:16:05,875 Speaker 1: two best teams would play each other, and the worst 242 00:16:05,915 --> 00:16:07,675 Speaker 1: thing that could happen would be an upset in which 243 00:16:07,715 --> 00:16:10,755 Speaker 1: maybe the second best team in the game was declared 244 00:16:10,795 --> 00:16:14,075 Speaker 1: winners of the World Series. If either the Padres or 245 00:16:14,075 --> 00:16:18,035 Speaker 1: the Phillies win the two World Series, the champions of 246 00:16:18,075 --> 00:16:22,115 Speaker 1: Baseball will be the team with either ten or eleventh 247 00:16:22,275 --> 00:16:25,715 Speaker 1: best record during the regular season. If you want to 248 00:16:25,755 --> 00:16:28,955 Speaker 1: turn it into the NBA playoffs, go ahead, but don't 249 00:16:28,995 --> 00:16:32,235 Speaker 1: think it counts. There are internal reasons the World Series 250 00:16:32,235 --> 00:16:35,115 Speaker 1: TV audience gets smaller every year. One is that the 251 00:16:35,155 --> 00:16:37,875 Speaker 1: game is repetitive and dull, and none of next year's 252 00:16:37,915 --> 00:16:40,795 Speaker 1: rule changes are going to suddenly inspire hitters to try 253 00:16:40,835 --> 00:16:44,515 Speaker 1: for singles up the middle instead of home runs. The 254 00:16:44,635 --> 00:16:47,195 Speaker 1: other is. Once upon a time, the World Series featured 255 00:16:47,195 --> 00:16:49,635 Speaker 1: the champion of one league versus the champion of the 256 00:16:49,675 --> 00:16:52,875 Speaker 1: other for a kind of mega championship. Now it's the 257 00:16:52,875 --> 00:16:56,475 Speaker 1: American League champs versus the tenth or eleventh best team 258 00:16:56,555 --> 00:17:01,195 Speaker 1: who cares, also the possible American League champion Astros. They 259 00:17:01,275 --> 00:17:03,675 Speaker 1: swept Seattle in their first round, but only after an 260 00:17:03,715 --> 00:17:06,595 Speaker 1: eighteen and in classic one nothing game. In the third 261 00:17:06,635 --> 00:17:11,475 Speaker 1: and final deciding game, the Astros celebrated by tweeting a 262 00:17:11,475 --> 00:17:15,115 Speaker 1: picture of a broom sweeping away a torn up Seattle logo. 263 00:17:15,475 --> 00:17:18,715 Speaker 1: It was classless, and for the team that cheated its 264 00:17:18,715 --> 00:17:21,595 Speaker 1: way to the two thousand seventeen World Series championship, it 265 00:17:21,755 --> 00:17:25,875 Speaker 1: was typical. Depend on the Houston Astros, they will always 266 00:17:25,955 --> 00:17:29,155 Speaker 1: let you down. Probably shouldn't have renamed that team from 267 00:17:29,155 --> 00:17:32,755 Speaker 1: the Colt forty five to the ass Trows And as 268 00:17:32,755 --> 00:17:35,675 Speaker 1: to that first round by experiment. Incidentally, a better option 269 00:17:36,355 --> 00:17:39,355 Speaker 1: give those top two teams extra resources in the first round. 270 00:17:39,435 --> 00:17:41,995 Speaker 1: Let them take a twenty eight player roster into the 271 00:17:42,035 --> 00:17:45,995 Speaker 1: first round series and limit their opponents to and an 272 00:17:46,115 --> 00:17:49,675 Speaker 1: NFL note, Axios reports the mayor of Nashville is about 273 00:17:49,755 --> 00:17:52,755 Speaker 1: to announce he has committed one billion, four hundred million 274 00:17:52,795 --> 00:17:56,195 Speaker 1: dollars of public money to build the Tennessee Titans a 275 00:17:56,275 --> 00:17:59,915 Speaker 1: new domed stadium. The team will find eight hundred million 276 00:17:59,995 --> 00:18:04,075 Speaker 1: more in private funding somewhere. The usual bull crap will 277 00:18:04,115 --> 00:18:06,755 Speaker 1: now in to. Now we can host the super Bowl. 278 00:18:06,875 --> 00:18:08,755 Speaker 1: Now we can host the n C Double A Finals. 279 00:18:09,035 --> 00:18:11,275 Speaker 1: If you get two of each of those in the 280 00:18:11,315 --> 00:18:15,035 Speaker 1: next thirty years, that will be a record Nashville. But 281 00:18:15,155 --> 00:18:18,355 Speaker 1: think of all the jobs it will create. No new 282 00:18:18,515 --> 00:18:23,715 Speaker 1: stadium ever has created new jobs, only shifted jobs from 283 00:18:23,755 --> 00:18:27,035 Speaker 1: one part of town to another. No new stadium ever 284 00:18:27,115 --> 00:18:30,115 Speaker 1: has earned back the money taxpayers have been built for it. 285 00:18:30,475 --> 00:18:33,155 Speaker 1: No new stadium ever was the best use of the 286 00:18:33,195 --> 00:18:37,075 Speaker 1: public money involved. I once asked a sports economist to 287 00:18:37,115 --> 00:18:39,395 Speaker 1: explain why all that is always true, when he said, 288 00:18:39,395 --> 00:18:42,355 Speaker 1: he can show me all kinds of complicated formulas, but 289 00:18:42,435 --> 00:18:45,995 Speaker 1: there was something simpler. If a new stadium actually made 290 00:18:45,995 --> 00:18:49,635 Speaker 1: a profit, the owners would build all the new stadiums 291 00:18:49,715 --> 00:18:54,835 Speaker 1: themselves with private money and keep all the profits. That's 292 00:18:54,875 --> 00:19:11,795 Speaker 1: what owners do. Coming up. That wasn't just any stringy 293 00:19:11,835 --> 00:19:13,835 Speaker 1: haired twenty year old kid who talked me out of 294 00:19:13,875 --> 00:19:17,195 Speaker 1: accepting a scholarship to Boston University forty eight years ago. 295 00:19:17,235 --> 00:19:22,395 Speaker 1: This month, that was Howard Stern. That's coming up first 296 00:19:22,395 --> 00:19:24,515 Speaker 1: to daily round up of the miscreants, morons and dunning 297 00:19:24,555 --> 00:19:28,075 Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. 298 00:19:28,075 --> 00:19:33,595 Speaker 1: We're ruled Lebronze Pennsylvania fascist Senate candidate draws mem at 299 00:19:33,595 --> 00:19:37,115 Speaker 1: Oz video has resurfaced from his own show and from 300 00:19:37,115 --> 00:19:39,675 Speaker 1: a guest shot from two thousand nine, with Jimmy Kimmel 301 00:19:40,035 --> 00:19:43,715 Speaker 1: of Oz claiming he has tasted his own urine. He 302 00:19:43,795 --> 00:19:47,555 Speaker 1: said medical schools always made students like him taste their 303 00:19:47,595 --> 00:19:54,635 Speaker 1: own urine. Yeah, made the runner up, not a doctor, 304 00:19:54,715 --> 00:19:56,955 Speaker 1: but want in charge of them to race Coffee, Health 305 00:19:56,955 --> 00:20:01,875 Speaker 1: secretary under new British Prime Minister Trust Hey is let's 306 00:20:01,955 --> 00:20:07,635 Speaker 1: trust still the Prime Minister? What? What do you mean? 307 00:20:07,715 --> 00:20:12,475 Speaker 1: How is anybody's supposed to tell? Just find out? Huh? 308 00:20:12,915 --> 00:20:15,475 Speaker 1: Minister Coffee is pushing a new plan to let patients 309 00:20:15,515 --> 00:20:19,435 Speaker 1: get antibiotics directly from pharmacists without ever seeing a doctor. 310 00:20:19,835 --> 00:20:22,395 Speaker 1: To buttress her position, she told a group of British 311 00:20:22,435 --> 00:20:26,755 Speaker 1: civil servants that she's previously given her leftover antibiotics to 312 00:20:26,875 --> 00:20:31,035 Speaker 1: friends and family and that worked out okay. Seemingly every 313 00:20:31,155 --> 00:20:35,195 Speaker 1: medical professional in England recoiled in horror at the thought 314 00:20:35,235 --> 00:20:37,515 Speaker 1: of this, and about half of them also pointed out, oh, 315 00:20:37,555 --> 00:20:41,715 Speaker 1: by the way, that's also illegal. But our winner l 316 00:20:41,955 --> 00:20:45,955 Speaker 1: duche himself. As part of the eternal scam, Trump has 317 00:20:46,035 --> 00:20:49,235 Speaker 1: emailed supporters. He had another offer, supposedly based on breaking 318 00:20:49,275 --> 00:20:53,315 Speaker 1: news that a conservative newspaper had declared him the number 319 00:20:53,355 --> 00:20:56,795 Speaker 1: one presidential golfer in history by a landslide, which is 320 00:20:56,835 --> 00:20:59,715 Speaker 1: nonsense on its own, since William Howard Taft and Dwight 321 00:20:59,755 --> 00:21:03,435 Speaker 1: Eisenhower were probably better. But here's the deal. Quote. We 322 00:21:03,595 --> 00:21:05,835 Speaker 1: still have a few box is left of our limited 323 00:21:05,835 --> 00:21:10,395 Speaker 1: decision trimp golf balls, but once they're sold out, they're 324 00:21:10,435 --> 00:21:14,635 Speaker 1: gone for good. Yes, that's right. It's your last chance 325 00:21:14,715 --> 00:21:20,195 Speaker 1: to buy Trump's balls. Donald display my balls. God knows 326 00:21:20,195 --> 00:21:32,795 Speaker 1: they won't take up too much room. Trump Today's worse person. Hello, 327 00:21:41,955 --> 00:21:44,155 Speaker 1: finally to the number one story on the Countdown and 328 00:21:44,275 --> 00:21:47,235 Speaker 1: my favorite topic, me and things. I promised not to 329 00:21:47,315 --> 00:21:52,715 Speaker 1: tell the date on this one Tuesday of this week. 330 00:21:52,915 --> 00:21:57,355 Speaker 1: In is a guess, and the other principal figure in 331 00:21:57,395 --> 00:22:02,075 Speaker 1: the story denies it was him. I usually hate such inexactitude, 332 00:22:02,275 --> 00:22:04,315 Speaker 1: but I think the story is worth it because the 333 00:22:04,355 --> 00:22:08,835 Speaker 1: guy who denies it was him was Howard Stern, and 334 00:22:08,915 --> 00:22:12,395 Speaker 1: it was him. I was fifteen years old and just 335 00:22:12,515 --> 00:22:15,675 Speaker 1: starting my college visits. My dad and I flew the 336 00:22:15,755 --> 00:22:19,955 Speaker 1: very inexpensive Eastern Shuttle to Boston and Commonwealth Avenue and 337 00:22:19,995 --> 00:22:23,795 Speaker 1: the Boston University School of Public Communications, which had surprised 338 00:22:23,875 --> 00:22:26,355 Speaker 1: us by not only offering me early admission when I 339 00:22:26,355 --> 00:22:29,715 Speaker 1: had not requested it, but which upon arrival knocked us 340 00:22:29,755 --> 00:22:33,955 Speaker 1: over by saying they wanted to offer me a merit scholarship, 341 00:22:34,075 --> 00:22:39,875 Speaker 1: a free ride, all expenses paid. To be fair. I 342 00:22:39,955 --> 00:22:42,075 Speaker 1: was the editor of the high school newspaper and editor 343 00:22:42,075 --> 00:22:44,435 Speaker 1: of the yearbook, sports director of the radio station. I'd 344 00:22:44,435 --> 00:22:46,915 Speaker 1: been in the drama group. I had researched and had 345 00:22:46,915 --> 00:22:49,955 Speaker 1: published a baseball reference book earlier that year, and I 346 00:22:49,995 --> 00:22:53,395 Speaker 1: was the associate editor of the first Guide to Sports Memorabilia. 347 00:22:53,675 --> 00:22:55,515 Speaker 1: And I had an internship lined up in the public 348 00:22:55,515 --> 00:22:58,515 Speaker 1: relations department of the Boston Celtics, so the admission was 349 00:22:58,555 --> 00:23:02,115 Speaker 1: not much of a surprise. The merit scholarship, let me 350 00:23:02,195 --> 00:23:07,155 Speaker 1: tell you, the merit scholarship of yield fantastically to my father. 351 00:23:08,115 --> 00:23:10,915 Speaker 1: My dad had already been stocked for five years of 352 00:23:10,995 --> 00:23:15,035 Speaker 1: private school because I was too bored to do well 353 00:23:15,155 --> 00:23:19,315 Speaker 1: in public school, and now he was facing college money. 354 00:23:19,355 --> 00:23:23,195 Speaker 1: This was new territory in alderman Land. Nobody that we 355 00:23:23,395 --> 00:23:26,955 Speaker 1: knew of on either side of my family had graduated 356 00:23:26,995 --> 00:23:29,875 Speaker 1: from a four year college since one of my great 357 00:23:29,915 --> 00:23:33,955 Speaker 1: grandfather's got a degree in wrought iron design round about 358 00:23:33,995 --> 00:23:38,275 Speaker 1: eight five, and my dad had been offered a scholarship 359 00:23:38,275 --> 00:23:40,995 Speaker 1: at a top architecture college and could not afford to 360 00:23:41,035 --> 00:23:44,075 Speaker 1: take it. They were so poor he had to go 361 00:23:44,115 --> 00:23:47,195 Speaker 1: to work right out of high school or his brother 362 00:23:47,275 --> 00:23:51,075 Speaker 1: had no chance of finishing high school. Free college and 363 00:23:51,195 --> 00:23:53,995 Speaker 1: a good one in the field his son wanted to 364 00:23:54,035 --> 00:23:59,115 Speaker 1: go into. Dad liked this very much. The tour of 365 00:23:59,155 --> 00:24:02,155 Speaker 1: what was then called the School of Public Communications went well. 366 00:24:02,555 --> 00:24:04,675 Speaker 1: It was early fall, and there are a few places 367 00:24:04,715 --> 00:24:06,755 Speaker 1: is in the Northeast that do not look their best 368 00:24:06,835 --> 00:24:09,675 Speaker 1: in early fall. We were in the middle of Boston, 369 00:24:09,795 --> 00:24:12,915 Speaker 1: but there were trees. It was far from home, but 370 00:24:12,955 --> 00:24:16,635 Speaker 1: it was down the block from Fenway Park. I think 371 00:24:16,675 --> 00:24:19,195 Speaker 1: the head of admissions took us on the tour. He 372 00:24:19,275 --> 00:24:21,715 Speaker 1: was so fulsome that on my later college visits I 373 00:24:21,755 --> 00:24:24,275 Speaker 1: was actually a little offended that they treated me like 374 00:24:24,395 --> 00:24:27,915 Speaker 1: just some other applicant. If I remember correctly, this was 375 00:24:27,915 --> 00:24:31,155 Speaker 1: the first time that an adult handed me his business card, 376 00:24:31,755 --> 00:24:35,235 Speaker 1: at least not in an ironic way. We were shown 377 00:24:35,275 --> 00:24:39,235 Speaker 1: classrooms and radio and TV laboratories, and the big tower 378 00:24:39,275 --> 00:24:41,235 Speaker 1: where they kept all the freshmen, which looked to me 379 00:24:41,315 --> 00:24:43,595 Speaker 1: like a high rise apartment building. And there was nothing 380 00:24:43,635 --> 00:24:47,115 Speaker 1: in the world I wanted more in than to live 381 00:24:47,195 --> 00:24:50,675 Speaker 1: in a high rise apartment building. And then they took 382 00:24:50,755 --> 00:24:54,435 Speaker 1: us to the two college radio stations, the two separate 383 00:24:54,435 --> 00:24:56,835 Speaker 1: sets of studios, and at this point I think the 384 00:24:56,875 --> 00:25:00,755 Speaker 1: admission director peeled off, left my dad and I on 385 00:25:00,835 --> 00:25:03,435 Speaker 1: our own, since we had seen everything and he had 386 00:25:03,475 --> 00:25:05,395 Speaker 1: somewhere to go, and we would be heading back from 387 00:25:05,395 --> 00:25:07,755 Speaker 1: the studios right to Logan Airport for the shuttle back 388 00:25:07,795 --> 00:25:12,355 Speaker 1: to New York City. I think the admissions director took 389 00:25:12,435 --> 00:25:16,155 Speaker 1: us into the main studio of the Boston University AM 390 00:25:16,275 --> 00:25:19,435 Speaker 1: station and introduced us to the disc jockey or pointed 391 00:25:19,475 --> 00:25:22,235 Speaker 1: at him or something, and then the admissions director left. 392 00:25:22,275 --> 00:25:25,715 Speaker 1: He must have, because what followed in the studio was 393 00:25:25,795 --> 00:25:29,435 Speaker 1: not what that guy wanted me to hear. The disc 394 00:25:29,515 --> 00:25:32,915 Speaker 1: jockey was a gaunt, kind of greasy looking kid, with 395 00:25:32,995 --> 00:25:35,395 Speaker 1: hair down to the floor and the attitude of an 396 00:25:35,395 --> 00:25:38,675 Speaker 1: inquisitor working on two little sleep. He claimed to be 397 00:25:38,715 --> 00:25:41,875 Speaker 1: a junior to me. He looked to me about thirty 398 00:25:41,955 --> 00:25:45,035 Speaker 1: years old. We were not introduced by name, or if 399 00:25:45,035 --> 00:25:47,275 Speaker 1: we were, I had forgotten his by the time he 400 00:25:47,315 --> 00:25:52,355 Speaker 1: finished saying it Away from kid Westchester. I told him, Oh, yeah, 401 00:25:52,515 --> 00:25:54,075 Speaker 1: I'm from Long Island. You got a problem with that, 402 00:25:55,075 --> 00:25:58,195 Speaker 1: I said, no, I had relatives on Long Island. Good answer, 403 00:25:58,715 --> 00:26:01,835 Speaker 1: So you're applying here. I told him about the Merit 404 00:26:01,875 --> 00:26:06,875 Speaker 1: scholarship Uladi da so kind of phenomen I explained about 405 00:26:06,875 --> 00:26:10,235 Speaker 1: the Celtics internship. Listen, kid, you sound like you know 406 00:26:10,275 --> 00:26:13,115 Speaker 1: what you're doing, So don't make the same mistake I did. 407 00:26:13,675 --> 00:26:15,755 Speaker 1: The first two years. You don't get to take any 408 00:26:15,875 --> 00:26:21,155 Speaker 1: radio or TV class. It's just general studies. I suddenly 409 00:26:21,155 --> 00:26:24,515 Speaker 1: remembered having read that. I asked him what was the 410 00:26:24,555 --> 00:26:27,715 Speaker 1: point of just repeating high school for two more years? Exactly? Okay, 411 00:26:27,835 --> 00:26:31,355 Speaker 1: you get it. And what's worse, the grad students they 412 00:26:31,395 --> 00:26:34,475 Speaker 1: controlled the real radio station. It's like organized crime. Here. 413 00:26:34,915 --> 00:26:38,115 Speaker 1: See this radio station, this crap shack. You can only 414 00:26:38,115 --> 00:26:40,275 Speaker 1: hear this in the dorms, and it took me three 415 00:26:40,395 --> 00:26:43,075 Speaker 1: years just to get two shows a week here Tuesday's 416 00:26:43,075 --> 00:26:46,955 Speaker 1: at Thursday's Middays, nobody's in the dorms mid days. Total 417 00:26:46,995 --> 00:26:50,315 Speaker 1: waste of my time and my exceptional talent, and so 418 00:26:50,435 --> 00:26:53,755 Speaker 1: far the classes are crap. So maybe what you do 419 00:26:53,915 --> 00:27:00,075 Speaker 1: is keep the internship but ditch the scholarship. I think 420 00:27:00,115 --> 00:27:02,515 Speaker 1: it was at this point that my father said we 421 00:27:02,555 --> 00:27:05,635 Speaker 1: had to get to the airport. He did not want 422 00:27:05,715 --> 00:27:12,515 Speaker 1: me hearing more about ditching the scholarship. My college admissions 423 00:27:12,635 --> 00:27:15,075 Speaker 1: strategy had been this, maybe just go to the best 424 00:27:15,075 --> 00:27:17,115 Speaker 1: school and let the radio and TV stuff come to me, 425 00:27:17,675 --> 00:27:21,075 Speaker 1: but maybe go to a school that was really good 426 00:27:21,115 --> 00:27:24,595 Speaker 1: in radio and TV and let the education just come 427 00:27:24,635 --> 00:27:28,635 Speaker 1: to me. Then there was this Celtics internship, confusing things 428 00:27:28,715 --> 00:27:31,275 Speaker 1: even further, and now the offer of the free ride 429 00:27:31,315 --> 00:27:35,835 Speaker 1: from BU. So my radio TV schools were bu with 430 00:27:35,875 --> 00:27:39,395 Speaker 1: Ithaca College as the safety, and my good schools were 431 00:27:39,955 --> 00:27:43,635 Speaker 1: forgive me. Harvard and Cornell is my safety, which is 432 00:27:43,675 --> 00:27:46,155 Speaker 1: kind of unfair because my graduating class in high school 433 00:27:46,155 --> 00:27:48,315 Speaker 1: had like seventy kids in it, and four of us 434 00:27:48,315 --> 00:27:50,635 Speaker 1: were applying to Harvard, and two of them had four 435 00:27:50,675 --> 00:27:53,475 Speaker 1: point oh grade averages dating back to the womb and 436 00:27:53,515 --> 00:27:55,315 Speaker 1: I didn't. And my only chance they were going to 437 00:27:55,395 --> 00:27:58,195 Speaker 1: accept me would be because I would be only sixteen. 438 00:27:59,555 --> 00:28:01,595 Speaker 1: Be you as obviously a yes if they were going 439 00:28:01,635 --> 00:28:03,435 Speaker 1: to pay for it. Ithaca was a yes. But I 440 00:28:03,435 --> 00:28:06,155 Speaker 1: got a tour of the dorms and the elevators were 441 00:28:06,195 --> 00:28:09,915 Speaker 1: full of trash. This is not a euphemism, this is 442 00:28:09,915 --> 00:28:12,715 Speaker 1: not a value judgment. The elevators had ankle high garbage 443 00:28:12,715 --> 00:28:17,515 Speaker 1: in them. Cornell had a communications program, but I couldn't 444 00:28:17,515 --> 00:28:20,075 Speaker 1: find out much about it, and I couldn't find out 445 00:28:20,195 --> 00:28:23,075 Speaker 1: much about the radio station except that it was not 446 00:28:23,155 --> 00:28:26,635 Speaker 1: dominated by grad students. Plus Cornell had accepted me, and 447 00:28:26,715 --> 00:28:29,715 Speaker 1: as I expected, Harvard had not. And not that this 448 00:28:29,795 --> 00:28:31,675 Speaker 1: still bothers me, but I remember that the letter was 449 00:28:31,715 --> 00:28:34,195 Speaker 1: day to April n and it was waiting for me 450 00:28:34,235 --> 00:28:35,755 Speaker 1: in the mail when I got back from the Yankees 451 00:28:35,755 --> 00:28:37,955 Speaker 1: home opener on the afternoon and Saturday, April twelve, not 452 00:28:38,035 --> 00:28:42,315 Speaker 1: that it still bothers me. Freaking Harvard. So I had 453 00:28:42,395 --> 00:28:45,555 Speaker 1: like a week to choose between Cornell and a scholarship 454 00:28:45,595 --> 00:28:48,315 Speaker 1: to be you, And then somewhere I read a story 455 00:28:48,435 --> 00:28:51,115 Speaker 1: about how they had found a kid dead in the 456 00:28:51,195 --> 00:28:54,675 Speaker 1: hallway of that big freshman dorm we'd seen in Boston, 457 00:28:54,955 --> 00:28:56,995 Speaker 1: and I told my dad I would thus never be 458 00:28:57,075 --> 00:28:59,955 Speaker 1: comfortable there, and of course that was just crap. I 459 00:29:00,075 --> 00:29:02,275 Speaker 1: kept flashing back to what the kid on the carrier 460 00:29:02,315 --> 00:29:05,355 Speaker 1: current BU radio station with the street the hair down 461 00:29:05,395 --> 00:29:07,795 Speaker 1: to the floor told me, and I kept thinking, I'm 462 00:29:07,835 --> 00:29:12,435 Speaker 1: not gonna get any radio experience. Until late nine seven, 463 00:29:13,435 --> 00:29:15,755 Speaker 1: I just couldn't do it, and so I went to 464 00:29:15,795 --> 00:29:20,395 Speaker 1: Cornell and Dad started writing checks. And before I get 465 00:29:20,435 --> 00:29:22,155 Speaker 1: to the punchline of this one, I have to mention 466 00:29:22,915 --> 00:29:25,795 Speaker 1: sophomore year. My dad drives me and my stuff up 467 00:29:25,795 --> 00:29:28,075 Speaker 1: to Cornell and he gets turned around looking for my dorm, 468 00:29:28,155 --> 00:29:30,755 Speaker 1: and I say, yeah, the good part is where we are. 469 00:29:30,795 --> 00:29:32,875 Speaker 1: If if you take the next left, we'll be at 470 00:29:32,875 --> 00:29:36,795 Speaker 1: the Cornell Architecture School, and whereupon he cuts me off 471 00:29:36,835 --> 00:29:39,275 Speaker 1: and says, yeah, I know. It's Randhall, next left, second 472 00:29:39,275 --> 00:29:40,635 Speaker 1: building on the right. And I said, how do you 473 00:29:40,675 --> 00:29:42,995 Speaker 1: know that? He says, Remember I told you I was 474 00:29:43,035 --> 00:29:46,195 Speaker 1: offered an architecture scholarship, but I couldn't take it because 475 00:29:46,235 --> 00:29:48,515 Speaker 1: we didn't have any money, and your uncle Bill wouldn't 476 00:29:48,515 --> 00:29:51,795 Speaker 1: have been able to finish high school and I said yeah, 477 00:29:51,915 --> 00:29:56,395 Speaker 1: and he said yeah. The scholarship was to hear. During 478 00:29:56,435 --> 00:29:58,755 Speaker 1: all the time I wrestled with which college is to 479 00:29:58,835 --> 00:30:01,075 Speaker 1: apply to, let alone which one to go to. My 480 00:30:01,155 --> 00:30:04,835 Speaker 1: dad never told me that. Probably the first time him 481 00:30:04,835 --> 00:30:07,555 Speaker 1: I had respect for him as one sort of adult 482 00:30:07,955 --> 00:30:13,555 Speaker 1: to another, and I still do anyway, fifteen years later 483 00:30:13,675 --> 00:30:16,235 Speaker 1: or whenever it was, I'm doing sports in Los Angeles 484 00:30:16,315 --> 00:30:18,955 Speaker 1: and late on a Saturday night, the syndicated version of 485 00:30:18,955 --> 00:30:21,595 Speaker 1: some New York radio shock jock show comes on the 486 00:30:21,635 --> 00:30:24,595 Speaker 1: TV and I look and it's the Don't Make My 487 00:30:24,715 --> 00:30:28,675 Speaker 1: Mistake kid kid from Boston University in ninety four. His 488 00:30:28,755 --> 00:30:31,315 Speaker 1: name turns out to be Howard Stern, and he looks 489 00:30:31,355 --> 00:30:37,595 Speaker 1: exactly the same. Years pass and for some reason, when 490 00:30:37,595 --> 00:30:40,915 Speaker 1: Howard Stern leaves AM radio to put his show on satellite. 491 00:30:41,395 --> 00:30:43,995 Speaker 1: The first day of the satellite show, he invites people 492 00:30:44,035 --> 00:30:47,195 Speaker 1: from TV networks and newspapers to cover the big switch, 493 00:30:47,395 --> 00:30:52,355 Speaker 1: and from NBC he asks for me. So I got 494 00:30:52,395 --> 00:30:54,515 Speaker 1: up and I go and I get a moment with him, 495 00:30:54,555 --> 00:30:56,835 Speaker 1: and I do a stick for my MSNBC show and 496 00:30:56,835 --> 00:30:59,075 Speaker 1: then I say, listen, we've met, and he says nah, 497 00:30:59,195 --> 00:31:01,235 Speaker 1: And I tell him, and he says, I don't remember 498 00:31:01,275 --> 00:31:04,595 Speaker 1: meeting you, and I say, of course not. I was 499 00:31:04,755 --> 00:31:07,315 Speaker 1: fifteen and we were not really introduced. And I mean, 500 00:31:07,355 --> 00:31:09,075 Speaker 1: I had no idea it was you until I saw 501 00:31:09,075 --> 00:31:11,115 Speaker 1: you on TV. And he says it can't be. And 502 00:31:11,155 --> 00:31:14,155 Speaker 1: I say, when you were at Junior bu didn't you 503 00:31:14,235 --> 00:31:17,355 Speaker 1: do only Tuesday and Thursday mid days on the carrier 504 00:31:17,395 --> 00:31:20,155 Speaker 1: current station? And weren't you already bitter about it and 505 00:31:20,275 --> 00:31:22,995 Speaker 1: bitter about management? And he says, yeah, but I don't 506 00:31:23,035 --> 00:31:27,035 Speaker 1: remember meeting you. And so this was January two thousand six, 507 00:31:27,515 --> 00:31:30,795 Speaker 1: and every time our paths have crossed since, we basically 508 00:31:30,795 --> 00:31:34,155 Speaker 1: have repeated this conversation live or by text or whatever, 509 00:31:34,355 --> 00:31:36,275 Speaker 1: and he insists, yeah, but I don't remember meeting you. 510 00:31:36,435 --> 00:31:38,275 Speaker 1: And I have to explain that we didn't meet by 511 00:31:38,395 --> 00:31:40,875 Speaker 1: name and I was much shorter than and he says 512 00:31:40,915 --> 00:31:43,715 Speaker 1: something like how would that work? And sooner or later 513 00:31:43,715 --> 00:31:47,955 Speaker 1: I just give up. But it was him. I'm at 514 00:31:47,955 --> 00:31:50,635 Speaker 1: Howard Stern in four when he was twenty years old 515 00:31:50,635 --> 00:31:54,075 Speaker 1: and I was fifteen, and he personally talked me out 516 00:31:54,075 --> 00:31:59,955 Speaker 1: of going to Boston University. Thank you, Howard, and nicely 517 00:32:00,035 --> 00:32:03,275 Speaker 1: as things worked out with Cornell and the best radio 518 00:32:03,395 --> 00:32:08,835 Speaker 1: training ground in the country that Cornell contained and contains. Yes, 519 00:32:09,555 --> 00:32:29,835 Speaker 1: I'm still bitter about Harvard. I am I've done all 520 00:32:29,835 --> 00:32:31,915 Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Help me out. Subscribe 521 00:32:31,915 --> 00:32:34,555 Speaker 1: to this podcast or cost a random passer by, or 522 00:32:34,595 --> 00:32:37,715 Speaker 1: give it five stars, or go outside and clap like 523 00:32:37,755 --> 00:32:40,835 Speaker 1: the seal or something. 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