1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:20,915 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I 2 00:00:20,955 --> 00:00:26,315 Speaker 1: don't want to alarm you. But Trump drooled in the 3 00:00:26,315 --> 00:00:30,475 Speaker 1: middle of his mindless fugue State rant at Savannah, Georgia yesterday, 4 00:00:30,515 --> 00:00:33,795 Speaker 1: and then a scant forty five minutes later, he revealed 5 00:00:33,875 --> 00:00:37,915 Speaker 1: he had just found out that Russia was on our 6 00:00:38,115 --> 00:00:44,355 Speaker 1: side against Hitler in World War Two. These are not metaphors. 7 00:00:45,795 --> 00:00:49,995 Speaker 1: This is tough to convey audio only, but listen carefully. 8 00:00:49,995 --> 00:00:53,115 Speaker 1: It's quick. I'll play it three times. You can hear him. 9 00:00:53,555 --> 00:00:58,835 Speaker 1: He dribbles on himself and says, forced to be out. 10 00:00:58,915 --> 00:01:03,155 Speaker 1: You'll hear it. Sounds like forced. That's the drool. He 11 00:01:03,275 --> 00:01:06,435 Speaker 1: wipes it away with his left forefinger between out and 12 00:01:06,555 --> 00:01:12,155 Speaker 1: because stand by for the Republican candidate for dementia in chief, 13 00:01:13,115 --> 00:01:16,475 Speaker 1: drooling on himself. Want to be but they were forced 14 00:01:16,475 --> 00:01:18,875 Speaker 1: to be out because in this country. But they were 15 00:01:18,875 --> 00:01:21,515 Speaker 1: forced to be out because in this country. But they 16 00:01:21,555 --> 00:01:24,195 Speaker 1: were forced to be out because you know how old 17 00:01:24,235 --> 00:01:28,275 Speaker 1: he is, He's two hundred and six. Trump was sweating 18 00:01:28,315 --> 00:01:30,595 Speaker 1: like a Steve Adore during the last half hour of 19 00:01:30,635 --> 00:01:34,475 Speaker 1: the last debate, repeatedly having to as the baseball guys say, 20 00:01:34,715 --> 00:01:38,035 Speaker 1: go to his mouth to wipe the perspiration off his 21 00:01:38,155 --> 00:01:42,955 Speaker 1: upper lip. And now live from Savannah, it's dribble cup night. 22 00:01:44,315 --> 00:01:47,195 Speaker 1: Did you see that on the news last night? Even 23 00:01:47,235 --> 00:01:51,555 Speaker 1: on cable? If that had happened to President Biden two 24 00:01:51,595 --> 00:01:54,435 Speaker 1: months ago, they would have played that on a loop 25 00:01:54,875 --> 00:01:58,835 Speaker 1: for well, the show would not yet be over, would 26 00:01:58,835 --> 00:02:04,075 Speaker 1: it on CNN? Back and to the left back, and 27 00:02:04,115 --> 00:02:07,475 Speaker 1: to the left, left back, and to the let right. 28 00:02:07,555 --> 00:02:12,075 Speaker 1: There there's the Drowoel in point of fact, seeing and 29 00:02:12,195 --> 00:02:16,955 Speaker 1: described this Jewel speech as Trump focuses on economy at 30 00:02:16,995 --> 00:02:26,915 Speaker 1: stop in battleground Georgia, and then somehow Trump's hallucinations got worse. 31 00:02:27,275 --> 00:02:30,315 Speaker 1: We will not leave until we win. What happens if 32 00:02:30,355 --> 00:02:33,795 Speaker 1: they win. That's what they do is they fight wars. 33 00:02:34,515 --> 00:02:37,035 Speaker 1: As somebody told me the other day, they beat Hitler, 34 00:02:37,835 --> 00:02:39,915 Speaker 1: they beat Napoleon. That's what they do. 35 00:02:39,955 --> 00:02:41,675 Speaker 2: They fight something. 36 00:02:41,755 --> 00:02:44,795 Speaker 1: He just told me, Hey, did you hear the news 37 00:02:45,155 --> 00:02:48,235 Speaker 1: Napoleon got the crap beaten out of them at Borodino, 38 00:02:48,675 --> 00:02:52,955 Speaker 1: like forty thousand casualties, like fifty dead generals. I didn't 39 00:02:52,955 --> 00:02:56,115 Speaker 1: know Napoleon had fifty generals. Yeah, I just saw it 40 00:02:56,155 --> 00:03:07,315 Speaker 1: on Channel nineteeneteenth century. Somebody just told me Russia beat Hitler. 41 00:03:09,755 --> 00:03:12,475 Speaker 1: Good God, wherever Trump's mind has gone to, it has 42 00:03:12,555 --> 00:03:15,155 Speaker 1: caused him to reveal he has no sense of world history, 43 00:03:15,315 --> 00:03:19,115 Speaker 1: even things that happened during his lifetime, no more sense 44 00:03:19,155 --> 00:03:22,195 Speaker 1: of it than the director Roger Debris in the mel 45 00:03:22,275 --> 00:03:25,595 Speaker 1: Brooks movie The Producers. I never knew the Third Reich 46 00:03:26,035 --> 00:03:30,395 Speaker 1: meant Germany. I mean the play is drenched with historical 47 00:03:30,435 --> 00:03:36,035 Speaker 1: goodies like that. I appreciate that. Every two weeks or so, 48 00:03:36,115 --> 00:03:38,835 Speaker 1: I take up some of your increasingly valuable time and 49 00:03:38,875 --> 00:03:42,835 Speaker 1: I say, look, his brain is so loosely attached to reality, 50 00:03:43,195 --> 00:03:46,755 Speaker 1: it is going to have to fall out soon. But 51 00:03:46,795 --> 00:03:51,835 Speaker 1: maybe it's not. Maybe he has kind of lucid stretches 52 00:03:51,875 --> 00:03:55,315 Speaker 1: where he's just evil, and then these really crazy stretches 53 00:03:55,355 --> 00:03:58,475 Speaker 1: where he's evil and stupid and drooling, and he not 54 00:03:58,515 --> 00:04:01,275 Speaker 1: only thinks Jimmy Kimmel hosts the Tonight Show, but that 55 00:04:01,355 --> 00:04:03,555 Speaker 1: it's time for Jimmy to go and it's time to 56 00:04:03,555 --> 00:04:09,955 Speaker 1: bring back Well, it's time to say he Johnny, I 57 00:04:10,035 --> 00:04:13,515 Speaker 1: went on this show, right, And he goes to Tonight's show, 58 00:04:13,635 --> 00:04:16,355 Speaker 1: which is dying. They're all dying with is Johnny Carson? 59 00:04:16,395 --> 00:04:19,555 Speaker 1: Bring back Johnny it made you appreciate, right, uncle Seth. 60 00:04:19,915 --> 00:04:22,075 Speaker 1: I know Johnny Carson used to take a lot of 61 00:04:22,155 --> 00:04:25,875 Speaker 1: time off towards the end of his Tonight show. But 62 00:04:25,995 --> 00:04:29,035 Speaker 1: that's not what this absence is. What this absence is 63 00:04:29,035 --> 00:04:33,395 Speaker 1: is he's dead. That's what this absence is since two 64 00:04:33,435 --> 00:04:39,635 Speaker 1: thousand and five. Johnny isn't here. Johnny is here, Johnny 65 00:04:39,635 --> 00:04:43,035 Speaker 1: isn't here. I mean, we haven't even gotten to the 66 00:04:43,115 --> 00:04:47,555 Speaker 1: substantial things yet, like this stalker language he used towards 67 00:04:47,595 --> 00:04:50,435 Speaker 1: women in a speech two nights ago, about how he'll 68 00:04:50,475 --> 00:04:53,475 Speaker 1: be their protector and they'll never have to worry again 69 00:04:53,755 --> 00:04:56,435 Speaker 1: and they'll never think about abortions. And I'm listening to 70 00:04:56,475 --> 00:04:59,115 Speaker 1: Trump and I'm thinking, is he quoting Sean Diddy Combs 71 00:04:59,395 --> 00:05:03,635 Speaker 1: or was Sean Didty Combs quoting him? And we still 72 00:05:03,675 --> 00:05:06,155 Speaker 1: haven't even gotten to the ma madness of the immigrants story. 73 00:05:06,315 --> 00:05:10,915 Speaker 1: He's still on the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio and 74 00:05:10,995 --> 00:05:14,195 Speaker 1: his plans to send them back to Venezuela because he 75 00:05:14,235 --> 00:05:19,475 Speaker 1: apparently legitimately thinks that's where Haiti is. Haiti is in 76 00:05:19,595 --> 00:05:23,035 Speaker 1: Venezuela in the Trump world, where he just found out 77 00:05:24,075 --> 00:05:27,395 Speaker 1: that the Russians beat Napoleon in one century and helped 78 00:05:27,475 --> 00:05:32,195 Speaker 1: us beat Hitler in the other Haiti, or as JV. 79 00:05:32,355 --> 00:05:36,795 Speaker 1: Vance calls it, Haitia. And No, Trump did not actually 80 00:05:36,875 --> 00:05:42,955 Speaker 1: call for tattooing all immigrants from Haitia and others places 81 00:05:43,435 --> 00:05:46,435 Speaker 1: with serial numbers, like you know, the Nazi death caps. 82 00:05:47,115 --> 00:05:49,715 Speaker 1: He didn't do that, not because he'd never do something 83 00:05:49,875 --> 00:05:53,395 Speaker 1: like that, but because he already thinks they have serial numbers. 84 00:05:53,475 --> 00:05:56,155 Speaker 1: I mean, this was the exact quote. We're getting the 85 00:05:56,195 --> 00:05:58,595 Speaker 1: criminals out, and we're going to do that fast, and 86 00:05:58,635 --> 00:06:01,235 Speaker 1: we know who they are, and the local police know 87 00:06:01,355 --> 00:06:04,155 Speaker 1: their names, and they know their serial numbers, they know 88 00:06:04,195 --> 00:06:09,475 Speaker 1: everything about them unquote. If this guy's just finding out 89 00:06:09,515 --> 00:06:13,315 Speaker 1: about Napoleon losing at Borodino in eighteen twelve, I'm thinking 90 00:06:13,355 --> 00:06:16,515 Speaker 1: it's a fair assumption that he doesn't know that they 91 00:06:16,555 --> 00:06:20,355 Speaker 1: don't have serial numbers right now, just like he doesn't 92 00:06:20,395 --> 00:06:22,475 Speaker 1: know that you don't have to produce an ID card 93 00:06:22,475 --> 00:06:26,475 Speaker 1: to buy a sandwich at the grocery store. And when 94 00:06:26,515 --> 00:06:28,675 Speaker 1: he does find out that they don't have serial numbers, 95 00:06:28,675 --> 00:06:31,395 Speaker 1: he will go the Holocaust route with them, or maybe 96 00:06:31,395 --> 00:06:36,315 Speaker 1: go right to barcodes. The good news here is a 97 00:06:36,355 --> 00:06:41,035 Speaker 1: group called Haitian Bridge Alliance in Springfield, Ohio has filed 98 00:06:41,075 --> 00:06:44,755 Speaker 1: suit in Clark County Municipal Court demanding that the local 99 00:06:44,795 --> 00:06:48,915 Speaker 1: district attorney filed criminal charges against Trump Advance for lying 100 00:06:48,995 --> 00:06:52,675 Speaker 1: about the Haitian immigrants, for lying about their legal status here, 101 00:06:52,795 --> 00:06:55,955 Speaker 1: for lying about their positive impact on that city. And 102 00:06:56,035 --> 00:06:58,875 Speaker 1: this is not God bless them, just a somebody do 103 00:06:58,995 --> 00:07:03,435 Speaker 1: something thing quote like those who falsely shout fire in 104 00:07:03,515 --> 00:07:07,475 Speaker 1: a crowded theater. Trump and Vance do not color within 105 00:07:07,555 --> 00:07:11,795 Speaker 1: the lines of the First Amendment. They commit criminal acts. 106 00:07:12,835 --> 00:07:18,195 Speaker 1: Your god damned right they do. This complaint demands prosecutions 107 00:07:18,515 --> 00:07:23,195 Speaker 1: for seven specific charges covering five specific criminal offenses in 108 00:07:23,235 --> 00:07:28,595 Speaker 1: the city and state codes, disrupting public services, making false alarms, 109 00:07:28,955 --> 00:07:37,635 Speaker 1: aggravated menacing complicity, and telecommunications harassment. It is a brilliant 110 00:07:38,075 --> 00:07:42,675 Speaker 1: and necessary action, and every group threatened by Trump and 111 00:07:42,755 --> 00:07:47,795 Speaker 1: his monkey wearing eyeliner Vance should file similar motions in 112 00:07:47,875 --> 00:07:51,435 Speaker 1: every jurisdiction in this country into which Trump has drooled 113 00:07:52,155 --> 00:07:59,395 Speaker 1: his drool of regret and his venom of remorse. For 114 00:07:59,555 --> 00:08:01,995 Speaker 1: Vance in particular, this is going to create an impossible 115 00:08:02,035 --> 00:08:05,195 Speaker 1: situation if he and Trump lose, which I presume Vance 116 00:08:05,235 --> 00:08:08,195 Speaker 1: has not for one moment actually contemplated. He took office 117 00:08:08,395 --> 00:08:11,955 Speaker 1: already hated by nearly half his constituents. He has induced 118 00:08:12,035 --> 00:08:15,195 Speaker 1: so many bomb threats now in Springfield, Ohio, I am 119 00:08:15,235 --> 00:08:18,715 Speaker 1: surprised his phone has not been seized by the police. 120 00:08:19,595 --> 00:08:23,435 Speaker 1: Now imagine him the subject of a series of forced 121 00:08:23,515 --> 00:08:28,595 Speaker 1: prosecutions by pro Haitian groups around the state of Ohio. 122 00:08:30,955 --> 00:08:33,155 Speaker 1: I'm the character witness for the Haitian group. Who are you? 123 00:08:33,195 --> 00:08:36,875 Speaker 1: I'm the Republican mayor of Springfield, Ohio. It is Vance, 124 00:08:36,955 --> 00:08:39,515 Speaker 1: of course, who continues to insist that the Haitians legally 125 00:08:39,515 --> 00:08:42,875 Speaker 1: in Ohio are not there legally, and even worse, to 126 00:08:43,595 --> 00:08:46,915 Speaker 1: say that their legal status is in fact fluid, that 127 00:08:47,035 --> 00:08:51,355 Speaker 1: it can be withdrawn at his and Trump's instruction. The 128 00:08:51,355 --> 00:08:55,315 Speaker 1: pandora's box this opens is astonishing, because, if allowed to happen, 129 00:08:55,515 --> 00:08:59,075 Speaker 1: it could be a gateway to the revocation of citizenship 130 00:08:59,155 --> 00:09:02,995 Speaker 1: for people who were born here but whose parents were 131 00:09:03,035 --> 00:09:08,675 Speaker 1: not born here, you know, like Milania Trump, or you 132 00:09:08,715 --> 00:09:15,715 Speaker 1: could deport any naturalized citizen, you know, like Elon musk. Okay, 133 00:09:15,835 --> 00:09:17,995 Speaker 1: let me think this for a moment. I'm beginning to 134 00:09:18,195 --> 00:09:22,715 Speaker 1: sense that maybe under responsible control, this idea could be 135 00:09:22,795 --> 00:09:26,035 Speaker 1: you know, revoked citizenship there could be really useful. So, sir, 136 00:09:26,595 --> 00:09:28,835 Speaker 1: you were born here and your father was born here, 137 00:09:28,835 --> 00:09:33,115 Speaker 1: but his father was born in Germany. And what does 138 00:09:33,155 --> 00:09:37,555 Speaker 1: it say here your mother was born in Scotland. What 139 00:09:37,595 --> 00:09:42,595 Speaker 1: part America is Scotland? Sir? I'm afraid, sir. Under the 140 00:09:42,635 --> 00:09:46,355 Speaker 1: new naturalization process, you are now considered an anchor baby. 141 00:09:47,195 --> 00:09:49,195 Speaker 1: And looking at you, I can see the emphasis here 142 00:09:49,275 --> 00:09:55,755 Speaker 1: is on baby, and your citizenship is revoked. Mister Trump, 143 00:09:57,275 --> 00:10:27,355 Speaker 1: here's your ticket back to Venezuela. You want to go 144 00:10:27,395 --> 00:10:29,555 Speaker 1: to the change the rules in the middle of the 145 00:10:29,595 --> 00:10:33,595 Speaker 1: game game, Let's play that game. Let's play that goddamn game. 146 00:10:33,795 --> 00:10:36,435 Speaker 1: Let's find out where your grandparents are from, where was 147 00:10:36,435 --> 00:10:42,515 Speaker 1: your mother born? You're out just for like thirty three 148 00:10:42,515 --> 00:10:47,155 Speaker 1: people in this country, starting with Trump and Musk and Milanna, 149 00:10:49,035 --> 00:10:53,675 Speaker 1: rather astonishingly between the drooling and the more commonplace world history. 150 00:10:53,675 --> 00:10:56,955 Speaker 1: You should never, never ever admit you didn't know until recently, 151 00:10:57,075 --> 00:11:01,115 Speaker 1: like who beat Hitler and Napoleon. Trump has also made 152 00:11:01,115 --> 00:11:04,395 Speaker 1: what I think is the first overt threat to im 153 00:11:04,875 --> 00:11:08,435 Speaker 1: and political critics. He's still going kind of sideways on this, 154 00:11:08,715 --> 00:11:11,275 Speaker 1: but it's there. They were very brave. The Supreme court 155 00:11:11,475 --> 00:11:14,075 Speaker 1: very brave, and they take a lot of hits because 156 00:11:14,115 --> 00:11:15,995 Speaker 1: of it. It should be illegal what happens. 157 00:11:16,395 --> 00:11:19,035 Speaker 2: You know, you have these guys like playing the ref 158 00:11:19,155 --> 00:11:21,955 Speaker 2: like the great Bobby Knight. These people should be put 159 00:11:21,995 --> 00:11:25,155 Speaker 2: in jail the way they talk about our judges and 160 00:11:25,235 --> 00:11:25,995 Speaker 2: our justices. 161 00:11:26,755 --> 00:11:29,435 Speaker 1: Ironically, the first guy who would go to prison for 162 00:11:29,515 --> 00:11:34,195 Speaker 1: criticizing judges would be Trump. Ask Judge Chutkin and Judge 163 00:11:34,195 --> 00:11:37,515 Speaker 1: Mershon and Judge Kaplan and Judge Curiel from the Trump 164 00:11:37,595 --> 00:11:40,715 Speaker 1: College of Khan Man Knowledge case and all the other judges. 165 00:11:42,155 --> 00:11:44,635 Speaker 1: It's funny, isn't it that he's still more enraged against 166 00:11:44,715 --> 00:11:49,075 Speaker 1: Mershan than against Chutkin because Chutkin just sent more shutters 167 00:11:49,115 --> 00:11:54,515 Speaker 1: through Trump's camp and encouraged more anticipatory drooling. Sorry in 168 00:11:54,675 --> 00:11:59,755 Speaker 1: law abiding America. The backup scenario for when the corrupt 169 00:11:59,835 --> 00:12:03,355 Speaker 1: Supreme Theocratic Court urinated on the Constitution to give Trump 170 00:12:03,475 --> 00:12:06,835 Speaker 1: just enough immunity to delay his trials until after the election. 171 00:12:06,995 --> 00:12:12,195 Speaker 1: The backup plan for that event will be engaged in 172 00:12:12,235 --> 00:12:14,675 Speaker 1: the next twenty four to thirty six hours. Not only 173 00:12:14,715 --> 00:12:18,315 Speaker 1: will much of Special Counsel Jacksmith's evidence against Trump in 174 00:12:18,395 --> 00:12:21,875 Speaker 1: the elections subversion case be revealed publicly, but it will 175 00:12:21,915 --> 00:12:28,075 Speaker 1: be revealed supersized over the weekend. Smith advised the judge 176 00:12:28,235 --> 00:12:31,315 Speaker 1: that his opening brief would in fact be an opening 177 00:12:31,395 --> 00:12:34,835 Speaker 1: not so brief, and rather than the customary thirty five 178 00:12:34,955 --> 00:12:39,155 Speaker 1: forty fifty pages, it might be two hundred. Looks like 179 00:12:39,235 --> 00:12:41,515 Speaker 1: the actual number of pages will be one hundred and 180 00:12:41,555 --> 00:12:47,195 Speaker 1: eighty pages. Please no wagering Trump's attorneys this month's Trump's 181 00:12:47,195 --> 00:12:50,275 Speaker 1: attorneys immediately filed a motion to suppress or delay or 182 00:12:50,315 --> 00:12:53,195 Speaker 1: refuse or hold their breath, and as usual, Chuck and 183 00:12:53,275 --> 00:12:56,115 Speaker 1: not only denied them, she denied them, then slapped them 184 00:12:56,435 --> 00:12:58,315 Speaker 1: and told them you'll get nothing, and you'll like it. 185 00:12:59,235 --> 00:13:01,475 Speaker 1: She writes in her ruling, allowing a brief from the 186 00:13:01,515 --> 00:13:04,875 Speaker 1: government is not quote, contrary to law, procedure and cut 187 00:13:05,075 --> 00:13:09,915 Speaker 1: as defendant claims, it is simply how litigation works. Unquote. 188 00:13:10,275 --> 00:13:14,235 Speaker 1: She left out the two additional words, you assholes, because 189 00:13:15,075 --> 00:13:16,995 Speaker 1: well we all know she meant them, so why did 190 00:13:17,035 --> 00:13:19,635 Speaker 1: she have to bother and write them down. The filing 191 00:13:19,675 --> 00:13:24,115 Speaker 1: deadline for Jacksmith is tomorrow, so it could be filed today, They, 192 00:13:24,755 --> 00:13:28,355 Speaker 1: for custom probably will wait till tomorrow, whichever it will 193 00:13:28,395 --> 00:13:32,795 Speaker 1: go into the court. Listener dot Com documents Harvester, and 194 00:13:32,835 --> 00:13:36,435 Speaker 1: then stand well back because all hell's going to break loose. 195 00:13:37,635 --> 00:13:41,475 Speaker 1: Remember this will be the amended Smith filing against Trump 196 00:13:41,555 --> 00:13:44,875 Speaker 1: for you know, trying to encourage others to break every 197 00:13:45,355 --> 00:13:48,635 Speaker 1: law we have and violently overthrow the government elect of 198 00:13:48,675 --> 00:13:52,635 Speaker 1: this nation. Minus all those things that Smith believes the 199 00:13:52,675 --> 00:13:56,515 Speaker 1: Supreme Court intends to let Trump get away with via 200 00:13:56,635 --> 00:14:09,795 Speaker 1: its phony boloney immunity ruling. Well, I have you a 201 00:14:09,835 --> 00:14:13,755 Speaker 1: couple of poll numbers Bullfinch poll with some amazing states. 202 00:14:14,515 --> 00:14:17,595 Speaker 1: This is after the Mark Robinson scandal. North Carolina Harris 203 00:14:17,595 --> 00:14:21,595 Speaker 1: by two. They also have her Georgia by two, and 204 00:14:21,635 --> 00:14:26,155 Speaker 1: in Florida they have Trump by one one and Senator 205 00:14:26,235 --> 00:14:30,195 Speaker 1: Rick Scott by two. These are registered voters, though likely 206 00:14:30,275 --> 00:14:34,555 Speaker 1: voters would probably be a little looser. Poll close September 207 00:14:34,555 --> 00:14:37,995 Speaker 1: twenty three. Nationally, Quinnipiac tied at forty eight. A month ago, 208 00:14:38,115 --> 00:14:42,555 Speaker 1: Quinnipiac was Harris by one, so no change. Nationally CNN 209 00:14:42,595 --> 00:14:46,075 Speaker 1: Harris forty eight, Trump forty seven. Nationally IPSOS for Reuters 210 00:14:46,715 --> 00:14:50,875 Speaker 1: Harris fifty Trump forty four, and again the variations are 211 00:14:50,915 --> 00:14:53,555 Speaker 1: all based on one thing. Those last three numbers are 212 00:14:53,755 --> 00:14:58,595 Speaker 1: likely voters are you a likely voter. Yes, I don't 213 00:14:58,595 --> 00:15:01,755 Speaker 1: think you are. Okay, then I'm not on your poll. 214 00:15:01,995 --> 00:15:05,715 Speaker 1: You bet you're not inside the seat pulling a bunch 215 00:15:05,755 --> 00:15:09,875 Speaker 1: of favorability numbers. In January, Harris was underwater by twenty points. 216 00:15:10,275 --> 00:15:13,635 Speaker 1: She is now underwater by just four Trump was under 217 00:15:13,675 --> 00:15:16,755 Speaker 1: by nineteen points in January. He is now underwater by 218 00:15:16,875 --> 00:15:21,035 Speaker 1: twelve vance. Who, when only one quarter of this nation 219 00:15:21,155 --> 00:15:23,995 Speaker 1: knew who the hell he was in June was underwater 220 00:15:24,075 --> 00:15:26,835 Speaker 1: by seven points, is now known by three quarters of 221 00:15:26,875 --> 00:15:32,395 Speaker 1: the country and is now underwater by twelve points. Gurgle, 222 00:15:32,435 --> 00:15:38,395 Speaker 1: gurgle alone in the CNN poll Tim Walls apparently we 223 00:15:38,835 --> 00:15:44,755 Speaker 1: like Tim Walls thirty six to thirty two. It appears 224 00:15:44,755 --> 00:15:48,515 Speaker 1: Trump is being hacked again. Jud Legum met Popular Information 225 00:15:48,635 --> 00:15:53,195 Speaker 1: says somebody named Robert sent his organization Trump campaign info 226 00:15:53,275 --> 00:15:56,195 Speaker 1: on the fifteenth. He's not publishing it. This isn't the 227 00:15:56,275 --> 00:15:59,435 Speaker 1: Post or the Times or the others who tend to 228 00:15:59,475 --> 00:16:03,315 Speaker 1: turn the gravity on and off journalistically whenever they feel 229 00:16:03,395 --> 00:16:07,115 Speaker 1: like it. Jud had chops. I'm not sure I agree 230 00:16:07,115 --> 00:16:09,915 Speaker 1: with him, but at least he went into detail about 231 00:16:09,955 --> 00:16:13,395 Speaker 1: why he has done what he has done, and he 232 00:16:13,435 --> 00:16:18,595 Speaker 1: has explained what the others have not. He has characterized 233 00:16:19,075 --> 00:16:23,635 Speaker 1: what the leaks talk about. I'll quote him. I believe 234 00:16:23,675 --> 00:16:26,675 Speaker 1: that in some circumstances, the publication of leaked materials can 235 00:16:26,715 --> 00:16:30,315 Speaker 1: be justified. The Pentagon papers, for example, were obtained illegally 236 00:16:30,355 --> 00:16:32,915 Speaker 1: by Daniel Elsberg, but the public interest in revealing the 237 00:16:32,955 --> 00:16:37,835 Speaker 1: truth about the Vietnam War outweighed those concerns. The internal 238 00:16:37,915 --> 00:16:42,635 Speaker 1: Trump campaign documents obtained by Popular Information may be embarrassing 239 00:16:43,235 --> 00:16:47,235 Speaker 1: or problematic to members of the Trump campaign. Some of 240 00:16:47,275 --> 00:16:51,755 Speaker 1: the documents have news value, but the stolen materials do 241 00:16:51,835 --> 00:16:56,035 Speaker 1: not provide the public with any fundamental new insight about 242 00:16:56,075 --> 00:16:59,875 Speaker 1: Trump or his campaign. So on balance, the relevant factors 243 00:16:59,995 --> 00:17:06,875 Speaker 1: argue against publication. What I suspect will happen will be 244 00:17:07,235 --> 00:17:12,755 Speaker 1: that eventually Robert or whoever is behind this, Iranians, Mike Pence, 245 00:17:14,475 --> 00:17:18,075 Speaker 1: people who like their presidential candidates to know about Hitler 246 00:17:18,115 --> 00:17:24,075 Speaker 1: and Napoleon and Russia Battle of Borodino, whoever is responsible, 247 00:17:24,315 --> 00:17:27,355 Speaker 1: sometime just before the election, will find a news organization 248 00:17:27,475 --> 00:17:32,355 Speaker 1: or a semi news organization that will print stuff right 249 00:17:32,435 --> 00:17:36,835 Speaker 1: before the election. So all of this hemming and hawing 250 00:17:36,955 --> 00:17:42,555 Speaker 1: and deep anguished sometimes analysis by people like Judleagan will 251 00:17:42,595 --> 00:17:46,435 Speaker 1: go to Naught because they'll send the stuff to Okay 252 00:17:46,795 --> 00:17:51,355 Speaker 1: magazine and they'll publish it. I'm in favor of that, 253 00:17:51,795 --> 00:17:54,915 Speaker 1: if only to even up the score for twenty sixteen 254 00:17:55,395 --> 00:17:59,235 Speaker 1: and then we pass a law or something. Does it 255 00:17:59,355 --> 00:18:01,955 Speaker 1: look like there's anything in these newest leagues about any 256 00:18:01,995 --> 00:18:05,275 Speaker 1: of the latest quartet of amazing examples of every fascist 257 00:18:05,315 --> 00:18:10,075 Speaker 1: accusation is actually a confession stories my god. The Guardian 258 00:18:10,115 --> 00:18:13,795 Speaker 1: reports that Kevin Roberts literally the tour of Project twenty 259 00:18:13,835 --> 00:18:17,955 Speaker 1: twenty five. While the Republicans are insisting immigrants are eating 260 00:18:17,955 --> 00:18:21,915 Speaker 1: your pets. Kevin Roberts is revealed to allegedly have done 261 00:18:21,955 --> 00:18:27,875 Speaker 1: a Christynome before Christynome was uncool, kill the dog the 262 00:18:27,955 --> 00:18:34,835 Speaker 1: neighbor's dog with a shovel for barking, quoting he told 263 00:18:35,035 --> 00:18:37,835 Speaker 1: university colleagues about two decades ago that he had killed 264 00:18:37,835 --> 00:18:40,755 Speaker 1: a neighborhood dog with a shovel because it was barking 265 00:18:40,795 --> 00:18:43,675 Speaker 1: and disturbing his family, According to former colleagues who spoke 266 00:18:43,715 --> 00:18:46,755 Speaker 1: to The Guardian. Quote My recollection of his account was 267 00:18:46,755 --> 00:18:49,555 Speaker 1: that he was discussing in the hallway with various members 268 00:18:49,555 --> 00:18:52,435 Speaker 1: of the faculty, including me, that a neighbor's dog had 269 00:18:52,475 --> 00:18:55,515 Speaker 1: been barking pretty relentlessly and was, you know, keeping the 270 00:18:55,555 --> 00:18:58,155 Speaker 1: baby and probably the parents awake, and that he kind 271 00:18:58,155 --> 00:19:01,195 Speaker 1: of lost it then took a shovel and killed the dog. 272 00:19:01,675 --> 00:19:05,035 Speaker 1: End of problem, said Kenneth Hammond, who was the chair 273 00:19:05,155 --> 00:19:10,555 Speaker 1: of the university's history department at the time. Two other people, 274 00:19:10,595 --> 00:19:13,195 Speaker 1: a professor and her spouse, recall hearing a similar account 275 00:19:13,235 --> 00:19:16,035 Speaker 1: directly from Roberts at a dinner at his home. Three 276 00:19:16,075 --> 00:19:18,995 Speaker 1: other professors also said they heard the account at that 277 00:19:19,155 --> 00:19:21,515 Speaker 1: time from the colleagues, who said they had heard it 278 00:19:21,555 --> 00:19:25,355 Speaker 1: directly from Roberts. None recall Roberts, who worked at that 279 00:19:25,475 --> 00:19:28,035 Speaker 1: university as an assistant professor from two thousand and three 280 00:19:28,035 --> 00:19:30,235 Speaker 1: to two thousand and five, ever saying that the dog 281 00:19:30,315 --> 00:19:34,875 Speaker 1: he allegedly said he killed was actively threatening him or 282 00:19:34,875 --> 00:19:38,915 Speaker 1: his family. In a statement to The Guardian, Roberts denied 283 00:19:38,955 --> 00:19:43,275 Speaker 1: ever killing a dog with a shovel. End quote. You 284 00:19:43,315 --> 00:19:45,115 Speaker 1: guys at the Guardian ask him if he ever killed 285 00:19:45,115 --> 00:19:47,795 Speaker 1: a dog without a shovel. Did he then say? No? 286 00:19:47,875 --> 00:19:57,475 Speaker 1: Comment one quote here where is it again? Keeping the 287 00:19:57,595 --> 00:19:59,835 Speaker 1: parents awake, and that he kind of lost it and 288 00:19:59,875 --> 00:20:05,155 Speaker 1: took a shovel. And killed the democracy. No dog not democracy, 289 00:20:06,155 --> 00:20:08,795 Speaker 1: as to would be Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno. No, it's 290 00:20:08,795 --> 00:20:11,715 Speaker 1: not misogyny, a agism that made him claim that women 291 00:20:12,035 --> 00:20:16,475 Speaker 1: should not be one issue abortion voters, especially those over fifty, 292 00:20:17,195 --> 00:20:19,715 Speaker 1: implying that women over fifty would never need an abortion, 293 00:20:19,835 --> 00:20:23,355 Speaker 1: so why would they care. I mean, there is misogyny 294 00:20:23,355 --> 00:20:26,475 Speaker 1: in agism, but mostly this is just Bernie Moreno is 295 00:20:26,515 --> 00:20:30,635 Speaker 1: a moron, another knit wit, the kind who does not 296 00:20:30,835 --> 00:20:35,475 Speaker 1: know that women over fifty have daughters who might want 297 00:20:35,475 --> 00:20:37,755 Speaker 1: the right to control their own bodies, or even if 298 00:20:37,795 --> 00:20:41,195 Speaker 1: they don't have daughters, they might just want, you know, 299 00:20:42,395 --> 00:20:48,555 Speaker 1: lawful rights for other citizens. Vote Republican, elect another moron 300 00:20:48,635 --> 00:20:53,275 Speaker 1: to the Senate. Look, you can't spell moron without Moreno. 301 00:20:54,235 --> 00:21:02,955 Speaker 1: There it is mor e no. The Texas Observer reports 302 00:21:02,955 --> 00:21:06,435 Speaker 1: that the human Donut Trump henchman Jason Miller had his 303 00:21:06,555 --> 00:21:09,155 Speaker 1: email appear in the same data breach that contributed to 304 00:21:09,155 --> 00:21:12,955 Speaker 1: Mark Robinson's Week from Hell. It's the same email Miller 305 00:21:12,995 --> 00:21:16,275 Speaker 1: was connected to in court documents. The Texas Observer says 306 00:21:16,595 --> 00:21:20,875 Speaker 1: New York fascist congressant Anthony Desposito, one of his party's moderates, 307 00:21:21,395 --> 00:21:25,355 Speaker 1: wins the double play award. The New York Times reports 308 00:21:25,395 --> 00:21:27,115 Speaker 1: the ex New York City cop and by the way, 309 00:21:27,155 --> 00:21:29,275 Speaker 1: everybody who is not an ex New York City cop 310 00:21:29,435 --> 00:21:31,755 Speaker 1: appears to be an ex New York City staffer for 311 00:21:31,875 --> 00:21:37,955 Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Adams. They're dropping like flies. Desposito hired his 312 00:21:38,075 --> 00:21:42,315 Speaker 1: fiance's daughter as a part time paid employee in his 313 00:21:42,395 --> 00:21:46,675 Speaker 1: congressional district office right after he assumed that job. Then 314 00:21:46,755 --> 00:21:50,315 Speaker 1: last April, that's April twenty twenty three, he hired somebody 315 00:21:50,315 --> 00:21:53,315 Speaker 1: else as another part time paid employee in the same 316 00:21:53,395 --> 00:21:59,715 Speaker 1: office his mistress. Surprisingly enough, this is not only a 317 00:21:59,795 --> 00:22:04,035 Speaker 1: violation of ethics rules, but it's also of how dumb 318 00:22:04,235 --> 00:22:07,835 Speaker 1: is this mook rules because it led to the fiance 319 00:22:08,275 --> 00:22:12,035 Speaker 1: finding out about the mistress. And if you think Congress 320 00:22:12,075 --> 00:22:17,235 Speaker 1: and Desposito is pathetic, the fiance then took him back. 321 00:22:24,715 --> 00:22:28,955 Speaker 1: And lastly, this bulletin comic relief. There's the new British 322 00:22:28,955 --> 00:22:33,355 Speaker 1: Prime Minister, Secure Starmer. I like him, but at his 323 00:22:33,475 --> 00:22:37,595 Speaker 1: first Labor Party conference as Prime Minister, he proved that 324 00:22:37,675 --> 00:22:42,195 Speaker 1: Trump isn't the only one who needs significant remedial prompter work. 325 00:22:42,795 --> 00:22:46,475 Speaker 1: I am very good at teaching the reading of teleprompters. 326 00:22:46,915 --> 00:22:49,475 Speaker 1: I can get him up to speed with like three 327 00:22:49,555 --> 00:22:52,635 Speaker 1: or four half an hour sessions. Just fly me to London. 328 00:22:52,755 --> 00:22:58,035 Speaker 1: I'll get right to work. The line at the party 329 00:22:58,075 --> 00:23:03,235 Speaker 1: conference was I call again for immediate cease fire in Gaza, 330 00:23:04,115 --> 00:23:11,075 Speaker 1: the return learn of the hostages. Only he didn't say hostages. 331 00:23:11,875 --> 00:23:15,595 Speaker 1: I call again from immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the return 332 00:23:15,755 --> 00:23:21,555 Speaker 1: of the sausages. A hostital It sounds better with an 333 00:23:21,595 --> 00:23:24,915 Speaker 1: English accent, but yeah, you heard it. He still said 334 00:23:25,595 --> 00:23:32,755 Speaker 1: return of the sausages, return of the sausages, hostages, the 335 00:23:32,795 --> 00:23:36,595 Speaker 1: hostage sausages. Let's everybody break. 336 00:23:36,435 --> 00:23:44,035 Speaker 2: For lunch, and Stormer was in Egypt's land, Let my 337 00:23:44,675 --> 00:23:46,715 Speaker 2: sausages go. 338 00:23:54,555 --> 00:23:58,235 Speaker 1: Also of interest here in an all new edition. It's 339 00:23:58,315 --> 00:24:02,155 Speaker 1: the funniest thing I have ever seen, and yes it's 340 00:24:02,195 --> 00:24:06,795 Speaker 1: about me, and the other thing somewhat related to it 341 00:24:06,835 --> 00:24:08,795 Speaker 1: is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. And it's 342 00:24:08,795 --> 00:24:16,275 Speaker 1: about why journalists should should sleep with their sausages. Oh, no, sources, 343 00:24:16,915 --> 00:24:20,995 Speaker 1: why they should sleep with their sources. And it's from 344 00:24:21,035 --> 00:24:24,755 Speaker 1: the former media reporter of the New York Goddamn Holy Times. 345 00:24:25,195 --> 00:24:28,515 Speaker 1: And he's also the co founder of Semaphore News, and honestly, 346 00:24:28,795 --> 00:24:31,875 Speaker 1: he should never be allowed to work again in the 347 00:24:31,915 --> 00:24:38,395 Speaker 1: sausage making business of news in his life. On this 348 00:24:38,475 --> 00:24:41,635 Speaker 1: talk of sausages and I'm drooling. That's next. This is Countdown. 349 00:24:43,595 --> 00:25:07,275 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead of us, 350 00:25:07,275 --> 00:25:10,515 Speaker 1: on this all new edition of Countdown. Next. In Things 351 00:25:10,555 --> 00:25:13,555 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell, they were the second most 352 00:25:13,635 --> 00:25:17,275 Speaker 1: important hockey team in Ithaca, New York. They had ex 353 00:25:17,355 --> 00:25:21,355 Speaker 1: Cornell's standouts on them. They played teams like the Montreal Canadians, 354 00:25:21,435 --> 00:25:25,875 Speaker 1: old Timers, the Asian pro They used to fill or 355 00:25:25,955 --> 00:25:29,115 Speaker 1: nearly fill Cornell's famous rink. They had Cornell Hall of 356 00:25:29,155 --> 00:25:32,275 Speaker 1: Famer Bill Duffy on their team, and the greatest name 357 00:25:32,355 --> 00:25:38,115 Speaker 1: in hockey history played for them, Winger Murray Death, though 358 00:25:38,115 --> 00:25:42,075 Speaker 1: he was beginning to change the pronunciation to death. Good call. 359 00:25:42,115 --> 00:25:45,395 Speaker 1: And then they did something to me, to my radio station, 360 00:25:45,795 --> 00:25:49,955 Speaker 1: to my sports department, to my aspirations that caused me, 361 00:25:50,155 --> 00:25:53,155 Speaker 1: at the age of nineteen, to go on the air 362 00:25:53,235 --> 00:25:57,515 Speaker 1: and flat out lie and say they had gone out 363 00:25:57,595 --> 00:26:03,675 Speaker 1: of business. The Saga of the Ithaca Stars rest in peace, 364 00:26:05,035 --> 00:26:07,715 Speaker 1: and all new things I promised not to tell. First, 365 00:26:07,755 --> 00:26:09,995 Speaker 1: there are still more new idiots to talk about the 366 00:26:10,075 --> 00:26:12,915 Speaker 1: daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger 367 00:26:12,955 --> 00:26:17,035 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute two days worst persons in the world, 368 00:26:17,835 --> 00:26:21,515 Speaker 1: the Brons the worst. Abby Phillip, CNN's ten PM anchor, 369 00:26:21,875 --> 00:26:24,955 Speaker 1: I bet you didn't know that, the CNN anchor doing 370 00:26:24,995 --> 00:26:28,835 Speaker 1: the absolute best impressions of both Maggie Haberman and Chuck 371 00:26:28,915 --> 00:26:34,195 Speaker 1: Todd and occasionally Chris Solisi. After parroting the Trump fascist 372 00:26:34,315 --> 00:26:37,595 Speaker 1: talking point that Kamala Harris has somehow been in charge 373 00:26:37,675 --> 00:26:40,435 Speaker 1: of the southern border and the Republican complaint that she 374 00:26:40,475 --> 00:26:43,715 Speaker 1: hasn't gone to the southern border and done a performative 375 00:26:43,755 --> 00:26:46,755 Speaker 1: political photo op just like all the Republicans do, and 376 00:26:46,835 --> 00:26:49,835 Speaker 1: all the nitwits at CNN can just barely process because 377 00:26:49,875 --> 00:26:52,115 Speaker 1: it does fit into one of the very few story 378 00:26:52,195 --> 00:26:56,475 Speaker 1: templates they can begin to understand, and it involves sane washing. 379 00:26:57,395 --> 00:27:00,475 Speaker 1: After all of that, Abby Phillip is now complaining that 380 00:27:00,595 --> 00:27:04,635 Speaker 1: Vice President Harris is going to the border. First, Philip said, 381 00:27:05,355 --> 00:27:08,195 Speaker 1: there was polling that said Trump would be better on 382 00:27:08,315 --> 00:27:12,755 Speaker 1: the issue unquote, because shoving immigrants and their supporters into 383 00:27:12,835 --> 00:27:16,315 Speaker 1: concentration camps where guess what, genius some of them are 384 00:27:16,395 --> 00:27:19,755 Speaker 1: going to die is much better than the compromise that 385 00:27:19,795 --> 00:27:25,075 Speaker 1: Harris supported and Biden arranged and Trump vetoed for campaign reasons. 386 00:27:25,875 --> 00:27:29,195 Speaker 1: Philip after that, nit wittedly added that Harris is quote 387 00:27:29,675 --> 00:27:32,475 Speaker 1: hoping to change the narrative that she's soft on immigration. 388 00:27:33,155 --> 00:27:34,795 Speaker 1: One of the things about this moment, I mean, the 389 00:27:34,835 --> 00:27:37,235 Speaker 1: Harris campaign has just been trying to float above it all, 390 00:27:37,555 --> 00:27:40,435 Speaker 1: to float above the immigration arguments, float above some of 391 00:27:40,435 --> 00:27:43,515 Speaker 1: the nitty gritty details on some of this policy. But 392 00:27:43,595 --> 00:27:47,595 Speaker 1: this shows that they realize they have to do something. Well, 393 00:27:47,635 --> 00:27:50,315 Speaker 1: if anybody in this country's going to know about floating 394 00:27:50,355 --> 00:27:54,395 Speaker 1: above it all, it would be a CNN anchor, especially 395 00:27:54,795 --> 00:28:00,395 Speaker 1: the lowest rated host in cable news primetime. Thursday, barely 396 00:28:00,435 --> 00:28:04,635 Speaker 1: half of Laurence O'Donnell's audience, one quarter of Greg got 397 00:28:04,755 --> 00:28:08,075 Speaker 1: fields audience. My god, how could you show up to 398 00:28:08,115 --> 00:28:09,075 Speaker 1: work the next day? 399 00:28:09,915 --> 00:28:10,155 Speaker 2: Hey? 400 00:28:10,275 --> 00:28:15,755 Speaker 1: How are the ratings? Jesus Jesus Jesus Friday Friday Abby 401 00:28:15,795 --> 00:28:20,355 Speaker 1: Philip had an average of eighty six thousand viewers under 402 00:28:20,395 --> 00:28:24,115 Speaker 1: the age of fifty five for reference and its Apples 403 00:28:24,115 --> 00:28:26,075 Speaker 1: to Oranges. I know my number has nothing to do 404 00:28:26,115 --> 00:28:28,795 Speaker 1: with under fifty five. It's a total. But on Friday, 405 00:28:28,835 --> 00:28:32,795 Speaker 1: this podcast between its online audience and its YouTube audience. 406 00:28:33,635 --> 00:28:35,835 Speaker 1: This thing had one hundred and sixteen two hundred and 407 00:28:35,875 --> 00:28:39,955 Speaker 1: twenty one viewers and listeners. Can't imagine why she's in 408 00:28:40,035 --> 00:28:44,595 Speaker 1: last place floating a bubbado. The runner up worser Mike Lindell, 409 00:28:45,075 --> 00:28:48,515 Speaker 1: the guy who has smoked too many pillows, his latest 410 00:28:48,515 --> 00:28:51,875 Speaker 1: attempt to offset his eleventy billion dollar debt that has 411 00:28:51,915 --> 00:28:54,595 Speaker 1: been driven up insisting Trump didn't lose the election he lost. 412 00:28:55,515 --> 00:29:00,035 Speaker 1: Glendell is now selling pillows at steep discounts. Your costs 413 00:29:00,635 --> 00:29:07,195 Speaker 1: fourteen dollars and eighty eight cents teen eighty eight. Fourteen 414 00:29:07,275 --> 00:29:09,915 Speaker 1: eighty eight, What an odd price. Lots of people sell 415 00:29:10,195 --> 00:29:13,315 Speaker 1: things that say fourteen dollars in ninety eight cents or 416 00:29:13,475 --> 00:29:18,675 Speaker 1: fourteen dollars in ninety nine cents, but eighty eight cents. Well, 417 00:29:18,675 --> 00:29:23,035 Speaker 1: you know what fourteen eighty eight means, right, fourteen eighty eight. 418 00:29:23,075 --> 00:29:29,075 Speaker 1: On the white supremacist far right, the murderers, fourteen eighty 419 00:29:29,115 --> 00:29:32,195 Speaker 1: eight is one of the more common signals from one 420 00:29:32,195 --> 00:29:35,595 Speaker 1: of the scumbags to another of the scumberg bags, meaning Hey, 421 00:29:35,635 --> 00:29:39,875 Speaker 1: I'm a fellow scumbag. Let's go knife somebody. Why fourteen 422 00:29:39,915 --> 00:29:44,155 Speaker 1: eighty eight the price of the Lindell pillow. Fourteen means 423 00:29:44,475 --> 00:29:47,915 Speaker 1: the fourteen words as in quote, we must secure the 424 00:29:47,955 --> 00:29:50,475 Speaker 1: existence of our people and a future for white children. 425 00:29:51,835 --> 00:29:53,795 Speaker 1: Knowing how dumb these people are. I did check. It 426 00:29:53,875 --> 00:29:59,115 Speaker 1: is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. Yeah, 427 00:29:59,115 --> 00:30:01,915 Speaker 1: fourteen words, they got it right. Eighty eight. Well, those 428 00:30:01,915 --> 00:30:04,995 Speaker 1: are the numbers closest to the letters HH. As in 429 00:30:05,115 --> 00:30:09,475 Speaker 1: quote Kyle Hitler unquote, Mike Lindell says that this is 430 00:30:09,515 --> 00:30:12,435 Speaker 1: all ridiculous and it's Jessica coincidence. What would he know 431 00:30:12,475 --> 00:30:17,435 Speaker 1: about white supremacists? But our Winner? How in the world 432 00:30:18,035 --> 00:30:22,595 Speaker 1: has Mike Lindell avoided accidentally killing himself all this time? 433 00:30:23,875 --> 00:30:27,195 Speaker 1: Is that the greatest streak in human history? I mean, 434 00:30:27,275 --> 00:30:30,235 Speaker 1: he makes Keith Richards look like some sort of stay 435 00:30:30,315 --> 00:30:33,315 Speaker 1: at home get to bed at six thirty pm diletton 436 00:30:33,435 --> 00:30:38,955 Speaker 1: who only drinks tea. But Our Winner. Ben Smith, editor 437 00:30:38,955 --> 00:30:42,755 Speaker 1: and co founder of Semaphore Media. Now, I said I 438 00:30:42,795 --> 00:30:46,355 Speaker 1: didn't have much more to say about Olivia Newzy and 439 00:30:46,435 --> 00:30:47,875 Speaker 1: that she lived with me, but I did want to 440 00:30:47,915 --> 00:30:51,195 Speaker 1: mention some other things, mostly throwaways about her, even good 441 00:30:51,315 --> 00:30:54,235 Speaker 1: jokes about her. But I only saw this the other day. 442 00:30:54,555 --> 00:30:58,075 Speaker 1: What Ben Smith wrote about this is the most amazingly 443 00:30:58,275 --> 00:31:00,635 Speaker 1: tone deaf thing. Don't have anything to do with me. 444 00:31:01,035 --> 00:31:04,155 Speaker 1: It's the most amazingly toned deaf thing I've read about her, 445 00:31:04,915 --> 00:31:08,475 Speaker 1: or even about RFK Junior, or maybe about anything in 446 00:31:08,515 --> 00:31:11,795 Speaker 1: the history of news reporting. I'll get to it in 447 00:31:11,835 --> 00:31:18,875 Speaker 1: a second. First, the actual Newsy news UZI updates. This 448 00:31:18,915 --> 00:31:23,275 Speaker 1: is from CNN's Brian Stelter. Are other outlets reviewing the 449 00:31:23,275 --> 00:31:25,355 Speaker 1: work of Olivia Newsy in the wake of her relationship 450 00:31:25,355 --> 00:31:28,075 Speaker 1: with Kennedy Junior, They aren't saying. Bloomberg is not commenting 451 00:31:28,115 --> 00:31:31,435 Speaker 1: on questions surrounding Newsy, who recently hosted the series Working 452 00:31:31,515 --> 00:31:37,235 Speaker 1: Capital at the outlet, where she interviewed prominent political leaders separately. 453 00:31:37,355 --> 00:31:41,075 Speaker 1: AMC Networks, which had commissioned a satirical drama that Newsy 454 00:31:41,115 --> 00:31:43,755 Speaker 1: was set to executive produce, is remaining mum on her 455 00:31:43,755 --> 00:31:47,355 Speaker 1: involvement in the project as an aside, And this would 456 00:31:47,355 --> 00:31:49,515 Speaker 1: be true of anybody, not just that it's her. I'm 457 00:31:49,555 --> 00:31:52,515 Speaker 1: just sort of liberated to talk about her now. How 458 00:31:52,595 --> 00:31:56,315 Speaker 1: could a satirical drama that Newsy was set to executive 459 00:31:56,355 --> 00:32:02,475 Speaker 1: produce possibly rival for sheer quality, the satirical drama that 460 00:32:02,515 --> 00:32:08,235 Speaker 1: Newsy has just lived for the last week, and featuring 461 00:32:08,315 --> 00:32:10,555 Speaker 1: such and such as Keith Overman at the end of 462 00:32:10,595 --> 00:32:13,875 Speaker 1: the credits. All right back to Ben Smith at Semaphore, 463 00:32:15,715 --> 00:32:18,315 Speaker 1: I had hoped to avoid writing about last week's big 464 00:32:18,395 --> 00:32:22,915 Speaker 1: media scandal. We were scooped to Max's eternal regret that's 465 00:32:22,955 --> 00:32:27,235 Speaker 1: their media guy by Oliver Darcy's excellent new newsletter status 466 00:32:27,555 --> 00:32:33,115 Speaker 1: after we ignored a Wednesday evening email from one Anderson Jones. Jones, 467 00:32:33,155 --> 00:32:36,075 Speaker 1: an anonymous sender with an Iowa IP address who has 468 00:32:36,115 --> 00:32:39,035 Speaker 1: since gone dark, had a news tip New York Magazines. 469 00:32:39,075 --> 00:32:41,915 Speaker 1: Olivia Newsy had disclosed to Box she'd had a romantic 470 00:32:41,955 --> 00:32:46,675 Speaker 1: relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Firstly, congrats on trying 471 00:32:46,715 --> 00:32:49,155 Speaker 1: to boast your way out of how you were scooped. 472 00:32:49,995 --> 00:32:53,315 Speaker 1: Right back to what Ben Smith wrote. But now that 473 00:32:53,395 --> 00:32:56,595 Speaker 1: we are in the full fury of American media prurience 474 00:32:56,715 --> 00:32:59,355 Speaker 1: and self righteousness, I'm going to risk my neck on 475 00:32:59,435 --> 00:33:03,915 Speaker 1: a slightly contrarian view. Reporters have all sorts of compromising 476 00:33:03,955 --> 00:33:10,795 Speaker 1: relationships with sources. Huh. The most compromising of all, and 477 00:33:10,875 --> 00:33:13,835 Speaker 1: the most common, is a reporter's fealty to someone who 478 00:33:13,835 --> 00:33:20,275 Speaker 1: gives them information. That's the real coin of this realm. Huh, 479 00:33:20,315 --> 00:33:26,435 Speaker 1: sex barely rates? Come on, you won't hear many American 480 00:33:26,515 --> 00:33:29,875 Speaker 1: journalists reckon with this. Some British journalists, naturally, have been 481 00:33:30,115 --> 00:33:33,755 Speaker 1: texting us to ask, oh texts, what the fuss is about? 482 00:33:34,155 --> 00:33:36,715 Speaker 1: If you're not sleeping with someone in a position of power, 483 00:33:36,755 --> 00:33:39,715 Speaker 1: how are you even a journalist? The advice writer Heather 484 00:33:40,315 --> 00:33:43,835 Speaker 1: have Roleski texted me Saturday that the world would be 485 00:33:43,915 --> 00:33:47,035 Speaker 1: much more exciting with more newsies around, but alas, the 486 00:33:47,115 --> 00:33:53,635 Speaker 1: world is inhabited by anonymously mailing moralists instead. When you're 487 00:33:53,675 --> 00:33:59,355 Speaker 1: in London, check out, Heather have Roleski. You can find 488 00:33:59,355 --> 00:34:02,035 Speaker 1: your phone number written on the wall somewhere. I suppose, 489 00:34:02,715 --> 00:34:05,995 Speaker 1: I mean, would you actually write that? Never mind? Are 490 00:34:06,155 --> 00:34:09,915 Speaker 1: you're a woman reporter? You're a woman, you're a reporter, 491 00:34:10,515 --> 00:34:14,835 Speaker 1: you're somehow you have no gender at all, you have 492 00:34:14,955 --> 00:34:18,155 Speaker 1: no sexual organs at all, And you would write the 493 00:34:18,195 --> 00:34:20,755 Speaker 1: world would be much more exciting with more newsies around, 494 00:34:20,755 --> 00:34:23,235 Speaker 1: But a last, the world is inhabited by anonymously emailing 495 00:34:23,235 --> 00:34:27,595 Speaker 1: moralists instead, leading the guy to write, how are you 496 00:34:27,675 --> 00:34:29,595 Speaker 1: even a journalist, if you're not sleeping with someone in 497 00:34:29,635 --> 00:34:34,515 Speaker 1: a position of power, my god, advice and she's an 498 00:34:34,555 --> 00:34:40,715 Speaker 1: advice writer. Dear Heather, the President of the United States 499 00:34:40,755 --> 00:34:43,875 Speaker 1: wants to sleep with me. He'll give me a scoop 500 00:34:43,955 --> 00:34:48,035 Speaker 1: and a button. Should I do it? My yes, you 501 00:34:48,155 --> 00:34:52,435 Speaker 1: ought to, Dearie, Oh my god. Back to ben Smith. 502 00:34:52,635 --> 00:34:55,155 Speaker 1: Many of Newsy's critics were furious at her over a 503 00:34:55,235 --> 00:34:58,115 Speaker 1: July fourth story about members of Joe Biden's inner circle 504 00:34:58,275 --> 00:35:00,555 Speaker 1: who felt he was too old to run for president. 505 00:35:00,875 --> 00:35:03,315 Speaker 1: How these critics ask now, could she have done that 506 00:35:03,355 --> 00:35:05,995 Speaker 1: story fairly if she had add an emotional attachment to 507 00:35:06,035 --> 00:35:09,555 Speaker 1: a fringe candidate. And this is where two values of 508 00:35:09,635 --> 00:35:13,235 Speaker 1: journalism part ways. The obvious defense of that story is 509 00:35:13,235 --> 00:35:17,195 Speaker 1: that it was true, something few Democrats now contest, though 510 00:35:17,195 --> 00:35:19,315 Speaker 1: the few that do continue to loudly fill up our 511 00:35:19,355 --> 00:35:25,555 Speaker 1: email inboxes and Twitter mentions. Okay, if you got bribed 512 00:35:26,475 --> 00:35:31,555 Speaker 1: to write a story, or you offered to write a 513 00:35:31,595 --> 00:35:34,995 Speaker 1: story in exchange for something from the person who benefited 514 00:35:34,995 --> 00:35:38,195 Speaker 1: from the story, you're not a journalist anymore. This is 515 00:35:38,355 --> 00:35:41,075 Speaker 1: just occurring to Bensmith, who was a media columnist for 516 00:35:41,195 --> 00:35:44,355 Speaker 1: a national newspaper until he started this piece of shit Semaphore. 517 00:35:45,595 --> 00:35:48,075 Speaker 1: But we're also in the business of trust as well 518 00:35:48,115 --> 00:35:52,075 Speaker 1: as truth. Who's this we ben, You're not in the business. 519 00:35:53,035 --> 00:35:55,915 Speaker 1: That's not what we do. I mean you have to 520 00:35:55,995 --> 00:35:58,555 Speaker 1: draw the line somewhere, and that line is taking off 521 00:35:58,555 --> 00:36:03,595 Speaker 1: your pants in front of us source and for those purposes, 522 00:36:03,635 --> 00:36:05,835 Speaker 1: the appearance of conflict it is in fact bad enough. 523 00:36:06,075 --> 00:36:10,155 Speaker 1: It undermines reasonable people's trust, and there's no real defense 524 00:36:10,195 --> 00:36:13,315 Speaker 1: for that. And so before I have to hand over 525 00:36:13,395 --> 00:36:16,915 Speaker 1: my editor's badge, I should mention he's almost saved it 526 00:36:16,955 --> 00:36:19,595 Speaker 1: now has any I should mention, don't worry, he won't. 527 00:36:19,875 --> 00:36:22,355 Speaker 1: I should mention that Our policy here at Semaphore is 528 00:36:22,355 --> 00:36:26,115 Speaker 1: that if you're having a romantic relationship with a subject 529 00:36:26,155 --> 00:36:30,395 Speaker 1: of your coverage, for the love of God, tell your 530 00:36:30,515 --> 00:36:36,275 Speaker 1: editor that's right there on the wall under Employees must 531 00:36:36,515 --> 00:36:40,515 Speaker 1: wash hands, especially if you're having a romantic relationship with 532 00:36:40,555 --> 00:36:42,995 Speaker 1: the subject of your coverage. In other words, it's fine 533 00:36:43,435 --> 00:36:49,835 Speaker 1: to f the F and Robert F. Kennedy Junior literally 534 00:36:50,035 --> 00:36:54,275 Speaker 1: or merely via electronic and digital. The word used was digital. 535 00:36:55,315 --> 00:36:57,875 Speaker 1: I'm just not going to touch that as it were. 536 00:36:58,715 --> 00:37:01,115 Speaker 1: It's fine to do that, but if you haven't told 537 00:37:01,155 --> 00:37:04,155 Speaker 1: your editor about it. If you need to screw somebody 538 00:37:04,155 --> 00:37:08,115 Speaker 1: to get this, we can give you a bonus or 539 00:37:08,115 --> 00:37:10,955 Speaker 1: at least a condom. For the love of God, tell 540 00:37:10,995 --> 00:37:15,275 Speaker 1: your editor well, well, Ben Smith, congrats on destroying any 541 00:37:15,315 --> 00:37:18,595 Speaker 1: possible credibility Semaphore might ever achieve. I mean now, I 542 00:37:18,635 --> 00:37:22,315 Speaker 1: have to wonder who they ft to get the rights 543 00:37:22,315 --> 00:37:26,515 Speaker 1: to use that typeface on their letters and their website. 544 00:37:26,995 --> 00:37:29,595 Speaker 1: I wonder who fed them to bury that story that 545 00:37:30,155 --> 00:37:33,915 Speaker 1: you will never see in Semaphore. You're done, Ben, Fold, 546 00:37:34,715 --> 00:37:38,315 Speaker 1: fold the organization. If you own stock in this, if 547 00:37:38,315 --> 00:37:40,515 Speaker 1: they sell stock, I have no idea sell the stock. 548 00:37:41,195 --> 00:37:45,315 Speaker 1: This is madness to defend the idea that reporters, and 549 00:37:45,355 --> 00:37:47,675 Speaker 1: not only that, but to insist that reporters constantly do 550 00:37:47,795 --> 00:37:56,275 Speaker 1: this madness. You will be surprised to find out that 551 00:37:56,355 --> 00:37:59,435 Speaker 1: when he co founded seven four I mentioned this, he 552 00:37:59,595 --> 00:38:02,115 Speaker 1: was with the National paper Guests, which one Ben was 553 00:38:02,155 --> 00:38:06,155 Speaker 1: with the New York Times. Now understand why everything's gone 554 00:38:06,155 --> 00:38:08,235 Speaker 1: to hell in a handbasket in the New York Times. 555 00:38:08,315 --> 00:38:11,475 Speaker 1: Either everybody there is sleeping with somebody in the Trump campaign, 556 00:38:11,835 --> 00:38:15,395 Speaker 1: or everybody there isn't sleeping with somebody in the Trump campaign, 557 00:38:15,595 --> 00:38:17,915 Speaker 1: or everybody in there was sleeping with somebody in the 558 00:38:17,955 --> 00:38:21,275 Speaker 1: Trump campaign, and they reported it to their editor, who said, well, 559 00:38:21,355 --> 00:38:23,835 Speaker 1: you can't do that anymore, and now they're all frustrated. 560 00:38:26,515 --> 00:38:31,515 Speaker 1: Now to eleven this, I will have three postscripts. One, 561 00:38:32,515 --> 00:38:36,235 Speaker 1: I will say one thing I realized today about my 562 00:38:36,355 --> 00:38:40,315 Speaker 1: relationship with Olivia. I only realized it when I found 563 00:38:40,315 --> 00:38:44,635 Speaker 1: myself writing it online. The phrase by Felicia from the 564 00:38:44,635 --> 00:38:48,155 Speaker 1: movie Fridays. I've used it in sportscasts and newscast I've 565 00:38:48,235 --> 00:38:53,355 Speaker 1: used it on this podcast. Olivia taught me that phrase. Man, 566 00:38:53,435 --> 00:38:55,875 Speaker 1: let's break into the New York Post's feed and put 567 00:38:55,875 --> 00:38:58,835 Speaker 1: that out there. And then this from the Twitter account 568 00:38:59,195 --> 00:39:02,395 Speaker 1: at what forty six has done the Biden accomplishments. This 569 00:39:02,555 --> 00:39:06,275 Speaker 1: is so funny. I think she would laugh at it. Quote. 570 00:39:06,835 --> 00:39:09,755 Speaker 1: The more I learn about Olivia Newsy, the more I 571 00:39:09,795 --> 00:39:13,315 Speaker 1: think that maybe her animosity towards Joe Biden was because 572 00:39:13,355 --> 00:39:20,115 Speaker 1: he didn't want to date her. Oh oh my god, 573 00:39:20,195 --> 00:39:26,035 Speaker 1: do I feel seen. But best of all, that New 574 00:39:26,075 --> 00:39:29,595 Speaker 1: York Post gossip story Monday about my extremely peripheral role 575 00:39:29,635 --> 00:39:36,475 Speaker 1: in this saga, this satirical series. I bought the actual 576 00:39:36,515 --> 00:39:39,475 Speaker 1: physical newspaper of the New York Post yesterday, just on 577 00:39:39,555 --> 00:39:42,955 Speaker 1: a hunch, thinking I wonder how this looks in the print. 578 00:39:43,315 --> 00:39:45,355 Speaker 1: First time in like ten years I spent any money 579 00:39:45,395 --> 00:39:48,675 Speaker 1: on the New York Post, and there in the latest 580 00:39:48,755 --> 00:39:53,155 Speaker 1: roundup of the Newsy News was a small but glowing 581 00:39:53,315 --> 00:39:58,275 Speaker 1: red box with white letters on it and their gossip 582 00:39:58,315 --> 00:40:02,355 Speaker 1: logo page six on one half of the glowing red box, 583 00:40:02,395 --> 00:40:05,795 Speaker 1: and then on the other side it read in big 584 00:40:05,835 --> 00:40:13,235 Speaker 1: bold letters quote. She also dated Alberman. It's the funniest 585 00:40:13,275 --> 00:40:16,075 Speaker 1: thing I have ever seen in my life. If you 586 00:40:16,275 --> 00:40:22,995 Speaker 1: heard minutes of unending laughter wafting out over the land 587 00:40:24,035 --> 00:40:28,195 Speaker 1: reaching the Pacific around one fifteen pm Eastern until about 588 00:40:28,195 --> 00:40:32,355 Speaker 1: one point thirty Eastern, that was me outside a store 589 00:40:32,395 --> 00:40:35,675 Speaker 1: that actually still sells newspapers on Second Avenue in New York. 590 00:40:36,315 --> 00:40:43,835 Speaker 1: She also dated Alberman White on red Not only is 591 00:40:43,875 --> 00:40:46,555 Speaker 1: it now my background on my Twitter page, Not only 592 00:40:46,595 --> 00:40:49,755 Speaker 1: am I getting it framed, I'm thinking of getting it 593 00:40:49,995 --> 00:40:54,515 Speaker 1: as a tattoo and on my memorial marker whenever the 594 00:40:54,595 --> 00:41:00,635 Speaker 1: time comes. Anyway, Back to the point, been sleeping with 595 00:41:00,675 --> 00:41:05,035 Speaker 1: my sources. That's ridiculous. Why do you think I got 596 00:41:05,035 --> 00:41:11,995 Speaker 1: into this business? Smith? Two days? Worst person then the 597 00:41:12,035 --> 00:41:30,075 Speaker 1: world I mentioned recently that one of the things I 598 00:41:30,155 --> 00:41:32,875 Speaker 1: wanted to do. In fact, my original career goal in 599 00:41:32,915 --> 00:41:35,195 Speaker 1: broadcasting was to become play by play announcer of the 600 00:41:35,235 --> 00:41:37,755 Speaker 1: New York Yankees. The second one, and the one that 601 00:41:37,795 --> 00:41:39,795 Speaker 1: I actually tried to work on for a while, was 602 00:41:39,835 --> 00:41:41,955 Speaker 1: to become play by play announcer of the New York 603 00:41:42,035 --> 00:41:46,315 Speaker 1: Rangers hockey team. My high school, Hackley, had a hockey 604 00:41:46,395 --> 00:41:50,675 Speaker 1: team and a radio station, not that anybody listened to us, 605 00:41:50,795 --> 00:41:53,515 Speaker 1: and we had a sports director. His name was Chris Berman, 606 00:41:53,555 --> 00:41:55,475 Speaker 1: and he did the basketball games, and one day put 607 00:41:55,475 --> 00:41:57,955 Speaker 1: out an ad for somebody to do the hockey games. 608 00:41:58,395 --> 00:42:01,035 Speaker 1: And the requirement was do you own your own cassette 609 00:42:01,115 --> 00:42:04,155 Speaker 1: tape recorder? And I've played you the tapes of what 610 00:42:04,195 --> 00:42:06,995 Speaker 1: I sounded like like long before my voice even began 611 00:42:07,075 --> 00:42:09,275 Speaker 1: to change. The play by play wasn't bad for a 612 00:42:09,315 --> 00:42:12,275 Speaker 1: thirteen year old kid. And I have to say the 613 00:42:12,315 --> 00:42:15,635 Speaker 1: next year, nineteen seventy three, when the Pittsburgh Penguins job 614 00:42:15,675 --> 00:42:18,555 Speaker 1: opened for play by play radio guy, I had the 615 00:42:18,675 --> 00:42:21,195 Speaker 1: nuts to actually send them a tape and say, look, 616 00:42:21,235 --> 00:42:22,835 Speaker 1: I know my voice is a little high, but think 617 00:42:22,875 --> 00:42:26,795 Speaker 1: of the novelty aspect. So I always wanted to do 618 00:42:26,835 --> 00:42:28,675 Speaker 1: hockey play by play, and then I went to Cornell, 619 00:42:28,715 --> 00:42:31,035 Speaker 1: which might as well have had a professional hockey franchise, 620 00:42:31,075 --> 00:42:33,195 Speaker 1: And that's still true. Lina Rink is one of the 621 00:42:33,195 --> 00:42:37,275 Speaker 1: great sporting event locales in the world, certainly in college hockey. 622 00:42:38,195 --> 00:42:41,755 Speaker 1: And it always sold out, and the team was competitive 623 00:42:41,755 --> 00:42:43,995 Speaker 1: and number one in the IVY League and a national 624 00:42:44,115 --> 00:42:47,635 Speaker 1: championship contender. And the rights to the games were owned 625 00:42:47,675 --> 00:42:51,035 Speaker 1: by Cornell and immediately, of course dispersed to the two 626 00:42:51,155 --> 00:42:55,035 Speaker 1: radio stations Cornell University, Inc. Owned, so we never got 627 00:42:55,035 --> 00:42:59,155 Speaker 1: close to doing play by play of Cornell hockey. I 628 00:42:59,235 --> 00:43:01,315 Speaker 1: once asked my friend who was the general manager of 629 00:43:01,315 --> 00:43:03,755 Speaker 1: those stations, Don Martin, who I've talked about here before 630 00:43:03,795 --> 00:43:05,595 Speaker 1: as one of the most import people I ever met 631 00:43:05,635 --> 00:43:10,115 Speaker 1: in broadcasting. I asked him, could we do the JV Games? 632 00:43:10,195 --> 00:43:13,075 Speaker 1: Could we do the women's games? No, because you'll get 633 00:43:13,075 --> 00:43:15,155 Speaker 1: advertising for it. I know you'll do a good job. 634 00:43:15,275 --> 00:43:17,475 Speaker 1: You'll be taking bread out of the food of my announcers. 635 00:43:17,595 --> 00:43:19,635 Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, but I'm asking for like 636 00:43:19,715 --> 00:43:23,595 Speaker 1: one slice of bread. You're gonna go far, but not 637 00:43:23,675 --> 00:43:29,515 Speaker 1: in Ithaca. So anyway, one day a fellow named Al 638 00:43:29,675 --> 00:43:33,155 Speaker 1: Goldstein who had come to us I believe, from Berkeley, California, 639 00:43:33,515 --> 00:43:36,755 Speaker 1: and was twenty eight years old and long past college 640 00:43:36,835 --> 00:43:40,035 Speaker 1: days or college radio days, moved to Ithaca, New York 641 00:43:40,315 --> 00:43:45,835 Speaker 1: to try to become a radio sportscaster, newscaster, radio salesman, 642 00:43:46,075 --> 00:43:48,475 Speaker 1: and had heard had done research on this and had 643 00:43:48,515 --> 00:43:54,755 Speaker 1: determined that WVBR, the student owned professional radio station at 644 00:43:54,835 --> 00:43:59,115 Speaker 1: Cornell University, was the best training ground for radio in 645 00:43:59,155 --> 00:44:05,035 Speaker 1: the country. Al was known as Weird Al and before 646 00:44:05,035 --> 00:44:08,795 Speaker 1: a Yankovic, and he was a delightful guy. And he 647 00:44:08,915 --> 00:44:12,395 Speaker 1: used all the southern or northern California lingo that none 648 00:44:12,435 --> 00:44:15,995 Speaker 1: of us understood, happening in Gnarley and all these other 649 00:44:16,035 --> 00:44:19,755 Speaker 1: things long before they became famous things. I was like, 650 00:44:19,795 --> 00:44:22,675 Speaker 1: what did I'll just say I'm not sure, but whatever. 651 00:44:22,715 --> 00:44:25,035 Speaker 1: He works hard. So he did sports cast, and he 652 00:44:25,075 --> 00:44:27,835 Speaker 1: did newscast, and he became a salesman because we sold 653 00:44:27,835 --> 00:44:30,795 Speaker 1: advertising on the radio station. And one day he came 654 00:44:30,835 --> 00:44:32,995 Speaker 1: to me he said, you know, Ko, I've been talking 655 00:44:32,995 --> 00:44:37,115 Speaker 1: to h a lot of my clients out there, and 656 00:44:37,915 --> 00:44:41,555 Speaker 1: they I just mentioned the Ethaica stars and their eyes 657 00:44:41,635 --> 00:44:43,955 Speaker 1: light up, like why aren't they on the radio? I mean, 658 00:44:44,355 --> 00:44:46,875 Speaker 1: like I know it's not Cornell hockey man, but they 659 00:44:47,115 --> 00:44:50,475 Speaker 1: Cornell Hockey gets four thousand people, Ethica Stars get eighteen 660 00:44:50,555 --> 00:44:52,475 Speaker 1: hundred years. There's a lot of people people want to hear. 661 00:44:53,275 --> 00:44:56,035 Speaker 1: Why don't we do the games? I'd get it sponsored immediately, 662 00:44:56,515 --> 00:44:59,475 Speaker 1: and I went say that part again, and he went 663 00:44:59,515 --> 00:45:02,395 Speaker 1: through it again, and I said, why don't we? So 664 00:45:02,595 --> 00:45:05,395 Speaker 1: we all knew the president of the Ethica Stars. It was, 665 00:45:05,395 --> 00:45:08,035 Speaker 1: I believe a car salesman. His name was Bob Toddy 666 00:45:08,635 --> 00:45:11,195 Speaker 1: called him up and said, how much for the rights 667 00:45:11,195 --> 00:45:14,115 Speaker 1: to broadcast your games? Would do it on an experimental 668 00:45:14,155 --> 00:45:18,355 Speaker 1: basis and he went first ones free and I said, 669 00:45:18,475 --> 00:45:22,195 Speaker 1: I think my colleagues here will agree to that, and 670 00:45:22,235 --> 00:45:26,275 Speaker 1: sure enough we scheduled a broadcast of the Ithaca Stars 671 00:45:26,355 --> 00:45:28,795 Speaker 1: versus somebody. The Ethica Stars would be made up of 672 00:45:29,195 --> 00:45:31,835 Speaker 1: Cornell graduates who did not make it in professional hockey, 673 00:45:31,915 --> 00:45:34,515 Speaker 1: or had played professional hockey and lived in the area 674 00:45:34,595 --> 00:45:36,835 Speaker 1: came back to Ithaca. In other words, if you were 675 00:45:36,875 --> 00:45:38,995 Speaker 1: a Cornell Hockey star in nineteen seventy two and did 676 00:45:38,995 --> 00:45:40,555 Speaker 1: not make a career of it, you could become an 677 00:45:40,595 --> 00:45:43,395 Speaker 1: Ehaica Stars star in nineteen seventy eight, which is when 678 00:45:43,475 --> 00:45:46,755 Speaker 1: we are in the history of semi pro hockey in 679 00:45:46,795 --> 00:45:50,275 Speaker 1: this country. And they did. They drew two thousand a 680 00:45:50,315 --> 00:45:53,115 Speaker 1: game at line of rink. They almost often when it 681 00:45:53,115 --> 00:45:56,275 Speaker 1: would be a team like the Montreal Former Canadians, they 682 00:45:56,275 --> 00:45:59,635 Speaker 1: would fill the place out people like their hockey and 683 00:45:59,715 --> 00:46:04,195 Speaker 1: Ethica New York. The ice is already there, the rank 684 00:46:04,275 --> 00:46:07,795 Speaker 1: is fent. So we put Al out on this and 685 00:46:07,795 --> 00:46:09,915 Speaker 1: I was like, we'll try it, and I'll do the games, 686 00:46:09,955 --> 00:46:13,355 Speaker 1: and the program director, Glen Cornelius, he'll be the he'll 687 00:46:13,395 --> 00:46:16,155 Speaker 1: be my color man, and we'll have somebody host in 688 00:46:16,195 --> 00:46:18,235 Speaker 1: between periods, and we'll have a reporter and we'll you know, 689 00:46:18,235 --> 00:46:20,675 Speaker 1: maybe we'll get some wireless. But Al came back in 690 00:46:20,675 --> 00:46:23,035 Speaker 1: twenty four hours and said sold it out. I was like, 691 00:46:23,075 --> 00:46:26,195 Speaker 1: but I figured out how many availabilities we'd have and 692 00:46:26,195 --> 00:46:28,955 Speaker 1: how many spots, and we have a waiting list. We've 693 00:46:28,955 --> 00:46:31,155 Speaker 1: already taken in like twenty thousand dollars for this. I went, 694 00:46:31,195 --> 00:46:33,155 Speaker 1: are you out of your mind? He goes, no, man, 695 00:46:33,275 --> 00:46:35,795 Speaker 1: let's go ahead to don't tell Toddy, this will be 696 00:46:35,795 --> 00:46:38,075 Speaker 1: demanding money. But I bet if we do, you know, 697 00:46:38,195 --> 00:46:40,315 Speaker 1: we could do ten games before the end of their season. 698 00:46:40,395 --> 00:46:43,155 Speaker 1: I was like, let's go. So we now begin to 699 00:46:43,155 --> 00:46:46,075 Speaker 1: promote this thing on WVBR coming up on Saturday night, 700 00:46:46,155 --> 00:46:48,675 Speaker 1: and Glenn Cornelius and I go to a Corneill hockey 701 00:46:48,675 --> 00:46:51,195 Speaker 1: practice and we do a practice broadcast of a game, 702 00:46:51,435 --> 00:46:54,155 Speaker 1: and We're like, this isn't bad, and I'm thinking, maybe 703 00:46:54,155 --> 00:46:56,115 Speaker 1: I could still become a hockey play by play man 704 00:46:57,195 --> 00:46:59,635 Speaker 1: and my voice is changing. Maybe I can send the 705 00:46:59,635 --> 00:47:04,235 Speaker 1: tape to the Pittsburgh Penguins again. So now this is 706 00:47:04,395 --> 00:47:06,915 Speaker 1: mony day or Tuesday, and then the broadcast is coming 707 00:47:06,995 --> 00:47:09,675 Speaker 1: up on Saturday. And we went wall to wall every 708 00:47:09,675 --> 00:47:13,155 Speaker 1: commercial break on WVBR, every newscast, every sports cast, every 709 00:47:13,155 --> 00:47:17,875 Speaker 1: disc jockey show, even the public affairs broadcasts. In the breaks, 710 00:47:17,875 --> 00:47:20,075 Speaker 1: it was don't forget to listen to the other guitars 711 00:47:20,115 --> 00:47:23,995 Speaker 1: They're premiering on WVBR with Keith Olduman and Glenn Cornelias, 712 00:47:23,795 --> 00:47:28,235 Speaker 1: and we had five announcers, and we literally rented wireless mikes, 713 00:47:28,235 --> 00:47:30,115 Speaker 1: and we had this whole thing. We had a scoreboard 714 00:47:30,155 --> 00:47:32,915 Speaker 1: show planned in a studio. It was just it was 715 00:47:33,355 --> 00:47:40,275 Speaker 1: it was network level excess. On Friday afternoon, I walked 716 00:47:40,275 --> 00:47:43,475 Speaker 1: into the radio station and Al Goldstein was sitting at 717 00:47:43,475 --> 00:47:45,635 Speaker 1: the desk in the newsroom that I usually used in 718 00:47:45,635 --> 00:47:49,995 Speaker 1: my chair in front of my typewriter went ashen and 719 00:47:50,155 --> 00:47:51,955 Speaker 1: Al had what would have been politely referred to as 720 00:47:52,115 --> 00:47:55,115 Speaker 1: ruddy complexion, and he was white as a sheet. And 721 00:47:55,155 --> 00:47:57,155 Speaker 1: I said, what's wrong? He goes, what's go inside? Man, 722 00:47:57,475 --> 00:48:00,795 Speaker 1: It's goingside. And we went into a studio and he went, 723 00:48:01,875 --> 00:48:05,675 Speaker 1: they canceled the game. I went, what our game? Our 724 00:48:05,715 --> 00:48:09,195 Speaker 1: game tomorrow night? It's canceled. I said, what do you 725 00:48:09,235 --> 00:48:13,995 Speaker 1: mean it's canceled the Apparently there's a they forgot they 726 00:48:13,995 --> 00:48:16,315 Speaker 1: forgot to rent the rink. So what do you mean 727 00:48:16,355 --> 00:48:19,115 Speaker 1: they forgot to rent the rink? They think the Stars 728 00:48:19,195 --> 00:48:21,555 Speaker 1: have been in business for twenty years. Suddenly he forgets 729 00:48:21,555 --> 00:48:24,475 Speaker 1: to rent the rink. Yeah, there's a JV women's hockey 730 00:48:24,475 --> 00:48:26,795 Speaker 1: practice and they won't interrupt it. They won't change it. 731 00:48:27,155 --> 00:48:33,515 Speaker 1: There's no game Saturday. Man. I can't remember the rest 732 00:48:33,555 --> 00:48:36,195 Speaker 1: of that day. I do know from having gone and 733 00:48:36,235 --> 00:48:39,755 Speaker 1: listen to the tape that at some point I decided 734 00:48:39,755 --> 00:48:42,235 Speaker 1: that there was a very simple solution to this that 735 00:48:42,315 --> 00:48:45,275 Speaker 1: more than likely my old friend Don Martin from WHCUA 736 00:48:45,555 --> 00:48:51,195 Speaker 1: enough Mythica had prevailed upon Bob Toddy, the general manager 737 00:48:51,235 --> 00:48:54,955 Speaker 1: of the Ethica Stars, to not have any game that 738 00:48:54,995 --> 00:48:58,435 Speaker 1: would be broadcast on WVBR and the mention, by the way, 739 00:48:58,435 --> 00:49:00,715 Speaker 1: when we called Bob Toddy and did the nineteen seventy 740 00:49:00,715 --> 00:49:06,675 Speaker 1: eight equivalent of WTF on his backside, he said, I've 741 00:49:06,715 --> 00:49:08,755 Speaker 1: also rethought the whole idea. We're not going to do 742 00:49:08,755 --> 00:49:10,915 Speaker 1: any more games on radio. So we haven't done any 743 00:49:10,915 --> 00:49:13,075 Speaker 1: goddamn games on radio because you just forgot to rent 744 00:49:13,115 --> 00:49:14,995 Speaker 1: the rink. What kind of business are you in? Do 745 00:49:15,035 --> 00:49:17,955 Speaker 1: you sell cars that don't have wheels? I hung up 746 00:49:17,995 --> 00:49:20,355 Speaker 1: on them. I was just the same then when I 747 00:49:20,395 --> 00:49:22,435 Speaker 1: was twenty years old. In fact, I was still nineteen. 748 00:49:22,915 --> 00:49:25,875 Speaker 1: I'm very proud of that. In any event, we solved 749 00:49:25,915 --> 00:49:27,715 Speaker 1: this one pretty clearly. I went on the air that 750 00:49:27,795 --> 00:49:29,435 Speaker 1: night and I said, we have breaking news from the 751 00:49:29,435 --> 00:49:33,035 Speaker 1: world of semi pro hockey. It's sad news, particularly in 752 00:49:33,275 --> 00:49:35,795 Speaker 1: light of the fact that we were intending to bring 753 00:49:35,835 --> 00:49:38,835 Speaker 1: you the Ithaca Stars game tomorrow night here on WVBRS. 754 00:49:38,875 --> 00:49:41,075 Speaker 1: You may have heard in the three thousand advertisements we 755 00:49:41,155 --> 00:49:46,075 Speaker 1: do for today, we have bad news. The Ithaca Stars 756 00:49:46,475 --> 00:49:55,115 Speaker 1: have gone bankrupt. Don't mess with the nineteen year old olderman. 757 00:49:56,115 --> 00:50:11,835 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. As a PostScript. By the way, 758 00:50:11,915 --> 00:50:15,155 Speaker 1: I wasn't lying about the Ethica Stars, I was just premature. 759 00:50:15,715 --> 00:50:17,715 Speaker 1: The Stars did not go out of business during that 760 00:50:17,795 --> 00:50:20,635 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight seventy nine season, but after the nineteen 761 00:50:20,675 --> 00:50:25,875 Speaker 1: seventy nine eighty season audios don't f with the Jesus 762 00:50:27,395 --> 00:50:30,035 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here ask 763 00:50:30,115 --> 00:50:33,155 Speaker 1: the ethic of Stars. Thanks for listening. We're now back 764 00:50:33,195 --> 00:50:36,235 Speaker 1: to five episodes a week, posting nightly just after midnight Eastern. 765 00:50:36,275 --> 00:50:39,555 Speaker 1: Once again, there is a Monday Countdown. Please forward this 766 00:50:39,555 --> 00:50:42,595 Speaker 1: to a non listener who should fix that and start listening. 767 00:50:43,515 --> 00:50:46,035 Speaker 1: The credits Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel, the musical 768 00:50:46,035 --> 00:50:49,275 Speaker 1: directors of Countdown, have arranged, produced, and performed most of 769 00:50:49,315 --> 00:50:52,875 Speaker 1: our music. Mister Shanelle handled out orchestration and keyboards, and 770 00:50:52,955 --> 00:50:55,555 Speaker 1: mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. It 771 00:50:55,595 --> 00:50:58,995 Speaker 1: was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and fifthy musical 772 00:50:58,995 --> 00:51:02,595 Speaker 1: comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. 773 00:51:02,635 --> 00:51:05,515 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Lberman theme from ESPN two, 774 00:51:05,795 --> 00:51:09,235 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other 775 00:51:09,355 --> 00:51:12,035 Speaker 1: music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 776 00:51:12,075 --> 00:51:15,315 Speaker 1: On my announcer today is my friend Kenny Maine, who 777 00:51:15,355 --> 00:51:17,395 Speaker 1: never played for the Ethic of Stars, although he was 778 00:51:17,435 --> 00:51:21,715 Speaker 1: a quarterback in college. Everything else was, as always, pretty 779 00:51:21,795 --> 00:51:25,595 Speaker 1: much my fault. That's countdown for today, five weeks and 780 00:51:25,635 --> 00:51:29,635 Speaker 1: six days until the twenty twenty four presidential election, the 781 00:51:30,355 --> 00:51:34,035 Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty ninth day since convicted felon drooling 782 00:51:34,155 --> 00:51:37,875 Speaker 1: Jay Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government 783 00:51:37,915 --> 00:51:40,995 Speaker 1: of the United States. Use the election, use the metal 784 00:51:40,995 --> 00:51:43,915 Speaker 1: health system, use presidential immunity if we have to, to 785 00:51:44,115 --> 00:51:49,435 Speaker 1: keep him from doing it again while we still can. 786 00:51:50,915 --> 00:51:54,435 Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news requires. 787 00:51:54,795 --> 00:51:58,675 Speaker 1: Until then, I'm Keith Olderman. Good Morning, good afternoon, good night. 788 00:51:59,115 --> 00:52:04,515 Speaker 1: Once again the can Keith hit the post challenge? Good Luck? 789 00:52:05,395 --> 00:52:08,355 Speaker 2: What Yes? 790 00:52:16,555 --> 00:52:20,675 Speaker 1: The Return of the SUS Countdown with Keith Oldman is 791 00:52:20,715 --> 00:52:25,515 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit 792 00:52:25,555 --> 00:52:30,195 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.