1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,355 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:22,875 --> 00:00:28,075 Speaker 1: is an idiot. Trump is an idiot who employs other idiots. 3 00:00:28,715 --> 00:00:32,595 Speaker 1: Trump is an idiot who thinks Jimmy Kimmel and Al 4 00:00:32,675 --> 00:00:39,755 Speaker 1: Pacino are the same guy. Stupid Jimmy Kimmel. That really 5 00:00:39,755 --> 00:00:43,355 Speaker 1: should be read as if you're Homer Simpson, stupid Jimmy Kimmel, 6 00:00:43,555 --> 00:00:46,635 Speaker 1: who still hasn't recovered from his horrendous performance and big 7 00:00:46,715 --> 00:00:50,235 Speaker 1: ratings drop as host of the Academy Awards, especially when 8 00:00:50,235 --> 00:00:53,475 Speaker 1: he showed he suffered from TDS commonly known as Trump 9 00:00:53,555 --> 00:00:57,195 Speaker 1: Derangement syndrome to the entire world by reading on air 10 00:00:57,355 --> 00:01:00,115 Speaker 1: my truth about how bad a job he was doing 11 00:01:00,115 --> 00:01:03,475 Speaker 1: that night, right before he stumbled through announcing the biggest 12 00:01:03,475 --> 00:01:06,075 Speaker 1: award of all Mature of the Year. It was a 13 00:01:06,075 --> 00:01:09,155 Speaker 1: classic choke, one of the biggest ever in show business. 14 00:01:09,275 --> 00:01:11,235 Speaker 1: And to top it off, he forgot to say the 15 00:01:11,235 --> 00:01:15,275 Speaker 1: famous and mandatory line, and the winner is instead he 16 00:01:15,355 --> 00:01:21,475 Speaker 1: stammered around as he opened the envelope. Uh defendant, Jay Trump, 17 00:01:22,395 --> 00:01:27,155 Speaker 1: that was al Pacino. Al Pacino was the one with 18 00:01:27,275 --> 00:01:34,515 Speaker 1: the envelope and the Movie of the Year award. Of course, 19 00:01:34,515 --> 00:01:39,795 Speaker 1: everybody mistakes Jimmy Kimmel for Al Pacino. You know everybody 20 00:01:39,795 --> 00:01:43,675 Speaker 1: whose brain does not work right. I am now waiting 21 00:01:43,755 --> 00:01:47,835 Speaker 1: for his explanation. Trump was testing you, didn't you know that? 22 00:01:47,955 --> 00:01:52,395 Speaker 1: Stupid libs. I mean, they're both Jimmy Kimmel and and 23 00:01:52,515 --> 00:01:57,315 Speaker 1: al Pacino. They're both liberals. So he's being metaphorical. It's like, 24 00:01:57,755 --> 00:02:05,955 Speaker 1: you know Nancy Pelosi and Nancy Culp from from the 25 00:02:05,995 --> 00:02:10,915 Speaker 1: Beverly Hillbillies. Well, he did it to enrage Trump derangement 26 00:02:10,995 --> 00:02:15,715 Speaker 1: syndrome victims. It's a pun. That's the explanation. It's a pun. 27 00:02:16,915 --> 00:02:19,115 Speaker 1: He was just checking to see if you were reading 28 00:02:19,115 --> 00:02:23,755 Speaker 1: all the way through his posts. It's a palindrome. Kimmel 29 00:02:23,875 --> 00:02:27,235 Speaker 1: and Pacino are spelled the same way backwards as forwards. 30 00:02:27,995 --> 00:02:32,955 Speaker 1: Kimme l spells Kimmel and L e Mmik spell's Pacino. 31 00:02:37,195 --> 00:02:42,315 Speaker 1: This also happened on March tenth, twenty twenty four, and 32 00:02:42,395 --> 00:02:45,555 Speaker 1: Trump posted about it because he heard about Kimmel making 33 00:02:45,675 --> 00:02:48,915 Speaker 1: jokes about his trial. Everybody's making jokes about his trial. 34 00:02:50,115 --> 00:02:52,835 Speaker 1: Trump should plead guilty. It would be far less damaging 35 00:02:52,875 --> 00:02:55,835 Speaker 1: to him than two more days of this. As the 36 00:02:55,875 --> 00:03:01,075 Speaker 1: trial resumes today, He's fallen asleep at least three times, 37 00:03:01,435 --> 00:03:06,915 Speaker 1: and it's being reported now in right wing media. But 38 00:03:07,195 --> 00:03:09,195 Speaker 1: he's going to go after Jimmy Kimmel for something that 39 00:03:09,275 --> 00:03:13,435 Speaker 1: happened March tenth, and he's complaining about it on April seventeenth. 40 00:03:14,115 --> 00:03:19,875 Speaker 1: Trump is an idiot, and Trump moreover is an idiot 41 00:03:19,875 --> 00:03:54,235 Speaker 1: who employs idiots. Yes day three of jury's selection at 42 00:03:54,235 --> 00:03:57,155 Speaker 1: the trial in New York. And this is the more 43 00:03:57,195 --> 00:03:59,515 Speaker 1: important part about Trump being an idiot who does not 44 00:03:59,635 --> 00:04:02,075 Speaker 1: know the difference between Al Pacino and Jimmy Kimmel. I mean, 45 00:04:02,075 --> 00:04:03,595 Speaker 1: if you say you don't know the difference between Al 46 00:04:03,595 --> 00:04:11,755 Speaker 1: Pacino and Robert Dennie, Okay, Jimmy Kimmel. When you spend 47 00:04:11,875 --> 00:04:15,875 Speaker 1: nearly seventy eight years as Trump has spent avoiding reality, 48 00:04:16,915 --> 00:04:21,075 Speaker 1: you miss stuff like this that in a jury trial, 49 00:04:21,995 --> 00:04:27,995 Speaker 1: each side can only remove, disqualify void so many juror 50 00:04:28,075 --> 00:04:32,435 Speaker 1: candidates just because you only have so many strikes. They 51 00:04:32,435 --> 00:04:35,355 Speaker 1: call them strikes. There's a finite number, it's agreed to 52 00:04:35,435 --> 00:04:38,515 Speaker 1: in advance by both sides, or there are laws depending 53 00:04:38,515 --> 00:04:42,835 Speaker 1: on which kind of court you're in. I thought strikes 54 00:04:42,875 --> 00:04:45,875 Speaker 1: were supposed to be unlimited when we were picking our jury, 55 00:04:46,315 --> 00:04:48,995 Speaker 1: Trump wrote, I was then told we only had ten, 56 00:04:49,075 --> 00:04:52,795 Speaker 1: not nearly enough. Well, wait, I thought strikes were supposed 57 00:04:52,835 --> 00:04:56,955 Speaker 1: to be unlimited. So, in other words, every juror who 58 00:04:56,995 --> 00:05:01,395 Speaker 1: came up Trump thought either they would say I love 59 00:05:01,515 --> 00:05:04,875 Speaker 1: Donald Trump because I have the brains of a sandwich, 60 00:05:05,515 --> 00:05:08,675 Speaker 1: or they would have been stricken, every one of them. 61 00:05:10,075 --> 00:05:12,955 Speaker 1: The first twenty, the first two thousand, the first million, 62 00:05:13,035 --> 00:05:17,235 Speaker 1: the first billion. No trial in history has ever had 63 00:05:17,475 --> 00:05:23,435 Speaker 1: unlimited jury strikes, because what the defense could do would 64 00:05:23,475 --> 00:05:27,475 Speaker 1: be to then strike every potential juror, to go through 65 00:05:27,915 --> 00:05:32,675 Speaker 1: literally everybody on earth, and then the trial would never happen. 66 00:05:33,755 --> 00:05:37,195 Speaker 1: And if you could bore down into Trump's brain, I 67 00:05:37,195 --> 00:05:39,675 Speaker 1: wouldn't recommend it. But if you could do that, I 68 00:05:39,715 --> 00:05:42,755 Speaker 1: wonder if you would find him actually believing that that 69 00:05:42,955 --> 00:05:47,595 Speaker 1: was the case, that he was entitled to vet and 70 00:05:47,715 --> 00:05:52,115 Speaker 1: strike three or four billion potential jurors. And of course 71 00:05:52,155 --> 00:05:54,595 Speaker 1: he would have no idea that it would be that money, 72 00:05:54,835 --> 00:05:56,835 Speaker 1: because he does not know how many people there are 73 00:05:56,875 --> 00:05:59,195 Speaker 1: on the earth, he doesn't know how many countries there are. 74 00:05:59,235 --> 00:06:02,395 Speaker 1: He's already shown that he has no idea whether a 75 00:06:02,435 --> 00:06:05,435 Speaker 1: crowd of twenty thousand people represents a measure portion of 76 00:06:05,475 --> 00:06:10,715 Speaker 1: the earth's population or it's you know, twenty thousand people. 77 00:06:12,555 --> 00:06:15,915 Speaker 1: And it's of course made worse by the fact that 78 00:06:15,915 --> 00:06:21,115 Speaker 1: Trump employs idiots, legal idiots. Alena Habba, who has been 79 00:06:21,195 --> 00:06:23,755 Speaker 1: busted from the lead lawyer on some of the Jack 80 00:06:23,755 --> 00:06:28,995 Speaker 1: Smith's prosecutions of Trump to described on Fox News the 81 00:06:29,035 --> 00:06:35,995 Speaker 1: other night as Trump legal spokesperson. Aleena Habba, who is 82 00:06:36,075 --> 00:06:41,435 Speaker 1: the world's leading authority in that vast area known as 83 00:06:41,555 --> 00:06:46,395 Speaker 1: parking lot law, went on Fox and said, we are 84 00:06:46,475 --> 00:06:51,795 Speaker 1: seeing a painful selection, referring to the jury selection which 85 00:06:51,915 --> 00:06:55,075 Speaker 1: was supposed to go on for six or eight million 86 00:06:55,155 --> 00:06:58,555 Speaker 1: years while we go through everybody on the earth. Because 87 00:06:58,715 --> 00:07:03,555 Speaker 1: Trump believed he had unlimited strikes rather than ten, We're 88 00:07:03,595 --> 00:07:07,275 Speaker 1: seeing a painful sele election. Alena Habbas said, because we're 89 00:07:07,315 --> 00:07:09,955 Speaker 1: in the state of New York, which is definitely by design. 90 00:07:10,155 --> 00:07:12,715 Speaker 1: There is no question that brag bringing this in New York, 91 00:07:12,715 --> 00:07:15,195 Speaker 1: and then she wandered off to talk about Atlanta and 92 00:07:15,355 --> 00:07:19,435 Speaker 1: the District of Columbia. These venues are selected exactly for 93 00:07:19,475 --> 00:07:25,155 Speaker 1: this reason. I'm hoping that she is only so stupid 94 00:07:25,195 --> 00:07:30,315 Speaker 1: that she was trying to convince Trump's morons, Trump's cult members, 95 00:07:30,315 --> 00:07:35,435 Speaker 1: Trump's brain damaged supporters. I'm hoping she's only stupid enough 96 00:07:35,475 --> 00:07:38,515 Speaker 1: that she was trying to convince them that this is true, 97 00:07:39,275 --> 00:07:43,315 Speaker 1: that these were chosen venues in which to prosecute, Because 98 00:07:43,595 --> 00:07:46,555 Speaker 1: to everybody else, it should be obvious that if a crime, 99 00:07:47,235 --> 00:07:51,035 Speaker 1: or even just an alleged crime takes place in New York, 100 00:07:52,075 --> 00:07:55,795 Speaker 1: the trial is going to be in New York. There 101 00:07:55,835 --> 00:07:59,395 Speaker 1: are certain extreme circumstances in which a city or state 102 00:07:59,475 --> 00:08:03,475 Speaker 1: trial will be relocated elsewhere, usually within the same state, 103 00:08:03,515 --> 00:08:05,875 Speaker 1: but it's been known to happen in smaller states to 104 00:08:06,075 --> 00:08:10,835 Speaker 1: move the trial elsewhere. Federal trials are moved out of 105 00:08:10,875 --> 00:08:14,915 Speaker 1: state all the time. But the prosecution of Donald Trump 106 00:08:14,955 --> 00:08:18,155 Speaker 1: for crimes committed in New York, the trial is being 107 00:08:18,195 --> 00:08:22,235 Speaker 1: conducted in New York because he was in New York 108 00:08:22,275 --> 00:08:25,035 Speaker 1: when he did what they say is illegal or what 109 00:08:25,155 --> 00:08:31,035 Speaker 1: they allege he did. Oh, for God's sake, please tell 110 00:08:31,075 --> 00:08:34,115 Speaker 1: me this woman doesn't really believe what she said. I mean, 111 00:08:34,155 --> 00:08:41,515 Speaker 1: she also went on Newsmax and said the same thing. Also, 112 00:08:41,595 --> 00:08:45,675 Speaker 1: the visit to the bodega Tuesday, the stunt, the traditional 113 00:08:45,795 --> 00:08:49,675 Speaker 1: Trump exploitation of somebody dying, where he went to the 114 00:08:49,715 --> 00:08:55,515 Speaker 1: bodega in Harlem, and probably thought, so, this is Harlem. 115 00:08:55,675 --> 00:08:58,475 Speaker 1: I thought about coming here once before. In nineteen fifty three, 116 00:08:59,115 --> 00:09:04,155 Speaker 1: oh he went to a bodega in Harlem where a 117 00:09:04,195 --> 00:09:08,355 Speaker 1: bodega owner shot a robber and was briefly charged for 118 00:09:08,395 --> 00:09:11,915 Speaker 1: any legal possession of a firearm. And then the charges 119 00:09:11,915 --> 00:09:15,715 Speaker 1: were dropped by Alvin Bragg and they did a stunt. 120 00:09:16,155 --> 00:09:21,035 Speaker 1: There were cheering crowds at the bodega in Harlem, and 121 00:09:21,155 --> 00:09:24,675 Speaker 1: you know who arranged them and who The cheering crowds 122 00:09:24,675 --> 00:09:28,515 Speaker 1: consisted of members of the New York Young Republicans Club. 123 00:09:28,755 --> 00:09:33,395 Speaker 1: How do we know that? Because Trump is an idiot 124 00:09:33,515 --> 00:09:38,595 Speaker 1: and he employs idiots. These kids could not keep their 125 00:09:38,715 --> 00:09:42,235 Speaker 1: effing mouths shut. The chief of the New York Young 126 00:09:42,275 --> 00:09:46,235 Speaker 1: Republicans Club, also known as We Have No Education or 127 00:09:46,315 --> 00:09:55,275 Speaker 1: Hope Club, Gavin Wax, not Wachs, but Wax, as in yeah. 128 00:09:55,115 --> 00:09:57,555 Speaker 2: Doc, I can't hear out of this ear. I feel 129 00:09:57,595 --> 00:10:01,195 Speaker 2: like there's some Gavin Wax in my ear. He could 130 00:10:01,195 --> 00:10:04,355 Speaker 2: not help himself. He boasted on social media that he 131 00:10:04,715 --> 00:10:08,315 Speaker 2: changed it. He and the heads of the Hispanic subgroup 132 00:10:08,395 --> 00:10:12,675 Speaker 2: that belongs to the New York Young Republicans Club. They 133 00:10:12,715 --> 00:10:15,915 Speaker 2: took a team photo of themselves at the bodega, and 134 00:10:16,035 --> 00:10:18,315 Speaker 2: never thought for a second that if there were a 135 00:10:18,395 --> 00:10:23,795 Speaker 2: teen photo of them at the bodega, that then wide 136 00:10:23,835 --> 00:10:27,715 Speaker 2: eyed people who don't like Trump happened to have the 137 00:10:27,755 --> 00:10:30,475 Speaker 2: resources to look at the picture of all of these 138 00:10:30,675 --> 00:10:33,555 Speaker 2: basically Trump employees and then look at the pictures of 139 00:10:33,595 --> 00:10:36,435 Speaker 2: the crowds cheering Trump and notice they're the same people. 140 00:10:39,275 --> 00:10:41,435 Speaker 2: Never thought for a second, hey, wait, don't take the 141 00:10:41,435 --> 00:10:43,715 Speaker 2: picture or put out the tweet. That way they can 142 00:10:43,755 --> 00:10:49,955 Speaker 2: identify us and find out that we're astro turf, young Republicans. 143 00:10:51,955 --> 00:10:58,355 Speaker 2: A life already lost. A brain is a mind that 144 00:10:58,475 --> 00:11:01,315 Speaker 2: is a terrible I'm just doing the Trump version of 145 00:11:01,355 --> 00:11:05,435 Speaker 2: a mind is a terrible thing to waste. On the 146 00:11:05,435 --> 00:11:08,275 Speaker 2: other hand, if you have no mind, remember the old saying, 147 00:11:09,635 --> 00:11:16,075 Speaker 2: no pain, no gain, but no brain no pain. In short, 148 00:11:16,515 --> 00:11:20,035 Speaker 2: looking at the trial, Trump should have stayed in bed 149 00:11:20,915 --> 00:11:25,315 Speaker 2: or at least taken another nap. They resume today the 150 00:11:25,355 --> 00:11:30,275 Speaker 2: trial of the Trump charges in New York, as opposed 151 00:11:30,315 --> 00:11:34,555 Speaker 2: to holding the trial in Alaska. They have already selected 152 00:11:34,555 --> 00:11:38,395 Speaker 2: seven of the eighteen jurors needed. There are only ten strikes, 153 00:11:38,435 --> 00:11:43,395 Speaker 2: not infinity. There's not a line of one billion potential 154 00:11:44,515 --> 00:11:49,435 Speaker 2: jurors unlimited strikes, and I don't like that four person. 155 00:11:50,475 --> 00:11:53,995 Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel clarifying the issue of the fourth person. I 156 00:11:54,035 --> 00:11:56,955 Speaker 2: heard this all day yesterday. I asked it myself in 157 00:11:56,995 --> 00:11:59,715 Speaker 2: a couple of occasions, and was asked it several times, 158 00:11:59,715 --> 00:12:02,115 Speaker 2: and then the light bulb went off over my head. 159 00:12:02,435 --> 00:12:06,755 Speaker 2: Duror B four hundred Bingo, Juror B four hundred is 160 00:12:06,795 --> 00:12:10,075 Speaker 2: the fourth person. He's the one who lives in West 161 00:12:10,075 --> 00:12:12,035 Speaker 2: Harlem now but was originally from Ireland. 162 00:12:12,155 --> 00:12:15,475 Speaker 1: He was a waiter. He now works in sales. He 163 00:12:15,555 --> 00:12:18,875 Speaker 1: has some college education, did not get a degree. He 164 00:12:18,995 --> 00:12:21,555 Speaker 1: is married, his spouse is in school. There are no 165 00:12:21,875 --> 00:12:25,235 Speaker 1: children in his spare time. He's outdoorsy. And then here's 166 00:12:25,395 --> 00:12:28,395 Speaker 1: the line that confused people gets news from the New 167 00:12:28,515 --> 00:12:32,835 Speaker 1: York Times, the Daily Mail, some Fox and some MSNBC. 168 00:12:33,115 --> 00:12:36,035 Speaker 1: And on the right and on the left that combination 169 00:12:36,235 --> 00:12:39,115 Speaker 1: some Fox and some MSNBC for his news. The man 170 00:12:39,195 --> 00:12:41,715 Speaker 1: must be an idiot. The man must be fabricated. There's 171 00:12:41,755 --> 00:12:44,075 Speaker 1: no such person. He just lied. Why didn't they use 172 00:12:44,075 --> 00:12:46,475 Speaker 1: one of their infinity strikes to keep him off there? 173 00:12:47,635 --> 00:12:51,755 Speaker 1: Nobody watches Fox at MSNBC. I know exactly what it is, 174 00:12:52,235 --> 00:12:54,075 Speaker 1: and I don't know why it didn't dawn on me 175 00:12:54,155 --> 00:12:57,475 Speaker 1: the moment that I read this when he said some 176 00:12:57,635 --> 00:13:01,315 Speaker 1: Fox and some MSNBC in New York. It's very simple. 177 00:13:01,715 --> 00:13:06,555 Speaker 1: Fox is Channel five. They carry the Fox Broadcast network, 178 00:13:06,595 --> 00:13:10,475 Speaker 1: The Simpsons, which I was on, once, Family Guy, which 179 00:13:10,555 --> 00:13:14,715 Speaker 1: I was on, once, Fox Football, which I used to 180 00:13:14,755 --> 00:13:17,995 Speaker 1: be on Fox Baseball, which I used to anchor. It's 181 00:13:18,035 --> 00:13:22,395 Speaker 1: the Fox station. There's a newscast two or three times 182 00:13:22,395 --> 00:13:24,515 Speaker 1: a day on the Fox station. One of them is 183 00:13:24,555 --> 00:13:26,795 Speaker 1: at ten o'clock. And it's been on so long that 184 00:13:26,835 --> 00:13:29,715 Speaker 1: I was an intern on the show in nineteen seventy eight, 185 00:13:30,435 --> 00:13:33,675 Speaker 1: long before there was a Fox, the Fox News at ten. 186 00:13:34,075 --> 00:13:36,155 Speaker 1: Then it was the Channel five News at ten. So 187 00:13:36,195 --> 00:13:39,435 Speaker 1: when the guy says he watches his news some Fox 188 00:13:39,515 --> 00:13:43,675 Speaker 1: and some MSNBC, he's, you know, going back and forth 189 00:13:43,715 --> 00:13:51,635 Speaker 1: between Rosanna Scato and uh and Katie Turr. Oh God, 190 00:13:51,875 --> 00:13:54,075 Speaker 1: why did I have to bring up that name? 191 00:13:54,195 --> 00:13:56,835 Speaker 2: Oh God, my right king. 192 00:14:02,795 --> 00:14:04,915 Speaker 1: So much for the Trump legal news. If you thought 193 00:14:05,035 --> 00:14:09,715 Speaker 1: Bill Barr, Trump's former attorney general, was dead only ethically, 194 00:14:10,515 --> 00:14:14,435 Speaker 1: the man who supported Jack Smith's prosecutions of Trump, the 195 00:14:14,435 --> 00:14:18,675 Speaker 1: man who actually resigned more than a month before the 196 00:14:18,795 --> 00:14:21,155 Speaker 1: end of the Trump presidency because he saw how it 197 00:14:21,235 --> 00:14:25,275 Speaker 1: was going to end. He now told Fox News, I've 198 00:14:25,315 --> 00:14:28,475 Speaker 1: said all along, given two bad choices, I think it's 199 00:14:28,515 --> 00:14:30,915 Speaker 1: my duty to pick the person I think would do 200 00:14:31,035 --> 00:14:33,715 Speaker 1: the least harm to the country, and in my mind, 201 00:14:34,395 --> 00:14:40,715 Speaker 1: I will vote the Republican ticket. I'll support the Republican ticket. 202 00:14:43,355 --> 00:14:46,195 Speaker 1: I have described previously the fact that Bill Barr's father, 203 00:14:46,595 --> 00:14:49,795 Speaker 1: the former headmaster at the Dalton School, who was somehow 204 00:14:49,875 --> 00:14:53,315 Speaker 1: involved in the hiring of Jeffrey Epstein there at the 205 00:14:53,355 --> 00:14:59,075 Speaker 1: start of his quote teaching quote, career quote. It's not 206 00:14:59,275 --> 00:15:04,035 Speaker 1: clear if he actually hired him, because Bill Barr's father, 207 00:15:04,675 --> 00:15:11,275 Speaker 1: Donald Barr, changed jobs between the interview of Epstein at 208 00:15:11,275 --> 00:15:15,035 Speaker 1: the Dalton School in Manhattan and his next job, where 209 00:15:15,075 --> 00:15:20,115 Speaker 1: he became the headmaster in nineteen seventy five of the 210 00:15:20,155 --> 00:15:24,995 Speaker 1: Hackley School in suburban New York Terrytown, New York. Hackley 211 00:15:24,995 --> 00:15:28,995 Speaker 1: School Chris Berman class of seventy three, Keith Alderman class 212 00:15:29,035 --> 00:15:33,435 Speaker 1: of seventy five nearly ran the place into the ground. Incompetent, 213 00:15:35,595 --> 00:15:41,195 Speaker 1: a liar, a bad headmaster, and clearly an even worse father. 214 00:15:42,355 --> 00:15:45,875 Speaker 1: Let me run A couple of other headlines impeachment. They 215 00:15:45,875 --> 00:15:51,155 Speaker 1: brought two charges against the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Majorcas. 216 00:15:51,795 --> 00:15:53,595 Speaker 1: They brought them over to the Senate, and the Senate 217 00:15:53,595 --> 00:15:59,595 Speaker 1: promptly dismissed them by Felicia. It happened so fast that 218 00:15:59,635 --> 00:16:04,075 Speaker 1: Marjorie Bittergreen never knew what hit her. Back in the 219 00:16:04,115 --> 00:16:08,235 Speaker 1: House where they're still talking about And that is the 220 00:16:08,235 --> 00:16:11,035 Speaker 1: point of it. The point of talking about impeachment is 221 00:16:11,075 --> 00:16:16,315 Speaker 1: to talk about impeachment, not to actually impeach anybody. Jamie 222 00:16:16,435 --> 00:16:22,435 Speaker 1: Raskin disassembled Jamie Comer in the ongoing saga of when 223 00:16:22,715 --> 00:16:25,275 Speaker 1: on Earth are the Republicans going to have a vote 224 00:16:25,355 --> 00:16:28,235 Speaker 1: about impeaching the president of the United States. The answer 225 00:16:28,315 --> 00:16:34,715 Speaker 1: is they're not. They're using their infinity strikes. Raskin pressed 226 00:16:34,795 --> 00:16:41,315 Speaker 1: Comer to impeach Biden now. Raskin at one point said, 227 00:16:41,355 --> 00:16:43,995 Speaker 1: what is the crime that you want to impeach Joe Biden? 228 00:16:44,075 --> 00:16:48,395 Speaker 1: For Tell America right now, and Comer said, you're about 229 00:16:48,435 --> 00:16:52,915 Speaker 1: to find out very soon, as somebody wrote on Twitter, 230 00:16:53,155 --> 00:16:55,995 Speaker 1: the crime you don't know her. She goes to a 231 00:16:56,035 --> 00:17:05,595 Speaker 1: different school. I'm not sure what the hidden tree here is. 232 00:17:06,315 --> 00:17:09,715 Speaker 1: The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson may have done 233 00:17:09,755 --> 00:17:13,755 Speaker 1: something that the Russians will be mad at him about. 234 00:17:14,435 --> 00:17:18,675 Speaker 1: He may have done something to help Ukraine and to 235 00:17:18,795 --> 00:17:25,115 Speaker 1: help our allies doujour in the Middle East, to help 236 00:17:25,195 --> 00:17:31,595 Speaker 1: America's standing as trying to be for something internationally and 237 00:17:31,675 --> 00:17:40,675 Speaker 1: against something, namely Russian aggression. Mike Johnson's package is now visible. Yes, 238 00:17:41,035 --> 00:17:44,195 Speaker 1: I'm sixty five years old and I still think like 239 00:17:44,275 --> 00:17:47,875 Speaker 1: I did when I was twelve or thirteen. Separate aid 240 00:17:47,995 --> 00:17:53,115 Speaker 1: bills to be voted on Saturday night unless Marjorie Taylor 241 00:17:53,155 --> 00:17:56,435 Speaker 1: Green and Chip Roy and the rest of them make 242 00:17:56,555 --> 00:18:01,875 Speaker 1: him disappear, that is Johnson by Saturday night. Mike Gallagher, 243 00:18:02,035 --> 00:18:07,515 Speaker 1: the retiring, resigning congressman, is delaying his resignation so he 244 00:18:07,555 --> 00:18:11,595 Speaker 1: can stay in the House through Saturday, so he can 245 00:18:11,675 --> 00:18:15,075 Speaker 1: vote on it in favor. It will be carried if 246 00:18:15,075 --> 00:18:18,475 Speaker 1: it is carried if it is appropriate by Democrats. And 247 00:18:18,515 --> 00:18:21,515 Speaker 1: then next week we can all watch two things go 248 00:18:21,595 --> 00:18:26,835 Speaker 1: on simultaneously, the actual start of opening statements and presumably 249 00:18:26,875 --> 00:18:32,915 Speaker 1: testimony in the Trump trial and Mike Johnson getting his 250 00:18:33,075 --> 00:18:40,275 Speaker 1: package cut off by Republicans. Remember the NPR guy Uri Berliner, 251 00:18:40,675 --> 00:18:43,075 Speaker 1: the editor who turned himself into a right wing hero 252 00:18:43,635 --> 00:18:46,395 Speaker 1: by claiming that there are no right wingers working at NPR, 253 00:18:47,955 --> 00:18:52,755 Speaker 1: like that wasn't the result of excellent management and natural selection. 254 00:18:54,635 --> 00:18:57,675 Speaker 1: Then they suspended him because he wrote this article about 255 00:18:57,795 --> 00:19:02,755 Speaker 1: NPR vivisecting NPR from the inside, and guess what, NPR 256 00:19:02,835 --> 00:19:06,395 Speaker 1: employees need permission to do outside media work. So they 257 00:19:06,395 --> 00:19:10,235 Speaker 1: suspended him for five days. Because almost everybody who works 258 00:19:10,275 --> 00:19:13,755 Speaker 1: anywhere in media knows you can't go work for somebody else, 259 00:19:14,035 --> 00:19:16,755 Speaker 1: particularly if you have a contract or a union deal, 260 00:19:16,915 --> 00:19:20,715 Speaker 1: without the permission of your boss. Nothing I have ever 261 00:19:20,755 --> 00:19:25,275 Speaker 1: written anywhere for a company that was not my primary 262 00:19:25,315 --> 00:19:29,115 Speaker 1: employer did not occur without the consent of my primary employer. 263 00:19:29,155 --> 00:19:30,835 Speaker 1: In fact, one of the last things that ever happened 264 00:19:30,875 --> 00:19:33,795 Speaker 1: to me at ESPN, I wrote a piece for Baseball America, 265 00:19:35,515 --> 00:19:39,635 Speaker 1: a publication about surprisingly enough baseball in America, and ESPN 266 00:19:39,675 --> 00:19:42,035 Speaker 1: got all honked off about it and threatened to suspend 267 00:19:42,075 --> 00:19:44,955 Speaker 1: me because I'd done outside media work. And then I 268 00:19:45,035 --> 00:19:48,875 Speaker 1: did some public service announcements against chewing tobacco and the 269 00:19:48,915 --> 00:19:51,395 Speaker 1: cancer risk of them, and I had not gotten these 270 00:19:51,435 --> 00:19:55,435 Speaker 1: things preapproved. And I said, you want to come out 271 00:19:55,475 --> 00:19:59,715 Speaker 1: that you've suspended me because I was fighting cancer and 272 00:19:59,795 --> 00:20:03,315 Speaker 1: donating my work to these announcements being played at the ballparks. 273 00:20:03,475 --> 00:20:06,035 Speaker 1: You want to be seen as pro cancer, and ESPN 274 00:20:06,075 --> 00:20:08,435 Speaker 1: did and they were seen as pro cancer. In any event, 275 00:20:08,475 --> 00:20:12,075 Speaker 1: this guy, Uri Berliner violates his own contract or his 276 00:20:12,195 --> 00:20:16,275 Speaker 1: union deal, writes negatively about his own employers. They suspend 277 00:20:16,355 --> 00:20:19,475 Speaker 1: him for five days. Trust me, I know my suspensions. 278 00:20:19,515 --> 00:20:22,435 Speaker 1: Five days is nothing. Five days. You should be able 279 00:20:22,515 --> 00:20:25,755 Speaker 1: to do standing on your head five days. Come on, 280 00:20:27,635 --> 00:20:29,875 Speaker 1: NBC wanted to suspend me for the rest of the 281 00:20:29,915 --> 00:20:34,915 Speaker 1: twenty first century five days? So what does Uri Berlinner do? 282 00:20:35,675 --> 00:20:39,675 Speaker 1: He issues this statement, I am resigning from NPR, a 283 00:20:39,715 --> 00:20:42,475 Speaker 1: great American institution where I have worked for twenty five years. 284 00:20:42,635 --> 00:20:45,675 Speaker 1: I don't support calls to defund NPR. I respect the 285 00:20:45,715 --> 00:20:49,635 Speaker 1: integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive 286 00:20:49,675 --> 00:20:54,475 Speaker 1: and do important journalism. Thought Bubble, except all those bastards 287 00:20:54,515 --> 00:20:57,035 Speaker 1: I talked about and wrote about in my piece. But 288 00:20:57,115 --> 00:20:59,875 Speaker 1: I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged 289 00:20:59,875 --> 00:21:03,475 Speaker 1: by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very 290 00:21:03,515 --> 00:21:08,275 Speaker 1: problems at NPR site. In my free press essay Goodbye 291 00:21:08,355 --> 00:21:13,795 Speaker 1: Cruel World by Felicia I recognize this immediately. This is 292 00:21:13,835 --> 00:21:17,995 Speaker 1: what actually happened here. Mister Berliner, I believe was going 293 00:21:18,075 --> 00:21:21,315 Speaker 1: to quit anyway. He wanted to take the place down 294 00:21:21,355 --> 00:21:26,635 Speaker 1: with him, so he pulled this stunt. I tried this 295 00:21:26,675 --> 00:21:28,995 Speaker 1: once at NBC when I was much younger, and let 296 00:21:28,995 --> 00:21:31,955 Speaker 1: me tell you, it doesn't work. It's a nice idea 297 00:21:32,595 --> 00:21:35,795 Speaker 1: until when you leave, they don't go out of business, 298 00:21:35,875 --> 00:21:39,635 Speaker 1: and then what happens. You're the one who goes out 299 00:21:39,635 --> 00:21:46,875 Speaker 1: of business, Uri Berliner, It mean I'm jelly donut and 300 00:21:47,075 --> 00:21:51,715 Speaker 1: a sports headline. Remember that obscure Toronto Raptors basketball player, 301 00:21:52,315 --> 00:21:55,835 Speaker 1: the boutique bets on whom were the biggest payoffs in 302 00:21:55,955 --> 00:21:59,635 Speaker 1: legal gambling, like on two nights in all the sports books, 303 00:22:00,075 --> 00:22:04,435 Speaker 1: in the ubiquitous world of sports gambling, in which sooner 304 00:22:04,715 --> 00:22:07,955 Speaker 1: rather than later, some of these sports gambling houses will 305 00:22:07,995 --> 00:22:11,915 Speaker 1: own NBA and Major League Baseball and maybe NFL teams. 306 00:22:13,595 --> 00:22:17,955 Speaker 1: There was this guy, John tay Porter. People made fortunes 307 00:22:17,995 --> 00:22:21,435 Speaker 1: because John tay Porter missed the only shot he took 308 00:22:21,475 --> 00:22:24,275 Speaker 1: in his four minutes of game action, and they made 309 00:22:24,395 --> 00:22:27,475 Speaker 1: hundreds or thousands of dollars on that fact. And then 310 00:22:27,555 --> 00:22:30,435 Speaker 1: people began to wonder if perhaps Jontay Porter was involved 311 00:22:30,435 --> 00:22:34,475 Speaker 1: in this in some way. Well, yesterday the commissioner of 312 00:22:34,515 --> 00:22:39,715 Speaker 1: the National Basketball Association, Adam Silver, suspended Johntay Porter for life. 313 00:22:40,715 --> 00:22:45,275 Speaker 1: All I can say is I hope mister Porter bet 314 00:22:46,075 --> 00:22:54,635 Speaker 1: the over. Okay, if the show sounded a little different, 315 00:22:55,115 --> 00:22:56,875 Speaker 1: this is because I had lived nearly all of it. 316 00:22:57,035 --> 00:23:01,235 Speaker 1: Just now, everything's fine. Don't get alarmed. But as you know, 317 00:23:01,315 --> 00:23:03,755 Speaker 1: I have four dogs, two of whom are rescues, one 318 00:23:03,755 --> 00:23:05,595 Speaker 1: of whom is nearly seven ten years old, and the 319 00:23:05,675 --> 00:23:08,315 Speaker 1: last couple of days have been very busy. When you 320 00:23:08,395 --> 00:23:10,795 Speaker 1: are a nearly seventeen year old dog, when you were 321 00:23:10,835 --> 00:23:12,715 Speaker 1: a dog who was born in the year two thousand 322 00:23:12,755 --> 00:23:17,275 Speaker 1: and seven, life is somewhat lived on the edge. And 323 00:23:17,595 --> 00:23:19,995 Speaker 1: for a period of time this week it did not 324 00:23:20,235 --> 00:23:23,915 Speaker 1: look like mine was in good shape. It turns out 325 00:23:24,195 --> 00:23:26,595 Speaker 1: he just had a bad reaction to some medication. But 326 00:23:26,675 --> 00:23:28,715 Speaker 1: this has taken up a lot of time this week, 327 00:23:29,235 --> 00:23:31,715 Speaker 1: and I kind of ran into a little bit of 328 00:23:31,715 --> 00:23:34,435 Speaker 1: a crunch time wise. So I had a choice of 329 00:23:34,475 --> 00:23:39,075 Speaker 1: giving you an ad LIBBD kind of breezy addition of 330 00:23:39,315 --> 00:23:43,235 Speaker 1: countdown today, or none whatsoever. So I gave you this. 331 00:23:44,075 --> 00:23:48,515 Speaker 1: If it sucked, I apologize. The good news is Menee 332 00:23:48,555 --> 00:23:51,475 Speaker 1: is fine. He greeted me at the door and Mine 333 00:23:51,475 --> 00:23:54,875 Speaker 1: had a stroke several years ago. Menee greeted me at 334 00:23:54,915 --> 00:23:57,195 Speaker 1: the door when I came home in the afternoon after 335 00:23:57,515 --> 00:24:00,875 Speaker 1: he was seen by the vet. Mine greeted me at 336 00:24:00,915 --> 00:24:03,075 Speaker 1: the door and I picked him up and I said, 337 00:24:03,075 --> 00:24:04,635 Speaker 1: you're going to give me a kiss, and he gave me, 338 00:24:05,435 --> 00:24:08,755 Speaker 1: which usually tells me he's okay. That and the fact 339 00:24:08,755 --> 00:24:11,075 Speaker 1: that he peed on the pad. These are the two 340 00:24:11,115 --> 00:24:16,435 Speaker 1: signs of happy, resourceful life when you're a seventeen year 341 00:24:16,475 --> 00:24:19,755 Speaker 1: old or nearly dog. So the day was devoted to me. Nay, 342 00:24:20,355 --> 00:24:23,475 Speaker 1: you got this, and an addition of things I promised 343 00:24:23,475 --> 00:24:26,635 Speaker 1: not to tell, which I will select during the commercial 344 00:24:26,715 --> 00:24:30,675 Speaker 1: and play for you after this. I don't know what's next. 345 00:24:31,075 --> 00:24:40,715 Speaker 1: That's next. This is countdown to the number one story 346 00:24:40,715 --> 00:24:43,675 Speaker 1: on the countdown and my favorite topic, me and things 347 00:24:43,715 --> 00:24:45,915 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell. And somebody sent me a 348 00:24:45,995 --> 00:24:47,995 Speaker 1: video of him the other day and I laughed again, 349 00:24:48,035 --> 00:24:51,075 Speaker 1: and I flashed back again, and now you get to 350 00:24:51,075 --> 00:24:53,715 Speaker 1: hear about him too. From the desert to the sea 351 00:24:53,795 --> 00:24:57,435 Speaker 1: to all of southern California. Good evening, you may or 352 00:24:57,435 --> 00:25:01,755 Speaker 1: may not have ever heard of Jerry Dunfi. That statement 353 00:25:01,795 --> 00:25:03,155 Speaker 1: that you may or may not have ever heard of 354 00:25:03,235 --> 00:25:06,195 Speaker 1: Jerry dunfeye Jes sent anybody from southern California who was 355 00:25:06,275 --> 00:25:09,995 Speaker 1: more than thirty five years old into a deep, stunned silence. 356 00:25:10,035 --> 00:25:14,315 Speaker 1: Because Jerry Dunfe was ubiquitous on TV news in Los 357 00:25:14,355 --> 00:25:18,955 Speaker 1: Angeles from nineteen sixty until two thousand and two. He 358 00:25:19,075 --> 00:25:21,555 Speaker 1: died a week after his last newscast, and there are 359 00:25:21,595 --> 00:25:24,035 Speaker 1: some in the business who have seriously believed he may 360 00:25:24,075 --> 00:25:27,435 Speaker 1: show up again sooner or later on TV, even though 361 00:25:27,475 --> 00:25:31,755 Speaker 1: he's dead. He worked for Channel two, and he and 362 00:25:31,795 --> 00:25:35,115 Speaker 1: his team won all the ratings wars for fifteen years, 363 00:25:35,675 --> 00:25:39,395 Speaker 1: and then one year the station finished only tied for 364 00:25:39,475 --> 00:25:42,475 Speaker 1: first in the Spring LA ratings of nineteen seventy five, 365 00:25:42,715 --> 00:25:46,115 Speaker 1: So the CBS corporate geniuses in New York fired him 366 00:25:46,515 --> 00:25:49,675 Speaker 1: and he went to Channel seven like thirty six hours later, 367 00:25:50,155 --> 00:25:52,715 Speaker 1: and then Channel seven won nearly all the ratings periods 368 00:25:52,715 --> 00:25:55,915 Speaker 1: there over fourteen years, and then after six years at 369 00:25:55,955 --> 00:25:58,755 Speaker 1: Channel nine, he was hired back at Channel two, where 370 00:25:58,795 --> 00:26:02,315 Speaker 1: he started where they fired him. Hired back at Channel 371 00:26:02,315 --> 00:26:04,355 Speaker 1: two for a couple million more than he was making 372 00:26:04,395 --> 00:26:06,475 Speaker 1: when they fired him twenty years earlier, and then he 373 00:26:06,515 --> 00:26:08,275 Speaker 1: went back to Channel nine and he was still on 374 00:26:08,355 --> 00:26:10,835 Speaker 1: every night at the age of eighty and oh, by 375 00:26:10,835 --> 00:26:14,195 Speaker 1: the way, he worked for twenty nine years after He 376 00:26:14,275 --> 00:26:16,555 Speaker 1: came out of the KABC studios on the night of 377 00:26:16,595 --> 00:26:19,515 Speaker 1: October twenty fourth, nineteen eighty three, hopped into his Rolls 378 00:26:19,595 --> 00:26:22,355 Speaker 1: Royce with the station makeup lady by his side, and 379 00:26:22,555 --> 00:26:29,275 Speaker 1: was ambushed and shot in the neck by four assailants, 380 00:26:29,395 --> 00:26:33,195 Speaker 1: leading him to issue the memorable statements They said, don't move, 381 00:26:33,355 --> 00:26:38,235 Speaker 1: and I didn't, but they shot anyway, unquote, And they 382 00:26:38,275 --> 00:26:41,235 Speaker 1: never figured out who shot him or why. But Jerry 383 00:26:41,275 --> 00:26:44,475 Speaker 1: Dunfey was back on the air three weeks later anyway, 384 00:26:44,515 --> 00:26:48,995 Speaker 1: And you cannot imagine how many different guesses there were 385 00:26:49,155 --> 00:26:52,075 Speaker 1: about that in the LA news industry when I was 386 00:26:52,115 --> 00:26:54,315 Speaker 1: on the air there from nineteen eighty five through nineteen 387 00:26:54,355 --> 00:26:59,395 Speaker 1: ninety one. There is no question that in creating the 388 00:26:59,435 --> 00:27:04,235 Speaker 1: fictional newscasters Ted Baxter and Kent Brockman, and maybe even 389 00:27:04,315 --> 00:27:08,875 Speaker 1: Ron Burgundy, much was stolen from Jerry dunfi Jerry Dunfee 390 00:27:08,915 --> 00:27:12,035 Speaker 1: had a huge shock of white hair, a craggy face, 391 00:27:12,075 --> 00:27:15,555 Speaker 1: and a rich baritone voice. He was in twenty one 392 00:27:15,675 --> 00:27:20,315 Speaker 1: different movies, including Oh God and the Amazing and Margaret 393 00:27:20,355 --> 00:27:23,755 Speaker 1: Flick Kitten with a Whip. Now, really, there is an 394 00:27:23,755 --> 00:27:27,475 Speaker 1: Ann Margaret film called Kitten with a Whip. Anyway, I 395 00:27:27,555 --> 00:27:30,595 Speaker 1: knew Jerry Dunfe. He was a smart man, and a 396 00:27:30,715 --> 00:27:33,755 Speaker 1: nice and a welcoming man, and obviously quite a business man. 397 00:27:33,915 --> 00:27:36,395 Speaker 1: But he did have a tendency on the air to become, 398 00:27:36,475 --> 00:27:40,835 Speaker 1: in his own words, a teleprompter reading machine. He said, 399 00:27:40,875 --> 00:27:43,395 Speaker 1: you put it up there, and I'm going to say 400 00:27:43,395 --> 00:27:47,475 Speaker 1: it down here. And that's what this story is about. 401 00:27:48,195 --> 00:27:50,235 Speaker 1: When I got to Los Angeles at the age of 402 00:27:50,235 --> 00:27:53,915 Speaker 1: twenty six in nineteen eighty five hour newscast Channel five 403 00:27:54,035 --> 00:27:56,955 Speaker 1: News at ten was like something out of the nineteen sixties. 404 00:27:56,995 --> 00:28:00,835 Speaker 1: The studio had carpeting on the walls. There were no 405 00:28:00,955 --> 00:28:04,635 Speaker 1: graphics to speak of, just a big rear screen projection device. 406 00:28:05,595 --> 00:28:09,795 Speaker 1: Our best reporter, the lovely stand Chambers, had literally worked 407 00:28:09,795 --> 00:28:13,075 Speaker 1: there since the station had signed on the air for 408 00:28:13,155 --> 00:28:16,115 Speaker 1: the first time thirty eight years before, and he would 409 00:28:16,195 --> 00:28:21,195 Speaker 1: keep working there for another twenty five years. Our inimitable anchorman, 410 00:28:21,275 --> 00:28:25,275 Speaker 1: Hal Fishman would not wear an IFB and earpiece because 411 00:28:25,315 --> 00:28:28,435 Speaker 1: he thought viewers might think that if he did, it 412 00:28:28,475 --> 00:28:31,755 Speaker 1: was because he needed a hearing aid. He did, however, 413 00:28:31,795 --> 00:28:35,435 Speaker 1: wear one of a series of two pays of different 414 00:28:35,555 --> 00:28:40,235 Speaker 1: length to simulate the need for a haircut. Until the 415 00:28:40,275 --> 00:28:43,475 Speaker 1: first commercial break was over on News at ten, only 416 00:28:43,595 --> 00:28:47,515 Speaker 1: Hal spoke. His female co anchor just sat there adoringly. 417 00:28:48,235 --> 00:28:52,155 Speaker 1: And the producer was a marvelously frantic character named Jerry Rubin, 418 00:28:52,555 --> 00:28:54,955 Speaker 1: who every night at nine PM, an hour to airtime, 419 00:28:54,995 --> 00:29:00,075 Speaker 1: would run around the newsroom screaming battle stations, battle stations, 420 00:29:00,955 --> 00:29:03,515 Speaker 1: and who took me seriously only when I could figure 421 00:29:03,555 --> 00:29:07,875 Speaker 1: out what his as Jerry phrased it, invisible thread was 422 00:29:08,435 --> 00:29:11,875 Speaker 1: running through his nightly ordering of the stories, the rundown. 423 00:29:12,595 --> 00:29:14,595 Speaker 1: He would ask me to come into the newsroom and 424 00:29:14,715 --> 00:29:17,675 Speaker 1: look at the rundown and say, all right, Olderman, you're 425 00:29:17,715 --> 00:29:21,835 Speaker 1: so smart, what's the invisible thread? And he only began 426 00:29:21,875 --> 00:29:24,315 Speaker 1: to like me when I could recite to him from 427 00:29:24,355 --> 00:29:27,275 Speaker 1: memory the starting lineup of his beloved nineteen forty five 428 00:29:27,355 --> 00:29:31,315 Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs. But he stayed liking me. We remained friends 429 00:29:31,315 --> 00:29:35,675 Speaker 1: for thirty years. Anyway. Jerry had come to Los Angeles 430 00:29:35,795 --> 00:29:39,795 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty nine, hired away from WGN in Chicago 431 00:29:39,915 --> 00:29:42,715 Speaker 1: to become the lead writer for this is where the 432 00:29:42,875 --> 00:29:46,875 Speaker 1: story comes together. You guessed it. The Jerry Dunfee newscasts 433 00:29:46,915 --> 00:29:51,435 Speaker 1: on KNXT, the CBS station in Los Angeles. In fact, 434 00:29:51,475 --> 00:29:54,955 Speaker 1: after winning every sweeps period for nine years, the newscast 435 00:29:54,995 --> 00:29:59,275 Speaker 1: had rightly become the Big News with Jerry Dunfee. And 436 00:29:59,395 --> 00:30:02,755 Speaker 1: it began with an unseen announcer intoning the Big News 437 00:30:03,075 --> 00:30:08,035 Speaker 1: with Jerry Dunfee. Now here is Jerry Dunfie, And then 438 00:30:08,155 --> 00:30:13,475 Speaker 1: Jerry Dunvee said his catchphrase, the catchphrase of all catchphrases. 439 00:30:13,715 --> 00:30:15,635 Speaker 1: Unlike the guy I worked with in New York when 440 00:30:15,635 --> 00:30:18,035 Speaker 1: I was an intern, Bill Jorgenson, thank you for your 441 00:30:18,075 --> 00:30:21,355 Speaker 1: time this time until next time, Jerry Dunfey said, from 442 00:30:21,435 --> 00:30:25,435 Speaker 1: the desert to the Sea to all of Southern California, 443 00:30:26,235 --> 00:30:31,795 Speaker 1: the good evening. Nonsense, of course, but boy, it sounded good. 444 00:30:31,875 --> 00:30:35,275 Speaker 1: From the desert to the sea to all of Southern California, 445 00:30:35,555 --> 00:30:39,595 Speaker 1: Good evening. He said this so often that it is 446 00:30:39,715 --> 00:30:45,115 Speaker 1: still used in some promotional announcements by Channel nine News 447 00:30:45,115 --> 00:30:47,715 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and Channel seven News in Los Angeles 448 00:30:47,755 --> 00:30:50,275 Speaker 1: and Channel two in Los Angeles. From the desert to 449 00:30:50,315 --> 00:30:55,155 Speaker 1: the Sea to all of Southern California. Good evening, I'm dead. Well, No, 450 00:30:55,195 --> 00:30:57,595 Speaker 1: they don't actually say that, but that's pretty much what 451 00:30:57,675 --> 00:31:00,675 Speaker 1: it means. The only joke about the night he got 452 00:31:00,795 --> 00:31:04,995 Speaker 1: shot outside the parking lot that I can tell is 453 00:31:04,995 --> 00:31:07,515 Speaker 1: that when the cops arrived, Dunfey said to them, from 454 00:31:07,555 --> 00:31:09,995 Speaker 1: the desert to the sea to all of southern California, 455 00:31:10,075 --> 00:31:15,755 Speaker 1: good evening, I've been shot in the neck. The first night, 456 00:31:15,835 --> 00:31:18,395 Speaker 1: my friend Jerry Rubin sat down to write The Big 457 00:31:18,435 --> 00:31:22,555 Speaker 1: News with Jerry Dunfie. Jerry Rubin was a little nervous. 458 00:31:23,035 --> 00:31:25,715 Speaker 1: He got there early, he said. He wrote some stories 459 00:31:25,755 --> 00:31:29,435 Speaker 1: a dozen times each trying to get it perfect. Finally, 460 00:31:29,435 --> 00:31:31,635 Speaker 1: for the lead story, which if memory serves, was about 461 00:31:31,635 --> 00:31:34,915 Speaker 1: a bank robbery in Pasadena, Jerry got it just right. 462 00:31:35,395 --> 00:31:38,155 Speaker 1: And on that nineteen sixty nine evening at six pm, 463 00:31:38,315 --> 00:31:41,235 Speaker 1: viewers of The Big News on Channel two in Los Angeles, 464 00:31:41,515 --> 00:31:43,475 Speaker 1: those for whom from the desert to the sea to 465 00:31:43,515 --> 00:31:46,475 Speaker 1: all of southern California was not a cliche but mantra. 466 00:31:46,955 --> 00:31:50,075 Speaker 1: They heard the familiar Channel two screeching theme music, and 467 00:31:50,075 --> 00:31:53,635 Speaker 1: then the Big News with Jerry dunfee now Here is 468 00:31:53,715 --> 00:31:57,755 Speaker 1: Jerry Dunfie and up popped Jerry Dunfey's face, and he said, 469 00:31:58,435 --> 00:32:01,635 Speaker 1: three armed and very dangerous modern day desperadoes are still 470 00:32:01,635 --> 00:32:05,355 Speaker 1: loose in Pasadena tonight. After blah blah blah, blah blah. 471 00:32:05,755 --> 00:32:10,275 Speaker 1: The newscast ended an hour later. Jerry Rubin was very relieved. 472 00:32:10,475 --> 00:32:13,635 Speaker 1: Jerry Dunfee strode back to his desk before presumably going 473 00:32:13,675 --> 00:32:16,435 Speaker 1: out to warm up the rolls Royce and avoid the 474 00:32:16,475 --> 00:32:19,235 Speaker 1: gunmen who would finally get him fourteen years later, and 475 00:32:19,235 --> 00:32:22,475 Speaker 1: not even slow him down. And that's when the station's 476 00:32:22,515 --> 00:32:25,115 Speaker 1: news director leaned out of his office and waved the 477 00:32:25,155 --> 00:32:29,115 Speaker 1: two Jerry's inside. What the hell happened, Dunfee? Did you 478 00:32:29,195 --> 00:32:31,875 Speaker 1: retire it? You can't retire it. It's in the contract. 479 00:32:31,915 --> 00:32:36,155 Speaker 1: You have to stay it. According to Jerry Rubin, Dunfey 480 00:32:36,235 --> 00:32:39,755 Speaker 1: looked blankly at his boss. Jerry Rubin said he was 481 00:32:39,795 --> 00:32:43,195 Speaker 1: even more confused himself. From the desert to the sea. 482 00:32:43,435 --> 00:32:45,515 Speaker 1: He didn't say from the desert to the sea. At 483 00:32:45,515 --> 00:32:48,075 Speaker 1: the start of the big news, you say from the 484 00:32:48,115 --> 00:32:50,755 Speaker 1: desert to the sea to all of southern California, good evening, 485 00:32:51,235 --> 00:32:53,195 Speaker 1: only to you. You didn't say, from the desert to 486 00:32:53,195 --> 00:32:55,115 Speaker 1: the sea to all of Southern California, Good evening. You 487 00:32:55,115 --> 00:32:59,075 Speaker 1: said something about a bank. What the hell, Jerry, we 488 00:32:59,155 --> 00:33:04,035 Speaker 1: got two hundred and fifty phone calls. Jerry Dunfey now 489 00:33:04,075 --> 00:33:07,395 Speaker 1: pursed his life and turned to the new writer. What 490 00:33:07,435 --> 00:33:10,875 Speaker 1: the hell, Ruben, didn't you put it in the script? 491 00:33:12,315 --> 00:33:14,875 Speaker 1: Jerry Rubin kept this part to himself, but frankly, he 492 00:33:14,915 --> 00:33:17,155 Speaker 1: said he couldn't believe what he was hearing. For nine years, 493 00:33:17,155 --> 00:33:19,475 Speaker 1: this man Dunfee had signed on virtually every one of 494 00:33:19,475 --> 00:33:22,195 Speaker 1: his news broadcasts every night at six and then again 495 00:33:22,195 --> 00:33:24,075 Speaker 1: every night at eleven by saying from the desert and 496 00:33:24,115 --> 00:33:26,635 Speaker 1: sy to wall, Southern California, cood evening. But apparently, if 497 00:33:26,635 --> 00:33:28,475 Speaker 1: you did not write it in the script and did 498 00:33:28,515 --> 00:33:30,835 Speaker 1: not put it on the teleprompter for him, he would 499 00:33:30,875 --> 00:33:36,915 Speaker 1: forget it. Before Jerry Rubin could say anything, Jerry Dunfee 500 00:33:36,955 --> 00:33:41,595 Speaker 1: barked at him with some understanding. Don't you understand when 501 00:33:41,635 --> 00:33:44,915 Speaker 1: I'm out there, I'm a teleprompter reading machine. You put 502 00:33:44,955 --> 00:33:47,595 Speaker 1: it up there, I'm going to say it down here. 503 00:33:48,315 --> 00:33:50,715 Speaker 1: You don't put it up there. I'm not going to 504 00:33:50,755 --> 00:33:55,195 Speaker 1: say it down here. The news director looked sternly at 505 00:33:55,275 --> 00:33:59,915 Speaker 1: Jerry Rubin. Jerry Rubin did not burst into uncontrollable laughter, 506 00:34:00,315 --> 00:34:03,595 Speaker 1: race from the building KNXT was in on Sunset Boulevard, 507 00:34:03,715 --> 00:34:05,995 Speaker 1: and get on the first plane back to Chicago. He 508 00:34:06,195 --> 00:34:08,995 Speaker 1: just said yes, sir, and the news director said good 509 00:34:09,315 --> 00:34:12,195 Speaker 1: and everybody left. And from that night, at eleven o'clock onwards, 510 00:34:12,235 --> 00:34:15,235 Speaker 1: Jerry Rubin always started his script for the lead story 511 00:34:15,235 --> 00:34:17,315 Speaker 1: by typing out, from the desert to the sea to 512 00:34:17,395 --> 00:34:20,355 Speaker 1: all of southern California, good evening, there's a twenty six 513 00:34:20,435 --> 00:34:23,075 Speaker 1: car pile up on the Santa Monica Freeway after another 514 00:34:23,195 --> 00:34:27,035 Speaker 1: mattress has been dumped in the left lane. Or from 515 00:34:27,075 --> 00:34:29,195 Speaker 1: the desert to the Sea to all of southern California, 516 00:34:29,235 --> 00:34:34,795 Speaker 1: good evening, burbank, bank burgled or whatever. Over the next 517 00:34:34,835 --> 00:34:37,115 Speaker 1: few weeks, the lead story on the Big News with 518 00:34:37,195 --> 00:34:41,075 Speaker 1: Jerry Dunfey would change, as lead stories do. At five 519 00:34:41,275 --> 00:34:44,435 Speaker 1: VM or five thirty or five fifty, something big er 520 00:34:45,035 --> 00:34:48,235 Speaker 1: would happen and it was the Big News. So Jerry 521 00:34:48,315 --> 00:34:51,435 Speaker 1: Rubin would often have to rewrite page one of the script, 522 00:34:51,475 --> 00:34:54,475 Speaker 1: and every time he rewrote it, and every time he 523 00:34:54,635 --> 00:34:56,755 Speaker 1: re rewrote it, and the one time he told me 524 00:34:56,795 --> 00:35:00,955 Speaker 1: that he re re rewrote it, Jerry remembered to start 525 00:35:01,035 --> 00:35:03,595 Speaker 1: page one with from the desert to the sea to 526 00:35:03,755 --> 00:35:09,235 Speaker 1: all southern calif Good evening. All was well, the teleprompter 527 00:35:09,355 --> 00:35:12,955 Speaker 1: reading machine was happy, the news director was happy. Jerry 528 00:35:12,995 --> 00:35:19,235 Speaker 1: Rubin was happy. And then calamity struck. At about five 529 00:35:19,235 --> 00:35:21,635 Speaker 1: point fifty eight one night, Jerry Rubin was told there 530 00:35:21,675 --> 00:35:24,395 Speaker 1: is a refinery fire in Torrance. It is the new 531 00:35:24,475 --> 00:35:27,155 Speaker 1: lead story. Just say, we're rushing a crew, get it written. 532 00:35:27,395 --> 00:35:30,875 Speaker 1: He started to type our top story, breaking news a refinery, 533 00:35:31,755 --> 00:35:35,315 Speaker 1: and then he tore the page from his machine. He 534 00:35:35,395 --> 00:35:39,715 Speaker 1: started anew His fingers danced across the keyboard, from the 535 00:35:39,755 --> 00:35:42,075 Speaker 1: desert to the sea to all of southern California. Good evening. 536 00:35:42,075 --> 00:35:44,675 Speaker 1: Our top story tonight, breaking news. Our refinery fire is 537 00:35:44,715 --> 00:35:47,315 Speaker 1: just erupted in Torrents. A Channel two Big News Live 538 00:35:47,395 --> 00:35:49,115 Speaker 1: crew is rushing to the scene at this hour, and 539 00:35:49,155 --> 00:35:50,955 Speaker 1: we will have a big News live report from Rick 540 00:35:51,035 --> 00:35:55,315 Speaker 1: Davis before this newscast is over. Rubin knew he did 541 00:35:55,355 --> 00:35:57,635 Speaker 1: not have time to get a production assistant to take 542 00:35:57,675 --> 00:36:01,075 Speaker 1: the new lead script into dunfe nor to tape it 543 00:36:01,195 --> 00:36:03,915 Speaker 1: into the script about to pass through the teleprompter, so 544 00:36:03,955 --> 00:36:07,835 Speaker 1: he did both things himself. New lead. He screamed, at Dunfie, 545 00:36:07,955 --> 00:36:10,715 Speaker 1: throwing the page at him, and the unseen announcer was 546 00:36:10,755 --> 00:36:13,755 Speaker 1: already at mid introduction when Jerry Rubin taped that new 547 00:36:13,795 --> 00:36:18,155 Speaker 1: piece of script into the prompter without remembering to remove 548 00:36:18,395 --> 00:36:23,475 Speaker 1: the old lead script from the prompter. And this is 549 00:36:23,515 --> 00:36:28,435 Speaker 1: what Los Angeles heard the Big News with Jerry dunfee 550 00:36:28,595 --> 00:36:32,515 Speaker 1: Now here's Jerry Dunfie. From the desert to the Sea 551 00:36:32,555 --> 00:36:35,915 Speaker 1: to all of Southern California. Good evening, Our top story tonight. 552 00:36:36,075 --> 00:36:39,475 Speaker 1: Breaking news or refinery fire has just erupted in Torrents 553 00:36:39,795 --> 00:36:42,475 Speaker 1: at Channel two. Big News Live crew is rushing to 554 00:36:42,515 --> 00:36:44,035 Speaker 1: the scene at this hour, and we will have a 555 00:36:44,035 --> 00:36:47,515 Speaker 1: Big News Live report from Rick Davis before this newscast 556 00:36:47,595 --> 00:36:50,595 Speaker 1: is over. Jerry Dunfey dramatically turned over page one and 557 00:36:50,635 --> 00:36:53,075 Speaker 1: began to read page two. From a desert to the 558 00:36:53,075 --> 00:36:55,995 Speaker 1: sea to all of Southern California. Good evening, Our top 559 00:36:56,035 --> 00:37:01,075 Speaker 1: story tonight. Mayor Sam, you're he said, Jerry Rubin said. 560 00:37:01,715 --> 00:37:25,755 Speaker 1: My head dropped to my desk with a thud. I've 561 00:37:25,755 --> 00:37:27,475 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Thank you 562 00:37:27,515 --> 00:37:30,635 Speaker 1: for listening. Countdown. Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip 563 00:37:30,675 --> 00:37:34,715 Speaker 1: Schanelle arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. 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Everything else is pretty much my fault. 578 00:38:29,595 --> 00:38:31,795 Speaker 1: So that's countdown for this, the two hundred and third 579 00:38:31,915 --> 00:38:36,955 Speaker 1: day until the twenty twenty four presidential election, the one 580 00:38:37,315 --> 00:38:48,595 Speaker 1: and ninety eight day since defendant Jay Trump's first attempted 581 00:38:48,635 --> 00:38:51,555 Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States, 582 00:38:51,835 --> 00:38:55,275 Speaker 1: use the Fourteenth Amendment and the not regularly given elector 583 00:38:55,355 --> 00:38:59,555 Speaker 1: objection provided by the Supreme Court, use the Insurrection Act, 584 00:38:59,675 --> 00:39:03,795 Speaker 1: use the justice system, use the mental health system to 585 00:39:03,955 --> 00:39:08,675 Speaker 1: stop him from doing it again while we still can. 586 00:39:09,715 --> 00:39:12,395 Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news 587 00:39:12,435 --> 00:39:15,635 Speaker 1: warrants till then, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, 588 00:39:15,635 --> 00:39:20,275 Speaker 1: good night, and I was gonna ask one. Oh that's right. 589 00:39:20,595 --> 00:39:35,955 Speaker 1: Good Luck. Countdown with Keith Olberman is a production of iHeartRadio. 590 00:39:36,235 --> 00:39:41,395 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 591 00:39:41,675 --> 00:39:43,635 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.