1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,835 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. So 2 00:00:22,915 --> 00:00:27,835 Speaker 1: where do you want to start? Trump threatening the President 3 00:00:27,875 --> 00:00:32,435 Speaker 1: of the United States, Trump threatening Judge Arthur and Gern's clerk. 4 00:00:33,115 --> 00:00:38,395 Speaker 1: Trump threatening Judge Arthur and Goron's wife, Trump threatening Obamacare again, 5 00:00:38,515 --> 00:00:42,875 Speaker 1: Trump threatening to prosecute MSNBC, Trump thus explaining how Biden 6 00:00:42,955 --> 00:00:47,875 Speaker 1: could prosecute Fox News. Trump threatening Jack Smith, Congressman Scott Perry, 7 00:00:47,995 --> 00:00:52,875 Speaker 1: spider web being revealed, Congressman Clay Ghost Buss Higgins threatening 8 00:00:52,955 --> 00:01:01,315 Speaker 1: Jack Smith, or Elon Musk threatening everybody. Okay, let's do Musk. 9 00:01:01,435 --> 00:01:04,835 Speaker 1: He's funnier because if he wasn't self destructing when he 10 00:01:04,915 --> 00:01:08,715 Speaker 1: endorsed the anti Semitic Great Replacement theory last week, or 11 00:01:08,755 --> 00:01:12,195 Speaker 1: if he wasn't self destructing when he endorsed Pizzagate on Tuesday, 12 00:01:12,355 --> 00:01:15,315 Speaker 1: he sure was self destructing at the New York Times 13 00:01:15,355 --> 00:01:19,555 Speaker 1: Deal Booked summit yesterday. Oh and my congrats to interviewer 14 00:01:19,635 --> 00:01:24,035 Speaker 1: Andrew Ross Sorkin for not getting any of it on him. 15 00:01:24,555 --> 00:01:28,115 Speaker 1: When Musk turned into a human debris field. 16 00:01:28,595 --> 00:01:30,755 Speaker 2: There was a public perception that that was part of 17 00:01:30,795 --> 00:01:34,275 Speaker 2: a apology tour, if you will, that this had been 18 00:01:34,315 --> 00:01:37,275 Speaker 2: said online. There was all of the criticism there was 19 00:01:37,355 --> 00:01:38,595 Speaker 2: advertisers leaving. 20 00:01:38,635 --> 00:01:42,835 Speaker 3: We talked to Bob Iden, stop you hope don't advertise. 21 00:01:43,755 --> 00:01:44,755 Speaker 4: You don't want them to advertise. 22 00:01:44,835 --> 00:01:46,315 Speaker 2: No, what do you mean. 23 00:01:48,835 --> 00:01:50,995 Speaker 3: If somebody's going to try to blackmail me with advertising, 24 00:01:51,075 --> 00:02:00,955 Speaker 3: Blackmailly with money, go fuck yourself, but go fuck yourself? 25 00:02:02,355 --> 00:02:02,835 Speaker 1: Is that clear? 26 00:02:04,195 --> 00:02:07,915 Speaker 4: I hope it? Hey, Bob cheering the ondience. 27 00:02:08,395 --> 00:02:12,755 Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you, the Sorkins, let me ask you. 28 00:02:12,795 --> 00:02:17,275 Speaker 1: Then at the end there that is deserving of a bonus. 29 00:02:17,115 --> 00:02:18,715 Speaker 4: Of one million dollars. 30 00:02:20,115 --> 00:02:24,435 Speaker 1: Musk's ultimate point there was that if twitter X goes bankrupt, 31 00:02:24,475 --> 00:02:27,755 Speaker 1: the public won't blame him, They'll blame the advertise us. 32 00:02:28,515 --> 00:02:32,275 Speaker 1: And aside to Elmo, if twitter X goes bankrupt, why 33 00:02:32,275 --> 00:02:35,475 Speaker 1: do you assume the public will want to blame anybody 34 00:02:35,795 --> 00:02:40,315 Speaker 1: and not just you know, cheer And a more serious 35 00:02:40,355 --> 00:02:45,835 Speaker 1: aside to X's quote CEO unquote Linda Yakarino, Linda, I 36 00:02:45,875 --> 00:02:47,515 Speaker 1: know a place here in the city we can get 37 00:02:47,555 --> 00:02:50,195 Speaker 1: your boy in for a cat scan and an MRI 38 00:02:50,435 --> 00:02:55,075 Speaker 1: of his head on very short notice. And another aside 39 00:02:55,595 --> 00:02:59,355 Speaker 1: to President Biden, I get that we need his rockets 40 00:02:59,395 --> 00:03:02,235 Speaker 1: to deliver material to the space station and I get 41 00:03:02,275 --> 00:03:05,515 Speaker 1: that his communication relays are more secure than our militaries. 42 00:03:06,195 --> 00:03:09,755 Speaker 1: But Musk is having a breakdown. He is therefore a 43 00:03:09,835 --> 00:03:14,115 Speaker 1: security risk. The government has to terminate all the contracts 44 00:03:14,115 --> 00:03:17,435 Speaker 1: with his companies. We have no idea what Musk will 45 00:03:17,475 --> 00:03:21,275 Speaker 1: do next. If we see him next week in uniform 46 00:03:21,675 --> 00:03:27,515 Speaker 1: in a tank running Russia's second Guards spetz Naz Brigade 47 00:03:27,595 --> 00:03:32,235 Speaker 1: attacking Ukraine, it wouldn't surprise a single damn soul in 48 00:03:32,315 --> 00:03:37,035 Speaker 1: the world. When I was a kid, we were so 49 00:03:37,275 --> 00:03:41,155 Speaker 1: poor that we could only afford one conspiracy theory. That 50 00:03:41,315 --> 00:03:44,595 Speaker 1: conspiracy theory was that something new the government was doing 51 00:03:44,875 --> 00:03:50,355 Speaker 1: fluoridation of the water to improve the nation's dental health. 52 00:03:50,915 --> 00:03:53,675 Speaker 1: Now that was actually a Russian plot to poison the 53 00:03:53,715 --> 00:03:56,995 Speaker 1: minds of American children and mothers so that the kids 54 00:03:57,035 --> 00:04:01,835 Speaker 1: would grow up to, I don't know, favor Communism, or 55 00:04:02,315 --> 00:04:06,635 Speaker 1: murder their parents, or think their hairstyles weren't crappy at all. 56 00:04:07,115 --> 00:04:07,595 Speaker 4: I don't know. 57 00:04:07,915 --> 00:04:10,875 Speaker 1: It was such a stupid conspiracy theory that it was 58 00:04:10,955 --> 00:04:13,515 Speaker 1: even made into a plot point of the most bitterly 59 00:04:13,955 --> 00:04:17,875 Speaker 1: dangerously cynical movie of all time, what is still Hollywood's 60 00:04:17,915 --> 00:04:25,435 Speaker 1: only nuclear war satire, Doctor Strangelove. But you know, when 61 00:04:25,475 --> 00:04:28,835 Speaker 1: I hear Musk and Trump and these maga idiots talk 62 00:04:29,035 --> 00:04:32,475 Speaker 1: like this, I'm thinking, hey, maybe there was something too 63 00:04:32,595 --> 00:04:36,515 Speaker 1: that fluoridation is a plot thing, because we sure do 64 00:04:36,675 --> 00:04:39,395 Speaker 1: have a lot of angry, stupid people all of a 65 00:04:39,395 --> 00:04:44,755 Speaker 1: sudden quote, Joe Biden should stop his election interfering thugs 66 00:04:44,795 --> 00:04:47,555 Speaker 1: before it is too late for him and the rest 67 00:04:47,635 --> 00:04:51,995 Speaker 1: of the country. Trump of course, Trump, who in this 68 00:04:52,075 --> 00:04:56,195 Speaker 1: scenario must have chugged pure fluoride every day until he 69 00:04:56,275 --> 00:05:02,155 Speaker 1: was thirty. This is stochastic terror threat number, but one thousand, 70 00:05:02,355 --> 00:05:06,315 Speaker 1: two thousand. There is nothing subtle about this one. Trim 71 00:05:06,355 --> 00:05:09,275 Speaker 1: the filling. And what Trump wrote was Joe Biden should 72 00:05:09,275 --> 00:05:11,355 Speaker 1: stop before it is too late for him, And that 73 00:05:11,475 --> 00:05:14,955 Speaker 1: is a threat. And if you wrote that somewhere in public, 74 00:05:15,315 --> 00:05:18,715 Speaker 1: depending on your rap sheet and your past mental health 75 00:05:18,875 --> 00:05:22,355 Speaker 1: Secret Service would stop buy your house for a visit today. 76 00:05:23,835 --> 00:05:27,115 Speaker 1: And Trump's rap sheet includes manifest and growing clinical insanity. 77 00:05:27,155 --> 00:05:29,475 Speaker 1: Oh and the attempt to violently overthrow the government of 78 00:05:29,515 --> 00:05:36,195 Speaker 1: the United States. In the same post quote, He's got 79 00:05:36,195 --> 00:05:39,475 Speaker 1: the Justice Department and others suing me. It opens up 80 00:05:39,515 --> 00:05:43,475 Speaker 1: a very big and dangerous Pandora's box. Which is yet 81 00:05:43,515 --> 00:05:47,835 Speaker 1: another stochastic call for somebody to attack the Justice Department 82 00:05:47,955 --> 00:05:50,395 Speaker 1: or its leaders, or Jack Smith or all of the above, 83 00:05:50,435 --> 00:05:52,675 Speaker 1: to say nothing of what if he keeps saying it 84 00:05:52,755 --> 00:05:56,715 Speaker 1: this loudly, this often voters might actually notice is the 85 00:05:56,715 --> 00:06:00,595 Speaker 1: one hundredth repetition of his promise that he will actually 86 00:06:00,675 --> 00:06:03,555 Speaker 1: do what he is falsely claiming is being done to him, 87 00:06:03,715 --> 00:06:06,275 Speaker 1: what he already he did do on a small scale, 88 00:06:06,595 --> 00:06:09,995 Speaker 1: namely to use the DOJ as a personal tool for 89 00:06:10,035 --> 00:06:16,235 Speaker 1: revenge and suppression of any political opposition. Now, as to 90 00:06:16,275 --> 00:06:19,755 Speaker 1: the attacks on Judge Ngeron's clerk and wife, we have 91 00:06:19,875 --> 00:06:23,115 Speaker 1: Judge David Friedman of the New York State Intermediate Appeals Court, 92 00:06:23,635 --> 00:06:26,675 Speaker 1: who stayed the gag order Angern imposed on Dimension J. 93 00:06:26,795 --> 00:06:32,275 Speaker 1: Trump to thank for this quote. Judge Engern's Trump hating wife, 94 00:06:32,475 --> 00:06:35,555 Speaker 1: together with his very disturbed and angry law clerk, have 95 00:06:35,675 --> 00:06:38,435 Speaker 1: taken over control of the New York State which hunt 96 00:06:38,475 --> 00:06:43,235 Speaker 1: trial aimed at me. Again, that is the clerk Trump 97 00:06:43,395 --> 00:06:47,755 Speaker 1: doxed and now threatened, and now he has added to 98 00:06:47,795 --> 00:06:53,035 Speaker 1: the process Andngeron's wife five times in just four minutes. Yesterday, 99 00:06:53,235 --> 00:06:57,035 Speaker 1: Trump posted screenshots evidently sent to him by the lunatic 100 00:06:57,115 --> 00:07:01,315 Speaker 1: Laura Loomer screenshots of posts from a Twitter x account 101 00:07:01,635 --> 00:07:07,155 Speaker 1: with various anti Trump memes and nothing original or serious. 102 00:07:07,235 --> 00:07:09,555 Speaker 1: I mean, not even as serious as the stuff I post. 103 00:07:09,595 --> 00:07:13,635 Speaker 1: For Christ's sakes, Five separate Twitter x posts over which 104 00:07:13,675 --> 00:07:17,675 Speaker 1: Trump writes, this is the judge's wife saying this, and 105 00:07:18,195 --> 00:07:21,875 Speaker 1: another from Judge Ngeron's wife, and yet another from Judge 106 00:07:21,915 --> 00:07:26,315 Speaker 1: and Garon's wife and Judge Ngern's wife, and finally he 107 00:07:26,475 --> 00:07:32,195 Speaker 1: ran out and just repeated Judge en Grond's wife. Spoiler alert, 108 00:07:32,355 --> 00:07:36,755 Speaker 1: it's not Judge Enngeron's wife. Twenty two days ago, she 109 00:07:36,955 --> 00:07:40,835 Speaker 1: told Newsweek quote, I do not have a Twitter account. 110 00:07:41,195 --> 00:07:44,595 Speaker 1: This is not me. I have not posted any anti 111 00:07:44,675 --> 00:07:51,195 Speaker 1: Trump messages. The only thing that even possibly remotely kind 112 00:07:51,235 --> 00:07:54,875 Speaker 1: of might be evidence that Lumer and Trump are offering 113 00:07:55,195 --> 00:07:59,955 Speaker 1: that she is lying is that her first name, just 114 00:07:59,995 --> 00:08:03,355 Speaker 1: her first name, is the same as the first name, 115 00:08:04,115 --> 00:08:06,355 Speaker 1: just the first name name that is used on the 116 00:08:06,395 --> 00:08:10,955 Speaker 1: Twitter account in question. And if a first name is 117 00:08:11,035 --> 00:08:16,075 Speaker 1: conclusive evidence, then Keith Richards and Keith Rupert Murdoch sure 118 00:08:16,115 --> 00:08:18,715 Speaker 1: have written some dumb things on Twitter in their time. 119 00:08:20,035 --> 00:08:26,675 Speaker 1: And even if missus Engern really is lying boldly and 120 00:08:26,835 --> 00:08:30,555 Speaker 1: on the record to Newsweek, and with no wiggle room. 121 00:08:30,995 --> 00:08:34,235 Speaker 1: Of course, as we know, what a judge's wife does 122 00:08:34,635 --> 00:08:38,155 Speaker 1: in her life or on social media is immediate grounds 123 00:08:38,155 --> 00:08:46,315 Speaker 1: for the judge's impeachment, right, Jenny Thomas, I no longer 124 00:08:46,595 --> 00:08:49,635 Speaker 1: sound like a broken record about this topic. I now 125 00:08:49,715 --> 00:08:53,355 Speaker 1: am a broken record about this topic. Trump is spending 126 00:08:53,795 --> 00:08:57,875 Speaker 1: less and less time actually working on those clever subtleties 127 00:08:57,875 --> 00:09:00,875 Speaker 1: that have kept his threats just on the right side 128 00:09:01,475 --> 00:09:05,435 Speaker 1: of making him liable for arrest immediately by the nearest 129 00:09:05,835 --> 00:09:11,555 Speaker 1: police officer. His mind is also unquestionably deteriorating, and it 130 00:09:11,675 --> 00:09:13,875 Speaker 1: seems to be doing so in a manner that is 131 00:09:13,955 --> 00:09:17,555 Speaker 1: denying him what little sleep he normally gets, and which 132 00:09:17,915 --> 00:09:20,595 Speaker 1: must have scared him at some point recently, and which 133 00:09:20,595 --> 00:09:25,035 Speaker 1: has compelled him to find decreasingly plausible excuses for the 134 00:09:25,115 --> 00:09:30,635 Speaker 1: sudden unreliability of his previously excellent feral animal instincts, like 135 00:09:30,675 --> 00:09:34,315 Speaker 1: the nonsense that calling Biden Obama twenty times in a 136 00:09:34,395 --> 00:09:41,195 Speaker 1: row was sarcasm sounded like when he said sarcasm, Trump 137 00:09:41,195 --> 00:09:45,195 Speaker 1: had given up. That Trump is now a manifest threat 138 00:09:45,235 --> 00:09:47,875 Speaker 1: to not just Biden and Jack Smith and the judges 139 00:09:48,035 --> 00:09:52,475 Speaker 1: and the judge's wife and everybody else in this country. Now. 140 00:09:52,915 --> 00:09:56,835 Speaker 1: Never mind if he regains power later. This is obvious. 141 00:09:57,635 --> 00:10:00,715 Speaker 1: What we can do about it is less obvious. The 142 00:10:00,795 --> 00:10:04,355 Speaker 1: collective we seems to continue to place its faith in 143 00:10:04,395 --> 00:10:08,715 Speaker 1: either self destruction by Trump or prosecution of Trump, and 144 00:10:08,795 --> 00:10:11,795 Speaker 1: the latter is at the whim of a thousand components 145 00:10:11,795 --> 00:10:15,115 Speaker 1: and nearly as many calendars, and as to the former, 146 00:10:15,435 --> 00:10:18,755 Speaker 1: to paraphrase the perfect British sitcom, the Fall and Rise 147 00:10:18,795 --> 00:10:23,075 Speaker 1: of Reginald Perrin, Dame self Destruction is a perverse mistress 148 00:10:23,475 --> 00:10:27,555 Speaker 1: court her, and she hides behind her skirt, avoid her, 149 00:10:27,915 --> 00:10:34,355 Speaker 1: and she seeks thee Congressman Scott Perry of Pennsylvania has 150 00:10:34,395 --> 00:10:38,155 Speaker 1: been avoiding Dame self destruction for nearly three years now, 151 00:10:38,755 --> 00:10:42,195 Speaker 1: and guess what it now looks like She has just 152 00:10:42,475 --> 00:10:46,315 Speaker 1: caught up with him. Special Counsel Smith wants and wants 153 00:10:46,355 --> 00:10:50,475 Speaker 1: to use what is in the Perry cell phone famously 154 00:10:50,515 --> 00:10:53,595 Speaker 1: seized by the FBI in August twenty twenty two, and 155 00:10:53,675 --> 00:10:56,875 Speaker 1: thanks to a court filing unsealed last night, Perry turns 156 00:10:56,915 --> 00:10:59,755 Speaker 1: out to have had a lot in his cell phone. 157 00:10:59,955 --> 00:11:01,995 Speaker 1: In fact, he might as well have been the switchboard 158 00:11:02,035 --> 00:11:06,995 Speaker 1: operator at Coup Central POTUS seems very happy with your response. 159 00:11:07,355 --> 00:11:11,035 Speaker 1: I read it just as you dictated. Perry texted at 160 00:11:11,075 --> 00:11:14,715 Speaker 1: eleven oh eight pm on December thirtieth, twenty twenty, to 161 00:11:16,075 --> 00:11:21,555 Speaker 1: the would be Attorney General Jeffrey Clark. I'm praying, replied Clark, 162 00:11:21,715 --> 00:11:24,995 Speaker 1: the one who wanted to seize the voting machines and 163 00:11:25,195 --> 00:11:28,915 Speaker 1: invoke the Insurrection Act to kill any protesters using the 164 00:11:29,035 --> 00:11:32,715 Speaker 1: US military. This makes me quite nervous and wonder if 165 00:11:32,755 --> 00:11:38,115 Speaker 1: I'm worthy or ready. Clark texted back. Should have been nervous, 166 00:11:38,195 --> 00:11:42,555 Speaker 1: Jeff because guess what you weren't worthy? You are the man. 167 00:11:42,995 --> 00:11:46,795 Speaker 1: Perry reassures Clark. I have confirmed it. God does what 168 00:11:46,835 --> 00:11:50,435 Speaker 1: he does for a reason. Listen, whoever did that? Boy? 169 00:11:50,555 --> 00:11:55,915 Speaker 1: It damn sure wasn't God. So Congressman Perry is in 170 00:11:55,955 --> 00:11:59,795 Speaker 1: the middle of the sees the voting machines coup. And 171 00:11:59,835 --> 00:12:04,275 Speaker 1: there's also texts with Rona McDaniel from eighteen days earlier 172 00:12:04,355 --> 00:12:07,635 Speaker 1: about ways to overturn the election. So Ronald McDaniel is 173 00:12:07,675 --> 00:12:11,515 Speaker 1: more connected to this than we knew. And Perry texted 174 00:12:11,515 --> 00:12:14,955 Speaker 1: a former colleague at DOJ with the wonderful name Gasaway 175 00:12:15,515 --> 00:12:18,315 Speaker 1: about having Mike Pence halt the vote count on January 176 00:12:18,355 --> 00:12:23,795 Speaker 1: sixth to quote admit testimony about the electoral slates. And 177 00:12:23,915 --> 00:12:27,995 Speaker 1: he's texted with the infamous Simone Gold, who not only 178 00:12:28,075 --> 00:12:31,515 Speaker 1: fought COVID vaccines but was also at the Capitol on 179 00:12:31,875 --> 00:12:37,675 Speaker 1: January sixth, and Perry texted supposed cybersecurity experts working with 180 00:12:37,755 --> 00:12:41,475 Speaker 1: Sidney Powell. In short, there is a reason Scott Perry 181 00:12:41,475 --> 00:12:44,475 Speaker 1: has fought so hard to get the goddamned phone back. 182 00:12:44,675 --> 00:12:49,235 Speaker 1: He is neck deep in every aspect of every Trump 183 00:12:49,435 --> 00:12:54,635 Speaker 1: coup attempt. If he's smart, which he isn't, he would 184 00:12:54,675 --> 00:12:58,995 Speaker 1: flip before he gets a dozen ten year sentences for 185 00:12:59,075 --> 00:13:04,915 Speaker 1: his offenses back to Trump and a less murderous his 186 00:13:04,955 --> 00:13:08,515 Speaker 1: threats from his orgy yesterday. He was good enough to 187 00:13:08,795 --> 00:13:12,595 Speaker 1: having brought back the threat to destroy Obamacare, then dropped 188 00:13:12,595 --> 00:13:14,995 Speaker 1: it when he realized it was phenomenally popular and his 189 00:13:15,035 --> 00:13:18,195 Speaker 1: efforts to repeal it reminded everybody of his abject failure 190 00:13:18,235 --> 00:13:21,915 Speaker 1: to do so. Now he's brought it back again, second 191 00:13:21,995 --> 00:13:24,315 Speaker 1: time in a week. I don't want to terminate Obamacare. 192 00:13:24,355 --> 00:13:29,195 Speaker 1: I want to replace it with much better healthcare. Oh, 193 00:13:29,195 --> 00:13:33,355 Speaker 1: and then the last sentence quote, Obamacare sucks which I 194 00:13:33,355 --> 00:13:35,195 Speaker 1: don't think quite lines up with the claim that he 195 00:13:35,195 --> 00:13:37,515 Speaker 1: doesn't want to terminate it, but goes back to my 196 00:13:37,635 --> 00:13:40,515 Speaker 1: earlier point that it seems like he stopped trying to 197 00:13:40,555 --> 00:13:47,715 Speaker 1: write something clever in this threat equivalent of throwing breakfast, lunch, 198 00:13:47,875 --> 00:13:51,155 Speaker 1: and dinner, and the spare bottle of ketchup against the wall. 199 00:13:51,715 --> 00:13:55,875 Speaker 1: Trump did do us another favor. The attack on MSNBC 200 00:13:56,195 --> 00:13:59,395 Speaker 1: that I mentioned earlier not only proved Trump's imbecility on 201 00:13:59,475 --> 00:14:02,915 Speaker 1: certain really simple things, but it also proved his imbecility 202 00:14:02,915 --> 00:14:06,595 Speaker 1: on certain really large things, as the continuing claim that 203 00:14:06,715 --> 00:14:10,715 Speaker 1: his vice president could overturn the electoral College slates from 204 00:14:10,755 --> 00:14:14,595 Speaker 1: almost any state means in theory that in January twenty 205 00:14:14,635 --> 00:14:18,155 Speaker 1: twenty five, Kamala Harris could overturn the electoral College slates 206 00:14:18,155 --> 00:14:22,115 Speaker 1: from almost any state inconvenient to President Biden. So does 207 00:14:22,155 --> 00:14:26,555 Speaker 1: this attack on the network I created actually providing a 208 00:14:26,595 --> 00:14:30,595 Speaker 1: template for how if Biden really wanted to, he could 209 00:14:30,595 --> 00:14:35,275 Speaker 1: shut down Fox News. Tomorrow, I'll read what Trump actually wrote, 210 00:14:35,515 --> 00:14:39,155 Speaker 1: and I will add or Fox News or other alternatives, 211 00:14:39,235 --> 00:14:41,675 Speaker 1: and you'll see what I'm getting at. Again, Trump never 212 00:14:41,715 --> 00:14:45,235 Speaker 1: says fox News here or any of the other alternates 213 00:14:45,515 --> 00:14:50,795 Speaker 1: that's the dramatic license. But here it goes quote MSNBC 214 00:14:51,515 --> 00:14:55,955 Speaker 1: and Fox News use free, government approved airwaves, and yet 215 00:14:55,995 --> 00:14:58,075 Speaker 1: it is nothing but a twenty four hour hit job 216 00:14:58,395 --> 00:15:03,675 Speaker 1: for purposes of election interference. Brian Roberts, it's chairman and CEO, 217 00:15:04,875 --> 00:15:09,515 Speaker 1: or rupert or Lachlan Murdoch or both, is a slimeball 218 00:15:10,035 --> 00:15:11,995 Speaker 1: who has been able to get away with these constant 219 00:15:12,035 --> 00:15:15,635 Speaker 1: attacks for years. It is the world's biggest political contribution 220 00:15:15,755 --> 00:15:19,955 Speaker 1: to the radical left Democrats or fascist Republicans, who, by 221 00:15:19,995 --> 00:15:23,475 Speaker 1: the way, are destroying our country. Our so called government 222 00:15:23,515 --> 00:15:26,435 Speaker 1: should come down hard on them and make them pay 223 00:15:26,755 --> 00:15:32,715 Speaker 1: for their illegal political activity. Unquote. You get my point. 224 00:15:33,515 --> 00:15:36,795 Speaker 1: It doesn't occur to Trump nor the Maga cult that 225 00:15:36,835 --> 00:15:40,755 Speaker 1: if the government could or can during the second Trump dictatorship, 226 00:15:40,915 --> 00:15:45,235 Speaker 1: come down hard on MSNBC, it can come down hard 227 00:15:45,275 --> 00:15:48,955 Speaker 1: on Fox News right now. I mean I've said before 228 00:15:48,955 --> 00:15:52,155 Speaker 1: here I think it should at least it should try, 229 00:15:52,875 --> 00:15:56,915 Speaker 1: if only to see the startled rage on Trump's face. Also, 230 00:15:57,195 --> 00:16:02,475 Speaker 1: frog marching Jesse Waters would be nice, but of course 231 00:16:02,595 --> 00:16:08,075 Speaker 1: contained in that threat against MSNBC is something else utterly delightful. 232 00:16:08,875 --> 00:16:12,875 Speaker 1: By nineteen seventy five, the number of American homes with 233 00:16:13,035 --> 00:16:17,875 Speaker 1: cable television crossed the ten million mark. By nineteen eighty four, 234 00:16:17,875 --> 00:16:20,355 Speaker 1: it was thirty million. By the day I started at 235 00:16:20,355 --> 00:16:22,675 Speaker 1: Sports Center, it was fifty five million, and the day 236 00:16:22,715 --> 00:16:26,395 Speaker 1: I started at MSNBC, it was sixty four million. In 237 00:16:26,395 --> 00:16:32,795 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, it peaked at ninety seven million subscribers. Even now, 238 00:16:33,075 --> 00:16:37,675 Speaker 1: cable is still north of seventy million. And through all 239 00:16:37,715 --> 00:16:43,075 Speaker 1: of this history, Trump still hasn't figured out that cable 240 00:16:43,315 --> 00:16:49,995 Speaker 1: doesn't use free, government approved air waves. It uses. 241 00:16:51,755 --> 00:16:55,115 Speaker 4: Cables. That's why they called cable. Donald. 242 00:16:55,515 --> 00:16:58,315 Speaker 1: Now be a good boy and drink your ketchup and 243 00:16:58,355 --> 00:17:07,075 Speaker 1: your flooride. That's the whole roundup, the whole threat assessed 244 00:17:07,555 --> 00:17:10,755 Speaker 1: a nol weight, I promised your Congressman Clay Higgins, who 245 00:17:10,795 --> 00:17:13,675 Speaker 1: still has not followed up on his promise of conclusive 246 00:17:13,675 --> 00:17:17,715 Speaker 1: proof that January sixth was just government plants shuttled to 247 00:17:17,755 --> 00:17:23,075 Speaker 1: the Capitlo on ghost buses. Congressman Higgins is a moron, 248 00:17:23,795 --> 00:17:27,675 Speaker 1: a college dropout, a former used car dealer, and an 249 00:17:27,675 --> 00:17:31,395 Speaker 1: ex cop fired because he was too violent and he 250 00:17:31,515 --> 00:17:37,155 Speaker 1: lied too much even for Ophalusa's city, Louisiana, And now 251 00:17:37,915 --> 00:17:40,555 Speaker 1: he has gone on one of the fascist propaganda streaming 252 00:17:40,635 --> 00:17:45,875 Speaker 1: channels and announced that Special counsel Jack Smith's quote days 253 00:17:46,635 --> 00:17:47,595 Speaker 1: are numbered. 254 00:17:48,075 --> 00:17:50,755 Speaker 5: Let me say, regarding Jack Smith and his requests for 255 00:17:51,315 --> 00:17:57,795 Speaker 5: another list of American citizens under some alleged legitimate investigative effort, 256 00:17:58,795 --> 00:18:01,435 Speaker 5: I considered a badge of honor to be on another 257 00:18:01,515 --> 00:18:05,595 Speaker 5: one of Jack Smith's list. So I just say that 258 00:18:06,115 --> 00:18:10,595 Speaker 5: his days are numbered, and American patriots are not going 259 00:18:10,675 --> 00:18:11,755 Speaker 5: to stand idly by. 260 00:18:11,875 --> 00:18:16,435 Speaker 1: Good sir, that is not even a stochastic threat against 261 00:18:16,595 --> 00:18:23,555 Speaker 1: Jack Smith. Arrest Clay Higgins today, and if his threat 262 00:18:23,755 --> 00:18:28,155 Speaker 1: against the federal prosecutor is insufficient for that, somehow there's 263 00:18:28,195 --> 00:18:30,875 Speaker 1: got to be something we can charge him with for 264 00:18:31,035 --> 00:18:36,555 Speaker 1: that's still unfulfilled. Bullshit about ghost buses on January sixth. 265 00:18:36,315 --> 00:18:39,275 Speaker 5: Are you familiar with with you know what a ghost 266 00:18:39,395 --> 00:18:43,035 Speaker 5: vehicle is? Director Director of the FBI, certainly should you 267 00:18:43,035 --> 00:18:44,755 Speaker 5: know what a ghost bus is? 268 00:18:44,835 --> 00:18:46,435 Speaker 4: A ghost bus? Ghost bus? 269 00:18:46,475 --> 00:18:47,955 Speaker 1: I'm not sure I've used that term before. 270 00:18:48,035 --> 00:18:51,835 Speaker 6: Okay, it's pretty common in long Enford. 271 00:18:52,235 --> 00:19:00,155 Speaker 5: It's a vehicles that's used for secret purposes. It's painted 272 00:19:00,235 --> 00:19:03,235 Speaker 5: over these two buses in the middle here. They were 273 00:19:03,275 --> 00:19:06,275 Speaker 5: the first to arrive at Union Station on January sixth, 274 00:19:06,435 --> 00:19:08,395 Speaker 5: zero five hundred. I have all this evidence. 275 00:19:08,635 --> 00:19:10,395 Speaker 4: I'm showing you a tip of the size sper. 276 00:19:10,435 --> 00:19:14,675 Speaker 6: Mister chairman, these two buses, mister Tanny, completely white point 277 00:19:15,315 --> 00:19:20,115 Speaker 6: is a very significant hearing, mister Chairman, And these buses 278 00:19:20,155 --> 00:19:23,635 Speaker 6: are nefarious in nature, and we're filled with. 279 00:19:23,915 --> 00:19:28,515 Speaker 5: FBI and form and stressed as Trump supporters. You can 280 00:19:28,515 --> 00:19:30,835 Speaker 5: deplore it onto our capitol on January sixth. 281 00:19:31,315 --> 00:19:33,875 Speaker 4: Your day is coming at your right back. 282 00:19:33,755 --> 00:19:40,235 Speaker 1: And to the left back and to the left ghost buses, 283 00:19:41,475 --> 00:19:44,475 Speaker 1: ghosts buses. 284 00:19:47,355 --> 00:20:00,115 Speaker 7: Oh, Nancy, get to something part are you insurrection? 285 00:20:01,355 --> 00:20:07,235 Speaker 4: Who you can call? Thank you, Nancy Faust. 286 00:20:12,915 --> 00:20:17,275 Speaker 1: Also of interest here, I'm back on Twitter x and 287 00:20:17,315 --> 00:20:21,795 Speaker 1: it's all thanks to the firm hand of Lauren Boberch. 288 00:20:22,515 --> 00:20:29,635 Speaker 4: That's next. This is countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. 289 00:20:41,715 --> 00:20:44,155 Speaker 1: This is Sports Center. 290 00:20:44,635 --> 00:20:47,155 Speaker 4: Wait, check that not anymore. 291 00:20:47,915 --> 00:20:56,235 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman in Sports dateline, Florham Park, 292 00:20:56,315 --> 00:21:03,355 Speaker 1: New Jersey. Good news everyone. Aaron Rodgers, who long suffering 293 00:21:03,395 --> 00:21:05,915 Speaker 1: but always gullible New York Jets fans thought was their 294 00:21:05,995 --> 00:21:08,835 Speaker 1: savior and then he tore his achilles like thirteen seconds 295 00:21:08,835 --> 00:21:13,595 Speaker 1: into his Jets career, actually practiced yesterday, a mere eleven 296 00:21:13,635 --> 00:21:18,075 Speaker 1: weeks after surgery on that achilles The record return is 297 00:21:18,355 --> 00:21:22,275 Speaker 1: five months, and he didn't tear it again, nor did 298 00:21:22,315 --> 00:21:25,555 Speaker 1: he trip out on some psychedelic tea. The media was 299 00:21:25,555 --> 00:21:28,195 Speaker 1: not allowed to take photos or video of Aaron Rodgers 300 00:21:28,275 --> 00:21:31,795 Speaker 1: because NFL reporters are servile nincompoops and the commissioner of 301 00:21:31,835 --> 00:21:33,715 Speaker 1: the league is slightly to the right of Attila the 302 00:21:33,795 --> 00:21:36,875 Speaker 1: Hunt when it comes to press freedom. But Rogers thinks 303 00:21:36,955 --> 00:21:40,275 Speaker 1: he might play as early as December twenty fourth, depending 304 00:21:40,315 --> 00:21:43,075 Speaker 1: on how he feels and depending on what the Jets' 305 00:21:43,115 --> 00:21:48,115 Speaker 1: playoff chances are. No no this year. Well, what the 306 00:21:48,195 --> 00:21:52,675 Speaker 1: Jets playoffs chances are this year is there aren't any. 307 00:21:52,915 --> 00:21:57,235 Speaker 1: They are four and seven and they suck. Also, also, 308 00:21:57,995 --> 00:22:12,395 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers turns forty years old on Saturday, Thank you, 309 00:22:12,515 --> 00:22:19,275 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. Stateline Baseball Land. No news on the Free 310 00:22:19,275 --> 00:22:23,035 Speaker 1: agent show, Hey Otani, except that every writer and every 311 00:22:23,115 --> 00:22:27,035 Speaker 1: fan associated with every club he might join is convinced 312 00:22:27,035 --> 00:22:30,515 Speaker 1: he will join that team. You'll be a busy beaver 313 00:22:30,715 --> 00:22:33,315 Speaker 1: next year, won't he playing for twenty two different clubs 314 00:22:33,315 --> 00:22:36,435 Speaker 1: at the same time. Meanwhile, the New York Yankees have 315 00:22:36,515 --> 00:22:39,555 Speaker 1: reportedly been so intent on signing the free agent pitching 316 00:22:39,595 --> 00:22:44,115 Speaker 1: star Yoshinobu Yamamoto of Japan that they have not assigned 317 00:22:44,195 --> 00:22:48,675 Speaker 1: his Japanese league's uniform number eighteen to any Yankee player 318 00:22:48,755 --> 00:22:52,195 Speaker 1: for more than a year. That's according to sny dot com, 319 00:22:52,235 --> 00:22:56,395 Speaker 1: and they say it is deliberate, just one last potential perk, 320 00:22:56,435 --> 00:22:59,795 Speaker 1: one little final straw that could tip Yamamoto's decision in 321 00:22:59,835 --> 00:23:02,915 Speaker 1: the yankees favor. But as the folks at the uniform 322 00:23:02,955 --> 00:23:06,355 Speaker 1: website UNI watch no coach, what about the other teams 323 00:23:06,435 --> 00:23:10,395 Speaker 1: viewed as potential favorites to sign Yamamoto The Cubs, While 324 00:23:10,435 --> 00:23:13,195 Speaker 1: they also don't have anybody wearing number eighteen at the moment, 325 00:23:13,795 --> 00:23:17,155 Speaker 1: nor do the Diamondbacks, nor the Dodgers, or the Giants, 326 00:23:17,195 --> 00:23:20,195 Speaker 1: or the Padres, the Rangers or the Red Sox. The 327 00:23:20,235 --> 00:23:24,195 Speaker 1: Cardinals have a number eighteen outfielder Jordan Walker. The Marlins 328 00:23:24,235 --> 00:23:27,955 Speaker 1: have one Cade Marlowe. The Phillies have one Johann Rojas, 329 00:23:27,995 --> 00:23:30,875 Speaker 1: the Tigers have Tyler Nevin. One expects that any of 330 00:23:30,875 --> 00:23:33,555 Speaker 1: those players would give up or sell off their number, 331 00:23:33,915 --> 00:23:36,755 Speaker 1: and the Orioles they have a number eighteen as well. 332 00:23:37,035 --> 00:23:40,155 Speaker 1: Manager Brandon Hyde wears number eighteen and if you told 333 00:23:40,235 --> 00:23:43,475 Speaker 1: him that he would have to wear number eleveny billion 334 00:23:43,635 --> 00:23:47,075 Speaker 1: to get Yamamoto on the Orioles, Hyde would stitch the 335 00:23:47,195 --> 00:23:51,475 Speaker 1: number eleveny billion on his uniform himself. The one team 336 00:23:51,555 --> 00:23:57,635 Speaker 1: that finds itself in a hole here is inevitably, naturally forever, 337 00:23:58,155 --> 00:24:01,395 Speaker 1: the New York Mets. They do not have anybody wearing 338 00:24:01,475 --> 00:24:03,795 Speaker 1: number eighteen, and so they would seem to be in 339 00:24:03,835 --> 00:24:06,515 Speaker 1: as just a good position as the Yankees or those 340 00:24:06,515 --> 00:24:09,915 Speaker 1: other teams I mentioned. But that's because during the season 341 00:24:10,075 --> 00:24:14,435 Speaker 1: upcoming they will be retiring uniform number eighteen in honor 342 00:24:14,475 --> 00:24:19,035 Speaker 1: of their ill fated outfielder of the nineteen eighties, Darryl Strawberry, 343 00:24:19,435 --> 00:24:24,515 Speaker 1: the Darryl Darryl Guy. Since Strawberry left the Mets as 344 00:24:24,555 --> 00:24:27,715 Speaker 1: a free agent in a bitter exchange after the nineteen 345 00:24:27,795 --> 00:24:30,955 Speaker 1: ninety season, the Mets have given out his number eighteen 346 00:24:31,795 --> 00:24:36,115 Speaker 1: nineteen times, including to such immortal players as Todd Haney 347 00:24:36,515 --> 00:24:40,395 Speaker 1: and Nick Plummer, then Jeff Barry and Jeff Demico and 348 00:24:40,515 --> 00:24:44,475 Speaker 1: Ryan Cordell. And I have been following the Mets since 349 00:24:44,515 --> 00:24:47,515 Speaker 1: the nineteen sixty seven season, and frankly, I have no 350 00:24:47,635 --> 00:24:51,275 Speaker 1: earthly clue who Ryan Cordell was, and he was with 351 00:24:51,395 --> 00:24:54,955 Speaker 1: them only three years ago. So if the uniform number 352 00:24:55,035 --> 00:24:58,675 Speaker 1: is actually decisive to the free agent pitcher Yamamoto, the 353 00:24:58,715 --> 00:25:03,035 Speaker 1: Mets have a choice to make not sign Yamamoto, or 354 00:25:03,635 --> 00:25:07,675 Speaker 1: talk the often ornery and troubled Strawberry into deferring his 355 00:25:07,835 --> 00:25:11,315 Speaker 1: number being retired, or making it the number is retired 356 00:25:12,075 --> 00:25:15,395 Speaker 1: except for this guy. And if that isn't the most 357 00:25:15,515 --> 00:25:19,275 Speaker 1: Mets thing ever, honest to God, after all this time, 358 00:25:19,395 --> 00:25:42,995 Speaker 1: I don't want to know what is still ahead of 359 00:25:43,035 --> 00:25:46,155 Speaker 1: us on countdown. Oh, whenever I think about baseball free 360 00:25:46,155 --> 00:25:48,675 Speaker 1: agents at this time of year, I remember the damnedest 361 00:25:48,715 --> 00:25:52,875 Speaker 1: moment of my career when Baseball's in house network offered 362 00:25:52,915 --> 00:25:56,355 Speaker 1: me my own show there and a contract, and then 363 00:25:56,515 --> 00:25:59,355 Speaker 1: one of the teams found out about it and threatened 364 00:25:59,395 --> 00:26:02,995 Speaker 1: to rip the network's cameras out of their stadium if 365 00:26:03,035 --> 00:26:05,835 Speaker 1: they hired me. He's not a team known for a 366 00:26:05,875 --> 00:26:10,635 Speaker 1: sense of humor, nor recently anyway, for winning, nor for 367 00:26:10,715 --> 00:26:14,715 Speaker 1: anything much except fascism. Things I promised not to tell 368 00:26:14,835 --> 00:26:19,035 Speaker 1: coming up, including the name of that team. First time 369 00:26:19,075 --> 00:26:21,275 Speaker 1: for the daily roundup of the misgrants, morons and Dunning 370 00:26:21,315 --> 00:26:22,795 Speaker 1: Kruger effects, specimens. 371 00:26:22,355 --> 00:26:27,915 Speaker 4: Who constitute two days worse persons in the world worse. 372 00:26:28,395 --> 00:26:32,635 Speaker 1: Sean Hannity, the Fox News resident teletubby who has spent 373 00:26:32,715 --> 00:26:34,755 Speaker 1: much of the last two years talking about the alleged 374 00:26:34,795 --> 00:26:40,075 Speaker 1: cognitive decline of President Biden. Hannity's guest was Congressman James Comer. 375 00:26:40,555 --> 00:26:43,155 Speaker 1: You'll remember him. He's the one who publicly gave Hunter 376 00:26:43,195 --> 00:26:46,395 Speaker 1: Biden the choice of testifying to his committee to obstruct justice, 377 00:26:46,875 --> 00:26:49,275 Speaker 1: either in a private deposition or at a public hearing. 378 00:26:49,675 --> 00:26:52,515 Speaker 1: And when the President's son on Tuesday chose the public hearing, 379 00:26:52,515 --> 00:26:55,155 Speaker 1: Congressman Comber said, no, you can't do that, even though 380 00:26:55,195 --> 00:26:58,275 Speaker 1: I said you could. Anyway, back to the part about 381 00:26:58,315 --> 00:27:03,435 Speaker 1: cognitive decline, Hannity welcomed Congressman Comber by saying House Oversight 382 00:27:03,435 --> 00:27:09,995 Speaker 1: Committee Chairman James Comen with us, good to see you, senator, Senator, 383 00:27:10,635 --> 00:27:14,115 Speaker 1: he's a congressman. What was that again about cognitive decline? 384 00:27:14,195 --> 00:27:21,595 Speaker 1: Sean Worser. Casey DeSantis, the wife of Ron DeSantis, Remember 385 00:27:21,835 --> 00:27:26,155 Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis. Anyway, she went on something called The Simon 386 00:27:26,275 --> 00:27:31,875 Speaker 1: Conway Show and she said this about her hubbytis how 387 00:27:31,915 --> 00:27:32,515 Speaker 1: he fights. 388 00:27:32,595 --> 00:27:35,275 Speaker 2: He is literally willing to put himself in front of 389 00:27:35,315 --> 00:27:37,155 Speaker 2: a freight train to stand up for the people of 390 00:27:37,195 --> 00:27:37,995 Speaker 2: his state and his. 391 00:27:37,995 --> 00:27:45,755 Speaker 4: Country literally literally excellent. Let's go get him out on 392 00:27:45,755 --> 00:27:46,875 Speaker 4: those train tracks. 393 00:27:47,595 --> 00:27:51,075 Speaker 1: In fact, that Republican debate upcoming, Let's see if they're 394 00:27:51,115 --> 00:27:53,075 Speaker 1: all literally willing to put themselves in front of a 395 00:27:53,075 --> 00:27:56,915 Speaker 1: freight train. Hold the debate on the tracks. The Alabama 396 00:27:57,035 --> 00:28:00,275 Speaker 1: Southern runs right past the University of Alabama where they're 397 00:28:00,275 --> 00:28:01,075 Speaker 1: supposed to debate. 398 00:28:01,275 --> 00:28:03,515 Speaker 4: Let's go train tracks. 399 00:28:03,555 --> 00:28:11,755 Speaker 1: Everybody, moron, but our winner the worst, Congresswoman Lauren Bobert. Here. 400 00:28:11,875 --> 00:28:16,395 Speaker 1: I was minding my own business on my first full day, 401 00:28:16,955 --> 00:28:21,755 Speaker 1: having mostly left twitter x save for the dog account, 402 00:28:22,275 --> 00:28:25,035 Speaker 1: and then somebody sent me the link to her tweet 403 00:28:25,515 --> 00:28:29,515 Speaker 1: saying nobody on twitter x would miss me. And while 404 00:28:29,555 --> 00:28:32,595 Speaker 1: I was on the site reading her idiocy, I find 405 00:28:32,635 --> 00:28:38,395 Speaker 1: out Musk deleted his Pizzagate tweet like I wanted him to. Well, 406 00:28:39,555 --> 00:28:42,235 Speaker 1: there went my excuse for getting out of that hell hole. 407 00:28:43,155 --> 00:28:49,035 Speaker 1: So endeth the boycott tweeting has resumed. Alert the media, 408 00:28:49,955 --> 00:28:53,915 Speaker 1: and just a quick personal assigned to Congresswoman Bobert. Get 409 00:28:53,915 --> 00:28:59,075 Speaker 1: a grip on yourself or on some guy you barely 410 00:28:59,115 --> 00:29:05,355 Speaker 1: know in a theater, learn how to handle yourself in public, Madam. Still, 411 00:29:05,875 --> 00:29:08,435 Speaker 1: I guess I owe some measure of gratitude to Bobo. 412 00:29:08,595 --> 00:29:12,435 Speaker 1: So I'll say this, thank you, Lauren Bobert for giving 413 00:29:12,475 --> 00:29:19,195 Speaker 1: the story of my Twitter exodus. Such a happy ending. Congressman, 414 00:29:19,555 --> 00:29:23,715 Speaker 1: Woman Lauren Bobert, Let's hear it for the congresswoman. Let's 415 00:29:23,715 --> 00:29:30,755 Speaker 1: give the congresswoman a hand two days, worst person, and. 416 00:29:37,475 --> 00:29:39,515 Speaker 4: That a hand in your pocket, or you're just glad 417 00:29:39,555 --> 00:29:39,995 Speaker 4: to see me? 418 00:29:51,075 --> 00:29:54,035 Speaker 1: Just ahead things I promised not to tell Ah, the 419 00:29:54,155 --> 00:29:57,555 Speaker 1: dreadful cusp of November and December. And it gets dark early, 420 00:29:58,115 --> 00:30:01,995 Speaker 1: and you remember holidays past, good and bad. And I 421 00:30:02,115 --> 00:30:04,795 Speaker 1: remember the year that a Major League baseball team got 422 00:30:04,795 --> 00:30:10,195 Speaker 1: me fired from a job I hadn't even started yet. Next, 423 00:30:10,755 --> 00:30:13,155 Speaker 1: first time to feature another great dog in need that 424 00:30:13,235 --> 00:30:16,875 Speaker 1: you can help. Every dog has its day. Myra arrived 425 00:30:16,875 --> 00:30:21,555 Speaker 1: at the Notorious Pound in DeVore, California, pregnant and with tapeworms. 426 00:30:21,955 --> 00:30:25,075 Speaker 1: The good news is they've treated the tapeworms. The puppies 427 00:30:25,115 --> 00:30:28,675 Speaker 1: are due shortly, they're expected to be healthy, and Myra 428 00:30:29,275 --> 00:30:33,795 Speaker 1: is on the kill list. The mind reels. Myra is 429 00:30:33,835 --> 00:30:37,075 Speaker 1: a gentle and loving German shepherd and she needs a 430 00:30:37,115 --> 00:30:40,995 Speaker 1: foster or an adopter in that area Devoor, California, or 431 00:30:41,035 --> 00:30:43,915 Speaker 1: at least our pledges to help a rescue organization get 432 00:30:43,955 --> 00:30:47,915 Speaker 1: her and her unborn babies out of that place. You 433 00:30:47,955 --> 00:30:52,155 Speaker 1: can find pictures and video and links about Myra on 434 00:30:52,155 --> 00:30:55,235 Speaker 1: my account for Dogs in Need at tom Jumbo Grumbo 435 00:30:55,515 --> 00:30:58,395 Speaker 1: and if you can't pledge, your retweet will help too. 436 00:30:58,715 --> 00:31:02,315 Speaker 1: Mayra thanks you, her puppies to be thank you, and 437 00:31:02,435 --> 00:31:14,635 Speaker 1: I thank you. The owners of at least five different 438 00:31:14,675 --> 00:31:17,195 Speaker 1: Major League Baseball teams have tried to get me fired 439 00:31:17,275 --> 00:31:20,515 Speaker 1: over the years, and one, the New York Yankees, kind 440 00:31:20,515 --> 00:31:25,355 Speaker 1: of succeeded. On November twenty six, twenty twelve, my agent 441 00:31:25,435 --> 00:31:28,675 Speaker 1: followed the instructions of Tony Petiti, then the president of 442 00:31:28,675 --> 00:31:32,275 Speaker 1: the TV publicity channel owned by Major League Baseball MLB Network, 443 00:31:32,515 --> 00:31:35,155 Speaker 1: and called Petiti to finalize a deal by which I 444 00:31:35,195 --> 00:31:38,835 Speaker 1: would join the channel to do a daily show, probably 445 00:31:38,875 --> 00:31:40,835 Speaker 1: at five thirty at night. It was going to be weird. 446 00:31:41,315 --> 00:31:45,275 Speaker 1: MLB Network and its sister hockey channel, NHL Network originate 447 00:31:45,395 --> 00:31:48,875 Speaker 1: in the same studios in Scaucus, New Jersey, that MSNBC 448 00:31:49,235 --> 00:31:51,955 Speaker 1: used every day from the day I started there in 449 00:31:51,995 --> 00:31:55,595 Speaker 1: October nineteen ninety seven through the day in October two 450 00:31:55,675 --> 00:31:57,915 Speaker 1: thousand and seven, when NBC finally moved us to New 451 00:31:57,995 --> 00:32:01,275 Speaker 1: York City. I had been asked to do something for 452 00:32:01,475 --> 00:32:04,075 Speaker 1: MLB Network in two thousand and eight and two thousand 453 00:32:04,115 --> 00:32:06,115 Speaker 1: and nine, before it ever got on the air. The 454 00:32:06,235 --> 00:32:09,755 Speaker 1: request came directly from the then Commissioner of Baseball, Bud Ceilig. 455 00:32:10,275 --> 00:32:13,115 Speaker 1: He also asked me to write for Baseball's website, MLB 456 00:32:13,235 --> 00:32:16,155 Speaker 1: dot com. We actually got that done, but the TV 457 00:32:16,195 --> 00:32:19,355 Speaker 1: show was impossible because of my schedule until I was 458 00:32:19,395 --> 00:32:22,835 Speaker 1: a free agent in the fall of twenty twelve. So 459 00:32:23,035 --> 00:32:25,235 Speaker 1: I was invited in the fall of twenty twelve to 460 00:32:25,275 --> 00:32:27,875 Speaker 1: do a couple of guest appearances at MLB Network, and 461 00:32:27,915 --> 00:32:31,795 Speaker 1: they went well except for this crazy deja vu kind 462 00:32:31,795 --> 00:32:33,235 Speaker 1: of thing that hit me when I went into the 463 00:32:33,235 --> 00:32:36,715 Speaker 1: building and found that while Baseball had spent sixty million 464 00:32:36,835 --> 00:32:40,435 Speaker 1: dollars to upgrade all the technical stuff in the studio designs, 465 00:32:41,035 --> 00:32:45,275 Speaker 1: they had not touched anything else from the MSNBC era. 466 00:32:46,115 --> 00:32:50,635 Speaker 1: The carpet tiles were the same, the ping pong table 467 00:32:50,675 --> 00:32:53,915 Speaker 1: in the break room was the same. The signs on 468 00:32:53,995 --> 00:32:56,795 Speaker 1: the back of the bathroom door telling you who to 469 00:32:56,875 --> 00:33:01,475 Speaker 1: call if the Jahn overflows were the same. It was 470 00:33:01,595 --> 00:33:04,515 Speaker 1: like having a dream where you're back in your childhood 471 00:33:04,555 --> 00:33:07,315 Speaker 1: home and everything is exactly the way it was, including 472 00:33:07,355 --> 00:33:10,315 Speaker 1: the creeks and the floorboards, except oh, by the way, 473 00:33:10,315 --> 00:33:12,755 Speaker 1: there's a nuclear reactor in the middle of your den, 474 00:33:12,795 --> 00:33:16,915 Speaker 1: and you keep saying, where did that come from? Anyway, 475 00:33:17,395 --> 00:33:20,515 Speaker 1: the guest appearances on MLB Network went well, and this 476 00:33:20,595 --> 00:33:23,595 Speaker 1: guy Petit, the president, asked if I would fill in 477 00:33:23,635 --> 00:33:25,795 Speaker 1: for two days on their new morning show the week 478 00:33:25,795 --> 00:33:28,075 Speaker 1: of Thanksgiving twenty twelve. I certainly knew how to get 479 00:33:28,115 --> 00:33:28,675 Speaker 1: to the building. 480 00:33:29,115 --> 00:33:29,595 Speaker 4: I did the. 481 00:33:29,515 --> 00:33:33,395 Speaker 1: Shows with Brian Kenny and Ken Rosenthal and Bob Costas's 482 00:33:33,435 --> 00:33:36,235 Speaker 1: son Keith, and Alana Rizzo, and we had a good time. 483 00:33:36,835 --> 00:33:40,155 Speaker 1: And Tony Petiti, the president of MLB Network, attended the 484 00:33:40,195 --> 00:33:42,755 Speaker 1: meetings that we would have before and after each show. 485 00:33:43,355 --> 00:33:46,955 Speaker 1: I mean full staff meetings, fifteen or so people standing 486 00:33:46,955 --> 00:33:49,795 Speaker 1: around a bunch of cubicles, and in front of all 487 00:33:49,875 --> 00:33:53,075 Speaker 1: of them, Tony Peziti began asking me if I thought 488 00:33:53,115 --> 00:33:55,355 Speaker 1: my new show for MLB Network would do better at 489 00:33:55,355 --> 00:33:57,675 Speaker 1: five or five thirty, and if I agreed with him 490 00:33:57,715 --> 00:34:00,395 Speaker 1: that I should work only during the baseball season and 491 00:34:00,555 --> 00:34:03,715 Speaker 1: spring training and playoffs and winter meetings and then stay 492 00:34:03,755 --> 00:34:06,915 Speaker 1: fresh by taking the rest of the year off. He 493 00:34:06,955 --> 00:34:09,035 Speaker 1: asked me if there were people on the staff of 494 00:34:09,115 --> 00:34:11,195 Speaker 1: the morning show who I would like to work with. 495 00:34:11,315 --> 00:34:12,875 Speaker 1: I mean, this is in front of all of the 496 00:34:12,915 --> 00:34:16,315 Speaker 1: staff of the morning show. He warned me they couldn't 497 00:34:16,315 --> 00:34:17,915 Speaker 1: pay me the kind of salary I was used to. 498 00:34:17,955 --> 00:34:19,795 Speaker 1: And I said that happily, the kind of salary I 499 00:34:19,835 --> 00:34:22,115 Speaker 1: was used to meant I did not need the kind 500 00:34:22,115 --> 00:34:24,675 Speaker 1: of salary I was used to. He told me to 501 00:34:24,715 --> 00:34:27,475 Speaker 1: remind my agent to call him the Monday after Thanksgiving. 502 00:34:27,675 --> 00:34:30,675 Speaker 1: He wished me a happy Turkey, and everybody left, and 503 00:34:30,715 --> 00:34:33,595 Speaker 1: everybody heard his plans, and a couple of the producers 504 00:34:33,635 --> 00:34:35,955 Speaker 1: asked me if I was recommending them to be on 505 00:34:36,195 --> 00:34:41,155 Speaker 1: my new show on MLB network. So, how come I 506 00:34:41,155 --> 00:34:43,235 Speaker 1: don't have a new show on MLB Networker, how come 507 00:34:43,275 --> 00:34:45,555 Speaker 1: we're not celebrating the tenth anniversary of my new show 508 00:34:45,555 --> 00:34:50,755 Speaker 1: on MLB Network. Well, on Monday afternoon, my agent calls 509 00:34:50,795 --> 00:34:52,715 Speaker 1: me and says he's just gotten off the phone with 510 00:34:52,795 --> 00:34:56,435 Speaker 1: Tony Petiti and it was the strangest conversation he had 511 00:34:56,475 --> 00:35:00,355 Speaker 1: had since he became an agent. No, let me rephrase that, 512 00:35:00,435 --> 00:35:03,075 Speaker 1: he said, because It wasn't a conversation. It was an 513 00:35:03,075 --> 00:35:06,195 Speaker 1: attempted conversation. He left, asking him what he told me 514 00:35:06,275 --> 00:35:10,035 Speaker 1: to call him about, and he would then say nothing. 515 00:35:11,315 --> 00:35:14,075 Speaker 1: Initially I did not understand what you mean he said nothing. 516 00:35:14,795 --> 00:35:18,675 Speaker 1: My agent said he meant literally that. I say, so, Tony, 517 00:35:18,675 --> 00:35:20,795 Speaker 1: what's your offer to Keith? And then there was silence, 518 00:35:21,555 --> 00:35:23,595 Speaker 1: and I thought the phone call had dropped out. So 519 00:35:23,675 --> 00:35:26,755 Speaker 1: I said, Tony, are you there? And he say sure, 520 00:35:26,795 --> 00:35:28,875 Speaker 1: I am so. Again I ask him, you know, what's 521 00:35:28,875 --> 00:35:32,675 Speaker 1: your offer to Keith? And again literally silence, Only this 522 00:35:32,755 --> 00:35:35,595 Speaker 1: time I can hear him breathing. I tried, like ten 523 00:35:35,635 --> 00:35:37,915 Speaker 1: different ways. Are we talking about Keith? 524 00:35:38,075 --> 00:35:38,315 Speaker 4: Now? 525 00:35:39,195 --> 00:35:42,155 Speaker 1: Silence? Is there a reason you're being silent about Keith? 526 00:35:42,195 --> 00:35:46,155 Speaker 1: Tony silence? If I changed the subject, talked about somebody else, 527 00:35:46,315 --> 00:35:49,275 Speaker 1: he was his normal self. If I mentioned your name, 528 00:35:49,315 --> 00:35:53,275 Speaker 1: he went silent. The next day, the agent calls me back. 529 00:35:54,555 --> 00:35:56,315 Speaker 1: Patiti just did this again with me on the phone. 530 00:35:56,355 --> 00:35:58,675 Speaker 1: He wouldn't speak, literally, wouldn't say any words in any 531 00:35:58,795 --> 00:36:04,035 Speaker 1: language if I mentioned your name. Took me a long 532 00:36:04,315 --> 00:36:08,235 Speaker 1: time to find out what had actually happened. The next 533 00:36:08,275 --> 00:36:10,835 Speaker 1: baseball season, after I'd gone back to work at ESPN. 534 00:36:11,275 --> 00:36:14,075 Speaker 1: I'm at a game. There's one of the MLB network 535 00:36:14,075 --> 00:36:16,755 Speaker 1: officials whom I'd met on my two days before Thanksgiving 536 00:36:16,755 --> 00:36:20,355 Speaker 1: twenty twelve, and this person comes up to me and apologizes. 537 00:36:21,115 --> 00:36:24,035 Speaker 1: We all heard what happened. It's so embarrassing. Patdi is 538 00:36:24,075 --> 00:36:27,195 Speaker 1: such a coward. The Yankees got to them and another 539 00:36:27,235 --> 00:36:29,475 Speaker 1: club I never found out which one. There was some 540 00:36:29,555 --> 00:36:32,475 Speaker 1: kind of conference call a Monday after Thanksgiving to tell 541 00:36:32,515 --> 00:36:34,475 Speaker 1: the teams about your new show, and whoever was on 542 00:36:34,515 --> 00:36:37,635 Speaker 1: the call for the Yankees went ballistic. They said something like, 543 00:36:37,675 --> 00:36:39,795 Speaker 1: if you put them on MLB Network, we will disable 544 00:36:39,875 --> 00:36:42,555 Speaker 1: your cameras at Yankee Stadium and never let any of 545 00:36:42,555 --> 00:36:47,635 Speaker 1: you inside the building again. Instantly I knew why the 546 00:36:47,755 --> 00:36:52,075 Speaker 1: Yankees would have done that. I was, and my father 547 00:36:52,155 --> 00:36:55,355 Speaker 1: before me, a season ticket holder for forty two years 548 00:36:55,355 --> 00:36:57,955 Speaker 1: for Yankee games, and for ten of those years, I 549 00:36:58,075 --> 00:37:00,595 Speaker 1: was also one of the two announcers who did a 550 00:37:00,715 --> 00:37:03,795 Speaker 1: kind of play by play over the public address system 551 00:37:03,835 --> 00:37:07,035 Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium him on Old Timer's Day. And then 552 00:37:07,115 --> 00:37:10,835 Speaker 1: one day in twenty eleven, I tweeted a photo of 553 00:37:10,875 --> 00:37:13,755 Speaker 1: a Yankee employee in the stands giving some sort of 554 00:37:13,875 --> 00:37:17,795 Speaker 1: hand signals to Alex Rodriguez in the on deck circle. 555 00:37:18,555 --> 00:37:21,755 Speaker 1: The guy was clearly telling Alex Rodriguez what the last 556 00:37:22,035 --> 00:37:26,075 Speaker 1: pitch had been. It wasn't cheating, it was helping a 557 00:37:26,195 --> 00:37:29,755 Speaker 1: supposed superstar who apparently could not figure out for himself 558 00:37:30,715 --> 00:37:34,115 Speaker 1: from on the field what the last pitch had been. 559 00:37:35,355 --> 00:37:38,475 Speaker 1: I tweeted the photo. Major League Baseball called the Yankees 560 00:37:38,475 --> 00:37:40,515 Speaker 1: and told them to cut it out. The Yankees and 561 00:37:40,595 --> 00:37:43,915 Speaker 1: A Rod looked stupid in the newspapers, and the Yankees 562 00:37:43,955 --> 00:37:46,075 Speaker 1: management said they were not mad at me. And then 563 00:37:46,155 --> 00:37:49,115 Speaker 1: three months later, days before Old Timer's Day, they leaked 564 00:37:49,155 --> 00:37:52,275 Speaker 1: to the papers that I had been fired as Old 565 00:37:52,315 --> 00:37:55,315 Speaker 1: Timer's Day play by play man because I had tweeted 566 00:37:55,315 --> 00:37:57,955 Speaker 1: that photo of Alex Rodriguez and the guy in the stands. 567 00:37:58,755 --> 00:38:02,715 Speaker 1: So rather naturally, my response was to not renew my 568 00:38:02,795 --> 00:38:05,195 Speaker 1: season tickets. And my tickets were right behind home plate 569 00:38:05,435 --> 00:38:07,955 Speaker 1: and they cost like four hundred thousand dollars a year, 570 00:38:08,275 --> 00:38:11,315 Speaker 1: and relax, I gave about seventy percent of them to 571 00:38:11,355 --> 00:38:14,715 Speaker 1: make a wish. But the Yankees, being the Yankees, were 572 00:38:14,795 --> 00:38:17,315 Speaker 1: furious that I would not give them four hundred thousand 573 00:38:17,395 --> 00:38:21,075 Speaker 1: dollars a year anyway, so they told MLB network. If 574 00:38:21,155 --> 00:38:23,595 Speaker 1: MLB Network gave me a show, they would unplug MLB 575 00:38:23,675 --> 00:38:28,515 Speaker 1: network cameras. Actually they did more than that. I asked 576 00:38:28,555 --> 00:38:31,875 Speaker 1: my friend, the MLB network official, the real puzzler of 577 00:38:31,915 --> 00:38:36,595 Speaker 1: the saga, why this MLB Network President Tony Petiti literally 578 00:38:37,035 --> 00:38:40,595 Speaker 1: would not speak, would not say anything, not even deals 579 00:38:40,715 --> 00:38:45,355 Speaker 1: off to my agent. Oh, the official said, the Yankees 580 00:38:45,355 --> 00:38:48,275 Speaker 1: were specific about that if you say anything to him 581 00:38:48,355 --> 00:38:51,675 Speaker 1: or his people, we will get you fired. So Fetiti 582 00:38:51,675 --> 00:38:54,035 Speaker 1: took it literally. He said, if you called or your 583 00:38:54,035 --> 00:38:59,115 Speaker 1: agent called, to just give you the silent treatment. These 584 00:38:59,115 --> 00:39:03,035 Speaker 1: are adults, mind you, and they say that on air. 585 00:39:03,195 --> 00:39:07,155 Speaker 1: Talent are the prima donnas. As I said, the Yankees 586 00:39:07,435 --> 00:39:10,115 Speaker 1: are the closest of five different teams who tried to 587 00:39:10,675 --> 00:39:13,555 Speaker 1: have actually gotten me fired sort of. When I was 588 00:39:13,595 --> 00:39:16,635 Speaker 1: in local news in Los Angeles, Jackie Autrey, the woman 589 00:39:16,635 --> 00:39:19,195 Speaker 1: who went from being Gene Autry's banker to being his 590 00:39:19,275 --> 00:39:21,875 Speaker 1: second wife, tried to get me fired from my station 591 00:39:21,955 --> 00:39:25,195 Speaker 1: in LA because I had criticized their team, the California Angels. 592 00:39:25,795 --> 00:39:27,715 Speaker 1: She tried again a few years later after I got 593 00:39:27,715 --> 00:39:31,795 Speaker 1: to ESPN. Then there were the Tampa Bay Rays, well 594 00:39:31,835 --> 00:39:34,715 Speaker 1: the Devil Rays at that point, whose first owner, Vince Nimoli, 595 00:39:35,115 --> 00:39:37,595 Speaker 1: was convinced I had a vendetta against his team and 596 00:39:37,675 --> 00:39:41,075 Speaker 1: was making up stories about them that were accidentally true. 597 00:39:41,835 --> 00:39:45,755 Speaker 1: He could not conceive that somebody in his organization who 598 00:39:45,795 --> 00:39:49,395 Speaker 1: he paid, actually hated him so much that this person 599 00:39:49,435 --> 00:39:52,675 Speaker 1: called me up and volunteered to feed me anything bad 600 00:39:52,755 --> 00:39:55,755 Speaker 1: that went on there. But that is exactly what happened. 601 00:39:56,595 --> 00:39:58,875 Speaker 1: So that's the Yankees, the Angels, and the Rays, and 602 00:39:58,915 --> 00:40:02,155 Speaker 1: there's a mystery fifth team that was also involved in 603 00:40:02,195 --> 00:40:04,675 Speaker 1: the MLB Network thing. And then there were the Chicago 604 00:40:04,755 --> 00:40:08,355 Speaker 1: a White Sox. One of their co owners, Eddie Einhorn, 605 00:40:08,755 --> 00:40:10,755 Speaker 1: was a big fan of mine. But for forty four 606 00:40:10,875 --> 00:40:13,755 Speaker 1: years the team has been run by the other co owner, 607 00:40:13,835 --> 00:40:17,915 Speaker 1: Jerry Reinsdorf. And Jerry Reinsdorf was one of the key 608 00:40:17,995 --> 00:40:20,595 Speaker 1: figures in the strike that killed the nineteen ninety four 609 00:40:20,595 --> 00:40:25,075 Speaker 1: baseball season. During that terrible winter that followed, my sources 610 00:40:25,115 --> 00:40:28,275 Speaker 1: in the Baseball Players Association showed me a copy of 611 00:40:28,355 --> 00:40:31,675 Speaker 1: their offer to the owners. The owners were led by Rhinsdorf, 612 00:40:31,995 --> 00:40:35,035 Speaker 1: and in the player's offer, they were willing to actually 613 00:40:35,075 --> 00:40:40,355 Speaker 1: negotiate one of the players Union's Sacred Cows salary arbitration. 614 00:40:40,915 --> 00:40:44,515 Speaker 1: They were willing to cut it or maybe eliminate it outright. 615 00:40:45,115 --> 00:40:48,875 Speaker 1: But after complaining about salary arbitration for twenty years, the 616 00:40:48,915 --> 00:40:53,275 Speaker 1: owners committee, led by this Reinsdorff idiot, turned the players down. 617 00:40:54,555 --> 00:40:57,595 Speaker 1: Apparently most of the owners did not know that Hinsdorff 618 00:40:57,635 --> 00:41:01,475 Speaker 1: had passed on a chance to eliminate salary arbitration, a 619 00:41:01,555 --> 00:41:06,435 Speaker 1: kind of automatic inflation thing within baseballs, And they came 620 00:41:06,475 --> 00:41:08,635 Speaker 1: down on Reinsdorf like a ton of bricks. What do 621 00:41:08,715 --> 00:41:12,835 Speaker 1: you mean you turned down the chance to stop salary arbitration. 622 00:41:13,915 --> 00:41:17,435 Speaker 1: So naturally he blamed me, and he called up ESPN 623 00:41:17,475 --> 00:41:19,675 Speaker 1: and he demanded they fire me, which to their credit, 624 00:41:19,715 --> 00:41:24,675 Speaker 1: they never did do. Revenge is a dish which people 625 00:41:24,715 --> 00:41:28,475 Speaker 1: of taste prefer to eat cold goes, the old Italian proverb. 626 00:41:28,635 --> 00:41:32,635 Speaker 1: Reinsdorf is today despised within baseball. He has once again 627 00:41:32,755 --> 00:41:36,435 Speaker 1: ruined the Chicago White Sox. The Tampa Bay Ray's owner 628 00:41:36,555 --> 00:41:40,355 Speaker 1: name Oli, sold the team unknowingly, obviously to a man 629 00:41:40,435 --> 00:41:43,355 Speaker 1: named Stuart Sternberg, who turned out to be married to 630 00:41:43,395 --> 00:41:45,555 Speaker 1: a friend of mine from college. So whenever the Rays 631 00:41:45,595 --> 00:41:47,355 Speaker 1: would come into New York, I would sit with Stu 632 00:41:47,435 --> 00:41:50,075 Speaker 1: and his wife Lisa in their box. Their eldest son 633 00:41:50,195 --> 00:41:54,635 Speaker 1: interned for me MLB network, which started out pretty good, 634 00:41:55,035 --> 00:41:57,595 Speaker 1: is now just a propaganda machine in which every team 635 00:41:57,675 --> 00:42:00,355 Speaker 1: is unbeaten and every player is the greatest ever. And 636 00:42:00,395 --> 00:42:03,795 Speaker 1: they fired their best reporter, Ken Rosenthal because he dared 637 00:42:03,835 --> 00:42:08,195 Speaker 1: to write something of the idiot Commissioner Robert Manfred and 638 00:42:08,315 --> 00:42:12,115 Speaker 1: mister renege on the offer Petiti, he really got his 639 00:42:12,875 --> 00:42:16,115 Speaker 1: three years later he was promoted to deputy Commissioner of Baseball, 640 00:42:16,155 --> 00:42:20,355 Speaker 1: but that new Commissioner Manfred squeezed him out and he 641 00:42:20,395 --> 00:42:22,115 Speaker 1: had to go work as the president of some e 642 00:42:22,315 --> 00:42:25,355 Speaker 1: sports company in twenty twenty, and then they offered him 643 00:42:25,395 --> 00:42:28,835 Speaker 1: a year later. And I have not heard anything about 644 00:42:28,875 --> 00:42:35,275 Speaker 1: Tony Pettiti since. Literally it's been absolute silence, not a 645 00:42:35,315 --> 00:42:41,075 Speaker 1: single spoken word. And why does that sound so familiar. 646 00:42:54,355 --> 00:42:56,035 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 647 00:42:56,115 --> 00:42:57,875 Speaker 1: you for listening. Countdown has come to you from the 648 00:42:57,955 --> 00:43:03,555 Speaker 1: Vin Scully Studios at the Elderman Broadcasting Empire in New York. Countdown, 649 00:43:03,595 --> 00:43:06,195 Speaker 1: I mean all I said about the Steinbrenner family was 650 00:43:06,275 --> 00:43:09,475 Speaker 1: after George Steinbrenner died, and first Hank Steinbrenner and then 651 00:43:09,515 --> 00:43:12,955 Speaker 1: Hal Steinbrenner ran the franchise into the ground. All I 652 00:43:12,995 --> 00:43:15,835 Speaker 1: said was that for me to actually believe that Hank 653 00:43:15,875 --> 00:43:18,395 Speaker 1: and Haw were George's sons and George was a great 654 00:43:18,435 --> 00:43:21,315 Speaker 1: friend of mine, all I would need would be to 655 00:43:21,355 --> 00:43:24,395 Speaker 1: see the paternity tests. Was that such a bad thing 656 00:43:24,435 --> 00:43:28,795 Speaker 1: to have said? Countdown? Musical directors Brian Ray and John 657 00:43:28,795 --> 00:43:31,595 Speaker 1: Phillips Shanelle arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. 658 00:43:31,635 --> 00:43:34,915 Speaker 1: Mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Mister Ray was on 659 00:43:34,955 --> 00:43:37,515 Speaker 1: the guitars, the bass, and the drums. It was produced 660 00:43:37,515 --> 00:43:40,795 Speaker 1: by TKO brothers. I mean Hank Steinbrenner, who tried it first, 661 00:43:41,115 --> 00:43:42,795 Speaker 1: ran the Yankees for a couple of years and then 662 00:43:42,835 --> 00:43:44,715 Speaker 1: said I'm no good at this and he lit up 663 00:43:44,715 --> 00:43:47,955 Speaker 1: another cigarette and he quit and he let Hal take 664 00:43:47,995 --> 00:43:50,195 Speaker 1: over it. Holl's not any good at it either, and 665 00:43:50,235 --> 00:43:52,675 Speaker 1: he's still running the damn thing into the ground. 666 00:43:53,475 --> 00:43:55,515 Speaker 4: Is that so bad to say that? I guess I'm 667 00:43:55,515 --> 00:43:56,075 Speaker 4: a band guy. 668 00:43:56,755 --> 00:44:00,035 Speaker 1: Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged 669 00:44:00,035 --> 00:44:03,435 Speaker 1: and performed by No horns allowed. The sports music is 670 00:44:03,515 --> 00:44:06,555 Speaker 1: courtesy of ESPN. It was written by Mitch Warren Davis 671 00:44:06,635 --> 00:44:09,675 Speaker 1: and we called the Olderman theme from ESPN two. Our 672 00:44:09,755 --> 00:44:12,995 Speaker 1: satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss, the 673 00:44:13,035 --> 00:44:15,995 Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever. Hour announceder today is my 674 00:44:16,035 --> 00:44:19,355 Speaker 1: friend's Tebe van Zant. Everything else was pretty much my fault. 675 00:44:20,195 --> 00:44:22,235 Speaker 1: I didn't even mention the brother in law who was 676 00:44:22,275 --> 00:44:25,155 Speaker 1: supposed to run the team, the guy at Swindle was 677 00:44:25,195 --> 00:44:28,355 Speaker 1: his name, appropriately enough for the stein Renn family, and 678 00:44:28,915 --> 00:44:31,155 Speaker 1: why he didn't wind up running the team. I didn't 679 00:44:31,155 --> 00:44:36,635 Speaker 1: mention any of those grizzly details. Man Yankee's thin skin bastards. 680 00:44:37,155 --> 00:44:39,475 Speaker 1: That's count down for this the one thy fifty ninth 681 00:44:39,555 --> 00:44:42,235 Speaker 1: day since dementia j Trump's first attempted coup against the 682 00:44:42,235 --> 00:44:45,315 Speaker 1: democratically elected government of the United States. Convict him now 683 00:44:45,355 --> 00:44:47,075 Speaker 1: while we still can. By the way, Trump was a 684 00:44:47,155 --> 00:44:49,715 Speaker 1: Yankee fan. He used to call up and get free 685 00:44:49,715 --> 00:44:52,515 Speaker 1: tickets from the Yankees all the time. He and Juliani 686 00:44:52,595 --> 00:44:55,235 Speaker 1: used to sit there sometimes Bill O'Reilly, and they only 687 00:44:55,275 --> 00:44:57,955 Speaker 1: went for free because with all that money, of course, 688 00:44:57,955 --> 00:45:00,595 Speaker 1: you don't actually spend money. That's how you get to 689 00:45:00,635 --> 00:45:02,955 Speaker 1: have all the money that you don't actually have, which 690 00:45:02,955 --> 00:45:06,675 Speaker 1: is why he's in court going to go to jail. Okay, 691 00:45:06,915 --> 00:45:10,395 Speaker 1: convict him now while we still can. The next scheduled 692 00:45:10,435 --> 00:45:13,875 Speaker 1: countdown is tomorrow. If I ever finished this one bulletins 693 00:45:13,955 --> 00:45:17,195 Speaker 1: is the news warrants till then. I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, 694 00:45:17,395 --> 00:45:21,195 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, good luck, and as the manager. 695 00:45:21,315 --> 00:45:23,755 Speaker 1: Former manager of the Yankees, Ralph Halk once said about 696 00:45:23,755 --> 00:45:26,315 Speaker 1: the team when I complimented him on being the Yankee 697 00:45:26,355 --> 00:45:28,155 Speaker 1: manager when I was a kid, so he'd always be 698 00:45:28,195 --> 00:45:31,395 Speaker 1: in my mind the first Yankee manager, he said, thank you, 699 00:45:31,435 --> 00:45:34,635 Speaker 1: and don't take this personally, but piss on the Yankees. 700 00:45:42,675 --> 00:45:46,635 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olreman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 701 00:45:46,795 --> 00:45:51,715 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 702 00:45:51,995 --> 00:45:53,955 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.