1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:23,195 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. Okay, 2 00:00:23,235 --> 00:00:26,275 Speaker 1: I got it, I got the solution to the speaker debacle. 3 00:00:26,555 --> 00:00:30,995 Speaker 1: Got it right here, you're ready. Kim Jefferies walks into 4 00:00:31,075 --> 00:00:34,475 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy's office before the House can reconvene at noon 5 00:00:34,915 --> 00:00:39,995 Speaker 1: and vote McCarthy down for a seventh time, and he says, Kevin, 6 00:00:40,835 --> 00:00:42,955 Speaker 1: do you want to be Speaker of the House? Do 7 00:00:43,115 --> 00:00:45,835 Speaker 1: you really want to be Speaker of the House. I 8 00:00:45,955 --> 00:00:49,515 Speaker 1: can make you Speaker of the House today at noon. 9 00:00:50,635 --> 00:00:54,795 Speaker 1: You're listening, And Kevin McCarthy looks at a Keem Jeffrey's blankly, 10 00:00:54,875 --> 00:00:57,635 Speaker 1: because that's who Kevin McCarthy is. And Leader Jeffrey says, 11 00:00:58,475 --> 00:01:02,715 Speaker 1: here's the deal. First of all, when you are Speaker, 12 00:01:03,035 --> 00:01:06,715 Speaker 1: you and like five five of your friends are going 13 00:01:06,795 --> 00:01:12,395 Speaker 1: to vote to increase the debt ceiling. Second, the motion 14 00:01:12,475 --> 00:01:15,715 Speaker 1: to vacate the chair rule the one you're gonna have. It. 15 00:01:15,795 --> 00:01:17,675 Speaker 1: Lets them hold a vote of no confidence in you 16 00:01:17,755 --> 00:01:20,915 Speaker 1: if like five Republicans call for it, you change that 17 00:01:20,995 --> 00:01:28,115 Speaker 1: to say two five for the motion to vacate the chair. Third, 18 00:01:28,395 --> 00:01:32,475 Speaker 1: this reincarnation of the Holman rule that Marge Green is 19 00:01:32,555 --> 00:01:35,635 Speaker 1: dying for so you can try to defund the salaries 20 00:01:35,675 --> 00:01:44,315 Speaker 1: of anybody who's investigating Trump. It's dead, Fourth Biggs, Bishop Bobert, 21 00:01:44,555 --> 00:01:52,315 Speaker 1: for Keen Cloud, Clyde Crane, Donald's Gates. Good ghosts are Harris, 22 00:01:52,595 --> 00:02:00,155 Speaker 1: Luna Miller, Norman Oguls, Perry Rosendale, Roy and self. The 23 00:02:00,235 --> 00:02:05,115 Speaker 1: twenty idiots holding up Congress, the twenty idiots who've voted 24 00:02:05,355 --> 00:02:10,275 Speaker 1: against you. You hate him, we hate him. None of 25 00:02:10,275 --> 00:02:12,875 Speaker 1: them gets a chairmanship, None of them gets a good 26 00:02:12,915 --> 00:02:16,995 Speaker 1: committee owned trailer park Green too. You can bury them 27 00:02:16,995 --> 00:02:21,435 Speaker 1: all as deep as you can. The Maga glass wipes 28 00:02:21,995 --> 00:02:26,795 Speaker 1: and we will help you do the shoveling. Kevin and 29 00:02:26,915 --> 00:02:33,755 Speaker 1: fifth and finally impeaching Biden. No, it's dead. The Laptop Committee. 30 00:02:33,995 --> 00:02:38,555 Speaker 1: You don't know from laptop committees. Kevin investigating the FBI, 31 00:02:38,755 --> 00:02:43,555 Speaker 1: Twitter Fauci. I want the committee's dead. I want the 32 00:02:43,595 --> 00:02:47,075 Speaker 1: committee's families dead. I want the committee's houses burned to 33 00:02:47,155 --> 00:02:52,995 Speaker 1: the ground. Then Achem Jeffrey says, you give me all that, Kevin, 34 00:02:53,315 --> 00:02:56,795 Speaker 1: and I will give you what's on this card, And 35 00:02:56,875 --> 00:03:01,275 Speaker 1: he hands Kevin McCarthy a small index card, And on 36 00:03:01,315 --> 00:03:05,515 Speaker 1: the card it reads two hundred and twelve of Democratic 37 00:03:05,635 --> 00:03:10,275 Speaker 1: votes for Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House of Representatives, 38 00:03:11,035 --> 00:03:14,195 Speaker 1: and Jeffrey says, that's two d and twelve of us 39 00:03:14,715 --> 00:03:19,875 Speaker 1: plus you makes two. We're down, Amand so all you 40 00:03:19,995 --> 00:03:22,955 Speaker 1: have to do is keep four of the other two 41 00:03:22,995 --> 00:03:25,875 Speaker 1: hundred Republicans who voted for you yesterday. All you have 42 00:03:25,955 --> 00:03:29,515 Speaker 1: to do is give four of your best friends in 43 00:03:29,595 --> 00:03:36,195 Speaker 1: this house whatever they want. And congratulations, Mr Speaker Kevin. 44 00:03:36,235 --> 00:03:39,275 Speaker 1: Do you want to be speaker because then you'll want 45 00:03:39,395 --> 00:03:44,475 Speaker 1: good friends like us. Because the Republicans, Kevin, are not 46 00:03:44,515 --> 00:03:47,955 Speaker 1: going to make you speaker. And sometime in the next week, 47 00:03:48,635 --> 00:03:52,435 Speaker 1: these Republican friends of yours, they're not only not going 48 00:03:52,515 --> 00:03:56,995 Speaker 1: to make you speaker, they are going to make you Fredo, Kevin. 49 00:03:57,475 --> 00:04:01,115 Speaker 1: And this out here, this is not the House of Representatives, 50 00:04:01,435 --> 00:04:08,235 Speaker 1: this is Lake Tahoe. You are going overboard, Kevin, and 51 00:04:08,275 --> 00:04:11,755 Speaker 1: it'll be Steve Scalise who will be negotiating with Matt 52 00:04:12,075 --> 00:04:17,395 Speaker 1: freaking Gates. Kevin. Or should I call you Fredo? Maybe 53 00:04:17,395 --> 00:04:20,955 Speaker 1: not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the 54 00:04:20,955 --> 00:04:25,395 Speaker 1: rest of your life. And then Fredo, if you're lucky, 55 00:04:25,675 --> 00:04:29,675 Speaker 1: Stevie and Maddie, we'll let you have the office next 56 00:04:29,715 --> 00:04:34,915 Speaker 1: to George Santos, Is that what you want, Kevin? You 57 00:04:34,955 --> 00:04:39,955 Speaker 1: want to be the guy George Santos can pity? Or 58 00:04:40,115 --> 00:04:49,875 Speaker 1: do you want to be Speaker of the freaking House? Now? 59 00:04:49,915 --> 00:04:54,595 Speaker 1: Do I think this will happen? I do not, not 60 00:04:54,755 --> 00:04:58,235 Speaker 1: in a million years. But as goofy as some of 61 00:04:58,275 --> 00:05:04,635 Speaker 1: its sounds, it would actually make sense, especially for Kevin McCarthy, 62 00:05:04,795 --> 00:05:08,795 Speaker 1: especially for a Keem Jeffreys and the Democratic Party, and 63 00:05:08,995 --> 00:05:11,395 Speaker 1: especially for the people who have been forgotten in this 64 00:05:11,515 --> 00:05:15,155 Speaker 1: endless series of calculations and negotiations, the citizens of the 65 00:05:15,235 --> 00:05:19,515 Speaker 1: United States of America. Because, yes, if Kevin McCarthy cut 66 00:05:19,515 --> 00:05:22,315 Speaker 1: a deal with a. Chem Jeffreys to make himself Speaker 67 00:05:22,515 --> 00:05:25,795 Speaker 1: at the price of keeping the Republicans more or less 68 00:05:25,835 --> 00:05:29,515 Speaker 1: within the guard rails of sanity, more or less where 69 00:05:29,515 --> 00:05:33,475 Speaker 1: the Republicans usually lived just twenty five years ago. If 70 00:05:33,475 --> 00:05:36,235 Speaker 1: he did that, Kevin McCarthy would be dead to the 71 00:05:36,355 --> 00:05:39,995 Speaker 1: rabid Republican base. On the other hand, if he really 72 00:05:40,075 --> 00:05:44,035 Speaker 1: winds up not getting elected Speaker of the House, guess what, 73 00:05:44,875 --> 00:05:49,075 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy would also be dead to the rabid Republican base. 74 00:05:49,715 --> 00:05:52,875 Speaker 1: There is no comeback to be made from the position 75 00:05:52,955 --> 00:05:57,915 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy finds himself in today to me right now, 76 00:05:58,835 --> 00:06:04,515 Speaker 1: McCarthy's choice is whether he wants to be a sycophantic, unprincipled, manipulative, 77 00:06:04,675 --> 00:06:09,475 Speaker 1: dishonest failure, or he wants to be a sycophantic, unprincipled, manipulative, 78 00:06:09,475 --> 00:06:13,915 Speaker 1: dishonest failure who became Speaker of the House because all 79 00:06:13,955 --> 00:06:16,995 Speaker 1: the roads stretching out in front of him right now 80 00:06:17,035 --> 00:06:22,115 Speaker 1: in Republican Land end with Kevin McCarthy getting nothing. He 81 00:06:22,155 --> 00:06:25,555 Speaker 1: can somehow cut a deal with that Vermin Gates, but 82 00:06:25,675 --> 00:06:29,155 Speaker 1: the terms will be McCarthy's speaker, and Gates tells him 83 00:06:29,155 --> 00:06:32,315 Speaker 1: what to do, or he can somehow cut a different 84 00:06:32,355 --> 00:06:35,235 Speaker 1: deal with Boberg's and then six weeks from now, Bobert 85 00:06:35,235 --> 00:06:38,795 Speaker 1: and four other nitwits invoke that motion to vacate the chair, 86 00:06:39,155 --> 00:06:43,795 Speaker 1: and McCarthy is the shortest serving speaker since Theodore Pomeroy had. 87 00:06:43,915 --> 00:06:49,715 Speaker 1: One day in eighteen sixty nine or today or Friday 88 00:06:49,795 --> 00:06:53,075 Speaker 1: or over the weekend, some of McCarthy's alleged friends suddenly 89 00:06:53,115 --> 00:06:55,555 Speaker 1: stop standing next to him on the floor of the house, 90 00:06:56,115 --> 00:07:00,075 Speaker 1: and they go and slowly worm their way over and 91 00:07:00,155 --> 00:07:06,315 Speaker 1: stand next to Steve Scalise instead. There are no other 92 00:07:06,475 --> 00:07:12,835 Speaker 1: options speaker in name only, or speaker until the first Insurrection, 93 00:07:13,275 --> 00:07:17,435 Speaker 1: or never speaker at all. Hi, I'm Kevin McCarthy. Do 94 00:07:17,515 --> 00:07:20,595 Speaker 1: you know me? I was once almost Speaker of the House, 95 00:07:20,635 --> 00:07:23,995 Speaker 1: but I got outsmarted by Babus and butt Head. So 96 00:07:24,115 --> 00:07:28,075 Speaker 1: I got the American Express Card. Now I get treated 97 00:07:28,155 --> 00:07:32,595 Speaker 1: like I'm Paul Ryan. The American Express Card. Don't leave 98 00:07:32,675 --> 00:07:35,995 Speaker 1: home without it? And now would you like a table 99 00:07:36,155 --> 00:07:40,075 Speaker 1: near the window or near our famous sizzler all you 100 00:07:40,115 --> 00:07:45,755 Speaker 1: can eat buffet? And I mean, by the way, a 101 00:07:45,835 --> 00:07:49,755 Speaker 1: Republican speaker beholden to the support of the Democrats and 102 00:07:49,835 --> 00:07:54,075 Speaker 1: forced at metaphorical gunpoint to try to steer the Republican 103 00:07:54,115 --> 00:07:59,275 Speaker 1: Party back towards comparative responsibility and maybe even restore some 104 00:07:59,595 --> 00:08:05,075 Speaker 1: sense that the House of Representatives was designed to serve 105 00:08:05,315 --> 00:08:08,035 Speaker 1: the American people, all the American people, and it was 106 00:08:08,035 --> 00:08:10,715 Speaker 1: not just supposed to be a place for Republican self 107 00:08:10,715 --> 00:08:17,355 Speaker 1: aggrandizement and grift. What's wrong with that? Exactly? What's so 108 00:08:17,395 --> 00:08:22,515 Speaker 1: funny about peace, love, and understanding? And from the democratic 109 00:08:22,555 --> 00:08:25,275 Speaker 1: point of view, I know I said yesterday Jefferies was 110 00:08:25,315 --> 00:08:27,755 Speaker 1: a genius for making sure nobody on his side of 111 00:08:27,755 --> 00:08:30,795 Speaker 1: the Aisle rushed in to put out the collective Republican 112 00:08:30,875 --> 00:08:34,475 Speaker 1: self immolation. But as this thing gets worse and worse, 113 00:08:34,555 --> 00:08:39,315 Speaker 1: and McCarthy's ego sees his looming has been shipped in 114 00:08:39,355 --> 00:08:42,875 Speaker 1: more and more detail, Jeffrey's leverage actually gets more and 115 00:08:42,915 --> 00:08:48,155 Speaker 1: more potent. How far would Kevin McCarthy go to be 116 00:08:48,395 --> 00:08:53,235 Speaker 1: speaker if only to be ex speaker two years from 117 00:08:53,275 --> 00:08:56,395 Speaker 1: now when he goes looking for that post Congress job, 118 00:08:56,435 --> 00:09:01,315 Speaker 1: Because if right now, when he isn't elected speaker, he's 119 00:09:01,355 --> 00:09:03,795 Speaker 1: going to be looking for that post Congress job starting 120 00:09:03,835 --> 00:09:08,115 Speaker 1: on two you think to be speaker, he wouldn't sell 121 00:09:08,155 --> 00:09:13,875 Speaker 1: out Matt Gates or Jim Jordan's or Steve Scalise or 122 00:09:13,955 --> 00:09:18,795 Speaker 1: Donald Trump or Maga. Of course he'd sell them out. 123 00:09:18,915 --> 00:09:26,155 Speaker 1: He's Kevin McCarthy. And what honestly is Kevin McCarthy's motive 124 00:09:26,395 --> 00:09:31,435 Speaker 1: personally deep down to be loyal to Gates and Bobert 125 00:09:31,875 --> 00:09:36,555 Speaker 1: and Chip Roy and now to his friends who are 126 00:09:36,635 --> 00:09:40,395 Speaker 1: scheming at this hour behind his back to swap him 127 00:09:40,395 --> 00:09:43,355 Speaker 1: out for Steve Scalise, and if that doesn't work, to 128 00:09:43,475 --> 00:09:47,355 Speaker 1: swap him out for somebody else. You want to be 129 00:09:47,635 --> 00:09:52,035 Speaker 1: loyal to the Republican party that is gutting you while 130 00:09:52,355 --> 00:09:55,515 Speaker 1: it is gutting you, or do you want to be 131 00:09:55,755 --> 00:10:00,155 Speaker 1: Speaker of the House of Representatives. And there is a 132 00:10:00,195 --> 00:10:04,075 Speaker 1: final consideration here from the Democratic point of view, somebody 133 00:10:04,115 --> 00:10:06,995 Speaker 1: is going to become the fifty Speaker of the House. 134 00:10:07,235 --> 00:10:11,275 Speaker 1: Somebody Republican is going to become the fifty Speaker of 135 00:10:11,315 --> 00:10:14,395 Speaker 1: the House. That is the reality, and it is unavoidable. 136 00:10:14,435 --> 00:10:17,235 Speaker 1: And under those circumstances, it sure would be better if 137 00:10:17,275 --> 00:10:20,955 Speaker 1: that Republican Speaker of the House was somebody Akeem Jefferies 138 00:10:20,995 --> 00:10:25,035 Speaker 1: selected and somebody who gets elected by a Keem Jeffreys, 139 00:10:25,515 --> 00:10:29,435 Speaker 1: all the other Democrats, Kevin McCarthy, and four or five 140 00:10:29,515 --> 00:10:32,995 Speaker 1: Republicans that Jefferies and McCarthy don't hate as much as 141 00:10:33,035 --> 00:10:39,115 Speaker 1: they both hate all the other Republicans. And again, no, 142 00:10:40,435 --> 00:10:43,355 Speaker 1: I don't think this will happen in a million years, 143 00:10:43,995 --> 00:10:55,635 Speaker 1: which is really really too bad because it would absolutely work. 144 00:11:07,355 --> 00:11:10,035 Speaker 1: They never listened to me. By the way, joke of 145 00:11:10,075 --> 00:11:12,875 Speaker 1: the day from Senator Brian Chatz is press guy Steve 146 00:11:12,995 --> 00:11:16,235 Speaker 1: Jestski they should start the next speaker vote with a 147 00:11:16,355 --> 00:11:20,595 Speaker 1: runner on second base. Still, I had actual news news 148 00:11:20,635 --> 00:11:24,075 Speaker 1: about whoever placed the pipe bombs at the Committee headquarters 149 00:11:24,515 --> 00:11:28,515 Speaker 1: two years ago tonight in Washington. The implosion of MSNBC 150 00:11:28,715 --> 00:11:31,675 Speaker 1: continues as the network not only books Lauren Boebert as 151 00:11:31,715 --> 00:11:35,915 Speaker 1: a guest for a historic story, but then boasts about 152 00:11:35,955 --> 00:11:38,675 Speaker 1: it like it didn't make the network look like a whorehouse. 153 00:11:39,635 --> 00:11:42,915 Speaker 1: And he had a catchphrase that millions of southern California 154 00:11:43,115 --> 00:11:46,435 Speaker 1: TV news viewers knew by heart. And then came the 155 00:11:46,515 --> 00:11:50,835 Speaker 1: night he forgot the catchphrase. Things I promised not to 156 00:11:50,875 --> 00:11:59,915 Speaker 1: tell coming up. That's next. This is countdown. This is 157 00:11:59,955 --> 00:12:09,275 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith still ahead on Countdown. Unlike everything else 158 00:12:09,315 --> 00:12:15,115 Speaker 1: on television, we made MSNBC as success organically, no consultants, 159 00:12:15,115 --> 00:12:20,155 Speaker 1: no focus groups, no overripe executives with plans, just telling 160 00:12:20,155 --> 00:12:24,675 Speaker 1: the truth. And it earned NBC billions in profits. And 161 00:12:24,715 --> 00:12:28,835 Speaker 1: now the new management and someone named Stephanie Rule have 162 00:12:29,155 --> 00:12:33,035 Speaker 1: shamed us all a new worst persons coming up first. 163 00:12:33,035 --> 00:12:35,115 Speaker 1: In each edition of Countdown, we feature a dog in 164 00:12:35,195 --> 00:12:37,915 Speaker 1: need you can help. Every dog has its day. This 165 00:12:37,995 --> 00:12:42,915 Speaker 1: is about Apollo and Polo and Rufus and Ravioli in 166 00:12:42,955 --> 00:12:46,515 Speaker 1: about eight other dogs and sixteen cats at the City 167 00:12:46,515 --> 00:12:49,075 Speaker 1: Shelter in Mount Vernon, New York, my old neck of 168 00:12:49,075 --> 00:12:52,195 Speaker 1: the woods, just north of the city. The shelter is closing. 169 00:12:52,555 --> 00:12:55,235 Speaker 1: It has to because after forty eight years, the building 170 00:12:55,315 --> 00:12:57,115 Speaker 1: is falling down and the money is not there to 171 00:12:57,275 --> 00:12:59,875 Speaker 1: fix it or replace it. They will close at the 172 00:12:59,995 --> 00:13:02,235 Speaker 1: end of this month, and if there are any cats 173 00:13:02,355 --> 00:13:05,075 Speaker 1: or dogs who have not been adopted out or fostered 174 00:13:05,155 --> 00:13:08,635 Speaker 1: by then, they will be euthanized. Because it is not 175 00:13:08,675 --> 00:13:11,635 Speaker 1: like there are open spaces in any other area. Shelters 176 00:13:11,715 --> 00:13:15,075 Speaker 1: all way beyond capacity. Some very good looking dogs, very 177 00:13:15,075 --> 00:13:17,755 Speaker 1: cute cats at the Mount Vernon Shelter. I'll tweet a 178 00:13:17,755 --> 00:13:20,115 Speaker 1: link to their site. If you're in the area and 179 00:13:20,155 --> 00:13:22,395 Speaker 1: you're looking, this is the place to go right now. 180 00:13:22,955 --> 00:13:27,435 Speaker 1: I thank you, and Opal and Tank and Rufus, thank you. 181 00:13:32,635 --> 00:13:36,035 Speaker 1: Postscripts to the news some headlines, some updates, some snarks, 182 00:13:36,035 --> 00:13:39,955 Speaker 1: some predictions. Dateline Washington, This is interesting. Didn't get much 183 00:13:40,035 --> 00:13:44,195 Speaker 1: pick up yesterday because, frankly, most reporters and news organizations 184 00:13:44,235 --> 00:13:47,555 Speaker 1: in Washington can only cover one story at a time. 185 00:13:47,955 --> 00:13:51,315 Speaker 1: But the FBI has just increased from a hundred thousand 186 00:13:51,395 --> 00:13:55,755 Speaker 1: dollars to five hundred thousand dollars the reward for any 187 00:13:55,795 --> 00:13:59,875 Speaker 1: information leading to the arrest of whoever, just after dinner 188 00:13:59,915 --> 00:14:04,555 Speaker 1: time two years ago tonight on Tuesday, January, whoever play 189 00:14:05,155 --> 00:14:07,995 Speaker 1: those pipe bombs near the headquarters of the Democratic and 190 00:14:08,075 --> 00:14:11,835 Speaker 1: Republican national Committees. The FBI says it has conducted one 191 00:14:11,955 --> 00:14:16,795 Speaker 1: thousand interviews, It has visited twelve hundred residences and businesses, 192 00:14:16,955 --> 00:14:21,435 Speaker 1: It has collected thirty nine thousand video files, and assessed 193 00:14:21,515 --> 00:14:26,915 Speaker 1: five hundred notable tips from the public, and still nothing. Notably, 194 00:14:26,955 --> 00:14:30,835 Speaker 1: the FBI's announcement refers to whoever did this as a person, 195 00:14:31,275 --> 00:14:34,835 Speaker 1: not a man, not a woman and Dateline Washington and 196 00:14:34,915 --> 00:14:37,915 Speaker 1: this was reported Tuesday, but it also got swallowed up 197 00:14:37,955 --> 00:14:41,675 Speaker 1: by the speaker coverage. The Washington Post reporting guests who's 198 00:14:41,795 --> 00:14:45,995 Speaker 1: back in town? The Attorney General's special counsel for Trump, 199 00:14:46,115 --> 00:14:50,035 Speaker 1: Jack Smith, quoting the paper. People familiar with Smith's travels, 200 00:14:50,235 --> 00:14:52,475 Speaker 1: would not say when he arrived from Europe, but said 201 00:14:52,555 --> 00:14:55,475 Speaker 1: on Tuesday that he has been back in the country 202 00:14:55,515 --> 00:15:13,635 Speaker 1: for some time. This is Sports Center. Wait, check that 203 00:15:14,715 --> 00:15:22,355 Speaker 1: not anymore. This is countdown with Keith in sports. The 204 00:15:22,395 --> 00:15:25,875 Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox finally did something to calm their mutinous fans, 205 00:15:25,915 --> 00:15:29,555 Speaker 1: agreeing to the latest thing in baseball and eleven year 206 00:15:29,635 --> 00:15:35,235 Speaker 1: contract with the third baseman Raphael Devers one million dollars pending. 207 00:15:35,715 --> 00:15:39,395 Speaker 1: The other latest thing in baseball the physical, speaking of 208 00:15:39,475 --> 00:15:42,235 Speaker 1: which didn't Carlo's career signed with the Mets or something 209 00:15:42,315 --> 00:15:45,595 Speaker 1: like what was it two years ago? Pending a physical? 210 00:15:46,635 --> 00:15:48,675 Speaker 1: Are they waiting for him to get back from lords? 211 00:15:48,915 --> 00:15:51,795 Speaker 1: Are they waiting for something to heal the cloning and 212 00:15:52,675 --> 00:15:56,395 Speaker 1: Baseball Hall of Fame Update one and twenty ballots revealed 213 00:15:56,475 --> 00:15:59,715 Speaker 1: so far, and per the tracker runs so expertly by 214 00:15:59,915 --> 00:16:03,795 Speaker 1: Mr Ryan Thibodeaux, only two nominees are above the threshold 215 00:16:03,835 --> 00:16:07,435 Speaker 1: for election, which is of the vote. That's Scott Roland 216 00:16:07,435 --> 00:16:11,755 Speaker 1: the third basement at and Todd Helton the Rockies first 217 00:16:11,795 --> 00:16:16,395 Speaker 1: basement at seventy seven. But historically percentages slide as time 218 00:16:16,435 --> 00:16:19,275 Speaker 1: goes by, and especially in those ballots that the writer 219 00:16:19,395 --> 00:16:22,875 Speaker 1: voters do not want publicly revealed. So right now the 220 00:16:22,915 --> 00:16:27,355 Speaker 1: odds favor nobody being elected already below the cut line 221 00:16:27,355 --> 00:16:29,915 Speaker 1: and pretty much done, the likes of Andrew Jones and 222 00:16:29,955 --> 00:16:34,515 Speaker 1: Billy Wagner at Gary Sheffield at sixty six, Carlos Beltron 223 00:16:34,555 --> 00:16:38,075 Speaker 1: at fifty six. There's nobody else even at the results 224 00:16:38,075 --> 00:16:42,955 Speaker 1: will be announced on hockey Czechia beats Sweden two to 225 00:16:43,075 --> 00:16:47,075 Speaker 1: one in the semifinals of the World Junior Hockey Championships. 226 00:16:47,235 --> 00:16:50,315 Speaker 1: And why should you care? Because that means that in 227 00:16:50,355 --> 00:16:53,315 Speaker 1: the title game today that will feature the big six 228 00:16:53,355 --> 00:17:14,355 Speaker 1: ft four inch Checkia left wing. Marcel Marcel, Thank you, 229 00:17:14,515 --> 00:17:20,035 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust Marcel Marcel, that's his name, Yes, Marcel. Marcel's 230 00:17:20,075 --> 00:17:23,955 Speaker 1: favorite fictional character is Humbard Humbert. His favorite presidential family 231 00:17:23,995 --> 00:17:27,555 Speaker 1: member is Lauren Bush Lauren. His favorite diplomat his Bootros 232 00:17:27,555 --> 00:17:30,875 Speaker 1: Boutros Gallery. His favorite author Jerome k Jerome, and of course, 233 00:17:31,075 --> 00:17:36,715 Speaker 1: his favorite retro bands are Duran, Duran and confusingly enough, 234 00:17:38,715 --> 00:17:47,835 Speaker 1: The Grateful Dead Still Ahead. He was one of the 235 00:17:47,875 --> 00:17:51,715 Speaker 1: models for Ted Baxter from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, 236 00:17:51,715 --> 00:17:54,515 Speaker 1: and he had a catchphrase that everybody in Southern California 237 00:17:54,595 --> 00:17:59,515 Speaker 1: knew by heart except him. He did not know his 238 00:17:59,595 --> 00:18:05,395 Speaker 1: own catchphrase by heart. The story of Jerry Dunfie. Next, first, 239 00:18:05,435 --> 00:18:08,115 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the miscrants, morons and Dunning Krueger 240 00:18:08,155 --> 00:18:13,515 Speaker 1: Effects specimens who constitute two days worse Persons, and the 241 00:18:13,595 --> 00:18:20,075 Speaker 1: World Lebronze roll Call. The political website opened Pandora's Box 242 00:18:20,195 --> 00:18:23,795 Speaker 1: in a story yesterday, which concluded that Blake Masters had 243 00:18:23,915 --> 00:18:28,275 Speaker 1: underperformed for a Republican candidate in the Arizona Senate race 244 00:18:28,315 --> 00:18:31,595 Speaker 1: compared to the typical Republican candidate there now. They did 245 00:18:31,595 --> 00:18:37,715 Speaker 1: this by unveiling a new statistic, votes above replacement, which 246 00:18:37,795 --> 00:18:42,395 Speaker 1: is modeled and or plagiarized from the Society for American 247 00:18:42,395 --> 00:18:48,595 Speaker 1: Baseball Research statistic wins above Replacement, abbreviated as WAR. I'll 248 00:18:48,595 --> 00:18:51,355 Speaker 1: only say this to you in the political field. Once 249 00:18:51,915 --> 00:18:54,795 Speaker 1: I like metrics, I've been involved in the Society for 250 00:18:54,795 --> 00:18:58,435 Speaker 1: American Baseball Research since nineteen seventy three. But once you 251 00:18:58,475 --> 00:19:03,075 Speaker 1: start using stats like this Masters votes above replacement it 252 00:19:03,195 --> 00:19:07,075 Speaker 1: was minus three point nine, you will never get to 253 00:19:07,155 --> 00:19:10,235 Speaker 1: go back to the good old days when you didn't 254 00:19:10,275 --> 00:19:12,555 Speaker 1: have to listen to this number all the damn time. 255 00:19:13,555 --> 00:19:15,435 Speaker 1: By the way, they're actually referring to this as the 256 00:19:15,555 --> 00:19:19,995 Speaker 1: votes above replacement metric, which would in fact be abbreviated 257 00:19:20,035 --> 00:19:25,275 Speaker 1: as varm which would make those who use the stats varmints. 258 00:19:26,475 --> 00:19:29,435 Speaker 1: They're on our up. Speaking of failures and varmints from Arizona, 259 00:19:29,515 --> 00:19:32,435 Speaker 1: there's Carrie Lake, who has in two months gone from 260 00:19:32,475 --> 00:19:35,715 Speaker 1: the forefront of the future Fascists of America to a 261 00:19:35,755 --> 00:19:40,195 Speaker 1: candidate for an involuntary psych eval In an interview on 262 00:19:40,235 --> 00:19:43,795 Speaker 1: the screaming propaganda feed called Real America's Voice, Lake has 263 00:19:43,835 --> 00:19:46,595 Speaker 1: now referred to herself in the third person as quote 264 00:19:47,035 --> 00:19:51,875 Speaker 1: the real governor, the duly elected governor. Even more crazily, 265 00:19:51,995 --> 00:19:54,795 Speaker 1: she says that while she thinks they stole the election 266 00:19:54,875 --> 00:19:57,475 Speaker 1: from Trump in the middle of the night, what they 267 00:19:57,475 --> 00:19:59,755 Speaker 1: did to her was far worse because they did it 268 00:19:59,755 --> 00:20:02,475 Speaker 1: in the middle of the day, which makes no sense. 269 00:20:03,475 --> 00:20:06,315 Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't just not makes sense. In reality, 270 00:20:06,515 --> 00:20:09,875 Speaker 1: nothing was stolen from either of them. They lost, carry 271 00:20:10,075 --> 00:20:13,315 Speaker 1: you lost, But it doesn't make sense as an analogy, 272 00:20:13,355 --> 00:20:15,435 Speaker 1: even for the nut jobs. I mean, how is stealing 273 00:20:15,475 --> 00:20:18,635 Speaker 1: something in daylight worse than stealing it in the middle 274 00:20:18,635 --> 00:20:23,315 Speaker 1: of the night. Seriously, get help. But our winners, Stephanie Rule, 275 00:20:23,475 --> 00:20:27,995 Speaker 1: host of MSNBC's The Eleventh Hour program, and Rashida Jones, 276 00:20:28,035 --> 00:20:30,275 Speaker 1: the network president, and anybody else who was involved in 277 00:20:30,275 --> 00:20:34,315 Speaker 1: this fiasco. The special guest they booked to discuss the 278 00:20:34,355 --> 00:20:37,555 Speaker 1: speaker votes, the one they promoted on social media to 279 00:20:37,595 --> 00:20:44,475 Speaker 1: appear on the quote Historic Battle Lauren Bobert. Lauren Bobert 280 00:20:44,555 --> 00:20:49,795 Speaker 1: as a special guest on MSNBC and promoted. Look, I 281 00:20:49,955 --> 00:20:53,075 Speaker 1: understand it's a business and the audience is shrinking, and 282 00:20:53,275 --> 00:20:55,915 Speaker 1: NBC News chairman says Are Conde thinks he has to 283 00:20:55,955 --> 00:20:58,995 Speaker 1: turn it into a whore house to get whatever ratings 284 00:20:58,995 --> 00:21:02,635 Speaker 1: he can, however he can get them. But putting Lauren 285 00:21:02,795 --> 00:21:06,835 Speaker 1: Bobert on MSNBC is not just journalistic malpractice. It shows 286 00:21:06,835 --> 00:21:10,515 Speaker 1: that Conde and Jones, and especially this host Rule have 287 00:21:10,715 --> 00:21:14,755 Speaker 1: lost the basic plot here. Every time in its history 288 00:21:14,755 --> 00:21:18,715 Speaker 1: that MSNBC has tried to court conservative viewers or given 289 00:21:18,755 --> 00:21:23,915 Speaker 1: airtime to fascists, its ratings have gone down. When we 290 00:21:23,995 --> 00:21:28,075 Speaker 1: evolved slowly and organically into first an anti Bush network 291 00:21:28,075 --> 00:21:30,915 Speaker 1: and then a news operation with a liberal point of view, 292 00:21:31,595 --> 00:21:36,355 Speaker 1: MSNBC's ratings went up. There's nothing to be gained from 293 00:21:36,395 --> 00:21:41,035 Speaker 1: giving airtime to nihilist political creatures like Lauren Bobert. It 294 00:21:41,115 --> 00:21:43,955 Speaker 1: is not just disgusting. It is not just a betrayal 295 00:21:43,995 --> 00:21:48,715 Speaker 1: of your audience. It costs you money. And since NBC 296 00:21:48,755 --> 00:21:53,915 Speaker 1: News Chairman Conde and NBCUniversal Chairman Jeff Shell are supposedly 297 00:21:53,955 --> 00:21:58,035 Speaker 1: employed to make money, they should be firing Rashida Jones 298 00:21:58,115 --> 00:22:02,435 Speaker 1: and Stephanie Rule and everybody else for doing this, cancel 299 00:22:02,555 --> 00:22:04,995 Speaker 1: the show, and for an hour every night has put 300 00:22:05,075 --> 00:22:08,235 Speaker 1: up as a full screen graphic that says, dear loyal 301 00:22:08,515 --> 00:22:13,635 Speaker 1: MSNBC viewers, We're sorry, We're idiots. We screwed up a 302 00:22:13,675 --> 00:22:19,475 Speaker 1: good thing. Stephanie Rule and accomplices Today's Let me just 303 00:22:19,515 --> 00:22:22,515 Speaker 1: add I apologize to you for what MSNBC has become. 304 00:22:22,555 --> 00:22:25,115 Speaker 1: This was not what any of us who created it 305 00:22:25,475 --> 00:22:31,435 Speaker 1: had in mind. Two day's worst persons in the world 306 00:22:46,235 --> 00:22:48,355 Speaker 1: to the number one story on the Countdown and my 307 00:22:48,435 --> 00:22:51,555 Speaker 1: favorite topic, me and things I promised not to tell. 308 00:22:51,635 --> 00:22:53,555 Speaker 1: And somebody sent me a video of him the other 309 00:22:53,635 --> 00:22:55,995 Speaker 1: day and I laughed again, and I flashed back again. 310 00:22:56,195 --> 00:22:59,595 Speaker 1: And now you get to hear about him too. From 311 00:22:59,595 --> 00:23:01,795 Speaker 1: the desert to the sea to all of southern California, 312 00:23:01,875 --> 00:23:05,315 Speaker 1: good evening. You may or may not have ever heard 313 00:23:05,355 --> 00:23:09,235 Speaker 1: of Jerry Dunfie. That statement that you may or may 314 00:23:09,275 --> 00:23:11,555 Speaker 1: not have ever heard of Jerry Dunfie sent anybody from 315 00:23:11,595 --> 00:23:14,435 Speaker 1: southern California who was more than thirty five years old 316 00:23:14,435 --> 00:23:19,635 Speaker 1: into a deep, stunned silence. Because Jerry dunfi was ubiquitous 317 00:23:19,675 --> 00:23:23,195 Speaker 1: on TV news in Los Angeles from nineteen sixty until 318 00:23:23,235 --> 00:23:26,995 Speaker 1: two thousand and two. He died a week after his 319 00:23:27,115 --> 00:23:29,155 Speaker 1: last newscast, and there are some of the business who 320 00:23:29,195 --> 00:23:32,395 Speaker 1: have seriously believed he may show up again sooner or 321 00:23:32,475 --> 00:23:36,355 Speaker 1: later on TV, even though he's dead. He worked for 322 00:23:36,555 --> 00:23:39,675 Speaker 1: Channel two and he and his team won all the 323 00:23:39,795 --> 00:23:43,755 Speaker 1: ratings wars for fifteen years, and then one year the 324 00:23:43,795 --> 00:23:47,555 Speaker 1: station finished only tied for first in the Spring l 325 00:23:47,595 --> 00:23:50,955 Speaker 1: A ratings of nineteen seventy five, so the CBS corporate 326 00:23:50,995 --> 00:23:53,835 Speaker 1: geniuses in New York fired him and he went to 327 00:23:53,915 --> 00:23:57,515 Speaker 1: Channel seven like thirty six hours later, and then Channel 328 00:23:57,555 --> 00:24:00,835 Speaker 1: seven won nearly all the ratings periods there over fourteen years. 329 00:24:01,475 --> 00:24:03,395 Speaker 1: And then after six years at Channel nine, he was 330 00:24:03,435 --> 00:24:07,115 Speaker 1: hired back at Channel to where he started where they 331 00:24:07,115 --> 00:24:09,635 Speaker 1: fired him, hired back at Channel two for a couple 332 00:24:09,635 --> 00:24:11,715 Speaker 1: of million more than he was making when they fired 333 00:24:11,795 --> 00:24:13,675 Speaker 1: him twenty years earlier, and then he went back to 334 00:24:13,755 --> 00:24:15,555 Speaker 1: Channel line and he was still on every night at 335 00:24:15,595 --> 00:24:17,955 Speaker 1: the age of eighty and Oh, by the way, he 336 00:24:18,035 --> 00:24:21,435 Speaker 1: worked for twenty nine years. After he came out of 337 00:24:21,475 --> 00:24:25,515 Speaker 1: the k ABC studios in the night of October, hopped 338 00:24:25,515 --> 00:24:28,235 Speaker 1: into his Rolls Royce with the station makeup lady by 339 00:24:28,235 --> 00:24:32,955 Speaker 1: his side, and was ambushed and shot in the neck 340 00:24:33,635 --> 00:24:38,515 Speaker 1: by four assailants, leading him to issue the memorable statements 341 00:24:38,675 --> 00:24:41,795 Speaker 1: They said, don't move, and I didn't, but they shot 342 00:24:41,875 --> 00:24:46,315 Speaker 1: anyway unquote. And they never figured out who shot him 343 00:24:46,395 --> 00:24:49,595 Speaker 1: or why. But Jerry Dunfey was back on the air 344 00:24:49,755 --> 00:24:53,915 Speaker 1: three weeks later, anyway, And you cannot imagine how many 345 00:24:54,115 --> 00:24:57,475 Speaker 1: different guesses there were about that in the l A 346 00:24:57,555 --> 00:24:59,555 Speaker 1: news industry when I was on the air there from 347 00:25:00,475 --> 00:25:06,595 Speaker 1: through There is no question that in creating the fictional 348 00:25:06,675 --> 00:25:11,915 Speaker 1: newscasters Ted Baxter and Kent Brockman and maybe even Ron Burgundy, 349 00:25:12,195 --> 00:25:15,835 Speaker 1: much was stolen from Jerry Dunfie. Jerry Dunfey had a 350 00:25:15,915 --> 00:25:18,955 Speaker 1: huge shock of white hair, a craggy face, and a 351 00:25:19,075 --> 00:25:23,195 Speaker 1: rich baritone voice. He was in twenty one different movies, 352 00:25:23,235 --> 00:25:27,995 Speaker 1: including Oh God and the Amazing and Margaret Flick Kitten 353 00:25:28,075 --> 00:25:30,635 Speaker 1: with a Whip. Now, really, there is an A and 354 00:25:30,755 --> 00:25:34,475 Speaker 1: Margaret film called Kitten with a Whip. Anyway, I knew 355 00:25:34,555 --> 00:25:37,715 Speaker 1: Jerry dunfi He was a smart man, and a nice 356 00:25:37,875 --> 00:25:40,715 Speaker 1: and a welcoming man, and obviously quite a businessman. But 357 00:25:40,795 --> 00:25:43,155 Speaker 1: he did have a tendency on the air to become, 358 00:25:43,195 --> 00:25:47,515 Speaker 1: in his own words, a teleprompter reading machine. He said, 359 00:25:47,595 --> 00:25:50,115 Speaker 1: you put it up there, and I'm going to say 360 00:25:50,115 --> 00:25:53,755 Speaker 1: it down here. And that's what this story is about. 361 00:25:54,915 --> 00:25:56,915 Speaker 1: When I got to Los Angeles at the age of 362 00:25:58,635 --> 00:26:02,515 Speaker 1: hour newscast Channel five News at ten was like something 363 00:26:02,515 --> 00:26:05,075 Speaker 1: out of the nineteen sixties. The studio had car pitting 364 00:26:05,595 --> 00:26:08,715 Speaker 1: on the walls. There were no graphics to speak of, 365 00:26:08,835 --> 00:26:13,355 Speaker 1: just a big rear screen projection device. Our best reporter, 366 00:26:13,635 --> 00:26:17,395 Speaker 1: the lovely stand Chambers, had literally worked there since the 367 00:26:17,475 --> 00:26:20,555 Speaker 1: station had signed on the air for the first time 368 00:26:20,595 --> 00:26:23,675 Speaker 1: thirty eight years before, and he would keep working there 369 00:26:23,675 --> 00:26:28,715 Speaker 1: for another twenty five years. Our inimitable anchorman, Hal Fishman 370 00:26:28,875 --> 00:26:32,115 Speaker 1: would not wear an i FB an earpiece because he 371 00:26:32,155 --> 00:26:35,275 Speaker 1: thought viewers might think that if he did, it was 372 00:26:35,315 --> 00:26:38,715 Speaker 1: because he needed a hearing aid. He did, however, where 373 00:26:38,755 --> 00:26:42,595 Speaker 1: one of a series of two pays of different length 374 00:26:42,995 --> 00:26:47,235 Speaker 1: to simulate the need for a haircut. Until the first 375 00:26:47,315 --> 00:26:51,155 Speaker 1: commercial break was over on News at ten, only Hal spoke. 376 00:26:51,755 --> 00:26:55,075 Speaker 1: His female co anchor just sat there adoring Lee, and 377 00:26:55,155 --> 00:26:58,835 Speaker 1: the producer was a marvelously frantic character named Jerry Rubin, 378 00:26:59,275 --> 00:27:01,675 Speaker 1: who every night at nine pm, an hour to airtime, 379 00:27:01,675 --> 00:27:06,795 Speaker 1: would run around the newsroom screaming battle stations, battle stations, 380 00:27:07,715 --> 00:27:10,275 Speaker 1: and who took me seriously only when I could figure 381 00:27:10,275 --> 00:27:14,595 Speaker 1: out what his as Jerry phrase did invisible thread was 382 00:27:15,155 --> 00:27:18,595 Speaker 1: running through his nightly ordering of the stories, the rundown. 383 00:27:19,315 --> 00:27:21,355 Speaker 1: He would ask me to come into the newsroom and 384 00:27:21,435 --> 00:27:24,195 Speaker 1: look at the rundown and say, all right, all Verman, 385 00:27:24,235 --> 00:27:28,275 Speaker 1: you're so smart, what's the invisible thread? And he only 386 00:27:28,315 --> 00:27:30,875 Speaker 1: began to like me when I could recite to him 387 00:27:30,915 --> 00:27:35,035 Speaker 1: from memory the starting lineup of his beloved Chicago Cubs. 388 00:27:35,755 --> 00:27:40,395 Speaker 1: But he stayed liking me. We remained friends for thirty years. Anyway, 389 00:27:40,635 --> 00:27:44,395 Speaker 1: Jerry had come to Los Angeles in nineteen sixte hired 390 00:27:44,435 --> 00:27:47,275 Speaker 1: away from w g N in Chicago to become the 391 00:27:47,395 --> 00:27:50,555 Speaker 1: lead writer for This is where those story comes together. 392 00:27:50,835 --> 00:27:54,275 Speaker 1: You guessed it. The Jerry Dunfie newscasts on k n 393 00:27:54,435 --> 00:27:58,195 Speaker 1: x T, the CBS station in Los Angeles. In fact, 394 00:27:58,195 --> 00:28:01,675 Speaker 1: after winning every sweeps period for nine years, the newscast 395 00:28:01,715 --> 00:28:05,995 Speaker 1: had rightly become the Big News with Jerry Dunfie. And 396 00:28:06,115 --> 00:28:09,755 Speaker 1: it began with an unseen announcer intoning the Big News 397 00:28:09,795 --> 00:28:14,755 Speaker 1: with Jerry dunfy now here is Jerry Dunfie, And then 398 00:28:14,835 --> 00:28:20,195 Speaker 1: Jerry Dunvie said, his catchphrase, the catchphrase of all catch phrases. 399 00:28:20,435 --> 00:28:22,355 Speaker 1: Unlike the guy I worked with in New York when 400 00:28:22,395 --> 00:28:24,755 Speaker 1: I was an intern, Bill Jorgensen, thank you for your 401 00:28:24,795 --> 00:28:28,075 Speaker 1: time this time, until next time, Jerry Dunfie said, from 402 00:28:28,155 --> 00:28:32,155 Speaker 1: the desert to the sea to all of Southern California, 403 00:28:33,035 --> 00:28:38,555 Speaker 1: good evening. Nonsense, of course, but boy it sounded good. 404 00:28:38,635 --> 00:28:41,995 Speaker 1: From the desert to the sea to all of Southern California, 405 00:28:42,315 --> 00:28:46,355 Speaker 1: good evening. He said this so often that it is 406 00:28:46,395 --> 00:28:51,835 Speaker 1: still used in some promotional announcements by Channel nine News 407 00:28:51,835 --> 00:28:54,355 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and Channel seven News in Los Angeles 408 00:28:54,515 --> 00:28:56,955 Speaker 1: and Channel two in Los Angeles. From the desert to 409 00:28:57,035 --> 00:29:00,035 Speaker 1: the sea to all of Southern California, good evening. I'm 410 00:29:00,115 --> 00:29:03,715 Speaker 1: dead Well. No, they don't actually say that, but that's 411 00:29:03,715 --> 00:29:06,635 Speaker 1: pretty much what it means. The only joke about the 412 00:29:06,755 --> 00:29:10,155 Speaker 1: night he got shot outside the parking lot that I 413 00:29:10,195 --> 00:29:13,555 Speaker 1: can tell is that when the cops arrived, Dunfie said 414 00:29:13,555 --> 00:29:15,595 Speaker 1: to them, from the desert to the siege to all 415 00:29:15,595 --> 00:29:18,955 Speaker 1: of Southern California, good evening. I've been shot in the neck. 416 00:29:21,795 --> 00:29:24,195 Speaker 1: The first night my friend Jerry Reuben sent down to 417 00:29:24,275 --> 00:29:28,435 Speaker 1: write the Big News with Jerry Dunfie. Jerry Reuben was 418 00:29:28,475 --> 00:29:31,235 Speaker 1: a little nervous. He got there early, he said. He 419 00:29:31,235 --> 00:29:34,315 Speaker 1: wrote some stories a dozen times each trying to get 420 00:29:34,355 --> 00:29:37,955 Speaker 1: it perfect. Finally, for the lead story, which if memory serves, 421 00:29:38,035 --> 00:29:40,995 Speaker 1: was about a bank robbery in Pasadena, Jerry got it 422 00:29:41,075 --> 00:29:44,915 Speaker 1: just right. And on that nineteen evening at six pm, 423 00:29:45,035 --> 00:29:47,875 Speaker 1: viewers of The Big News on Channel two in Los Angeles, 424 00:29:48,235 --> 00:29:50,155 Speaker 1: those for whom from the desert to the sea to 425 00:29:50,235 --> 00:29:53,155 Speaker 1: all of southern California was not a cliche, but mantra. 426 00:29:53,675 --> 00:29:56,795 Speaker 1: They heard the familiar channel to screeching theme music, and 427 00:29:56,795 --> 00:30:00,355 Speaker 1: then the Big News with Jerry Dunfie. Now here is 428 00:30:00,435 --> 00:30:04,475 Speaker 1: Jerry Dunfie. And up popped Jerry Dunfie's face and he said, 429 00:30:05,195 --> 00:30:08,355 Speaker 1: three armed and very dangerous modern day desperadoes are still 430 00:30:08,355 --> 00:30:12,155 Speaker 1: loos in Pasadena tonight. After blah blah blah blah blah, 431 00:30:12,475 --> 00:30:16,195 Speaker 1: the news cast ended an hour later. Jerry Reuben was 432 00:30:16,275 --> 00:30:19,515 Speaker 1: very relieved. Jerry Dunfie strode back to his desk before 433 00:30:19,555 --> 00:30:22,515 Speaker 1: presumably going out to warm up the rolls Royce and 434 00:30:22,595 --> 00:30:25,755 Speaker 1: avoid the gunmen who would finally get him fourteen years later, 435 00:30:25,835 --> 00:30:28,755 Speaker 1: and not even slow him down. And that's when the 436 00:30:28,755 --> 00:30:31,435 Speaker 1: station's news director leaned out of his office and waived 437 00:30:31,715 --> 00:30:35,675 Speaker 1: the two Jerry's inside. What the hell happened, Dunfie. Did 438 00:30:35,755 --> 00:30:38,595 Speaker 1: you retire it? You can't retire it. It's in the contract. 439 00:30:38,635 --> 00:30:42,915 Speaker 1: You have to stay it, According to Jerry Reuben. Dunfie 440 00:30:42,955 --> 00:30:46,475 Speaker 1: looked blankly at his boss. Jerry Reuben said he was 441 00:30:46,515 --> 00:30:49,915 Speaker 1: even more confused himself. From the desert to the Sea, 442 00:30:50,115 --> 00:30:52,195 Speaker 1: he didn't say, from the desert to the sea. At 443 00:30:52,235 --> 00:30:54,795 Speaker 1: the start of the big news, you say, from the 444 00:30:54,835 --> 00:30:57,515 Speaker 1: desert to the sea to all of southern California, Good evening. 445 00:30:57,955 --> 00:30:59,995 Speaker 1: Only tonight you didn't say, from the desert to the 446 00:31:00,035 --> 00:31:02,075 Speaker 1: sea to all of Southern California, good evening. You said 447 00:31:02,075 --> 00:31:06,035 Speaker 1: something about a bank. What the hell, Erry, we got 448 00:31:06,035 --> 00:31:11,195 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty phone calls. Jerry Dunfie now pursed 449 00:31:11,235 --> 00:31:14,915 Speaker 1: his lips and turned to the new writer. What the hell, Reuben, 450 00:31:15,195 --> 00:31:19,915 Speaker 1: didn't you put it in the script? Jerry Reuben kept 451 00:31:19,915 --> 00:31:22,235 Speaker 1: this part to himself, but frankly, he said, he couldn't 452 00:31:22,275 --> 00:31:24,155 Speaker 1: believe what he was hearing. For nine years, this man 453 00:31:24,275 --> 00:31:26,595 Speaker 1: Dunfie had signed on virtually every one of his news 454 00:31:26,595 --> 00:31:29,315 Speaker 1: broadcast every night at six and then again every night 455 00:31:29,355 --> 00:31:30,995 Speaker 1: at eleven, by saying, from the desert and the sea 456 00:31:31,035 --> 00:31:33,355 Speaker 1: to all of southern California, good evening. But apparently if 457 00:31:33,355 --> 00:31:35,195 Speaker 1: you did not write it in the script and did 458 00:31:35,235 --> 00:31:37,515 Speaker 1: not put it on the teleprompter for him, he would 459 00:31:37,595 --> 00:31:43,635 Speaker 1: forget it. Before Jerry Reuben could say anything, Jerry Dunfie 460 00:31:43,675 --> 00:31:48,275 Speaker 1: barked at him with some understanding. Don't you understand when 461 00:31:48,315 --> 00:31:51,635 Speaker 1: I'm out there, I'm a teleprompter reading machine. You put 462 00:31:51,675 --> 00:31:54,355 Speaker 1: it up there, I'm going to say it down here. 463 00:31:55,035 --> 00:31:57,395 Speaker 1: You don't put it up there. I'm not going to 464 00:31:57,435 --> 00:32:01,915 Speaker 1: say it down here. The news director looked sternly at 465 00:32:01,995 --> 00:32:06,595 Speaker 1: Jerry Reuben. Jerry Reuben did not burst into uncontrollable laughter, 466 00:32:07,035 --> 00:32:09,195 Speaker 1: race from the building, K and X T was in 467 00:32:09,275 --> 00:32:11,635 Speaker 1: on Sunset Boulevard, and get on the first plane back 468 00:32:11,675 --> 00:32:14,715 Speaker 1: to Chicago. He just said yes, sir, and the news 469 00:32:14,795 --> 00:32:17,635 Speaker 1: director said good and everybody left. And from that night 470 00:32:17,675 --> 00:32:21,035 Speaker 1: at eleven o'clock onwards, Jerry Reuben always started his script 471 00:32:21,075 --> 00:32:23,435 Speaker 1: for the lead story by typing out, from the desert 472 00:32:23,475 --> 00:32:25,955 Speaker 1: to the sea to all of southern California, good evening. 473 00:32:26,155 --> 00:32:28,315 Speaker 1: There's a twenty six car pile up on the Santa 474 00:32:28,315 --> 00:32:31,155 Speaker 1: Monica Freeway after another mattress has been dumped in the 475 00:32:31,235 --> 00:32:34,795 Speaker 1: left lane. Or from the Desert to the Sie to 476 00:32:34,835 --> 00:32:39,275 Speaker 1: all of Southern California, good evening, burbank, bank burgled, or whatever. 477 00:32:40,915 --> 00:32:43,195 Speaker 1: Over the next few weeks, the lead story on the 478 00:32:43,195 --> 00:32:46,395 Speaker 1: Big News with Jerry Dunfie would change, as lead stories do. 479 00:32:47,195 --> 00:32:50,355 Speaker 1: At five PM or five thirty or five fifty, something 480 00:32:50,515 --> 00:32:54,035 Speaker 1: big er would happen, and it was the big News. 481 00:32:54,475 --> 00:32:57,595 Speaker 1: So Jerry Reuben would often have to rewrite page one 482 00:32:57,595 --> 00:33:00,555 Speaker 1: of the script, and every time he rewrote it, and 483 00:33:00,635 --> 00:33:03,035 Speaker 1: every time he re rewrote it, and the one time 484 00:33:03,075 --> 00:33:06,715 Speaker 1: he told me that he re re rewrote it, Jerry 485 00:33:06,755 --> 00:33:09,715 Speaker 1: remembered to start page one with from the Desert to 486 00:33:09,795 --> 00:33:14,755 Speaker 1: the Sea to all Southern California, good evening. All was well, 487 00:33:15,195 --> 00:33:19,075 Speaker 1: The teleprompter reading machine was happy, the news director was happy, 488 00:33:19,395 --> 00:33:25,795 Speaker 1: Jerry Reuben was happy, and ben calamity struck. At about 489 00:33:25,835 --> 00:33:28,635 Speaker 1: five one night, Jerry Reuben was told there is a 490 00:33:28,675 --> 00:33:31,835 Speaker 1: refinery fire in Torrents. It is the new lead story. 491 00:33:31,915 --> 00:33:34,195 Speaker 1: Just say we're rushing the crew. Get it written. He 492 00:33:34,275 --> 00:33:38,395 Speaker 1: started to type our top story breaking news A refinery, 493 00:33:38,475 --> 00:33:41,995 Speaker 1: and then he tore the page from his machine. He 494 00:33:42,115 --> 00:33:46,395 Speaker 1: started a new His fingers danced across the keyboard from 495 00:33:46,395 --> 00:33:48,315 Speaker 1: the desert to the sea to all of southern California. 496 00:33:48,355 --> 00:33:51,195 Speaker 1: Good evening, Our top story tonight, breaking news, our refinery fire. 497 00:33:51,195 --> 00:33:53,395 Speaker 1: He is just erupted in Torrents. A Channel two Big 498 00:33:53,435 --> 00:33:55,755 Speaker 1: News Live crew is rushing to the scene at this hour, 499 00:33:55,795 --> 00:33:57,515 Speaker 1: and we will have a Big News live report from 500 00:33:57,595 --> 00:34:01,795 Speaker 1: Rick Davis before this newscast is over. Reuben knew he 501 00:34:01,835 --> 00:34:04,155 Speaker 1: did not have time to get a production assistant to 502 00:34:04,195 --> 00:34:07,675 Speaker 1: take the new lead script into Dunfie, nor to tape 503 00:34:07,715 --> 00:34:10,355 Speaker 1: it into the script about to pass through the teleprompter, 504 00:34:10,555 --> 00:34:13,995 Speaker 1: so he did both things himself. New lead. He screamed 505 00:34:13,995 --> 00:34:16,835 Speaker 1: at Dunfie, throwing the page at him, and the unseen 506 00:34:16,835 --> 00:34:19,875 Speaker 1: announcer was already at mid introduction when Jerry Reuben taped 507 00:34:19,915 --> 00:34:24,075 Speaker 1: that new piece of script into the prompter without remembering 508 00:34:24,155 --> 00:34:29,195 Speaker 1: to remove the old lead script from the prompter. And 509 00:34:29,315 --> 00:34:34,035 Speaker 1: this is what Los Angeles heard, the big News with 510 00:34:34,155 --> 00:34:38,995 Speaker 1: Jerry Dunfie. Now here's Jerry Dunfie. From the desert to 511 00:34:38,995 --> 00:34:41,475 Speaker 1: the sea to all of Southern California. Good evening. Our 512 00:34:41,595 --> 00:34:45,115 Speaker 1: top story tonight, breaking news or refinery fire has just 513 00:34:45,275 --> 00:34:48,675 Speaker 1: erupted in Torrents. A Channel two Big News Live crew 514 00:34:48,715 --> 00:34:50,315 Speaker 1: is rushing to the scene of this hour, and we 515 00:34:50,355 --> 00:34:52,715 Speaker 1: will have a Big News Live report from Rick Dabis 516 00:34:52,915 --> 00:34:56,715 Speaker 1: before this newscast is over. Jerry Dunfie dramatically turned over 517 00:34:56,795 --> 00:34:59,155 Speaker 1: page one and began to read page two. From a 518 00:34:59,195 --> 00:35:01,955 Speaker 1: desert to the sea to all of southern California. Good evening, 519 00:35:02,195 --> 00:35:07,035 Speaker 1: our top story tonight, Mayor Sam, you're he said, Jerry 520 00:35:07,075 --> 00:35:26,915 Speaker 1: Reuben said, my head dropped to my desk with a thud. Well, 521 00:35:26,995 --> 00:35:29,355 Speaker 1: Jerry just wanted everybody to have a good evening so 522 00:35:29,435 --> 00:35:33,195 Speaker 1: much that he said it twice. I've done all the 523 00:35:33,275 --> 00:35:35,555 Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Here 524 00:35:35,595 --> 00:35:37,835 Speaker 1: are the credits. Most of the music, including our theme 525 00:35:37,835 --> 00:35:41,195 Speaker 1: from Beethoven's Ninth, was arranged, produced and performed by Brian 526 00:35:41,275 --> 00:35:44,075 Speaker 1: Ray and John Philip Shanelle. They are the Countdown musical directors. 527 00:35:44,435 --> 00:35:48,315 Speaker 1: All orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Shanelle, guitarist, bass 528 00:35:48,435 --> 00:35:50,475 Speaker 1: and drums by Brian Ray, and it was produced by 529 00:35:50,515 --> 00:35:53,715 Speaker 1: t k O Bros. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged 530 00:35:53,755 --> 00:35:56,795 Speaker 1: and performed by No Horns Allowed. The sports music is 531 00:35:56,835 --> 00:35:59,275 Speaker 1: the Olderman theme from ESPN two and it was written 532 00:35:59,275 --> 00:36:02,555 Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren. Davis had a fiers courtesy of ESPN Inc. 533 00:36:02,995 --> 00:36:06,675 Speaker 1: Musical comments by Nancy House. The best baseball stadium organist ever. 534 00:36:07,035 --> 00:36:10,235 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was Larry David. Everything else is pretty 535 00:36:10,315 --> 00:36:14,235 Speaker 1: much my fault. So that's countdown for this the day 536 00:36:14,515 --> 00:36:17,755 Speaker 1: since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected 537 00:36:17,795 --> 00:36:21,235 Speaker 1: government of the United States. Arrest him now while we 538 00:36:21,315 --> 00:36:26,875 Speaker 1: still can. New addition tomorrow. Until then, I'm Keith all Verman. 539 00:36:26,955 --> 00:36:31,475 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, good luck, and from a 540 00:36:31,515 --> 00:36:34,555 Speaker 1: desert to the sea to all of southern California, good evening. 541 00:36:44,355 --> 00:36:47,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olverman is a production of I heart Radio. 542 00:36:48,275 --> 00:36:51,155 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from I heart Radio, visit the i 543 00:36:51,275 --> 00:36:55,675 Speaker 1: heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.