1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:24,475 --> 00:00:30,475 Speaker 1: Trump packed the damn document boxes himself. Then Trump lied 3 00:00:30,515 --> 00:00:33,755 Speaker 1: about how many documents were in the boxes. Then he 4 00:00:33,795 --> 00:00:36,755 Speaker 1: tried to get his attorney to perjur himself about what 5 00:00:36,875 --> 00:00:41,115 Speaker 1: was in the boxes. Trump has just convicted himself of 6 00:00:41,315 --> 00:00:45,955 Speaker 1: obstruction of justice. The Washington Post reporting that the boxes 7 00:00:45,955 --> 00:00:48,595 Speaker 1: of documents that were sent back from Mari Lago to 8 00:00:48,635 --> 00:00:53,435 Speaker 1: the National Archives last January were packed by hand by Trump. 9 00:00:53,835 --> 00:00:58,075 Speaker 1: This erases any Trump claim that he didn't know whether 10 00:00:58,155 --> 00:01:00,555 Speaker 1: or not there were still more government documents in his 11 00:01:00,595 --> 00:01:03,475 Speaker 1: possession that he could not legally hold on too. He 12 00:01:03,675 --> 00:01:07,715 Speaker 1: literally act the boxes himself. There is no way he 13 00:01:07,755 --> 00:01:10,955 Speaker 1: could not have known what was in them. This goes 14 00:01:10,995 --> 00:01:14,715 Speaker 1: to obstruction of justice. It goes to mishandling of documents. 15 00:01:14,915 --> 00:01:19,115 Speaker 1: It goes to intentionally and knowingly keeping stolen documents. The 16 00:01:19,195 --> 00:01:22,315 Speaker 1: Post reports that one of the great internal debates at 17 00:01:22,355 --> 00:01:25,715 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice over whether or not or how 18 00:01:25,755 --> 00:01:29,515 Speaker 1: to charge Trump is this exact question. Could he have 19 00:01:29,755 --> 00:01:34,595 Speaker 1: not known documents were illegally in his possession? The consciousness 20 00:01:34,675 --> 00:01:38,875 Speaker 1: of guilt question. Trump has now ended that debate. He 21 00:01:38,955 --> 00:01:43,595 Speaker 1: has now answered that question for them, good works, sparky. 22 00:01:43,835 --> 00:01:47,195 Speaker 1: And it is somehow even worse for Trump because after 23 00:01:47,275 --> 00:01:49,955 Speaker 1: he had sent back what he felt like sending back 24 00:01:50,155 --> 00:01:52,795 Speaker 1: and kept the rest of the stolen documents, including do 25 00:01:52,875 --> 00:01:58,075 Speaker 1: not forget documents detailing quote a foreign government's military defenses, 26 00:01:58,115 --> 00:02:03,715 Speaker 1: including its nuclear capabilities, Trump then tried to suborin perjury. 27 00:02:04,275 --> 00:02:07,355 Speaker 1: On Bruary seventh of this year, he dictated a statement 28 00:02:07,355 --> 00:02:12,115 Speaker 1: to his staff indicating he had returned quote everything unquote 29 00:02:12,155 --> 00:02:15,155 Speaker 1: the Archives had requested, and then he ordered his attorney 30 00:02:15,195 --> 00:02:18,555 Speaker 1: Alex Canon to sign a similar statement and send that 31 00:02:18,715 --> 00:02:23,235 Speaker 1: statement to the Archives. Cannon, correctly, realizing he could not 32 00:02:23,315 --> 00:02:26,955 Speaker 1: be certain all the requested documents had indeed been returned, 33 00:02:27,155 --> 00:02:31,235 Speaker 1: refused to do this. Trump then in essence demoted Cannon, 34 00:02:31,555 --> 00:02:34,755 Speaker 1: and that could become an entirely separate charge of obstruction 35 00:02:34,795 --> 00:02:39,635 Speaker 1: of justice. And apparently unbeknownst to Trump, Cannon then provided 36 00:02:39,635 --> 00:02:43,715 Speaker 1: a timeline to the National Archives that contradicts everything Trump 37 00:02:43,755 --> 00:02:47,675 Speaker 1: has claimed about those documents. On February eighth of this year, 38 00:02:47,955 --> 00:02:51,635 Speaker 1: a day after Trump lied about returning everything and tried 39 00:02:51,675 --> 00:02:55,435 Speaker 1: to get Cannon to lie for him, National Archives attorney 40 00:02:55,435 --> 00:02:59,395 Speaker 1: Gary Stern told colleagues that he had spoken with Alex Cannon, 41 00:02:59,555 --> 00:03:02,075 Speaker 1: and that Cannon had told him he had no idea 42 00:03:02,435 --> 00:03:05,715 Speaker 1: if there were or were not any more Pilford documents 43 00:03:05,715 --> 00:03:09,595 Speaker 1: in Trump's possession. As if he had not already done 44 00:03:09,755 --> 00:03:12,995 Speaker 1: enough damage to himself and enough of a favor to 45 00:03:13,035 --> 00:03:16,675 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, Trump may have also set himself 46 00:03:16,795 --> 00:03:21,035 Speaker 1: up for conspiracy charges. When the FBI made its return 47 00:03:21,195 --> 00:03:24,555 Speaker 1: visit to Mari Lago in June, a document was hastily 48 00:03:24,635 --> 00:03:28,275 Speaker 1: drawn up to confirm that all classified documents had now 49 00:03:28,435 --> 00:03:32,435 Speaker 1: been returned by Trump or removed and returned by the FBI, 50 00:03:32,555 --> 00:03:35,715 Speaker 1: and it was signed by yet another Trump attorney, the 51 00:03:35,755 --> 00:03:40,435 Speaker 1: former television propagandist Christina Bob. Not only is she thus 52 00:03:40,675 --> 00:03:44,435 Speaker 1: neck high and hot water, but because Trump could not 53 00:03:44,555 --> 00:03:47,515 Speaker 1: get Cannon to sign a similar statement in February, whoever 54 00:03:47,635 --> 00:03:50,835 Speaker 1: tried to and got Christina Bob to sign that one 55 00:03:50,875 --> 00:03:54,315 Speaker 1: in June, could be part of a conspiratorial cover up 56 00:03:54,395 --> 00:03:58,955 Speaker 1: involving Trump, or at least mainlining back to Trump, as 57 00:03:58,995 --> 00:04:02,515 Speaker 1: the number of months Trump could spend in prison spins 58 00:04:02,595 --> 00:04:06,715 Speaker 1: by as wildly as an out of control odometer, an 59 00:04:06,915 --> 00:04:11,115 Speaker 1: entirely different line of possible conspiracy or of more evidence 60 00:04:11,155 --> 00:04:14,555 Speaker 1: Trump had guilty for knowledge has opened up because of 61 00:04:15,755 --> 00:04:22,235 Speaker 1: Maggie fricking Haberman. The ceaseless, relentless, unbearable promulgation of excerpts 62 00:04:22,235 --> 00:04:25,875 Speaker 1: from her Trump book included a tape of her played 63 00:04:25,915 --> 00:04:29,315 Speaker 1: on CNN in which she asks Trump if he kept 64 00:04:29,435 --> 00:04:33,995 Speaker 1: any documents anything special in the way of souvenirs. He 65 00:04:34,115 --> 00:04:37,075 Speaker 1: hems and haws briefly, and finally boasts he has a 66 00:04:37,155 --> 00:04:41,115 Speaker 1: letter from North Korean dictator Kim John Un, which by 67 00:04:41,155 --> 00:04:43,235 Speaker 1: that point he had already told the archives he did 68 00:04:43,275 --> 00:04:45,875 Speaker 1: not have, or was about to tell the archives he 69 00:04:45,915 --> 00:04:50,635 Speaker 1: did not have. He stole, he lied, he knew he stole, 70 00:04:50,995 --> 00:04:54,795 Speaker 1: he knew he lied. As Ryan Goodman of just Security 71 00:04:54,875 --> 00:04:57,595 Speaker 1: dot Org notes, the release of that tape of that 72 00:04:57,675 --> 00:05:02,475 Speaker 1: conversation with Haberman goes to demonstrating even more consciousness of guilt, 73 00:05:02,755 --> 00:05:06,155 Speaker 1: which I believe we can safely assume is no longer 74 00:05:06,155 --> 00:05:09,675 Speaker 1: the subject of any great internal debate at the Justice Department. 75 00:05:11,035 --> 00:05:14,995 Speaker 1: As a comic aside, I'm not saying this Haberman Trump 76 00:05:14,995 --> 00:05:17,755 Speaker 1: book thing has gotten out of hand, but I had 77 00:05:17,875 --> 00:05:20,555 Speaker 1: Chinese food last night, and her new book has been 78 00:05:20,555 --> 00:05:24,915 Speaker 1: excerpted in The Fortune Cookies. The Big Picture from the 79 00:05:24,955 --> 00:05:28,635 Speaker 1: Washington Post and Haberman stories. Is this The Department of 80 00:05:28,715 --> 00:05:31,475 Speaker 1: Justice is hell bent on not charging Trump until it 81 00:05:31,595 --> 00:05:36,595 Speaker 1: is actually assembled completely the proverbial twenty thousand piece jigsaw puzzle. 82 00:05:37,035 --> 00:05:40,115 Speaker 1: What Trump has done, by boasting to Haberman and by 83 00:05:40,155 --> 00:05:43,955 Speaker 1: threatening his attorney Alex Cannon, is to send the Justice 84 00:05:43,995 --> 00:05:47,955 Speaker 1: Department another box that he has personally packed. And this 85 00:05:48,075 --> 00:05:52,595 Speaker 1: box is full of all the missing jigsaw pieces. This 86 00:05:52,795 --> 00:05:57,635 Speaker 1: all obviously explains Trump's bizarre decision late yesterday afternoon to 87 00:05:57,835 --> 00:06:03,955 Speaker 1: sue CNN out of the blue for defamation. In the suit, 88 00:06:04,315 --> 00:06:07,795 Speaker 1: Trump cites the times people on CNN compared him to 89 00:06:07,955 --> 00:06:12,395 Speaker 1: Hitler and notes that one of those people was Linda 90 00:06:12,515 --> 00:06:15,595 Speaker 1: ron Stat, marching as ever to the beat of a 91 00:06:15,675 --> 00:06:19,955 Speaker 1: different drum. Trump is always up for a dramatic stunt, 92 00:06:19,995 --> 00:06:23,395 Speaker 1: But the question was why then to do this one. 93 00:06:23,915 --> 00:06:27,355 Speaker 1: It is what the submariners called chaff, the countermeasures they 94 00:06:27,355 --> 00:06:30,755 Speaker 1: eject when a torpedo is on their tail. Later will 95 00:06:30,755 --> 00:06:34,035 Speaker 1: come the more obvious questions about this suit, like where 96 00:06:34,035 --> 00:06:36,755 Speaker 1: did Trump get the monetary figure he cited He wants 97 00:06:36,755 --> 00:06:40,595 Speaker 1: at least four hundred and seventy five million dollars. Also 98 00:06:40,635 --> 00:06:43,635 Speaker 1: to be addressed, how he will meet Florida's legal requirement 99 00:06:43,675 --> 00:06:47,675 Speaker 1: for proof of defamation, which is actual malice plus knowledge 100 00:06:47,675 --> 00:06:51,275 Speaker 1: of the falsity of the statement, plus causing reputational harm. 101 00:06:51,515 --> 00:06:53,915 Speaker 1: I mean, how in the hell do you harm the 102 00:06:53,955 --> 00:06:57,395 Speaker 1: reputation of a man who was impeached as many times 103 00:06:57,595 --> 00:07:01,435 Speaker 1: as all the other presidents ever combined? How can you 104 00:07:01,515 --> 00:07:07,075 Speaker 1: damage Trump's reputation call him honest? After filing the suit 105 00:07:07,115 --> 00:07:10,075 Speaker 1: against CNN, Trump went further. He said he would be 106 00:07:10,195 --> 00:07:13,995 Speaker 1: filing lawsuits against other news organizations and said he might 107 00:07:14,155 --> 00:07:19,435 Speaker 1: yet sue the January sixth Committee for refusing to investigate 108 00:07:19,515 --> 00:07:23,795 Speaker 1: his fabricated claims of election fraud. That Trump has now 109 00:07:23,955 --> 00:07:27,115 Speaker 1: veered off the road and skidded head on into the 110 00:07:27,155 --> 00:07:30,875 Speaker 1: world of old man yells at cloud will be evident 111 00:07:30,955 --> 00:07:34,675 Speaker 1: only to you and me, since his cultists will process 112 00:07:34,755 --> 00:07:38,755 Speaker 1: this as another triumph for their Lord and bronze ared Savior. 113 00:07:39,995 --> 00:07:43,715 Speaker 1: There could be, however, one group that looks at the 114 00:07:43,755 --> 00:07:49,795 Speaker 1: CNN suit and has the proverbial lightbulb formation, the epiphany, 115 00:07:49,875 --> 00:07:56,315 Speaker 1: the come to Jesus moment. That group is CNN. The 116 00:07:56,395 --> 00:08:00,395 Speaker 1: Trump lawsuit, ludicrous as it might be, comes after six 117 00:08:00,475 --> 00:08:04,075 Speaker 1: months in which new billionaire owner John Malone and his 118 00:08:04,115 --> 00:08:07,875 Speaker 1: hatchet and chairman and chief executive officer of CNN Worldwide, 119 00:08:07,875 --> 00:08:10,515 Speaker 1: who when we were at MSNBC together I thought used 120 00:08:10,555 --> 00:08:14,635 Speaker 1: to eat paste. Chris Licked six months in which they 121 00:08:14,675 --> 00:08:18,795 Speaker 1: devoted themselves to firing the most ardent liberals on CNN, 122 00:08:19,195 --> 00:08:23,315 Speaker 1: demoting the less easily fired ones, promoting the conservatives, and 123 00:08:23,395 --> 00:08:28,635 Speaker 1: brown nosing every Republican politician who would hold still long enough. 124 00:08:29,355 --> 00:08:33,995 Speaker 1: After all this strenuous effort, appeasing the fascists and promising 125 00:08:34,035 --> 00:08:37,515 Speaker 1: that they and Trump himself would get kid gloves treatment 126 00:08:37,555 --> 00:08:41,235 Speaker 1: from the new CNN, what do Malone and Licked get 127 00:08:42,115 --> 00:08:47,315 Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy five million dollar lawsuit? I never 128 00:08:47,395 --> 00:08:51,275 Speaker 1: thought Trump's would sue my face, sobs men who sucked 129 00:08:51,355 --> 00:09:05,915 Speaker 1: up to the Trump's suing faces party, still ahead on countdown. 130 00:09:05,915 --> 00:09:09,315 Speaker 1: When your stances, no abortions, no exceptions, and the report 131 00:09:09,395 --> 00:09:12,835 Speaker 1: is that you paid for your girlfriend's abortion thirteen years ago, 132 00:09:13,395 --> 00:09:15,675 Speaker 1: and that is not the worst part of your day. 133 00:09:16,475 --> 00:09:21,035 Speaker 1: That's a problem. After the abortion story broke herschel Walker 134 00:09:21,275 --> 00:09:27,315 Speaker 1: is denounced by his own son sports Aaron Judge and 135 00:09:27,355 --> 00:09:31,195 Speaker 1: how I can't count tweet of the day, ma'am, We're 136 00:09:31,235 --> 00:09:34,875 Speaker 1: a baseball team. I'll explain, and I'll explain the day 137 00:09:34,915 --> 00:09:37,475 Speaker 1: I met the actor Walter math Ou, the only time 138 00:09:37,515 --> 00:09:40,275 Speaker 1: I did in my life. But he did something so 139 00:09:40,315 --> 00:09:44,755 Speaker 1: extraordinarily kind that day that when he died, I burst 140 00:09:44,795 --> 00:09:57,995 Speaker 1: into tears. Well that is next, this discountdown. This is 141 00:09:58,075 --> 00:10:05,915 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead on countdown. Herschel Walker 142 00:10:05,995 --> 00:10:09,075 Speaker 1: denies it, but his son Christian seems to confirm it 143 00:10:09,755 --> 00:10:14,515 Speaker 1: and publicly says to his father, I'm done. And Walter 144 00:10:14,635 --> 00:10:18,475 Speaker 1: Matthau asks, did you know at the end Beethoven was 145 00:10:18,515 --> 00:10:23,035 Speaker 1: so deaf he thought he was painting first. In each 146 00:10:23,155 --> 00:10:25,355 Speaker 1: edition of Countdown, we feature a dog in need whom 147 00:10:25,395 --> 00:10:28,355 Speaker 1: you can help. Every dog has its day. Let's go 148 00:10:28,395 --> 00:10:32,155 Speaker 1: to Shreveport, Louisiana Parish. Pause is doing a rescue on 149 00:10:32,275 --> 00:10:36,395 Speaker 1: Cuddley for Whisper, rescue from the streets after five years 150 00:10:36,395 --> 00:10:39,035 Speaker 1: of illness and abuse and mange so bad that it 151 00:10:39,075 --> 00:10:42,195 Speaker 1: has made her skin and fur look like stone. And 152 00:10:42,275 --> 00:10:44,475 Speaker 1: yet of course she is still sweet to people as usual, 153 00:10:44,555 --> 00:10:48,075 Speaker 1: belying the reputation of a terrier pibble mix. Do you 154 00:10:48,115 --> 00:10:50,035 Speaker 1: want to help this poor girl go to Cuddley and 155 00:10:50,075 --> 00:10:53,155 Speaker 1: search for Whisper or Parish. Pause, or just go to 156 00:10:53,195 --> 00:10:56,275 Speaker 1: my twitter feed for dogs in trouble at Tom Jumbo 157 00:10:56,355 --> 00:10:58,875 Speaker 1: Grumbo and look for my tweet about Whisper. If you 158 00:10:58,915 --> 00:11:03,075 Speaker 1: can't donate, just retweeting her profile may help, and thank 159 00:11:03,115 --> 00:11:26,195 Speaker 1: you very much for doing so. Now postscripts to the news, 160 00:11:26,195 --> 00:11:30,755 Speaker 1: some headlines, some commentaries, some snark. Dateline Atlanta. It is 161 00:11:30,795 --> 00:11:34,675 Speaker 1: impossible to believe that the Daily Beast story with receipts 162 00:11:34,795 --> 00:11:38,235 Speaker 1: proving herschel Walker paid for his girlfriend's abortion in two 163 00:11:38,275 --> 00:11:42,035 Speaker 1: thousand nine was not the worst news for the Republican 164 00:11:42,035 --> 00:11:45,395 Speaker 1: candidate for the Georgia Senate. At nine oh one pm 165 00:11:45,475 --> 00:11:49,195 Speaker 1: last night, his son Christian tweeted, quote, every family member 166 00:11:49,195 --> 00:11:51,915 Speaker 1: of herschel Walker asked him not to run for office 167 00:11:51,995 --> 00:11:56,555 Speaker 1: because we all knew some of his past, every single one. 168 00:11:56,995 --> 00:11:59,755 Speaker 1: He decided to give us the middle finger and air 169 00:11:59,835 --> 00:12:03,315 Speaker 1: out all of his dirty laundry in public while simultaneously 170 00:12:03,475 --> 00:12:07,635 Speaker 1: lying about it. I'm done. This is the young guy 171 00:12:07,715 --> 00:12:11,315 Speaker 1: who did all the TikTok videos for his dad for Senate, 172 00:12:11,675 --> 00:12:13,555 Speaker 1: and of course his dad was the man who said 173 00:12:13,875 --> 00:12:19,275 Speaker 1: no exceptions, no abortions. At nine twelve pm, Christian Walker tweeted, quote, 174 00:12:19,475 --> 00:12:21,795 Speaker 1: I know my mom and I would really appreciate if 175 00:12:21,835 --> 00:12:25,635 Speaker 1: my father, herschel Walker stopped lying and making a mockery 176 00:12:25,755 --> 00:12:28,195 Speaker 1: of us. You're not a family man. When you left 177 00:12:28,275 --> 00:12:31,515 Speaker 1: us to bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, 178 00:12:31,555 --> 00:12:34,475 Speaker 1: and had us move over six times in six months 179 00:12:34,715 --> 00:12:38,955 Speaker 1: running from your violence. And at nine six pm, Christian 180 00:12:38,995 --> 00:12:41,555 Speaker 1: Walker tweeted quote, I don't care about someone who has 181 00:12:41,555 --> 00:12:44,915 Speaker 1: a man passed and takes accountability. But how dare you 182 00:12:45,075 --> 00:12:49,315 Speaker 1: lie and act as though you're some moral, Christian, upright man. 183 00:12:49,795 --> 00:12:54,355 Speaker 1: You've lived a life of destroying other people's lives. How 184 00:12:54,475 --> 00:12:59,035 Speaker 1: dare you in that light? Herschel Walker's denial looks even 185 00:12:59,075 --> 00:13:01,915 Speaker 1: more pathetic than it did Originally, he wrote, I deny 186 00:13:02,035 --> 00:13:05,395 Speaker 1: this in the strongest possible terms, and and somehow he 187 00:13:05,475 --> 00:13:08,075 Speaker 1: let the statement go out even though it ended with 188 00:13:08,195 --> 00:13:13,715 Speaker 1: quote I planning to sue. Also, if the story is 189 00:13:13,835 --> 00:13:17,635 Speaker 1: as herschel Walker responded a quote defamatory lie, why is 190 00:13:17,675 --> 00:13:20,915 Speaker 1: the right wing writer Eric Ericson saying I thought we 191 00:13:20,995 --> 00:13:25,955 Speaker 1: all knew this? Also old news Dateline Washington. Testimony has 192 00:13:25,955 --> 00:13:29,355 Speaker 1: begun in the oath Keeper's trial for seditious conspiracy. The 193 00:13:29,435 --> 00:13:32,435 Speaker 1: prosecution produced evidence of what has long been reported a 194 00:13:32,515 --> 00:13:36,475 Speaker 1: group coup planning chat involving the Oaths and the Proud 195 00:13:36,515 --> 00:13:39,395 Speaker 1: Boys and stop the Steel at an ally of Michael 196 00:13:39,435 --> 00:13:45,115 Speaker 1: Flynn and Alex Jones, Blunky and Roger Stone. Plus there 197 00:13:45,235 --> 00:13:48,595 Speaker 1: was a surprise in testimony or recording from January tenth 198 00:13:49,075 --> 00:13:52,475 Speaker 1: that year of the Chief Elmer Stewart, y'all shoot your 199 00:13:52,475 --> 00:13:56,075 Speaker 1: eye out, Rhodes saying, quote, my only regret is that 200 00:13:56,155 --> 00:13:59,715 Speaker 1: they should have brought rifles on January six because they 201 00:13:59,715 --> 00:14:03,595 Speaker 1: could have quote fixed it right then and there. Rhodes 202 00:14:03,675 --> 00:14:07,075 Speaker 1: Is defense is that is insurrectionists were operating under what 203 00:14:07,155 --> 00:14:10,275 Speaker 1: we're about to become legal orders from Trump. And by 204 00:14:10,315 --> 00:14:13,155 Speaker 1: the way, every day during this trial, that's gonna look 205 00:14:13,195 --> 00:14:18,875 Speaker 1: worse and worse for Trump and date line Floyd County, Georgia. 206 00:14:18,995 --> 00:14:22,755 Speaker 1: Marjorie Trailer Park Green's husband has changed his mind. Now 207 00:14:22,795 --> 00:14:25,635 Speaker 1: he's still divorcing her, but he has now withdrawn his 208 00:14:25,715 --> 00:14:28,275 Speaker 1: motion for the whole thing to be kept under seal. 209 00:14:29,035 --> 00:14:31,795 Speaker 1: That means the dirty laundry on this will all be 210 00:14:31,955 --> 00:14:46,635 Speaker 1: on the public record. Thank you, Nancy Faust. Dirty laundry? 211 00:14:46,675 --> 00:14:50,195 Speaker 1: Can we film the operation? Is the head dead yet? 212 00:15:02,595 --> 00:15:08,915 Speaker 1: This is spart Senate? Wait? Check that not anymore. This 213 00:15:09,915 --> 00:15:16,555 Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith Alman in Sports. Now, Aaron Judge 214 00:15:16,595 --> 00:15:18,595 Speaker 1: has just three games left in which to hit record 215 00:15:18,595 --> 00:15:21,115 Speaker 1: breaking homer number sixty two. That's what I said yesterday. 216 00:15:21,155 --> 00:15:24,235 Speaker 1: I screwed up reading the Yankee schedule. And after a 217 00:15:24,275 --> 00:15:26,675 Speaker 1: one for four with a strikeout and a single and 218 00:15:26,675 --> 00:15:28,915 Speaker 1: a three to one win at Texas last night, Judge 219 00:15:28,955 --> 00:15:32,035 Speaker 1: now has only one home run in the last thirteen days. 220 00:15:32,475 --> 00:15:34,595 Speaker 1: There's a double header today in Texas, in a single 221 00:15:34,635 --> 00:15:38,115 Speaker 1: game Wednesday, and that's it. On the other hand, Albert 222 00:15:38,115 --> 00:15:41,715 Speaker 1: pooh Holes homeward again seven dred three not for this season, 223 00:15:41,715 --> 00:15:43,915 Speaker 1: for his career, for this season. You know how old 224 00:15:43,915 --> 00:15:47,635 Speaker 1: Albert pooh Holes is. He's two hundred and six. Monday 225 00:15:47,715 --> 00:15:50,835 Speaker 1: night football civilian runs onto the field carrying a pink 226 00:15:50,915 --> 00:15:53,795 Speaker 1: smoke flare of some kind and in shades of the 227 00:15:53,795 --> 00:15:56,395 Speaker 1: famous flattening of a fan on the field in December 228 00:15:56,475 --> 00:16:00,195 Speaker 1: nine seventy one by Mike Curtis of the Baltimore Colts. 229 00:16:00,475 --> 00:16:04,995 Speaker 1: Right here, Bobby Wagner of the Rams unceremoniously sucked the 230 00:16:05,035 --> 00:16:08,195 Speaker 1: guy down. Looks like American soccer is gonna need a 231 00:16:08,235 --> 00:16:12,395 Speaker 1: whole new women's league. The NWSL, the National Women's Soccer League, 232 00:16:12,475 --> 00:16:15,435 Speaker 1: rocked by the release of an investigative report that showed 233 00:16:15,435 --> 00:16:18,995 Speaker 1: an outfit so corrupted that when the Portland team fired 234 00:16:19,035 --> 00:16:22,155 Speaker 1: coach Paul Riley for allegedly coercing a player into having 235 00:16:22,195 --> 00:16:24,635 Speaker 1: sex with him, he was immediately hired by the North 236 00:16:24,635 --> 00:16:28,075 Speaker 1: Carolina team, where the report alleges he coerced at least 237 00:16:28,235 --> 00:16:30,995 Speaker 1: three players into having sex with him. There are so 238 00:16:31,035 --> 00:16:34,315 Speaker 1: many allegations and reports in this report it would probably 239 00:16:34,355 --> 00:16:37,995 Speaker 1: take three to four weeks to read it aloud. Meanwhile, hockey, 240 00:16:38,035 --> 00:16:40,635 Speaker 1: a great sport whose leadership has shot the game in 241 00:16:40,715 --> 00:16:44,035 Speaker 1: its own foot at least once a year since about ninety, 242 00:16:44,755 --> 00:16:48,235 Speaker 1: has done it again. The NHL is replacing the advertising 243 00:16:48,275 --> 00:16:52,155 Speaker 1: signs that have polluted the rink board since now they're 244 00:16:52,155 --> 00:16:56,755 Speaker 1: going with digitally enhanced dasher boards. So to enjoy a 245 00:16:56,875 --> 00:16:59,915 Speaker 1: hockey game on TV, you will have to suffer through 246 00:16:59,995 --> 00:17:02,955 Speaker 1: not a couple dozen ads visible at all times, but 247 00:17:03,755 --> 00:17:07,795 Speaker 1: infinity number of ads that keep changing from period to 248 00:17:07,955 --> 00:17:11,635 Speaker 1: period or minute to minute. And apparently nobody in the 249 00:17:11,715 --> 00:17:15,875 Speaker 1: National Hockey League noticed the acronym for the new digitally 250 00:17:16,195 --> 00:17:37,635 Speaker 1: enhanced dasher boards d E D dead Still ahead Walter Mathau, 251 00:17:37,755 --> 00:17:41,715 Speaker 1: the legendary actor whose voice was imitated by everybody, confessed 252 00:17:41,715 --> 00:17:44,555 Speaker 1: to me thirty one years ago that he used to 253 00:17:44,595 --> 00:17:48,395 Speaker 1: do imitations of Now you won't believe it even when 254 00:17:48,395 --> 00:17:53,515 Speaker 1: I tell you that's a tease. First, the daily roundup 255 00:17:53,555 --> 00:17:56,115 Speaker 1: of the miscrants, morons I'm done in Krueger Effect specimens, 256 00:17:56,115 --> 00:18:00,755 Speaker 1: who constitute today's worst persons in the world. The bronze 257 00:18:00,875 --> 00:18:04,835 Speaker 1: Kim Kardashian, without admitting guilty, will pay one million, two 258 00:18:04,875 --> 00:18:08,515 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty dollars to settle allegations from the Securities 259 00:18:08,555 --> 00:18:11,955 Speaker 1: and Exchange Commission that she broke the law by hyping 260 00:18:12,035 --> 00:18:15,795 Speaker 1: crypto on Twitter, without revealing she was paid to hype 261 00:18:15,835 --> 00:18:19,435 Speaker 1: crypto on Twitter. Her tweet begins with this is not 262 00:18:19,595 --> 00:18:23,595 Speaker 1: financial advice, which turns out to not be enough to 263 00:18:23,755 --> 00:18:27,755 Speaker 1: make it not financial advice. The runner up Scott Jensen, 264 00:18:27,835 --> 00:18:29,875 Speaker 1: the dentist who was the candidate for the governor of 265 00:18:29,875 --> 00:18:35,395 Speaker 1: Minnesota on the Republican Fascist and gullible tickets. Jensen's latest 266 00:18:35,475 --> 00:18:38,795 Speaker 1: fail he told supporters that if elected, he will fix 267 00:18:38,835 --> 00:18:43,075 Speaker 1: the state's biggest educational problem. Quote, why do we have 268 00:18:43,155 --> 00:18:46,195 Speaker 1: litter boxes in some of the school districts so kids 269 00:18:46,275 --> 00:18:52,155 Speaker 1: can pee in them because they identify as furry. Scott, 270 00:18:52,195 --> 00:18:54,595 Speaker 1: there aren't any litter boxes for any kids in any 271 00:18:54,595 --> 00:18:58,435 Speaker 1: Minnesota school districts. And you know, Scott, there aren't any 272 00:18:58,435 --> 00:19:01,755 Speaker 1: litter boxes for kids in any American school districts. You've 273 00:19:01,795 --> 00:19:05,955 Speaker 1: been punked. But if you're paranoid right winger like Scott Jensen, 274 00:19:06,355 --> 00:19:09,355 Speaker 1: and you need to be outraged, or you're not too bright, 275 00:19:09,435 --> 00:19:11,875 Speaker 1: you just go ahead and believe it's true without even checking. 276 00:19:12,355 --> 00:19:15,035 Speaker 1: By the way, right after the because they identify as 277 00:19:15,035 --> 00:19:20,435 Speaker 1: a furry, quote, Jensen added, we've lost our minds. We've 278 00:19:20,475 --> 00:19:25,675 Speaker 1: lost our minds. Speak for yourself, Doc, but our winner. 279 00:19:25,755 --> 00:19:30,195 Speaker 1: Twitter user at ethel day Lily, judging by her tweets, 280 00:19:30,275 --> 00:19:33,835 Speaker 1: she's an online Karen. Yesterday, she sent the same reply 281 00:19:33,995 --> 00:19:38,195 Speaker 1: to a series of Pennsylvania media outlets. Quote, want to 282 00:19:38,235 --> 00:19:40,955 Speaker 1: prevent voter fraud, make them give us a receipt for 283 00:19:40,995 --> 00:19:42,995 Speaker 1: our ballot or a copy of the ballot after it 284 00:19:43,035 --> 00:19:47,195 Speaker 1: went through the machine. Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, 285 00:19:47,235 --> 00:19:52,275 Speaker 1: exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point 286 00:19:52,675 --> 00:19:55,115 Speaker 1: on mail in ballots, send a receipt through the mail 287 00:19:55,595 --> 00:20:00,715 Speaker 1: exclamation point, exclamation point exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, 288 00:20:00,755 --> 00:20:06,235 Speaker 1: exclamation point, demand a receipt. Ethel also sent this to 289 00:20:06,475 --> 00:20:11,795 Speaker 1: the account at HBG Senators. HBG for Harrisburg, the capital 290 00:20:11,795 --> 00:20:15,595 Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania, so the Harrisburg senten seris well. They retweeted 291 00:20:15,635 --> 00:20:21,395 Speaker 1: it and added quote, ma'am, we're a baseball team, which 292 00:20:21,435 --> 00:20:25,275 Speaker 1: they are, the Harrisburg Senators of the Eastern League Double 293 00:20:25,275 --> 00:20:29,675 Speaker 1: A affiliate of the Washington Nationals. At HBG Senators, they're 294 00:20:29,715 --> 00:20:36,915 Speaker 1: not Pennsylvania State Senators in Harrisburg, Ethel at Ethel wait 295 00:20:37,035 --> 00:20:40,195 Speaker 1: till she finds out the truth about the Nashville Predators. 296 00:20:40,355 --> 00:21:04,595 Speaker 1: Day Lily Today's worst person then the world du finally 297 00:21:04,795 --> 00:21:07,275 Speaker 1: number one story on the countown and my favorite topic 298 00:21:07,435 --> 00:21:10,155 Speaker 1: me and things from my career and my life. And 299 00:21:10,235 --> 00:21:12,635 Speaker 1: it is to me amazing, even after all this time, 300 00:21:13,275 --> 00:21:16,275 Speaker 1: that you could meet somebody just once in your life, 301 00:21:16,435 --> 00:21:20,395 Speaker 1: but years later be moved to tears upon learning of 302 00:21:20,395 --> 00:21:23,395 Speaker 1: their death. Then again, the man in question was named 303 00:21:23,395 --> 00:21:26,355 Speaker 1: Walter math Ow, And if he was not the most 304 00:21:26,355 --> 00:21:28,835 Speaker 1: popular American comedic actor of the last half of the 305 00:21:28,835 --> 00:21:32,715 Speaker 1: twentieth century, he was close to it. And maybe more importantly, 306 00:21:32,755 --> 00:21:36,835 Speaker 1: he was the most skilled minimal touch American actor of 307 00:21:36,875 --> 00:21:38,835 Speaker 1: the last half of the twentieth century. In other words, 308 00:21:39,155 --> 00:21:41,395 Speaker 1: he was the man who, on stage or on camera, 309 00:21:41,475 --> 00:21:44,035 Speaker 1: seemed to be doing the least amount of actual acting 310 00:21:44,675 --> 00:21:47,675 Speaker 1: while still keeping you utterly convinced that the guy you 311 00:21:47,795 --> 00:21:49,995 Speaker 1: saw in the screen was not Walter math Ou but 312 00:21:50,275 --> 00:21:53,235 Speaker 1: was Oscar Madison, and was not Walter math Out but 313 00:21:53,395 --> 00:21:55,835 Speaker 1: was Max Goldman, and was not Walter math Out but 314 00:21:55,995 --> 00:21:58,755 Speaker 1: was Willie Gingrich, and was not Walter math Out but 315 00:21:58,955 --> 00:22:02,635 Speaker 1: was Mel Miller. Even though mel Miller had a Southern accent, 316 00:22:02,675 --> 00:22:05,235 Speaker 1: smoked a pipe, had horn rimmed glasses, and supposedly went 317 00:22:05,275 --> 00:22:10,155 Speaker 1: to Vanderbilt. We all knew Walter math Aw. It felt 318 00:22:10,155 --> 00:22:12,915 Speaker 1: like we knew him personally because he managed to miracle 319 00:22:12,995 --> 00:22:15,715 Speaker 1: every time he performed. It was all him up there, 320 00:22:15,755 --> 00:22:18,595 Speaker 1: and yet at the same time it was not him 321 00:22:18,675 --> 00:22:23,155 Speaker 1: at all. Anyway. October one was his birthday, which is 322 00:22:23,235 --> 00:22:25,595 Speaker 1: what brought this extraordinary man to the front of my 323 00:22:25,675 --> 00:22:29,195 Speaker 1: mind again. I will get to my meeting with him first. 324 00:22:29,235 --> 00:22:31,595 Speaker 1: Walter math How's best friends as an adult, where his 325 00:22:31,635 --> 00:22:34,195 Speaker 1: partner in half a dozen films, Jack Lemon and my 326 00:22:34,315 --> 00:22:37,475 Speaker 1: dear friend Norman Lloyd. The one man history of Hollywood, 327 00:22:37,475 --> 00:22:39,395 Speaker 1: who we lost in one at the age of a 328 00:22:39,475 --> 00:22:44,475 Speaker 1: hundred and six. Norman loved Walter, and Norman loved talking 329 00:22:44,475 --> 00:22:47,435 Speaker 1: about Walter, and there was an amazing amount of things 330 00:22:47,435 --> 00:22:50,715 Speaker 1: to talk about about Walter. Norman told me that on 331 00:22:50,795 --> 00:22:53,835 Speaker 1: the last of the Grumpy Old Men movies that he 332 00:22:53,915 --> 00:22:56,395 Speaker 1: and Lemon made together, I think it was called Grumpy 333 00:22:56,475 --> 00:22:59,995 Speaker 1: Old Men were doing this for the money. Matthau wanted 334 00:22:59,995 --> 00:23:02,155 Speaker 1: to wrap up one day of shooting quickly. He was 335 00:23:02,195 --> 00:23:04,555 Speaker 1: scheduled to film a scene in a water slide made 336 00:23:04,555 --> 00:23:07,075 Speaker 1: a to look like a sewer through which his character 337 00:23:07,195 --> 00:23:10,555 Speaker 1: was escaping. As the lunch break was called, he said 338 00:23:10,595 --> 00:23:12,995 Speaker 1: to Lemon, come on, Jack, let's go rehost the water 339 00:23:13,035 --> 00:23:15,395 Speaker 1: slide thing. That's why we can do it in one take. 340 00:23:15,475 --> 00:23:18,315 Speaker 1: Get the hell out of here anyway. Don't you have 341 00:23:18,355 --> 00:23:20,115 Speaker 1: to wait an hour after eating before you can shoot 342 00:23:20,155 --> 00:23:24,675 Speaker 1: through a sewer. They went to the sewer water slide set. 343 00:23:24,715 --> 00:23:27,395 Speaker 1: Walter math Now grabbed the raft he was supposed to ride, 344 00:23:27,435 --> 00:23:29,675 Speaker 1: and he jumped in. As he went through it, he 345 00:23:29,715 --> 00:23:32,235 Speaker 1: studied all the corners and where the cameras would be, 346 00:23:32,315 --> 00:23:35,475 Speaker 1: so he knew where to make his faces, and seconds 347 00:23:35,555 --> 00:23:37,035 Speaker 1: later he was shooting out the far end of the 348 00:23:37,075 --> 00:23:39,955 Speaker 1: water slide onto the giant inflatable, twelve foot square air 349 00:23:39,995 --> 00:23:43,195 Speaker 1: mattress placed there to break his fall, or he would 350 00:23:43,235 --> 00:23:46,035 Speaker 1: have been doing that, except it was lunch and the 351 00:23:46,075 --> 00:23:49,275 Speaker 1: teamsters had deflated the mattress and then moved it away 352 00:23:49,355 --> 00:23:52,155 Speaker 1: because the set was on lunch break. So Walter math 353 00:23:52,235 --> 00:23:54,635 Speaker 1: now then seventy three years old, came flying out of 354 00:23:54,635 --> 00:24:00,195 Speaker 1: the water slide onto the pavement. He broke his collar bone, 355 00:24:00,875 --> 00:24:03,155 Speaker 1: which is just about as painful a thing as you 356 00:24:03,195 --> 00:24:08,315 Speaker 1: can break now, Walter Mathou screamed. Jack Lemon raced over 357 00:24:08,395 --> 00:24:10,955 Speaker 1: to him, Walter, Walter, are you all right? No? Not? Jack? 358 00:24:12,435 --> 00:24:16,995 Speaker 1: Oh Lemon panicked. Can I help you? Walter? Can I? 359 00:24:17,075 --> 00:24:19,315 Speaker 1: Can I get you something? Walter? Yes, Jack, get me. 360 00:24:20,395 --> 00:24:25,915 Speaker 1: Oh Lemon continued to panic, But but until they come. 361 00:24:26,195 --> 00:24:30,515 Speaker 1: Are you okay, Walter? Are you comfortable? Walter Mathou was 362 00:24:30,555 --> 00:24:33,275 Speaker 1: in sheer agony, but he realized through the fog of 363 00:24:33,315 --> 00:24:36,795 Speaker 1: pain that one of the oldest jokes in show business 364 00:24:37,195 --> 00:24:41,515 Speaker 1: was actually happening to him. Finally, in real life, Am 365 00:24:41,515 --> 00:24:49,475 Speaker 1: I comfortable? I make a nice living? Jack? Oh? My 366 00:24:49,555 --> 00:24:52,035 Speaker 1: friend Norman Lloyd used to go hiking with Walter math 367 00:24:52,075 --> 00:24:53,635 Speaker 1: Ou in the Hollywood Hills, and he told me that 368 00:24:53,675 --> 00:24:57,155 Speaker 1: one day Walter was unusually quiet. The two had gone 369 00:24:57,195 --> 00:25:00,315 Speaker 1: a mile or so when Mathou suddenly stopped and grabbed 370 00:25:00,355 --> 00:25:03,435 Speaker 1: Norman by the arm. No me, did you know at 371 00:25:03,435 --> 00:25:06,715 Speaker 1: the end, they Beethoven was so deaf he thought he 372 00:25:06,835 --> 00:25:10,955 Speaker 1: was painting. Norman smiled, snorted, and started to say that 373 00:25:10,955 --> 00:25:13,195 Speaker 1: it was the dumbest thing he'd ever heard. But halfway 374 00:25:13,195 --> 00:25:15,715 Speaker 1: through Norman sentence, matth I had already turned away from 375 00:25:15,755 --> 00:25:20,955 Speaker 1: him and was back walking again. Another mile passed in silence, 376 00:25:20,995 --> 00:25:23,555 Speaker 1: and now Matthew slowed down and faced his friend Norman. 377 00:25:23,635 --> 00:25:26,635 Speaker 1: This is important. I have something to tell you, Norman said. 378 00:25:26,675 --> 00:25:29,195 Speaker 1: His heart skipped. He thought there was something wrong. What 379 00:25:29,355 --> 00:25:32,475 Speaker 1: is it, Walter? Did you know at the end Beethoven 380 00:25:32,595 --> 00:25:36,155 Speaker 1: was so deaf he thought he was painting? Now, Norman 381 00:25:36,195 --> 00:25:39,475 Speaker 1: just shook his head. As they completed their five mile 382 00:25:39,595 --> 00:25:42,555 Speaker 1: hike through the hills, Matthew stopped roughly once every mile 383 00:25:42,915 --> 00:25:45,835 Speaker 1: and repeated the same line, did you know at the 384 00:25:45,915 --> 00:25:48,115 Speaker 1: end Beethoven was so deaf he thought he was painting? 385 00:25:49,315 --> 00:25:53,075 Speaker 1: Norman told me it totally unnerved me. When we got 386 00:25:53,115 --> 00:25:55,075 Speaker 1: back to where we parked our cars. I felt like 387 00:25:55,075 --> 00:25:57,515 Speaker 1: I had to avenge myself somehow, so I blurted out 388 00:25:57,515 --> 00:26:01,315 Speaker 1: to him, Walter, did you know at the end Beethoven 389 00:26:01,435 --> 00:26:05,875 Speaker 1: was so deaf he thought he was painting, Norman said. 390 00:26:05,915 --> 00:26:09,355 Speaker 1: Mathow looked at him, screwing his great craggy face into 391 00:26:09,355 --> 00:26:13,155 Speaker 1: a resentful sneer as he did, what the hell are 392 00:26:13,155 --> 00:26:16,035 Speaker 1: you talking about? Thought he was painting. That's the dumbest 393 00:26:16,035 --> 00:26:20,515 Speaker 1: thing I ever heard, as I said. I met Walter 394 00:26:20,595 --> 00:26:23,715 Speaker 1: Mathel once when I was a local sportscaster in Los Angeles. 395 00:26:23,795 --> 00:26:26,235 Speaker 1: I was invited to host a charity event at the 396 00:26:26,275 --> 00:26:29,875 Speaker 1: Hollywood Park race track. I ordinarily did not do these 397 00:26:29,915 --> 00:26:32,475 Speaker 1: things because to do them I would have to take 398 00:26:32,475 --> 00:26:36,475 Speaker 1: the day off. But when the organizer said, oh, and 399 00:26:36,515 --> 00:26:39,915 Speaker 1: Walter Mathou will be there, I just asked for directions. 400 00:26:40,875 --> 00:26:43,075 Speaker 1: The first time I had ever imagined what it was 401 00:26:43,115 --> 00:26:46,835 Speaker 1: like to be a sportswriter or to be a sports broadcaster, 402 00:26:47,195 --> 00:26:48,995 Speaker 1: it was when I was nine years old and I 403 00:26:49,035 --> 00:26:52,755 Speaker 1: saw Walter math Out portray Oscar Madison in the movie 404 00:26:52,835 --> 00:26:55,395 Speaker 1: The Odd Couple. It was exactly what I wanted to 405 00:26:55,475 --> 00:26:58,795 Speaker 1: be and where I wanted to live, and how I 406 00:26:58,835 --> 00:27:01,755 Speaker 1: wanted to eat, and I wanted to get a chance 407 00:27:02,435 --> 00:27:06,595 Speaker 1: to tell him that. So at the charity dinner, I 408 00:27:06,635 --> 00:27:09,515 Speaker 1: screwed up my courage, I introduced myself. I told him 409 00:27:09,555 --> 00:27:13,315 Speaker 1: all that, and he replied, I hate you. I was 410 00:27:13,355 --> 00:27:17,435 Speaker 1: so crushed I almost passed out. And clearly Walter math 411 00:27:17,515 --> 00:27:20,555 Speaker 1: No recognized this. No, no, no, I don't hate your work. 412 00:27:20,955 --> 00:27:23,115 Speaker 1: I watch you every night on Channel two Action News, 413 00:27:23,155 --> 00:27:26,955 Speaker 1: you and and Jim Lampley and Brie Lampley and Jim Lampley. 414 00:27:27,395 --> 00:27:28,995 Speaker 1: But I hate the fact that you don't have an 415 00:27:28,995 --> 00:27:34,195 Speaker 1: accent of any kind. Where are you raised? Iowa? I 416 00:27:34,235 --> 00:27:36,755 Speaker 1: did not know where this conversation was going. I said, 417 00:27:36,795 --> 00:27:39,795 Speaker 1: I was from the Bronx originally. Is that right? I'm 418 00:27:39,795 --> 00:27:43,115 Speaker 1: from Brooklyn. Could you tell the hell kind of speech 419 00:27:43,115 --> 00:27:46,515 Speaker 1: teacher did you have? Yet? You sound like? Iowa explained. 420 00:27:46,515 --> 00:27:47,875 Speaker 1: My father had said that if I wanted to go 421 00:27:47,875 --> 00:27:50,715 Speaker 1: into broadcasting, I could not talk quote like the rest 422 00:27:50,755 --> 00:27:53,395 Speaker 1: of us. Walter looked away from me and then back, 423 00:27:53,435 --> 00:27:55,755 Speaker 1: and he said, very wise words. Your father was a 424 00:27:55,755 --> 00:28:02,715 Speaker 1: speech teacher. No, I said, architect. His eyes flared, How 425 00:28:02,755 --> 00:28:06,035 Speaker 1: in the hell does that work? I started to explain, 426 00:28:06,155 --> 00:28:08,355 Speaker 1: when it suddenly dawned on me that we were discussing 427 00:28:08,395 --> 00:28:11,235 Speaker 1: this only because he said he hated the fact that 428 00:28:11,315 --> 00:28:15,875 Speaker 1: I did not have an accent. I asked him, why, 429 00:28:16,315 --> 00:28:20,595 Speaker 1: no accent means I can't do an impression of you. Well, 430 00:28:20,635 --> 00:28:29,195 Speaker 1: this caused me to pause. Impressions. This is in Walter 431 00:28:29,355 --> 00:28:32,355 Speaker 1: math Now was one of the top five most impersonated 432 00:28:32,435 --> 00:28:37,795 Speaker 1: voices in America. Anybody who did impressions, good or bad, 433 00:28:38,275 --> 00:28:43,355 Speaker 1: professional or amateur, anybody did a Walter math Ow. You 434 00:28:43,395 --> 00:28:47,715 Speaker 1: did your Sammy Davis. You'r Howard Cosell, you'r Walter math Ow. Wait. 435 00:28:48,235 --> 00:28:53,635 Speaker 1: I said to him, you do impressions of sportscasters? Yes, 436 00:28:54,035 --> 00:28:57,875 Speaker 1: he said, proudly. Would you like to hear him? I said, 437 00:28:57,955 --> 00:29:01,835 Speaker 1: I'll pay cash. I don't normally do these, but seeing 438 00:29:01,875 --> 00:29:04,475 Speaker 1: you are in the business, I will just for you. 439 00:29:05,315 --> 00:29:08,475 Speaker 1: I practiced these a lot. By the way, twenty years later, 440 00:29:08,515 --> 00:29:13,995 Speaker 1: Norman Lloyd confirmed for me math Out did do sportscaster impressions. 441 00:29:14,275 --> 00:29:16,515 Speaker 1: He did practice them a lot. This was not some 442 00:29:16,555 --> 00:29:22,075 Speaker 1: sort of bit. Now back Out cleared his throat, he 443 00:29:22,115 --> 00:29:24,955 Speaker 1: shook his shoulders. Let's start with the best, and it 444 00:29:25,035 --> 00:29:30,155 Speaker 1: sounds something like this, Hello, everybody, this is Vince Scully 445 00:29:30,195 --> 00:29:33,955 Speaker 1: at Dodger stadium. What do you think It sounded exactly 446 00:29:33,995 --> 00:29:38,395 Speaker 1: like Walter math Ou, didn't sound like Vince Scully. It 447 00:29:38,435 --> 00:29:41,595 Speaker 1: didn't even sound like a bad impression of Vince Scully. 448 00:29:42,275 --> 00:29:44,315 Speaker 1: It didn't even sound like a bad impression of Walter 449 00:29:44,395 --> 00:29:46,795 Speaker 1: math Out. It was it was just Walter math Out talking, 450 00:29:47,955 --> 00:29:52,675 Speaker 1: thinking quickly. I said, uncanny, Mr math Ow, thank you. 451 00:29:52,755 --> 00:29:55,275 Speaker 1: I work on Vinnie especially Odd, He's my favorite. Now 452 00:29:55,315 --> 00:29:57,275 Speaker 1: the big mouth. Hello again, this is Howard co Sell 453 00:29:57,315 --> 00:29:59,315 Speaker 1: at ringside. How about that one? I think I got 454 00:29:59,315 --> 00:30:03,795 Speaker 1: most of the inflection. Goodness, Mr math Now, it's like 455 00:30:03,835 --> 00:30:06,635 Speaker 1: he's in the room with us. This went on for 456 00:30:06,835 --> 00:30:12,915 Speaker 1: many minutes. Kurt Goudy chickern Al Michael's, several local l 457 00:30:12,915 --> 00:30:16,555 Speaker 1: A radio announcers. I cursed myself for not having brought 458 00:30:16,555 --> 00:30:19,475 Speaker 1: a tape recorder with me. Walter math Out did impressions 459 00:30:19,475 --> 00:30:25,435 Speaker 1: of sportscasters, and they were all terrible, But he said 460 00:30:25,475 --> 00:30:27,715 Speaker 1: he couldn't do one of me because I had no accent. 461 00:30:28,595 --> 00:30:33,195 Speaker 1: I was complimented and crushed after a very nice event, 462 00:30:33,275 --> 00:30:35,595 Speaker 1: saluting his friend and neighbor in the front row seats 463 00:30:35,635 --> 00:30:39,275 Speaker 1: at the Laker Games, Dr Robert Curlin. We called it 464 00:30:39,315 --> 00:30:41,315 Speaker 1: an evening and as everybody got up to leave, I 465 00:30:41,355 --> 00:30:44,115 Speaker 1: asked Walter math Now to autograph my program from the 466 00:30:44,155 --> 00:30:47,915 Speaker 1: dinner my pleasure. He said, nice work tonight, but I 467 00:30:47,955 --> 00:30:50,075 Speaker 1: still don't get how you father the architect, was also 468 00:30:50,155 --> 00:30:56,595 Speaker 1: a speech teacher, but neverlind In the program, he wrote this, listen, 469 00:30:56,715 --> 00:31:03,475 Speaker 1: Keith quit kidding around. No, don't Walter math out. It 470 00:31:03,555 --> 00:31:06,995 Speaker 1: was lovely. And then he did something that took my 471 00:31:07,115 --> 00:31:10,635 Speaker 1: breath away, something I have tried to do anytime circumstances 472 00:31:10,635 --> 00:31:15,355 Speaker 1: permitted me to. He picked up his program, he handed 473 00:31:15,395 --> 00:31:20,235 Speaker 1: it to me and he said, now you signed mine. 474 00:31:22,755 --> 00:31:27,035 Speaker 1: Can you believe that I only met him the one time, 475 00:31:27,915 --> 00:31:30,395 Speaker 1: but that gesture stayed with me to such a degree 476 00:31:31,835 --> 00:31:35,235 Speaker 1: that this happened. Nine years later. I woke up at 477 00:31:35,235 --> 00:31:37,275 Speaker 1: the crack of dawn to go host the baseball Game 478 00:31:37,315 --> 00:31:39,115 Speaker 1: of the Week at Fox Studios in l A. It 479 00:31:39,515 --> 00:31:43,475 Speaker 1: was Saturday morning, July one, two thousand. It was nine 480 00:31:43,595 --> 00:31:47,835 Speaker 1: years and about two weeks after I met Walter math Now, 481 00:31:49,315 --> 00:31:51,835 Speaker 1: and on the all news radio station, there was one 482 00:31:51,875 --> 00:31:56,235 Speaker 1: big story that morning in Los Angeles. Overnight the great 483 00:31:56,235 --> 00:32:01,195 Speaker 1: actor Walter Mathou had died heart attack, aged seventy nine. 484 00:32:03,275 --> 00:32:20,075 Speaker 1: I burst into tears. I've done all the damage I 485 00:32:20,075 --> 00:32:22,075 Speaker 1: can do here. Help me out. Give this thing a 486 00:32:22,155 --> 00:32:26,355 Speaker 1: heart or a smiley emoji, or give it a good review, 487 00:32:26,715 --> 00:32:30,635 Speaker 1: or subscribe whatever that it is. The kids do. 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The best baseball stadium organists ever, and our 497 00:33:02,635 --> 00:33:06,755 Speaker 1: announcer today was Tony Kornheiser. Everything else was pretty much 498 00:33:06,755 --> 00:33:11,235 Speaker 1: my fault. That's countdown for this the sixty seventh day 499 00:33:11,235 --> 00:33:14,675 Speaker 1: since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected 500 00:33:14,675 --> 00:33:17,435 Speaker 1: government of the United States. Arrest him now while we 501 00:33:17,515 --> 00:33:22,235 Speaker 1: still can. Are you comfortable, Walter oh? I make a 502 00:33:22,355 --> 00:33:26,195 Speaker 1: nice living. A new episode tomorrow till then on Keith 503 00:33:26,195 --> 00:33:29,835 Speaker 1: all Riman, good Morning, good afternoon, good night and good Luck. 504 00:33:40,715 --> 00:33:43,515 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith ol Reman is a production of I 505 00:33:43,675 --> 00:33:47,315 Speaker 1: heart Radio. 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