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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Our

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Speaker 1: white trash President, our white trash, redneck cracker, morally bankrupt president.

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Speaker 1: Here's a shock when they insist Thursday Night's racist video

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Speaker 1: with the Obamas as apes was not posted by Trump

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Speaker 1: but by somebody else in the White House. And then

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Speaker 1: Trump himself undermines that lie that they spread on his

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Speaker 1: behalf by saying he selected the video and had somebody

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Speaker 1: else posted, but he just didn't watch the whole thing,

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Speaker 1: so it wasn't a mistake. They just deleted it. I

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Speaker 1: think each part of that is a lie. I think

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Speaker 1: it was a setup. I conclude that this is not

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Speaker 1: just his normal latent human garbage. Trump racism inherited Trump

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Speaker 1: family branded racism, the same racism as father had. But

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Speaker 1: I conclude the entire thing was designed to whatever degree,

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Speaker 1: anything Trump and these scumbags do is designed. It was

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Speaker 1: designed to turn out exactly this way. Event happens, Backlash

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Speaker 1: justifiable happens, unrighteous indignation from Press Secretary Ava Braun happens. Oops.

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Speaker 1: Oh it turns out it wasn't supposed to be posted.

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Speaker 1: Oops again, bad staffer. Oops. A third time. Trump comes

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Speaker 1: out at the end of the day and endorses the

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Speaker 1: original racist video anyway quote I didn't make a mistake,

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Speaker 1: and he did it this way, the way he expresses

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Speaker 1: all of his racism against black people. Now, because you

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Speaker 1: can't send ice after them, you can send ice after Hispanics,

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Speaker 1: because there is a simple way to categorize all Hispanics

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Speaker 1: into one of two disgusting slavery era terms quote legal

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Speaker 1: and quote illegal. You can kidnap and disappear and maim Hispanics,

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Speaker 1: some of them, half of them, and the good Germans

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Speaker 1: living among us will stand up and cheer and endorse

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Speaker 1: the buying of giant warehouses in Texas, so Trump can

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Speaker 1: turn them into giant concentration camps. You can do that

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Speaker 1: to Hispanics. You can slander the most streamed artist in

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Speaker 1: the world when he does last night's Super Bowl halftime show,

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Speaker 1: and you can counter program him with your own racist

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Speaker 1: halftime show starring a guy whose catalog is highlighted by

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Speaker 1: assauw endorsing statutory rape. You can get away with that

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Speaker 1: because long before Trump, the Republicans moved away from their

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Speaker 1: primary platform plank of the nineteen sixties, which was criminalizing

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Speaker 1: being black. They moved from that when it got too

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Speaker 1: hot over there to their primary platform plank. Since Pat

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Speaker 1: Buchanan and the nineteen nineties criminalizing being Hispanic, the Obamas

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Speaker 1: as Apes video got out and got out that way

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Speaker 1: because Trump and the other human garbage still have to

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Speaker 1: work a little bit to get away with flashbacks to

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Speaker 1: the Republican policy of criminalizing being black in this country,

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Speaker 1: sadly thanks to our slovenliness as a society, as the

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Speaker 1: criminalization of being Hispanic has risen up around us steadily

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Speaker 1: for thirty years thanks to the Republicans, thanks to Bush,

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Speaker 1: thanks to all of them, Trump really doesn't have to

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Speaker 1: work at that, as Ice and the Nazification of our

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Speaker 1: society confirms. Let me interrupt myself here before I get

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Speaker 1: too further in here without stating this specifically and explicitly,

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Speaker 1: just in case there's any doubt, I am not endorsing

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Speaker 1: one of these two hatreds. I hate both of these hatreds.

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Speaker 1: I hate racism in all its forms. Neither victimized group

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Speaker 1: isn't doing enough or could be doing more. We failed

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Speaker 1: as a country, and that as long as this is

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Speaker 1: failed as a country. We the liberals also failed. We

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Speaker 1: we're on a trajectory to, if not convert the hearts

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Speaker 1: and minds of the heartless and mindless racists, at least

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Speaker 1: to make sure that the racist lived every minute of

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Speaker 1: It's only the second best motivation, but it's still pretty useful.

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Speaker 1: And we took our effing feet off the gas, and

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Speaker 1: now the Department of Justice is suing people for pushing

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Speaker 1: back against racism against victims and instead prosecuting fabricated, phony,

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Speaker 1: non existent, impossible quote racism against white people. It is

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Speaker 1: in some respects worse than it was in reconstruction. But

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Speaker 1: back to the Trump video and why we should keep

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Speaker 1: talking about this and why I think there are days

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Speaker 1: and weeks more worth of stories about it, and how

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Speaker 1: Let me go granular, as the kids say about three

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Speaker 1: things about that video and about our white trash, redneck, racist,

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Speaker 1: heard explored anywhere else, and they resonate this morning, which

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Speaker 1: is what seventeen scandals after the Apes video scandal. Firstly,

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Speaker 1: how is it somehow better for Trump if he didn't

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Speaker 1: he owns, who is just as racist as he is,

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Speaker 1: or in fact, they want to portray this imaginary other

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Speaker 1: staffer as more racist than he is. How is that

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Speaker 1: an improvement? Trump has assistance being a virtual clansman. There

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Speaker 1: is more than one racist with access to that account,

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Speaker 1: well more than two. We know Stephen Miller has it too.

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Speaker 1: But secondly, how does this assistant work exactly? Somebody else

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Speaker 1: can post a Trump's account a deputy. Can the deputy

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Speaker 1: post threats against immigrants too? Or or can he post

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Speaker 1: love notes to Vladimir Putin, Or can he posts the

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Speaker 1: this deputy is he just there just to post racism.

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Speaker 1: Only Trump posts betrayals of American allies or threats against Democrats.

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Speaker 1: But the assistant helps on the ape videos special assistant

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Speaker 1: to the President for racism, Special senior Assistant to the

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Speaker 1: President for racism. And by the way, he's not good

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Speaker 1: at the job. He screwed this up. He has final say,

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Speaker 1: racist for Trump to survive it, and he didn't. Seriously,

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Speaker 1: he didn't have the extra three seconds. The only thing

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Speaker 1: this creature Trump and this administration full of vermin are

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Speaker 1: That brings me to the third point, which is that

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Speaker 1: I doubt the entire story and the first, second, third,

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Speaker 1: address the Akham's Razor version of all this, that the

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Speaker 1: likeliest scenario is not that he just skimmed some video

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Speaker 1: it not racist enough? Donald? The easiest explanation is this

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Speaker 1: is an internet trolling episode, and Trump is an Internet troll.

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Speaker 1: because there's still one percent out there that he doesn't own.

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Speaker 1: The other minorities who don't get full throated defense in

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Speaker 1: Trump can for the moment smear all the Hispanics. He wants,

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Speaker 1: Full on attacks like videos depicting the African American former

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Speaker 1: president of the United States and his first lady as apes.

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Speaker 1: Just doing that would get just too much flack, even

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Speaker 1: even the America in which Trump has authorized the racists

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Speaker 1: the assassin of Medgar Evers right there. And you can't

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Speaker 1: not yet, our white trash, redneck, cracker, scumbag president. Don't

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Speaker 1: for a moment he will use ice to disappear and

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Speaker 1: Dave Roberts, really mooky bets, are you gonna go golfing

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Speaker 1: on my rhetoricals. Magic Doc Roberts, Mooky, Saquon, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: spend time with this racist bastard When in the same

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Speaker 1: seventy two hour span he published the Obama ape video

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Speaker 1: What about that part of this equation? Trump implying there

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Speaker 1: the United States of America. Magic Doc Mookie say, when

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Speaker 1: roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens

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Speaker 1: the stupid people out there into thinking that it was

427
00:32:48,955 --> 00:32:51,875
Speaker 1: just bad management. And that's where Jim Vandahi came in.

428
00:32:52,595 --> 00:32:55,955
Speaker 1: But if you think that was bad, Dylan Byers actually

429
00:32:55,955 --> 00:33:00,155
Speaker 1: wrote something dumber because he basically took the side of

430
00:33:00,355 --> 00:33:04,115
Speaker 1: firing everybody at the Washington Post, quoting Dylan Byer's buck

431
00:33:04,275 --> 00:33:08,475
Speaker 1: new it may have been heartbreaking when Matt Murray announced

432
00:33:08,515 --> 00:33:11,235
Speaker 1: today that the sports and Books department would be shuttered,

433
00:33:11,515 --> 00:33:14,475
Speaker 1: But how could that have been a surprise. Those content

434
00:33:14,595 --> 00:33:18,315
Speaker 1: areas which are challenging to monetize have long been colonized

435
00:33:18,315 --> 00:33:21,595
Speaker 1: by other insurgents. This wasn't a murder. It was the

436
00:33:21,635 --> 00:33:25,075
Speaker 1: sad result of an escalating cold war between management and

437
00:33:25,115 --> 00:33:28,075
Speaker 1: talent that had led to a total breakdown in communication

438
00:33:28,235 --> 00:33:36,355
Speaker 1: over all, exacerbated by distrust over other squabbles, the Kamala

439
00:33:36,435 --> 00:33:41,195
Speaker 1: Harris endorsement, saga, Sally Buzzby gait, this new opinions, Guy,

440
00:33:41,275 --> 00:33:47,595
Speaker 1: et cetera. Understandably, as Saul Bellow once wrote, everyone is

441
00:33:47,675 --> 00:33:52,595
Speaker 1: blind with rage. Well everyone except Dylan Buyers, Who's just

442
00:33:52,755 --> 00:33:57,555
Speaker 1: blind with stupidity. Oh my god, Like the conservative commentator

443
00:33:57,915 --> 00:34:01,315
Speaker 1: says about the doomed airliner and its passengers in the

444
00:34:01,355 --> 00:34:03,915
Speaker 1: sixty minutes debate that appears in the middle of the

445
00:34:04,435 --> 00:34:09,715
Speaker 1: Great Leslie Nielsen movie, Airplane, they bought their tickets, they

446
00:34:09,755 --> 00:34:14,115
Speaker 1: knew what they were getting into. I say, let them crash.

447
00:34:15,315 --> 00:34:19,755
Speaker 1: Holy cow, they don't see that this was deliberate. This

448
00:34:19,835 --> 00:34:22,595
Speaker 1: guy actually thinks, well, why didn't you just sell it

449
00:34:22,595 --> 00:34:26,395
Speaker 1: to Karen Swisher because that might have worked, or it's like,

450
00:34:26,475 --> 00:34:29,355
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I'm you have to recognize that we needed

451
00:34:29,355 --> 00:34:32,555
Speaker 1: to fire people. I'm Dylan Buyers. There's a management guy

452
00:34:32,635 --> 00:34:36,155
Speaker 1: somewhere who hasn't been stroked recently. I anticipate having a

453
00:34:36,235 --> 00:34:38,635
Speaker 1: job for life. I'm not going to lose my job

454
00:34:38,675 --> 00:34:43,355
Speaker 1: here or anywhere else by ever criticizing management. I can

455
00:34:43,435 --> 00:34:49,955
Speaker 1: spell my own name. Bronze Worser Sage Steel, formerly of ESPN.

456
00:34:50,155 --> 00:34:52,475
Speaker 1: I was just warming up with those first two dudes.

457
00:34:53,635 --> 00:35:01,355
Speaker 1: She is the most radiantly stupid person I have ever

458
00:35:01,435 --> 00:35:06,035
Speaker 1: worked with. And I worked with Lauren so Unchez and

459
00:35:06,155 --> 00:35:11,755
Speaker 1: Steven A. Smith Sage Steele, with whom I once co anchored,

460
00:35:11,835 --> 00:35:14,755
Speaker 1: or actually more like five times co anchored Sports Center

461
00:35:15,315 --> 00:35:19,155
Speaker 1: and came out saying, am I bleeding? She went on

462
00:35:19,155 --> 00:35:20,915
Speaker 1: one of the Fox shows because she doesn't have a

463
00:35:20,955 --> 00:35:24,555
Speaker 1: career anymore, so now she's just slid into the Oh,

464
00:35:24,595 --> 00:35:27,915
Speaker 1: I'm going to be a pundit. That's you spell it

465
00:35:27,995 --> 00:35:31,355
Speaker 1: p uh, you spell it with a P. She went

466
00:35:31,395 --> 00:35:32,955
Speaker 1: on one of the Fox shows, and I mean what's

467
00:35:32,955 --> 00:35:35,275
Speaker 1: the difference which one it was? This is how dumb

468
00:35:35,355 --> 00:35:38,675
Speaker 1: Sage Steel is. She not only did a stupid elitist

469
00:35:38,715 --> 00:35:42,715
Speaker 1: bit on performers making political comments, and she has no

470
00:35:42,755 --> 00:35:45,915
Speaker 1: excuse for being elitists, not with that thirteen horsepower brain

471
00:35:45,955 --> 00:35:51,475
Speaker 1: of hers plus I mean performers, TV performers and other

472
00:35:51,475 --> 00:35:53,955
Speaker 1: performers can't make political comments, then what are you doing?

473
00:35:54,395 --> 00:35:58,795
Speaker 1: You're a sportscaster and you were barely that. Oh no,

474
00:35:58,835 --> 00:36:01,675
Speaker 1: I'm I'm going to be. I'm going to be the

475
00:36:01,915 --> 00:36:07,755
Speaker 1: Michelle Tafoya of Steven A. Smith's. Not only is this dumb,

476
00:36:09,195 --> 00:36:13,715
Speaker 1: it was stolen from Laura Ingram from about twenty five

477
00:36:13,795 --> 00:36:18,155
Speaker 1: years ago, The shut Up and Dribble Construct. Laura Ingram

478
00:36:18,675 --> 00:36:20,755
Speaker 1: for whatever else you can say about her, and I

479
00:36:20,795 --> 00:36:23,395
Speaker 1: can say an awful lot about her, whatever else you

480
00:36:23,435 --> 00:36:26,515
Speaker 1: can say about her. She wrote a book about this

481
00:36:26,795 --> 00:36:29,435
Speaker 1: called shut Up and Sing or shut Up and Dribble

482
00:36:29,515 --> 00:36:33,155
Speaker 1: or shut up and drink whatever. Well maybe that was

483
00:36:33,155 --> 00:36:38,235
Speaker 1: the autobiography, the shut Up and Dribble Construct, and Sage

484
00:36:38,275 --> 00:36:42,235
Speaker 1: Steel took like no I knew I heard it somewhere.

485
00:36:43,235 --> 00:36:48,075
Speaker 1: Sage Steel on Billie Eilish and her comments about immigrants

486
00:36:48,315 --> 00:36:51,555
Speaker 1: when you're on stolen land. Steele said, quote, it was

487
00:36:51,755 --> 00:36:55,355
Speaker 1: comical what she said. This is why shut up and dribble,

488
00:36:55,555 --> 00:36:58,915
Speaker 1: shut up and sing, because you're super talented, but you

489
00:36:58,955 --> 00:37:04,155
Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about. Now, to Sage Steal's credit,

490
00:37:05,075 --> 00:37:09,235
Speaker 1: she has never gone through the embarrassment of and never

491
00:37:09,315 --> 00:37:12,595
Speaker 1: will have to go through the embarrassment of hearing anybody

492
00:37:12,995 --> 00:37:17,995
Speaker 1: trying to insult her by saying, quote, because you're super talented,

493
00:37:20,435 --> 00:37:23,995
Speaker 1: and still there's somebody worse than that, the worst the winner.

494
00:37:24,075 --> 00:37:28,755
Speaker 1: David Shalien, CNN's idiot political director. Did they put out

495
00:37:28,755 --> 00:37:31,395
Speaker 1: a hiring search like ten years ago for people who

496
00:37:31,435 --> 00:37:35,075
Speaker 1: would continue to claim Trump had just changed his tone.

497
00:37:35,595 --> 00:37:38,635
Speaker 1: For years, it was Van Jones tearing up at the

498
00:37:38,675 --> 00:37:42,075
Speaker 1: thought of Trump changing his tone. But then they got

499
00:37:42,075 --> 00:37:44,995
Speaker 1: this Shalian guy. I mean Trump could start a world

500
00:37:45,155 --> 00:37:49,435
Speaker 1: ending nuclear war later today because Putin refused to lie

501
00:37:49,475 --> 00:37:52,355
Speaker 1: to him about the twenty twenty election. And somebody on

502
00:37:52,475 --> 00:37:55,315
Speaker 1: CNN in the last seconds would say, there it is

503
00:37:55,355 --> 00:37:58,075
Speaker 1: Trump has changed his tone and this is the moment

504
00:37:58,155 --> 00:38:03,395
Speaker 1: he's truly become kabom And it would probably be David

505
00:38:03,395 --> 00:38:07,635
Speaker 1: Shalien who actually went there about Trump and his language,

506
00:38:08,035 --> 00:38:12,595
Speaker 1: about who ice should kidnap and disappear and murder and

507
00:38:12,635 --> 00:38:16,955
Speaker 1: then slander after they're dead, quoting David Shaley seeing it,

508
00:38:17,515 --> 00:38:20,355
Speaker 1: he's clearly not looking to change the overall approach, but

509
00:38:22,835 --> 00:38:29,395
Speaker 1: never know at the word but just you know, just flee.

510
00:38:29,475 --> 00:38:32,475
Speaker 1: He's clearly not looking to change the overall approach. But

511
00:38:32,755 --> 00:38:34,995
Speaker 1: it is interesting to hear him take the rhetoric and

512
00:38:35,035 --> 00:38:36,955
Speaker 1: try to place it back on the worst of the

513
00:38:36,995 --> 00:38:42,515
Speaker 1: worst criminals. He acknowledged learning something that this required a

514
00:38:42,595 --> 00:38:50,035
Speaker 1: softer touch, Yes, a softer touch. No more search warrants,

515
00:38:50,955 --> 00:38:55,635
Speaker 1: no more Fourth Amendment, no more any amendments, automatic dismissals

516
00:38:55,955 --> 00:39:00,275
Speaker 1: of removal order appeals. And they are still going to

517
00:39:00,395 --> 00:39:04,395
Speaker 1: deborch that little five year old Liam if it kills him,

518
00:39:05,195 --> 00:39:09,675
Speaker 1: not if it kills them, Only if it kills him, David.

519
00:39:10,035 --> 00:39:13,515
Speaker 1: The only softer touch around here is between his ears.

520
00:39:14,075 --> 00:39:22,755
Speaker 1: Jliad of CNN two days other worst person in the world.

521
00:39:36,155 --> 00:39:38,115
Speaker 1: I don't want to say that I've had a lot

522
00:39:38,155 --> 00:39:42,875
Speaker 1: of jobs, but I actually forgot one. It just occurred

523
00:39:42,875 --> 00:39:44,595
Speaker 1: to me the other day. I was reminded of it

524
00:39:44,715 --> 00:39:49,595
Speaker 1: by the most unlikely series of memories and news stories

525
00:39:49,595 --> 00:39:51,235
Speaker 1: that came in front of me, and I went, oh,

526
00:39:51,275 --> 00:39:55,235
Speaker 1: my god, I was the entirety of a sports department

527
00:39:55,355 --> 00:39:58,515
Speaker 1: for a New York City daily newspaper when I was

528
00:39:58,595 --> 00:40:03,035
Speaker 1: nineteen years old. I'll say that again and clarify it,

529
00:40:03,075 --> 00:40:05,475
Speaker 1: and that, in fact, is what this segment is, because

530
00:40:05,995 --> 00:40:08,195
Speaker 1: I had forgotten this because it didn't last that long.

531
00:40:08,475 --> 00:40:11,875
Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy eight, I was finishing up an intern

532
00:40:12,075 --> 00:40:16,075
Speaker 1: shift at Channel five, the then Metromedia station in New

533
00:40:16,155 --> 00:40:18,475
Speaker 1: York now the Fox station in New York, half in

534
00:40:18,555 --> 00:40:21,115
Speaker 1: the sports department, half in the newsroom. And I have

535
00:40:21,195 --> 00:40:23,035
Speaker 1: to say, for the period of time that I spent there,

536
00:40:23,075 --> 00:40:26,835
Speaker 1: which was really only about three months, not even I

537
00:40:26,875 --> 00:40:29,955
Speaker 1: got to know everybody in that newsroom very well, and

538
00:40:30,035 --> 00:40:33,835
Speaker 1: they became, many of them lifelong friends, and they became

539
00:40:34,075 --> 00:40:37,955
Speaker 1: instantly interested in seeing my career begin. And I was

540
00:40:38,115 --> 00:40:40,555
Speaker 1: just about to literally a couple of months later, begin

541
00:40:40,675 --> 00:40:43,835
Speaker 1: my last year at Cornell and was going back there

542
00:40:43,835 --> 00:40:46,275
Speaker 1: and was trying to soak up both as much information

543
00:40:46,435 --> 00:40:48,795
Speaker 1: and knowledge and experience as I could and also as

544
00:40:48,835 --> 00:40:50,715
Speaker 1: many contacts as I could, and I got a lot

545
00:40:50,755 --> 00:40:53,555
Speaker 1: of them. One of them was named Stanley Pinsley, and

546
00:40:53,595 --> 00:40:56,755
Speaker 1: Stanley was a wonderful guy. I don't know and retrospect

547
00:40:56,795 --> 00:40:59,675
Speaker 1: how old he was. I'm going to guess somewhere around fifty.

548
00:40:59,955 --> 00:41:02,355
Speaker 1: Stanley was a big Yankee fan, as I was at

549
00:41:02,355 --> 00:41:04,195
Speaker 1: that time, and a big sports guy, and he used

550
00:41:04,235 --> 00:41:07,075
Speaker 1: to hang out with the sportscaster Bill Maser, And technically

551
00:41:07,115 --> 00:41:10,235
Speaker 1: he was a researcher. And he also wrote for a

552
00:41:10,235 --> 00:41:14,475
Speaker 1: publication called Our Town News or simply our Town. Our

553
00:41:14,635 --> 00:41:19,435
Speaker 1: Town was a weekly newspaper in the Yorkville section of Manhattan.

554
00:41:19,475 --> 00:41:21,635
Speaker 1: It came out once a week, and it was not

555
00:41:21,835 --> 00:41:24,955
Speaker 1: quite the Village Voice, probably about half the thickness of

556
00:41:24,995 --> 00:41:29,035
Speaker 1: the Village Voice, the famous avant garde Greenwich Village newspaper

557
00:41:29,075 --> 00:41:31,555
Speaker 1: that had been published for decades in New York and

558
00:41:32,035 --> 00:41:34,595
Speaker 1: was until I guess about a decade decade a get

559
00:41:34,595 --> 00:41:37,595
Speaker 1: and a half ago. It wasn't quite that, and it

560
00:41:37,675 --> 00:41:41,795
Speaker 1: wasn't nearly as avant garde, and it wasn't nearly as artsy,

561
00:41:42,155 --> 00:41:45,555
Speaker 1: but it was about a certain area of Manhattan, say

562
00:41:45,555 --> 00:41:49,915
Speaker 1: between the East River and seventy second Street to the

563
00:41:50,155 --> 00:41:56,595
Speaker 1: southeast and perhaps the ninety sixth Street in Madison Avenue

564
00:41:56,875 --> 00:42:01,755
Speaker 1: intersection to the north west. I think that's probably about

565
00:42:01,875 --> 00:42:04,915
Speaker 1: yet Once upon a time, This was the Germans action

566
00:42:04,955 --> 00:42:07,955
Speaker 1: of Manhattan. They had weekly and in fact daily German

567
00:42:08,035 --> 00:42:10,995
Speaker 1: newspapers well into the nineteen thirties. My father used to

568
00:42:11,075 --> 00:42:13,635
Speaker 1: tell me of going into that neighborhood when he was

569
00:42:13,635 --> 00:42:17,235
Speaker 1: a kid in the thirties and forties and not hearing

570
00:42:17,315 --> 00:42:20,235
Speaker 1: English spoken all day, and if you went into a bar,

571
00:42:20,435 --> 00:42:23,195
Speaker 1: forget about it. So this was the heritage. This was

572
00:42:23,235 --> 00:42:26,155
Speaker 1: its own separate community. And now it's just sort of

573
00:42:26,435 --> 00:42:29,235
Speaker 1: merged generally into the Upper east Side, although you will

574
00:42:29,275 --> 00:42:31,835
Speaker 1: still hear the term Yorkville every once in a while,

575
00:42:31,915 --> 00:42:35,675
Speaker 1: and it appears on street signs and bus destinations and such.

576
00:42:35,715 --> 00:42:40,195
Speaker 1: But it had a whole ecosystem of its own, including newspapers,

577
00:42:40,235 --> 00:42:44,635
Speaker 1: including one last surviving newspaper, Our Town News. All right,

578
00:42:44,675 --> 00:42:46,755
Speaker 1: this's a long setup to explain how it was. I

579
00:42:46,955 --> 00:42:49,795
Speaker 1: was the entire sports department of a New York City

580
00:42:49,875 --> 00:42:52,955
Speaker 1: daily newspaper for a limited time in nineteen seventy eight.

581
00:42:52,995 --> 00:42:56,435
Speaker 1: But it happened so just as I'm wrapping up my internship,

582
00:42:56,515 --> 00:42:59,675
Speaker 1: literally one or two days left in it, Stanley Pinsley

583
00:42:59,675 --> 00:43:01,595
Speaker 1: comes over to me and he says, you know, the

584
00:43:01,635 --> 00:43:05,275
Speaker 1: New York newspapers are going out on strike. Keith, that right,

585
00:43:05,355 --> 00:43:07,715
Speaker 1: and I said, yeah, I think everybody knows that's going

586
00:43:07,755 --> 00:43:09,995
Speaker 1: to happen. Aren't going to be any newspapers. What are

587
00:43:09,995 --> 00:43:12,875
Speaker 1: we going to do for our box scores? And I said,

588
00:43:12,915 --> 00:43:16,195
Speaker 1: I don't know. He goes, I know my friend Colin Payme,

589
00:43:16,355 --> 00:43:19,515
Speaker 1: who edits the our Town News that I write for,

590
00:43:19,875 --> 00:43:24,115
Speaker 1: wants to go daily. And I went, wow, yeah, and

591
00:43:24,155 --> 00:43:26,355
Speaker 1: I said I tried to go daily in high school

592
00:43:26,395 --> 00:43:29,195
Speaker 1: with a four page newspaper and we got one issue out.

593
00:43:29,235 --> 00:43:31,275
Speaker 1: He goes, it's going to be difficult, but we got

594
00:43:31,275 --> 00:43:34,555
Speaker 1: to try. What he wants to know is would you

595
00:43:34,635 --> 00:43:38,315
Speaker 1: like via the sports section? And I said, sports editor, No, no,

596
00:43:38,355 --> 00:43:40,275
Speaker 1: the whole sports section. You'd have a whole page that

597
00:43:40,355 --> 00:43:42,355
Speaker 1: you'd just do sports and write as much as you can,

598
00:43:43,155 --> 00:43:45,595
Speaker 1: and then they'll just fill it with pictures. And I

599
00:43:45,635 --> 00:43:48,515
Speaker 1: was like, what, there's your chance to be in a

600
00:43:48,555 --> 00:43:51,275
Speaker 1: sports editor in New York at nineteen. It's terrific. And

601
00:43:51,315 --> 00:43:53,315
Speaker 1: that was Stanley in a nutshell. He liked to do

602
00:43:53,435 --> 00:43:56,555
Speaker 1: things just because they hadn't been done before, or because

603
00:43:56,635 --> 00:44:00,195
Speaker 1: they were outrageous and unsupportable. So he put me in

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00:44:00,235 --> 00:44:02,315
Speaker 1: touch with Colin pay Me, and I thought, well, you know,

605
00:44:02,475 --> 00:44:04,475
Speaker 1: there's absolutely no reason for me not to see what

606
00:44:04,515 --> 00:44:06,715
Speaker 1: the is like. And I went to the offices of

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00:44:06,795 --> 00:44:10,395
Speaker 1: the our town news in which was printed in the newsroom,

608
00:44:10,715 --> 00:44:16,435
Speaker 1: and was this sprawling, kind of dilapidated and yet very

609
00:44:16,555 --> 00:44:21,395
Speaker 1: functional operation on the east side, somewhere somewhere near the

610
00:44:21,435 --> 00:44:23,675
Speaker 1: East River. It felt like it was in the East River.

611
00:44:24,235 --> 00:44:28,875
Speaker 1: The address was like seventeen thousand East seventy ninth Street

612
00:44:28,915 --> 00:44:31,875
Speaker 1: or something like that, which would put it somewhere in

613
00:44:32,035 --> 00:44:34,795
Speaker 1: the Atlantic Ocean in fact, but that's neither here nor there.

614
00:44:35,195 --> 00:44:37,235
Speaker 1: I'm just giving you what I remember of it now

615
00:44:37,315 --> 00:44:38,955
Speaker 1: that it's all come back to me after I had

616
00:44:38,995 --> 00:44:43,515
Speaker 1: apparently forgotten about this job for many years. So Colum

617
00:44:43,595 --> 00:44:46,075
Speaker 1: Paymy says, I can't offer you a lot of money,

618
00:44:46,075 --> 00:44:48,275
Speaker 1: but I can give you like one hundred dollars an issue.

619
00:44:48,595 --> 00:44:50,355
Speaker 1: But you have to do the whole thing. I mean,

620
00:44:50,395 --> 00:44:52,435
Speaker 1: you have to write a sports column. You have to

621
00:44:52,435 --> 00:44:54,795
Speaker 1: write an article on each of the major teams whenever

622
00:44:54,835 --> 00:44:56,875
Speaker 1: there's any news, and you're going to have to call

623
00:44:56,915 --> 00:44:59,315
Speaker 1: the teams and get photos of the players. So we

624
00:44:59,355 --> 00:45:01,035
Speaker 1: can break it up because we don't have any sports.

625
00:45:01,275 --> 00:45:03,435
Speaker 1: We've almost never done any sports at all. In the

626
00:45:03,475 --> 00:45:07,955
Speaker 1: history of our town. I was like, well, okay, what's

627
00:45:07,995 --> 00:45:09,955
Speaker 1: the endgame here? He says, the hell, if I know

628
00:45:10,315 --> 00:45:12,315
Speaker 1: there's going to be a strike, it could last a

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00:45:12,315 --> 00:45:14,795
Speaker 1: week and then we stop, and it could last two

630
00:45:14,875 --> 00:45:17,515
Speaker 1: to ten years, in which case you can stay on

631
00:45:17,555 --> 00:45:18,995
Speaker 1: as long as you want. And I said, well, but

632
00:45:19,075 --> 00:45:21,475
Speaker 1: I am supposed to go back to college in about

633
00:45:21,475 --> 00:45:23,835
Speaker 1: three weeks. He goes, yeah, okay, Well, if that happens,

634
00:45:23,835 --> 00:45:26,715
Speaker 1: we'll either get somebody to do it, or you can

635
00:45:26,755 --> 00:45:29,515
Speaker 1: get somebody else to do it, or we'll just stop it.

636
00:45:29,555 --> 00:45:31,195
Speaker 1: But we you know, at least at the start here,

637
00:45:31,195 --> 00:45:33,115
Speaker 1: we should do this. We shouldn't assume that it's going

638
00:45:33,195 --> 00:45:35,155
Speaker 1: to go on forever, but we should assume it's going

639
00:45:35,195 --> 00:45:37,755
Speaker 1: to last a week or two. You can get some experience,

640
00:45:37,755 --> 00:45:40,395
Speaker 1: and we can get some sports cheap. Stan says, you

641
00:45:40,435 --> 00:45:43,115
Speaker 1: can really write, write something for me, Write a column

642
00:45:43,195 --> 00:45:45,155
Speaker 1: right now that we could put in the paper about

643
00:45:45,155 --> 00:45:47,995
Speaker 1: anything in New York sports. And I said, well, okay,

644
00:45:47,995 --> 00:45:49,875
Speaker 1: And I sat down and took about half an hour

645
00:45:49,875 --> 00:45:51,955
Speaker 1: and wrote about five hundred words on I forget what

646
00:45:51,995 --> 00:45:53,475
Speaker 1: it was, and I handed it to him and he went,

647
00:45:53,635 --> 00:45:55,315
Speaker 1: I could publish this today. I don't even have to

648
00:45:55,395 --> 00:45:58,715
Speaker 1: edit anything. You're hired. You are the sports department. I said,

649
00:45:58,715 --> 00:46:01,355
Speaker 1: so should I write just like a column and a

650
00:46:01,435 --> 00:46:05,555
Speaker 1: Yankee story, and a Mets story and and a feature

651
00:46:05,595 --> 00:46:07,955
Speaker 1: of some sort maybe on one of the other teams,

652
00:46:07,955 --> 00:46:10,355
Speaker 1: the Giants and the gents? Is the football season looms

653
00:46:10,475 --> 00:46:13,115
Speaker 1: and looking ahead to developments with the New York Knicks,

654
00:46:13,195 --> 00:46:15,995
Speaker 1: the basketball team and something anything else that pops up,

655
00:46:16,595 --> 00:46:19,635
Speaker 1: and just what not going to put any bylines on them,

656
00:46:19,635 --> 00:46:21,915
Speaker 1: because they can't. If there's seven articles on a page

657
00:46:22,075 --> 00:46:24,035
Speaker 1: and they all say by Keith Olderman, it's going to

658
00:46:24,075 --> 00:46:26,315
Speaker 1: look stupid. He goes, well, I see you already have

659
00:46:26,315 --> 00:46:28,475
Speaker 1: a lot of experience in the newspaper game. I went, well, yeah,

660
00:46:28,515 --> 00:46:31,235
Speaker 1: I've done this before. It was only a high school paper,

661
00:46:31,235 --> 00:46:33,435
Speaker 1: but we've faced the same problems, just not on a

662
00:46:33,515 --> 00:46:35,995
Speaker 1: daily basis, or in your case, a weekly basis. Now

663
00:46:36,035 --> 00:46:38,195
Speaker 1: deciding for some reason that you want to try it

664
00:46:38,235 --> 00:46:40,915
Speaker 1: on a daily basis, he goes, yes, I'm nuts. I

665
00:46:40,915 --> 00:46:42,875
Speaker 1: can tell already that you're nuts, and you're going to

666
00:46:42,915 --> 00:46:44,675
Speaker 1: go far in this business. So we're going to be

667
00:46:44,795 --> 00:46:46,835
Speaker 1: nuts here for a while, and I'll probably scream at

668
00:46:46,835 --> 00:46:48,995
Speaker 1: you for no reason. So get that in your mind

669
00:46:49,035 --> 00:46:53,435
Speaker 1: right now. He said, what you should do is make

670
00:46:53,515 --> 00:46:56,795
Speaker 1: the columnists somebody else, make up a name that you'd like,

671
00:46:57,035 --> 00:47:01,515
Speaker 1: and I said, Boyd W. Lardner. He goes, oh, like

672
00:47:01,595 --> 00:47:04,195
Speaker 1: Ring Lardner. Yeah, I always liked his work. Well, that's

673
00:47:04,235 --> 00:47:07,595
Speaker 1: a sports to emulate Ring Lardner. I said, I can't

674
00:47:07,595 --> 00:47:11,195
Speaker 1: call myself Ring Lardner, but Boyd? Why Boyd? Because it

675
00:47:11,235 --> 00:47:16,795
Speaker 1: goes well with Lardner. Boyd W. Lardner wrote the column,

676
00:47:17,595 --> 00:47:19,835
Speaker 1: which was what are they talking About? Which was a

677
00:47:19,835 --> 00:47:21,995
Speaker 1: hell of a title for a column for a newspaper,

678
00:47:22,555 --> 00:47:25,035
Speaker 1: especially coming up with it on the spur of the

679
00:47:25,035 --> 00:47:26,435
Speaker 1: moment when I thought I was just going to be

680
00:47:26,475 --> 00:47:28,755
Speaker 1: spending the last two weeks before going back to college

681
00:47:29,115 --> 00:47:33,355
Speaker 1: just sitting around the pool, and then the idea became,

682
00:47:33,515 --> 00:47:35,075
Speaker 1: I'm not really going to be able to go to

683
00:47:35,115 --> 00:47:37,275
Speaker 1: a lot of games because if the Yankees are playing

684
00:47:37,275 --> 00:47:39,195
Speaker 1: at home and I want to find out how the

685
00:47:39,235 --> 00:47:41,235
Speaker 1: Mets did and write up a story that night to

686
00:47:41,275 --> 00:47:43,395
Speaker 1: go into the paper in the morning, I'm going to

687
00:47:43,475 --> 00:47:45,995
Speaker 1: have to do something where I can watch two games

688
00:47:45,995 --> 00:47:49,275
Speaker 1: at the same time, which means either record a game

689
00:47:49,995 --> 00:47:55,115
Speaker 1: on audio or video and watch the other one live

690
00:47:55,355 --> 00:47:57,995
Speaker 1: or something. I can't really go that often, but maybe

691
00:47:58,515 --> 00:48:00,795
Speaker 1: you know, if the Yankees are playing in the afternoon

692
00:48:00,835 --> 00:48:02,675
Speaker 1: and the Mets are playing on the road at night,

693
00:48:02,675 --> 00:48:04,915
Speaker 1: I can do both. So a couple of times I

694
00:48:04,955 --> 00:48:08,115
Speaker 1: went out and did interviews, and the late Mickey Lolich

695
00:48:08,275 --> 00:48:11,315
Speaker 1: of the San Diego Padres was in town with the

696
00:48:11,355 --> 00:48:14,435
Speaker 1: Padres playing the Mets one late afternoon start, and I

697
00:48:14,475 --> 00:48:17,195
Speaker 1: went out in the early afternoon and sat down with him,

698
00:48:17,235 --> 00:48:19,155
Speaker 1: must have been for an hour, and did an interview

699
00:48:19,195 --> 00:48:20,995
Speaker 1: with him, and he was great to me, and he

700
00:48:21,035 --> 00:48:23,515
Speaker 1: explained why it was he had quit the Mets after

701
00:48:23,555 --> 00:48:26,035
Speaker 1: one year with them and gone to play first base

702
00:48:26,035 --> 00:48:28,875
Speaker 1: for a slow pitch softball team in Michigan and then

703
00:48:28,955 --> 00:48:30,795
Speaker 1: come back to the National League with the San Diego

704
00:48:30,875 --> 00:48:34,715
Speaker 1: Padres the next year. Treated me absolutely seriously, possibly because

705
00:48:34,995 --> 00:48:37,875
Speaker 1: there were no other sports writers there. They were all

706
00:48:37,955 --> 00:48:42,435
Speaker 1: out on strike. The strike would ultimately last eighty days

707
00:48:42,515 --> 00:48:45,315
Speaker 1: or more than that, nearly ninety days, and one of

708
00:48:45,355 --> 00:48:48,395
Speaker 1: the by products that was always associated with the strike

709
00:48:48,475 --> 00:48:50,875
Speaker 1: was the idea that the New York Yankees, who had

710
00:48:50,915 --> 00:48:53,115
Speaker 1: been fourteen and a half games out of first place

711
00:48:53,155 --> 00:48:56,715
Speaker 1: in the American League East, vaulted back passed the Baltimore

712
00:48:56,755 --> 00:49:00,515
Speaker 1: Orioles and the Boston Red Sox to create a tie

713
00:49:00,675 --> 00:49:03,075
Speaker 1: and a playoff game for the championship of the American

714
00:49:03,155 --> 00:49:07,155
Speaker 1: League East. Because we're no sports writers around to annoy them.

715
00:49:07,395 --> 00:49:10,035
Speaker 1: And in nineteen seventy eight, in that window between about

716
00:49:10,075 --> 00:49:13,395
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight and nineteen eighty five, the sports writers

717
00:49:13,435 --> 00:49:16,875
Speaker 1: of New York were more annoying in one week than

718
00:49:16,915 --> 00:49:20,595
Speaker 1: they had been for the entirety of say a previous

719
00:49:20,635 --> 00:49:23,995
Speaker 1: season in the fifties or sixties or would be. Ever again,

720
00:49:24,355 --> 00:49:27,275
Speaker 1: they're annoying. Now I've had my own experiences with them.

721
00:49:27,315 --> 00:49:29,835
Speaker 1: I can tell you they are annoying, but it's nothing

722
00:49:29,915 --> 00:49:32,675
Speaker 1: compared to what used to greet the average New York

723
00:49:32,795 --> 00:49:35,035
Speaker 1: Yankee and even some of the Mets, and certainly the

724
00:49:35,075 --> 00:49:36,755
Speaker 1: Rangers and the Knicks and the Giants and the Jets

725
00:49:36,835 --> 00:49:40,555
Speaker 1: and everybody else. In those days. It was see if

726
00:49:40,595 --> 00:49:43,915
Speaker 1: you can get a player to run screaming into the street,

727
00:49:44,675 --> 00:49:46,675
Speaker 1: and a couple of times they did that. If you've

728
00:49:46,675 --> 00:49:49,035
Speaker 1: ever heard the Rich Gossage tape, you know exactly what

729
00:49:49,075 --> 00:49:51,475
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. I'd play it for you, but I

730
00:49:51,475 --> 00:49:53,755
Speaker 1: don't have enough time to do all the beeping and

731
00:49:53,835 --> 00:49:56,235
Speaker 1: bleeping that would be necessary for me to play it

732
00:49:56,275 --> 00:49:58,795
Speaker 1: for you. I don't have the time. I would take

733
00:49:58,795 --> 00:50:01,475
Speaker 1: about eight hours to edit it down together with all

734
00:50:01,515 --> 00:50:04,035
Speaker 1: the beeps and the bleeps. So in any event, I

735
00:50:04,075 --> 00:50:07,155
Speaker 1: sat down and wrote my first series of articles. My

736
00:50:07,275 --> 00:50:11,835
Speaker 1: own name was used for the Yankee article. We let

737
00:50:11,875 --> 00:50:14,915
Speaker 1: the Met article go without a byline. In fact, the

738
00:50:14,995 --> 00:50:17,315
Speaker 1: joke was we were going to put in by anonymous.

739
00:50:17,915 --> 00:50:19,715
Speaker 1: All I had to do since he had his own

740
00:50:19,795 --> 00:50:21,995
Speaker 1: layout people and they were putting out the same number

741
00:50:22,035 --> 00:50:25,395
Speaker 1: of paper pages just more often. I just had to

742
00:50:25,395 --> 00:50:27,715
Speaker 1: prepare the copy. I didn't actually have to make it

743
00:50:27,795 --> 00:50:30,115
Speaker 1: up as I did in my high school newspaper, gluing

744
00:50:30,155 --> 00:50:32,675
Speaker 1: things into place, but I had to get him his headlines.

745
00:50:32,715 --> 00:50:34,795
Speaker 1: I had to design the page. I had to lay

746
00:50:34,835 --> 00:50:37,115
Speaker 1: out the page, and I had to get photographs and

747
00:50:37,195 --> 00:50:38,915
Speaker 1: call the New York Mets and say, can you send

748
00:50:38,955 --> 00:50:40,955
Speaker 1: me a set of your glossy eight byte tens so

749
00:50:40,995 --> 00:50:43,795
Speaker 1: I have something to break this up. They did, The

750
00:50:43,955 --> 00:50:47,635
Speaker 1: Yankees did not. The Mets did, And the Mets were

751
00:50:47,675 --> 00:50:51,835
Speaker 1: always always more cooperative with the media and always will

752
00:50:51,875 --> 00:50:55,355
Speaker 1: be in any event. So now I'm the editor and

753
00:50:55,435 --> 00:50:58,675
Speaker 1: the only writer, and I'm appearing under the name Keith

754
00:50:58,675 --> 00:51:02,675
Speaker 1: Olderman columnist boy W. Lardner, And I was going to

755
00:51:02,755 --> 00:51:07,715
Speaker 1: invent if this continued, additional writers for football and hockey

756
00:51:07,715 --> 00:51:13,315
Speaker 1: and basketball with other relevant names relevant to their sports.

757
00:51:13,875 --> 00:51:17,995
Speaker 1: So what happened, of course, was I found rather quickly

758
00:51:17,995 --> 00:51:19,995
Speaker 1: that there was no time left for me to sleep

759
00:51:20,235 --> 00:51:23,195
Speaker 1: in this new job. I wasn't in New York City,

760
00:51:23,275 --> 00:51:25,395
Speaker 1: I wasn't living there. I was living with my parents

761
00:51:25,435 --> 00:51:27,795
Speaker 1: in the suburbs. So I would come in every day

762
00:51:28,035 --> 00:51:30,235
Speaker 1: and spend some time in the office and maybe go

763
00:51:30,275 --> 00:51:31,955
Speaker 1: out to one of the ballparks and try to do

764
00:51:31,995 --> 00:51:34,035
Speaker 1: a quick interview, and then go to the office and

765
00:51:34,075 --> 00:51:38,155
Speaker 1: write something up and submit all the copy. Meanwhile, Collin

766
00:51:38,315 --> 00:51:41,155
Speaker 1: pay Me and the production staff of Our Town News

767
00:51:41,195 --> 00:51:44,075
Speaker 1: discovered something that I could have told them, trying to

768
00:51:44,075 --> 00:51:47,075
Speaker 1: take a weekly newspaper, no matter how popular it was,

769
00:51:47,235 --> 00:51:51,395
Speaker 1: and fitting into this sudden, unbelievable gap in which there

770
00:51:51,475 --> 00:51:54,515
Speaker 1: is no New York Times, no New York Post, no

771
00:51:54,675 --> 00:51:57,275
Speaker 1: New York Daily News, and no New York News Day

772
00:51:57,315 --> 00:52:00,315
Speaker 1: all four of the New York newspapers, and Newsday was

773
00:52:00,755 --> 00:52:03,195
Speaker 1: almost not in the city at that point, but it

774
00:52:03,315 --> 00:52:06,315
Speaker 1: still existed for people coming into the city from Long

775
00:52:06,355 --> 00:52:10,275
Speaker 1: Island and Queens. All four of them were gone. There

776
00:52:10,275 --> 00:52:13,715
Speaker 1: were several other newspapers that were created by the writers

777
00:52:13,835 --> 00:52:16,955
Speaker 1: and the out of work publishers and printers and the

778
00:52:16,995 --> 00:52:19,195
Speaker 1: people who owned print shops, and they tried to put

779
00:52:19,235 --> 00:52:22,515
Speaker 1: out newspapers, and I believe one of them had articles.

780
00:52:22,555 --> 00:52:24,635
Speaker 1: It was a thing called not the New York Times

781
00:52:24,675 --> 00:52:26,555
Speaker 1: that looked like the New York Times and tried to

782
00:52:26,555 --> 00:52:29,435
Speaker 1: come out every day, the New York Metro News, which

783
00:52:29,475 --> 00:52:31,595
Speaker 1: was made up of some of the key news and

784
00:52:31,635 --> 00:52:33,715
Speaker 1: sports writers in the city from the Daily News, in

785
00:52:33,755 --> 00:52:35,835
Speaker 1: the Post, in the Times. And they went and worked

786
00:52:35,835 --> 00:52:38,315
Speaker 1: and they put out a newspaper here, and they even

787
00:52:38,355 --> 00:52:42,395
Speaker 1: had the newspaper from the Unification Church CEng Young Moon.

788
00:52:43,195 --> 00:52:46,835
Speaker 1: His newspaper got up to something like forty thousand subscribers

789
00:52:46,875 --> 00:52:48,995
Speaker 1: for that period of time, for those eighty or ninety

790
00:52:49,035 --> 00:52:53,195
Speaker 1: days when there were no Times, Post or news Our

791
00:52:53,315 --> 00:52:57,635
Speaker 1: town News. Keith Alderman, nineteen year old sports editor, ready

792
00:52:57,795 --> 00:53:01,195
Speaker 1: if it succeeded and turned into something perhaps profitable or

793
00:53:01,235 --> 00:53:05,435
Speaker 1: even semi permanent, ready to actually skip his start of

794
00:53:05,475 --> 00:53:08,875
Speaker 1: his senior year at Cornell, because what am I going

795
00:53:08,915 --> 00:53:11,555
Speaker 1: back to Cornell for I'm going back to Cornell to

796
00:53:11,595 --> 00:53:13,635
Speaker 1: get a degree that I can finish up at almost

797
00:53:13,715 --> 00:53:16,475
Speaker 1: any time in the future, and then get a job

798
00:53:16,555 --> 00:53:19,035
Speaker 1: in New York media. And right now I have a

799
00:53:19,155 --> 00:53:21,195
Speaker 1: job in New York media. In fact, I am a

800
00:53:21,275 --> 00:53:25,595
Speaker 1: sports editor and sports writer and sports columnist and sports correspondent,

801
00:53:25,635 --> 00:53:27,635
Speaker 1: and I am a the beat man for the Yankees

802
00:53:27,715 --> 00:53:30,955
Speaker 1: and the Mets. Why am I giving this up? Well,

803
00:53:30,995 --> 00:53:34,595
Speaker 1: I was ready to stay. The problem became that the

804
00:53:34,755 --> 00:53:39,555
Speaker 1: everyday edition of our town News became whenever we're ready

805
00:53:39,675 --> 00:53:42,635
Speaker 1: to print. So there was I think an episode or

806
00:53:42,715 --> 00:53:45,595
Speaker 1: an edition of it on a Tuesday, followed by another

807
00:53:45,635 --> 00:53:49,315
Speaker 1: one later in the week. Maybe it was Friday. The

808
00:53:49,355 --> 00:53:53,595
Speaker 1: first one. The sports section was actually pretty good. BOYD W.

809
00:53:53,715 --> 00:53:56,195
Speaker 1: Lardner wrote a hell of a column. The whole thing

810
00:53:56,275 --> 00:54:00,075
Speaker 1: was actually pretty good. The articles were up to date. Unfortunately,

811
00:54:00,075 --> 00:54:02,315
Speaker 1: the games that I was covering were three days old.

812
00:54:03,235 --> 00:54:06,235
Speaker 1: The photographs had nothing to do with the games because

813
00:54:06,355 --> 00:54:09,795
Speaker 1: we didn't have the associated press or UPI photographs. We

814
00:54:09,835 --> 00:54:12,995
Speaker 1: certainly didn't have our own photographers to use. And the

815
00:54:12,995 --> 00:54:16,395
Speaker 1: newsstands because of all these other newspapers that were attempted

816
00:54:16,475 --> 00:54:19,315
Speaker 1: during the time of the strike, the newsstands were actually

817
00:54:19,355 --> 00:54:23,555
Speaker 1: pretty full. And for some reason, nobody in the area

818
00:54:23,635 --> 00:54:27,915
Speaker 1: in which the newspaper, the weekly Our Town News was

819
00:54:27,955 --> 00:54:31,355
Speaker 1: so prevalent in Yorkville on the Upper East Side, nobody

820
00:54:31,355 --> 00:54:35,995
Speaker 1: there wanted Our Town News every day. There just wasn't

821
00:54:36,155 --> 00:54:39,875
Speaker 1: enough and they were not used to consuming outside of

822
00:54:39,915 --> 00:54:44,195
Speaker 1: their area news in our Town. So it didn't work.

823
00:54:44,955 --> 00:54:49,275
Speaker 1: And I actually, I actually just sort of stopped going

824
00:54:49,315 --> 00:54:53,115
Speaker 1: to the office and kind of pay me, stopped taking

825
00:54:53,155 --> 00:54:55,955
Speaker 1: people's calls. And I believe there was a certain amount

826
00:54:55,955 --> 00:54:59,275
Speaker 1: of money that was lost in this operation. And I

827
00:54:59,315 --> 00:55:02,075
Speaker 1: don't remember. I got one check from him. He gave

828
00:55:02,115 --> 00:55:04,355
Speaker 1: me one check. We were in business long enough that

829
00:55:04,395 --> 00:55:06,355
Speaker 1: I got one check for something like one hundred and

830
00:55:06,395 --> 00:55:09,355
Speaker 1: fifty dollars, and it was, you know, one hundred and

831
00:55:09,355 --> 00:55:11,555
Speaker 1: fifty dollars more than I would have made otherwise. And

832
00:55:11,595 --> 00:55:13,995
Speaker 1: the experience was great. On the other hand, I didn't sleep,

833
00:55:13,995 --> 00:55:29,355
Speaker 1: and it caused me to start smoking. Took me twenty

834
00:55:29,395 --> 00:55:34,475
Speaker 1: seven years to quit started that day. Pipes and cigars

835
00:55:34,795 --> 00:55:38,395
Speaker 1: don't do it, kids, not even if you're going to

836
00:55:38,475 --> 00:55:40,355
Speaker 1: try to be a one man sports department on a

837
00:55:40,355 --> 00:55:45,595
Speaker 1: New York newspaper when they've just introduced electric typewriters. Okay,

838
00:55:45,635 --> 00:55:47,475
Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank

839
00:55:47,515 --> 00:55:49,395
Speaker 1: you for listening and for bearing with me with the

840
00:55:49,435 --> 00:55:54,635
Speaker 1: continuing vocal problems. I'm not sick. It's just like seventy

841
00:55:54,635 --> 00:55:57,475
Speaker 1: four degrees below zero in New York. Most of our

842
00:55:57,515 --> 00:56:00,475
Speaker 1: Countdown music was arranged, produced, and performed by Brian Ray

843
00:56:00,515 --> 00:56:04,075
Speaker 1: on guitars, bass, and drums. John Phillips Chanel handled the

844
00:56:04,155 --> 00:56:07,635
Speaker 1: orchestration and keyboards. They are the musical directors of Countdown

845
00:56:07,755 --> 00:56:11,355
Speaker 1: and their work was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical

846
00:56:11,355 --> 00:56:14,275
Speaker 1: and fifthy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium

847
00:56:14,355 --> 00:56:17,795
Speaker 1: organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olberman

848
00:56:17,915 --> 00:56:21,835
Speaker 1: theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy

849
00:56:21,875 --> 00:56:25,395
Speaker 1: of ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed by No

850
00:56:25,555 --> 00:56:29,315
Speaker 1: Horns allowed. My announcer today it was my friend Larry David.

851
00:56:29,715 --> 00:56:34,155
Speaker 1: This program was produced by Ted. Everything else was, as

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Speaker 1: always my fault. That's Countdown for today. Day three hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty six of America held hostage again, but just

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Speaker 1: one thousand, seventy seven days until the scheduled end of

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Speaker 1: his lame duck and lame brained term unless he is

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Speaker 1: removed sooner by Epstein, Epstein or I don't know. Beneath

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Speaker 1: the Valley of the Planet of the Ape videos, you

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Speaker 1: racist son of a bitch. Trump scheduled countdown is Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Bulletin says the news merits until the next one. I'm

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Speaker 1: Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.

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