1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:24,995 --> 00:00:27,835 Speaker 1: If there was any doubt remaining that the Republican Party 3 00:00:27,915 --> 00:00:30,435 Speaker 1: is now nothing more than an out of control gang 4 00:00:30,595 --> 00:00:34,715 Speaker 1: of soulless thugs dedicated not just to the destruction of 5 00:00:34,715 --> 00:00:38,075 Speaker 1: the sacred American peaceful transfer of power, but also to 6 00:00:38,155 --> 00:00:42,035 Speaker 1: the erasure of the cannon against political violence, that doubt 7 00:00:42,395 --> 00:00:46,555 Speaker 1: was eliminated this weekend. No. Not when Trump made a 8 00:00:46,675 --> 00:00:50,515 Speaker 1: barely veiled threat against his own party's leader in the Senate. 9 00:00:50,995 --> 00:00:54,475 Speaker 1: No not when he attached to cheap racist insult against 10 00:00:54,475 --> 00:00:57,595 Speaker 1: the leader's wife, formerly a member of his own cabinet. 11 00:00:57,915 --> 00:01:02,715 Speaker 1: And no, not when Marjorie Taylor Green advocated for proactive 12 00:01:02,875 --> 00:01:07,835 Speaker 1: violence against liberals. But rather when another United States Senator, 13 00:01:07,915 --> 00:01:12,155 Speaker 1: the living definition of self unawareness, the princess of the 14 00:01:12,275 --> 00:01:17,635 Speaker 1: non committal quote, actually finally said something about the coming 15 00:01:17,715 --> 00:01:21,475 Speaker 1: title wave of political violence in this nation, and she 16 00:01:21,675 --> 00:01:26,955 Speaker 1: both sides it. I wouldn't be surprised, Senator Susan Collins 17 00:01:26,955 --> 00:01:29,795 Speaker 1: of Maine told The New York Times if a Senator 18 00:01:29,995 --> 00:01:33,995 Speaker 1: or House member were killed, what started with abusive phone 19 00:01:34,075 --> 00:01:38,315 Speaker 1: calls is now translating into active threats of violence and 20 00:01:38,475 --> 00:01:44,275 Speaker 1: real violence. Congratulations, Senator, While you have been devoting your 21 00:01:44,395 --> 00:01:47,075 Speaker 1: last twenty five years in the Senate to finding new 22 00:01:47,115 --> 00:01:50,035 Speaker 1: ways to say, I believe they have learned their lesson 23 00:01:50,355 --> 00:01:54,275 Speaker 1: and finding new excuses for having Supreme Court nominees lie 24 00:01:54,395 --> 00:01:58,075 Speaker 1: to you to your face. While you have been sequestered 25 00:01:58,115 --> 00:02:02,355 Speaker 1: from real life. Your party, the Republican Party, tried to 26 00:02:02,515 --> 00:02:06,115 Speaker 1: overthrow this democracy just under twenty one months ago, and 27 00:02:06,155 --> 00:02:10,195 Speaker 1: instead of standing against them or standing for something, you 28 00:02:10,315 --> 00:02:13,635 Speaker 1: and the so called moderates of the GOP have done 29 00:02:13,675 --> 00:02:17,595 Speaker 1: nothing to steer this country away from a political abyss 30 00:02:17,715 --> 00:02:23,795 Speaker 1: your people have created. After the Republican Supreme Court gutted 31 00:02:23,915 --> 00:02:28,355 Speaker 1: Row v. Wade, You Susan Collins called the cops on 32 00:02:28,555 --> 00:02:33,435 Speaker 1: non violent citizens using non violent chalk to protest your 33 00:02:33,595 --> 00:02:37,155 Speaker 1: non intelligence. But you have not had the courage to 34 00:02:37,235 --> 00:02:41,555 Speaker 1: speak one word against Trump and against the growing spiral 35 00:02:41,595 --> 00:02:45,395 Speaker 1: of violent words and violent deeds and violent threats committed 36 00:02:45,435 --> 00:02:50,355 Speaker 1: by Republican office holders, Republican candidates, Republican street mobs, not 37 00:02:50,515 --> 00:02:54,835 Speaker 1: even in the space created deliberately or otherwise by inert 38 00:02:55,035 --> 00:02:58,395 Speaker 1: Democrats that would have provided the chance for your party 39 00:02:58,435 --> 00:03:01,475 Speaker 1: to clean its own house before it was too late. 40 00:03:02,915 --> 00:03:06,315 Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if a Senator or House member 41 00:03:06,355 --> 00:03:10,435 Speaker 1: were killed. They tried to hang the vice president Senator, 42 00:03:10,835 --> 00:03:16,235 Speaker 1: it was in all the papers. In July, a man 43 00:03:16,355 --> 00:03:20,235 Speaker 1: went to Congressman Jamilla Jayapal's home and shouted, I'm going 44 00:03:20,315 --> 00:03:24,595 Speaker 1: to kill you Senator. In June, a retired Wisconsin judge 45 00:03:24,675 --> 00:03:27,395 Speaker 1: was tortured and murdered in his home Senator by a 46 00:03:27,555 --> 00:03:30,355 Speaker 1: terrorist who had a hit list of other Trump enemies 47 00:03:30,355 --> 00:03:33,595 Speaker 1: he also wanted to kill, including Minority Leader McConnell and 48 00:03:33,635 --> 00:03:37,955 Speaker 1: Governor's Evers and Whittner. Senator would be Republican state Senator 49 00:03:37,995 --> 00:03:41,995 Speaker 1: in Rhode Island, Jeane Lugo physically attacked his would be 50 00:03:42,075 --> 00:03:46,315 Speaker 1: Democratic state Senate rival a woman at a pro choice rally. 51 00:03:46,435 --> 00:03:50,435 Speaker 1: Senator The chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party, John Bennett, 52 00:03:50,475 --> 00:03:53,315 Speaker 1: said Dr Tony Fauci should be tried and put in 53 00:03:53,355 --> 00:03:56,755 Speaker 1: front of a firing squad. Senator. A man tried to 54 00:03:56,795 --> 00:04:01,515 Speaker 1: break into FBI headquarters in Cincinnati. Senator January, six committee 55 00:04:01,555 --> 00:04:05,835 Speaker 1: members have been threatened. Senator, election workers, governors, Kyle Bersman, candidates, 56 00:04:05,875 --> 00:04:11,555 Speaker 1: campaign volunteers. Your fellow Senator Lindsay Graham has forecast riots 57 00:04:11,675 --> 00:04:15,315 Speaker 1: in the street if Trump's criminality is not acquiesced to. 58 00:04:15,635 --> 00:04:20,515 Speaker 1: Senator Marjorie Taylor Green has claimed Democrats have already started 59 00:04:20,555 --> 00:04:25,515 Speaker 1: the killings of Republicans. Senator Lauren Bobert tweeted, we must 60 00:04:25,715 --> 00:04:30,235 Speaker 1: terminate this presidency. Senator the Republican candidate for the Senate 61 00:04:30,275 --> 00:04:34,315 Speaker 1: from Pennsylvania, memit Oz said the Second Amendment exists to 62 00:04:34,355 --> 00:04:39,835 Speaker 1: protect ourselves from intruders or an overly intrusive government. Senator 63 00:04:40,395 --> 00:04:43,875 Speaker 1: the Republican candidate for governor of Arizona, Kerry Lake, threatened 64 00:04:43,875 --> 00:04:47,075 Speaker 1: the government and the citizens with quote A trillion rounds 65 00:04:47,155 --> 00:04:50,755 Speaker 1: of ammos? Senator, have you heard about any of this? 66 00:04:51,435 --> 00:04:55,835 Speaker 1: Has any it gotten through the bubble that surrounds Susan Collins? 67 00:04:58,075 --> 00:05:01,435 Speaker 1: The Republican candidate for Attorney General of Nevada Seagal Chatta 68 00:05:01,755 --> 00:05:05,435 Speaker 1: said the Democratic incumbent and African American quote should be 69 00:05:05,515 --> 00:05:09,195 Speaker 1: hanging from an f ing crane. Senator the Republican majority 70 00:05:09,275 --> 00:05:12,475 Speaker 1: leader of the New Hampshire House, Jason Osborne, tweeted before 71 00:05:12,515 --> 00:05:15,355 Speaker 1: the fourth of July that instead of buying more hot dogs, 72 00:05:15,395 --> 00:05:18,595 Speaker 1: his constituents should quote grab a few more rounds for 73 00:05:18,675 --> 00:05:22,475 Speaker 1: your a K forty seven you'll thank yourself later. Senator. 74 00:05:23,115 --> 00:05:26,235 Speaker 1: And on July fourth weekend, Patriot Front march through Boston 75 00:05:26,275 --> 00:05:29,555 Speaker 1: on Saturday and the Proud Boys march through Philadelphia on Sunday. 76 00:05:29,635 --> 00:05:33,555 Speaker 1: Senator Turning Point USA held its youth conference in Tampa 77 00:05:33,595 --> 00:05:37,235 Speaker 1: in July. Senator out in Front men with Nazi flags. 78 00:05:37,355 --> 00:05:41,235 Speaker 1: Senator A Republican fascist group was arrested at a Pride 79 00:05:41,235 --> 00:05:45,235 Speaker 1: march in Idaho before law enforcement stars say they could 80 00:05:45,275 --> 00:05:50,275 Speaker 1: attempt to bludgeon marchers and allies to death. Senator. One 81 00:05:50,355 --> 00:05:53,075 Speaker 1: of a group of Christo fascist nationalists at a Pride 82 00:05:53,075 --> 00:05:57,355 Speaker 1: march in Pennsylvania carried a sign reading burn gaye. Senator. 83 00:05:57,995 --> 00:06:01,315 Speaker 1: An anti gay, anti Semitic activist in a Trump hat, 84 00:06:01,515 --> 00:06:05,035 Speaker 1: Kelly Knighters, called for rounding up people who partici sipated 85 00:06:05,035 --> 00:06:09,235 Speaker 1: in Pride events. Senator Trump ally and failed North Carolina 86 00:06:09,235 --> 00:06:13,715 Speaker 1: congressional candidate Pastor Mark Burns called for the execution of 87 00:06:13,915 --> 00:06:18,755 Speaker 1: LGBTQ people and doctors who care for trans kids. Senator 88 00:06:19,995 --> 00:06:22,955 Speaker 1: any of this sound familiar, Senator Collins, any of it 89 00:06:23,035 --> 00:06:27,595 Speaker 1: at all? Sometimes. Trump attorney Peter Tickton called for capital 90 00:06:27,595 --> 00:06:31,395 Speaker 1: punishment for members of the Biden administration. Senator failed New 91 00:06:31,475 --> 00:06:34,955 Speaker 1: York Republican House candidate Carl Palladino called for the Attorney 92 00:06:34,995 --> 00:06:39,235 Speaker 1: general to be executed. Senator Congressman Chip Roy of Texas 93 00:06:39,555 --> 00:06:43,555 Speaker 1: challenged the President of Mexico to a military confrontation because 94 00:06:43,555 --> 00:06:48,355 Speaker 1: the President of Mexico endorsed Beto O'Rourke. Senator Tucker Carlson 95 00:06:48,395 --> 00:06:51,635 Speaker 1: went on a cable channel manipulated for twenty five years 96 00:06:51,675 --> 00:06:56,035 Speaker 1: by your party, Senator, and urged people to attack school teachers. 97 00:06:56,875 --> 00:06:59,755 Speaker 1: Steve Bannon demanded that the heads of Dr Fauci and 98 00:06:59,795 --> 00:07:05,315 Speaker 1: the FBI director be put on pikes outside the White House. Senator, 99 00:07:06,235 --> 00:07:11,115 Speaker 1: and too many of them to count, Senator, have called 100 00:07:11,155 --> 00:07:14,555 Speaker 1: for civil war, and when one of them did it 101 00:07:14,595 --> 00:07:18,715 Speaker 1: on Trump's social media platform, Trump reposted it, Senator, the 102 00:07:18,835 --> 00:07:23,595 Speaker 1: leader of your party, Senator, the Republican senator endorsing the 103 00:07:23,675 --> 00:07:29,115 Speaker 1: phrase civil war, and Senator, they have all gotten away 104 00:07:29,155 --> 00:07:32,195 Speaker 1: with this because you and all the others in your 105 00:07:32,315 --> 00:07:37,035 Speaker 1: god damned worthless party value your own power more than 106 00:07:37,075 --> 00:07:41,315 Speaker 1: you value this country. Senator, your job was to take 107 00:07:41,355 --> 00:07:45,595 Speaker 1: these fascists, these viruses like Bannon and Trump, and make 108 00:07:45,675 --> 00:07:49,635 Speaker 1: them fear for the consequences of their violent fantasies. To 109 00:07:49,875 --> 00:07:53,675 Speaker 1: fear for their livelihoods, to fear for their freedom. This 110 00:07:53,955 --> 00:07:58,675 Speaker 1: slob Trump, this scum Trump, this dirt bag Trump, is 111 00:07:58,675 --> 00:08:03,595 Speaker 1: out there every weekend making threats and encouraging his cultists 112 00:08:03,755 --> 00:08:06,595 Speaker 1: to try to scare air, or try to intimidate, or 113 00:08:06,675 --> 00:08:10,915 Speaker 1: try to intimidate anybody who stands in their way. Someday 114 00:08:10,915 --> 00:08:14,475 Speaker 1: that will be you, Senator. And instead of you showing 115 00:08:14,635 --> 00:08:19,195 Speaker 1: spine and patriotism and fighting to make sure Trump and 116 00:08:19,275 --> 00:08:23,915 Speaker 1: all the others soil their pants daily for fear of 117 00:08:23,955 --> 00:08:27,355 Speaker 1: what the law and the Constitution will do to them, you, 118 00:08:27,715 --> 00:08:31,995 Speaker 1: Senator Collins, at the last minute at the precipice, suddenly 119 00:08:32,035 --> 00:08:35,395 Speaker 1: declared that you wouldn't be surprised if a Senator or 120 00:08:35,475 --> 00:08:39,235 Speaker 1: House member were killed. This is where you are, Senator. 121 00:08:39,475 --> 00:08:41,555 Speaker 1: The nation could go up in flames because of the 122 00:08:41,595 --> 00:08:45,555 Speaker 1: political party to which you belong. And you just noticed 123 00:08:45,635 --> 00:08:50,075 Speaker 1: it seems a little warm in here, I mean, Senator Collins. 124 00:08:50,355 --> 00:08:54,235 Speaker 1: When they pressed Rick Scott for a comment on Trump, 125 00:08:54,355 --> 00:08:57,755 Speaker 1: saying Mitch McConnell had a quote death wish and about 126 00:08:57,795 --> 00:09:01,995 Speaker 1: Taylor Greene saying Democrats were killing Republicans at least, Rick 127 00:09:02,155 --> 00:09:05,195 Speaker 1: Scott said, I think we all have to figure out, 128 00:09:05,195 --> 00:09:07,915 Speaker 1: how do we start bringing people together and have a 129 00:09:07,995 --> 00:09:10,795 Speaker 1: common goal to give every American the opportunity to get 130 00:09:10,795 --> 00:09:14,755 Speaker 1: a great job. He at least gave us the courtesy 131 00:09:14,835 --> 00:09:21,555 Speaker 1: of having carefully crafted a nonsensical buck passing response some articulate, 132 00:09:21,635 --> 00:09:26,155 Speaker 1: irrelevant bull crap as opposed to you, Senator Collins being 133 00:09:26,275 --> 00:09:31,995 Speaker 1: suddenly shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on 134 00:09:32,275 --> 00:09:47,435 Speaker 1: in here, Still ahead on countdown, Lulu over the fascist 135 00:09:47,515 --> 00:09:50,195 Speaker 1: in Brazil, but not by enough to avoid a runoff. 136 00:09:50,995 --> 00:09:54,075 Speaker 1: The days dwindled down to a precious view for Aaron Judge. 137 00:09:54,955 --> 00:09:57,835 Speaker 1: When you run out of arguments for your fascist candidate, 138 00:09:57,875 --> 00:09:59,955 Speaker 1: what do you do? Well? What else? You attack the 139 00:09:59,995 --> 00:10:04,235 Speaker 1: reporter by invoking the death of his nine month old child. 140 00:10:05,475 --> 00:10:08,675 Speaker 1: And these are the happier notes. Remember the David Letterman 141 00:10:08,715 --> 00:10:11,955 Speaker 1: blackmail case, Remember the Jeff Bezos blackmail case. In things 142 00:10:11,995 --> 00:10:16,435 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell a statistical impossibility. I used 143 00:10:16,435 --> 00:10:19,395 Speaker 1: to work with people at the center of each of 144 00:10:19,395 --> 00:10:24,315 Speaker 1: those blackmail cases. Fun times. That's next. This is countdown. 145 00:10:33,475 --> 00:10:42,275 Speaker 1: This is countdown with Keith old woman and still ahead 146 00:10:42,315 --> 00:10:44,635 Speaker 1: on countdown. What are the odds against this? The guy 147 00:10:44,675 --> 00:10:48,275 Speaker 1: who blackmailed David Letterman and the woman in the Jeff 148 00:10:48,315 --> 00:10:52,755 Speaker 1: Bezos blackmail. I used to work with both of them. 149 00:10:52,795 --> 00:10:55,475 Speaker 1: There's an anniversary involving all this things I promised not 150 00:10:55,515 --> 00:10:58,555 Speaker 1: to tell ahead first. In each edition of Countdown, we 151 00:10:58,595 --> 00:11:00,635 Speaker 1: feature a dog in need whom you can help. Every 152 00:11:00,635 --> 00:11:04,075 Speaker 1: dog has its day. This time it's Stella in St. Louis. 153 00:11:04,235 --> 00:11:07,275 Speaker 1: She's an every dog used it a puppy mill or 154 00:11:07,275 --> 00:11:10,475 Speaker 1: a backyard breeder maybe, and then dumped barely a year 155 00:11:10,515 --> 00:11:15,915 Speaker 1: old and suffering postpartum complications, including labored breathing and s 156 00:11:15,915 --> 00:11:19,595 Speaker 1: s LP. Saving St. Louis Pets has started a fundraiser 157 00:11:19,675 --> 00:11:22,915 Speaker 1: to save this pup, who, despite all the abuse, wags 158 00:11:22,915 --> 00:11:26,235 Speaker 1: her tail at every human she sees. S s LP 159 00:11:26,435 --> 00:11:29,995 Speaker 1: has started a fundraiser for Stella on Cuddly. If you 160 00:11:30,035 --> 00:11:33,075 Speaker 1: can give something, go check it out at Cuddley. Thank you, 161 00:11:33,395 --> 00:11:35,755 Speaker 1: but just retweeting the tweet about her on my feed 162 00:11:35,755 --> 00:11:38,275 Speaker 1: for dogs in need could be of invaluable help at 163 00:11:38,315 --> 00:11:41,395 Speaker 1: Tom Jumbo Grumbo on Twitter. Look for my tweet about 164 00:11:41,395 --> 00:12:01,475 Speaker 1: Stella and thank you very much for doing so. Postscripts 165 00:12:01,515 --> 00:12:04,555 Speaker 1: to the news, some headlines, some commentaries, some snark. Date 166 00:12:04,675 --> 00:12:07,715 Speaker 1: line Rio de Janeiro, The Vote that Could decide whether 167 00:12:07,715 --> 00:12:11,235 Speaker 1: we destroy the environment beyond repair by burning the Amazon. 168 00:12:11,875 --> 00:12:14,395 Speaker 1: There will be a second round in the Brazilian presidential 169 00:12:14,395 --> 00:12:18,755 Speaker 1: election after the incumbent, the fascist Jayre Bolsonaro, exceeded polling 170 00:12:18,795 --> 00:12:22,035 Speaker 1: expectations and kept the former president, known as Lula, to 171 00:12:22,275 --> 00:12:24,915 Speaker 1: less than the fifty pcent required to avoid a runoff. 172 00:12:25,075 --> 00:12:28,635 Speaker 1: The runoff will be on October dateline San Antonio. The 173 00:12:28,715 --> 00:12:31,915 Speaker 1: Sheriff's office there appears who have identified the coyote, the 174 00:12:31,955 --> 00:12:36,035 Speaker 1: woman who called herself Perla and conned Venezuelan immigrants into 175 00:12:36,035 --> 00:12:39,435 Speaker 1: getting on the RHN De Santis human trafficking flight to Massachusetts. 176 00:12:39,595 --> 00:12:43,995 Speaker 1: The New York Times reports her name is Perla Parola Huerta, 177 00:12:44,515 --> 00:12:48,675 Speaker 1: just discharged last month after two decades in the army 178 00:12:48,755 --> 00:12:53,875 Speaker 1: as a combat medic and counter intelligence agent. Dateline Tampa. 179 00:12:53,875 --> 00:12:56,115 Speaker 1: There is still so much damage in Florida from Hurricane 180 00:12:56,155 --> 00:12:58,795 Speaker 1: Ian that we don't know how many are lost or 181 00:12:58,795 --> 00:13:01,835 Speaker 1: what the cost will be to rebuild. We do know 182 00:13:01,915 --> 00:13:04,235 Speaker 1: that while Senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio said a 183 00:13:04,315 --> 00:13:07,675 Speaker 1: letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee demanding assistance when it 184 00:13:07,715 --> 00:13:10,715 Speaker 1: came time for a vote for hurricane relief for Florida, 185 00:13:11,235 --> 00:13:14,235 Speaker 1: Scott voted no, and Rubio could not be bothered to 186 00:13:14,275 --> 00:13:18,075 Speaker 1: show up, and all the Florida Republican Congressmen voted against it. 187 00:13:18,755 --> 00:13:22,635 Speaker 1: Dateline Manchester, England. As the British Conservative Party convenes a 188 00:13:22,715 --> 00:13:25,755 Speaker 1: pre scheduled conference, a new problem has been added to 189 00:13:25,835 --> 00:13:29,235 Speaker 1: the nation's economic and political crises. The Times of London 190 00:13:29,315 --> 00:13:32,075 Speaker 1: reports the new Prime Minister, Liz can she make it 191 00:13:32,115 --> 00:13:36,075 Speaker 1: to one d days Trusts has insisted that King Charles, 192 00:13:36,355 --> 00:13:41,155 Speaker 1: for decades an environmental advocate, not attend the COP twenty 193 00:13:41,235 --> 00:13:44,715 Speaker 1: seven climate conference in Egypt next month. It may be 194 00:13:44,755 --> 00:13:47,315 Speaker 1: a shock, but actually it's okay. He can circle back 195 00:13:47,355 --> 00:13:52,275 Speaker 1: and ask her successor and dateline Warren Michigan. Sure there 196 00:13:52,315 --> 00:13:54,835 Speaker 1: was so much fascism and stupidity at the Trump rally 197 00:13:54,875 --> 00:13:57,995 Speaker 1: Saturday that it was served on tap hot or cold. 198 00:13:58,675 --> 00:14:02,355 Speaker 1: But as she discussed family that once lived in Michigan, 199 00:14:02,515 --> 00:14:06,995 Speaker 1: Marjorie Trailer Park Green won the title for biggest unintentional 200 00:14:07,195 --> 00:14:10,515 Speaker 1: self phone. So I might be a Southern Bell and 201 00:14:10,595 --> 00:14:15,435 Speaker 1: a Georgia Peach, but Michigan runs in my blood. Southern 202 00:14:15,475 --> 00:14:18,835 Speaker 1: Bell as in ding Dong, and good lord, I don't 203 00:14:18,835 --> 00:14:21,355 Speaker 1: want to know what else might be running in your blood. 204 00:14:33,795 --> 00:14:40,075 Speaker 1: This is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This 205 00:14:41,075 --> 00:14:47,715 Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith in Sports Judge, not less ye 206 00:14:47,875 --> 00:14:51,355 Speaker 1: strike out three times? Aaron Judges down to three games 207 00:14:51,395 --> 00:14:54,435 Speaker 1: to do it. Tonight at Arlington, Texas, then Tuesday and 208 00:14:54,475 --> 00:14:58,155 Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoons there he whipped three times and walked once 209 00:14:58,235 --> 00:15:01,195 Speaker 1: on a miserable rain swaft afternoon in the Bronx yesterday, 210 00:15:01,275 --> 00:15:04,635 Speaker 1: wind blowing in, and he still has sixty one omer's 211 00:15:04,755 --> 00:15:08,915 Speaker 1: with twelve to fifteen plate appearances left in his season. 212 00:15:09,155 --> 00:15:12,195 Speaker 1: In his last forty nine plate appearances, Aaron Judge has 213 00:15:12,275 --> 00:15:15,835 Speaker 1: hit one home run. The Los Angeles Angels signed show 214 00:15:15,875 --> 00:15:19,195 Speaker 1: Hey Otani the picture and d H to a one year, 215 00:15:19,235 --> 00:15:21,675 Speaker 1: thirty million dollar contract for next season. That saves the 216 00:15:21,715 --> 00:15:25,035 Speaker 1: two sides from having to go to salary arbitration, or 217 00:15:25,835 --> 00:15:29,195 Speaker 1: saves whoever the Angels trade Otani two from having to 218 00:15:29,235 --> 00:15:31,675 Speaker 1: do that. The Caribs have not had a winning season 219 00:15:31,675 --> 00:15:34,035 Speaker 1: in seven years. The owners just put the team up 220 00:15:34,035 --> 00:15:36,755 Speaker 1: for sale, and one of the game's all time greatest players, 221 00:15:36,795 --> 00:15:40,355 Speaker 1: Angels outfielder Mike Trout, is thirty one and rotting on 222 00:15:40,395 --> 00:15:43,795 Speaker 1: the vine. They have to do something. Another baseball note, 223 00:15:43,955 --> 00:15:46,355 Speaker 1: he pitched okay and his major league debut gave up 224 00:15:46,355 --> 00:15:48,675 Speaker 1: three hits to earn runs in five innings and a 225 00:15:48,715 --> 00:15:51,715 Speaker 1: five to two lost to Detroit. But us Nerds are 226 00:15:51,795 --> 00:15:54,875 Speaker 1: jazz because the rookie pitcher of the Minnesota Twins has 227 00:15:54,915 --> 00:15:58,675 Speaker 1: one of the great names in baseball history, literally Simeon 228 00:15:58,875 --> 00:16:04,315 Speaker 1: Woods Richardson fifteen letters plus a space in his name 229 00:16:04,435 --> 00:16:07,515 Speaker 1: on back of his uniform. Woods Richardson looked like a 230 00:16:07,555 --> 00:16:11,515 Speaker 1: horse shoe wrapped around his number. The sixteen characters breaks 231 00:16:11,555 --> 00:16:15,635 Speaker 1: the previous record of fourteen for catcher Jared salt Labakia 232 00:16:16,155 --> 00:16:20,875 Speaker 1: and pitcher William Van space Landingham. Now, if he has 233 00:16:20,915 --> 00:16:25,435 Speaker 1: a son and names him Simeon and Simeon the second 234 00:16:25,435 --> 00:16:27,875 Speaker 1: gets to the Major's, his uniform will have to read 235 00:16:28,235 --> 00:16:30,915 Speaker 1: Woods Richardson Jr. Which they'll have to continue on to 236 00:16:30,995 --> 00:16:34,475 Speaker 1: the back of his pants. NFL the league has never 237 00:16:34,515 --> 00:16:36,995 Speaker 1: come close to taking care of its player health, but 238 00:16:37,075 --> 00:16:39,675 Speaker 1: they're two new loads this week. The veteran J. T. 239 00:16:39,835 --> 00:16:43,355 Speaker 1: Watt of the Cardinals stunning the game just before kickoff 240 00:16:43,435 --> 00:16:47,075 Speaker 1: yesterday by announcing, quote, I was just told somebody leaked 241 00:16:47,195 --> 00:16:50,155 Speaker 1: some personal information about me and it's going to be 242 00:16:50,235 --> 00:16:54,475 Speaker 1: reported on today. I went into a fib on Wednesday, 243 00:16:54,835 --> 00:16:58,395 Speaker 1: had my heart shocked back into rhythm on Thursday, and 244 00:16:58,435 --> 00:17:03,275 Speaker 1: I'm playing today. That's it. Then Jay Glazer Fox Sports 245 00:17:03,315 --> 00:17:05,235 Speaker 1: went on the air with his scoop. That was not 246 00:17:05,315 --> 00:17:08,235 Speaker 1: a good look, Jay. And in the continuing saga of 247 00:17:08,275 --> 00:17:11,915 Speaker 1: the Miami quarterback to a Tonga Beloa, Pro football Talk 248 00:17:11,995 --> 00:17:14,595 Speaker 1: dot Com reports that the league will now eliminate the 249 00:17:14,635 --> 00:17:17,715 Speaker 1: loophole that allowed him back into that game a week 250 00:17:17,755 --> 00:17:22,475 Speaker 1: ago after an apparent concussion. Gross motor instability will mean 251 00:17:22,555 --> 00:17:24,915 Speaker 1: you sit out, even if it's cause might not have 252 00:17:25,035 --> 00:17:27,515 Speaker 1: been the head injury. That was the loophole that let 253 00:17:27,555 --> 00:17:29,995 Speaker 1: Tongua Beloa get back into the game a week ago. 254 00:17:30,395 --> 00:17:33,755 Speaker 1: And also the players union has fired the independent not 255 00:17:34,035 --> 00:17:37,435 Speaker 1: team employed neuro trauma specialist who let him go back 256 00:17:37,475 --> 00:17:39,795 Speaker 1: and play a week ago in an impaired condition after 257 00:17:39,875 --> 00:17:42,835 Speaker 1: what he suffered that looked like a concussion. Now comes 258 00:17:42,835 --> 00:17:45,035 Speaker 1: the investigation as to who let to a play again 259 00:17:45,115 --> 00:17:48,195 Speaker 1: last Thursday when he suffered another head injury that looked 260 00:17:48,235 --> 00:17:51,395 Speaker 1: so severe that he was removed on a stretcher. So far, 261 00:17:51,475 --> 00:17:54,395 Speaker 1: he's reported to be in good condition. There are so 262 00:17:54,395 --> 00:17:56,795 Speaker 1: many fingers being pointed in this story. That there are 263 00:17:56,875 --> 00:18:00,675 Speaker 1: ligament strains and for the latest done those injuries, here's 264 00:18:00,835 --> 00:18:11,275 Speaker 1: Jay Glazer, still ahead things I promised not to tell. 265 00:18:11,315 --> 00:18:13,595 Speaker 1: How is it possible that in the two biggest media 266 00:18:13,675 --> 00:18:16,515 Speaker 1: blackmail stories of the last fifteen years I worked with 267 00:18:16,555 --> 00:18:19,715 Speaker 1: a principal figure from each of them. First the Daily 268 00:18:19,795 --> 00:18:22,395 Speaker 1: Roundup of the misgrants, Morons and Dunning Krueger if X 269 00:18:22,435 --> 00:18:28,115 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute today's worst pussons, and the Little the Bronze. 270 00:18:29,155 --> 00:18:32,275 Speaker 1: Sophie corkeran a young lady who appears to have won 271 00:18:32,395 --> 00:18:35,555 Speaker 1: some kind of contest and they put her on TV 272 00:18:35,675 --> 00:18:39,315 Speaker 1: in the UK to say stupid things. She tweeted something 273 00:18:39,355 --> 00:18:42,315 Speaker 1: that defines the modern conservative in any country, quote why 274 00:18:42,435 --> 00:18:45,835 Speaker 1: is Twitter trying to censor videos from the democratically elected 275 00:18:45,875 --> 00:18:50,475 Speaker 1: Italian PM Prime Minister? That is? She attached a screenshot 276 00:18:50,475 --> 00:18:52,995 Speaker 1: of how she had somehow not found anything on Twitter 277 00:18:53,075 --> 00:18:56,795 Speaker 1: for Georgia Maloney, Now you or I or anybody else 278 00:18:56,875 --> 00:18:58,995 Speaker 1: on i Q above seventeen and a recollection that we 279 00:18:59,035 --> 00:19:01,395 Speaker 1: have made mistakes at some point in our previous lives. 280 00:19:01,395 --> 00:19:04,195 Speaker 1: Would have thought, wait, it's a search engine. Did I 281 00:19:04,235 --> 00:19:09,115 Speaker 1: screw something up? But no, if you're Sophie Corcoran conservative influencer. 282 00:19:09,235 --> 00:19:12,155 Speaker 1: You know without thinking that Twitter is trying to censor 283 00:19:12,195 --> 00:19:15,995 Speaker 1: Georgia Maloney and you and you must self martyr in public. 284 00:19:16,955 --> 00:19:20,115 Speaker 1: That's your job. So you tweet the screenshot reading no 285 00:19:20,195 --> 00:19:23,635 Speaker 1: results for Georgia Maloney, which shows that you have misspelled 286 00:19:23,715 --> 00:19:29,355 Speaker 1: Georgia Maloney's first name. The silver goes to Michigan fascist 287 00:19:29,355 --> 00:19:32,715 Speaker 1: candidate for governor, Tutor Dixon, even though the Trump cultists 288 00:19:32,755 --> 00:19:35,475 Speaker 1: at his rally Saturday seemed indifferent to her. There is 289 00:19:35,515 --> 00:19:38,515 Speaker 1: a reason for this. She's not very good at this. 290 00:19:39,035 --> 00:19:41,435 Speaker 1: She held a news conference in Grand Rapids to propose 291 00:19:41,475 --> 00:19:45,235 Speaker 1: a bill called the Women's Sports Fairness Act. She had 292 00:19:45,235 --> 00:19:48,755 Speaker 1: her gang where bright yellow t shirts reading Protect Girls Sports, 293 00:19:49,235 --> 00:19:51,715 Speaker 1: and she said enough is enough and the days of 294 00:19:51,795 --> 00:19:54,555 Speaker 1: throwing our girls. I knew the basset are over. And 295 00:19:54,595 --> 00:19:57,475 Speaker 1: then she explained the bill would prevent any trans girls 296 00:19:57,475 --> 00:20:01,435 Speaker 1: from competing in women's sports in any Michigan school. Then 297 00:20:01,595 --> 00:20:06,355 Speaker 1: she made her big mistake. She took questions. One of 298 00:20:06,355 --> 00:20:10,275 Speaker 1: them was fairly straightforward. Can you give an example of 299 00:20:10,275 --> 00:20:13,395 Speaker 1: a transgendered girl competing at a Michigan school or college? 300 00:20:13,635 --> 00:20:16,995 Speaker 1: And guess what? She couldn't because the average number of 301 00:20:17,075 --> 00:20:19,595 Speaker 1: kids in Michigan who go through the process to play 302 00:20:19,595 --> 00:20:22,875 Speaker 1: on the team that matches their gender identity every year, 303 00:20:22,915 --> 00:20:29,715 Speaker 1: girls and boys. The total every year is two. But 304 00:20:29,835 --> 00:20:32,835 Speaker 1: the gold medal goes to a kid named Alex bruce Witz, 305 00:20:32,915 --> 00:20:35,595 Speaker 1: and it's hard to describe exactly what he does. They 306 00:20:35,635 --> 00:20:38,795 Speaker 1: call him a Republican strategist, and he goes around claiming 307 00:20:38,835 --> 00:20:41,635 Speaker 1: the party was created by Trump in two thousand fifteen. 308 00:20:42,275 --> 00:20:44,235 Speaker 1: And in fact, he's one of those guys that people 309 00:20:44,275 --> 00:20:47,275 Speaker 1: like Steve Bennon bring onto their shows so he can 310 00:20:47,315 --> 00:20:49,915 Speaker 1: complete the act. And he has this guy, bruce Wits, 311 00:20:49,915 --> 00:20:53,435 Speaker 1: play the role of the ventriloquist stummy. Bannon was interviewing 312 00:20:53,435 --> 00:20:55,555 Speaker 1: bruce WIT's about the latest round of fascists to have 313 00:20:55,635 --> 00:20:58,275 Speaker 1: faced abuse, which for the rest of us is known 314 00:20:58,315 --> 00:21:00,795 Speaker 1: as having the guts to answer questions which they don't, 315 00:21:01,195 --> 00:21:03,435 Speaker 1: and they got around to a discussion of Washington State 316 00:21:03,475 --> 00:21:08,155 Speaker 1: House candidate Joke and how CNN's investigative reporter Andrew Kasinski 317 00:21:08,275 --> 00:21:11,075 Speaker 1: found out that in June Kent had done an interview 318 00:21:11,075 --> 00:21:14,115 Speaker 1: with a blogger who has openly said America should have 319 00:21:14,235 --> 00:21:18,715 Speaker 1: sided with the Nazis in World War Two because German 320 00:21:18,795 --> 00:21:23,155 Speaker 1: Jews were planning genocide. The Kent campaign said, in response 321 00:21:23,195 --> 00:21:25,515 Speaker 1: to Kasinski CNN report, how are we supposed to know? 322 00:21:25,555 --> 00:21:29,075 Speaker 1: We don't vet every interviewer. And then Kosinski pointed out 323 00:21:29,115 --> 00:21:32,435 Speaker 1: that the blogger and Kent were photographed together several times 324 00:21:32,435 --> 00:21:36,875 Speaker 1: at a fundraiser two months before the interview. At one point, 325 00:21:36,915 --> 00:21:39,595 Speaker 1: bruce Witz told Bannon that Kent could not be an 326 00:21:39,635 --> 00:21:43,155 Speaker 1: anti Semite, so this was all irrelevant because, quote, He's 327 00:21:43,155 --> 00:21:46,115 Speaker 1: got a lot of Jewish donors, very wealthy New York 328 00:21:46,195 --> 00:21:50,155 Speaker 1: Jewish families are big fans of Joe Kent. Having been 329 00:21:50,195 --> 00:21:53,315 Speaker 1: defeated on the facts and having nothing left, Kent's backers 330 00:21:53,355 --> 00:21:56,355 Speaker 1: like this clown, bruce Witz did what they always do. 331 00:21:57,915 --> 00:22:01,195 Speaker 1: They then attacked CNN and the reporter Andrew Kosinski, whose 332 00:22:01,195 --> 00:22:04,635 Speaker 1: reports are marked k file turning off the music for 333 00:22:04,675 --> 00:22:07,835 Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. You may remember that last year 334 00:22:07,875 --> 00:22:11,035 Speaker 1: Andrew Kosinski and his wife Rachel chronicled the story of 335 00:22:11,035 --> 00:22:14,115 Speaker 1: their daughter Francesca. They called her Beans and her fight 336 00:22:14,155 --> 00:22:17,915 Speaker 1: against a rare form of pediatric brain cancer. Francesca and 337 00:22:17,995 --> 00:22:21,555 Speaker 1: her parents were brave and noble and were public about 338 00:22:21,635 --> 00:22:24,875 Speaker 1: their sadness. She was nine months old when she died. 339 00:22:25,595 --> 00:22:28,315 Speaker 1: And she died on Christmas Eve. So, of course, while 340 00:22:28,355 --> 00:22:32,315 Speaker 1: trying to discredit Kosinski's reporting about the fascist kent to 341 00:22:32,475 --> 00:22:36,435 Speaker 1: please our American respute and Bannon, this little scumbag Alex 342 00:22:36,475 --> 00:22:41,955 Speaker 1: Brucewitz brought up Francesca's death. It's getting k file. He's 343 00:22:41,995 --> 00:22:44,755 Speaker 1: from CNN. He's a total fake news hack who uh 344 00:22:44,915 --> 00:22:46,875 Speaker 1: you know? He went through a rough patched I thought 345 00:22:46,915 --> 00:22:49,235 Speaker 1: he would have changed hard and become a decent person 346 00:22:49,275 --> 00:22:51,595 Speaker 1: after what he went through, But he's still a lion 347 00:22:51,675 --> 00:22:55,075 Speaker 1: piece of crap, and so he attacks Joe had by 348 00:22:55,115 --> 00:22:58,955 Speaker 1: basically accusing him. Many have noted that the point of 349 00:22:58,995 --> 00:23:01,835 Speaker 1: the Trump cult is to reward the Alex bruce witz 350 00:23:01,915 --> 00:23:05,235 Speaker 1: Is of this country, the maladjusted, the damaged, the people 351 00:23:05,275 --> 00:23:07,875 Speaker 1: of this nation whose humanity has been so broken and 352 00:23:07,955 --> 00:23:12,435 Speaker 1: crushed that empathy and decency will never mean anything to them. 353 00:23:12,475 --> 00:23:16,035 Speaker 1: They are the heartless machines, the Alex bruce Witz is, 354 00:23:16,555 --> 00:23:20,195 Speaker 1: and Trump exists, so they can not only feel like 355 00:23:20,235 --> 00:23:23,115 Speaker 1: the total failures they are, but they can be cruel, 356 00:23:23,755 --> 00:23:28,235 Speaker 1: and they can be rewarded for being cruel. These are 357 00:23:28,395 --> 00:23:31,155 Speaker 1: cowards who will invoke the death of a nine month 358 00:23:31,195 --> 00:23:35,995 Speaker 1: old child to attack her still grieving father. For being accurate. 359 00:23:36,475 --> 00:23:39,955 Speaker 1: We're getting in the way of their fantasies of fascism 360 00:23:39,955 --> 00:23:42,715 Speaker 1: in this country, and to try to make him hurt 361 00:23:42,915 --> 00:23:46,915 Speaker 1: a little more, and to defend the others like themselves, 362 00:23:47,555 --> 00:23:52,315 Speaker 1: the ones without hearts and without souls and without futures, 363 00:23:52,955 --> 00:23:58,355 Speaker 1: those like Alex Bruce Whitz Today's worst person in the world, 364 00:24:04,955 --> 00:24:07,035 Speaker 1: to the number one story on the Countdown, and my 365 00:24:07,115 --> 00:24:10,275 Speaker 1: favorite topic, me and things I promised not to tell. 366 00:24:10,355 --> 00:24:14,435 Speaker 1: And I was reminded on Saturday of two stories about 367 00:24:14,555 --> 00:24:17,395 Speaker 1: media blackmail, because it was the anniversary of one of 368 00:24:17,395 --> 00:24:21,595 Speaker 1: those stories, the day Dave Letterman announced he had been blackmailed, 369 00:24:21,875 --> 00:24:24,155 Speaker 1: and they named the guy that they had arrested for 370 00:24:24,195 --> 00:24:26,835 Speaker 1: doing it, and I said, oh, him, of course it's him. 371 00:24:26,835 --> 00:24:29,195 Speaker 1: I've known him for twenty eight years. And then there 372 00:24:29,235 --> 00:24:32,395 Speaker 1: was the bigger blackmail story and they named the woman 373 00:24:32,395 --> 00:24:34,675 Speaker 1: who was one of the victims, and I said, oh, her, 374 00:24:34,675 --> 00:24:36,595 Speaker 1: of course it's her. I've known her for twenty years. 375 00:24:37,355 --> 00:24:42,035 Speaker 1: That one first, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and 376 00:24:42,075 --> 00:24:45,435 Speaker 1: owner of the Washington Post, was being blackmailed by allies 377 00:24:45,515 --> 00:24:48,275 Speaker 1: of Crazy Trump, who expected to get positive coverage for 378 00:24:48,275 --> 00:24:51,275 Speaker 1: their leader of their cults. What they had on Bezos 379 00:24:51,395 --> 00:24:53,955 Speaker 1: was he had a girlfriend, they had pictures. It would 380 00:24:53,955 --> 00:24:57,195 Speaker 1: cost him hundreds of millions of dollars. Were his wife 381 00:24:57,235 --> 00:25:02,115 Speaker 1: to find out, he said, that'll happen. In February two 382 00:25:02,155 --> 00:25:05,515 Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, Jeff Bezos went public, said his marriage was 383 00:25:05,635 --> 00:25:08,555 Speaker 1: ending anyway. He was sorry about the pain that's caused 384 00:25:08,635 --> 00:25:11,515 Speaker 1: his wife, but he would now give her all she wanted. 385 00:25:11,915 --> 00:25:17,235 Speaker 1: And the National Inquirer blackmailers could shove it amid everything else. 386 00:25:17,235 --> 00:25:19,555 Speaker 1: It suggested to me that when you cannot figure out 387 00:25:19,595 --> 00:25:23,275 Speaker 1: what happened to the people who once seemed to have principles, 388 00:25:23,515 --> 00:25:26,635 Speaker 1: or at least seemed to have enmity towards crazy Trump, 389 00:25:27,435 --> 00:25:31,435 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, others, remember that the odds were 390 00:25:31,475 --> 00:25:35,795 Speaker 1: amazingly small that the first time Trump's allies tried to 391 00:25:35,835 --> 00:25:39,315 Speaker 1: blackmail somebody on his behalf, that they would find in 392 00:25:39,395 --> 00:25:43,115 Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos the one guy who would say no on 393 00:25:43,235 --> 00:25:47,435 Speaker 1: the first try. I don't think so. I have assumed 394 00:25:47,435 --> 00:25:50,995 Speaker 1: ever since that this process has been utilized for years 395 00:25:51,035 --> 00:25:55,955 Speaker 1: on Trump's behalf, in business, inside politics, and at its fringes, 396 00:25:56,355 --> 00:25:58,635 Speaker 1: and that Bezos was not the first victim of this, 397 00:25:58,795 --> 00:26:00,875 Speaker 1: just the first victim who said, f you this is 398 00:26:00,915 --> 00:26:05,795 Speaker 1: why we have f you money. But beneath all that 399 00:26:05,915 --> 00:26:08,355 Speaker 1: important stuff where she had another occasion where my jaw 400 00:26:08,515 --> 00:26:10,715 Speaker 1: dropped to the floor and I had to reattach it 401 00:26:10,715 --> 00:26:14,635 Speaker 1: with Elmer's glue. The woman at the center of the blackmail, 402 00:26:14,715 --> 00:26:16,715 Speaker 1: the woman for whom Jeff Bezos was going to leave 403 00:26:16,755 --> 00:26:21,075 Speaker 1: his wife, was named Lauren Sanchez, and like everybody else 404 00:26:21,075 --> 00:26:24,595 Speaker 1: in this twenty one century America, I used to work 405 00:26:24,635 --> 00:26:28,715 Speaker 1: with her. Lauren was a reporter and sometimes anchor at 406 00:26:28,715 --> 00:26:32,475 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Net when I got there, in only sometimes 407 00:26:33,155 --> 00:26:35,715 Speaker 1: they wrote her a script once that actually read Roger 408 00:26:35,755 --> 00:26:37,995 Speaker 1: Clemens e r A is one of the greatest in 409 00:26:38,115 --> 00:26:41,675 Speaker 1: his era, and she, of course read Roger Clemens era 410 00:26:41,915 --> 00:26:43,555 Speaker 1: is one of the greatest in his e r A. 411 00:26:44,475 --> 00:26:47,715 Speaker 1: She was much better at interviewing Lakers players after games, 412 00:26:47,755 --> 00:26:50,795 Speaker 1: particularly Shaquille O'Neill, even though he was more than two 413 00:26:50,795 --> 00:26:53,075 Speaker 1: ft taller than she was, and she used to insist 414 00:26:53,115 --> 00:26:58,555 Speaker 1: on interviewing him standing up. These little visits looked so 415 00:26:58,835 --> 00:27:02,195 Speaker 1: odd on camera that I remember seeing one of her 416 00:27:02,235 --> 00:27:04,435 Speaker 1: stories being fed in from the l A Forum and 417 00:27:04,435 --> 00:27:07,435 Speaker 1: I asked the producer were actually putting that on the air? 418 00:27:07,755 --> 00:27:11,835 Speaker 1: Just onto the gag reel for Christmas. We did not 419 00:27:11,995 --> 00:27:14,475 Speaker 1: overlap long there after, she gave birth to the child 420 00:27:14,515 --> 00:27:17,035 Speaker 1: of NFL tight end Tony Gonzalez, long after she had 421 00:27:17,115 --> 00:27:20,155 Speaker 1: ended her relationship with him. Laurence Sanchez was hired to 422 00:27:20,195 --> 00:27:23,475 Speaker 1: anchor the news on Channel thirteen, which is a station 423 00:27:23,515 --> 00:27:26,395 Speaker 1: that was apparently created because somebody would always have to 424 00:27:26,435 --> 00:27:29,475 Speaker 1: be in last place in the news ratings, and it 425 00:27:29,555 --> 00:27:32,355 Speaker 1: might as well be them. I was back visiting in 426 00:27:32,515 --> 00:27:34,555 Speaker 1: l A in the spring of two thousand two and 427 00:27:34,635 --> 00:27:37,075 Speaker 1: dived in and out of as many newscasts as I 428 00:27:37,115 --> 00:27:39,795 Speaker 1: could so I could see what my two X employers 429 00:27:39,795 --> 00:27:42,115 Speaker 1: there and so many of my old colleagues and rivals 430 00:27:42,115 --> 00:27:46,115 Speaker 1: were doing. That's when I saw it. The worst or 431 00:27:46,155 --> 00:27:49,995 Speaker 1: perhaps the best commercial for a local television news sweeps 432 00:27:50,155 --> 00:27:56,075 Speaker 1: series in human history in any language. Sweeps series used 433 00:27:56,115 --> 00:27:59,035 Speaker 1: to be local TVs bread and butter. During the weeks 434 00:27:59,035 --> 00:28:02,155 Speaker 1: when the local ratings were tabulated and used to establish 435 00:28:02,155 --> 00:28:05,715 Speaker 1: who was number one and thus how much everybody's commercials 436 00:28:05,715 --> 00:28:09,075 Speaker 1: would cost, each station would do a series of special 437 00:28:09,115 --> 00:28:14,235 Speaker 1: reports within each newscast. They were designed solely to be advertised, 438 00:28:14,235 --> 00:28:17,955 Speaker 1: to be sponsored, and to be as salacious or silly 439 00:28:18,075 --> 00:28:22,395 Speaker 1: or unbelievable or titillating, or just as memorable as possible. 440 00:28:23,155 --> 00:28:24,795 Speaker 1: When I was in local news in l A in 441 00:28:24,835 --> 00:28:27,235 Speaker 1: the eighties and nineties, we had a series at Channel 442 00:28:27,275 --> 00:28:29,915 Speaker 1: two with a very good reporter named Dorothy Lucy, and 443 00:28:29,955 --> 00:28:33,915 Speaker 1: the series was called The Search for Sleeves. The commercials 444 00:28:33,955 --> 00:28:37,555 Speaker 1: for The Search for Sleeves showed her riding around in 445 00:28:37,595 --> 00:28:40,235 Speaker 1: a jacuzzi built into the back of a stretch limo 446 00:28:40,435 --> 00:28:42,595 Speaker 1: with an old guy with a beard and a couple 447 00:28:42,595 --> 00:28:45,995 Speaker 1: of bikini models in there too. That had been, to 448 00:28:46,155 --> 00:28:50,755 Speaker 1: my knowledge, the low point of the Sweeps series. But now, 449 00:28:51,355 --> 00:28:53,955 Speaker 1: as I watched in my hotel room in Santa Monica 450 00:28:53,995 --> 00:28:56,755 Speaker 1: in the spring of two thousand two, this is more 451 00:28:56,915 --> 00:29:00,675 Speaker 1: or less what I heard the voiceover announcers say. This 452 00:29:00,875 --> 00:29:04,835 Speaker 1: week special report case O P. Thirty news anchor In 453 00:29:04,835 --> 00:29:10,515 Speaker 1: Sanchez brings you how to meet a baller? Ladies, find 454 00:29:10,515 --> 00:29:14,875 Speaker 1: out where to meet the athlete of your dreams, Lasers, King's, Dodgers, Angels. 455 00:29:15,155 --> 00:29:19,355 Speaker 1: Do you want to meet him? Do you want to 456 00:29:19,955 --> 00:29:24,755 Speaker 1: get to know him? Do you want to date him? 457 00:29:24,755 --> 00:29:26,755 Speaker 1: How to be the baller? This week on the case 458 00:29:26,915 --> 00:29:30,555 Speaker 1: O P. Thirteen News attend with Lauren Sanchez how to 459 00:29:30,835 --> 00:29:36,915 Speaker 1: meet a baller. I'm not certain how they restored me 460 00:29:36,995 --> 00:29:40,235 Speaker 1: to human form from the puddle into which I had dissolved. 461 00:29:40,675 --> 00:29:42,955 Speaker 1: I do remember calling the desk to ask if it 462 00:29:43,035 --> 00:29:46,075 Speaker 1: was still Tuesday. It felt like I had been out 463 00:29:46,115 --> 00:29:52,475 Speaker 1: called for several weeks. I was appalled, shocked, chagrined, nauseated, mortified, embarrassed, humiliated. 464 00:29:52,475 --> 00:29:56,075 Speaker 1: And then I stopped, and as an angelic choir sang 465 00:29:56,075 --> 00:29:59,275 Speaker 1: in the background, I changed my mind completely. This was 466 00:29:59,315 --> 00:30:03,355 Speaker 1: not Sweeps series madness. This was not a woman debasing 467 00:30:03,355 --> 00:30:06,915 Speaker 1: herself by teaching others and how to debase themselves how 468 00:30:06,995 --> 00:30:12,435 Speaker 1: to meet ballers. This was, for perhaps the first time 469 00:30:12,435 --> 00:30:15,395 Speaker 1: in Sweeps series history, perhaps the first time in local 470 00:30:15,435 --> 00:30:20,875 Speaker 1: television news history, a true expert, lending her panoramic learned 471 00:30:21,115 --> 00:30:26,755 Speaker 1: comprehensive knowledge about one subject, requiring subtlety, insight, insider information, 472 00:30:26,995 --> 00:30:30,835 Speaker 1: and the selflessness to share it with mere ordinary women viewers. 473 00:30:32,235 --> 00:30:36,195 Speaker 1: How do you meet a baller? I would never have 474 00:30:36,315 --> 00:30:39,395 Speaker 1: known who to ask. I never would have known to 475 00:30:39,475 --> 00:30:45,355 Speaker 1: whom to send my wife or daughter or friend. Not really. 476 00:30:46,035 --> 00:30:50,595 Speaker 1: I knew there were experts, there were scholars, there were 477 00:30:50,635 --> 00:30:54,035 Speaker 1: fonts of wisdom, but Laurence Sanchez was the Einstein of 478 00:30:54,115 --> 00:30:58,955 Speaker 1: meeting ballers, And even in the glimmering light of knowledge 479 00:30:58,955 --> 00:31:01,875 Speaker 1: that radiated from her that week on Channel thirteen, Los Angeles, 480 00:31:01,915 --> 00:31:05,515 Speaker 1: two decades ago, even in the blinding aura of her brilliance, 481 00:31:06,595 --> 00:31:09,635 Speaker 1: could she have known that the ultimate target of the 482 00:31:09,675 --> 00:31:13,955 Speaker 1: Little Sweep series should have been No, mere Tony Gonzalez? 483 00:31:14,035 --> 00:31:16,755 Speaker 1: Or do you want to meet him? Do you want 484 00:31:16,795 --> 00:31:19,435 Speaker 1: to get to know him? Do you want to date him? 485 00:31:19,715 --> 00:31:21,995 Speaker 1: It should have been do you want to meet him? 486 00:31:22,035 --> 00:31:23,595 Speaker 1: Do you want to get to know him? Do you 487 00:31:23,595 --> 00:31:29,235 Speaker 1: want to date him? How to meet up bezos in life? 488 00:31:30,155 --> 00:31:32,275 Speaker 1: You just don't expect people you worked with for a 489 00:31:32,315 --> 00:31:34,835 Speaker 1: few weeks, like Laurence Sanchez, to wind up as part 490 00:31:34,835 --> 00:31:39,755 Speaker 1: of modern American history. It just seems unlikely, not that 491 00:31:39,795 --> 00:31:42,635 Speaker 1: they could be involved in a blackmail story like hers 492 00:31:43,195 --> 00:31:46,115 Speaker 1: and she was a victim, but that you could have 493 00:31:46,195 --> 00:31:48,675 Speaker 1: known her. And yet, for me this was the second time. 494 00:31:49,755 --> 00:31:53,115 Speaker 1: On October one, two thousand nine, it was the anniversary 495 00:31:53,115 --> 00:31:55,835 Speaker 1: that reminded me of both of these stories. My friend 496 00:31:55,915 --> 00:31:58,395 Speaker 1: David Letterman came out onto the stage of the CBS 497 00:31:58,515 --> 00:32:00,235 Speaker 1: Late Night Show and revealed that he had had a 498 00:32:00,275 --> 00:32:05,035 Speaker 1: series of consensual relationships with women on his staff. The 499 00:32:05,115 --> 00:32:08,595 Speaker 1: studio audience laughed, assuming it was the start of some 500 00:32:08,755 --> 00:32:12,115 Speaker 1: bit in which the guys at the Hello Delhi would 501 00:32:12,155 --> 00:32:15,315 Speaker 1: somehow have a roll of some sort. But Dave went 502 00:32:15,435 --> 00:32:18,635 Speaker 1: on and on and on, and finally revealed he had 503 00:32:18,675 --> 00:32:21,915 Speaker 1: been the victim of an extortion plot, and that he 504 00:32:22,035 --> 00:32:24,475 Speaker 1: in the Manhattan d a's office set up a meeting 505 00:32:24,475 --> 00:32:27,275 Speaker 1: with the blackmailer, who wanted two million dollars, with the 506 00:32:27,315 --> 00:32:31,035 Speaker 1: cover story being that he had written a screenplay about 507 00:32:31,155 --> 00:32:34,995 Speaker 1: Letterman that would reveal all the relationships, but he would 508 00:32:34,995 --> 00:32:38,875 Speaker 1: sell the quote screenplay unquote two Letterman for two million dollars. 509 00:32:40,595 --> 00:32:44,075 Speaker 1: Within hours, Letterman's blackmailer was identified by authorities. I saw 510 00:32:44,075 --> 00:32:47,715 Speaker 1: the name pop up on my computer terminal, NBC, Robert Joel, 511 00:32:47,995 --> 00:32:50,555 Speaker 1: Joe Halderman, and I looked at it and I said, 512 00:32:51,635 --> 00:32:55,955 Speaker 1: of course, Joe Halderman. He had been the assignment editor 513 00:32:55,995 --> 00:32:58,115 Speaker 1: at CNN in New York from the day I broke 514 00:32:58,155 --> 00:33:01,475 Speaker 1: into television in August until he left for CBS News 515 00:33:01,475 --> 00:33:05,235 Speaker 1: a year later. All television assignment at has had to 516 00:33:05,315 --> 00:33:09,595 Speaker 1: deny reporters camera crews. There are invariably scheduling conflicts and 517 00:33:09,675 --> 00:33:12,915 Speaker 1: ultimately there are always two stories to shoot for every 518 00:33:12,955 --> 00:33:17,995 Speaker 1: one camera crew available. But Halderman used to enjoy denying 519 00:33:18,075 --> 00:33:20,355 Speaker 1: us reporters cruise. He used to like to mock us, 520 00:33:20,595 --> 00:33:23,275 Speaker 1: to make us gruvel, and then when you got to 521 00:33:23,475 --> 00:33:26,155 Speaker 1: your story with your crew, he would page them and 522 00:33:26,195 --> 00:33:28,395 Speaker 1: tell them to go cover something else and leave you 523 00:33:28,555 --> 00:33:34,875 Speaker 1: stranded there. And personally he had absolutely no redeeming qualities. 524 00:33:35,595 --> 00:33:38,035 Speaker 1: If you could travel back in time to the twenty 525 00:33:38,035 --> 00:33:40,635 Speaker 1: two or twenty three year old me and explain who 526 00:33:40,715 --> 00:33:43,075 Speaker 1: David Letterman would be and what his fame would be like, 527 00:33:43,475 --> 00:33:45,315 Speaker 1: and how I'd be a guest on his show one 528 00:33:45,435 --> 00:33:48,355 Speaker 1: night when a presidential candidate canceled at the last minute, 529 00:33:48,515 --> 00:33:50,835 Speaker 1: and how somebody I already knew and had worked with 530 00:33:50,875 --> 00:33:53,475 Speaker 1: at age two or twenty three would try to blackmail 531 00:33:53,595 --> 00:33:57,675 Speaker 1: him over staffers he'd slept with, and could I I 532 00:33:57,715 --> 00:33:59,675 Speaker 1: would have interrupted you by that point and said, matter 533 00:33:59,715 --> 00:34:03,115 Speaker 1: of factly, oh, it's Joe Halderman. Right of course, Halderman, 534 00:34:03,155 --> 00:34:08,995 Speaker 1: total creep. You say he black mails this letterbox guy. Frankly, 535 00:34:09,075 --> 00:34:11,235 Speaker 1: forty year old me probably could have figured out the 536 00:34:11,275 --> 00:34:14,475 Speaker 1: whole Lauren Sanchez thing for some time. Traveling quiz Master 537 00:34:14,555 --> 00:34:17,875 Speaker 1: as well. Although I will make no comparison between Joe 538 00:34:17,915 --> 00:34:21,995 Speaker 1: Halderman and Laurence Sanchez. Lauren was very pleasant and there 539 00:34:22,115 --> 00:34:26,915 Speaker 1: is a lesson in that for you. It's not just nostalgia. 540 00:34:27,195 --> 00:34:29,515 Speaker 1: It's not a brush with greatness. To use a letterman 541 00:34:29,555 --> 00:34:32,795 Speaker 1: asked term. Wherever you are in life or in your career, 542 00:34:33,235 --> 00:34:35,835 Speaker 1: you may have yet to meet them, or you may 543 00:34:35,875 --> 00:34:39,595 Speaker 1: have already met them. But this I know to be true. 544 00:34:40,595 --> 00:34:45,555 Speaker 1: You have your own Lauren Sanchez and your own Joe 545 00:34:45,595 --> 00:34:51,715 Speaker 1: Halderman already or already in the past. And whatever your 546 00:34:51,715 --> 00:34:54,515 Speaker 1: first impressions about them were, or are or will be, 547 00:34:55,395 --> 00:35:00,435 Speaker 1: you're damned right they are. And also keep in mind 548 00:35:00,795 --> 00:35:04,195 Speaker 1: that thought I mentioned that I had about Bezos and 549 00:35:04,315 --> 00:35:08,915 Speaker 1: the mail. Do you really think he could have been 550 00:35:08,995 --> 00:35:13,355 Speaker 1: the first one they tried to blackmail into supporting Trump 551 00:35:14,155 --> 00:35:18,355 Speaker 1: and the first one turned them down and went public? 552 00:35:19,835 --> 00:35:32,515 Speaker 1: Don't think so. I've done all the damage I can 553 00:35:32,555 --> 00:35:34,795 Speaker 1: do here. Help me out. Give this thing a heart 554 00:35:34,955 --> 00:35:37,995 Speaker 1: or smiley emoji, or email it to somebody, or write 555 00:35:38,035 --> 00:35:41,355 Speaker 1: a review. I don't even know. The Countdown theme from 556 00:35:41,355 --> 00:35:44,555 Speaker 1: Beethoven's Ninth was arranged, produced and performed by Countdown Musical 557 00:35:44,595 --> 00:35:47,795 Speaker 1: directors Brian Ray and John Philip Channel. 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