1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,435 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. On 2 00:00:21,475 --> 00:00:23,755 Speaker 1: this day of the debate, there could not be a 3 00:00:23,795 --> 00:00:27,435 Speaker 1: more potent metaphor for our political crisis, nor a more 4 00:00:27,475 --> 00:00:31,435 Speaker 1: ominous one than the metaphor that is standing at twelve 5 00:00:31,515 --> 00:00:37,115 Speaker 1: hundred s Street Northwest in Washington, where a three thousand 6 00:00:37,195 --> 00:00:42,035 Speaker 1: pound replica of the Lincoln Memorial is at this hour 7 00:00:43,195 --> 00:00:49,955 Speaker 1: melting in the hot sun, literally, as Trump tries to 8 00:00:49,995 --> 00:00:53,755 Speaker 1: destroy democracy and Biden tries to destroy Trump. The climate 9 00:00:53,795 --> 00:00:56,795 Speaker 1: disaster that has already begun and on which Trump would 10 00:00:56,795 --> 00:01:00,955 Speaker 1: apply the finishing touches, has so imperiled the six foot 11 00:01:01,075 --> 00:01:05,675 Speaker 1: tall wax statue of Lincoln outside of water Washington Elementary 12 00:01:05,715 --> 00:01:08,955 Speaker 1: School that the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities 13 00:01:09,035 --> 00:01:17,075 Speaker 1: has removed Lincoln's head quote to prevent it from falling 14 00:01:17,315 --> 00:01:21,955 Speaker 1: and breaking. They are not saying this, but the other 15 00:01:22,035 --> 00:01:26,555 Speaker 1: problem was. The other dire portent here was as climate 16 00:01:26,675 --> 00:01:29,875 Speaker 1: change brought peak summer temperatures to Washington while it was 17 00:01:29,915 --> 00:01:33,035 Speaker 1: still spring, the figure of mister Lincoln did not merely 18 00:01:33,115 --> 00:01:37,995 Speaker 1: begin to melt. It began to slump. The torso began 19 00:01:38,035 --> 00:01:41,635 Speaker 1: to slide outwards from the replica of the chair and 20 00:01:41,715 --> 00:01:45,075 Speaker 1: his head to fall backwards onto its edge. Frankly, it 21 00:01:45,115 --> 00:01:47,595 Speaker 1: had begun to look more like Ford's Theater than the 22 00:01:47,635 --> 00:01:52,035 Speaker 1: Lincoln Memorial. At the debate, somebody asked Trump about this, 23 00:01:53,155 --> 00:01:55,995 Speaker 1: ask him if he's in favor of beheading Lincoln before 24 00:01:56,035 --> 00:02:00,555 Speaker 1: Lincoln's head falls off. Trump is always claiming he's been 25 00:02:00,555 --> 00:02:04,955 Speaker 1: treated worse than Lincoln. This is dementia. Jay's chain chants 26 00:02:05,035 --> 00:02:10,835 Speaker 1: to get even with him. Where we are practically, of course, 27 00:02:10,875 --> 00:02:12,915 Speaker 1: on the day of this debate, is that the UGOV 28 00:02:13,035 --> 00:02:16,195 Speaker 1: poll for the Economists that closed Tuesday continues to peg 29 00:02:16,235 --> 00:02:18,955 Speaker 1: the national race at Biden forty two, Trump forty two, 30 00:02:18,995 --> 00:02:23,075 Speaker 1: with or without Kennedy. But the same group of respondents 31 00:02:23,395 --> 00:02:27,315 Speaker 1: predicts a Trump election by forty two thirty one, with 32 00:02:27,435 --> 00:02:31,755 Speaker 1: twenty seven percent unsure. The same group has fifty four 33 00:02:31,795 --> 00:02:35,235 Speaker 1: percent of all Americans saying they definitely or probably will 34 00:02:35,235 --> 00:02:39,635 Speaker 1: watch the debate eleven percent more. There may be the 35 00:02:39,715 --> 00:02:43,195 Speaker 1: numbers actually higher among partisans. Sixty four percent of Republicans 36 00:02:43,195 --> 00:02:45,955 Speaker 1: polled say they are watching, fifty eight percent of Democrats. 37 00:02:47,035 --> 00:02:51,075 Speaker 1: You Gov and the Economist also asked eleven specific questions 38 00:02:51,075 --> 00:02:53,635 Speaker 1: about the debate, like who will be better at staying 39 00:02:53,715 --> 00:02:57,555 Speaker 1: calm under pressure, which Biden wins handily forty eight to 40 00:02:57,595 --> 00:03:01,235 Speaker 1: thirty one. Who will be more likely to lie in 41 00:03:01,275 --> 00:03:04,195 Speaker 1: which it's Trump forty six to thirty four, and three 42 00:03:04,315 --> 00:03:07,955 Speaker 1: questions are Trump landslides. Who is more likely to make 43 00:03:07,995 --> 00:03:12,155 Speaker 1: personal attacks Trump by thirty nine points, who is likelier 44 00:03:12,155 --> 00:03:15,915 Speaker 1: to go over their allotted time Trump by forty five points, 45 00:03:16,035 --> 00:03:19,955 Speaker 1: and who is likelier to interrupt Trump by fifty two points. 46 00:03:21,035 --> 00:03:25,515 Speaker 1: Morning Consult also did debate polling results based the percentage 47 00:03:25,515 --> 00:03:28,035 Speaker 1: of voters who think it's very likely they will change 48 00:03:28,555 --> 00:03:31,515 Speaker 1: who they plan to vote for based on the debate 49 00:03:32,355 --> 00:03:36,915 Speaker 1: eleven percent. They dismiss this as a small number. Eleven 50 00:03:37,035 --> 00:03:41,755 Speaker 1: percent of Trump and Biden voters are soft enough to 51 00:03:41,875 --> 00:03:46,595 Speaker 1: be changed by the outcome of the debate, and Morning 52 00:03:46,635 --> 00:03:50,435 Speaker 1: Consults says there are three demographic breakdowns of that eleven 53 00:03:50,475 --> 00:03:53,995 Speaker 1: percent that could be big news for Joe Biden. The 54 00:03:54,075 --> 00:03:57,155 Speaker 1: groups where Trump has made the biggest inroad since twenty 55 00:03:57,195 --> 00:04:00,075 Speaker 1: twenty well. One in five voters under the age of 56 00:04:00,155 --> 00:04:02,515 Speaker 1: thirty five is one of those groups, and they say 57 00:04:03,715 --> 00:04:06,235 Speaker 1: they expect to change their vote based on the debate. 58 00:04:06,395 --> 00:04:09,515 Speaker 1: One in five voters under the age of thirty five 59 00:04:10,835 --> 00:04:14,675 Speaker 1: one in five Black voters, more than a quarter of 60 00:04:14,715 --> 00:04:19,395 Speaker 1: all Hispanic voters expect say it's very likely they'll change 61 00:04:19,395 --> 00:04:21,275 Speaker 1: who they plan to vote for based on this debate 62 00:04:21,515 --> 00:04:25,035 Speaker 1: if Trump gives back those gains, especially because off this 63 00:04:25,115 --> 00:04:31,995 Speaker 1: debate tonight he's cooked. But enough about melting Lincoln's and 64 00:04:32,035 --> 00:04:34,875 Speaker 1: who's the biggest asshole at the debate? There is one 65 00:04:34,995 --> 00:04:37,835 Speaker 1: pole number going into this thing that bluntly terrifies me. 66 00:04:38,435 --> 00:04:41,355 Speaker 1: Several polls have already shown that as an issue questions 67 00:04:41,395 --> 00:04:45,395 Speaker 1: phrased as the preservation of democracy or the health of 68 00:04:45,435 --> 00:04:49,235 Speaker 1: democracy or threats against democracy, they have shown up repeatedly 69 00:04:49,555 --> 00:04:53,195 Speaker 1: among the top handful of factors determining who is voting 70 00:04:53,235 --> 00:04:56,995 Speaker 1: for whom. The Biden campaign point has gotten through the 71 00:04:57,035 --> 00:04:59,755 Speaker 1: reality point of January sixth, and the rest of the 72 00:04:59,795 --> 00:05:03,435 Speaker 1: realities of Trump's varied coup attempts. They have also gotten through. 73 00:05:03,595 --> 00:05:07,315 Speaker 1: The problem is the voters in the six swing states 74 00:05:07,355 --> 00:05:10,915 Speaker 1: President Biden won in twenty twenty, polled by The Washington 75 00:05:10,955 --> 00:05:14,315 Speaker 1: Post and George Mason University, are asked who would do 76 00:05:14,355 --> 00:05:17,235 Speaker 1: a better job handling threats to democracy in the US, 77 00:05:17,515 --> 00:05:22,355 Speaker 1: and in those six states, they say Trump by forty 78 00:05:22,395 --> 00:05:29,435 Speaker 1: four to thirty three Trump in Arizona, in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, 79 00:05:29,795 --> 00:05:32,915 Speaker 1: they somehow think Trump will handle threats to democracy better. 80 00:05:34,075 --> 00:05:36,955 Speaker 1: Along the new pets of the pollsters this year, the 81 00:05:36,995 --> 00:05:40,715 Speaker 1: so called decider voters, the catch all for young voters, 82 00:05:40,875 --> 00:05:43,555 Speaker 1: voters who are newly registered in the last two years, 83 00:05:43,755 --> 00:05:48,275 Speaker 1: voters who are definitely not definitely attached to either candidate, 84 00:05:48,835 --> 00:05:51,595 Speaker 1: voters who voted for different parties in the last two elections. 85 00:05:51,915 --> 00:05:54,555 Speaker 1: They are a little closer on this thirty eight to 86 00:05:54,595 --> 00:05:57,115 Speaker 1: twenty nine, but by a margin of nine points. They 87 00:05:57,115 --> 00:06:03,115 Speaker 1: still think Trump would be better at handling threats to democracy. Now, 88 00:06:03,155 --> 00:06:06,155 Speaker 1: of course, as we have learned every since twenty fifteen, 89 00:06:06,315 --> 00:06:08,995 Speaker 1: what you and I might think is meant by the 90 00:06:08,995 --> 00:06:14,315 Speaker 1: phrase handling threats to democracy may not entirely overlap with 91 00:06:14,355 --> 00:06:18,555 Speaker 1: what fascists in Georgia think it means. Some of them 92 00:06:18,595 --> 00:06:21,395 Speaker 1: may be saying Trump will be better at it because 93 00:06:21,515 --> 00:06:24,275 Speaker 1: he'll do a better job making sure that the threats 94 00:06:24,315 --> 00:06:29,275 Speaker 1: to democracy succeed. But as much as we might hope 95 00:06:29,315 --> 00:06:31,715 Speaker 1: that's what it means, it's not likely to be true 96 00:06:31,835 --> 00:06:35,035 Speaker 1: for more than a handful of them, because in those 97 00:06:35,075 --> 00:06:38,475 Speaker 1: six Swing States. Trump's message has gotten through as well, 98 00:06:38,675 --> 00:06:42,235 Speaker 1: that the fact that he is being prosecuted for crimes 99 00:06:42,755 --> 00:06:46,835 Speaker 1: because he was indicted for crimes, because he committed crimes, 100 00:06:48,075 --> 00:06:52,875 Speaker 1: that that's actually an attack on democracy. Six out of 101 00:06:52,955 --> 00:06:57,195 Speaker 1: ten voters in the Swing States say threats to democracy 102 00:06:57,275 --> 00:07:00,955 Speaker 1: are extremely important to them. Seven out of ten Trump 103 00:07:01,035 --> 00:07:04,275 Speaker 1: supporters say it, nearly eight out of ten Biden supporters 104 00:07:04,315 --> 00:07:07,755 Speaker 1: say it, And yet in the Swing States they think 105 00:07:07,995 --> 00:07:11,715 Speaker 1: Trump would be better to solve it. So if there 106 00:07:11,755 --> 00:07:14,875 Speaker 1: is one overriding message to President Biden as they are 107 00:07:14,915 --> 00:07:18,315 Speaker 1: micing him up tonight, it should be this. Those voters 108 00:07:18,355 --> 00:07:21,075 Speaker 1: out there are ready to accept the idea that the 109 00:07:21,155 --> 00:07:24,595 Speaker 1: nation is hanging by a thread, or to choose a 110 00:07:24,635 --> 00:07:27,115 Speaker 1: metaphor more apt to the moment, that it is at 111 00:07:27,275 --> 00:07:29,355 Speaker 1: risk of melting in the hot sun and having its 112 00:07:29,395 --> 00:07:31,395 Speaker 1: head cut off so it doesn't fall off and break. 113 00:07:33,515 --> 00:07:35,715 Speaker 1: But those voters out there do not fully grasp that 114 00:07:35,795 --> 00:07:40,395 Speaker 1: Trump is the problem, that Trump is Hitler nineteen thirty 115 00:07:40,395 --> 00:07:43,075 Speaker 1: one or Hitler nineteen thirty two. They do not fully 116 00:07:43,155 --> 00:07:46,755 Speaker 1: grasp that prosecuting him is not a violation of democracy 117 00:07:46,835 --> 00:07:51,475 Speaker 1: but a necessity if democracy is to be preserved. They 118 00:07:51,475 --> 00:07:54,195 Speaker 1: are maybe as much as half of them still living 119 00:07:54,275 --> 00:07:57,635 Speaker 1: in a world defined in the year eighteen thirty seven 120 00:07:57,675 --> 00:08:01,115 Speaker 1: by the Danish author Hans Christian Anderson. The world of 121 00:08:01,155 --> 00:08:07,035 Speaker 1: the Emperor's new Clothes is sitting there his gun pointed 122 00:08:07,075 --> 00:08:11,395 Speaker 1: at Democracy's head, and somewhere around half of us see 123 00:08:11,435 --> 00:08:15,395 Speaker 1: the exact opposite of that reality. I don't know how 124 00:08:15,435 --> 00:08:18,755 Speaker 1: you fix that, mister President, even if you are on 125 00:08:18,875 --> 00:08:20,955 Speaker 1: stage with this monster in front of one hundred and 126 00:08:20,995 --> 00:08:25,115 Speaker 1: twenty million Americans tonight. I can only say that the 127 00:08:25,275 --> 00:08:29,355 Speaker 1: how part really is your choice and really is your job. 128 00:08:30,235 --> 00:08:33,715 Speaker 1: And the only good news is you don't have to 129 00:08:33,755 --> 00:09:00,195 Speaker 1: convince all of them, just a lot of them. You know, 130 00:09:00,515 --> 00:09:02,875 Speaker 1: at the moment you are listening to this way more 131 00:09:02,915 --> 00:09:05,675 Speaker 1: than I know at the moment I'm saying this about 132 00:09:05,675 --> 00:09:09,115 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court ruling on this farcical anti democratic then 133 00:09:09,155 --> 00:09:11,995 Speaker 1: why did we do that whole revolution against the British 134 00:09:12,115 --> 00:09:17,475 Speaker 1: king concept of presidential immunity. The decision has been made. 135 00:09:17,915 --> 00:09:20,435 Speaker 1: It was not revealed yesterday, though in a footnote, the 136 00:09:20,555 --> 00:09:24,395 Speaker 1: Supremely Corrupt Religious Court says it would keep referring to 137 00:09:24,635 --> 00:09:27,995 Speaker 1: x as Twitter and yeah, the government sure can ask 138 00:09:28,075 --> 00:09:31,635 Speaker 1: social media sites to take down disinformation during a coup 139 00:09:31,875 --> 00:09:35,955 Speaker 1: or a literal public health emergency. The Court will either 140 00:09:35,995 --> 00:09:40,555 Speaker 1: announce its decision on presidential immunity today Thursday or on Friday. 141 00:09:40,915 --> 00:09:43,275 Speaker 1: Logic would suggest that John Roberts at least would have 142 00:09:43,315 --> 00:09:46,635 Speaker 1: wanted neither to upstage the debate tonight nor become a 143 00:09:46,675 --> 00:09:50,955 Speaker 1: part of it by issuing this ruling beforehand. And you 144 00:09:51,035 --> 00:09:54,075 Speaker 1: must remember that if Trump's supporters live in an emperor's 145 00:09:54,075 --> 00:09:57,515 Speaker 1: new clothes world, Supreme Court justices live in a world 146 00:09:57,595 --> 00:10:00,955 Speaker 1: in which they are the emperors, and the rest of 147 00:10:01,035 --> 00:10:05,875 Speaker 1: us are just supposed to shut up and salute delaying 148 00:10:05,915 --> 00:10:08,515 Speaker 1: the announcement of a decision, especially if there is any 149 00:10:08,555 --> 00:10:11,155 Speaker 1: shred of actual law left at the Supreme Court and 150 00:10:11,195 --> 00:10:14,275 Speaker 1: the decision on the question of is there presidential immunity 151 00:10:14,515 --> 00:10:18,795 Speaker 1: is are you out of your effing mind? That would 152 00:10:18,915 --> 00:10:23,275 Speaker 1: save them announcing it Friday, That would save them Trump's 153 00:10:23,315 --> 00:10:26,195 Speaker 1: wrath in front of one hundred and twenty million television viewers. 154 00:10:27,235 --> 00:10:32,595 Speaker 1: On the other hand, if it were left up to 155 00:10:32,635 --> 00:10:36,715 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito, and especially Martha and Alito, 156 00:10:37,155 --> 00:10:39,475 Speaker 1: they would damn well be certain to announce the presidential 157 00:10:39,515 --> 00:10:42,195 Speaker 1: immunity decision on debate day. In fact, they'd prefer to 158 00:10:42,195 --> 00:10:45,555 Speaker 1: announce it just before the debate so that Martha Ann 159 00:10:45,595 --> 00:10:48,515 Speaker 1: could get her promised on the secret recordings revenge against 160 00:10:48,555 --> 00:10:52,355 Speaker 1: the media and specifically against CNN for its coverage of 161 00:10:52,395 --> 00:11:00,195 Speaker 1: her and her flags. There is also one other practical consideration. 162 00:11:01,155 --> 00:11:04,075 Speaker 1: If the Court has actually found that there is immunity 163 00:11:04,115 --> 00:11:06,915 Speaker 1: for president actions as long as they are taken while 164 00:11:06,995 --> 00:11:11,835 Speaker 1: in office and in an official capacity. Immediately thereafter, Joe 165 00:11:11,835 --> 00:11:16,115 Speaker 1: Biden can literally arrest all of the justices during the 166 00:11:16,195 --> 00:11:19,795 Speaker 1: debate if he wants, and he can arrest Trump too 167 00:11:20,155 --> 00:11:25,475 Speaker 1: during the debate. And there's no hyperbole meant here, because, 168 00:11:25,515 --> 00:11:29,755 Speaker 1: as I have suggested before this, the Court would be 169 00:11:29,795 --> 00:11:33,035 Speaker 1: deciding that this is a monarchy or a dictatorship or 170 00:11:33,075 --> 00:11:35,315 Speaker 1: any kind of strong man state you can think of. 171 00:11:35,715 --> 00:11:39,995 Speaker 1: And therefore the president who invokes the Insurrection Act and 172 00:11:40,075 --> 00:11:43,635 Speaker 1: declare Sam Alito or Donald Trump or Sean Hannity a 173 00:11:43,755 --> 00:11:46,355 Speaker 1: terrorist and a threat to the country could never face 174 00:11:46,395 --> 00:11:50,675 Speaker 1: accountability for it, outside of possible impeachment and removal from office. 175 00:11:50,715 --> 00:11:53,915 Speaker 1: And of course that liability could be removed by simply 176 00:11:53,955 --> 00:11:56,555 Speaker 1: also arresting any congressman or senator who was willing to 177 00:11:56,595 --> 00:12:02,435 Speaker 1: vote for that. Somewhere, even in the adult, vengeful, destructive 178 00:12:02,515 --> 00:12:05,355 Speaker 1: minds of Alito and Thomas, there must be awareness that 179 00:12:05,435 --> 00:12:09,475 Speaker 1: if there is presidential immunity, they will be giving Joe 180 00:12:09,555 --> 00:12:14,275 Speaker 1: Biden immediately a very stark choice. The court would be saying, 181 00:12:14,955 --> 00:12:18,915 Speaker 1: the president is a king. You Biden, our president. You 182 00:12:19,115 --> 00:12:22,275 Speaker 1: Biden can now act like a king, act for goodness 183 00:12:22,275 --> 00:12:26,195 Speaker 1: and for America if you want, or you can refuse 184 00:12:26,275 --> 00:12:28,635 Speaker 1: the crown like you're a modern day Richard the Third 185 00:12:28,715 --> 00:12:31,275 Speaker 1: and not become king and instead sit around and wait 186 00:12:31,355 --> 00:12:35,075 Speaker 1: until January when maybe you hand the literal power to 187 00:12:35,115 --> 00:12:39,875 Speaker 1: be the first American king to this psychopath Trump your call. 188 00:12:42,155 --> 00:12:44,515 Speaker 1: I mean, it is madness to think that in any 189 00:12:44,595 --> 00:12:47,195 Speaker 1: vision of America that any of us have ever had, 190 00:12:47,475 --> 00:12:50,115 Speaker 1: that such things must be considered. But that is where 191 00:12:50,115 --> 00:12:53,795 Speaker 1: we are. It may be we have a choice of 192 00:12:53,875 --> 00:12:57,315 Speaker 1: a good king or a bad king, and that the 193 00:12:57,435 --> 00:12:59,715 Speaker 1: choice has to be made by the guy who would 194 00:12:59,755 --> 00:13:05,035 Speaker 1: become the good king. That's the only choice we have. 195 00:13:05,115 --> 00:13:08,155 Speaker 1: Thank you, Sam Alito. Now get in the van. You're 196 00:13:08,275 --> 00:13:13,475 Speaker 1: under arrest, so you can see where they wouldn't want 197 00:13:13,515 --> 00:13:17,275 Speaker 1: to announce that today. If that's what they're going to 198 00:13:17,315 --> 00:13:20,435 Speaker 1: announce because the government knows where all the justices are 199 00:13:20,515 --> 00:13:23,515 Speaker 1: right now. But if they wait, well, after all, tomorrow 200 00:13:23,675 --> 00:13:27,275 Speaker 1: is Friday, and Roberts and Alito and Thomas and Corsich 201 00:13:27,355 --> 00:13:30,675 Speaker 1: and Kavanaugh and Barrett would stand a better chance of 202 00:13:30,795 --> 00:13:33,995 Speaker 1: just leaving the decision on somebody's desk and all of 203 00:13:34,035 --> 00:13:37,995 Speaker 1: them fleeing arrest before it gets announced. Man, I wish 204 00:13:38,035 --> 00:13:42,755 Speaker 1: I were joking, but hell, it all fits. I mean 205 00:13:42,835 --> 00:13:46,195 Speaker 1: circling back to Garrison Elementary School on S Street in 206 00:13:46,395 --> 00:13:53,035 Speaker 1: Washington after all, Yeah, this all makes sense. Abraham Lincoln 207 00:13:53,475 --> 00:14:06,995 Speaker 1: is melting. Oh, there's Supreme Court to Quinnipiac. Term limits 208 00:14:06,995 --> 00:14:12,715 Speaker 1: for Supreme Court justices approve seventy percent, and what motivates 209 00:14:12,715 --> 00:14:16,075 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court? Politics are law? Law thirty two percent, 210 00:14:16,595 --> 00:14:19,315 Speaker 1: politics sixty three percent. Once again, that includes a lot 211 00:14:19,355 --> 00:14:22,475 Speaker 1: of people who are saying politics, Yeah, that's what we 212 00:14:22,555 --> 00:14:26,115 Speaker 1: want them to do. Besides which, what the hell do 213 00:14:26,235 --> 00:14:31,035 Speaker 1: they care? And circling back to the debate, Apparently Trump 214 00:14:31,075 --> 00:14:33,475 Speaker 1: was supposed to do a thing yesterday with Byron Donald's 215 00:14:33,995 --> 00:14:38,435 Speaker 1: at an Atlanta barber shop, but instead of showing up, 216 00:14:39,075 --> 00:14:41,595 Speaker 1: he phoned it in to a group of black leaders there, 217 00:14:41,875 --> 00:14:46,115 Speaker 1: and he repeated this, try my tacos because I love 218 00:14:46,235 --> 00:14:52,195 Speaker 1: Hispanic people. Level racism claim that claim that he has 219 00:14:52,275 --> 00:14:56,515 Speaker 1: African American support because he too has been arrested, and 220 00:14:56,595 --> 00:14:59,475 Speaker 1: he had a mugshot taken, and the mugshot is more 221 00:14:59,515 --> 00:15:01,435 Speaker 1: popular than Elvis Presley's mugshot. 222 00:15:01,795 --> 00:15:06,075 Speaker 2: Like the mugshot, the mugshot is the best. It just 223 00:15:06,275 --> 00:15:09,235 Speaker 2: beat Elvis Presley and Frank Sinata by a lot, by 224 00:15:09,315 --> 00:15:12,275 Speaker 2: the way, Nada by a lot. But that's the number 225 00:15:12,355 --> 00:15:15,915 Speaker 2: one bug shot of all time. It's really an amazing thing. 226 00:15:16,475 --> 00:15:20,915 Speaker 2: Since it happened, the support among the Black community and 227 00:15:21,435 --> 00:15:24,235 Speaker 2: the Hispanic community has skyrocket. 228 00:15:24,395 --> 00:15:27,435 Speaker 1: By the way, Elvis Presley never had a mugshot taken. 229 00:15:28,395 --> 00:15:33,395 Speaker 1: What Trump stupidly thinks is Elvis Presley's mugshot is Elvis's 230 00:15:33,435 --> 00:15:39,795 Speaker 1: discharge photo from the army March nineteen sixty and his 231 00:15:39,875 --> 00:15:42,515 Speaker 1: hair looking a little wild like that in that photo 232 00:15:42,595 --> 00:15:45,395 Speaker 1: because not because he was arrested, because he knew he 233 00:15:45,435 --> 00:15:47,755 Speaker 1: was about to start performing again and he was growing 234 00:15:47,795 --> 00:15:52,915 Speaker 1: it out. But of course, what would Trump know about 235 00:15:52,915 --> 00:16:01,955 Speaker 1: getting your photo taken while you're in the army. Now, 236 00:16:01,995 --> 00:16:03,875 Speaker 1: the last time I have to annoy you with a reminder, 237 00:16:03,915 --> 00:16:06,475 Speaker 1: I'll be live with special edition of Countdown on YouTube 238 00:16:06,515 --> 00:16:08,995 Speaker 1: at the end of the debate roughly ten thirty Eastern tonight, 239 00:16:09,475 --> 00:16:11,875 Speaker 1: and much of that will be included in tomorrow's edition 240 00:16:11,915 --> 00:16:15,475 Speaker 1: of the podcast Wherever You podcast and on YouTube. And 241 00:16:15,515 --> 00:16:17,675 Speaker 1: by the way, if you heard that story that NBC 242 00:16:17,755 --> 00:16:21,315 Speaker 1: is going to use artificial intelligence to generate Olympic highlight 243 00:16:21,355 --> 00:16:26,875 Speaker 1: clips to send to email subscribers with customized greetings and 244 00:16:27,035 --> 00:16:31,075 Speaker 1: narrations from Al Michaels, I just wanted to point out 245 00:16:31,155 --> 00:16:34,235 Speaker 1: that A. I am not using AI at all. I 246 00:16:34,275 --> 00:16:38,435 Speaker 1: have enough trouble with real intelligence. And B many people 247 00:16:38,475 --> 00:16:42,675 Speaker 1: are now assuming that because NBC is using AIL, that 248 00:16:42,795 --> 00:16:46,035 Speaker 1: real Al is dead, which he is not. And C 249 00:16:47,955 --> 00:16:51,395 Speaker 1: of all the people in the world to make into 250 00:16:51,515 --> 00:17:00,715 Speaker 1: an AI figure first, Al Michaels also of interest here 251 00:17:01,275 --> 00:17:06,635 Speaker 1: vote for Trump endorsed nutjob hung cow we're senator from Virginia, 252 00:17:07,115 --> 00:17:10,235 Speaker 1: because he not only knows USA today is conspiring with 253 00:17:10,315 --> 00:17:14,195 Speaker 1: the campaign of the incumbent Tim Kaine, but he knows 254 00:17:14,235 --> 00:17:19,555 Speaker 1: this because the questions the newspaper sent him are in 255 00:17:19,675 --> 00:17:27,955 Speaker 1: a different font That's next, This is Countdown. Lincoln's isn't 256 00:17:27,955 --> 00:17:33,755 Speaker 1: the only head that's melting in Washington. I see this 257 00:17:34,195 --> 00:17:58,275 Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead of us on 258 00:17:58,355 --> 00:18:00,955 Speaker 1: this edition of Countdown. The most talented person I have 259 00:18:01,115 --> 00:18:05,395 Speaker 1: ever worked with should have been one of broadcasting's all greats. 260 00:18:06,155 --> 00:18:09,115 Speaker 1: But if anybody ever had a more faithful and more 261 00:18:09,315 --> 00:18:12,875 Speaker 1: fatal combination of bad luck and bad survival skills than 262 00:18:12,875 --> 00:18:15,195 Speaker 1: this newscaster, I don't know who it would have been. 263 00:18:15,835 --> 00:18:19,035 Speaker 1: The most challenged person I have ever worked with coming 264 00:18:19,115 --> 00:18:21,995 Speaker 1: up in things I promised not to tell, But first 265 00:18:22,035 --> 00:18:24,275 Speaker 1: there are still more new idiots to talk about. The 266 00:18:24,355 --> 00:18:27,115 Speaker 1: daily roundup of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Kruger fec 267 00:18:27,195 --> 00:18:31,675 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute two days worst persons in the world 268 00:18:33,075 --> 00:18:37,795 Speaker 1: the Bronze. Anybody saying that George Latimer successfully primary ing 269 00:18:37,915 --> 00:18:40,755 Speaker 1: Jamal Bowman Tuesday Night in the New York sixteenth is 270 00:18:40,795 --> 00:18:44,155 Speaker 1: an indicator of divisions in the Democratic Party, or the 271 00:18:44,315 --> 00:18:47,555 Speaker 1: end of the squad, or a defeat for the Progressives. 272 00:18:48,675 --> 00:18:51,035 Speaker 1: Just because a record amount of money was spent on 273 00:18:51,115 --> 00:18:55,115 Speaker 1: trying to oust Bowmen and successfully so, it does not 274 00:18:55,315 --> 00:18:57,915 Speaker 1: mean it was the money that beat him. I am 275 00:18:57,915 --> 00:19:01,035 Speaker 1: to the left of Bowmen politically. I have no use 276 00:19:01,075 --> 00:19:05,315 Speaker 1: for Apak Latimer simply gives me the freaking creeps. But 277 00:19:05,475 --> 00:19:10,075 Speaker 1: Bowman had flaws. And in saying that, I will point 278 00:19:10,075 --> 00:19:14,515 Speaker 1: out that the Nevada GOP Committee member Seagal Chatta twice 279 00:19:14,555 --> 00:19:18,035 Speaker 1: called mister Bowman a quote hood rat unquote and said 280 00:19:18,075 --> 00:19:20,475 Speaker 1: he had to leave Congress because there was quote no 281 00:19:20,755 --> 00:19:24,395 Speaker 1: Section eight housing there. And this woman Chatta is a 282 00:19:24,435 --> 00:19:29,395 Speaker 1: stone cold racist representing a stone cold racist party, and 283 00:19:29,435 --> 00:19:33,275 Speaker 1: I hope she burns in hell. But as to mister Bowman, 284 00:19:33,355 --> 00:19:36,515 Speaker 1: he threatened Apack just before the election that he would 285 00:19:36,555 --> 00:19:39,955 Speaker 1: show it, quote the power of the mfing South Bronx, 286 00:19:40,675 --> 00:19:43,875 Speaker 1: And I guess that's all right, being from the Bronx. 287 00:19:43,915 --> 00:19:47,075 Speaker 1: But of course his district, the New York sixteenth, does 288 00:19:47,075 --> 00:19:52,635 Speaker 1: not include the South Bronx mfing or otherwise. Then there 289 00:19:52,715 --> 00:19:56,155 Speaker 1: was the whole alarm jazz at the Cannon House Office 290 00:19:56,155 --> 00:20:00,835 Speaker 1: building last October when he pulled the fire alarm just 291 00:20:00,875 --> 00:20:03,355 Speaker 1: before the House vote on the stopgap funding bill designed 292 00:20:03,355 --> 00:20:05,875 Speaker 1: to avert a government shutdown. Insisted it was an accident. 293 00:20:06,555 --> 00:20:09,435 Speaker 1: He thought pulling the thing would open a door. And 294 00:20:09,475 --> 00:20:12,555 Speaker 1: guess what if that's true, he's not very bright if 295 00:20:12,555 --> 00:20:14,475 Speaker 1: it's not true. He pulled a fire alarm to try 296 00:20:14,475 --> 00:20:19,195 Speaker 1: to stop a vote. Those are not good choices. And 297 00:20:19,235 --> 00:20:21,795 Speaker 1: if you think of the squad and the Progressives lost 298 00:20:21,835 --> 00:20:25,155 Speaker 1: on Tuesday because Bowman did a that's the district that 299 00:20:25,195 --> 00:20:27,755 Speaker 1: includes my childhood home, and it may not be the 300 00:20:27,875 --> 00:20:31,355 Speaker 1: most liberal district, but it's pretty damn liberal. And b 301 00:20:32,275 --> 00:20:35,435 Speaker 1: how come down the street. In the fourteenth AOC beat 302 00:20:35,475 --> 00:20:40,715 Speaker 1: her centrist challenger eighty two percent to eighteen. The problem 303 00:20:40,755 --> 00:20:44,395 Speaker 1: was Bowman the runner up. Bally Sports, the regional sports 304 00:20:44,435 --> 00:20:46,755 Speaker 1: networks that went under last year, may really have burst 305 00:20:46,795 --> 00:20:50,635 Speaker 1: the balloon for baseball, basketball, and hockey. We have talked 306 00:20:50,675 --> 00:20:53,835 Speaker 1: before about their bankruptcy and how it particularly affected baseball 307 00:20:53,875 --> 00:20:57,315 Speaker 1: and forced several teams to literally give away their TV 308 00:20:57,475 --> 00:21:00,915 Speaker 1: rights this season, including the defending World Series champion Texas Rangers, 309 00:21:01,995 --> 00:21:04,875 Speaker 1: whose games are apparently being done by Tom Broclaw. All 310 00:21:04,875 --> 00:21:08,115 Speaker 1: the way, I'm pronouncing words like a little same for 311 00:21:08,155 --> 00:21:10,595 Speaker 1: the San Diego Padres. Remember last year when the Bally 312 00:21:10,675 --> 00:21:13,515 Speaker 1: checks stopped coming and the Padres had to take out 313 00:21:13,515 --> 00:21:17,155 Speaker 1: a fifty million dollar loan to meet payroll and they 314 00:21:17,195 --> 00:21:19,915 Speaker 1: had to trade their superstar Jan Soto to the Yankees. 315 00:21:20,235 --> 00:21:22,475 Speaker 1: That's because there was no TV money. Well, now we 316 00:21:22,555 --> 00:21:25,195 Speaker 1: have reached the next level of future shock for baseball 317 00:21:25,395 --> 00:21:28,795 Speaker 1: and for the other sports. The Miami Marlins TV situation, 318 00:21:29,875 --> 00:21:32,835 Speaker 1: still being carried by Bally in Florida, is now in 319 00:21:32,955 --> 00:21:35,715 Speaker 1: such disarray, not that it's a great product to begin with, 320 00:21:35,795 --> 00:21:38,635 Speaker 1: but it's now in such disarray that between now and 321 00:21:38,675 --> 00:21:41,795 Speaker 1: the end of July, the ball club is in essence 322 00:21:41,835 --> 00:21:46,315 Speaker 1: offering to pay its own fans to watch the telecasts 323 00:21:46,315 --> 00:21:49,955 Speaker 1: of the games. The Marlins are offering two free months 324 00:21:49,955 --> 00:21:53,475 Speaker 1: of streaming their games on Bally. You then get stuck 325 00:21:53,515 --> 00:21:55,355 Speaker 1: for twenty dollars a month. But if you sign up 326 00:21:55,395 --> 00:21:58,475 Speaker 1: on like July thirty first, your two months carry you 327 00:21:58,555 --> 00:22:02,075 Speaker 1: through the rest of the season. Doesn't get more fundamental 328 00:22:02,115 --> 00:22:04,875 Speaker 1: nor more ominous than this. Last year you pay the 329 00:22:04,955 --> 00:22:07,995 Speaker 1: Marlins to watch their games on TV. This year, the 330 00:22:08,035 --> 00:22:12,995 Speaker 1: Marlins pay you to watch their games on TV. In Russia, 331 00:22:13,115 --> 00:22:17,115 Speaker 1: Martlin's pay you but our winner the worst Republican Senate 332 00:22:17,195 --> 00:22:20,555 Speaker 1: candidate Hung cow I used to play a little trick 333 00:22:20,595 --> 00:22:23,075 Speaker 1: where the gossip site would call you and ask questions 334 00:22:23,115 --> 00:22:25,075 Speaker 1: and was obvious it was either a lie they were 335 00:22:25,075 --> 00:22:28,115 Speaker 1: going to publish, or something negative or just something controversial 336 00:22:28,155 --> 00:22:30,155 Speaker 1: and they were going to publish usually the next day, 337 00:22:30,635 --> 00:22:33,115 Speaker 1: whether I answered their questions or not. So what I 338 00:22:33,115 --> 00:22:36,035 Speaker 1: would do would be to not answer their questions and 339 00:22:36,075 --> 00:22:38,915 Speaker 1: then say on MSNBC that the New York Post was 340 00:22:38,915 --> 00:22:41,475 Speaker 1: probably going to report this or Jossip was going to 341 00:22:41,515 --> 00:22:44,635 Speaker 1: post that. But when I did it, I was not 342 00:22:44,795 --> 00:22:48,835 Speaker 1: running for the Senate from Virginia? Was I? Yesterday afternoon? 343 00:22:48,915 --> 00:22:52,475 Speaker 1: Not long after Representative Troy Nells finally stopped wearing the 344 00:22:52,555 --> 00:22:54,955 Speaker 1: combat metal pin he had no right to wear because 345 00:22:54,955 --> 00:22:58,955 Speaker 1: he never served in combat. Hung Cow tweeted, I want 346 00:22:58,955 --> 00:23:01,235 Speaker 1: to give all of you a window into what it's 347 00:23:01,315 --> 00:23:03,915 Speaker 1: like being a combat veteran who had the goal to 348 00:23:04,115 --> 00:23:07,995 Speaker 1: run for public office against a career politician. Any veteran 349 00:23:08,035 --> 00:23:11,235 Speaker 1: will read this with the same disgust. Imagine being asked 350 00:23:11,275 --> 00:23:15,075 Speaker 1: to provide documentation of the dates and times al Qaeda 351 00:23:15,275 --> 00:23:19,035 Speaker 1: shot at you. Imagine being asked, if you're a disabled veteran, 352 00:23:19,235 --> 00:23:21,955 Speaker 1: why you don't have a purple heart. And by the way, 353 00:23:21,995 --> 00:23:24,915 Speaker 1: maybe somebody can explain who wrote the questions in the 354 00:23:25,075 --> 00:23:29,155 Speaker 1: other font that was copied and pasted into your email. 355 00:23:29,675 --> 00:23:34,555 Speaker 1: Couldn't be the Caine campaign, could it? Dad? Mister Cow tweeted, 356 00:23:34,635 --> 00:23:39,075 Speaker 1: screenshots of an email from the newspaper. This is Tom Vandenbrookett, 357 00:23:39,075 --> 00:23:42,315 Speaker 1: reads Pentagon, correspondent for USA Today. I am working with 358 00:23:42,395 --> 00:23:45,915 Speaker 1: my colleague Elizabeth Bayer. We are reporting on Hung Cow's 359 00:23:45,915 --> 00:23:49,915 Speaker 1: recent statements about being shot at, blown up, and being scarred. 360 00:23:50,475 --> 00:23:53,315 Speaker 1: We have the following questions, Where and when was he 361 00:23:53,435 --> 00:23:56,435 Speaker 1: blown up? Was it the result of enemy action? Please 362 00:23:56,475 --> 00:24:00,075 Speaker 1: provide documentation? Where and when was he shot at? Was 363 00:24:00,115 --> 00:24:03,835 Speaker 1: it the result of enemy action? Please provide documentation. Please 364 00:24:03,875 --> 00:24:07,235 Speaker 1: detail with day times and places that Cow spent outside 365 00:24:07,235 --> 00:24:11,475 Speaker 1: the wire versus inside during his deployments. Why is a 366 00:24:11,555 --> 00:24:15,315 Speaker 1: combat action ribbon not listed on his service record? Why 367 00:24:15,475 --> 00:24:17,995 Speaker 1: is a purple heart not listed on his service record? 368 00:24:18,515 --> 00:24:21,435 Speaker 1: Cow says that he is a one hundred percent disabled veteran. 369 00:24:21,715 --> 00:24:24,115 Speaker 1: What is the nature of his disability and is it 370 00:24:24,195 --> 00:24:28,795 Speaker 1: related to combat wounds? Why is a combat action ribbon 371 00:24:28,875 --> 00:24:32,275 Speaker 1: not listed on his service record? Thank you, and we 372 00:24:32,315 --> 00:24:35,955 Speaker 1: would appreciate your responses by the close of business. June 373 00:24:35,995 --> 00:24:41,235 Speaker 1: twenty sixth, tweeted all that, so what have we learned here? 374 00:24:41,755 --> 00:24:44,235 Speaker 1: Those of us who didn't know USA Today was working 375 00:24:44,275 --> 00:24:46,675 Speaker 1: on a story about Hong Cow and what he claims 376 00:24:46,715 --> 00:24:49,115 Speaker 1: is his service record. We now know that maybe he's 377 00:24:49,195 --> 00:24:51,195 Speaker 1: padded it, or at least they have some sort of 378 00:24:51,275 --> 00:24:54,235 Speaker 1: evidence that let them ask those questions. And those of 379 00:24:54,315 --> 00:24:58,315 Speaker 1: us who didn't know that each campaign now know that 380 00:24:58,435 --> 00:25:02,955 Speaker 1: each campaign only has its own personal type font and 381 00:25:02,995 --> 00:25:05,555 Speaker 1: it can never use a different font, and if anybody 382 00:25:05,555 --> 00:25:08,275 Speaker 1: else uses that font, it must have cut and repasted 383 00:25:08,315 --> 00:25:11,915 Speaker 1: it from the Tim Kaine campaign. You heard the man. 384 00:25:12,915 --> 00:25:16,355 Speaker 1: Also one other small detail, check this on Twitter X 385 00:25:16,395 --> 00:25:17,995 Speaker 1: if you don't believe me, But if you look at 386 00:25:18,035 --> 00:25:21,155 Speaker 1: the screenshot, you will notice that the smoking gun this 387 00:25:21,235 --> 00:25:25,235 Speaker 1: guy Cow sees the different font. There's no different font, 388 00:25:25,995 --> 00:25:30,115 Speaker 1: it's the same font. There seems to be two different 389 00:25:30,315 --> 00:25:33,475 Speaker 1: sizes of the same font on the screenshot, but that 390 00:25:33,515 --> 00:25:35,955 Speaker 1: may just be from the way he cropped the screenshots. 391 00:25:36,795 --> 00:25:41,195 Speaker 1: In any event, Hung, when you are down to denying 392 00:25:41,275 --> 00:25:44,115 Speaker 1: you padded your military record by trying to stir up 393 00:25:44,155 --> 00:25:48,435 Speaker 1: a controversy over the font size on the email, you've 394 00:25:48,475 --> 00:25:55,435 Speaker 1: probably already lost the argument. Cow. Two days worst person 395 00:25:56,595 --> 00:26:22,075 Speaker 1: Hellwerd Howser will have more to say, and we'll answer 396 00:26:22,155 --> 00:26:24,875 Speaker 1: the question how hot was it at Yankee Stadium yesterday? 397 00:26:25,155 --> 00:26:27,115 Speaker 1: On the Sports Report at about a thirty. 398 00:26:26,875 --> 00:26:29,035 Speaker 3: Five, and that man's name is Keith Olberman. 399 00:26:29,195 --> 00:26:32,075 Speaker 1: Now how hot was it at Yankee Stadium? Bob Harris 400 00:26:32,155 --> 00:26:34,915 Speaker 1: got to figure about. I once worked with a newscaster, 401 00:26:35,155 --> 00:26:38,635 Speaker 1: the most talented person I have ever worked with, and 402 00:26:38,715 --> 00:26:41,195 Speaker 1: he not only made an unbelievable blooper and one of 403 00:26:41,195 --> 00:26:43,595 Speaker 1: the big radio stations in New York, but actor he 404 00:26:43,675 --> 00:26:45,435 Speaker 1: did that, they warned him that if he ever did 405 00:26:45,435 --> 00:26:47,635 Speaker 1: something like that again, they would fire him. And he 406 00:26:47,715 --> 00:26:51,395 Speaker 1: did it again, and they fired him. His name was 407 00:26:51,435 --> 00:26:54,795 Speaker 1: will Spence, and by the time he was eighteen years old, 408 00:26:54,795 --> 00:26:57,795 Speaker 1: he was the news director of a radio station in Connecticut, 409 00:26:58,115 --> 00:27:00,235 Speaker 1: and he was a substitute anchor at the age of 410 00:27:00,235 --> 00:27:03,235 Speaker 1: eighteen on the top all news radio station in the 411 00:27:03,235 --> 00:27:07,395 Speaker 1: COUNTRYCBS in New York eighteen. Not long after that, he 412 00:27:07,435 --> 00:27:09,795 Speaker 1: went to NBC and was the original newsman on Don 413 00:27:09,835 --> 00:27:12,915 Speaker 1: Imus's radio show. He jumped right from that to being 414 00:27:12,955 --> 00:27:15,995 Speaker 1: a TV reporter on the NBC station in New York 415 00:27:16,035 --> 00:27:18,515 Speaker 1: age twenty four twenty five, and the sky was the 416 00:27:18,555 --> 00:27:22,715 Speaker 1: limit and he was simply a genius and fitting the 417 00:27:22,755 --> 00:27:25,875 Speaker 1: best definition of that word, someone who could do something 418 00:27:25,915 --> 00:27:30,195 Speaker 1: with ease that nobody else would even attempt. Will Spence 419 00:27:30,355 --> 00:27:32,875 Speaker 1: was reporting for the NBC station Channel four in New 420 00:27:32,955 --> 00:27:36,275 Speaker 1: York on New York's fiscal crisis of the late seventies, 421 00:27:36,275 --> 00:27:39,595 Speaker 1: and he had scooped the competition and gotten details of 422 00:27:39,635 --> 00:27:44,675 Speaker 1: a complicated rescue plan with debt transference and algorithms and 423 00:27:44,715 --> 00:27:49,875 Speaker 1: adjusted interest rates, and not one moment of his important 424 00:27:49,915 --> 00:27:52,515 Speaker 1: scoop was on camera. The people who gave him that 425 00:27:52,635 --> 00:27:56,355 Speaker 1: story would not permit themselves to be recorded or even quoted. 426 00:27:57,235 --> 00:28:00,315 Speaker 1: So Will simply had his cameraman set up at the 427 00:28:00,355 --> 00:28:02,715 Speaker 1: foot of the steps of New York City Hall and 428 00:28:02,835 --> 00:28:05,675 Speaker 1: said to him, follow me, stop at Park Row and 429 00:28:05,755 --> 00:28:09,475 Speaker 1: then three to two one, and then Will began to walk. 430 00:28:09,715 --> 00:28:12,035 Speaker 1: The cameraman was next to him, and he began to walk, 431 00:28:12,075 --> 00:28:14,835 Speaker 1: and for two and a half minutes, with impeccable sentence, 432 00:28:14,835 --> 00:28:18,955 Speaker 1: structure and diction and complete accuracy, Will Spence took this 433 00:28:19,115 --> 00:28:24,395 Speaker 1: extraordinarily complicated rescue plan for New York's hemorrhaging finances with 434 00:28:24,635 --> 00:28:30,755 Speaker 1: algorithms and explained it calmly, succinctly, expertly, simply a little 435 00:28:30,795 --> 00:28:33,595 Speaker 1: touch of snark in his voice. And he kept walking 436 00:28:33,795 --> 00:28:36,875 Speaker 1: and kept walking, and kept walking, and kept looking to 437 00:28:36,915 --> 00:28:39,235 Speaker 1: the cameraman by his side, and then away into the 438 00:28:39,275 --> 00:28:41,275 Speaker 1: ground and then back to the cameraman, and then he 439 00:28:41,355 --> 00:28:44,155 Speaker 1: stopped on the sidewalk of Park Row, where he was 440 00:28:44,195 --> 00:28:47,995 Speaker 1: perfectly framed by the Brooklyn Bridge Will Spence News Center 441 00:28:48,075 --> 00:28:52,395 Speaker 1: for at City Hall. I couldn't do that in a 442 00:28:52,435 --> 00:28:55,955 Speaker 1: million years, and I'm okay with doing stuff like that, 443 00:28:57,435 --> 00:29:01,875 Speaker 1: to be fair. That was take two. On take one, 444 00:29:01,915 --> 00:29:04,435 Speaker 1: Will had misstimed what he wanted to say and where 445 00:29:04,435 --> 00:29:06,395 Speaker 1: he wanted to walk, and instead of he and the 446 00:29:06,395 --> 00:29:10,035 Speaker 1: cameraman stopping on the sidewalk of the street Park Row, 447 00:29:10,315 --> 00:29:13,755 Speaker 1: the cameraman stopped, but Will had not yet finished, so 448 00:29:13,915 --> 00:29:16,355 Speaker 1: Will kept walking into the street itself, and the video 449 00:29:16,395 --> 00:29:18,955 Speaker 1: then showed him diving out of the way as a 450 00:29:19,035 --> 00:29:22,595 Speaker 1: garbage truck barreled toward him on Park Row at about 451 00:29:22,635 --> 00:29:26,195 Speaker 1: forty five miles an hour. And that was the other 452 00:29:26,355 --> 00:29:30,315 Speaker 1: side of Will Spence. For every act of genius, there 453 00:29:30,395 --> 00:29:33,275 Speaker 1: was a garbage truck heading towards him with his name 454 00:29:33,435 --> 00:29:36,235 Speaker 1: on it. I don't know what happened at Channel four, 455 00:29:36,275 --> 00:29:38,475 Speaker 1: but I do know he got fired. I know that. 456 00:29:38,515 --> 00:29:40,315 Speaker 1: When I met him in nineteen eighty, when I was 457 00:29:40,355 --> 00:29:42,275 Speaker 1: twenty one and he was thirty, I was convinced he 458 00:29:42,355 --> 00:29:45,275 Speaker 1: was closer to forty and on the morning shift of 459 00:29:45,315 --> 00:29:48,115 Speaker 1: the New York radio station where we both worked. Will 460 00:29:48,155 --> 00:29:51,475 Speaker 1: had a little trouble with his own schedule. He was 461 00:29:51,515 --> 00:29:54,155 Speaker 1: supposed to be there at three point fifteen am and 462 00:29:54,315 --> 00:29:56,955 Speaker 1: on the air for his first newscast at five am. 463 00:29:56,995 --> 00:30:01,515 Speaker 1: The station was WNW, and it's decades old news sound 464 00:30:01,755 --> 00:30:08,995 Speaker 1: was the bongabongas that sound, bogabanga, bogabonga, repeating endlessly. I 465 00:30:09,035 --> 00:30:11,595 Speaker 1: saw Will Spence walk in one morning, paie as a 466 00:30:11,635 --> 00:30:15,795 Speaker 1: sheet in his raincoat, gesticulating wildly with his left hand 467 00:30:15,795 --> 00:30:18,835 Speaker 1: for a news desk assistant to hand him a script, 468 00:30:19,235 --> 00:30:23,795 Speaker 1: any script, at exactly five am, No, actually a few 469 00:30:23,795 --> 00:30:26,675 Speaker 1: seconds after five am, so late that the dish jockey 470 00:30:26,675 --> 00:30:29,755 Speaker 1: was already playing the WNW news sound. And we were 471 00:30:29,755 --> 00:30:34,595 Speaker 1: at about the eighth or ninth bonga bonga, And I 472 00:30:34,755 --> 00:30:38,075 Speaker 1: saw him a small stack of copy jammed into his 473 00:30:38,155 --> 00:30:41,475 Speaker 1: left hand by the desk assistant, a stack of copy 474 00:30:41,515 --> 00:30:44,435 Speaker 1: he had not even looked at, with his raincoat still on, 475 00:30:45,035 --> 00:30:49,715 Speaker 1: Sit down, throw his microphone toggle open and say, falllessly, 476 00:30:50,475 --> 00:30:52,275 Speaker 1: you run at W News. It's eighty three degrees in 477 00:30:52,275 --> 00:30:55,515 Speaker 1: reigning at five o'clock. I'm Will Spence, mayor Cutch, we'll 478 00:30:55,555 --> 00:30:57,995 Speaker 1: meet this morning with representatives of the United Editions to 479 00:30:58,035 --> 00:31:01,315 Speaker 1: discuss like he had been there for hours and written 480 00:31:01,315 --> 00:31:04,315 Speaker 1: the copy himself and practiced it aloud for three or 481 00:31:04,355 --> 00:31:09,275 Speaker 1: four times. From the standpoint of the viewer or the listener, 482 00:31:09,395 --> 00:31:11,915 Speaker 1: Will could sound perfect when he had crafted a thing 483 00:31:11,955 --> 00:31:14,915 Speaker 1: of genius, like the walking stand up on the fiscal crisis. 484 00:31:14,915 --> 00:31:17,395 Speaker 1: But he could also sound perfect when he had just 485 00:31:17,595 --> 00:31:21,595 Speaker 1: staggered into the booth having successfully found the location of 486 00:31:21,635 --> 00:31:26,075 Speaker 1: the radio station on the eighth or ninth Bonga. And 487 00:31:26,235 --> 00:31:30,595 Speaker 1: unfortunately that skill was his undoing. On the night of Wednesday, 488 00:31:30,675 --> 00:31:34,715 Speaker 1: July sixteenth, nineteen eighty, Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan was 489 00:31:34,755 --> 00:31:38,275 Speaker 1: in deep discussions with former president former Vice President Gerald 490 00:31:38,315 --> 00:31:42,595 Speaker 1: Ford about Ford running with him as Reagan's vice president. 491 00:31:42,675 --> 00:31:45,955 Speaker 1: It was unprecedented in American history. It led all the 492 00:31:45,995 --> 00:31:49,075 Speaker 1: newscasts that night. It was the featured story on all 493 00:31:49,115 --> 00:31:53,035 Speaker 1: the wire services. Books have been written about this evening 494 00:31:53,075 --> 00:31:57,595 Speaker 1: and those discussions, and they all fell apart about eleven 495 00:31:57,635 --> 00:32:00,315 Speaker 1: PM because Ford made it clear to Reagan that whoever 496 00:32:00,395 --> 00:32:03,755 Speaker 1: was president, whoever was vice president, Ford expected them to 497 00:32:03,795 --> 00:32:07,995 Speaker 1: be more or less co presidents. Before the calendar had 498 00:32:08,035 --> 00:32:11,435 Speaker 1: turned to Thursday July seventeenth, nineteen eighty, the deal was dead. 499 00:32:11,755 --> 00:32:14,755 Speaker 1: Reagan had selected George H. W. Bush as his running mate, 500 00:32:15,155 --> 00:32:19,995 Speaker 1: and our timeline was irrevocably altered. How dare you sir? 501 00:32:21,475 --> 00:32:24,715 Speaker 1: At about five hours later, and about twelve bongas into 502 00:32:24,755 --> 00:32:28,315 Speaker 1: the five o'clock newscast on Thursday July seventeenth, in walked 503 00:32:28,315 --> 00:32:31,195 Speaker 1: Will Spence, this time simply grabbing the first stack of 504 00:32:31,315 --> 00:32:34,755 Speaker 1: copy he saw, falling into the announced booth, opening up 505 00:32:34,795 --> 00:32:38,195 Speaker 1: his mic, and starting to read. Unfortunately, what he had 506 00:32:38,275 --> 00:32:43,675 Speaker 1: grabbed was the previous night's nine pm newscast script news 507 00:32:43,675 --> 00:32:45,955 Speaker 1: It's eighty three degrees in reigning at five o'clock. I'm 508 00:32:45,955 --> 00:32:49,435 Speaker 1: Will Spence. It seems certain that American history being made. 509 00:32:49,515 --> 00:32:51,715 Speaker 1: A man will run for president Deni Hiss running mate 510 00:32:51,835 --> 00:32:54,995 Speaker 1: will be a former president the Republican nineteen eighty ticket, 511 00:32:55,595 --> 00:33:00,955 Speaker 1: Reagan and Ford. Those who were there in the newsroom 512 00:33:01,475 --> 00:33:04,475 Speaker 1: told me they were startled by how many people were 513 00:33:04,515 --> 00:33:07,835 Speaker 1: at actually listening to the five am news and were 514 00:33:07,875 --> 00:33:11,275 Speaker 1: willing to call in and complain and call Will Spence 515 00:33:11,395 --> 00:33:16,075 Speaker 1: an idiot. Upper management wanted to call him something else fired, 516 00:33:16,715 --> 00:33:19,955 Speaker 1: but He had a guardian angel at WNAW in the 517 00:33:19,995 --> 00:33:22,475 Speaker 1: news director Sam Hall, who had also been his boss 518 00:33:22,715 --> 00:33:25,115 Speaker 1: in the IMUS days, and Sam gave him another chance, 519 00:33:25,155 --> 00:33:29,835 Speaker 1: but said do it again and you're gone. I really 520 00:33:29,875 --> 00:33:32,835 Speaker 1: don't know what was wrong with Will. He told me 521 00:33:32,875 --> 00:33:37,515 Speaker 1: he smoked a lot of weed. He said he was hypoglycemic. 522 00:33:38,235 --> 00:33:40,755 Speaker 1: Somebody at WNBC said he used to sit at his desk, 523 00:33:40,875 --> 00:33:44,435 Speaker 1: pressing his hands to his skull and mumbling tumors. I 524 00:33:44,475 --> 00:33:48,875 Speaker 1: can feel them growing tumors. He was sometimes charming. He 525 00:33:48,955 --> 00:33:53,715 Speaker 1: gave extraordinarily good career advice, sometimes constructively, and sometimes advice 526 00:33:53,755 --> 00:33:57,795 Speaker 1: that was designed to leave you bleeding. During a commercial 527 00:33:57,835 --> 00:34:01,795 Speaker 1: break preceding one of my short sportscasts, I sat down 528 00:34:01,795 --> 00:34:05,195 Speaker 1: in the booth with him, and as an aggressively cheerful 529 00:34:05,235 --> 00:34:08,555 Speaker 1: ad for a bank played in the background, Will let 530 00:34:08,675 --> 00:34:13,675 Speaker 1: loose on me. So I heard him and this commercial 531 00:34:13,675 --> 00:34:19,035 Speaker 1: for the bank mixed together juxtapose like this. You have potential, overman, 532 00:34:19,275 --> 00:34:21,235 Speaker 1: but you have to change your entire delivery. 533 00:34:21,395 --> 00:34:22,595 Speaker 3: We're the friendly bank. 534 00:34:22,835 --> 00:34:25,075 Speaker 1: You can go up to Yankee Stadium, interview every player 535 00:34:25,075 --> 00:34:27,075 Speaker 1: and every fan, and play all the little cuts you 536 00:34:27,115 --> 00:34:29,235 Speaker 1: want on the radio. But you got nowhere If you 537 00:34:29,275 --> 00:34:31,075 Speaker 1: can't read the script like a man. 538 00:34:31,395 --> 00:34:34,435 Speaker 3: We're the bank that cares about you. 539 00:34:34,435 --> 00:34:37,635 Speaker 1: Your nasal. You sound constipated. You get nowhere in this business. 540 00:34:37,675 --> 00:34:39,675 Speaker 1: On the other hand, I could read the phone book 541 00:34:39,715 --> 00:34:41,995 Speaker 1: on the air and make it sound like the Bible. 542 00:34:42,355 --> 00:34:44,955 Speaker 3: Come in and see our friendly tellers today. 543 00:34:45,315 --> 00:34:48,795 Speaker 1: Shape up or you're fired, and by the way, fix 544 00:34:48,835 --> 00:34:54,475 Speaker 1: your damned eyebrows. Manhattan Bank member FDI see now with sports. 545 00:34:54,515 --> 00:35:01,275 Speaker 1: Good morning, Keith Olberman. I said nothing for a second, 546 00:35:01,555 --> 00:35:05,595 Speaker 1: maybe more. I contemplated using a falsetto, and I finally 547 00:35:05,635 --> 00:35:09,195 Speaker 1: stammered through my thirty seconds, got up to leave, and 548 00:35:09,235 --> 00:35:13,235 Speaker 1: as Spence through to the weatherman. Spence said, and that 549 00:35:13,555 --> 00:35:18,755 Speaker 1: sucked too. I was the only person left at WNAW 550 00:35:18,955 --> 00:35:20,955 Speaker 1: who liked him, and I was beginning to hate him. 551 00:35:21,955 --> 00:35:24,355 Speaker 1: He would take me aside sometimes and tell me that 552 00:35:24,435 --> 00:35:27,275 Speaker 1: his first wife and her divorce lawyer were up in 553 00:35:27,275 --> 00:35:31,875 Speaker 1: the blimp following him around the city. Sometimes he claimed 554 00:35:31,875 --> 00:35:34,595 Speaker 1: they were working in cahoots with the news director Sam 555 00:35:34,675 --> 00:35:38,075 Speaker 1: Hall to destroy him, when in fact Hall was the 556 00:35:38,115 --> 00:35:42,475 Speaker 1: only thing standing between him and unemployment. Somebody once made 557 00:35:42,515 --> 00:35:46,355 Speaker 1: a mild joke about him and his age in the newsroom, 558 00:35:46,595 --> 00:35:50,075 Speaker 1: and he threw a stapler at them. He complained one 559 00:35:50,075 --> 00:35:52,835 Speaker 1: of the women there was stalking him. In fact, he 560 00:35:52,915 --> 00:35:58,035 Speaker 1: was stalking her, and inevitably, on October third, nineteen eighty, 561 00:35:58,075 --> 00:36:00,635 Speaker 1: he either made an impossibly unlucky grab for an old 562 00:36:00,675 --> 00:36:04,635 Speaker 1: script during the seventeenth Bonga or something, or more like 563 00:36:04,955 --> 00:36:07,555 Speaker 1: somebody in the newsroom set him up. Nobody need news. 564 00:36:07,595 --> 00:36:09,955 Speaker 1: It's fifty five degrees in raining. At five o'clock. I'm 565 00:36:09,995 --> 00:36:13,195 Speaker 1: Will Spence, the Whoope. John Paul the Second made history 566 00:36:13,275 --> 00:36:15,595 Speaker 1: arriving in our city yesterday and today it took her 567 00:36:15,635 --> 00:36:18,155 Speaker 1: tape parade, and then he will address the faithful at 568 00:36:18,235 --> 00:36:22,595 Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden. Coverage the Pope all day and news 569 00:36:23,675 --> 00:36:29,075 Speaker 1: that had happened on October third, nineteen seventy nine. This 570 00:36:29,315 --> 00:36:34,315 Speaker 1: was now October third, nineteen eighty. Will Spence was reading 571 00:36:34,635 --> 00:36:41,475 Speaker 1: literally year old news. As I recall, they fired him 572 00:36:41,515 --> 00:36:45,675 Speaker 1: before his shift ended, maybe before the next newscast. 573 00:36:45,275 --> 00:36:46,835 Speaker 3: Year old news. 574 00:36:49,115 --> 00:36:51,795 Speaker 1: Months later, I was working at the RKO Radio network 575 00:36:51,835 --> 00:36:53,915 Speaker 1: for my boss, Charlie Steiner, one of the voices of 576 00:36:53,915 --> 00:36:57,635 Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Now when RKO expanded and started a second 577 00:36:57,715 --> 00:37:00,355 Speaker 1: network and they brought in to run it, Sam Hall. 578 00:37:01,555 --> 00:37:03,915 Speaker 1: Sam Hall hired a bunch of guys with great pipes, 579 00:37:03,955 --> 00:37:06,635 Speaker 1: and he hired Spence ohr Man, I say it took 580 00:37:06,635 --> 00:37:10,355 Speaker 1: my advice. Look at this. Something whizzed past me and 581 00:37:10,395 --> 00:37:13,075 Speaker 1: stuck in a box of wire copy. It's a Brazilian 582 00:37:13,155 --> 00:37:18,435 Speaker 1: throwing dagger. I have a collection. At RKO. On the 583 00:37:18,515 --> 00:37:21,635 Speaker 1: night of the Grammys, Will interweaved a clip of every 584 00:37:21,675 --> 00:37:24,755 Speaker 1: winning song into his script live on the air, throwing 585 00:37:24,835 --> 00:37:27,875 Speaker 1: cartridges left and right. As he did it. The next 586 00:37:27,915 --> 00:37:30,955 Speaker 1: hour he updated it with the latest winner. The next 587 00:37:30,995 --> 00:37:33,395 Speaker 1: hour he updated it with the latest winter. After that 588 00:37:33,475 --> 00:37:38,195 Speaker 1: it was utter unqualified genius. And he also told me 589 00:37:38,235 --> 00:37:40,315 Speaker 1: at RKO there was a woman stalking him, who in 590 00:37:40,355 --> 00:37:42,875 Speaker 1: fact he was stalking, And he addressed everybody by their 591 00:37:42,955 --> 00:37:48,555 Speaker 1: job title, tape editor. Come here. And once they postponed 592 00:37:48,555 --> 00:37:52,075 Speaker 1: a nine am staff meeting until three pm and didn't 593 00:37:52,155 --> 00:37:54,955 Speaker 1: tell him before he drove in from his house in Connecticut. 594 00:37:55,075 --> 00:37:58,075 Speaker 1: So he simply went to his Manhattan studio apartment and, 595 00:37:58,155 --> 00:38:01,435 Speaker 1: as he told me, smoked pot for six hours. And 596 00:38:01,475 --> 00:38:04,475 Speaker 1: then he came back and insulted literally every member of 597 00:38:04,515 --> 00:38:07,275 Speaker 1: the forty person staff, went from one to the other 598 00:38:07,395 --> 00:38:09,875 Speaker 1: to the other, saying as nasty a thing as he 599 00:38:09,915 --> 00:38:13,875 Speaker 1: could think of about them. When our nicest, sweetest news 600 00:38:14,035 --> 00:38:18,635 Speaker 1: editor stood up on her desk and screamed, Spence, get 601 00:38:18,675 --> 00:38:21,235 Speaker 1: the f out of here before I kill you, before 602 00:38:21,275 --> 00:38:26,635 Speaker 1: we all kill you. He was genuinely shocked ashen. He 603 00:38:26,715 --> 00:38:30,955 Speaker 1: came over to me, A lot of the bravada was gone, Olderman, 604 00:38:31,035 --> 00:38:37,075 Speaker 1: for God's sakes, help me, help me, Keith Well, I 605 00:38:37,115 --> 00:38:39,635 Speaker 1: heard his life story. It took two hours. We went 606 00:38:39,635 --> 00:38:42,715 Speaker 1: into Steiner's office. We stole two of Charlie's cigars and 607 00:38:42,715 --> 00:38:46,995 Speaker 1: smoked them. It was the living embodiment of the phrase 608 00:38:47,195 --> 00:38:49,235 Speaker 1: just because you're paranoid, it does not mean they are 609 00:38:49,275 --> 00:38:51,915 Speaker 1: not out to get you. I was trying to think 610 00:38:51,955 --> 00:38:55,515 Speaker 1: how to help him when days later news came that 611 00:38:55,635 --> 00:38:59,435 Speaker 1: he had been hired as a TV reporter by another 612 00:38:59,555 --> 00:39:03,675 Speaker 1: New York TV station, WABC. I witnessed news and then 613 00:39:03,755 --> 00:39:05,555 Speaker 1: over there. On his first he was bitten by a 614 00:39:05,595 --> 00:39:08,155 Speaker 1: dog and he wanted to go to the hospital to 615 00:39:08,195 --> 00:39:09,955 Speaker 1: get checked out. They made him go out on another 616 00:39:10,035 --> 00:39:16,915 Speaker 1: story instead. Dogs, garbage trucks. They all had Will's name 617 00:39:16,955 --> 00:39:20,595 Speaker 1: on them. A decade later, Will wound up in LA 618 00:39:20,675 --> 00:39:22,435 Speaker 1: where I had made my mark by then as a 619 00:39:22,435 --> 00:39:25,955 Speaker 1: local TV sportscaster. He had been hired by a rival 620 00:39:25,955 --> 00:39:29,555 Speaker 1: station and still did those incredible intricate walking stand ups 621 00:39:29,915 --> 00:39:33,595 Speaker 1: now live every night, usually from a crime scene on 622 00:39:33,635 --> 00:39:38,315 Speaker 1: the eleven o'clock news. One night, his own crew managed 623 00:39:38,315 --> 00:39:41,395 Speaker 1: to not just sabotage him, but knock him down with 624 00:39:41,515 --> 00:39:44,635 Speaker 1: a slow moving car, live on the air while he 625 00:39:44,715 --> 00:39:48,435 Speaker 1: was declaiming into the camera. His last job at yet 626 00:39:48,475 --> 00:39:51,355 Speaker 1: another LA station, he got because the aging woman anchor 627 00:39:51,395 --> 00:39:55,035 Speaker 1: there fifteen years his senior, had taken a fancy to him. 628 00:39:56,355 --> 00:39:58,475 Speaker 1: She got fired, He got fired, And one day the 629 00:39:58,475 --> 00:40:03,235 Speaker 1: phone rang at MSNBC maybe two thousand and six. It 630 00:40:03,315 --> 00:40:07,795 Speaker 1: was Will Spence. The Pope had sent a hit squad 631 00:40:08,715 --> 00:40:12,995 Speaker 1: to kill him. He said the whole Catholic church was involved. 632 00:40:13,715 --> 00:40:15,635 Speaker 1: Did I have the number of the woman who used 633 00:40:15,635 --> 00:40:19,915 Speaker 1: to stalk him? It was far more awful than it sounds. 634 00:40:21,835 --> 00:40:24,795 Speaker 1: I think somebody sent me an email. Early in April 635 00:40:24,795 --> 00:40:26,675 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, I'm pretty sure that's how I 636 00:40:26,715 --> 00:40:29,915 Speaker 1: found out Will Spence had driven his car at high 637 00:40:29,995 --> 00:40:34,035 Speaker 1: speed into a bridge abutment in Ventura County, outside LA. 638 00:40:34,395 --> 00:40:36,955 Speaker 1: There was a story that he had had heart problems 639 00:40:37,275 --> 00:40:39,635 Speaker 1: and had just seen his doctor and gotten bad news, 640 00:40:39,675 --> 00:40:42,755 Speaker 1: but we'll never know for sure. I went to put 641 00:40:42,755 --> 00:40:45,515 Speaker 1: together a little tribute to him that night on Countdown, 642 00:40:47,435 --> 00:40:50,075 Speaker 1: and online I could not find a single photo of him, 643 00:40:50,075 --> 00:40:54,915 Speaker 1: nor any form of biography. Even now, there is one 644 00:40:54,995 --> 00:40:59,195 Speaker 1: photo accompanying a sad tribute to him, published a couple 645 00:40:59,515 --> 00:41:02,275 Speaker 1: weeks later in one of the newspapers in Ventura County. 646 00:41:02,795 --> 00:41:05,795 Speaker 1: It was a tribute not unlike this one. What a 647 00:41:05,835 --> 00:41:09,435 Speaker 1: wasted life, how much you wanted to hate him and couldn't. 648 00:41:10,435 --> 00:41:13,995 Speaker 1: And on YouTube there is a tape of one Will 649 00:41:14,035 --> 00:41:19,675 Speaker 1: Spence TV report from November eighteenth, nineteen eighty one Channel 650 00:41:19,715 --> 00:41:22,275 Speaker 1: seven in New York. This talent who could decipher the 651 00:41:22,355 --> 00:41:26,115 Speaker 1: plan to save New York City from bankruptcy and recite 652 00:41:26,115 --> 00:41:30,475 Speaker 1: it as he walked, exists forever for two minutes and 653 00:41:30,555 --> 00:41:35,195 Speaker 1: forty six seconds of his report on the marriage of 654 00:41:35,315 --> 00:41:40,475 Speaker 1: Luke and Laura from ABC's General Hospital. And by the way, 655 00:41:41,595 --> 00:41:57,395 Speaker 1: even it is brilliant. I've done all the damage I 656 00:41:57,395 --> 00:42:00,155 Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown musical directors 657 00:42:00,195 --> 00:42:04,035 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Chaneil arranged, produced and performed 658 00:42:04,035 --> 00:42:07,115 Speaker 1: most of our music. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass, 659 00:42:07,115 --> 00:42:10,395 Speaker 1: and drums, Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. It was 660 00:42:10,435 --> 00:42:13,435 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of the 661 00:42:13,475 --> 00:42:17,635 Speaker 1: Beethoven compositions, arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed. The 662 00:42:17,675 --> 00:42:20,835 Speaker 1: sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two, written 663 00:42:20,835 --> 00:42:24,715 Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our satirical 664 00:42:24,755 --> 00:42:27,555 Speaker 1: and fithy musical comments are by Nancy Faust, the best 665 00:42:27,595 --> 00:42:30,755 Speaker 1: baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was my friend 666 00:42:30,795 --> 00:42:34,035 Speaker 1: Kenny Maine, and everything else was pretty much my fault. 667 00:42:34,755 --> 00:42:36,875 Speaker 1: So that's countdown for this the one hundred and thirty 668 00:42:36,875 --> 00:42:41,035 Speaker 1: second day until the twenty twenty four presidential election, the 669 00:42:41,195 --> 00:42:45,475 Speaker 1: twelve hundred and seventieth day since convicted fellon Donald Trump's 670 00:42:45,515 --> 00:42:48,675 Speaker 1: first attempt at coup against the democratically elected government of 671 00:42:48,675 --> 00:42:52,435 Speaker 1: the United States. Use the July eleventh sentencing hearing, use 672 00:42:52,515 --> 00:42:55,955 Speaker 1: the mental health system, use presidential immunity if it happens, 673 00:42:56,155 --> 00:43:00,555 Speaker 1: to stop him from doing it again while we still can. 674 00:43:01,515 --> 00:43:04,315 Speaker 1: A reminder we will be live again on YouTube after 675 00:43:04,355 --> 00:43:07,355 Speaker 1: the tonight Join me should be about ten thirty Eastern 676 00:43:07,675 --> 00:43:10,195 Speaker 1: and do send your link to this podcast to somebody 677 00:43:10,195 --> 00:43:14,195 Speaker 1: who does not already listen, and if you don't like them, 678 00:43:14,275 --> 00:43:18,595 Speaker 1: send it to a trumpist. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. 679 00:43:18,795 --> 00:43:21,435 Speaker 1: Bulletins is the news warrants till then, I'm Keith Olderman. 680 00:43:21,795 --> 00:43:41,835 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with 681 00:43:41,995 --> 00:43:46,235 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts 682 00:43:46,315 --> 00:43:51,035 Speaker 1: from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 683 00:43:51,115 --> 00:43:52,435 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.