1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:24,195 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:24,875 --> 00:00:30,435 Speaker 1: doesn't know that he is eft in Iran. Is he 3 00:00:30,635 --> 00:00:36,835 Speaker 1: in a fugue state? You know, a fugue state dissociative behavior, 4 00:00:36,955 --> 00:00:41,315 Speaker 1: temporary amnesia, a sense that there are no consequences, that 5 00:00:41,635 --> 00:00:45,075 Speaker 1: none of this is real. In other words, Trump's normal 6 00:00:45,155 --> 00:00:49,715 Speaker 1: state only worse. One minute, he says, quote anytime I 7 00:00:49,835 --> 00:00:52,875 Speaker 1: want it to end, it will end. The next minute, 8 00:00:52,875 --> 00:00:56,435 Speaker 1: he's threatening Iran with endless war so damaging they quote 9 00:00:56,595 --> 00:01:00,035 Speaker 1: literally could never build that country back. The next he's 10 00:01:00,075 --> 00:01:03,035 Speaker 1: calling reporters to say it's all but over. The next 11 00:01:03,075 --> 00:01:05,875 Speaker 1: he's telling tankers to go through the straight of horror 12 00:01:05,875 --> 00:01:09,835 Speaker 1: moves anyway. The next he's praising himself for destroying Iran's 13 00:01:09,915 --> 00:01:12,995 Speaker 1: nukes a year ago. The next he's insisting he will 14 00:01:12,995 --> 00:01:17,235 Speaker 1: now destroy their nukes. The next he's insisting he'll pick 15 00:01:17,315 --> 00:01:20,395 Speaker 1: the next leader of Iran. The next he's insisting all 16 00:01:20,475 --> 00:01:23,315 Speaker 1: their leaders are dead. The next he is repeating a 17 00:01:23,355 --> 00:01:30,595 Speaker 1: word he has invented, mutilization, and insisting it's about transgender surgery. 18 00:01:30,755 --> 00:01:33,595 Speaker 1: The next minute, he's walking up to members of his 19 00:01:33,675 --> 00:01:37,435 Speaker 1: own cabinet and guessing their shoe size, and then sending 20 00:01:37,475 --> 00:01:42,395 Speaker 1: them floor schime shoes that went out of style in 21 00:01:42,515 --> 00:01:47,995 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six and that don't fit. Whereas Jack Nicholson 22 00:01:48,035 --> 00:01:50,515 Speaker 1: called them when one of them gave out from under 23 00:01:50,555 --> 00:01:56,715 Speaker 1: him in the movie Chinatown, God damn floor scheim shoe. 24 00:01:57,115 --> 00:02:00,675 Speaker 1: None of this, for Trump is real. None of the death, 25 00:02:00,715 --> 00:02:02,995 Speaker 1: none of the schoolgirls, none of the horror, none of 26 00:02:02,995 --> 00:02:06,715 Speaker 1: the cost of it is real because long ago something 27 00:02:06,795 --> 00:02:10,955 Speaker 1: happened to his already disordered mind which allowed him to 28 00:02:11,155 --> 00:02:16,755 Speaker 1: eliminate the inconvenient truth that is reality. The big problem 29 00:02:16,875 --> 00:02:20,275 Speaker 1: in war or in human interaction of any kind, the 30 00:02:20,275 --> 00:02:25,715 Speaker 1: big problem is is facts. So you just eliminate the facts. 31 00:02:26,475 --> 00:02:29,435 Speaker 1: Trump always goes with what he thinks is his intuition 32 00:02:29,595 --> 00:02:34,155 Speaker 1: over facts. The facts say there is no threat from Iran, 33 00:02:34,275 --> 00:02:37,155 Speaker 1: he decides the facts are wrong. You remember how this started. 34 00:02:37,395 --> 00:02:39,715 Speaker 1: A week ago Tuesday, he said, quote, it was my 35 00:02:39,835 --> 00:02:42,675 Speaker 1: opinion that they were going to attack first. I think 36 00:02:42,715 --> 00:02:44,755 Speaker 1: they were going to attack first, and I didn't want 37 00:02:44,795 --> 00:02:48,955 Speaker 1: that to happen, So he started a war. If this 38 00:02:48,995 --> 00:02:51,995 Speaker 1: had been the Cuban missile crisis when he was president, 39 00:02:52,235 --> 00:02:55,115 Speaker 1: the last of us would be dying right about now. 40 00:02:56,075 --> 00:03:02,195 Speaker 1: I mean the last of us humans because intuition, but 41 00:03:02,275 --> 00:03:06,075 Speaker 1: of course it's not intuition. His intuition is this is 42 00:03:06,115 --> 00:03:09,475 Speaker 1: in fact not intuition, but that which he wants to 43 00:03:09,555 --> 00:03:14,155 Speaker 1: be true. In a world with confirmation bias everywhere, he 44 00:03:14,275 --> 00:03:18,155 Speaker 1: is nothing but confirmation bias. He wants to see people die. 45 00:03:18,235 --> 00:03:20,955 Speaker 1: He decides to kill them, and then he invents a 46 00:03:20,995 --> 00:03:24,635 Speaker 1: reason afterwards. And we have given him all the weapons 47 00:03:24,635 --> 00:03:27,435 Speaker 1: to make that happen. And now we have given him 48 00:03:27,515 --> 00:03:31,315 Speaker 1: the strongest motivation to block out all reality, all denial. 49 00:03:31,395 --> 00:03:34,875 Speaker 1: On this we have given him as motivation self preservation. 50 00:03:36,035 --> 00:03:39,515 Speaker 1: The presidency is his because the alternative for him was 51 00:03:39,595 --> 00:03:44,755 Speaker 1: death in prison. The war started because the alternative was 52 00:03:44,835 --> 00:03:47,875 Speaker 1: him finally being cornered about his Epstein cover up. The 53 00:03:47,995 --> 00:03:50,955 Speaker 1: lies about the war ending soon are because he realized 54 00:03:50,955 --> 00:03:53,875 Speaker 1: he could manipulate the markets and his friends and maybe 55 00:03:53,875 --> 00:03:55,955 Speaker 1: even him could make some money off of it. On 56 00:03:56,035 --> 00:04:00,435 Speaker 1: the side, he could filter it from the rubes. Trump 57 00:04:00,515 --> 00:04:03,875 Speaker 1: is a smug, stupid son of a bitch, and ordinarily 58 00:04:03,915 --> 00:04:06,475 Speaker 1: that might be a problem for him, except he doesn't 59 00:04:06,515 --> 00:04:10,835 Speaker 1: believe it. Therefore it's not true, and there is nobody 60 00:04:10,915 --> 00:04:13,355 Speaker 1: around him who would benefit from it. Being clear to 61 00:04:13,435 --> 00:04:16,355 Speaker 1: him that it's true. They're all making their own money, 62 00:04:16,475 --> 00:04:20,475 Speaker 1: they're all getting their own power, and if it might 63 00:04:20,715 --> 00:04:23,595 Speaker 1: hurt him just to hear it, he doesn't hear you 64 00:04:23,675 --> 00:04:27,115 Speaker 1: say it. And if the facts prove yes, it's true, 65 00:04:27,155 --> 00:04:30,155 Speaker 1: he's a smug, stupid son of a bitch. He just 66 00:04:30,235 --> 00:04:32,915 Speaker 1: calls up a maga congressman to lie for him, or 67 00:04:32,915 --> 00:04:35,715 Speaker 1: he just calls up a gullible reporter from CBS or 68 00:04:35,755 --> 00:04:39,315 Speaker 1: somewhere to quote him and to then erase or inflate 69 00:04:39,395 --> 00:04:42,955 Speaker 1: the oil futures market by hundreds of millions of dollars 70 00:04:42,995 --> 00:04:48,515 Speaker 1: in one second. None of it is real to him, 71 00:04:48,635 --> 00:04:52,395 Speaker 1: none of it except the money, and maybe the shoes, 72 00:04:53,075 --> 00:05:21,115 Speaker 1: except maybe the goddamn floor shim shoes. Now, more seriously, 73 00:05:21,155 --> 00:05:23,795 Speaker 1: there are factual developments that Trump cannot alter with his 74 00:05:23,915 --> 00:05:26,595 Speaker 1: world of denial and his fugue state, and those around 75 00:05:26,635 --> 00:05:29,675 Speaker 1: him who are supporting him in both and will continue 76 00:05:29,715 --> 00:05:34,075 Speaker 1: to to the death, quite literally, to the death. Senator 77 00:05:34,155 --> 00:05:38,995 Speaker 1: Chris Murphy's revelations of the two hour partially unclassified administration 78 00:05:39,115 --> 00:05:42,915 Speaker 1: briefing Tuesday about Iran are as important as anything yet 79 00:05:42,955 --> 00:05:47,595 Speaker 1: said about this madness. They confirm the worst. What's the 80 00:05:47,595 --> 00:05:51,995 Speaker 1: plan here? Destroying Iran's nuclear program. Nope, per the briefing 81 00:05:51,995 --> 00:05:55,835 Speaker 1: that Murphy got. Regime change in Iran, Nope, again, per 82 00:05:55,835 --> 00:05:58,875 Speaker 1: the administration's briefing, keep the Strait of Hormuz open for 83 00:05:58,955 --> 00:06:02,675 Speaker 1: oil tankers, or reopen it after we screw it up 84 00:06:02,715 --> 00:06:07,795 Speaker 1: and force it closed as they have done. Nope, none 85 00:06:07,795 --> 00:06:11,275 Speaker 1: of the above. Murphy writes, the plan seems to be 86 00:06:11,355 --> 00:06:15,115 Speaker 1: quote destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories. 87 00:06:15,275 --> 00:06:18,035 Speaker 1: But the question that stumped them what happens when you 88 00:06:18,115 --> 00:06:23,235 Speaker 1: stop bombing and they restart production. They hinted it more bombing, 89 00:06:23,755 --> 00:06:33,275 Speaker 1: which is of course endless war unquote against the same adversary. Again, 90 00:06:33,395 --> 00:06:37,275 Speaker 1: quoting Murphy, citing the administration briefing on this deadly fiasco, quote, 91 00:06:37,355 --> 00:06:39,595 Speaker 1: they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your 92 00:06:39,715 --> 00:06:42,635 Speaker 1: tax payer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, 93 00:06:43,595 --> 00:06:46,235 Speaker 1: and end up with an Iran under the control of 94 00:06:46,275 --> 00:06:50,275 Speaker 1: a quote hard line regime, probably a more anti American 95 00:06:50,315 --> 00:06:56,075 Speaker 1: hardline regime. Murphy did not address what I suggested here 96 00:06:56,115 --> 00:06:58,835 Speaker 1: Monday was one of the few possible outcomes for this nation, 97 00:06:59,035 --> 00:07:01,675 Speaker 1: since Iran is not going to give up, which is 98 00:07:01,675 --> 00:07:04,355 Speaker 1: that Trump will have to give up and call it victory. 99 00:07:05,115 --> 00:07:07,715 Speaker 1: You know what Senator George Aikin of Vermont did not 100 00:07:08,035 --> 00:07:10,915 Speaker 1: say to Lyndon Johnson in nineteen sixty six about Vietnam, 101 00:07:11,195 --> 00:07:14,995 Speaker 1: but anecdotal history still insists he did declare victory and 102 00:07:15,195 --> 00:07:19,315 Speaker 1: get out this time. Trump really will have to say 103 00:07:19,435 --> 00:07:21,715 Speaker 1: something like that, one way or the other. It is 104 00:07:21,755 --> 00:07:26,315 Speaker 1: already being formulated. The more devious and less insane senators 105 00:07:26,315 --> 00:07:30,435 Speaker 1: and congressmen dependent on Trump for survival and power and money. 106 00:07:30,955 --> 00:07:34,235 Speaker 1: Hawley of Missouri comes to mind, are basically saying this. 107 00:07:34,395 --> 00:07:37,395 Speaker 1: Now we've accomplished all we set out to. What else 108 00:07:37,475 --> 00:07:39,755 Speaker 1: is there to do. Let's explain this to the world 109 00:07:39,835 --> 00:07:44,515 Speaker 1: and move on and do it in Cuba. This plan 110 00:07:44,635 --> 00:07:46,795 Speaker 1: is now inside the White House, certainly from the New 111 00:07:46,875 --> 00:07:50,075 Speaker 1: York Times quote inside the administration, some officials are growing 112 00:07:50,115 --> 00:07:53,315 Speaker 1: pessimistic about the lack of a clear strategy to finish 113 00:07:53,315 --> 00:07:56,915 Speaker 1: the war, you think, but they have been careful not 114 00:07:57,035 --> 00:08:01,235 Speaker 1: to express that directly to the President see my earlier comments, 115 00:08:01,355 --> 00:08:04,075 Speaker 1: who has repeatedly declared that the military operation is a 116 00:08:04,115 --> 00:08:08,475 Speaker 1: complete sigarcess. The Wall Street Journal and other outlets quote 117 00:08:08,475 --> 00:08:12,795 Speaker 1: sources who say Trump's shit for brains trust thinks it 118 00:08:12,835 --> 00:08:16,635 Speaker 1: can survive a few weeks of gas at five six 119 00:08:16,795 --> 00:08:20,355 Speaker 1: eight dollars a gallon, and after that. After that, it's 120 00:08:20,475 --> 00:08:23,675 Speaker 1: lose the House by twenty, lose the Senate, lose some 121 00:08:23,875 --> 00:08:27,795 Speaker 1: state houses, lose a bunch of governor's ships, and begin 122 00:08:27,915 --> 00:08:30,675 Speaker 1: to move towards that land wherein Trump is in fact 123 00:08:30,755 --> 00:08:36,955 Speaker 1: impeached and convicted. And just as the Trump cult must 124 00:08:36,955 --> 00:08:41,875 Speaker 1: decide which it wants more dead Iranian schoolgirls or gas 125 00:08:42,035 --> 00:08:45,555 Speaker 1: under three dollars a gallon, those of us who are 126 00:08:45,675 --> 00:08:50,075 Speaker 1: sane are held hostage by what is an increasingly clear 127 00:08:50,235 --> 00:08:52,875 Speaker 1: choice of our own. We must work for the end 128 00:08:52,875 --> 00:08:55,675 Speaker 1: of the dictator's ability to kill at will. We must 129 00:08:55,675 --> 00:08:57,675 Speaker 1: pull the world as far back from the edge of 130 00:08:57,715 --> 00:09:02,235 Speaker 1: some unknown unknown turning this disaster into a truly cataclysmic 131 00:09:02,355 --> 00:09:06,075 Speaker 1: world War Trump. We must kill the embryonic talk of 132 00:09:06,115 --> 00:09:10,875 Speaker 1: a military draft. We must stop Trump's fugue state, or 133 00:09:11,715 --> 00:09:13,915 Speaker 1: or we could let it play out and let him 134 00:09:13,915 --> 00:09:19,115 Speaker 1: destroy his party and drive gas up beyond I don't 135 00:09:19,115 --> 00:09:23,595 Speaker 1: know what twenty dollars a gallon, and let him try 136 00:09:23,595 --> 00:09:27,075 Speaker 1: to start a draft that would instantly drop his approval 137 00:09:27,155 --> 00:09:30,955 Speaker 1: rating to about eleven percent and get himself impeached and 138 00:09:30,995 --> 00:09:37,275 Speaker 1: convicted this time next year. With one catch, get himself 139 00:09:37,315 --> 00:09:40,955 Speaker 1: impeached and convicted this time next year. If there is 140 00:09:41,395 --> 00:09:53,875 Speaker 1: a next year. Sadly, the focus here has to remain 141 00:09:53,915 --> 00:09:57,915 Speaker 1: on that tempting but ultimately already decided decision. No, I'm sorry. 142 00:09:57,955 --> 00:10:01,035 Speaker 1: We can't risk the actual total destruction of the world 143 00:10:01,475 --> 00:10:04,635 Speaker 1: for the sake of a guaranteed conviction on impeachment next year. 144 00:10:04,795 --> 00:10:04,915 Speaker 2: Year. 145 00:10:06,355 --> 00:10:11,715 Speaker 1: I'm sorry anyway. I mean a guaranteed impeachment probably means 146 00:10:11,715 --> 00:10:15,635 Speaker 1: he tries a military takeover, which might mean he launches 147 00:10:15,715 --> 00:10:23,355 Speaker 1: nukes anyway, targeted to hit newsome more tim walls. But 148 00:10:23,475 --> 00:10:27,155 Speaker 1: we also can't lose track of Trump's co conspirators and 149 00:10:27,195 --> 00:10:30,995 Speaker 1: their madness and their lies. I think this is a 150 00:10:31,075 --> 00:10:34,395 Speaker 1: complete list of the Trump cult claims about Iran and 151 00:10:34,475 --> 00:10:39,275 Speaker 1: its supposed nuclear capacity. Just this week, Lindsey Graham insists 152 00:10:39,275 --> 00:10:42,395 Speaker 1: that without Trump's unprovoked assault on Iran quote, if we 153 00:10:42,435 --> 00:10:46,075 Speaker 1: had waited another year, they would have had eleven nuclear bombs, 154 00:10:46,795 --> 00:10:48,315 Speaker 1: not ten, not twelve. 155 00:10:49,115 --> 00:10:49,555 Speaker 3: Eleven. 156 00:10:50,355 --> 00:10:54,195 Speaker 1: Now I'm assuming the number eleven came up because Lindsay 157 00:10:54,235 --> 00:10:57,915 Speaker 1: had had eleven drinks before his appearance with Sean Hannity 158 00:10:58,955 --> 00:11:03,035 Speaker 1: or during it. John Bolton, who has now recovered from 159 00:11:03,035 --> 00:11:05,835 Speaker 1: his brief period of sanity, said Iran would have had 160 00:11:05,835 --> 00:11:08,155 Speaker 1: only one nuke, but it would have had it by 161 00:11:08,835 --> 00:11:14,155 Speaker 1: this Sunday morning, seventy two hour delivery, Bolton said from 162 00:11:14,155 --> 00:11:18,195 Speaker 1: North Korea via Russia Nuke Express when it absolutely positively 163 00:11:18,235 --> 00:11:22,395 Speaker 1: has to be there overnight. Trump himself was not nearly 164 00:11:22,475 --> 00:11:25,675 Speaker 1: as alarmist as Bolton. One nuke and one nuke only 165 00:11:25,955 --> 00:11:31,635 Speaker 1: quote within two weeks. Steve Whitkoff, who is either inflated 166 00:11:31,835 --> 00:11:35,555 Speaker 1: or stuffed, I can't tell which, and whose qualifications as 167 00:11:35,555 --> 00:11:39,875 Speaker 1: some kind of special peace envoice seemed to be that 168 00:11:39,955 --> 00:11:44,635 Speaker 1: he's a guy Trump knows the way Howard Lutnik is 169 00:11:44,675 --> 00:11:46,115 Speaker 1: a guy Trump knows. And by the way, what the 170 00:11:46,155 --> 00:11:49,155 Speaker 1: hell happened to Howard Lutnick? Oh right, he got Epstein. 171 00:11:50,275 --> 00:11:54,395 Speaker 1: Witkof insists, quote, in a year, you'd have thirty or 172 00:11:54,435 --> 00:11:58,635 Speaker 1: forty nuclear bombs. He didn't say that they would be 173 00:11:58,955 --> 00:12:04,235 Speaker 1: in Iran. We think he meant that who knows thirty 174 00:12:04,355 --> 00:12:08,635 Speaker 1: or four is this man's IQ. Trump, of course, seems 175 00:12:08,635 --> 00:12:11,755 Speaker 1: to have dropped the nuclear threat red herring all together 176 00:12:11,835 --> 00:12:14,595 Speaker 1: now and moved on to missiles and the navy, and 177 00:12:14,715 --> 00:12:18,955 Speaker 1: regime change and regime placement, and then not regime change, 178 00:12:18,995 --> 00:12:22,875 Speaker 1: and then unconditional surrender, and then blowing up schoolgirls, and 179 00:12:22,915 --> 00:12:27,515 Speaker 1: then declaring he won unless he hasn't and we're still fighting, 180 00:12:27,595 --> 00:12:30,395 Speaker 1: unless we're escorting oil tankers through the Strait of Horn moves, 181 00:12:30,795 --> 00:12:37,275 Speaker 1: unless the Energy Secretary deleted that. Again, generally speaking, they've 182 00:12:37,315 --> 00:12:40,435 Speaker 1: lied about who killed those girls. But Trump can't stop 183 00:12:40,515 --> 00:12:43,435 Speaker 1: himself from praising himself over the accuracy of the tomahawk 184 00:12:43,475 --> 00:12:45,755 Speaker 1: that blew up the school, So he has to lie 185 00:12:45,875 --> 00:12:48,595 Speaker 1: and say it could have been anybody's tomahawk, but he 186 00:12:48,715 --> 00:12:52,835 Speaker 1: chose those tomahawks like they were giving tomahawks out in 187 00:12:52,915 --> 00:12:57,555 Speaker 1: the goodie bag at the oscars. Then he had to 188 00:12:57,595 --> 00:13:00,075 Speaker 1: say that it was an Iranian tomahawk, even though Iron 189 00:13:00,115 --> 00:13:04,715 Speaker 1: doesn't have tomawks. Trump's people lied and said only the 190 00:13:04,755 --> 00:13:07,195 Speaker 1: eight Americans had been injured in the entire operation, when 191 00:13:07,235 --> 00:13:09,195 Speaker 1: it was one hundred and fifty. Oh no, it's one 192 00:13:09,275 --> 00:13:11,235 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty year right, But it's all minor. Then 193 00:13:11,315 --> 00:13:13,515 Speaker 1: CBS came out yesterday with the report that there are 194 00:13:13,555 --> 00:13:18,555 Speaker 1: dozens still seriously injured and hospitalized in and attacked American 195 00:13:18,595 --> 00:13:22,795 Speaker 1: base in Kuwait. They've lied and insisted Iran is now 196 00:13:22,835 --> 00:13:28,915 Speaker 1: incapable of any retaliation. Yesterday, Iranian government hackers basically destroyed 197 00:13:28,915 --> 00:13:32,555 Speaker 1: the entire technological structure of the medical device maker Striker 198 00:13:32,875 --> 00:13:37,715 Speaker 1: as retaliation for the school bombing. An international firm offices 199 00:13:37,755 --> 00:13:41,835 Speaker 1: in seventy nine countries are now closed. Records wiped out, 200 00:13:41,915 --> 00:13:48,115 Speaker 1: fifty terabytes of Striker data stolen Striker And to circle 201 00:13:48,155 --> 00:13:51,075 Speaker 1: back to my point Monday, that Trump was in essence 202 00:13:51,355 --> 00:13:55,235 Speaker 1: underwriting attacks against our own troops by loosening up the 203 00:13:55,235 --> 00:13:59,155 Speaker 1: embargo on Russian oil sales, giving Russia more wherewithal to 204 00:13:59,355 --> 00:14:04,515 Speaker 1: fund geolocating of American assets, and then giving that info 205 00:14:04,915 --> 00:14:08,075 Speaker 1: they're over here to the Iranians. Trump has now doubled 206 00:14:08,115 --> 00:14:11,475 Speaker 1: down on this, and thus so have the Russians now. 207 00:14:11,635 --> 00:14:15,955 Speaker 1: Per CNN, the US military knew that Iran's accuracy and 208 00:14:15,995 --> 00:14:19,715 Speaker 1: sophistication in its drone strategy in this war was way 209 00:14:19,755 --> 00:14:22,995 Speaker 1: better than expected, and now it knows why. Western intel 210 00:14:23,075 --> 00:14:26,395 Speaker 1: has confirmed Iran as being advised on how to penetrate 211 00:14:26,715 --> 00:14:32,755 Speaker 1: drone defense throughout the Middle East, advised by Russia. Russia 212 00:14:32,835 --> 00:14:36,235 Speaker 1: advising it on tactics and giving it yet more info 213 00:14:36,315 --> 00:14:39,515 Speaker 1: about targets and how to reach them. Trump is in 214 00:14:39,555 --> 00:14:44,755 Speaker 1: fact funding both sides of this war. Oh in the 215 00:14:44,755 --> 00:14:48,715 Speaker 1: premise of escorting oil tankers through the Hormuz Strait. This 216 00:14:48,875 --> 00:14:52,755 Speaker 1: gem from the Wall Street Journal. The US did this 217 00:14:52,835 --> 00:14:56,315 Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighties, actually did escort runs through the strait, 218 00:14:56,355 --> 00:14:59,235 Speaker 1: and they managed to get one ship through the Strait 219 00:14:59,235 --> 00:15:04,235 Speaker 1: of Hormuz per week, quoting the Journal, At that pace, 220 00:15:04,235 --> 00:15:06,635 Speaker 1: it would take two and a half years to get 221 00:15:06,635 --> 00:15:09,115 Speaker 1: all three hundred and twenty or so vessels currently stranded 222 00:15:09,115 --> 00:15:12,675 Speaker 1: in the Gulf out of there. Even resuming three quarters 223 00:15:12,675 --> 00:15:17,075 Speaker 1: of Hormos sailings would still prevent nearly four mbd of 224 00:15:17,115 --> 00:15:23,235 Speaker 1: oil from getting to global markets. Jeff Curry of Carlisle, 225 00:15:23,275 --> 00:15:25,715 Speaker 1: a private equity firm, says the cost of a single 226 00:15:25,875 --> 00:15:29,355 Speaker 1: escort would exceed the value of the cargo it is 227 00:15:29,435 --> 00:15:33,355 Speaker 1: meant to protect. The magas have said all but the 228 00:15:33,435 --> 00:15:35,635 Speaker 1: ships are so much faster now than they were, So 229 00:15:35,715 --> 00:15:38,875 Speaker 1: let's say they're going twice as fast with escorts, So 230 00:15:38,915 --> 00:15:41,755 Speaker 1: it would only take one and a quarter years to 231 00:15:41,795 --> 00:15:44,595 Speaker 1: get all of the vessels currently waiting to get through 232 00:15:44,635 --> 00:15:48,635 Speaker 1: the hor Moves straight through the horm Moves straight now 233 00:15:48,675 --> 00:15:52,475 Speaker 1: there are many tankers getting through without a problem at 234 00:15:52,515 --> 00:15:57,715 Speaker 1: regular speed. Iran is not blocking ships connected to China, 235 00:15:58,515 --> 00:16:03,835 Speaker 1: and shockingly enough, it is not blocking ships connected to itself. 236 00:16:04,755 --> 00:16:12,675 Speaker 1: To Iran Iran. The Wall Street Journal reports, I'm stunned 237 00:16:12,675 --> 00:16:14,635 Speaker 1: by this as I read it for the seventeenth or 238 00:16:14,675 --> 00:16:21,075 Speaker 1: eighteenth time. Iran is now exporting more oil through the 239 00:16:21,115 --> 00:16:26,235 Speaker 1: Strait of Horror Muz than it was before we started 240 00:16:26,275 --> 00:16:35,515 Speaker 1: this war. Happily, though, even in the midst of this chaos, 241 00:16:35,555 --> 00:16:39,035 Speaker 1: the old fallback remains true that you and I are 242 00:16:39,075 --> 00:16:42,995 Speaker 1: not in leg irons mining rare earths, that the world 243 00:16:43,075 --> 00:16:47,235 Speaker 1: has not been vaporized yet, and that owes mostly to 244 00:16:47,315 --> 00:16:51,515 Speaker 1: the stupidity of these wonderful people in the first war. 245 00:16:51,635 --> 00:16:54,675 Speaker 1: To keep the Epstein files out of the headlines, Trump 246 00:16:54,715 --> 00:16:59,715 Speaker 1: could still not resist posting yesterday about the Epstein files. 247 00:17:00,875 --> 00:17:03,995 Speaker 1: The news that Larry Summers, the former Harvard president and 248 00:17:04,075 --> 00:17:07,035 Speaker 1: all around jackass now has to give up his professorships 249 00:17:07,075 --> 00:17:12,555 Speaker 1: and his appointments cause Epstein required Trump to prioritize mocking 250 00:17:12,595 --> 00:17:16,315 Speaker 1: somebody else for nine seconds, rather than possibly burying the 251 00:17:16,315 --> 00:17:19,115 Speaker 1: Epstein story for good the way he had been doing. 252 00:17:19,155 --> 00:17:23,235 Speaker 1: More or less, Trump posted the story about summers yesterday, 253 00:17:23,235 --> 00:17:26,115 Speaker 1: and then added what appears to have been an attempt 254 00:17:26,315 --> 00:17:31,355 Speaker 1: to make a joke, a joke, A joke from somebody 255 00:17:31,515 --> 00:17:35,995 Speaker 1: like Trump without any sense of humor other than man 256 00:17:36,115 --> 00:17:40,715 Speaker 1: hit engroined by football, A joke from somebody without any 257 00:17:40,755 --> 00:17:43,515 Speaker 1: sense of what changes you could make to a cliche 258 00:17:43,755 --> 00:17:46,715 Speaker 1: or a familiar phrase to make the new modified version 259 00:17:46,955 --> 00:17:50,115 Speaker 1: funny because of the change, and what changes you could 260 00:17:50,155 --> 00:17:53,355 Speaker 1: make to that cliche that would then make it meaningless 261 00:17:53,355 --> 00:17:57,995 Speaker 1: and unrecognizable and not even allow the listener to recognize 262 00:17:58,035 --> 00:18:00,555 Speaker 1: you were trying to make a joke. See which one 263 00:18:00,595 --> 00:18:06,595 Speaker 1: he did? Quote Punk Satony Phil see zero more years 264 00:18:06,595 --> 00:18:14,795 Speaker 1: of Summers. Wow, good one. Shecky another moron on whom 265 00:18:14,835 --> 00:18:18,515 Speaker 1: we can always rely on Epstein James Comer. It got 266 00:18:18,555 --> 00:18:20,675 Speaker 1: a little attention, but remember the claim from the former 267 00:18:20,715 --> 00:18:23,475 Speaker 1: Attorney General of New Mexico last week that Trump's Department 268 00:18:23,475 --> 00:18:28,115 Speaker 1: of Justice had stopped New Mexico's investigation of Epstein's trafficking 269 00:18:28,195 --> 00:18:32,195 Speaker 1: venue Zoro Ranch in twenty nineteen outside Santa Fe by 270 00:18:32,235 --> 00:18:37,235 Speaker 1: promising to fold that investigation into the overall prosecution and 271 00:18:37,275 --> 00:18:42,075 Speaker 1: instead just burying it. This was while Epstein was still alive. 272 00:18:43,035 --> 00:18:46,915 Speaker 1: James Comer was nice enough to confirm it. Quote Comber, 273 00:18:47,435 --> 00:18:50,595 Speaker 1: the federal government asked New Mexico to stop their investigation. 274 00:18:50,675 --> 00:18:55,075 Speaker 1: I believe back in twenty nineteen of that ranch unquote 275 00:18:55,475 --> 00:19:02,115 Speaker 1: Fox Idiot which branch quote Comber DJ, I believe, heyks 276 00:19:02,235 --> 00:19:09,155 Speaker 1: Jamie at an update from Pete Hegseath Pete tsd Hegseth, 277 00:19:09,755 --> 00:19:14,915 Speaker 1: who has now banned all non Pentagon photographers from these 278 00:19:15,035 --> 00:19:18,395 Speaker 1: bouts of manic religious ecstasy that he refers to as 279 00:19:18,795 --> 00:19:25,995 Speaker 1: Iran war briefings. Why no more associated press surgetty image 280 00:19:26,035 --> 00:19:32,115 Speaker 1: guys or Reuters snappers at these press briefings. Hegseeth found 281 00:19:32,435 --> 00:19:39,875 Speaker 1: their images of him unflattering, but all images of Pete 282 00:19:39,915 --> 00:19:53,915 Speaker 1: Hegseth are unflattering. And lastly, here, I'm not an ezraklined fan. 283 00:19:53,995 --> 00:19:55,635 Speaker 1: I think you know that. But I have to steal 284 00:19:55,675 --> 00:19:59,315 Speaker 1: a clip from his Times podcast because we Cornelians are 285 00:19:59,475 --> 00:20:05,755 Speaker 1: so so proud of Nadia Shadlow Murphy of nineteen eighty 286 00:20:05,795 --> 00:20:10,515 Speaker 1: seven Bachelors in Government and Soviet Studies. I bet the 287 00:20:10,555 --> 00:20:14,995 Speaker 1: Soviet studies part is coming in really useful right now. Later, 288 00:20:15,115 --> 00:20:18,755 Speaker 1: Deputy Assistant to Trump for National Security Strategy. In his 289 00:20:18,795 --> 00:20:22,315 Speaker 1: first dictatorship. So you don't know that name, but all 290 00:20:22,395 --> 00:20:29,995 Speaker 1: this crap is her fault. Naddius Shadlow Murphy Cornell eighty seven. Moron, 291 00:20:31,275 --> 00:20:35,915 Speaker 1: you don't believe me. How else could you possibly get 292 00:20:35,955 --> 00:20:41,955 Speaker 1: owned this irretrievably and permanently? How else could you possibly 293 00:20:41,995 --> 00:20:45,435 Speaker 1: get this owned by Ezra Klein. 294 00:20:45,875 --> 00:20:48,755 Speaker 4: Congress's role is the power of the purse. 295 00:20:50,155 --> 00:20:52,835 Speaker 5: So the case for Congress is, once we have gone 296 00:20:52,875 --> 00:20:54,315 Speaker 5: to war, if they don't like, if they can remove 297 00:20:54,355 --> 00:20:54,755 Speaker 5: the money. 298 00:20:55,235 --> 00:20:58,275 Speaker 4: Congress does not have a constitutional role in the declaration 299 00:20:58,355 --> 00:21:01,955 Speaker 4: of war. Congress has a role in cutting off funds 300 00:21:01,995 --> 00:21:04,395 Speaker 4: for wars, which it is threatened to do. The president 301 00:21:04,435 --> 00:21:08,275 Speaker 4: does have to get permission, but yes, you can debate, 302 00:21:08,595 --> 00:21:10,875 Speaker 4: you can decide that's his choice and how he wants 303 00:21:10,915 --> 00:21:11,355 Speaker 4: to do it. 304 00:21:11,635 --> 00:21:14,555 Speaker 5: I mean here, I will quote the Constitution. The Congress 305 00:21:14,555 --> 00:21:21,435 Speaker 5: shall have power to declare war, grant letters of mark enterprisal, 306 00:21:21,475 --> 00:21:25,115 Speaker 5: and make rules concerning captures on land and water. I 307 00:21:25,155 --> 00:21:27,155 Speaker 5: think the president should be the commander in chief of 308 00:21:27,155 --> 00:21:28,915 Speaker 5: the army, but it is Congress it has a power 309 00:21:28,955 --> 00:21:29,635 Speaker 5: to declare war. 310 00:21:31,075 --> 00:21:36,275 Speaker 4: So constitutionally, the Constitution says Congress has the power to 311 00:21:36,355 --> 00:21:39,035 Speaker 4: declare war but the issue is whether or not a 312 00:21:39,115 --> 00:21:43,195 Speaker 4: president who deploys military force abroad needs to do so 313 00:21:44,035 --> 00:21:46,275 Speaker 4: only after having Congress declare war. 314 00:21:47,035 --> 00:21:59,115 Speaker 1: Oh Constitution, I thought you said, Floorsheim Shoe, Can we 315 00:21:59,155 --> 00:22:02,395 Speaker 1: take her degree back? Can we just take it back? 316 00:22:03,475 --> 00:22:07,715 Speaker 1: Any chance of that? Come to your fortieth anniversary next 317 00:22:07,795 --> 00:22:11,595 Speaker 1: year and bring your degree with you. Also of interest here, 318 00:22:11,595 --> 00:22:15,675 Speaker 1: in speaking of retracting Cornell degrees, Bill maher run over 319 00:22:15,915 --> 00:22:19,555 Speaker 1: at an NBA game by a basketball player because the player, 320 00:22:20,395 --> 00:22:25,195 Speaker 1: like Bill's TV audience, didn't realize Bill was still there. 321 00:22:28,595 --> 00:22:29,235 Speaker 1: That's next. 322 00:22:29,475 --> 00:22:34,995 Speaker 3: This is Countdown. This his Countdown with Keith old Woman. 323 00:22:55,875 --> 00:23:00,475 Speaker 1: Still ahead on this the latest volume of Countdown for 324 00:23:00,595 --> 00:23:04,995 Speaker 1: no reason at all. There's no anniversary, there's nothing that 325 00:23:05,075 --> 00:23:08,475 Speaker 1: reminded me of it. It's just sitting there and I thought, 326 00:23:09,515 --> 00:23:12,995 Speaker 1: I'm going to play this one today. I'm going to 327 00:23:13,035 --> 00:23:15,915 Speaker 1: play you a bunch of sportscasts that I did on 328 00:23:16,035 --> 00:23:23,355 Speaker 1: Network radio a scant forty seven years ago, when I 329 00:23:23,435 --> 00:23:25,995 Speaker 1: was twenty years old and just starting in this business 330 00:23:26,475 --> 00:23:32,995 Speaker 1: and really didn't know which way the door handle turned 331 00:23:33,235 --> 00:23:35,835 Speaker 1: on the studio. You don't have to listen, but look 332 00:23:35,875 --> 00:23:38,155 Speaker 1: at it this way. How many people do you know 333 00:23:38,515 --> 00:23:41,635 Speaker 1: who would be willing to let you listen to this 334 00:23:42,635 --> 00:23:46,915 Speaker 1: next in things I promised not to tell first. However, 335 00:23:47,115 --> 00:23:49,955 Speaker 1: as always, we have more new idiots to talk about, 336 00:23:49,995 --> 00:23:52,715 Speaker 1: the roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Krueger 337 00:23:52,755 --> 00:23:59,555 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute today's other worst persons in the world. 338 00:24:00,515 --> 00:24:04,755 Speaker 1: Now let me dedicate this episode. Speaking of sports, there 339 00:24:04,795 --> 00:24:08,835 Speaker 1: is somebody who didn't quite make the cut. My longtime 340 00:24:08,915 --> 00:24:13,315 Speaker 1: colleague and friend ad Nan Verk, who has something like 341 00:24:14,595 --> 00:24:18,795 Speaker 1: and fills something like and occupies and gets a paycheck 342 00:24:18,875 --> 00:24:23,475 Speaker 1: for something like thirty two percent of all the remaining 343 00:24:23,555 --> 00:24:28,555 Speaker 1: TV sports jobs on this continent. I worked with them 344 00:24:28,555 --> 00:24:36,635 Speaker 1: at ESPN. Since then, he's improved his platform z MLV Network, 345 00:24:36,875 --> 00:24:42,395 Speaker 1: NHL Network, Amazon Prime Hockey available only in Canadia, and 346 00:24:42,435 --> 00:24:45,515 Speaker 1: I believe if you ask, he will drive over to 347 00:24:45,555 --> 00:24:50,115 Speaker 1: your house and read you the scores for five dollars 348 00:24:50,795 --> 00:24:54,635 Speaker 1: and hosting the Amazon weekly NHL game from Vancouver Monday night. 349 00:24:55,115 --> 00:24:59,755 Speaker 1: At NaN's special intermission guest was the equally delightful Michael Boublay, 350 00:25:00,235 --> 00:25:04,675 Speaker 1: hockey fanatic and particularly Vancouver Canucks fan, who once said 351 00:25:04,955 --> 00:25:09,195 Speaker 1: me out of the blue at ESPN, a Canuck's uniform 352 00:25:09,235 --> 00:25:13,035 Speaker 1: with my name on it. During the controversy from twenty 353 00:25:13,115 --> 00:25:16,875 Speaker 1: thirteen twenty fourteen that was known internally at ESPN as 354 00:25:16,955 --> 00:25:22,235 Speaker 1: the War of the Cestitos, I complained on the air, 355 00:25:22,275 --> 00:25:26,115 Speaker 1: showed video of a hockey fighting guy of the Canucks 356 00:25:26,195 --> 00:25:31,195 Speaker 1: named Tom Cestito, and although it was I called him names, 357 00:25:31,435 --> 00:25:37,115 Speaker 1: he said he appreciated the coverage. He rarely got attention. However, 358 00:25:37,555 --> 00:25:41,395 Speaker 1: his sister, who was like thirteen, attacked me for a 359 00:25:41,515 --> 00:25:47,115 Speaker 1: week on social media for insulting her brother by mentioning 360 00:25:47,115 --> 00:25:49,875 Speaker 1: how many penalty minutes he had in one game. He 361 00:25:49,915 --> 00:25:54,075 Speaker 1: played one minute and had eighty minutes in penalties. Anyway, 362 00:25:54,995 --> 00:25:58,995 Speaker 1: ad Nan Verk on Monday convinced Michael Boublay to sing 363 00:25:59,515 --> 00:26:03,275 Speaker 1: to Adnan's co host on This Hockey intermission, Blake Bolden, 364 00:26:03,955 --> 00:26:07,915 Speaker 1: whose birth day was upcoming. Michael Boubley, who's a pretty 365 00:26:07,955 --> 00:26:13,435 Speaker 1: good singer, began to sing, call me irresponsible and then 366 00:26:13,795 --> 00:26:18,075 Speaker 1: insisted no, he wanted Adnan to sing with him, and 367 00:26:18,235 --> 00:26:22,115 Speaker 1: Adnan did. Could have been worse, could have been me 368 00:26:22,275 --> 00:26:25,715 Speaker 1: singing with him. On the theory that anybody can sing 369 00:26:25,755 --> 00:26:29,835 Speaker 1: for six or seven seconds. I've done it here myself. Sure, Okay, 370 00:26:30,155 --> 00:26:35,035 Speaker 1: I'll call both of you irresponsible. But bluntly, Adnan, you 371 00:26:35,235 --> 00:26:38,155 Speaker 1: kind of drowned Michael boublay out. 372 00:26:39,035 --> 00:26:39,595 Speaker 3: If it's a. 373 00:26:39,675 --> 00:26:47,755 Speaker 1: Pro singer, you sing backup, he sings lead. It's not 374 00:26:47,875 --> 00:26:51,675 Speaker 1: quite worse persons in the world stuff. But frankly, sir, 375 00:26:51,795 --> 00:26:55,715 Speaker 1: we have a near hit here. Anyway, to the winners 376 00:26:55,755 --> 00:26:59,475 Speaker 1: the bronze worse Bill Maher, You're not as bad as 377 00:26:59,515 --> 00:27:03,875 Speaker 1: Bill Maher apparently injured when Marcus Smart of the Los 378 00:27:03,915 --> 00:27:08,515 Speaker 1: Angeles Lakes basketball team vaulted off the floor during an 379 00:27:08,595 --> 00:27:12,395 Speaker 1: NBA game to avoid a collision with another player. Smart 380 00:27:12,435 --> 00:27:15,555 Speaker 1: then bounced off the announcers table and then crashed into 381 00:27:15,595 --> 00:27:20,235 Speaker 1: one guy sitting in the front row. Mar Pretty impressive 382 00:27:20,475 --> 00:27:22,995 Speaker 1: that of all the things Marcus Smart could have hit, 383 00:27:23,835 --> 00:27:28,275 Speaker 1: he could have found a target that small. He also 384 00:27:28,315 --> 00:27:30,955 Speaker 1: somehow missed actual celebrities who were sitting in the front row, 385 00:27:31,075 --> 00:27:38,795 Speaker 1: like Martin Lawrence and Flee and Sasha Baron Cullen. Back 386 00:27:38,795 --> 00:27:41,075 Speaker 1: when I was a local sportscaster at LA I actually 387 00:27:41,155 --> 00:27:45,275 Speaker 1: used to keep records and award points to the winners 388 00:27:45,515 --> 00:27:49,155 Speaker 1: the celebrities who attended Lakers games, and you got more 389 00:27:49,195 --> 00:27:51,995 Speaker 1: points if you went to the bad games like the 390 00:27:52,195 --> 00:27:56,115 Speaker 1: team games against expansion teams or last place teams and 391 00:27:56,155 --> 00:27:58,235 Speaker 1: not just showed up for the games against the Boston 392 00:27:58,275 --> 00:28:01,595 Speaker 1: Celtics and the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan and so. 393 00:28:01,755 --> 00:28:05,675 Speaker 1: Although Jack Nicholson won the overall title, the most points 394 00:28:05,715 --> 00:28:09,075 Speaker 1: for fewest games average in the nineteen eighty nine to 395 00:28:09,275 --> 00:28:15,315 Speaker 1: ninety season was won by Rosemarie from The Dick Van 396 00:28:15,395 --> 00:28:18,355 Speaker 1: Dyke Show, who only went apparently to the bad games 397 00:28:18,355 --> 00:28:20,875 Speaker 1: and we get you know, went to nine games, got 398 00:28:20,875 --> 00:28:24,795 Speaker 1: twenty points at each game. Anyway, I've completely diverted from 399 00:28:24,795 --> 00:28:28,155 Speaker 1: the point here. Bill Maher described by the Hollywood tabloid 400 00:28:28,235 --> 00:28:32,275 Speaker 1: press as injured after Marcus Smarter the Lakers crashed into him, 401 00:28:32,275 --> 00:28:35,195 Speaker 1: but it appears it was just his finger. Then again, 402 00:28:35,555 --> 00:28:37,555 Speaker 1: that's where he has more comedic ability than in the 403 00:28:37,595 --> 00:28:39,995 Speaker 1: rest of his body, certainly in his mouth or brain. 404 00:28:40,755 --> 00:28:43,315 Speaker 1: The collision with the Laker player is also notable because 405 00:28:43,355 --> 00:28:45,795 Speaker 1: it's the first time in like three years that Bill 406 00:28:45,835 --> 00:28:49,555 Speaker 1: Maher has gotten any reaction at all from anybody during 407 00:28:49,595 --> 00:28:54,635 Speaker 1: one of his public appearances. Worser the runner up, another comedian, 408 00:28:55,115 --> 00:28:58,875 Speaker 1: Alina Habba, forgotten but not gone from the Trump Crime 409 00:28:58,915 --> 00:29:02,875 Speaker 1: Factory America's foremost authority in the world of parking lot 410 00:29:02,955 --> 00:29:06,915 Speaker 1: law remains, having been literally banned from serving as an 411 00:29:06,955 --> 00:29:10,235 Speaker 1: acting US Attorney in New Jersey, and having seen Trump 412 00:29:10,275 --> 00:29:13,915 Speaker 1: decide she just isn't the worth the trouble of throwing 413 00:29:13,955 --> 00:29:17,595 Speaker 1: a tantrum over he actually said, nah, not this time. 414 00:29:18,955 --> 00:29:22,195 Speaker 1: Haba remains as an advisor to the Attorney General. And 415 00:29:22,275 --> 00:29:26,595 Speaker 1: if Pambondy is taking Alena Habba's advice, that might explain 416 00:29:26,755 --> 00:29:30,875 Speaker 1: everything about Pam Bondy anyway. Habba, as you know, is 417 00:29:30,915 --> 00:29:34,595 Speaker 1: a maliprop machine. After Trump's company got fined hundreds of 418 00:29:34,595 --> 00:29:37,395 Speaker 1: millions of dollars in a New York court and he 419 00:29:37,475 --> 00:29:42,155 Speaker 1: inexplicably let her represent him, she told Fox News quote, 420 00:29:42,275 --> 00:29:44,595 Speaker 1: they will not get away with it. We will come 421 00:29:44,635 --> 00:29:49,715 Speaker 1: at them. We will come hard unquote. Lena Habba also 422 00:29:49,755 --> 00:29:52,195 Speaker 1: famously said she was once asked if she'd prefer to 423 00:29:52,235 --> 00:29:56,035 Speaker 1: be pretty or smart, and she answered, quote, oh easy, pretty, 424 00:29:56,355 --> 00:30:00,795 Speaker 1: I can fake being smart. Well that's not true, And 425 00:30:00,875 --> 00:30:03,235 Speaker 1: now she has a new one to add to this 426 00:30:03,395 --> 00:30:07,915 Speaker 1: true hall of fame of malaprops. She was on Ed 427 00:30:08,115 --> 00:30:13,115 Speaker 1: Henry's show on Newsmax. You remember why CNN got rid 428 00:30:13,155 --> 00:30:16,115 Speaker 1: of Ed Henry right, it involved the removal of pants 429 00:30:16,635 --> 00:30:19,555 Speaker 1: and assault. And then at Fox they got rid of 430 00:30:19,635 --> 00:30:22,835 Speaker 1: him because of something that involved the removal of pants 431 00:30:22,915 --> 00:30:27,915 Speaker 1: and assault. Anyway, while inexplicably looking not at the camera 432 00:30:28,155 --> 00:30:30,875 Speaker 1: that was recording her for the Ed Henry Show, but 433 00:30:31,075 --> 00:30:34,795 Speaker 1: about six inches to the camera's right, giving you this 434 00:30:34,955 --> 00:30:38,635 Speaker 1: weird appearance that she was looking at the wrong one 435 00:30:38,715 --> 00:30:42,075 Speaker 1: of you while she did that, Alena Habba did it again. 436 00:30:42,235 --> 00:30:46,275 Speaker 1: She once again failed to fake being smart. See if 437 00:30:46,315 --> 00:30:51,395 Speaker 1: you can hear her malapropism here without my help. 438 00:30:52,035 --> 00:30:55,155 Speaker 4: Frankly, President Trump should be commended for being the only 439 00:30:55,195 --> 00:30:58,515 Speaker 4: one with the cahoots, frankly, to go after them, not 440 00:30:58,595 --> 00:31:00,275 Speaker 4: just for America but for the world. 441 00:31:01,515 --> 00:31:07,435 Speaker 1: Uh cahoots, you say, has the cahoots? Trump has the cahoots. 442 00:31:07,835 --> 00:31:13,635 Speaker 1: Trump is in cahoots, doctor freud Alena Habba's leaking oil again. 443 00:31:15,475 --> 00:31:20,155 Speaker 1: Cahoots obviously is used only in the phrase in cahoots, 444 00:31:20,155 --> 00:31:24,115 Speaker 1: as in planning or scheming something in secret. It turns 445 00:31:24,155 --> 00:31:28,475 Speaker 1: out this word seems to be early American slang from 446 00:31:28,475 --> 00:31:32,995 Speaker 1: the eighteen twenties, based on two old words a cabane 447 00:31:33,715 --> 00:31:38,995 Speaker 1: and ut, meaning shockingly enough cabin and hut. The French 448 00:31:39,395 --> 00:31:42,515 Speaker 1: were the first to put these two words together into cahout, 449 00:31:43,195 --> 00:31:46,795 Speaker 1: and it was picked up in early America, presumably by 450 00:31:47,275 --> 00:31:51,435 Speaker 1: by trappers in what is now Chicago, I don't know, 451 00:31:52,475 --> 00:31:55,755 Speaker 1: and they applied it to mean people who were hiding 452 00:31:55,795 --> 00:31:59,435 Speaker 1: away in a cabin, in a cahoot, working on secret plans. 453 00:31:59,635 --> 00:32:04,555 Speaker 1: They're in cahoots figuring out how to steal your pot. 454 00:32:04,715 --> 00:32:09,475 Speaker 1: Isle of Beaver, Alena Habba, by this point, your explanation 455 00:32:09,595 --> 00:32:13,075 Speaker 1: to Elena Habba of what this really means and what 456 00:32:13,115 --> 00:32:15,435 Speaker 1: she really says, by this point, her eyes would have 457 00:32:15,515 --> 00:32:17,755 Speaker 1: rolled back in her head and she would have tipped 458 00:32:17,755 --> 00:32:23,555 Speaker 1: over backwards, snoring. And of course clearly she didn't mean coats, 459 00:32:24,155 --> 00:32:29,395 Speaker 1: she meant Canoli's. But our winner in worse persons this 460 00:32:29,475 --> 00:32:33,035 Speaker 1: time around, the worst Rick Crawford, another one of these 461 00:32:33,155 --> 00:32:36,075 Speaker 1: Maga congressmen. We apparently have recruited from the ranks of 462 00:32:36,115 --> 00:32:39,755 Speaker 1: what we used to call in this country boxing hoboes. 463 00:32:40,795 --> 00:32:44,275 Speaker 1: This one Crawford is from Arkansas. He was born on 464 00:32:44,355 --> 00:32:47,035 Speaker 1: an Air Force base. He is sixty and looks about 465 00:32:47,035 --> 00:32:51,275 Speaker 1: eighty five. He used to be in the rodeo, but 466 00:32:51,395 --> 00:32:54,555 Speaker 1: he got hisself herded in nineteen ninety three and had 467 00:32:54,555 --> 00:33:01,475 Speaker 1: to retire to become a rodeo announcer, then a singing cowboy. 468 00:33:01,555 --> 00:33:05,795 Speaker 1: By the way, the National Rodeo League Network, one of 469 00:33:05,795 --> 00:33:10,355 Speaker 1: the few jobs at NNVERK does not have rodeo tonight. 470 00:33:11,475 --> 00:33:13,875 Speaker 1: So he became a rodeo announcer, and then he moved 471 00:33:13,875 --> 00:33:16,955 Speaker 1: on to becoming a singing cowboy who put out his 472 00:33:17,075 --> 00:33:24,275 Speaker 1: album called titled quote Cracking Out. Hey, you pull up 473 00:33:24,275 --> 00:33:27,995 Speaker 1: your rodeo pants, you're cracking out. Then he did farm 474 00:33:28,115 --> 00:33:33,355 Speaker 1: news on the radio, having clearly in this career process 475 00:33:33,635 --> 00:33:38,315 Speaker 1: this evolution, become overqualified to represent Arkansas in government. He 476 00:33:38,435 --> 00:33:41,035 Speaker 1: was elected to the House in twenty twelve. He is, 477 00:33:41,115 --> 00:33:47,835 Speaker 1: in short, not just a moron, but a multi varied moron. Unfortunately, 478 00:33:47,915 --> 00:33:52,275 Speaker 1: this moron, Congressman Crawford, is the chairman of the House 479 00:33:52,475 --> 00:33:56,475 Speaker 1: Intelligence Committee. Because you never know when a bowl will 480 00:33:56,475 --> 00:34:00,795 Speaker 1: get loose in the hearing room. Chairman Crawford makes this 481 00:34:00,875 --> 00:34:05,435 Speaker 1: list because the other day he had one job, one job, 482 00:34:05,595 --> 00:34:09,555 Speaker 1: just one job. He was to go on Maria Bartiromo's 483 00:34:10,075 --> 00:34:15,035 Speaker 1: Jay the President Off show on Fox Business and repeat 484 00:34:15,435 --> 00:34:17,875 Speaker 1: their line about how, of course we had to blow 485 00:34:17,955 --> 00:34:22,195 Speaker 1: up Iran and Iranian schoolgirls because Iran has been at 486 00:34:22,235 --> 00:34:25,235 Speaker 1: war with US for forty seven years, and everybody before 487 00:34:25,275 --> 00:34:29,035 Speaker 1: Trump was derelict and not blowing up Irani in schoolgirls. 488 00:34:30,875 --> 00:34:35,555 Speaker 1: Chairman Crawford got it wrong. Rick Crawford to Mowia. Remember 489 00:34:35,795 --> 00:34:39,075 Speaker 1: he's supposed to say Iran has been at war with 490 00:34:39,355 --> 00:34:43,235 Speaker 1: us for forty seven years. There's just three components here. 491 00:34:43,555 --> 00:34:48,515 Speaker 1: Iran has been at war with us, it's their war, 492 00:34:49,115 --> 00:34:53,875 Speaker 1: and the timeframe forty seven years. Three things, just three things. 493 00:34:54,075 --> 00:34:59,235 Speaker 1: Write them on your palm, Tattoo them backwards on your forehead. 494 00:34:59,715 --> 00:35:02,995 Speaker 3: Write them on the wall. Do something. 495 00:35:04,035 --> 00:35:05,915 Speaker 1: Instead of saying Iran has been at war with US 496 00:35:05,955 --> 00:35:09,555 Speaker 1: for forty seven years, like everybody else in these organized 497 00:35:09,675 --> 00:35:14,595 Speaker 1: crime administration morons have been saying. Instead of that, Rick 498 00:35:14,635 --> 00:35:18,195 Speaker 1: Crawford says, quote, we have been at war with Iran 499 00:35:18,275 --> 00:35:24,875 Speaker 1: since nineteen forty seven. Nineteen forty seven, Iran was still 500 00:35:24,915 --> 00:35:29,355 Speaker 1: basically a subsidiary of our government and the British government. 501 00:35:29,675 --> 00:35:34,955 Speaker 1: And he couldn't keep this straight. Three small facts. We 502 00:35:35,035 --> 00:35:38,035 Speaker 1: have been at war with Iran since nineteen forty seven, 503 00:35:38,875 --> 00:35:43,635 Speaker 1: What one sentence and he could remember it. Chairman of 504 00:35:43,675 --> 00:35:47,475 Speaker 1: the House Intelligence Committee, Rick reminding us that intelligence here 505 00:35:47,515 --> 00:35:51,475 Speaker 1: is just a brand name Crawford. He was a singing 506 00:35:51,515 --> 00:35:58,315 Speaker 1: cowboy in the Rodeo. Two Day's other Worst Person. 507 00:35:59,475 --> 00:36:02,275 Speaker 5: In the World. 508 00:36:21,755 --> 00:36:24,675 Speaker 1: Worst Person in the World Tonight is hosted by Adnan 509 00:36:24,795 --> 00:36:32,755 Speaker 1: verk to the number one story on the Countdown and 510 00:36:32,795 --> 00:36:35,435 Speaker 1: things I promised not to tell, and it is hardly 511 00:36:35,475 --> 00:36:38,955 Speaker 1: that today. In fact, it is more accurately show and tell. 512 00:36:39,795 --> 00:36:42,475 Speaker 1: There is no particular excuse for this, except for the 513 00:36:42,515 --> 00:36:45,075 Speaker 1: fact that I found these the other day. They are 514 00:36:45,155 --> 00:36:48,075 Speaker 1: three sportscasts I did in the first ten weeks of 515 00:36:48,115 --> 00:36:52,755 Speaker 1: my professional career, from July through September of nineteen seventy nine, 516 00:36:53,515 --> 00:36:55,155 Speaker 1: and to me, the fun part of this is hearing 517 00:36:55,195 --> 00:36:58,195 Speaker 1: the old timy names and a few events that are 518 00:36:58,235 --> 00:37:00,955 Speaker 1: still talked about, like the night of the infamous disco 519 00:37:01,195 --> 00:37:04,955 Speaker 1: demolition in Chicago and one of the many nights Nolan 520 00:37:05,035 --> 00:37:08,275 Speaker 1: Ryan bid for a no hit game. And then there's 521 00:37:08,315 --> 00:37:10,755 Speaker 1: reporting on the retirement of one of my favorite players 522 00:37:10,795 --> 00:37:13,875 Speaker 1: and something I could not physically do today that I 523 00:37:13,955 --> 00:37:16,115 Speaker 1: did that day. You don't have to listen to all 524 00:37:16,115 --> 00:37:18,915 Speaker 1: of them. I won't take it personally. You don't have 525 00:37:18,915 --> 00:37:20,795 Speaker 1: to listen to any of them in fact, but in 526 00:37:20,835 --> 00:37:24,035 Speaker 1: their defense, they're each just two minutes long. The first 527 00:37:24,035 --> 00:37:26,875 Speaker 1: one was on the morning of Tuesday, July tenth, nineteen 528 00:37:26,995 --> 00:37:30,555 Speaker 1: seventy nine. The thousand stations on the United pres International 529 00:37:30,635 --> 00:37:35,275 Speaker 1: radio network UPI Audio were expecting to hear our sports 530 00:37:35,275 --> 00:37:39,115 Speaker 1: director Sam Rosen, their usual morning man, to appear on 531 00:37:39,195 --> 00:37:42,515 Speaker 1: their feed for the nine forty five AM sportscast. But 532 00:37:42,635 --> 00:37:45,595 Speaker 1: at about eight forty eight AM, Sam had told the 533 00:37:45,635 --> 00:37:49,435 Speaker 1: new guy me that I wasn't just training and watching 534 00:37:49,515 --> 00:37:52,755 Speaker 1: him do all those sportscasts. I would be doing the 535 00:37:52,835 --> 00:37:56,795 Speaker 1: nine forty five surprise. What you will hear first is 536 00:37:56,875 --> 00:38:00,955 Speaker 1: the talk up newscasters, business reporters, sportscasters would tell the 537 00:38:00,995 --> 00:38:04,395 Speaker 1: stations live that they were there and that their broadcast 538 00:38:04,435 --> 00:38:08,115 Speaker 1: was coming up exactly ten seconds from Mark. 539 00:38:08,875 --> 00:38:12,115 Speaker 6: Stations live sports will begin, preceded by a one second 540 00:38:12,235 --> 00:38:16,835 Speaker 6: tone coming up ten seconds from Mark. 541 00:38:17,995 --> 00:38:21,635 Speaker 1: Incidentally, I never figured out who Mark was. Here it 542 00:38:21,675 --> 00:38:22,715 Speaker 1: is here's the sports. 543 00:38:22,395 --> 00:38:27,995 Speaker 3: Guest, Good morning. 544 00:38:28,075 --> 00:38:30,515 Speaker 6: Three members of the Houston Astros named this morning to 545 00:38:30,555 --> 00:38:33,875 Speaker 6: manager Tommy Losorda's National League pitching staff for next Tuesday's 546 00:38:33,875 --> 00:38:36,835 Speaker 6: All Star Game. Top winner Joe Nicro tapped by Lesorda, 547 00:38:36,875 --> 00:38:40,275 Speaker 6: along with Joaquin Andehar and reliever Joe Sambido routing out 548 00:38:40,275 --> 00:38:43,115 Speaker 6: the staff veteran Steve Carlton of Philadelphia and gay Lord 549 00:38:43,115 --> 00:38:46,075 Speaker 6: Perry of the Padres, Steve Rodgers of Montreal, the Cubs 550 00:38:46,115 --> 00:38:49,435 Speaker 6: Bruce Suiter, and Cincinnati's Mike Lacas. And speaking of the 551 00:38:49,475 --> 00:38:51,955 Speaker 6: All Stars, you would think Don Baylor and his eighty 552 00:38:52,075 --> 00:38:54,355 Speaker 6: RBI would be a shoe in for the al outfield. 553 00:38:54,515 --> 00:38:56,195 Speaker 3: Baylor drove in another run. 554 00:38:56,075 --> 00:38:58,475 Speaker 6: Last night as the Angels whip Boston six to nothing, 555 00:38:58,675 --> 00:39:01,195 Speaker 6: but matter of fact, he placed fourteenth in the voting. 556 00:39:01,315 --> 00:39:03,315 Speaker 2: The most important thing for me right now is just 557 00:39:04,035 --> 00:39:06,035 Speaker 2: a win on this talk. A lot of people brought 558 00:39:06,115 --> 00:39:09,235 Speaker 2: up to the All Start thing, and I can't do 559 00:39:09,275 --> 00:39:11,275 Speaker 2: anything about that. You know, those are vot new things. 560 00:39:11,275 --> 00:39:13,235 Speaker 2: But I can't do something about this Faulk club. You know, 561 00:39:13,275 --> 00:39:14,715 Speaker 2: if I produce on this club. 562 00:39:14,475 --> 00:39:17,235 Speaker 6: We're wre When they did last night is Nolan Ryan 563 00:39:17,275 --> 00:39:19,835 Speaker 6: struck out twelve. That puts California a half game up 564 00:39:19,875 --> 00:39:22,275 Speaker 6: on Texas in the West. Elsewhere in the American the 565 00:39:22,275 --> 00:39:24,275 Speaker 6: Orioles lead is up to three. In the East, they 566 00:39:24,315 --> 00:39:26,395 Speaker 6: beat Oakland by the score of seven to three. It 567 00:39:26,515 --> 00:39:29,475 Speaker 6: was the Blue Jays seven Milwaukee one, Minnesota over Detroit 568 00:39:29,515 --> 00:39:31,995 Speaker 6: five to three, as Jerry Kuzman won his eleventh The 569 00:39:31,995 --> 00:39:34,675 Speaker 6: White Sox stopped Texas five to four. In Cleveland over 570 00:39:34,795 --> 00:39:37,395 Speaker 6: KC eight to two. The New York Yankees were off, 571 00:39:37,435 --> 00:39:39,555 Speaker 6: but they made an important move for their pennant hopes 572 00:39:39,555 --> 00:39:42,835 Speaker 6: the activation of injured relief pitcher Rich Gossage over in 573 00:39:42,835 --> 00:39:45,235 Speaker 6: the National Montreal's Eastern lead is up to five and 574 00:39:45,235 --> 00:39:47,915 Speaker 6: a half. Bill Lee blank the Dodgers three zip Phillies 575 00:39:47,915 --> 00:39:50,875 Speaker 6: over the Giants four to two. The Cardinals meeting Cincinnati 576 00:39:50,915 --> 00:39:53,595 Speaker 6: six to three in Chicago seven Atlanta four. 577 00:39:54,075 --> 00:39:55,315 Speaker 3: At the Padam Games in. 578 00:39:55,315 --> 00:39:57,395 Speaker 6: San Juan a big upset and the eight hundred meter 579 00:39:57,475 --> 00:40:01,795 Speaker 6: run American James Robinson shocking Cuban Olympic champ Alberto Janterarina. 580 00:40:02,035 --> 00:40:04,835 Speaker 6: The US boosted its gold medal total to eighty one. 581 00:40:04,915 --> 00:40:08,315 Speaker 6: Both the men's and women's basketball teams remain undefeated, and 582 00:40:08,435 --> 00:40:11,235 Speaker 6: for the second time in his career, Crack Montreal Canadian's 583 00:40:11,275 --> 00:40:14,555 Speaker 6: goaltender Ken Dryden has called it quits. Dryden going back 584 00:40:14,555 --> 00:40:16,355 Speaker 6: to the law books at the age of thirty one. 585 00:40:16,595 --> 00:40:18,675 Speaker 6: This time it looks permanent, though, the Haves saying the 586 00:40:18,675 --> 00:40:21,715 Speaker 6: big goalie is welcome back. At any time from a 587 00:40:21,755 --> 00:40:24,795 Speaker 6: sports desk if United Press International, I'm Keith Oberman. 588 00:40:25,115 --> 00:40:28,315 Speaker 1: What no NFL camp news today? That whole sports guest 589 00:40:28,395 --> 00:40:31,475 Speaker 1: would be nothing but NFL camp news. Well it's not 590 00:40:31,595 --> 00:40:34,795 Speaker 1: bad considering I was twenty years old and I was 591 00:40:34,835 --> 00:40:37,195 Speaker 1: going on no sleep. I was having an out of 592 00:40:37,235 --> 00:40:40,075 Speaker 1: body experience, and the tape is running a little fast. 593 00:40:40,515 --> 00:40:42,755 Speaker 1: I should tell you about that tone that starts each 594 00:40:42,795 --> 00:40:45,835 Speaker 1: one of these. The tone was used for automated stations. 595 00:40:45,875 --> 00:40:47,555 Speaker 1: That would be the signal for them to take the 596 00:40:47,635 --> 00:40:50,715 Speaker 1: network as it were, and put me on their automated stations, 597 00:40:51,195 --> 00:40:53,595 Speaker 1: and it had another automated quality to it. The guy 598 00:40:53,635 --> 00:40:58,155 Speaker 1: who succeeded me once went in there a little impaired, 599 00:40:58,635 --> 00:41:01,635 Speaker 1: and when the tone generator did not generate the tone 600 00:41:01,635 --> 00:41:04,115 Speaker 1: because somebody had switched it off instead of just doing 601 00:41:04,115 --> 00:41:07,315 Speaker 1: his sports anyway, he got up and left. They threw 602 00:41:07,355 --> 00:41:11,155 Speaker 1: him back in the booth and somebody shouted talk. They 603 00:41:11,195 --> 00:41:14,755 Speaker 1: fired him not long after. So that's Tuesday, my first 604 00:41:14,795 --> 00:41:18,915 Speaker 1: sportscast as a professional. By Friday, I was on my own. 605 00:41:18,955 --> 00:41:21,875 Speaker 1: I was anchoring the night shift at UPI six sportscasts 606 00:41:21,915 --> 00:41:24,395 Speaker 1: one an hour, starting at five point forty five The 607 00:41:24,435 --> 00:41:26,555 Speaker 1: big news that day was what had happened the night 608 00:41:26,595 --> 00:41:30,395 Speaker 1: before at the Tigers White Sox doubleheader, when the Socks 609 00:41:30,395 --> 00:41:34,795 Speaker 1: tried to tap into the nation's sincere anti disco zeitgeist 610 00:41:35,555 --> 00:41:39,675 Speaker 1: by blowing up a bunch of disco records between games. What, 611 00:41:40,315 --> 00:41:43,555 Speaker 1: as the kids say, could possibly go wrong? 612 00:41:45,315 --> 00:41:47,515 Speaker 6: After pondering the evidence for the better part of the day, 613 00:41:47,555 --> 00:41:50,675 Speaker 6: American League president Lee McPhail has forfeited the second game 614 00:41:50,715 --> 00:41:53,955 Speaker 6: of last night's Chicago Detroit doubleheader to the visiting Tigers. 615 00:41:54,195 --> 00:41:58,315 Speaker 6: A between games anti disco promotional event escalated into big trouble, 616 00:41:58,515 --> 00:42:01,795 Speaker 6: and estimated seven thousand fans stormed the field and reaket havoc. 617 00:42:01,995 --> 00:42:03,675 Speaker 3: The second game never got underway. 618 00:42:03,915 --> 00:42:06,635 Speaker 6: Socks centerfielder chet Lemon was upset by the forfeit, but, 619 00:42:06,675 --> 00:42:08,955 Speaker 6: as he told reporters, there was more to worry about 620 00:42:09,035 --> 00:42:10,915 Speaker 6: last night than who won and who lost. 621 00:42:10,995 --> 00:42:13,235 Speaker 7: So, you know, there's really nothing I could do or 622 00:42:13,315 --> 00:42:15,755 Speaker 7: say anything like that, only even think about it. You know, 623 00:42:15,795 --> 00:42:17,995 Speaker 7: there's one of things that happened was out of my control. 624 00:42:18,555 --> 00:42:20,195 Speaker 7: I'm happy that I can go out the day and 625 00:42:20,315 --> 00:42:21,035 Speaker 7: play baseball. 626 00:42:21,155 --> 00:42:23,755 Speaker 8: I think we're lucky that every ball player is able 627 00:42:23,755 --> 00:42:25,235 Speaker 8: to walk around and nobody get hurt. 628 00:42:25,635 --> 00:42:28,155 Speaker 7: Everybody, just not only the ball pers with anybody that 629 00:42:28,635 --> 00:42:30,435 Speaker 7: was pushing enough to get away from here last night 630 00:42:30,475 --> 00:42:33,355 Speaker 7: without getting hurt or anything like that, is that has 631 00:42:33,395 --> 00:42:33,995 Speaker 7: to be pushing. 632 00:42:34,155 --> 00:42:36,075 Speaker 8: You know, it happened. 633 00:42:36,155 --> 00:42:37,795 Speaker 7: You know, it's a shame, but it happens. It's just 634 00:42:37,835 --> 00:42:38,955 Speaker 7: the way the soil system is. 635 00:42:39,235 --> 00:42:41,675 Speaker 6: Detroit and Chicago are scheduled for a plain old night 636 00:42:41,755 --> 00:42:44,435 Speaker 6: game later today. Meanwhile, the disc jockey who led the 637 00:42:44,475 --> 00:42:47,435 Speaker 6: anti disco stunt refused to take the blame for the incident. 638 00:42:47,475 --> 00:42:49,275 Speaker 3: Steve Dall said it was not his fault. 639 00:42:49,315 --> 00:42:51,875 Speaker 6: He claims the media have distorted the event and other 640 00:42:51,915 --> 00:42:55,795 Speaker 6: baseball news. The Cincinnati Reds have extended manager John McNamara's contract. 641 00:42:56,115 --> 00:42:58,515 Speaker 6: McNamara will be skipper in Cincinnati at least through the 642 00:42:58,595 --> 00:43:01,595 Speaker 6: nineteen eighty season. It'll be the United States in Puerto 643 00:43:01,675 --> 00:43:04,155 Speaker 6: Rico tonight playing for the basketball gold medal with the 644 00:43:04,195 --> 00:43:07,115 Speaker 6: Panama and Games, and the US will have coach Bobby 645 00:43:07,155 --> 00:43:10,035 Speaker 6: Knight at courtside. Knight today got a postponement of his 646 00:43:10,075 --> 00:43:12,875 Speaker 6: assault trial until the twenty second of next month. Also 647 00:43:12,875 --> 00:43:15,395 Speaker 6: this evening, the American women's hoop squad goes for gold 648 00:43:15,435 --> 00:43:18,475 Speaker 6: against Cuba in action this afternoon. The US took golds 649 00:43:18,475 --> 00:43:21,275 Speaker 6: in both men's and women's tennis doubles, and mel Purcell 650 00:43:21,355 --> 00:43:24,155 Speaker 6: took the men's single title. In golf, Ed Daugherty is 651 00:43:24,195 --> 00:43:26,595 Speaker 6: all alone atop the Greater Milwaukee Open. He shot a 652 00:43:26,675 --> 00:43:29,875 Speaker 6: six hundred sixty six today, one stroke ahead of Vick Regolato. 653 00:43:30,115 --> 00:43:32,675 Speaker 6: And at the Women's Open in Connecticut, Sandra Palmer and 654 00:43:32,675 --> 00:43:34,035 Speaker 6: Debbie Massey share the lead. 655 00:43:34,315 --> 00:43:35,915 Speaker 3: That is early in the second round. 656 00:43:36,475 --> 00:43:40,275 Speaker 6: From the sports desk, I United Press International, I'm Keith Overman. 657 00:43:40,075 --> 00:43:42,395 Speaker 1: I love chet Lemon there saying it wasn't him. It 658 00:43:42,435 --> 00:43:44,915 Speaker 1: was the system man. It's the system. By the way, 659 00:43:44,955 --> 00:43:47,235 Speaker 1: guess who was the organist at Comiski Park for that 660 00:43:47,595 --> 00:43:50,275 Speaker 1: disco demolition night for the White Sox and Tigers on 661 00:43:50,355 --> 00:43:53,475 Speaker 1: that night in August of nineteen seventy nine. Yes, our 662 00:43:53,475 --> 00:43:55,795 Speaker 1: own Nancy Faust, all right, So I think that was 663 00:43:55,835 --> 00:43:57,995 Speaker 1: the six to forty five sports cast on the night 664 00:43:58,075 --> 00:44:01,155 Speaker 1: of the thirteenth. Maybe it was the seven forty five, 665 00:44:01,555 --> 00:44:04,595 Speaker 1: but by nine to forty five Disco Demolition night after 666 00:44:05,115 --> 00:44:08,155 Speaker 1: was no longer the lead story. In an early evening 667 00:44:08,235 --> 00:44:11,355 Speaker 1: start in Anaheim, a man whose name is now inseparable 668 00:44:11,435 --> 00:44:15,035 Speaker 1: from no hitters. Was when my ten forty five sportscast 669 00:44:15,075 --> 00:44:19,915 Speaker 1: began on the verge of throwing another one. 670 00:44:19,995 --> 00:44:22,875 Speaker 6: Through eight innings at Anaheim, Nolan Ryan of the California 671 00:44:22,915 --> 00:44:25,555 Speaker 6: Angels has a no hitter going against the New York Yankees. 672 00:44:25,795 --> 00:44:28,155 Speaker 6: Ryan's no hitter preserved with one out in the eighth 673 00:44:28,155 --> 00:44:30,955 Speaker 6: inning when Jim Spencer lined a dying quail to center 674 00:44:30,995 --> 00:44:34,155 Speaker 6: field that the official score ruled in error. Again Ryan 675 00:44:34,195 --> 00:44:36,235 Speaker 6: bidding for his fifth no hitter of his career. He 676 00:44:36,315 --> 00:44:38,955 Speaker 6: leads the Yankees three to nothing going into the ninth inning. 677 00:44:39,355 --> 00:44:42,035 Speaker 6: An American League final, Tonight, Minnesota beat Toronto six to 678 00:44:42,075 --> 00:44:44,435 Speaker 6: four in the National The Padres came up with three 679 00:44:44,475 --> 00:44:46,355 Speaker 6: in the ninths to beat Montreal seven to five in 680 00:44:46,395 --> 00:44:48,835 Speaker 6: the first of a doubleheader. The Mets got two rbi 681 00:44:48,915 --> 00:44:51,075 Speaker 6: from Steve Henderson as they won the opener of their 682 00:44:51,195 --> 00:44:53,595 Speaker 6: Night Twin Night or rather with the Giants seven to six. 683 00:44:54,035 --> 00:44:56,515 Speaker 6: The home run bats propelled the Braves to a thirteen 684 00:44:56,515 --> 00:44:59,115 Speaker 6: to four mashing of Pittsburgh. Jeff Burrows at a grand 685 00:44:59,155 --> 00:45:01,715 Speaker 6: Slam and Bob Horner hit two homers, and the Phillies 686 00:45:01,715 --> 00:45:04,635 Speaker 6: beat the Dodgers three to two. American League President Lee 687 00:45:04,715 --> 00:45:07,035 Speaker 6: McPhail has declared a forfeit in the second game of 688 00:45:07,115 --> 00:45:10,515 Speaker 6: last night's scheduled Detroit Chicago doubleheader. The nightcap was never 689 00:45:10,555 --> 00:45:13,515 Speaker 6: played because thousands of fans streamed onto the field during 690 00:45:13,515 --> 00:45:17,515 Speaker 6: a promotional event after the opener. Al spokeswoman Phyllis Marriage 691 00:45:17,555 --> 00:45:19,555 Speaker 6: reads President mcphile's official decision. 692 00:45:19,915 --> 00:45:22,235 Speaker 9: It was the judgment of the umpires that it was 693 00:45:22,275 --> 00:45:24,955 Speaker 9: not possible to start the second game of the July 694 00:45:25,115 --> 00:45:29,355 Speaker 9: twelfth doubleheader because of inadequate crowd control and damage to 695 00:45:29,395 --> 00:45:33,035 Speaker 9: the playing field, both of which are the specific responsibility 696 00:45:33,035 --> 00:45:35,955 Speaker 9: of the home team. It is therefore required of me 697 00:45:36,115 --> 00:45:38,875 Speaker 9: that I declare this game forfeited to Detroit I a 698 00:45:39,075 --> 00:45:40,355 Speaker 9: score of nine to nothing. 699 00:45:40,555 --> 00:45:42,995 Speaker 6: At the PanAm Games in San Juan, the US women 700 00:45:43,035 --> 00:45:45,835 Speaker 6: took the silver medal in basketball, dropping their final game 701 00:45:45,835 --> 00:45:47,235 Speaker 6: to Cuba ninety one eighty six. 702 00:45:47,315 --> 00:45:47,835 Speaker 3: This evening. 703 00:45:47,995 --> 00:45:51,155 Speaker 6: Meanwhile, America's Mary Decker took the fifteen hundred meter race 704 00:45:51,275 --> 00:45:54,035 Speaker 6: and Wi Laplotte won the gold in the one meter 705 00:45:54,115 --> 00:45:56,915 Speaker 6: low hurdles. This afternoon, the US took gold medals in 706 00:45:56,955 --> 00:45:59,795 Speaker 6: both men's and women's tennis doubles, and mel Purcell won 707 00:45:59,795 --> 00:46:02,715 Speaker 6: the gold in men's singles. In golf, fitz Geralen Britz 708 00:46:02,795 --> 00:46:05,195 Speaker 6: leading the pack at the US Women's Open and can etquette. 709 00:46:05,195 --> 00:46:07,435 Speaker 6: She shot a two hundred part today and as the 710 00:46:07,515 --> 00:46:09,875 Speaker 6: lead by two strokes after the second round, and at 711 00:46:09,915 --> 00:46:11,835 Speaker 6: Dougherty leads the Greater Milwaukee Tournament. 712 00:46:11,875 --> 00:46:12,995 Speaker 3: He has a one stroke lead. 713 00:46:13,475 --> 00:46:16,835 Speaker 6: From the sports desk if United Press International, I'm Keith Oberman. 714 00:46:17,115 --> 00:46:19,435 Speaker 1: That's a lot of information for a two minute sportscast. 715 00:46:19,515 --> 00:46:22,155 Speaker 1: Kid Nolan Ryan, by the way, did not get his 716 00:46:22,195 --> 00:46:25,235 Speaker 1: fifth no hitter that night. An Angel's infielder fumbled a 717 00:46:25,315 --> 00:46:28,355 Speaker 1: Thurman Munson ground ball to start the ninth inning. Then 718 00:46:28,435 --> 00:46:31,515 Speaker 1: Greg Nettles popped out. Then Reggie Jackson got the first 719 00:46:31,595 --> 00:46:33,155 Speaker 1: Yankee hit of the game, and a moment later a 720 00:46:33,195 --> 00:46:37,515 Speaker 1: sacrifice fly took away Ryan's shutout two. It was the 721 00:46:37,555 --> 00:46:40,515 Speaker 1: second of five times Nolan Ryan lost a no hitter 722 00:46:40,595 --> 00:46:42,355 Speaker 1: in the ninth. He would get his fifth no hitter 723 00:46:42,395 --> 00:46:44,795 Speaker 1: two years later and got seven for his career and 724 00:46:44,875 --> 00:46:48,635 Speaker 1: lost five in the ninth. Amazingly, Thurman Munson would be 725 00:46:48,715 --> 00:46:51,435 Speaker 1: dead just twenty days later. There would be moments at 726 00:46:51,515 --> 00:46:53,475 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium the rest of that year that were not 727 00:46:53,675 --> 00:46:56,315 Speaker 1: overwhelmed by the shock of his death, but they were 728 00:46:56,435 --> 00:47:00,275 Speaker 1: very few. On September sixteenth, nineteen seventy nine, the great 729 00:47:00,315 --> 00:47:03,795 Speaker 1: Yankees and Athletics pitcher Jim Canfish Hunter was honored in 730 00:47:03,835 --> 00:47:06,555 Speaker 1: a retirement so ceremony, and I got to cover it, 731 00:47:06,595 --> 00:47:09,155 Speaker 1: and then I got to hear my reports on the 732 00:47:09,235 --> 00:47:11,995 Speaker 1: air on one of the New York radio stations. I 733 00:47:12,035 --> 00:47:15,155 Speaker 1: grew up listening to Hunter. Catfish Hunter, Who's retiring at 734 00:47:15,155 --> 00:47:17,715 Speaker 1: the end of the season, Keith Oberman reports. 735 00:47:17,635 --> 00:47:20,395 Speaker 8: After receiving gifts serious and comical and the praise of 736 00:47:20,395 --> 00:47:23,395 Speaker 8: his teammates as manager and the fans. Catfish Hunter marked 737 00:47:23,395 --> 00:47:26,435 Speaker 8: his retirement ceremony by noting the important people who could 738 00:47:26,475 --> 00:47:27,835 Speaker 8: not attend three people. 739 00:47:30,515 --> 00:47:37,315 Speaker 10: I wish him in here today, Scout the time, my clutch, 740 00:47:41,155 --> 00:47:52,515 Speaker 10: my dad, intirement money. 741 00:47:52,515 --> 00:47:55,275 Speaker 8: Potter leaves the Yankees to retire to his farm in Hertford, 742 00:47:55,275 --> 00:47:58,995 Speaker 8: North Carolina. Keith Oberman at Yankee Stadium, New York. He's 743 00:47:59,035 --> 00:48:01,515 Speaker 8: retiring at the end of the season, and Keith Oberman 744 00:48:01,595 --> 00:48:03,235 Speaker 8: has the tales Yankee showered. 745 00:48:03,235 --> 00:48:05,675 Speaker 6: They're retiring right hander with giff, a trip to Hawaii, 746 00:48:05,755 --> 00:48:08,395 Speaker 6: a pickup truck, and even a brown elephant. After his 747 00:48:08,435 --> 00:48:09,035 Speaker 6: teammates and. 748 00:48:08,955 --> 00:48:11,195 Speaker 3: The fans thanked him. It was time for Catfish Hunter 749 00:48:11,275 --> 00:48:11,555 Speaker 3: to do. 750 00:48:11,555 --> 00:48:13,715 Speaker 6: The thanking, and I thank you for all the gifts 751 00:48:13,755 --> 00:48:16,835 Speaker 6: that received the day, and thank God. 752 00:48:19,075 --> 00:48:20,435 Speaker 10: For giving me strength. 753 00:48:22,555 --> 00:48:27,555 Speaker 3: And let me be a ball player what always wanted 754 00:48:27,595 --> 00:48:27,875 Speaker 3: to be. 755 00:48:28,155 --> 00:48:28,995 Speaker 10: Thank you very much. 756 00:48:29,235 --> 00:48:31,995 Speaker 6: The thirty minute ceremony was the symbolic end of Hunter's 757 00:48:32,035 --> 00:48:34,715 Speaker 6: fifteen year major league career, a career that has to 758 00:48:34,795 --> 00:48:37,715 Speaker 6: date featured two hundred and twenty four victories. Hunter says 759 00:48:37,715 --> 00:48:40,195 Speaker 6: he'll miss his teammates, but he's missed his family even 760 00:48:40,235 --> 00:48:43,475 Speaker 6: more and plans to become a gentleman farmer in North Carolina. 761 00:48:43,915 --> 00:48:45,995 Speaker 6: Keith Overman at Yankee Stadium. 762 00:48:45,635 --> 00:48:46,195 Speaker 3: In New York. 763 00:48:46,595 --> 00:48:49,555 Speaker 1: Two things about that, it was such a different time. 764 00:48:49,595 --> 00:48:52,115 Speaker 1: I got to the ballpark early that Sunday morning, and 765 00:48:52,155 --> 00:48:55,395 Speaker 1: perhaps an hour before the ceremony, I saw Jim Hunter 766 00:48:55,435 --> 00:48:58,395 Speaker 1: sitting by himself in the dugout. I approached him for 767 00:48:58,435 --> 00:49:00,635 Speaker 1: an interview, explaining who I was and saying if he 768 00:49:00,675 --> 00:49:03,035 Speaker 1: was trying to take in the last day and just 769 00:49:03,195 --> 00:49:05,595 Speaker 1: contemplate things, I was sorry to intruded, and of course 770 00:49:05,595 --> 00:49:07,755 Speaker 1: we could skip the interview. He laughed and said, now 771 00:49:07,755 --> 00:49:09,555 Speaker 1: I'm just sitting here waiting for them to give me 772 00:49:09,635 --> 00:49:13,795 Speaker 1: them gag gifts. There was no pr person, no entourage 773 00:49:13,835 --> 00:49:16,915 Speaker 1: to keep me away, just him. I tried to get 774 00:49:16,955 --> 00:49:20,155 Speaker 1: him to repeat his most famous quote, his famous SoundBite 775 00:49:20,155 --> 00:49:21,915 Speaker 1: that all of us who ever heard it kept repeating 776 00:49:21,915 --> 00:49:24,475 Speaker 1: to each other for years, where he insisted his marm 777 00:49:24,595 --> 00:49:27,555 Speaker 1: was just fine, which was the answer to the question, Catfish, 778 00:49:27,555 --> 00:49:31,315 Speaker 1: how's your arm? Marm feels real good. And that leads 779 00:49:31,315 --> 00:49:34,995 Speaker 1: me to the second PostScript. There was also no malt box. 780 00:49:35,675 --> 00:49:38,555 Speaker 1: A malt box is an audio feed from a live 781 00:49:38,675 --> 00:49:41,275 Speaker 1: event at a press conference or off something like a 782 00:49:41,275 --> 00:49:44,675 Speaker 1: public address system while you know player is retiring and 783 00:49:44,715 --> 00:49:48,195 Speaker 1: giving his farewell speech. I asked the Yankees PR man 784 00:49:48,235 --> 00:49:50,475 Speaker 1: if there was somewhere I could plug in to record 785 00:49:50,555 --> 00:49:54,035 Speaker 1: Hunter's address. Nope, I said, you don't have a malt 786 00:49:54,035 --> 00:49:58,435 Speaker 1: box for the Catfish Hunter retirement speech. Nope. Could I 787 00:49:58,475 --> 00:50:00,555 Speaker 1: get on the field and just tape my microphone to 788 00:50:00,595 --> 00:50:04,595 Speaker 1: the PA mic and then stay crouched over with the photographers, Nope. 789 00:50:05,075 --> 00:50:07,195 Speaker 1: So I had to get creative. I was sent to 790 00:50:07,195 --> 00:50:11,035 Speaker 1: get the speech. Those clips of Catfish Hunter talking about 791 00:50:11,035 --> 00:50:14,595 Speaker 1: his teammates and supporters reverberating through the vast caverns of 792 00:50:14,675 --> 00:50:17,835 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium over the PA system were recorded by me 793 00:50:18,035 --> 00:50:22,435 Speaker 1: standing atop a garbage can next to the hot dog 794 00:50:22,595 --> 00:50:26,275 Speaker 1: stand next to the Yankee Stadium press box, and while 795 00:50:26,355 --> 00:50:28,955 Speaker 1: balancing and trying not to fall off the damn thing, 796 00:50:29,475 --> 00:50:33,595 Speaker 1: extending my right arm completely above my head and sticking 797 00:50:33,635 --> 00:50:38,355 Speaker 1: my microphone into one of the PA speakers hanging from 798 00:50:38,395 --> 00:50:42,755 Speaker 1: the ceiling. It worked. I got the tape, huh. I 799 00:50:42,795 --> 00:50:44,995 Speaker 1: mean you can still hear it. It's more than forty 800 00:50:44,995 --> 00:50:47,715 Speaker 1: three years ago now, and I'm still proud of it. 801 00:50:48,355 --> 00:50:51,635 Speaker 1: On the other hand, as I recalled this, my rotator 802 00:50:51,715 --> 00:51:10,635 Speaker 1: cuff passed out just by remembering the pain I've done 803 00:51:10,635 --> 00:51:12,835 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. 804 00:51:12,875 --> 00:51:16,875 Speaker 1: The good thing about having the tapes of those broadcasts 805 00:51:17,035 --> 00:51:20,595 Speaker 1: still is that it reminds me that a part of 806 00:51:20,635 --> 00:51:26,595 Speaker 1: me is still nervous about doing them, that it was 807 00:51:26,635 --> 00:51:30,795 Speaker 1: still so new and so novel and so promising that 808 00:51:30,875 --> 00:51:33,275 Speaker 1: I'm still nervous about it, and I will still in 809 00:51:33,435 --> 00:51:36,835 Speaker 1: dreams every once in a while find myself in that 810 00:51:36,995 --> 00:51:41,035 Speaker 1: little studio, usually without a script and having no idea 811 00:51:41,075 --> 00:51:44,435 Speaker 1: what it is I'm supposed to say, which I've now 812 00:51:44,435 --> 00:51:47,835 Speaker 1: turned into a podcast. Our musical directors of Countdown are 813 00:51:47,915 --> 00:51:51,555 Speaker 1: John Phillip Chanel on keyboards and handling orchestration, Brian Ray 814 00:51:51,715 --> 00:51:54,715 Speaker 1: on guitars, bass, drums, and of course the whole vibe 815 00:51:54,715 --> 00:51:59,475 Speaker 1: of the thing. Their work produced by TKL Brothers. TKO 816 00:51:59,595 --> 00:52:02,715 Speaker 1: Brothers are John Phillip Chanel, Brian Ray and Keith Olruman. 817 00:52:03,475 --> 00:52:06,875 Speaker 1: Nancy Fauss, the best Baby Spall Stadium organist ever, is 818 00:52:06,995 --> 00:52:11,115 Speaker 1: responsible for these satirical and pithy musical comments when we 819 00:52:11,155 --> 00:52:14,675 Speaker 1: play the sports music. It's the old Alderman Show theme 820 00:52:14,715 --> 00:52:17,875 Speaker 1: from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of 821 00:52:18,075 --> 00:52:20,795 Speaker 1: ESPN Inc. Of course, Nancy was connected to one of 822 00:52:20,795 --> 00:52:24,155 Speaker 1: the events you heard mentioned in there, the repercussions of 823 00:52:24,715 --> 00:52:31,075 Speaker 1: Disco Demolition Night any who other music arranged and performed 824 00:52:31,115 --> 00:52:33,315 Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed. And my announcer today 825 00:52:33,395 --> 00:52:36,075 Speaker 1: was my friend from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul 826 00:52:36,195 --> 00:52:41,195 Speaker 1: and Airplane, the great Jonathan Banks. This program was produced 827 00:52:41,195 --> 00:52:45,635 Speaker 1: by Ted. Everything else was as always my fault. It's 828 00:52:45,675 --> 00:52:49,075 Speaker 1: Countdown for today, Day four hundred and seventeen of America 829 00:52:49,115 --> 00:52:53,035 Speaker 1: held hostage again, just one and fifty four days until 830 00:52:53,035 --> 00:52:55,795 Speaker 1: the scheduled end of Trump's lame duck and lame brained 831 00:52:55,915 --> 00:53:00,315 Speaker 1: term unless he is removed sooner by Abstein. And how 832 00:53:00,355 --> 00:53:03,515 Speaker 1: we won in Iran and lost in Iran, and stayed 833 00:53:03,555 --> 00:53:07,355 Speaker 1: in Iran and have already left Iran. The next scheduled 834 00:53:07,355 --> 00:53:11,395 Speaker 1: countdown is Monday Bulletins. As the news merits until the 835 00:53:11,395 --> 00:53:14,315 Speaker 1: next edition. I'm Keith Alderman. Thank you for listening, good morning, 836 00:53:14,315 --> 00:53:33,595 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith 837 00:53:33,635 --> 00:53:38,675 Speaker 1: Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 838 00:53:38,835 --> 00:53:42,835 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 839 00:53:42,875 --> 00:53:44,035 Speaker 1: your podcasts.