1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:21,195 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. We 2 00:00:21,315 --> 00:00:26,075 Speaker 1: are now at the eugenics stage of Trump morphing into 3 00:00:26,755 --> 00:00:30,115 Speaker 1: Adolf Hitler. We are now at the they murder white 4 00:00:30,115 --> 00:00:34,115 Speaker 1: people because it is in their genes stage. I am 5 00:00:34,155 --> 00:00:38,875 Speaker 1: not exaggerating, I am just barely paraphrasing. Trump has now 6 00:00:38,955 --> 00:00:45,315 Speaker 1: moved one step closer to eugenics, to classifying entire races 7 00:00:45,355 --> 00:00:50,875 Speaker 1: and peoples and nationalities as genetically criminal, to fully embracing 8 00:00:50,875 --> 00:00:53,835 Speaker 1: the nightmare in sanity of Adolf Hitler, to ethnic cleansing 9 00:00:53,875 --> 00:00:57,395 Speaker 1: and persecution of immigrants because he thinks they will commit 10 00:00:57,475 --> 00:01:01,755 Speaker 1: murder or other crimes, as Politico described it, a blood libel. 11 00:01:02,595 --> 00:01:06,595 Speaker 1: In an interview with the conservative Bob Head Doll of commentators, 12 00:01:06,955 --> 00:01:08,435 Speaker 1: Hugh hewittt. 13 00:01:08,075 --> 00:01:11,075 Speaker 2: How about allowing people to come through an open border, 14 00:01:11,915 --> 00:01:15,635 Speaker 2: a thirteen thousand of which were murderers, many of them 15 00:01:15,755 --> 00:01:18,435 Speaker 2: murdered far more than one person, and they are now 16 00:01:18,475 --> 00:01:21,395 Speaker 2: happily living in the United States. You know, now a murderer. 17 00:01:21,475 --> 00:01:24,595 Speaker 2: I believe this. It's in their genes, and we got 18 00:01:24,795 --> 00:01:26,795 Speaker 2: a lot of bad gens in our country right now. 19 00:01:26,995 --> 00:01:30,275 Speaker 1: There can be no mitigation of that. There can be 20 00:01:30,315 --> 00:01:33,595 Speaker 1: no excuses. There's no well, I meant something else. It 21 00:01:33,755 --> 00:01:38,435 Speaker 1: is literally where Hitler started, and it is full circle. 22 00:01:38,515 --> 00:01:42,995 Speaker 1: Because eugenics was originally mistakenly posited as a way to 23 00:01:43,635 --> 00:01:48,755 Speaker 1: speed up evolution to improve overall health. Then in this country, 24 00:01:49,115 --> 00:01:51,755 Speaker 1: after eighteen ninety or so, it became an excuse to 25 00:01:51,875 --> 00:01:55,795 Speaker 1: use prejudice and law to prevent certain people having children 26 00:01:56,275 --> 00:02:00,715 Speaker 1: in a series of measures that included anti miscegenation laws, 27 00:02:01,035 --> 00:02:04,915 Speaker 1: laws that made interracial marriage illegal, measures that attract the 28 00:02:04,955 --> 00:02:08,595 Speaker 1: attention of Hitler and his earliest co conspirators in Germany, 29 00:02:08,955 --> 00:02:12,075 Speaker 1: and formed the basis of their Nuremberg Laws, which in 30 00:02:12,115 --> 00:02:17,755 Speaker 1: turn formed the basis of the Holocaust. This is where 31 00:02:17,755 --> 00:02:21,915 Speaker 1: it starts. Can't let the immigrants in. All the immigrants 32 00:02:21,915 --> 00:02:24,795 Speaker 1: are murderers. Look I made up a number. It's in 33 00:02:24,835 --> 00:02:27,795 Speaker 1: their blood. We got a lot of bad genes in 34 00:02:27,835 --> 00:02:33,715 Speaker 1: our country right now. Put them in camps. Trump spokesperson 35 00:02:33,835 --> 00:02:37,715 Speaker 1: Katherine Levitt lied that Trump was quote referring to murderers, 36 00:02:37,755 --> 00:02:40,875 Speaker 1: not migrants, unquote, which I guess is why he had 37 00:02:40,915 --> 00:02:44,395 Speaker 1: just referred to the border and twisted the number of immigrants. 38 00:02:45,035 --> 00:02:49,035 Speaker 1: It's thirteen thousand, ninety nine non citizens who have been 39 00:02:49,035 --> 00:02:52,715 Speaker 1: convicted over the last several decades, the ones who are 40 00:02:52,795 --> 00:03:01,635 Speaker 1: in jail, because he meant murderers, not migrants. Last night, 41 00:03:01,675 --> 00:03:04,395 Speaker 1: though he was too terrified to be interviewed by sixty minutes, 42 00:03:04,435 --> 00:03:06,115 Speaker 1: he did talk to Laura Ingram, and I can tell 43 00:03:06,115 --> 00:03:08,475 Speaker 1: you without fear of contradiction, that once there was nothing 44 00:03:08,515 --> 00:03:12,195 Speaker 1: worse than talking to Laura Ingram. But she has lost 45 00:03:12,235 --> 00:03:15,475 Speaker 1: her fastball years ago, along with her ability to move 46 00:03:15,515 --> 00:03:18,995 Speaker 1: all of her facial muscles. Trump didn't get quite as 47 00:03:19,075 --> 00:03:22,195 Speaker 1: literal about eugenics with her, but he did say, quote 48 00:03:22,675 --> 00:03:25,395 Speaker 1: to women, I will keep you safe. I'm not going 49 00:03:25,435 --> 00:03:28,835 Speaker 1: to allow prisoners to come out from Venezuela, the Congo, 50 00:03:29,195 --> 00:03:32,555 Speaker 1: the Middle East, Yemen. I'm going to keep you safe. 51 00:03:32,675 --> 00:03:35,235 Speaker 1: I'm not going to let them hurt you. 52 00:03:38,035 --> 00:03:38,195 Speaker 2: Oh. 53 00:03:38,235 --> 00:03:40,915 Speaker 1: In just in case you wanted more context than juxtaposition, 54 00:03:40,955 --> 00:03:44,075 Speaker 1: and the image of Hugh Hewitt mindlessly agreeing with this 55 00:03:44,235 --> 00:03:48,595 Speaker 1: monster Trump, like Hewitt, the bobblehead doll was in a 56 00:03:48,595 --> 00:03:52,155 Speaker 1: car that had just vaulted a pothole. Trump moved on 57 00:03:52,475 --> 00:03:55,435 Speaker 1: from eugenics to how Israel does not support him enough, 58 00:03:55,475 --> 00:03:58,955 Speaker 1: and he quickly conflated Israel and all Jewish people and 59 00:03:59,035 --> 00:04:02,675 Speaker 1: all American Jewish people and with we got a lot 60 00:04:02,675 --> 00:04:05,595 Speaker 1: of bad jeans in our country right now. Well, having 61 00:04:05,675 --> 00:04:08,035 Speaker 1: just said that, Trump then said. 62 00:04:07,835 --> 00:04:10,355 Speaker 2: This, I think the Israel has to do one thing. 63 00:04:10,475 --> 00:04:13,355 Speaker 2: They have to get smart about Trump because they don't 64 00:04:13,395 --> 00:04:16,635 Speaker 2: back me. I did more for Israel than anybody. I 65 00:04:16,675 --> 00:04:19,995 Speaker 2: did more for the Jewish people than anybody. And it's 66 00:04:20,035 --> 00:04:22,715 Speaker 2: not a reciprocal as I say that, I think their. 67 00:04:22,675 --> 00:04:24,475 Speaker 1: Numbers are rising with Jewish Americans. 68 00:04:24,475 --> 00:04:25,835 Speaker 2: They may not say it out loud, but I think 69 00:04:25,875 --> 00:04:26,395 Speaker 2: they're rising. 70 00:04:26,435 --> 00:04:28,635 Speaker 1: Mister President, one hundred. 71 00:04:28,355 --> 00:04:30,355 Speaker 2: Percent, and I'll never hit that, but we should have 72 00:04:30,395 --> 00:04:31,235 Speaker 2: one hundred percent. 73 00:04:31,595 --> 00:04:34,155 Speaker 1: I don't know how much more he has to tell 74 00:04:34,235 --> 00:04:38,155 Speaker 1: this country before even the coalition of the stupid and 75 00:04:38,195 --> 00:04:42,995 Speaker 1: the hateful realizes that sooner rather than later, a Trump 76 00:04:43,155 --> 00:04:47,155 Speaker 1: returned to power will attempt to stay in power beyond 77 00:04:47,195 --> 00:04:53,915 Speaker 1: his expiration date by killing somebody they like, even a 78 00:04:53,995 --> 00:04:58,795 Speaker 1: tech bro or an Aryan with not enough Aryan blood 79 00:04:58,915 --> 00:05:03,915 Speaker 1: in him, or a Nick Fuentes because sorry, Nick Fuentes 80 00:05:03,995 --> 00:05:07,115 Speaker 1: is the same name as some of them immigrants. He 81 00:05:07,275 --> 00:05:11,395 Speaker 1: just vowed to protect the white women from or jd 82 00:05:11,635 --> 00:05:14,435 Speaker 1: Vance because Trump has a really bad loyalty record with 83 00:05:14,555 --> 00:05:20,715 Speaker 1: Vice presidents. A nice clean electoral win by Kamala Harris 84 00:05:21,035 --> 00:05:24,755 Speaker 1: will stave this off. More on how clean that win 85 00:05:24,915 --> 00:05:27,515 Speaker 1: needs to be in a moment, But it will not 86 00:05:27,795 --> 00:05:30,075 Speaker 1: end it, and I don't know what will end it. 87 00:05:31,155 --> 00:05:34,355 Speaker 1: These are not people smart enough to understand that they 88 00:05:34,395 --> 00:05:39,355 Speaker 1: can own dozens of guns each and they still will 89 00:05:39,355 --> 00:05:41,435 Speaker 1: not survive to see the end of the first minute 90 00:05:41,475 --> 00:05:45,275 Speaker 1: of this civil war. They hunger for because they think 91 00:05:45,315 --> 00:05:48,635 Speaker 1: life is some video game and they cannot grasp the 92 00:05:48,675 --> 00:05:56,355 Speaker 1: reality of gun versus tank. To wander off the news 93 00:05:56,355 --> 00:05:58,555 Speaker 1: for a second, this is the coalition of the stupid 94 00:05:58,595 --> 00:06:00,875 Speaker 1: and the hateful. And I was asked again recently about 95 00:06:00,875 --> 00:06:04,355 Speaker 1: the core math here. How is this possible in the 96 00:06:04,355 --> 00:06:09,115 Speaker 1: twenty first century in this country as sawed off and 97 00:06:09,275 --> 00:06:12,995 Speaker 1: stupid as we can be. I can't exactly do the 98 00:06:13,035 --> 00:06:17,555 Speaker 1: etymology of the thing, But my secret suspicion is we 99 00:06:17,595 --> 00:06:21,515 Speaker 1: should have never stopped making the stupid kids repeat a 100 00:06:21,635 --> 00:06:25,875 Speaker 1: year or two of school, if nothing else, that used 101 00:06:25,915 --> 00:06:29,955 Speaker 1: to teach them that you could get caught. But the 102 00:06:29,995 --> 00:06:33,315 Speaker 1: core math of what's in this coalition is not difficult. 103 00:06:34,155 --> 00:06:36,035 Speaker 1: How could there be so many of them? I mean, 104 00:06:36,075 --> 00:06:39,115 Speaker 1: if you consider the components of the coalition. What do 105 00:06:39,195 --> 00:06:42,515 Speaker 1: you really need? What percentage of the country needs to 106 00:06:42,555 --> 00:06:46,755 Speaker 1: be and to vote based on sheer pure racism. Let's 107 00:06:46,795 --> 00:06:50,955 Speaker 1: go low five percent. Then what percentage of the country 108 00:06:50,995 --> 00:06:55,635 Speaker 1: needs to be and to vote based on apocalyptic religious insanity? 109 00:06:56,475 --> 00:07:01,515 Speaker 1: Just another five percent? Anti Semitism yet, just another five percent, 110 00:07:01,555 --> 00:07:05,955 Speaker 1: gun nuts five percent, misogynists, five percent, homophobes, five percent, 111 00:07:06,275 --> 00:07:09,435 Speaker 1: economic failures looking for somebody else to blame five percent, 112 00:07:09,835 --> 00:07:15,835 Speaker 1: absolutely functional, insane people like Trump just five percent. I 113 00:07:15,875 --> 00:07:18,155 Speaker 1: hate to tell you this, but we're already at forty percent. 114 00:07:19,075 --> 00:07:23,755 Speaker 1: All you need is six percent more six percent rich 115 00:07:23,835 --> 00:07:28,515 Speaker 1: people who realized they could stitch this coalition together and 116 00:07:28,675 --> 00:07:32,675 Speaker 1: exploit these hatreds and fears and stupidities, and forty percenters, 117 00:07:32,915 --> 00:07:35,635 Speaker 1: and there you are. You are now at forty six percent, 118 00:07:37,315 --> 00:07:39,995 Speaker 1: the latest number from the five thirty eight average of polls. 119 00:07:40,715 --> 00:07:45,075 Speaker 1: Trump is at forty five point nine percent. For Christ's sake, 120 00:07:45,635 --> 00:08:15,195 Speaker 1: he's underperforming, by the way. That is Donald Trump, coward, fraud, loser, feckless, weakling, 121 00:08:15,435 --> 00:08:19,955 Speaker 1: yellow bellied candy ass who agreed to then backed out 122 00:08:19,955 --> 00:08:22,555 Speaker 1: of the sixty minutes interview last night. If Kamala Harris 123 00:08:22,595 --> 00:08:25,115 Speaker 1: had backed out of the sixty minutes interview last night. 124 00:08:25,435 --> 00:08:27,715 Speaker 1: There would have been a special edition of The New 125 00:08:27,795 --> 00:08:32,195 Speaker 1: York Times printed about it before eleven thirty pm Eastern Time, 126 00:08:32,515 --> 00:08:37,475 Speaker 1: just about that one story. But he did do that 127 00:08:37,595 --> 00:08:45,035 Speaker 1: interview with Hughgenics. Hugh Eugenics, h huh, anti semitism, mister president, 128 00:08:45,115 --> 00:08:50,275 Speaker 1: gotcha Hewitt. It was Carlos Losada, in his book, A 129 00:08:50,315 --> 00:08:53,275 Speaker 1: Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era, who noted that 130 00:08:53,355 --> 00:08:57,075 Speaker 1: in his Trump Book in twenty seventeen, Hugh Hewitt insisted 131 00:08:57,115 --> 00:09:00,715 Speaker 1: Trump was quote not likely to casually tempt the impeachment 132 00:09:00,755 --> 00:09:09,035 Speaker 1: gods would instead self regulate and thus rule quote inclusively, energetically, joyously, 133 00:09:09,635 --> 00:09:13,075 Speaker 1: and that in turn would transform America into a quote 134 00:09:13,315 --> 00:09:21,435 Speaker 1: booming generous, open handed republic of virtue. Just remember Hugh 135 00:09:21,475 --> 00:09:29,275 Speaker 1: hewitt bobblehead doll, only the head has fallen off, kind 136 00:09:29,275 --> 00:09:32,075 Speaker 1: of like Laura Ingram, only they stitched it back on. 137 00:09:35,595 --> 00:09:38,595 Speaker 1: Which lets me circle back to Hewitt's nonchalant response to 138 00:09:38,635 --> 00:09:41,995 Speaker 1: eugenics and miscegenation and laws against certain races marrying each 139 00:09:42,035 --> 00:09:44,675 Speaker 1: other even though race is an artificial construct. You do 140 00:09:44,835 --> 00:09:48,715 Speaker 1: know that last March, the Republican Senator from Indiana, Mike 141 00:09:48,795 --> 00:09:53,555 Speaker 1: Braun went on at length to the media about how 142 00:09:53,555 --> 00:09:57,235 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court was completely wrong to even rule on 143 00:09:57,315 --> 00:10:01,515 Speaker 1: a case known as Loving versus Virginia, and that the 144 00:10:01,595 --> 00:10:04,955 Speaker 1: issue that Loving versus Virginia should have been left to 145 00:10:05,075 --> 00:10:10,035 Speaker 1: and should now be returned to the state. Loving versus Virginia, 146 00:10:10,035 --> 00:10:12,955 Speaker 1: of course, was the case that wiped away the last 147 00:10:12,995 --> 00:10:19,635 Speaker 1: state laws banning interracial marriage in nineteen sixty seven. After 148 00:10:19,715 --> 00:10:22,995 Speaker 1: the understandable blowback to his remark, Senator bron rushed out 149 00:10:22,995 --> 00:10:26,595 Speaker 1: a statement saying he'd misunderstood the line of questioning, and 150 00:10:26,675 --> 00:10:30,555 Speaker 1: he condemns racism, and there's no question the Constitution prohibits 151 00:10:30,555 --> 00:10:33,435 Speaker 1: discrimination of any kind based on race, even though that 152 00:10:33,595 --> 00:10:36,595 Speaker 1: is exactly the platform Trump and the Republicans were running 153 00:10:36,595 --> 00:10:41,035 Speaker 1: on in March and are running on now. Also, you 154 00:10:41,115 --> 00:10:43,115 Speaker 1: know as well as I do that in my hypothetical 155 00:10:43,155 --> 00:10:45,315 Speaker 1: math about the pie chart, that is the coalition of 156 00:10:45,355 --> 00:10:48,955 Speaker 1: the stupid and the hateful, the overlap number of stupid 157 00:10:48,995 --> 00:10:53,395 Speaker 1: and homophobic and stupid and antisemitic and stupid and anything 158 00:10:53,435 --> 00:10:58,035 Speaker 1: else is huge, and most of it is in Congress. 159 00:10:59,515 --> 00:11:02,955 Speaker 1: I mean, trump ists are now claiming Facebook is censoring 160 00:11:02,995 --> 00:11:07,075 Speaker 1: a photo of Trump helping the victims in Georgia. He 161 00:11:07,195 --> 00:11:12,275 Speaker 1: is shown in an AI image handing them rolls of 162 00:11:12,315 --> 00:11:16,435 Speaker 1: paper towels, presumably left over from his trip to Puerto Rico. 163 00:11:17,875 --> 00:11:22,915 Speaker 1: In this image, he is in knee high water in 164 00:11:22,995 --> 00:11:28,275 Speaker 1: a suit, having presumably just tried and failed to walk 165 00:11:28,875 --> 00:11:35,235 Speaker 1: on said water. Also, it's five days now since Crow 166 00:11:35,235 --> 00:11:38,555 Speaker 1: magnet woman Marjorie Taylor Green posted, Yes, they can control 167 00:11:38,595 --> 00:11:40,795 Speaker 1: the weather. It's ridiculous for anyone to lie and say 168 00:11:40,795 --> 00:11:45,235 Speaker 1: it can't be done. It's just two days since Candace Taylor, 169 00:11:45,595 --> 00:11:49,115 Speaker 1: Republican Chairperson in the Georgia First and that's Candace with 170 00:11:49,195 --> 00:11:53,915 Speaker 1: a K and two s's Candace Taylor wrote the weather 171 00:11:53,995 --> 00:11:57,675 Speaker 1: canon is being manipulated. Wake up, stop being ignorant or 172 00:11:57,675 --> 00:12:02,715 Speaker 1: playing stupid. There's no such thing as coincidence. That's coincidences 173 00:12:02,715 --> 00:12:06,395 Speaker 1: with a C and one s now. Marge has gone 174 00:12:06,435 --> 00:12:09,475 Speaker 1: back for a second bite, showing a twenty thirteen clip 175 00:12:09,915 --> 00:12:13,995 Speaker 1: from the CBS Morning News about maybe someday using lasers 176 00:12:14,635 --> 00:12:16,715 Speaker 1: to try in some way to fend off the worst 177 00:12:16,755 --> 00:12:21,955 Speaker 1: of climate change, and Marge rights lasers. CBS nine years 178 00:12:21,995 --> 00:12:27,035 Speaker 1: ago talked about lasers controlling the wead. There, Okay, start 179 00:12:27,075 --> 00:12:29,595 Speaker 1: with the fact that twenty thirteen is eleven years ago, 180 00:12:29,955 --> 00:12:36,115 Speaker 1: not nine, you moron. Also, March has gone back to 181 00:12:36,155 --> 00:12:40,435 Speaker 1: her greatest hits, the Jewish space lasers. What I don't 182 00:12:40,515 --> 00:12:45,475 Speaker 1: understand about this latest belief that they, presumably Joe Biden 183 00:12:45,515 --> 00:12:49,875 Speaker 1: and Kamala Harris Tim Walls maybe can control the weather. 184 00:12:50,235 --> 00:12:53,195 Speaker 1: They What I don't understand isn't the fact that it 185 00:12:53,195 --> 00:12:57,355 Speaker 1: implies that if weather is man made, then climate change 186 00:12:57,395 --> 00:13:02,155 Speaker 1: is certainly man made. They can rationalize the difference between 187 00:13:02,155 --> 00:13:05,915 Speaker 1: those things. Really, climate changes man made, and you're doing 188 00:13:05,955 --> 00:13:09,955 Speaker 1: it deliberately to drive up the price of gasoline. That's 189 00:13:09,995 --> 00:13:12,035 Speaker 1: not what Bothers may not even the idea that it 190 00:13:12,035 --> 00:13:13,995 Speaker 1: has not occurred to them that if the Democrats can 191 00:13:14,035 --> 00:13:16,795 Speaker 1: control the weather, they need to start being way nicer 192 00:13:16,835 --> 00:13:20,195 Speaker 1: to Democrats. What I don't understand about all of it 193 00:13:20,235 --> 00:13:24,355 Speaker 1: is this You are saying that Democrats can control the weather, 194 00:13:25,475 --> 00:13:30,715 Speaker 1: but Trump could not, That Trump was not smart enough 195 00:13:30,755 --> 00:13:36,035 Speaker 1: to know how to control the weather, That Republicans are dumber, 196 00:13:36,955 --> 00:13:41,115 Speaker 1: that dementia Jy just couldn't find the on off switch. 197 00:13:43,995 --> 00:13:48,755 Speaker 1: Biden is sending hurricanes to screw up Republican early voting 198 00:13:48,835 --> 00:13:52,115 Speaker 1: in Georgia, but Trumpy never got further than drawing on 199 00:13:52,355 --> 00:13:57,515 Speaker 1: Noah maps of hurricane paths with a sharpie. You're saying 200 00:13:57,635 --> 00:14:05,035 Speaker 1: the Democrats can control the weather, but Republicans can't. Well 201 00:14:05,155 --> 00:14:07,475 Speaker 1: damn vote Democrat every time. Let's get more of those 202 00:14:07,515 --> 00:14:20,315 Speaker 1: seventy five degree light breeze, low humidity days. Huh I 203 00:14:20,395 --> 00:14:23,355 Speaker 1: suggested here yesterday it was time to cancel all of 204 00:14:23,435 --> 00:14:28,035 Speaker 1: Elon Musk's government contracts and reevaluate his immigration status because 205 00:14:28,075 --> 00:14:31,915 Speaker 1: he was now actively interfering with the relief efforts post 206 00:14:32,035 --> 00:14:35,955 Speaker 1: hurricane and had turned twitter x into a donation in 207 00:14:36,035 --> 00:14:40,835 Speaker 1: kind to Trump's campaign. And there was some tisk tisking 208 00:14:40,915 --> 00:14:44,595 Speaker 1: that we shouldn't go that far and interfere in private 209 00:14:44,715 --> 00:14:50,555 Speaker 1: business and shut up Washington Post. Quote. Republicans backing Donald 210 00:14:50,595 --> 00:14:53,715 Speaker 1: Trump are threatening Deloitte, a consulting firm that is one 211 00:14:53,755 --> 00:14:56,555 Speaker 1: of the federal government's largest business partners, with the loss 212 00:14:56,555 --> 00:15:01,475 Speaker 1: of billions of dollars in contracts because an employee shared 213 00:15:01,555 --> 00:15:05,115 Speaker 1: messages from twenty twenty in which JD. Vance, the GOP 214 00:15:05,235 --> 00:15:10,795 Speaker 1: vice presidential nominee, criticized the then president's record. On September 215 00:15:10,835 --> 00:15:15,315 Speaker 1: twenty seventh, Donald Trump Junior, He's a OO day if 216 00:15:15,315 --> 00:15:18,755 Speaker 1: you're keeping track, expose the employee's name and photographed to 217 00:15:18,875 --> 00:15:21,915 Speaker 1: millions of people on social media, writing maybe it's time 218 00:15:21,915 --> 00:15:30,115 Speaker 1: for the jop and Deloitte's taxpayer funded gravy trade. Others, 219 00:15:30,435 --> 00:15:34,995 Speaker 1: including Vance's chief spokesman and a Republican senator, circulated Trump 220 00:15:35,075 --> 00:15:39,755 Speaker 1: Junior's comments, and the conservative website Breitbart published a story 221 00:15:39,835 --> 00:15:43,955 Speaker 1: naming the man and highlighting his job. So save me 222 00:15:44,035 --> 00:15:49,995 Speaker 1: the tisking on Musk. The good Musk news is his 223 00:15:50,515 --> 00:15:54,955 Speaker 1: prancing around like a strung out idiot on stage who 224 00:15:55,035 --> 00:15:57,715 Speaker 1: needed a large and was wearing a small shirt in 225 00:15:57,755 --> 00:16:03,115 Speaker 1: Wisconsin Saturday. That went so well. He's going to campaign 226 00:16:03,235 --> 00:16:07,155 Speaker 1: for Trump and Pennsylvania between now an election day. Musk's 227 00:16:07,235 --> 00:16:13,155 Speaker 1: net favorability score is minus eleven. I mean, even jd 228 00:16:13,435 --> 00:16:17,835 Speaker 1: Vance is only minus ten. But Musk thinks he can 229 00:16:17,915 --> 00:16:22,075 Speaker 1: be president someday, or if Trump gets elected, he can 230 00:16:22,115 --> 00:16:26,355 Speaker 1: be de facto president with Trump as the mere spokesmodel. 231 00:16:27,755 --> 00:16:34,795 Speaker 1: Good send more elon Musk. Tamp down that whole Republicans 232 00:16:34,795 --> 00:16:40,835 Speaker 1: are weirdos vibe boost the Republicans are evil inconfident billionaire 233 00:16:41,195 --> 00:16:47,315 Speaker 1: weirdos vibe to that end, Musk is trying to bribe 234 00:16:47,475 --> 00:16:52,595 Speaker 1: voters sign our petition to support the constitution also earn 235 00:16:52,675 --> 00:16:56,115 Speaker 1: forty seven dollars for every person you refer to sign 236 00:16:56,195 --> 00:17:01,315 Speaker 1: the petition if they're in a swing state. Easy money. 237 00:17:02,355 --> 00:17:05,595 Speaker 1: The quote petition he is referring to support for the 238 00:17:05,675 --> 00:17:08,995 Speaker 1: first and second amendments, and the rest of it is 239 00:17:09,155 --> 00:17:14,635 Speaker 1: just personal information you have to fill in. It's a registration. 240 00:17:16,795 --> 00:17:21,955 Speaker 1: He's buying swing state voter details in order to micro 241 00:17:22,115 --> 00:17:25,515 Speaker 1: target them with advertisements in the last month of the campaign, 242 00:17:26,195 --> 00:17:30,715 Speaker 1: like the Russians did with Facebook in twenty sixteen. Perhaps 243 00:17:30,755 --> 00:17:35,395 Speaker 1: more important to the victims of this scam, forty seven 244 00:17:35,475 --> 00:17:50,515 Speaker 1: dollars from Elon Musk. You're getting that in advance, right, 245 00:17:51,675 --> 00:17:56,155 Speaker 1: Possibly the best pulsters out there, Tip tipp pulling for 246 00:17:56,195 --> 00:18:00,235 Speaker 1: a group of called Issues and Insights back with Harris 247 00:18:00,355 --> 00:18:06,395 Speaker 1: forty nine, Trump forty six. Research company Polling based in Vancouver. 248 00:18:07,395 --> 00:18:12,635 Speaker 1: Vancouver has Harris by four in polling It says closed Sunday. 249 00:18:12,835 --> 00:18:14,995 Speaker 1: The five point thirty eight average of polls is at 250 00:18:15,035 --> 00:18:17,795 Speaker 1: Harris forty eight and a half, Trump just under forty six. 251 00:18:18,435 --> 00:18:21,835 Speaker 1: And more importantly, there are two pieces of polling insight 252 00:18:22,275 --> 00:18:25,835 Speaker 1: that are not predictions and aren't likely voters and aren't 253 00:18:25,875 --> 00:18:30,395 Speaker 1: registered voters, and aren't margins of error, but are about 254 00:18:30,515 --> 00:18:33,395 Speaker 1: one weird trick that makes all the polls different from 255 00:18:33,435 --> 00:18:37,115 Speaker 1: one another. Nate Cohne of The New York Times wrote 256 00:18:37,155 --> 00:18:41,395 Speaker 1: something in which he says the polls, which are weighted 257 00:18:41,475 --> 00:18:45,235 Speaker 1: in favor of how respondents think they voted last time, 258 00:18:46,955 --> 00:18:50,435 Speaker 1: that one detail is the difference among all the polls. 259 00:18:50,715 --> 00:18:53,115 Speaker 1: If you put more and more of these people in 260 00:18:53,195 --> 00:18:56,355 Speaker 1: your poll, your poll will look more and more like 261 00:18:56,995 --> 00:19:01,515 Speaker 1: how everybody did vote last time. It becomes confirmation bias. 262 00:19:02,595 --> 00:19:06,115 Speaker 1: Cone says The Times doesn't do that, which is why 263 00:19:06,195 --> 00:19:09,395 Speaker 1: their polls are so out there by themselves. Yeah, yeah, 264 00:19:09,435 --> 00:19:12,595 Speaker 1: that's why I'm not sure I'm buying any of that. 265 00:19:13,035 --> 00:19:14,875 Speaker 1: And he gets so deep in the weeds it would 266 00:19:14,915 --> 00:19:17,275 Speaker 1: be impossible for me to recap his piece for you 267 00:19:17,355 --> 00:19:20,115 Speaker 1: here in under four hours, but if you have time, 268 00:19:20,195 --> 00:19:23,835 Speaker 1: read it at least for one reason, Cohne confesses, without 269 00:19:23,875 --> 00:19:27,675 Speaker 1: realizing it, that poll numbers are about one quarter what 270 00:19:27,835 --> 00:19:33,035 Speaker 1: respondents actually tell polsters at about three quarters. Which of 271 00:19:33,115 --> 00:19:36,795 Speaker 1: these numbers polsters choose to include and which they don't. 272 00:19:38,675 --> 00:19:41,275 Speaker 1: As to the other bit of insight, Nate Silver reminds 273 00:19:41,315 --> 00:19:43,315 Speaker 1: me why I was the one who first put him 274 00:19:43,355 --> 00:19:46,395 Speaker 1: on TV to talk political numbers, not just baseball stats, 275 00:19:46,435 --> 00:19:49,115 Speaker 1: because when he sticks to the numbers, he's still good. 276 00:19:50,075 --> 00:19:52,755 Speaker 1: He has now produced an easy to read chart that 277 00:19:52,915 --> 00:19:56,235 Speaker 1: correlates how much Harris or Trump would have to win 278 00:19:56,315 --> 00:19:59,915 Speaker 1: the popular vote by in order to win the electoral 279 00:19:59,995 --> 00:20:04,195 Speaker 1: college vote. The gist, Trump is still the favorite to 280 00:20:04,235 --> 00:20:07,035 Speaker 1: win if he wins the popular vote by any margin, 281 00:20:07,475 --> 00:20:09,875 Speaker 1: but he's also the favorite to win if he loses 282 00:20:09,955 --> 00:20:14,115 Speaker 1: the popular vote by anything up to three percent. Not guaranteed, 283 00:20:14,795 --> 00:20:18,195 Speaker 1: but Silver says a Harris popular win by one percent 284 00:20:18,475 --> 00:20:21,355 Speaker 1: would still give Trump an eighty nine percent chance in 285 00:20:21,395 --> 00:20:26,355 Speaker 1: the electoral College. Harris by anywhere from one point to 286 00:20:26,435 --> 00:20:29,315 Speaker 1: two points, Trump is still a sixty nine percent favorite. 287 00:20:29,355 --> 00:20:32,395 Speaker 1: Two points to three points for Harris, nearly thirty eight 288 00:20:32,435 --> 00:20:36,835 Speaker 1: percent chance of Trump winning in the EC Above three percent, 289 00:20:37,115 --> 00:20:41,475 Speaker 1: Trump begins to expire thirteen and a half percent. Trump. 290 00:20:41,995 --> 00:20:45,235 Speaker 1: In the three to four range, Harris wins by four 291 00:20:45,275 --> 00:20:48,715 Speaker 1: percent or four point one percent, or four point two whatever. 292 00:20:48,955 --> 00:20:53,235 Speaker 1: Her electoral college chance is ninety six point six percent. 293 00:20:53,835 --> 00:20:57,075 Speaker 1: If she gets to five points in the popular vote, 294 00:20:57,315 --> 00:21:01,275 Speaker 1: her chances in the electoral college rise above ninety nine percent. 295 00:21:01,395 --> 00:21:04,875 Speaker 1: If she gets to six points, it's ninety nine nine 296 00:21:05,115 --> 00:21:11,995 Speaker 1: zero point nine percent hers ninety nine point nine percent. 297 00:21:12,875 --> 00:21:24,435 Speaker 1: That is still to fing close. Also of interest, here, hey, 298 00:21:24,555 --> 00:21:28,155 Speaker 1: they convicted the guy who actually illegally shot those geese 299 00:21:28,155 --> 00:21:31,795 Speaker 1: on the golf course in Springfield, Ohio. His name is 300 00:21:31,955 --> 00:21:41,155 Speaker 1: Brian Brian Comer. Hey, wait a minute, Comer like Representative Comber. Well, 301 00:21:41,235 --> 00:21:46,555 Speaker 1: that's akwinky dinky. Also, guess where Brian Comer is not from. 302 00:21:47,115 --> 00:21:54,395 Speaker 1: That's right, He's not from Haiti. He's from Springfield, e Fing, Ohio. 303 00:21:55,395 --> 00:22:00,395 Speaker 1: And here's another shock. Brian Comer geese shooter is a 304 00:22:00,475 --> 00:22:06,955 Speaker 1: pasty white guy. That's next. This is Countdown. This is 305 00:22:07,075 --> 00:22:30,595 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith old Woodman still ahead of us on 306 00:22:30,635 --> 00:22:34,755 Speaker 1: this edition of Countdown. Well, Howard Stern, the latest stop 307 00:22:34,875 --> 00:22:38,835 Speaker 1: on the Kamala Harris interview blitz that the political media 308 00:22:38,915 --> 00:22:42,315 Speaker 1: will not acknowledge is a political blitz because look, if 309 00:22:42,355 --> 00:22:47,435 Speaker 1: anybody can interview presidential candidates, if Howard can, if Alex 310 00:22:47,515 --> 00:22:51,315 Speaker 1: Cooper can, and if they can interview them insightfully, what 311 00:22:51,355 --> 00:22:54,915 Speaker 1: do you need political media for? I mean, how did 312 00:22:54,955 --> 00:22:58,435 Speaker 1: they not see this coming? The best political interviewer of 313 00:22:58,475 --> 00:23:03,355 Speaker 1: the last half century was David Letterman, not David Muir, 314 00:23:03,555 --> 00:23:07,435 Speaker 1: David Brinkley. Anyway, Howard is in the news, and so 315 00:23:07,715 --> 00:23:11,515 Speaker 1: is the last half century. Because I literally met Howard 316 00:23:11,595 --> 00:23:18,955 Speaker 1: Stern fifty years ago. Might have been fifty years ago today, 317 00:23:19,875 --> 00:23:23,155 Speaker 1: it certainly is either fifty years ago this month or 318 00:23:23,275 --> 00:23:27,995 Speaker 1: fifty years ago next month, and it completely redirected the 319 00:23:28,075 --> 00:23:34,395 Speaker 1: course of my life. Twenty year old Howard meets fifteen 320 00:23:34,475 --> 00:23:38,315 Speaker 1: year old Keith next in things I promised not to 321 00:23:38,355 --> 00:23:41,595 Speaker 1: tell first. There are still more new idiots to talk about. 322 00:23:41,635 --> 00:23:44,315 Speaker 1: The daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning 323 00:23:44,395 --> 00:23:50,715 Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's weiste poisons in the wild, 324 00:23:51,235 --> 00:23:55,755 Speaker 1: the bronze worst. Jd Vance. Anybody remember the Republican's favorite 325 00:23:55,795 --> 00:23:59,515 Speaker 1: lie from two weeks ago. Not the last one this 326 00:23:59,555 --> 00:24:02,515 Speaker 1: week about the FEMA response in seven hundred and fifty dollars, 327 00:24:02,675 --> 00:24:07,675 Speaker 1: Not the one the week before four about Trump saving Obamacare, 328 00:24:08,595 --> 00:24:12,715 Speaker 1: not the last couple the three ago three about the 329 00:24:12,795 --> 00:24:19,235 Speaker 1: immigrants killing pets and geese on the golf courses of Springfield, Ohio. Yeah, 330 00:24:19,235 --> 00:24:22,275 Speaker 1: that one the most important thing in the world for 331 00:24:22,395 --> 00:24:25,075 Speaker 1: jd Vance and his federal Nazis. For about ten days, 332 00:24:25,315 --> 00:24:29,235 Speaker 1: the one that inspired death threats against a Maga guy 333 00:24:29,715 --> 00:24:32,715 Speaker 1: who voted for Trump twice but spoke up for his 334 00:24:32,835 --> 00:24:35,755 Speaker 1: Haitian immigrant employees, and it got so bad the man 335 00:24:35,795 --> 00:24:38,155 Speaker 1: had to buy his fourteen year old daughter a luger 336 00:24:38,595 --> 00:24:46,395 Speaker 1: for self defense. There's been an arrest in the case. Unbelievably. No, 337 00:24:46,635 --> 00:24:51,835 Speaker 1: it's neither Vance nor Trump. It's Brian Comer. Because here's 338 00:24:51,875 --> 00:24:57,155 Speaker 1: a real surprise. Brian Comer was a groundskeeper at Rocky 339 00:24:57,235 --> 00:25:01,635 Speaker 1: Lake's golf course, the Carl Speckler of Springfield, Ohio, and 340 00:25:01,715 --> 00:25:06,595 Speaker 1: he illegally shot and killed two geese on the golf 341 00:25:06,635 --> 00:25:10,835 Speaker 1: course grounds. He has pleaded guilty and was ordered to 342 00:25:10,915 --> 00:25:14,595 Speaker 1: pay a fine of two hundred dollars and court costs. 343 00:25:16,395 --> 00:25:19,355 Speaker 1: He shot geese. By the way, in case you're wondering, 344 00:25:19,475 --> 00:25:23,155 Speaker 1: Brian is not an immigrant, not from Haiti, not a 345 00:25:23,155 --> 00:25:26,195 Speaker 1: person of color. He's a sixty four year old white 346 00:25:26,235 --> 00:25:29,155 Speaker 1: dude who did not have a license to shoot the 347 00:25:29,195 --> 00:25:34,035 Speaker 1: geese and claimed that he did. And he Advance and 348 00:25:34,075 --> 00:25:37,835 Speaker 1: Trump helped turn an example of animal cruelty and breaking 349 00:25:37,915 --> 00:25:41,395 Speaker 1: a minor law into a preview of the race war 350 00:25:41,915 --> 00:25:45,355 Speaker 1: that Trump Advance want against all the brown folks here 351 00:25:45,835 --> 00:25:50,155 Speaker 1: so they can get elected. The runner up worser. Jake 352 00:25:50,235 --> 00:25:55,155 Speaker 1: Tapper from CNN Sports Illustrated noted that a New York 353 00:25:55,195 --> 00:25:58,235 Speaker 1: Mets player had made history during a seven to six 354 00:25:58,315 --> 00:26:01,475 Speaker 1: loss to the Philadelphia Phillies in a baseball playoff game 355 00:26:01,515 --> 00:26:05,955 Speaker 1: the other night. Jake Tapper, a Phillies fan, good Luck, 356 00:26:06,195 --> 00:26:09,955 Speaker 1: retweeted the note, adding that's great. What was the final score? 357 00:26:11,115 --> 00:26:12,995 Speaker 1: What was the final score? Jake? The final score was 358 00:26:13,035 --> 00:26:15,755 Speaker 1: seven to six Phillies over the Mets. But here's an idea. 359 00:26:16,155 --> 00:26:20,515 Speaker 1: Somebody should go on Jake Tapper's newscast on CNN and 360 00:26:20,595 --> 00:26:24,795 Speaker 1: insist that the Mets actually won that game, that in reality, 361 00:26:24,835 --> 00:26:29,515 Speaker 1: they lost, and then, sticking to CNN policy, Jake would 362 00:26:29,595 --> 00:26:34,835 Speaker 1: not be allowed to fact check them. Yeah, but our 363 00:26:34,835 --> 00:26:38,835 Speaker 1: winner the worst. Frank Saravelli of the hockey site The 364 00:26:38,915 --> 00:26:44,195 Speaker 1: Daily Face Off, every writer covering every sport makes predictions 365 00:26:44,595 --> 00:26:47,915 Speaker 1: every year at the start of every new season. I 366 00:26:48,035 --> 00:26:50,915 Speaker 1: did it. I did it so long ago. I didn't 367 00:26:50,955 --> 00:26:53,435 Speaker 1: have to shave every day when I did it first. 368 00:26:53,995 --> 00:26:56,635 Speaker 1: I may yet do it again. Who knows. At a 369 00:26:56,675 --> 00:26:58,995 Speaker 1: certain point, as fresh as you try to make it. 370 00:26:59,475 --> 00:27:04,235 Speaker 1: On season preview number thirty eight of your life, you 371 00:27:04,355 --> 00:27:08,275 Speaker 1: do go into auto pilot, maybe for only a paragraph 372 00:27:08,275 --> 00:27:10,315 Speaker 1: here or there. And as we all know, going into 373 00:27:10,435 --> 00:27:14,555 Speaker 1: autopilot is inevitable. And I guess it's okay unless your 374 00:27:14,555 --> 00:27:19,835 Speaker 1: autopilot is broken. One of mister Sarahvelli's thirty two bold 375 00:27:19,955 --> 00:27:23,755 Speaker 1: predictions for the upcoming National Hockey League season, number fourteen. 376 00:27:24,275 --> 00:27:28,275 Speaker 1: With a little help from Johnny Gaudreau, the Columbus Bluejackets 377 00:27:28,315 --> 00:27:31,555 Speaker 1: will win the twenty twenty five draft lottery. It's the 378 00:27:31,595 --> 00:27:35,395 Speaker 1: only consolation prize on a brutal year, but hope and 379 00:27:35,555 --> 00:27:42,555 Speaker 1: help is on the way. Unquote Johnny Gudreau Johnny Hockey, 380 00:27:42,595 --> 00:27:45,315 Speaker 1: as he was known, was a beloved star with the 381 00:27:45,355 --> 00:27:48,515 Speaker 1: Columbus Blue Jackets until August twenty ninth, when he and 382 00:27:48,555 --> 00:27:52,115 Speaker 1: his brother Matthew, a star at Boston College, were killed 383 00:27:52,155 --> 00:27:55,435 Speaker 1: by a drunk driver while they were cycling while they 384 00:27:55,435 --> 00:27:59,115 Speaker 1: were home for the wedding of their sister. And this 385 00:27:59,275 --> 00:28:01,875 Speaker 1: idiot Sarahvelli tried to turn it into some sort of 386 00:28:02,075 --> 00:28:07,835 Speaker 1: plus for Goodrow's still grieving team and franchise and coaches 387 00:28:07,915 --> 00:28:12,755 Speaker 1: and teammates and fans, because somehow, sure he's dead, but 388 00:28:12,875 --> 00:28:17,515 Speaker 1: you'll be compensated that by the universe by winning the 389 00:28:17,715 --> 00:28:22,875 Speaker 1: lottery for the first pick in a goddamned meaningless player draft. 390 00:28:24,195 --> 00:28:27,075 Speaker 1: When much of the hockey world responded with outrage to 391 00:28:27,155 --> 00:28:30,235 Speaker 1: what Saravelli wrote, Sarah Belli thought the problem was that 392 00:28:30,275 --> 00:28:34,395 Speaker 1: he hadn't explained why Goudrou's death would give them the 393 00:28:34,435 --> 00:28:37,835 Speaker 1: first pick in Columbus. He edited his forecast with no 394 00:28:37,955 --> 00:28:40,875 Speaker 1: apology or even note that he'd made a change. Fourteen 395 00:28:40,995 --> 00:28:44,435 Speaker 1: now reads fourteen. With a little help from Goodrow in Heaven, 396 00:28:45,275 --> 00:28:50,155 Speaker 1: the Columbus Bluejackets will win the twenty twenty five draft lottery. Oh, 397 00:28:50,195 --> 00:28:54,635 Speaker 1: that's much better. The late Johnny Goudreau will fix the 398 00:28:54,715 --> 00:28:59,875 Speaker 1: draft for his old team from heaven, and everybody will 399 00:28:59,915 --> 00:29:05,875 Speaker 1: be happy again, despite the tragedy and the drunk because 400 00:29:07,435 --> 00:29:13,395 Speaker 1: hockey draft choices. Pro tip, Frank, delete your column, delete 401 00:29:13,395 --> 00:29:19,115 Speaker 1: your site, scrub your online history, go and atone with 402 00:29:19,315 --> 00:29:22,715 Speaker 1: monks in Tibet or something. Then maybe come back in 403 00:29:22,755 --> 00:29:27,795 Speaker 1: a year two or twenty and start all over again. Frank. 404 00:29:27,875 --> 00:29:30,275 Speaker 1: By the way he wrote, it's time the annual tradition 405 00:29:30,315 --> 00:29:33,115 Speaker 1: of making a fool of myself before another season. Please 406 00:29:33,195 --> 00:29:36,475 Speaker 1: bookmark and ridicule appropriately. Well, at least you got that 407 00:29:36,555 --> 00:29:43,675 Speaker 1: part right, Sarahvelli two day's worst person in the word. 408 00:29:58,875 --> 00:30:02,275 Speaker 1: I was fifteen years old and just starting my college visits. 409 00:30:02,595 --> 00:30:05,115 Speaker 1: My dad and I flew the very inexpensive the Eastern 410 00:30:05,155 --> 00:30:09,235 Speaker 1: Shuttle to Boston and Commonwealth Avenue and the Boston University 411 00:30:09,275 --> 00:30:12,435 Speaker 1: School of Public Communications, which had surprised us by not 412 00:30:12,515 --> 00:30:15,435 Speaker 1: only offering me early admission when I had not requested it, 413 00:30:15,555 --> 00:30:18,835 Speaker 1: but which upon arrival knocked us over by saying they 414 00:30:18,875 --> 00:30:23,315 Speaker 1: wanted to offer me a merit scholarship, a free ride, 415 00:30:23,755 --> 00:30:28,475 Speaker 1: all expenses paid. To be fair. I was the editor 416 00:30:28,515 --> 00:30:30,755 Speaker 1: of the high school newspaper and editor of the yearbook, 417 00:30:30,795 --> 00:30:32,875 Speaker 1: sports director of the radio station. I'd been in the 418 00:30:32,955 --> 00:30:36,035 Speaker 1: drama group. I had researched and had published a baseball 419 00:30:36,075 --> 00:30:38,835 Speaker 1: reference book earlier that year, and I was the associate 420 00:30:38,915 --> 00:30:41,955 Speaker 1: editor of the first Guide to Sports Memorabilia. And I 421 00:30:41,995 --> 00:30:44,435 Speaker 1: had an internship lined up in the public relations department 422 00:30:44,475 --> 00:30:47,035 Speaker 1: of the Boston Celtics. So the admission was not much 423 00:30:47,035 --> 00:30:50,795 Speaker 1: of a surprise. The merit scholarship, let me tell you, 424 00:30:51,235 --> 00:30:56,675 Speaker 1: the merit scholarship appealed fantastically to my father. My dad 425 00:30:56,715 --> 00:30:59,995 Speaker 1: had already been socked for five years of private school 426 00:31:00,275 --> 00:31:04,315 Speaker 1: because I was too bored to do well in public school, 427 00:31:04,915 --> 00:31:08,195 Speaker 1: and now he was facing college money. This was new 428 00:31:08,355 --> 00:31:12,195 Speaker 1: territory in olderman Land. Nobody that we knew of on 429 00:31:12,275 --> 00:31:15,635 Speaker 1: either side of my family had graduated from a four 430 00:31:15,715 --> 00:31:19,315 Speaker 1: year college since one of my great grandfathers got a 431 00:31:19,355 --> 00:31:23,195 Speaker 1: degree in wrought iron design round about eighteen eighty five, 432 00:31:24,355 --> 00:31:26,595 Speaker 1: and my dad had been offered a scholarship at a 433 00:31:26,595 --> 00:31:29,595 Speaker 1: top architecture college and could not afford to take it. 434 00:31:30,075 --> 00:31:32,555 Speaker 1: They were so poor he had to go to work 435 00:31:32,635 --> 00:31:35,675 Speaker 1: right out of high school or his brother had no 436 00:31:35,795 --> 00:31:39,715 Speaker 1: chance of finishing high school. Free college at a good 437 00:31:39,715 --> 00:31:42,635 Speaker 1: one in the field his son wanted to go into. 438 00:31:42,915 --> 00:31:47,555 Speaker 1: Dad liked this very much. The tour of what was 439 00:31:47,595 --> 00:31:50,755 Speaker 1: then called the School of Public Communications went well. It 440 00:31:50,835 --> 00:31:52,955 Speaker 1: was early fall, and there are a few places in 441 00:31:52,995 --> 00:31:55,795 Speaker 1: the Northeast that do not look their best in early fall. 442 00:31:56,235 --> 00:31:58,875 Speaker 1: We were in the middle of Boston, but there were trees. 443 00:31:59,355 --> 00:32:01,795 Speaker 1: It was far from home, but it was down the 444 00:32:01,835 --> 00:32:06,675 Speaker 1: block from Fenway Park. I think the admissions director took 445 00:32:06,755 --> 00:32:10,555 Speaker 1: us into the main studio of the Boston University AM 446 00:32:10,595 --> 00:32:13,755 Speaker 1: station and introduced us to the disc jockey, or pointed 447 00:32:13,795 --> 00:32:16,595 Speaker 1: at him or something and then the admissions director left. 448 00:32:16,635 --> 00:32:20,075 Speaker 1: He must have, because what followed in the studio was 449 00:32:20,155 --> 00:32:23,755 Speaker 1: not what that guy wanted me to hear. The disc 450 00:32:23,875 --> 00:32:27,235 Speaker 1: jockey was a gaunt, kind of greasy looking kid, with 451 00:32:27,315 --> 00:32:29,715 Speaker 1: hair down to the floor and the attitude of an 452 00:32:29,755 --> 00:32:33,035 Speaker 1: inquisitor working on too little sleep. He claimed to be 453 00:32:33,075 --> 00:32:36,235 Speaker 1: a junior to me. He looked to be about thirty 454 00:32:36,315 --> 00:32:39,355 Speaker 1: years old. We were not introduced by name, or if 455 00:32:39,395 --> 00:32:41,635 Speaker 1: we were, I had forgotten his by the time he 456 00:32:41,675 --> 00:32:46,715 Speaker 1: finished saying it. Where from, kid, Westchester? I told him, Oh, yeah, 457 00:32:46,795 --> 00:32:48,395 Speaker 1: I'm from Long Island. You got a problem with that, 458 00:32:49,395 --> 00:32:52,555 Speaker 1: I said, Nah, I had relatives on Long Island. Good answer, 459 00:32:53,035 --> 00:32:57,635 Speaker 1: So you're applying here. I told him about the Merit scholarship. Huh, 460 00:32:57,795 --> 00:33:01,275 Speaker 1: Lottie da some kind of phenom. I explained about the 461 00:33:01,315 --> 00:33:04,715 Speaker 1: Celtics internship. Listen, kid, you sound like you know what 462 00:33:04,755 --> 00:33:07,475 Speaker 1: you're doing, so don't make the same mistake I did 463 00:33:08,035 --> 00:33:10,115 Speaker 1: the first two years. You don't get to take any 464 00:33:10,195 --> 00:33:15,915 Speaker 1: radio or TV classes, just general studies. I suddenly remembered, 465 00:33:15,915 --> 00:33:19,115 Speaker 1: having read that. I asked him what was the point 466 00:33:19,155 --> 00:33:22,035 Speaker 1: of just repeating high school for two more years? Exactly? Okay, 467 00:33:22,195 --> 00:33:25,675 Speaker 1: you get it, and what's worse, the grad students. They 468 00:33:25,755 --> 00:33:28,835 Speaker 1: control the real radio station. It's like organized crime. Here 469 00:33:29,235 --> 00:33:32,435 Speaker 1: see this radio station, this crap shack. You can only 470 00:33:32,475 --> 00:33:34,635 Speaker 1: hear this in the dorms. And it took me three 471 00:33:34,715 --> 00:33:37,435 Speaker 1: years just to get two shows a week here Tuesdays 472 00:33:37,435 --> 00:33:41,315 Speaker 1: and Thursday's Middays. Nobody's in the dorms mid days. Total 473 00:33:41,355 --> 00:33:44,675 Speaker 1: waste of my time and my exceptional talent. And so 474 00:33:44,795 --> 00:33:48,075 Speaker 1: far the classes are crap. So maybe what you do 475 00:33:48,235 --> 00:33:54,395 Speaker 1: is keep the internship, but ditch the scholarship. I think 476 00:33:54,435 --> 00:33:56,835 Speaker 1: it was at this point that my father said we 477 00:33:56,875 --> 00:33:59,955 Speaker 1: had to get to the airport. He did not want 478 00:34:00,035 --> 00:34:06,915 Speaker 1: me hearing more about ditching the scholarship. My college admissions 479 00:34:06,955 --> 00:34:09,435 Speaker 1: strategy had been this, maybe just go to the best 480 00:34:09,435 --> 00:34:11,435 Speaker 1: school and let the radio and TV stuff come to me, 481 00:34:11,995 --> 00:34:15,315 Speaker 1: but maybe go to a school that was really good 482 00:34:15,475 --> 00:34:18,955 Speaker 1: in radio and TV and let the education just come 483 00:34:18,955 --> 00:34:23,035 Speaker 1: to me. Then there was this Celtics internship, confusing things 484 00:34:23,035 --> 00:34:25,635 Speaker 1: even further. And now the offer of the free ride 485 00:34:25,635 --> 00:34:30,115 Speaker 1: from BU. So my radio TV schools were BU with 486 00:34:30,235 --> 00:34:33,635 Speaker 1: Ehaca College as the safety, and my good schools were 487 00:34:34,275 --> 00:34:37,955 Speaker 1: forgive me. Harvard and Cornell is my safety, which is 488 00:34:38,035 --> 00:34:40,435 Speaker 1: kind of unfair because my graduating class in high school 489 00:34:40,435 --> 00:34:42,635 Speaker 1: had like seventy kids in it, and four of us 490 00:34:42,675 --> 00:34:44,955 Speaker 1: were applying to Harvard, and two of them had four 491 00:34:44,995 --> 00:34:47,755 Speaker 1: point zero grade averages dating back to the womb and 492 00:34:47,875 --> 00:34:49,715 Speaker 1: I didn't. And my only chance they were going to 493 00:34:49,755 --> 00:34:52,515 Speaker 1: accept me would be because I would be only sixteen. 494 00:34:53,875 --> 00:34:56,035 Speaker 1: Bu was obviously a yes if they were going to 495 00:34:56,075 --> 00:34:57,955 Speaker 1: pay for it. Ithaca was a yes. But I got 496 00:34:57,955 --> 00:35:00,715 Speaker 1: a tour of the dorms and the elevators were full 497 00:35:00,755 --> 00:35:04,275 Speaker 1: of trash. This is not a euphemism, This is not 498 00:35:04,315 --> 00:35:07,795 Speaker 1: a value judgment. The elevators had ankle high garbage in them. 499 00:35:08,995 --> 00:35:12,195 Speaker 1: Cornell had a communications program, but I couldn't find out 500 00:35:12,315 --> 00:35:14,875 Speaker 1: much about it, and I couldn't find out much about 501 00:35:14,915 --> 00:35:18,235 Speaker 1: the radio station except that it was not dominated by 502 00:35:18,275 --> 00:35:21,835 Speaker 1: grad students. Plus Cornell had accepted me, and as I expected, 503 00:35:21,835 --> 00:35:24,875 Speaker 1: Harvard had not. And not that this still bothers me, 504 00:35:24,915 --> 00:35:26,795 Speaker 1: but I remember that the letter was dated April ninth, 505 00:35:26,875 --> 00:35:28,635 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five, and it was waiting for me in 506 00:35:28,675 --> 00:35:30,235 Speaker 1: the mail when I got back from the Yankees home 507 00:35:30,275 --> 00:35:32,395 Speaker 1: opener on the afternoon of Saturday, April twelve. Not that 508 00:35:32,435 --> 00:35:36,835 Speaker 1: it still bothers me freaking Harvard. So I had like 509 00:35:36,915 --> 00:35:39,995 Speaker 1: a week to choose between Cornell and a scholarship to 510 00:35:40,075 --> 00:35:43,115 Speaker 1: be you. And then somewhere I read a story about 511 00:35:43,115 --> 00:35:46,075 Speaker 1: how they had found a kid dead in the hallway 512 00:35:46,195 --> 00:35:49,395 Speaker 1: of that big freshman dorm we'd seen in Boston, and 513 00:35:49,435 --> 00:35:52,035 Speaker 1: I told my dad I would thus never be comfortable there, 514 00:35:52,035 --> 00:35:55,035 Speaker 1: And of course that was just crap. I kept flashing 515 00:35:55,075 --> 00:35:57,355 Speaker 1: back to what the kid on the carrier current BU 516 00:35:57,515 --> 00:36:00,195 Speaker 1: radio station with the stringy hair down to the floor 517 00:36:00,315 --> 00:36:02,555 Speaker 1: told me, and I kept thinking, I'm not going to 518 00:36:02,595 --> 00:36:07,915 Speaker 1: get any radio experience. Until late nineteen seventy seven. I 519 00:36:07,955 --> 00:36:10,515 Speaker 1: just couldn't do it, and so I went to Cornell 520 00:36:11,275 --> 00:36:14,835 Speaker 1: and Dad started writing checks. And before I get to 521 00:36:14,875 --> 00:36:18,115 Speaker 1: the punchline of this one, I have to mention sophomore year. 522 00:36:18,235 --> 00:36:20,635 Speaker 1: My dad drives me and my stuff up to Cornell 523 00:36:20,675 --> 00:36:22,555 Speaker 1: and he gets turned around looking for my dorm, and 524 00:36:22,595 --> 00:36:25,115 Speaker 1: I say, yeah, the good part is where we are. 525 00:36:25,155 --> 00:36:27,275 Speaker 1: If you take the next left, we'll be at the 526 00:36:27,275 --> 00:36:31,595 Speaker 1: Cornell Architecture School, and whereupon he cuts me off and says, yeah, 527 00:36:31,635 --> 00:36:33,995 Speaker 1: I know, it's Rand Hall, next left, second building on 528 00:36:34,035 --> 00:36:36,395 Speaker 1: the right. I said, how do you know that? He says, 529 00:36:36,435 --> 00:36:38,875 Speaker 1: remember I told you I was offered an architecture scholarship, 530 00:36:39,035 --> 00:36:41,155 Speaker 1: but I couldn't take it because we didn't have any 531 00:36:41,155 --> 00:36:43,195 Speaker 1: money and your uncle Bill wouldn't have been able to 532 00:36:43,195 --> 00:36:47,715 Speaker 1: finish high school. And I said yeah, and he said yeah. 533 00:36:47,715 --> 00:36:51,515 Speaker 1: The scholarship was to hear. During all the time I 534 00:36:51,555 --> 00:36:54,195 Speaker 1: wrestled with which college is to apply to, let alone, 535 00:36:54,235 --> 00:36:56,555 Speaker 1: which one to go to. My dad never told me that, 536 00:36:57,875 --> 00:37:00,395 Speaker 1: probably the first time I had respect for him as 537 00:37:00,675 --> 00:37:06,875 Speaker 1: one sort of adult to another, and I still do. Anyway, 538 00:37:06,875 --> 00:37:09,755 Speaker 1: fifteen years later or whenever it was, I'm doing sports 539 00:37:09,755 --> 00:37:12,075 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and late on a Saturday night, the 540 00:37:12,155 --> 00:37:15,395 Speaker 1: syndicated version of some New York radio shock jock show 541 00:37:15,435 --> 00:37:17,995 Speaker 1: comes on the TV and I look and it's the 542 00:37:18,235 --> 00:37:21,995 Speaker 1: Don't Make My Mistake kid kid from Boston University in 543 00:37:22,075 --> 00:37:24,595 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four. His name turns out to be Howard Stern, 544 00:37:24,875 --> 00:37:31,155 Speaker 1: and he looks exactly the same. Years pass and for 545 00:37:31,195 --> 00:37:34,075 Speaker 1: some reason, when Howard Stern leaves AM radio to put 546 00:37:34,075 --> 00:37:37,555 Speaker 1: his show on satellite. The first day of the satellite show, 547 00:37:37,555 --> 00:37:40,715 Speaker 1: he invites people from TV networks and newspapers to cover 548 00:37:40,755 --> 00:37:44,635 Speaker 1: the big switch, and from NBC he asks for me 549 00:37:46,195 --> 00:37:48,155 Speaker 1: so I got up and I go and I get 550 00:37:48,155 --> 00:37:49,795 Speaker 1: a moment with him, and I do a shtick for 551 00:37:49,875 --> 00:37:52,355 Speaker 1: my MSNBC show and then I say, listen, we've met 552 00:37:52,395 --> 00:37:54,755 Speaker 1: and he says nah, and I tell him and he says, 553 00:37:55,035 --> 00:37:58,595 Speaker 1: I don't remember meeting you, and I say, of course not. 554 00:37:58,755 --> 00:38:01,075 Speaker 1: I was fifteen and we were not really introduced. And 555 00:38:01,395 --> 00:38:03,115 Speaker 1: I mean, I had no idea it was you until 556 00:38:03,155 --> 00:38:05,435 Speaker 1: I saw you on TV, as it can't be. And 557 00:38:05,475 --> 00:38:08,395 Speaker 1: I say, when you were a junior at BU, didn't 558 00:38:08,435 --> 00:38:11,675 Speaker 1: you do only Tuesday and Thursday middays on the carrier 559 00:38:11,715 --> 00:38:14,475 Speaker 1: current station? And weren't you already bitter about it and 560 00:38:14,595 --> 00:38:17,355 Speaker 1: bitter about management? And he says, yeah, but I don't 561 00:38:17,355 --> 00:38:20,875 Speaker 1: remember meeting you. And so this was January two thousand 562 00:38:20,875 --> 00:38:24,275 Speaker 1: and six, and every time our paths have crossed since, 563 00:38:24,475 --> 00:38:27,915 Speaker 1: we basically have repeated this conversation live or by text 564 00:38:28,035 --> 00:38:30,195 Speaker 1: or whatever, and he insists, yeah, but I don't remember 565 00:38:30,195 --> 00:38:32,195 Speaker 1: meeting you. And I have to explain that we didn't 566 00:38:32,195 --> 00:38:34,875 Speaker 1: meet by name and I was much shorter than and 567 00:38:34,915 --> 00:38:37,635 Speaker 1: he says something like, how would that work? And sooner 568 00:38:37,755 --> 00:38:41,275 Speaker 1: or later I just give up. But it was him. 569 00:38:41,995 --> 00:38:44,195 Speaker 1: I met Howard Stern in nineteen seventy four when he 570 00:38:44,235 --> 00:38:46,035 Speaker 1: was twenty years old and I was fifteen, and he 571 00:38:46,675 --> 00:38:52,915 Speaker 1: personally talked me out of going to Boston University. Thank you, Howard, 572 00:38:53,715 --> 00:38:56,835 Speaker 1: and nicely as things worked out with Cornell and the 573 00:38:56,875 --> 00:39:00,275 Speaker 1: best radio training ground in the country that Cornell contained 574 00:39:00,635 --> 00:39:19,355 Speaker 1: and contains. Yes, I'm still bitter about Harvard. He still 575 00:39:19,355 --> 00:39:22,235 Speaker 1: insists it wasn't me because he didn't remember my name, 576 00:39:23,075 --> 00:39:26,075 Speaker 1: because I didn't mention my name and I was shorter. 577 00:39:26,675 --> 00:39:28,315 Speaker 1: Done all the damage I can do here. Thank you 578 00:39:28,355 --> 00:39:30,795 Speaker 1: for listening. We're now back to five episodes a week, 579 00:39:30,835 --> 00:39:33,875 Speaker 1: posting nightly just after midnight Eastern. Once again there is 580 00:39:33,955 --> 00:39:37,755 Speaker 1: a Monday Countdown, and please send this podcast to somebody 581 00:39:37,755 --> 00:39:40,435 Speaker 1: who does not know that they need to listen, but should. 582 00:39:41,675 --> 00:39:44,075 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Shaneil, the musical directors, have 583 00:39:44,155 --> 00:39:47,675 Speaker 1: Countdown Arrange produced and performed most of our music. Mister 584 00:39:47,755 --> 00:39:51,275 Speaker 1: Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards, Mister Ray was on the guitars, 585 00:39:51,315 --> 00:39:53,835 Speaker 1: bass and drums, and it was produced by Tko Brothers. 586 00:39:54,275 --> 00:39:57,315 Speaker 1: Our satirical and fifty musical comments are by the best 587 00:39:57,315 --> 00:40:00,915 Speaker 1: baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports music is 588 00:40:00,955 --> 00:40:04,315 Speaker 1: the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren 589 00:40:04,395 --> 00:40:08,475 Speaker 1: Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other music arranged and performed 590 00:40:08,515 --> 00:40:11,315 Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was 591 00:40:11,355 --> 00:40:16,035 Speaker 1: my friend Jonathan Banks. Everything else was as usual, pretty 592 00:40:16,315 --> 00:40:20,675 Speaker 1: much my fault. So that's countdown for today. Four weeks 593 00:40:21,675 --> 00:40:26,195 Speaker 1: until the twenty twenty fourth presidential election, the one and 594 00:40:26,315 --> 00:40:30,595 Speaker 1: seventy second day since convicted felon drooling Jay Trump's first 595 00:40:30,635 --> 00:40:34,435 Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 596 00:40:35,035 --> 00:40:39,715 Speaker 1: Use the election, use the mental health system, use presidential 597 00:40:39,795 --> 00:40:42,475 Speaker 1: immunity if we have to resort to that, to keep 598 00:40:42,555 --> 00:40:47,635 Speaker 1: him from doing it again while we still can. The 599 00:40:47,715 --> 00:40:51,755 Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news requires 600 00:40:52,275 --> 00:40:55,475 Speaker 1: until the next one. I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, 601 00:40:55,595 --> 00:41:06,035 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. 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