Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. We
Speaker 1: are now at the eugenics stage of Trump morphing into
Speaker 1: Adolf Hitler. We are now at the they murder white
Speaker 1: people because it is in their genes stage. I am
Speaker 1: not exaggerating, I am just barely paraphrasing. Trump has now
Speaker 1: moved one step closer to eugenics, to classifying entire races
Speaker 1: and peoples and nationalities as genetically criminal, to fully embracing
Speaker 1: the nightmare in sanity of Adolf Hitler, to ethnic cleansing
Speaker 1: and persecution of immigrants because he thinks they will commit
Speaker 1: murder or other crimes, as Politico described it, a blood libel.
Speaker 1: In an interview with the conservative Bob Head Doll of commentators,
Speaker 1: Hugh hewittt.
Speaker 2: How about allowing people to come through an open border,
Speaker 2: a thirteen thousand of which were murderers, many of them
Speaker 2: murdered far more than one person, and they are now
Speaker 2: happily living in the United States. You know, now a murderer.
Speaker 2: I believe this. It's in their genes, and we got
Speaker 2: a lot of bad gens in our country right now.
Speaker 1: There can be no mitigation of that. There can be
Speaker 1: no excuses. There's no well, I meant something else. It
Speaker 1: is literally where Hitler started, and it is full circle.
Speaker 1: Because eugenics was originally mistakenly posited as a way to
Speaker 1: speed up evolution to improve overall health. Then in this country,
Speaker 1: after eighteen ninety or so, it became an excuse to
Speaker 1: use prejudice and law to prevent certain people having children
Speaker 1: in a series of measures that included anti miscegenation laws,
Speaker 1: laws that made interracial marriage illegal, measures that attract the
Speaker 1: attention of Hitler and his earliest co conspirators in Germany,
Speaker 1: and formed the basis of their Nuremberg Laws, which in
Speaker 1: turn formed the basis of the Holocaust. This is where
Speaker 1: it starts. Can't let the immigrants in. All the immigrants
Speaker 1: are murderers. Look I made up a number. It's in
Speaker 1: their blood. We got a lot of bad genes in
Speaker 1: our country right now. Put them in camps. Trump spokesperson
Speaker 1: Katherine Levitt lied that Trump was quote referring to murderers,
Speaker 1: not migrants, unquote, which I guess is why he had
Speaker 1: just referred to the border and twisted the number of immigrants.
Speaker 1: It's thirteen thousand, ninety nine non citizens who have been
Speaker 1: convicted over the last several decades, the ones who are
Speaker 1: in jail, because he meant murderers, not migrants. Last night,
Speaker 1: though he was too terrified to be interviewed by sixty minutes,
Speaker 1: he did talk to Laura Ingram, and I can tell
Speaker 1: you without fear of contradiction, that once there was nothing
Speaker 1: worse than talking to Laura Ingram. But she has lost
Speaker 1: her fastball years ago, along with her ability to move
Speaker 1: all of her facial muscles. Trump didn't get quite as
Speaker 1: literal about eugenics with her, but he did say, quote
Speaker 1: to women, I will keep you safe. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to allow prisoners to come out from Venezuela, the Congo,
Speaker 1: the Middle East, Yemen. I'm going to keep you safe.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to let them hurt you.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: In just in case you wanted more context than juxtaposition,
Speaker 1: and the image of Hugh Hewitt mindlessly agreeing with this
Speaker 1: monster Trump, like Hewitt, the bobblehead doll was in a
Speaker 1: car that had just vaulted a pothole. Trump moved on
Speaker 1: from eugenics to how Israel does not support him enough,
Speaker 1: and he quickly conflated Israel and all Jewish people and
Speaker 1: all American Jewish people and with we got a lot
Speaker 1: of bad jeans in our country right now. Well, having
Speaker 1: just said that, Trump then said.
Speaker 2: This, I think the Israel has to do one thing.
Speaker 2: They have to get smart about Trump because they don't
Speaker 2: back me. I did more for Israel than anybody. I
Speaker 2: did more for the Jewish people than anybody. And it's
Speaker 2: not a reciprocal as I say that, I think their.
Speaker 1: Numbers are rising with Jewish Americans.
Speaker 2: They may not say it out loud, but I think
Speaker 2: they're rising.
Speaker 1: Mister President, one hundred.
Speaker 2: Percent, and I'll never hit that, but we should have
Speaker 2: one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much more he has to tell
Speaker 1: this country before even the coalition of the stupid and
Speaker 1: the hateful realizes that sooner rather than later, a Trump
Speaker 1: returned to power will attempt to stay in power beyond
Speaker 1: his expiration date by killing somebody they like, even a
Speaker 1: tech bro or an Aryan with not enough Aryan blood
Speaker 1: in him, or a Nick Fuentes because sorry, Nick Fuentes
Speaker 1: is the same name as some of them immigrants. He
Speaker 1: just vowed to protect the white women from or jd
Speaker 1: Vance because Trump has a really bad loyalty record with
Speaker 1: Vice presidents. A nice clean electoral win by Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: will stave this off. More on how clean that win
Speaker 1: needs to be in a moment, But it will not
Speaker 1: end it, and I don't know what will end it.
Speaker 1: These are not people smart enough to understand that they
Speaker 1: can own dozens of guns each and they still will
Speaker 1: not survive to see the end of the first minute
Speaker 1: of this civil war. They hunger for because they think
Speaker 1: life is some video game and they cannot grasp the
Speaker 1: reality of gun versus tank. To wander off the news
Speaker 1: for a second, this is the coalition of the stupid
Speaker 1: and the hateful. And I was asked again recently about
Speaker 1: the core math here. How is this possible in the
Speaker 1: twenty first century in this country as sawed off and
Speaker 1: stupid as we can be. I can't exactly do the
Speaker 1: etymology of the thing, But my secret suspicion is we
Speaker 1: should have never stopped making the stupid kids repeat a
Speaker 1: year or two of school, if nothing else, that used
Speaker 1: to teach them that you could get caught. But the
Speaker 1: core math of what's in this coalition is not difficult.
Speaker 1: How could there be so many of them? I mean,
Speaker 1: if you consider the components of the coalition. What do
Speaker 1: you really need? What percentage of the country needs to
Speaker 1: be and to vote based on sheer pure racism. Let's
Speaker 1: go low five percent. Then what percentage of the country
Speaker 1: needs to be and to vote based on apocalyptic religious insanity?
Speaker 1: Just another five percent? Anti Semitism yet, just another five percent,
Speaker 1: gun nuts five percent, misogynists, five percent, homophobes, five percent,
Speaker 1: economic failures looking for somebody else to blame five percent,
Speaker 1: absolutely functional, insane people like Trump just five percent. I
Speaker 1: hate to tell you this, but we're already at forty percent.
Speaker 1: All you need is six percent more six percent rich
Speaker 1: people who realized they could stitch this coalition together and
Speaker 1: exploit these hatreds and fears and stupidities, and forty percenters,
Speaker 1: and there you are. You are now at forty six percent,
Speaker 1: the latest number from the five thirty eight average of polls.
Speaker 1: Trump is at forty five point nine percent. For Christ's sake,
Speaker 1: he's underperforming, by the way. That is Donald Trump, coward, fraud, loser, feckless, weakling,
Speaker 1: yellow bellied candy ass who agreed to then backed out
Speaker 1: of the sixty minutes interview last night. If Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: had backed out of the sixty minutes interview last night.
Speaker 1: There would have been a special edition of The New
Speaker 1: York Times printed about it before eleven thirty pm Eastern Time,
Speaker 1: just about that one story. But he did do that
Speaker 1: interview with Hughgenics. Hugh Eugenics, h huh, anti semitism, mister president,
Speaker 1: gotcha Hewitt. It was Carlos Losada, in his book, A
Speaker 1: Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era, who noted that
Speaker 1: in his Trump Book in twenty seventeen, Hugh Hewitt insisted
Speaker 1: Trump was quote not likely to casually tempt the impeachment
Speaker 1: gods would instead self regulate and thus rule quote inclusively, energetically, joyously,
Speaker 1: and that in turn would transform America into a quote
Speaker 1: booming generous, open handed republic of virtue. Just remember Hugh
Speaker 1: hewitt bobblehead doll, only the head has fallen off, kind
Speaker 1: of like Laura Ingram, only they stitched it back on.
Speaker 1: Which lets me circle back to Hewitt's nonchalant response to
Speaker 1: eugenics and miscegenation and laws against certain races marrying each
Speaker 1: other even though race is an artificial construct. You do
Speaker 1: know that last March, the Republican Senator from Indiana, Mike
Speaker 1: Braun went on at length to the media about how
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court was completely wrong to even rule on
Speaker 1: a case known as Loving versus Virginia, and that the
Speaker 1: issue that Loving versus Virginia should have been left to
Speaker 1: and should now be returned to the state. Loving versus Virginia,
Speaker 1: of course, was the case that wiped away the last
Speaker 1: state laws banning interracial marriage in nineteen sixty seven. After
Speaker 1: the understandable blowback to his remark, Senator bron rushed out
Speaker 1: a statement saying he'd misunderstood the line of questioning, and
Speaker 1: he condemns racism, and there's no question the Constitution prohibits
Speaker 1: discrimination of any kind based on race, even though that
Speaker 1: is exactly the platform Trump and the Republicans were running
Speaker 1: on in March and are running on now. Also, you
Speaker 1: know as well as I do that in my hypothetical
Speaker 1: math about the pie chart, that is the coalition of
Speaker 1: the stupid and the hateful, the overlap number of stupid
Speaker 1: and homophobic and stupid and antisemitic and stupid and anything
Speaker 1: else is huge, and most of it is in Congress.
Speaker 1: I mean, trump ists are now claiming Facebook is censoring
Speaker 1: a photo of Trump helping the victims in Georgia. He
Speaker 1: is shown in an AI image handing them rolls of
Speaker 1: paper towels, presumably left over from his trip to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1: In this image, he is in knee high water in
Speaker 1: a suit, having presumably just tried and failed to walk
Speaker 1: on said water. Also, it's five days now since Crow
Speaker 1: magnet woman Marjorie Taylor Green posted, Yes, they can control
Speaker 1: the weather. It's ridiculous for anyone to lie and say
Speaker 1: it can't be done. It's just two days since Candace Taylor,
Speaker 1: Republican Chairperson in the Georgia First and that's Candace with
Speaker 1: a K and two s's Candace Taylor wrote the weather
Speaker 1: canon is being manipulated. Wake up, stop being ignorant or
Speaker 1: playing stupid. There's no such thing as coincidence. That's coincidences
Speaker 1: with a C and one s now. Marge has gone
Speaker 1: back for a second bite, showing a twenty thirteen clip
Speaker 1: from the CBS Morning News about maybe someday using lasers
Speaker 1: to try in some way to fend off the worst
Speaker 1: of climate change, and Marge rights lasers. CBS nine years
Speaker 1: ago talked about lasers controlling the wead. There, Okay, start
Speaker 1: with the fact that twenty thirteen is eleven years ago,
Speaker 1: not nine, you moron. Also, March has gone back to
Speaker 1: her greatest hits, the Jewish space lasers. What I don't
Speaker 1: understand about this latest belief that they, presumably Joe Biden
Speaker 1: and Kamala Harris Tim Walls maybe can control the weather.
Speaker 1: They What I don't understand isn't the fact that it
Speaker 1: implies that if weather is man made, then climate change
Speaker 1: is certainly man made. They can rationalize the difference between
Speaker 1: those things. Really, climate changes man made, and you're doing
Speaker 1: it deliberately to drive up the price of gasoline. That's
Speaker 1: not what Bothers may not even the idea that it
Speaker 1: has not occurred to them that if the Democrats can
Speaker 1: control the weather, they need to start being way nicer
Speaker 1: to Democrats. What I don't understand about all of it
Speaker 1: is this You are saying that Democrats can control the weather,
Speaker 1: but Trump could not, That Trump was not smart enough
Speaker 1: to know how to control the weather, That Republicans are dumber,
Speaker 1: that dementia Jy just couldn't find the on off switch.
Speaker 1: Biden is sending hurricanes to screw up Republican early voting
Speaker 1: in Georgia, but Trumpy never got further than drawing on
Speaker 1: Noah maps of hurricane paths with a sharpie. You're saying
Speaker 1: the Democrats can control the weather, but Republicans can't. Well
Speaker 1: damn vote Democrat every time. Let's get more of those
Speaker 1: seventy five degree light breeze, low humidity days. Huh I
Speaker 1: suggested here yesterday it was time to cancel all of
Speaker 1: Elon Musk's government contracts and reevaluate his immigration status because
Speaker 1: he was now actively interfering with the relief efforts post
Speaker 1: hurricane and had turned twitter x into a donation in
Speaker 1: kind to Trump's campaign. And there was some tisk tisking
Speaker 1: that we shouldn't go that far and interfere in private
Speaker 1: business and shut up Washington Post. Quote. Republicans backing Donald
Speaker 1: Trump are threatening Deloitte, a consulting firm that is one
Speaker 1: of the federal government's largest business partners, with the loss
Speaker 1: of billions of dollars in contracts because an employee shared
Speaker 1: messages from twenty twenty in which JD. Vance, the GOP
Speaker 1: vice presidential nominee, criticized the then president's record. On September
Speaker 1: twenty seventh, Donald Trump Junior, He's a OO day if
Speaker 1: you're keeping track, expose the employee's name and photographed to
Speaker 1: millions of people on social media, writing maybe it's time
Speaker 1: for the jop and Deloitte's taxpayer funded gravy trade. Others,
Speaker 1: including Vance's chief spokesman and a Republican senator, circulated Trump
Speaker 1: Junior's comments, and the conservative website Breitbart published a story
Speaker 1: naming the man and highlighting his job. So save me
Speaker 1: the tisking on Musk. The good Musk news is his
Speaker 1: prancing around like a strung out idiot on stage who
Speaker 1: needed a large and was wearing a small shirt in
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Saturday. That went so well. He's going to campaign
Speaker 1: for Trump and Pennsylvania between now an election day. Musk's
Speaker 1: net favorability score is minus eleven. I mean, even jd
Speaker 1: Vance is only minus ten. But Musk thinks he can
Speaker 1: be president someday, or if Trump gets elected, he can
Speaker 1: be de facto president with Trump as the mere spokesmodel.
Speaker 1: Good send more elon Musk. Tamp down that whole Republicans
Speaker 1: are weirdos vibe boost the Republicans are evil inconfident billionaire
Speaker 1: weirdos vibe to that end, Musk is trying to bribe
Speaker 1: voters sign our petition to support the constitution also earn
Speaker 1: forty seven dollars for every person you refer to sign
Speaker 1: the petition if they're in a swing state. Easy money.
Speaker 1: The quote petition he is referring to support for the
Speaker 1: first and second amendments, and the rest of it is
Speaker 1: just personal information you have to fill in. It's a registration.
Speaker 1: He's buying swing state voter details in order to micro
Speaker 1: target them with advertisements in the last month of the campaign,
Speaker 1: like the Russians did with Facebook in twenty sixteen. Perhaps
Speaker 1: more important to the victims of this scam, forty seven
Speaker 1: dollars from Elon Musk. You're getting that in advance, right,
Speaker 1: Possibly the best pulsters out there, Tip tipp pulling for
Speaker 1: a group of called Issues and Insights back with Harris
Speaker 1: forty nine, Trump forty six. Research company Polling based in Vancouver.
Speaker 1: Vancouver has Harris by four in polling It says closed Sunday.
Speaker 1: The five point thirty eight average of polls is at
Speaker 1: Harris forty eight and a half, Trump just under forty six.
Speaker 1: And more importantly, there are two pieces of polling insight
Speaker 1: that are not predictions and aren't likely voters and aren't
Speaker 1: registered voters, and aren't margins of error, but are about
Speaker 1: one weird trick that makes all the polls different from
Speaker 1: one another. Nate Cohne of The New York Times wrote
Speaker 1: something in which he says the polls, which are weighted
Speaker 1: in favor of how respondents think they voted last time,
Speaker 1: that one detail is the difference among all the polls.
Speaker 1: If you put more and more of these people in
Speaker 1: your poll, your poll will look more and more like
Speaker 1: how everybody did vote last time. It becomes confirmation bias.
Speaker 1: Cone says The Times doesn't do that, which is why
Speaker 1: their polls are so out there by themselves. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm not sure I'm buying any of that.
Speaker 1: And he gets so deep in the weeds it would
Speaker 1: be impossible for me to recap his piece for you
Speaker 1: here in under four hours, but if you have time,
Speaker 1: read it at least for one reason, Cohne confesses, without
Speaker 1: realizing it, that poll numbers are about one quarter what
Speaker 1: respondents actually tell polsters at about three quarters. Which of
Speaker 1: these numbers polsters choose to include and which they don't.
Speaker 1: As to the other bit of insight, Nate Silver reminds
Speaker 1: me why I was the one who first put him
Speaker 1: on TV to talk political numbers, not just baseball stats,
Speaker 1: because when he sticks to the numbers, he's still good.
Speaker 1: He has now produced an easy to read chart that
Speaker 1: correlates how much Harris or Trump would have to win
Speaker 1: the popular vote by in order to win the electoral
Speaker 1: college vote. The gist, Trump is still the favorite to
Speaker 1: win if he wins the popular vote by any margin,
Speaker 1: but he's also the favorite to win if he loses
Speaker 1: the popular vote by anything up to three percent. Not guaranteed,
Speaker 1: but Silver says a Harris popular win by one percent
Speaker 1: would still give Trump an eighty nine percent chance in
Speaker 1: the electoral College. Harris by anywhere from one point to
Speaker 1: two points, Trump is still a sixty nine percent favorite.
Speaker 1: Two points to three points for Harris, nearly thirty eight
Speaker 1: percent chance of Trump winning in the EC Above three percent,
Speaker 1: Trump begins to expire thirteen and a half percent. Trump.
Speaker 1: In the three to four range, Harris wins by four
Speaker 1: percent or four point one percent, or four point two whatever.
Speaker 1: Her electoral college chance is ninety six point six percent.
Speaker 1: If she gets to five points in the popular vote,
Speaker 1: her chances in the electoral college rise above ninety nine percent.
Speaker 1: If she gets to six points, it's ninety nine nine
Speaker 1: zero point nine percent hers ninety nine point nine percent.
Speaker 1: That is still to fing close. Also of interest, here, hey,
Speaker 1: they convicted the guy who actually illegally shot those geese
Speaker 1: on the golf course in Springfield, Ohio. His name is
Speaker 1: Brian Brian Comer. Hey, wait a minute, Comer like Representative Comber. Well,
Speaker 1: that's akwinky dinky. Also, guess where Brian Comer is not from.
Speaker 1: That's right, He's not from Haiti. He's from Springfield, e Fing, Ohio.
Speaker 1: And here's another shock. Brian Comer geese shooter is a
Speaker 1: pasty white guy. That's next. This is Countdown. This is
Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith old Woodman still ahead of us on
Speaker 1: this edition of Countdown. Well, Howard Stern, the latest stop
Speaker 1: on the Kamala Harris interview blitz that the political media
Speaker 1: will not acknowledge is a political blitz because look, if
Speaker 1: anybody can interview presidential candidates, if Howard can, if Alex
Speaker 1: Cooper can, and if they can interview them insightfully, what
Speaker 1: do you need political media for? I mean, how did
Speaker 1: they not see this coming? The best political interviewer of
Speaker 1: the last half century was David Letterman, not David Muir,
Speaker 1: David Brinkley. Anyway, Howard is in the news, and so
Speaker 1: is the last half century. Because I literally met Howard
Speaker 1: Stern fifty years ago. Might have been fifty years ago today,
Speaker 1: it certainly is either fifty years ago this month or
Speaker 1: fifty years ago next month, and it completely redirected the
Speaker 1: course of my life. Twenty year old Howard meets fifteen
Speaker 1: year old Keith next in things I promised not to
Speaker 1: tell first. There are still more new idiots to talk about.
Speaker 1: The daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning
Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's weiste poisons in the wild,
Speaker 1: the bronze worst. Jd Vance. Anybody remember the Republican's favorite
Speaker 1: lie from two weeks ago. Not the last one this
Speaker 1: week about the FEMA response in seven hundred and fifty dollars,
Speaker 1: Not the one the week before four about Trump saving Obamacare,
Speaker 1: not the last couple the three ago three about the
Speaker 1: immigrants killing pets and geese on the golf courses of Springfield, Ohio. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that one the most important thing in the world for
Speaker 1: jd Vance and his federal Nazis. For about ten days,
Speaker 1: the one that inspired death threats against a Maga guy
Speaker 1: who voted for Trump twice but spoke up for his
Speaker 1: Haitian immigrant employees, and it got so bad the man
Speaker 1: had to buy his fourteen year old daughter a luger
Speaker 1: for self defense. There's been an arrest in the case. Unbelievably. No,
Speaker 1: it's neither Vance nor Trump. It's Brian Comer. Because here's
Speaker 1: a real surprise. Brian Comer was a groundskeeper at Rocky
Speaker 1: Lake's golf course, the Carl Speckler of Springfield, Ohio, and
Speaker 1: he illegally shot and killed two geese on the golf
Speaker 1: course grounds. He has pleaded guilty and was ordered to
Speaker 1: pay a fine of two hundred dollars and court costs.
Speaker 1: He shot geese. By the way, in case you're wondering,
Speaker 1: Brian is not an immigrant, not from Haiti, not a
Speaker 1: person of color. He's a sixty four year old white
Speaker 1: dude who did not have a license to shoot the
Speaker 1: geese and claimed that he did. And he Advance and
Speaker 1: Trump helped turn an example of animal cruelty and breaking
Speaker 1: a minor law into a preview of the race war
Speaker 1: that Trump Advance want against all the brown folks here
Speaker 1: so they can get elected. The runner up worser. Jake
Speaker 1: Tapper from CNN Sports Illustrated noted that a New York
Speaker 1: Mets player had made history during a seven to six
Speaker 1: loss to the Philadelphia Phillies in a baseball playoff game
Speaker 1: the other night. Jake Tapper, a Phillies fan, good Luck,
Speaker 1: retweeted the note, adding that's great. What was the final score?
Speaker 1: What was the final score? Jake? The final score was
Speaker 1: seven to six Phillies over the Mets. But here's an idea.
Speaker 1: Somebody should go on Jake Tapper's newscast on CNN and
Speaker 1: insist that the Mets actually won that game, that in reality,
Speaker 1: they lost, and then, sticking to CNN policy, Jake would
Speaker 1: not be allowed to fact check them. Yeah, but our
Speaker 1: winner the worst. Frank Saravelli of the hockey site The
Speaker 1: Daily Face Off, every writer covering every sport makes predictions
Speaker 1: every year at the start of every new season. I
Speaker 1: did it. I did it so long ago. I didn't
Speaker 1: have to shave every day when I did it first.
Speaker 1: I may yet do it again. Who knows. At a
Speaker 1: certain point, as fresh as you try to make it.
Speaker 1: On season preview number thirty eight of your life, you
Speaker 1: do go into auto pilot, maybe for only a paragraph
Speaker 1: here or there. And as we all know, going into
Speaker 1: autopilot is inevitable. And I guess it's okay unless your
Speaker 1: autopilot is broken. One of mister Sarahvelli's thirty two bold
Speaker 1: predictions for the upcoming National Hockey League season, number fourteen.
Speaker 1: With a little help from Johnny Gaudreau, the Columbus Bluejackets
Speaker 1: will win the twenty twenty five draft lottery. It's the
Speaker 1: only consolation prize on a brutal year, but hope and
Speaker 1: help is on the way. Unquote Johnny Gudreau Johnny Hockey,
Speaker 1: as he was known, was a beloved star with the
Speaker 1: Columbus Blue Jackets until August twenty ninth, when he and
Speaker 1: his brother Matthew, a star at Boston College, were killed
Speaker 1: by a drunk driver while they were cycling while they
Speaker 1: were home for the wedding of their sister. And this
Speaker 1: idiot Sarahvelli tried to turn it into some sort of
Speaker 1: plus for Goodrow's still grieving team and franchise and coaches
Speaker 1: and teammates and fans, because somehow, sure he's dead, but
Speaker 1: you'll be compensated that by the universe by winning the
Speaker 1: lottery for the first pick in a goddamned meaningless player draft.
Speaker 1: When much of the hockey world responded with outrage to
Speaker 1: what Saravelli wrote, Sarah Belli thought the problem was that
Speaker 1: he hadn't explained why Goudrou's death would give them the
Speaker 1: first pick in Columbus. He edited his forecast with no
Speaker 1: apology or even note that he'd made a change. Fourteen
Speaker 1: now reads fourteen. With a little help from Goodrow in Heaven,
Speaker 1: the Columbus Bluejackets will win the twenty twenty five draft lottery. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's much better. The late Johnny Goudreau will fix the
Speaker 1: draft for his old team from heaven, and everybody will
Speaker 1: be happy again, despite the tragedy and the drunk because
Speaker 1: hockey draft choices. Pro tip, Frank, delete your column, delete
Speaker 1: your site, scrub your online history, go and atone with
Speaker 1: monks in Tibet or something. Then maybe come back in
Speaker 1: a year two or twenty and start all over again. Frank.
Speaker 1: By the way he wrote, it's time the annual tradition
Speaker 1: of making a fool of myself before another season. Please
Speaker 1: bookmark and ridicule appropriately. Well, at least you got that
Speaker 1: part right, Sarahvelli two day's worst person in the word.
Speaker 1: I was fifteen years old and just starting my college visits.
Speaker 1: My dad and I flew the very inexpensive the Eastern
Speaker 1: Shuttle to Boston and Commonwealth Avenue and the Boston University
Speaker 1: School of Public Communications, which had surprised us by not
Speaker 1: only offering me early admission when I had not requested it,
Speaker 1: but which upon arrival knocked us over by saying they
Speaker 1: wanted to offer me a merit scholarship, a free ride,
Speaker 1: all expenses paid. To be fair. I was the editor
Speaker 1: of the high school newspaper and editor of the yearbook,
Speaker 1: sports director of the radio station. I'd been in the
Speaker 1: drama group. I had researched and had published a baseball
Speaker 1: reference book earlier that year, and I was the associate
Speaker 1: editor of the first Guide to Sports Memorabilia. And I
Speaker 1: had an internship lined up in the public relations department
Speaker 1: of the Boston Celtics. So the admission was not much
Speaker 1: of a surprise. The merit scholarship, let me tell you,
Speaker 1: the merit scholarship appealed fantastically to my father. My dad
Speaker 1: had already been socked for five years of private school
Speaker 1: because I was too bored to do well in public school,
Speaker 1: and now he was facing college money. This was new
Speaker 1: territory in olderman Land. Nobody that we knew of on
Speaker 1: either side of my family had graduated from a four
Speaker 1: year college since one of my great grandfathers got a
Speaker 1: degree in wrought iron design round about eighteen eighty five,
Speaker 1: and my dad had been offered a scholarship at a
Speaker 1: top architecture college and could not afford to take it.
Speaker 1: They were so poor he had to go to work
Speaker 1: right out of high school or his brother had no
Speaker 1: chance of finishing high school. Free college at a good
Speaker 1: one in the field his son wanted to go into.
Speaker 1: Dad liked this very much. The tour of what was
Speaker 1: then called the School of Public Communications went well. It
Speaker 1: was early fall, and there are a few places in
Speaker 1: the Northeast that do not look their best in early fall.
Speaker 1: We were in the middle of Boston, but there were trees.
Speaker 1: It was far from home, but it was down the
Speaker 1: block from Fenway Park. I think the admissions director took
Speaker 1: us into the main studio of the Boston University AM
Speaker 1: station and introduced us to the disc jockey, or pointed
Speaker 1: at him or something and then the admissions director left.
Speaker 1: He must have, because what followed in the studio was
Speaker 1: not what that guy wanted me to hear. The disc
Speaker 1: jockey was a gaunt, kind of greasy looking kid, with
Speaker 1: hair down to the floor and the attitude of an
Speaker 1: inquisitor working on too little sleep. He claimed to be
Speaker 1: a junior to me. He looked to be about thirty
Speaker 1: years old. We were not introduced by name, or if
Speaker 1: we were, I had forgotten his by the time he
Speaker 1: finished saying it. Where from, kid, Westchester? I told him, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm from Long Island. You got a problem with that,
Speaker 1: I said, Nah, I had relatives on Long Island. Good answer,
Speaker 1: So you're applying here. I told him about the Merit scholarship. Huh,
Speaker 1: Lottie da some kind of phenom. I explained about the
Speaker 1: Celtics internship. Listen, kid, you sound like you know what
Speaker 1: you're doing, so don't make the same mistake I did
Speaker 1: the first two years. You don't get to take any
Speaker 1: radio or TV classes, just general studies. I suddenly remembered,
Speaker 1: having read that. I asked him what was the point
Speaker 1: of just repeating high school for two more years? Exactly? Okay,
Speaker 1: you get it, and what's worse, the grad students. They
Speaker 1: control the real radio station. It's like organized crime. Here
Speaker 1: see this radio station, this crap shack. You can only
Speaker 1: hear this in the dorms. And it took me three
Speaker 1: years just to get two shows a week here Tuesdays
Speaker 1: and Thursday's Middays. Nobody's in the dorms mid days. Total
Speaker 1: waste of my time and my exceptional talent. And so
Speaker 1: far the classes are crap. So maybe what you do
Speaker 1: is keep the internship, but ditch the scholarship. I think
Speaker 1: it was at this point that my father said we
Speaker 1: had to get to the airport. He did not want
Speaker 1: me hearing more about ditching the scholarship. My college admissions
Speaker 1: strategy had been this, maybe just go to the best
Speaker 1: school and let the radio and TV stuff come to me,
Speaker 1: but maybe go to a school that was really good
Speaker 1: in radio and TV and let the education just come
Speaker 1: to me. Then there was this Celtics internship, confusing things
Speaker 1: even further. And now the offer of the free ride
Speaker 1: from BU. So my radio TV schools were BU with
Speaker 1: Ehaca College as the safety, and my good schools were
Speaker 1: forgive me. Harvard and Cornell is my safety, which is
Speaker 1: kind of unfair because my graduating class in high school
Speaker 1: had like seventy kids in it, and four of us
Speaker 1: were applying to Harvard, and two of them had four
Speaker 1: point zero grade averages dating back to the womb and
Speaker 1: I didn't. And my only chance they were going to
Speaker 1: accept me would be because I would be only sixteen.
Speaker 1: Bu was obviously a yes if they were going to
Speaker 1: pay for it. Ithaca was a yes. But I got
Speaker 1: a tour of the dorms and the elevators were full
Speaker 1: of trash. This is not a euphemism, This is not
Speaker 1: a value judgment. The elevators had ankle high garbage in them.
Speaker 1: Cornell had a communications program, but I couldn't find out
Speaker 1: much about it, and I couldn't find out much about
Speaker 1: the radio station except that it was not dominated by
Speaker 1: grad students. Plus Cornell had accepted me, and as I expected,
Speaker 1: Harvard had not. And not that this still bothers me,
Speaker 1: but I remember that the letter was dated April ninth,
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five, and it was waiting for me in
Speaker 1: the mail when I got back from the Yankees home
Speaker 1: opener on the afternoon of Saturday, April twelve. Not that
Speaker 1: it still bothers me freaking Harvard. So I had like
Speaker 1: a week to choose between Cornell and a scholarship to
Speaker 1: be you. And then somewhere I read a story about
Speaker 1: how they had found a kid dead in the hallway
Speaker 1: of that big freshman dorm we'd seen in Boston, and
Speaker 1: I told my dad I would thus never be comfortable there,
Speaker 1: And of course that was just crap. I kept flashing
Speaker 1: back to what the kid on the carrier current BU
Speaker 1: radio station with the stringy hair down to the floor
Speaker 1: told me, and I kept thinking, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: get any radio experience. Until late nineteen seventy seven. I
Speaker 1: just couldn't do it, and so I went to Cornell
Speaker 1: and Dad started writing checks. And before I get to
Speaker 1: the punchline of this one, I have to mention sophomore year.
Speaker 1: My dad drives me and my stuff up to Cornell
Speaker 1: and he gets turned around looking for my dorm, and
Speaker 1: I say, yeah, the good part is where we are.
Speaker 1: If you take the next left, we'll be at the
Speaker 1: Cornell Architecture School, and whereupon he cuts me off and says, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, it's Rand Hall, next left, second building on
Speaker 1: the right. I said, how do you know that? He says,
Speaker 1: remember I told you I was offered an architecture scholarship,
Speaker 1: but I couldn't take it because we didn't have any
Speaker 1: money and your uncle Bill wouldn't have been able to
Speaker 1: finish high school. And I said yeah, and he said yeah.
Speaker 1: The scholarship was to hear. During all the time I
Speaker 1: wrestled with which college is to apply to, let alone,
Speaker 1: which one to go to. My dad never told me that,
Speaker 1: probably the first time I had respect for him as
Speaker 1: one sort of adult to another, and I still do. Anyway,
Speaker 1: fifteen years later or whenever it was, I'm doing sports
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and late on a Saturday night, the
Speaker 1: syndicated version of some New York radio shock jock show
Speaker 1: comes on the TV and I look and it's the
Speaker 1: Don't Make My Mistake kid kid from Boston University in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four. His name turns out to be Howard Stern,
Speaker 1: and he looks exactly the same. Years pass and for
Speaker 1: some reason, when Howard Stern leaves AM radio to put
Speaker 1: his show on satellite. The first day of the satellite show,
Speaker 1: he invites people from TV networks and newspapers to cover
Speaker 1: the big switch, and from NBC he asks for me
Speaker 1: so I got up and I go and I get
Speaker 1: a moment with him, and I do a shtick for
Speaker 1: my MSNBC show and then I say, listen, we've met
Speaker 1: and he says nah, and I tell him and he says,
Speaker 1: I don't remember meeting you, and I say, of course not.
Speaker 1: I was fifteen and we were not really introduced. And
Speaker 1: I mean, I had no idea it was you until
Speaker 1: I saw you on TV, as it can't be. And
Speaker 1: I say, when you were a junior at BU, didn't
Speaker 1: you do only Tuesday and Thursday middays on the carrier
Speaker 1: current station? And weren't you already bitter about it and
Speaker 1: bitter about management? And he says, yeah, but I don't
Speaker 1: remember meeting you. And so this was January two thousand
Speaker 1: and six, and every time our paths have crossed since,
Speaker 1: we basically have repeated this conversation live or by text
Speaker 1: or whatever, and he insists, yeah, but I don't remember
Speaker 1: meeting you. And I have to explain that we didn't
Speaker 1: meet by name and I was much shorter than and
Speaker 1: he says something like, how would that work? And sooner
Speaker 1: or later I just give up. But it was him.
Speaker 1: I met Howard Stern in nineteen seventy four when he
Speaker 1: was twenty years old and I was fifteen, and he
Speaker 1: personally talked me out of going to Boston University. Thank you, Howard,
Speaker 1: and nicely as things worked out with Cornell and the
Speaker 1: best radio training ground in the country that Cornell contained
Speaker 1: and contains. Yes, I'm still bitter about Harvard. He still
Speaker 1: insists it wasn't me because he didn't remember my name,
Speaker 1: because I didn't mention my name and I was shorter.
Speaker 1: Done all the damage I can do here. Thank you
Speaker 1: for listening. We're now back to five episodes a week,
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Speaker 1: a Monday Countdown, and please send this podcast to somebody
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Speaker 1: Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards, Mister Ray was on the guitars,
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Speaker 1: Our satirical and fifty musical comments are by the best
Speaker 1: baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports music is
Speaker 1: the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren
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Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was
Speaker 1: my friend Jonathan Banks. Everything else was as usual, pretty
Speaker 1: much my fault. So that's countdown for today. Four weeks
Speaker 1: until the twenty twenty fourth presidential election, the one and
Speaker 1: seventy second day since convicted felon drooling Jay Trump's first
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Speaker 1: Use the election, use the mental health system, use presidential
Speaker 1: immunity if we have to resort to that, to keep
Speaker 1: him from doing it again while we still can. The
Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news requires
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