1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:20,955 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I 2 00:00:21,195 --> 00:00:27,235 Speaker 1: Got good news and I Got bad news. The bad 3 00:00:27,315 --> 00:00:31,515 Speaker 1: news is we are finally here. We are staring into 4 00:00:31,635 --> 00:00:35,875 Speaker 1: the abyss. The good news is the abyss that the 5 00:00:35,915 --> 00:00:40,355 Speaker 1: Trump cult is staring into is way worse. The polls 6 00:00:40,475 --> 00:00:43,635 Speaker 1: and especially the interior numbers in the polls show it 7 00:00:43,915 --> 00:00:47,955 Speaker 1: and more. Obviously, the behavior down the stretch of Trump 8 00:00:48,155 --> 00:00:53,155 Speaker 1: and Vance and their surrogates and their staffers is in freefall. 9 00:00:53,235 --> 00:00:57,715 Speaker 1: The closing argument of the Trump Dvance campaign hemorrhaging women 10 00:00:57,875 --> 00:01:03,595 Speaker 1: voters as it is is misogyny, especially violence towards women. 11 00:01:04,995 --> 00:01:08,835 Speaker 1: Was ruminating about former heavyweight championship boxer Mike Tyson, a 12 00:01:08,915 --> 00:01:12,915 Speaker 1: convicted rapist himself who served three years in prison for that, 13 00:01:13,755 --> 00:01:17,955 Speaker 1: when he picked up on somebody's suggestion that Tyson should 14 00:01:18,035 --> 00:01:22,195 Speaker 1: physically fight Vice President Kamala Harris. 15 00:01:22,395 --> 00:01:25,075 Speaker 2: Mike, Mike's went through a lot, but he could fight. 16 00:01:25,155 --> 00:01:28,035 Speaker 2: Let me tell you that I could fight. But can 17 00:01:28,075 --> 00:01:31,955 Speaker 2: you imagine Mike, Oh, he says, put Mike in the 18 00:01:32,035 --> 00:01:33,475 Speaker 2: ring with Kamala Nelbant. 19 00:01:35,795 --> 00:01:39,035 Speaker 1: That was less than four days after Trump suggested Liz 20 00:01:39,115 --> 00:01:42,635 Speaker 1: Cheney should face nine guns pointed at her face firing 21 00:01:42,715 --> 00:01:48,795 Speaker 1: at her. And before you could finish processing that murderous brutality, JD. Vance, 22 00:01:48,955 --> 00:01:53,555 Speaker 1: possibly the most condescending sexist in America, went after the 23 00:01:53,595 --> 00:01:56,555 Speaker 1: vice president in a different way, with potentially just as 24 00:01:56,595 --> 00:01:58,155 Speaker 1: much violence in its imagery. 25 00:01:58,355 --> 00:01:58,995 Speaker 2: But in two. 26 00:01:58,915 --> 00:02:01,475 Speaker 1: Days, we are going to take out the trash in Washington, 27 00:02:01,555 --> 00:02:06,835 Speaker 1: d C. And the trash's name is Kamala Harris. The 28 00:02:06,955 --> 00:02:10,235 Speaker 1: Trump campaign had devoted an entire week to insisting that 29 00:02:10,275 --> 00:02:13,875 Speaker 1: it's comedian who called Puerto Rico garbage did not speak 30 00:02:13,915 --> 00:02:16,755 Speaker 1: for Trump. Then it tried to turn the word garbage 31 00:02:16,795 --> 00:02:20,435 Speaker 1: into a bloody shirt attack on its own supporters. Now, 32 00:02:20,795 --> 00:02:25,635 Speaker 1: on election Eve, Vance just ruined the entirety of that 33 00:02:25,715 --> 00:02:31,875 Speaker 1: week long argument and called Kamala Harris trash. If you 34 00:02:31,995 --> 00:02:35,875 Speaker 1: saw good internal polling numbers, if you saw fair internal 35 00:02:35,915 --> 00:02:39,635 Speaker 1: polling numbers, if you saw internal polling numbers that were 36 00:02:39,715 --> 00:02:45,675 Speaker 1: not some kind of irrevocable disaster, even the least disciplined 37 00:02:45,755 --> 00:02:49,355 Speaker 1: campaign in the history of this nation would still have 38 00:02:49,435 --> 00:02:54,115 Speaker 1: managed to shut its two lead idiots up for one day, 39 00:02:54,355 --> 00:02:59,355 Speaker 1: the one day before the election. It didn't. That's because 40 00:02:59,395 --> 00:03:03,315 Speaker 1: it didn't see any good internal polling numbers. What we 41 00:03:03,515 --> 00:03:07,395 Speaker 1: saw was the ABS NPR Marris poll, with Harris head 42 00:03:07,435 --> 00:03:11,275 Speaker 1: by four nationally, and more importantly, there are those interior numbers. 43 00:03:11,315 --> 00:03:14,755 Speaker 1: In that poll, Harris has cut Trump's lead among men 44 00:03:15,035 --> 00:03:19,675 Speaker 1: from sixteen points last month to four points now, and 45 00:03:19,755 --> 00:03:23,155 Speaker 1: having cut Trump's essential argument that he is stronger on 46 00:03:23,195 --> 00:03:27,075 Speaker 1: the economy to a one point deficit now. A week ago, 47 00:03:27,115 --> 00:03:30,115 Speaker 1: the Fox News polls of the swing States showed her 48 00:03:30,155 --> 00:03:33,955 Speaker 1: within two to six points of Trump on the economy. 49 00:03:34,515 --> 00:03:38,395 Speaker 1: Focal Data, the British company that pulled thirty thousand Americans 50 00:03:38,435 --> 00:03:40,755 Speaker 1: over a month Mega polls the way they do them 51 00:03:40,755 --> 00:03:44,155 Speaker 1: in the UK, put out swing state numbers yesterday. She's 52 00:03:44,235 --> 00:03:47,435 Speaker 1: up by five in Michigan. She's up by three in Wisconsin. 53 00:03:47,715 --> 00:03:50,315 Speaker 1: She's up by two in Pennsylvania. She's up by one 54 00:03:50,355 --> 00:03:53,475 Speaker 1: in Nevada. She's tied in North Carolina, down by one 55 00:03:53,515 --> 00:03:58,115 Speaker 1: in Arizona and Georgia. Three other sets of interior numbers 56 00:03:58,995 --> 00:04:04,195 Speaker 1: inside the Times Siena pole of the swing states from Sunday, 57 00:04:04,875 --> 00:04:09,515 Speaker 1: Harris continued to get three out of every five late 58 00:04:09,635 --> 00:04:13,675 Speaker 1: deciders in that poll. It was have you decided in 59 00:04:13,715 --> 00:04:15,955 Speaker 1: the last few days? And fifty eight percent of them 60 00:04:15,995 --> 00:04:18,355 Speaker 1: were saying yes. I have and I voted for Kamala Harris. 61 00:04:19,635 --> 00:04:23,155 Speaker 1: In the demographics that will decide the Blue Wall states, 62 00:04:23,315 --> 00:04:27,355 Speaker 1: so called, Harris is uniformly doing better than Biden did 63 00:04:27,395 --> 00:04:31,275 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty and Hillary did in twenty sixteen. In 64 00:04:31,355 --> 00:04:34,715 Speaker 1: voters sixty five and older, she is either ahead by 65 00:04:34,755 --> 00:04:37,315 Speaker 1: a couple or trailing by a couple, depending on which pole. 66 00:04:37,635 --> 00:04:40,835 Speaker 1: Obama lost that group by nine points in twenty twelve. 67 00:04:41,355 --> 00:04:44,875 Speaker 1: She is comfortably far ahead among women voters, and the 68 00:04:44,915 --> 00:04:48,755 Speaker 1: next largest demo in those blue Wall swing states, non 69 00:04:48,915 --> 00:04:52,995 Speaker 1: college educated whites, is showing her trailing Trump, but by 70 00:04:53,075 --> 00:04:56,915 Speaker 1: only twenty seven points, and yes, twenty seven points only 71 00:04:57,515 --> 00:05:01,555 Speaker 1: it is only Biden lost non college educated whites by 72 00:05:01,595 --> 00:05:05,995 Speaker 1: thirty one points, Hillary lost him by thirty three. And 73 00:05:06,075 --> 00:05:09,675 Speaker 1: we are now only now getting a measurement of the 74 00:05:09,755 --> 00:05:14,475 Speaker 1: true impact of the disaster. At Trump's Madison Square Garden 75 00:05:14,875 --> 00:05:22,235 Speaker 1: Nazi rally two weekends ago, Unevisione polled Hispanic voters in Pennsylvania. 76 00:05:22,435 --> 00:05:24,755 Speaker 1: There are about half a million of them. They are 77 00:05:24,795 --> 00:05:28,755 Speaker 1: breaking for Harris sixty four to thirty now, and those 78 00:05:28,915 --> 00:05:32,315 Speaker 1: specifically of Puerto Rican heritage go for her sixty seven 79 00:05:32,435 --> 00:05:36,795 Speaker 1: to twenty seven. In short, Trump has lost eighteen percent 80 00:05:37,275 --> 00:05:40,195 Speaker 1: of his Hispanic support from twenty twenty and all of 81 00:05:40,235 --> 00:05:45,755 Speaker 1: his supposed gains in this campaign. And yes, eighty nine 82 00:05:45,835 --> 00:05:49,875 Speaker 1: percent of Hispanic voters in that poll by Unevisione had 83 00:05:49,915 --> 00:05:53,115 Speaker 1: heard quote a remark referring to Puerto Rico as a 84 00:05:53,155 --> 00:05:57,395 Speaker 1: floating island of garbage eighty nine percent, sixty percent had 85 00:05:57,435 --> 00:06:01,915 Speaker 1: heard a lot about it. How does Trump have any 86 00:06:01,955 --> 00:06:06,475 Speaker 1: remaining support among Hispanics? Out from the October New York 87 00:06:06,515 --> 00:06:10,475 Speaker 1: Times Siena Pole asking Hispanic voters if when Trump talks 88 00:06:10,515 --> 00:06:13,235 Speaker 1: about problems with immigration, they feel as if he is 89 00:06:13,275 --> 00:06:17,115 Speaker 1: talking about them, sixty three percent say no, he's not 90 00:06:17,235 --> 00:06:21,955 Speaker 1: talking about me. The number among voters under age thirty 91 00:06:21,995 --> 00:06:24,355 Speaker 1: zooms to seventy one percent who say no, he's not 92 00:06:24,395 --> 00:06:28,955 Speaker 1: talking about me. He'd never eat my face. What we 93 00:06:29,075 --> 00:06:32,835 Speaker 1: do not have is an updated version of that demographic 94 00:06:33,315 --> 00:06:38,475 Speaker 1: after the Madison Square Garden garbage remarks. My guess is 95 00:06:39,355 --> 00:06:42,755 Speaker 1: it's only a guess that what is going on inside 96 00:06:42,795 --> 00:06:45,635 Speaker 1: the Trump campragn right now. That could have made somebody think. 97 00:06:45,835 --> 00:06:49,875 Speaker 1: Having jd Vance call Kamala Harris trash the night before 98 00:06:49,915 --> 00:06:53,875 Speaker 1: the election, while the line to get into her rally 99 00:06:54,155 --> 00:06:56,715 Speaker 1: was a mile and a quarter long, and there were 100 00:06:56,755 --> 00:07:00,515 Speaker 1: no lines of any kind at Trump's rallies. I'm just 101 00:07:00,595 --> 00:07:04,635 Speaker 1: guessing this has something to do with those Hispanic interior nones, 102 00:07:05,715 --> 00:07:08,315 Speaker 1: and the Trump camp is presumably also seen another round 103 00:07:08,315 --> 00:07:12,195 Speaker 1: of terrible numbers among women after a brief rebound for Trump. 104 00:07:12,915 --> 00:07:16,955 Speaker 1: As Ron philip Kowski noted, a round of MAGA influencers 105 00:07:17,155 --> 00:07:21,275 Speaker 1: all came out with the same belligerent, insistent message by 106 00:07:21,355 --> 00:07:25,475 Speaker 1: midday yesterday, white men, you must vote. That would also 107 00:07:25,515 --> 00:07:29,755 Speaker 1: explain calling Harris trash and implying Mike Tyson should have 108 00:07:29,795 --> 00:07:33,195 Speaker 1: a boxing match with her. Who in the hell would 109 00:07:33,195 --> 00:07:39,675 Speaker 1: that appeal to white men and psychopaths and psychopathic white men. 110 00:07:42,315 --> 00:07:46,475 Speaker 1: They've also probably seen more and more harrowing data on 111 00:07:46,555 --> 00:07:50,755 Speaker 1: a macro level, like what the PBS Marris poll reported 112 00:07:50,795 --> 00:07:54,275 Speaker 1: publicly that by last Saturday, fifty five percent of likely 113 00:07:54,355 --> 00:07:57,995 Speaker 1: voters said they had already voted, and Harris had fifty 114 00:07:58,075 --> 00:08:02,075 Speaker 1: six percent of that vote. Among those who say they 115 00:08:02,075 --> 00:08:04,275 Speaker 1: have yet to vote, only fifty three percent said they 116 00:08:04,275 --> 00:08:08,475 Speaker 1: intended to vote for Trump. That math, That math doesn't 117 00:08:08,515 --> 00:08:11,635 Speaker 1: work for Trump at all. And of course, the other 118 00:08:11,715 --> 00:08:15,915 Speaker 1: thing the Trump campaign saw was the beautiful architecture at 119 00:08:15,955 --> 00:08:19,835 Speaker 1: the historic Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, yesterday because 120 00:08:19,835 --> 00:08:22,915 Speaker 1: the first rally of Trump's last day on the trail 121 00:08:23,235 --> 00:08:27,435 Speaker 1: was there and at least thirty percent or more of 122 00:08:27,475 --> 00:08:31,075 Speaker 1: its seventy five hundred seats were empty and available to 123 00:08:31,115 --> 00:08:35,315 Speaker 1: be appreciated for their mid twentieth century design elements, and 124 00:08:35,355 --> 00:08:37,995 Speaker 1: there was no line to get in, And as has 125 00:08:38,035 --> 00:08:41,435 Speaker 1: been obvious four weeks, the phenomenon of the Trump rally 126 00:08:42,675 --> 00:08:48,675 Speaker 1: has petered out, as has any self discipline among Trump's help. 127 00:08:49,635 --> 00:08:54,355 Speaker 1: Jen O'Malley dylan, chair of the Harris campaign, her husband 128 00:08:54,475 --> 00:08:57,875 Speaker 1: Patrick tweet's pro tip campaign manager's confident of winning do 129 00:08:57,955 --> 00:09:01,355 Speaker 1: not leak their whole CYA case in long form for 130 00:09:01,435 --> 00:09:05,555 Speaker 1: the weekend before the election, points to Susie Wiles and 131 00:09:06,195 --> 00:09:09,355 Speaker 1: Chris Lasavita for clocking that the Atlantic is not really 132 00:09:09,475 --> 00:09:15,875 Speaker 1: at their candidate's literacy level. Though Stephen Chung, official Trump 133 00:09:15,915 --> 00:09:19,595 Speaker 1: spokesperson the Guy who says all the wise ass remarks, 134 00:09:19,635 --> 00:09:26,675 Speaker 1: responds to this snarky, cynical, mean spirited comment from Jen 135 00:09:26,755 --> 00:09:32,715 Speaker 1: O'Malley Dylan's husband by retweeting it with this edition. Kuck, 136 00:09:33,435 --> 00:09:38,195 Speaker 1: husband of Kamala chairperson, has no idea what he's talking about, 137 00:09:38,475 --> 00:09:41,035 Speaker 1: because he's used to not knowing what's going on behind 138 00:09:41,075 --> 00:09:46,995 Speaker 1: his back. First off, mister Chung, I'm sixty five years 139 00:09:47,035 --> 00:09:49,755 Speaker 1: old and I'm barely plugged into the internet anymore. And 140 00:09:49,835 --> 00:09:52,635 Speaker 1: even I know nobody uses the word cuck anymore and 141 00:09:52,675 --> 00:09:56,275 Speaker 1: has it for at least five or six years. Secondly, 142 00:09:56,635 --> 00:10:01,635 Speaker 1: you're the spokesman for a presidential candidate. My god, the 143 00:10:01,675 --> 00:10:05,755 Speaker 1: two of you have the IQs of waffles. And if 144 00:10:05,755 --> 00:10:10,235 Speaker 1: you think that was bad, gen Z democratic influencer Harry 145 00:10:10,315 --> 00:10:14,035 Speaker 1: Sisson tweeted and Rob O'Neill, the Trump advocate who claims 146 00:10:14,075 --> 00:10:17,195 Speaker 1: he was the guy who killed Ben Laden, He replied, 147 00:10:17,755 --> 00:10:19,995 Speaker 1: you remember he's the one who killed Bin Laden, just 148 00:10:20,075 --> 00:10:23,075 Speaker 1: him on his own with just a toothbrush or something. 149 00:10:23,435 --> 00:10:26,475 Speaker 1: This guy O'Neill responds, The original tweet was a picture 150 00:10:26,635 --> 00:10:31,275 Speaker 1: of five of them. We're gen Z voters, wrote Harry Sisson, 151 00:10:31,635 --> 00:10:35,475 Speaker 1: and we all proudly voted for Kamala Harris. Real men 152 00:10:35,635 --> 00:10:40,835 Speaker 1: support Harris. I'm sorry I'm laughing already. But Captain Bouya 153 00:10:41,115 --> 00:10:45,355 Speaker 1: or whatever he calls himself, Robert J. O'Neil, Seal Team 154 00:10:45,595 --> 00:10:52,675 Speaker 1: six member, proud shoot him up guy. He retweeted this 155 00:10:53,195 --> 00:10:59,195 Speaker 1: and added, you're not men, your boys. If there was 156 00:10:59,275 --> 00:11:06,915 Speaker 1: no social media, you would be my concubines. It's a 157 00:11:06,955 --> 00:11:14,555 Speaker 1: picture of five guys. What exactly are you revealing here? 158 00:11:14,715 --> 00:11:18,955 Speaker 1: Seal Team six guy, it was my friend, the late 159 00:11:19,035 --> 00:11:23,115 Speaker 1: genius Bill Goldman who wrote the line for the Princess Bride. 160 00:11:24,235 --> 00:11:26,995 Speaker 1: You keep using that word. I do not think it 161 00:11:27,075 --> 00:11:53,995 Speaker 1: means what you think it means. Okay, here is your 162 00:11:54,035 --> 00:11:58,275 Speaker 1: schedule for today. The Harris campaign is expecting nearly complete 163 00:11:58,275 --> 00:12:06,155 Speaker 1: results from Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvany, Virginia, 164 00:12:06,235 --> 00:12:11,475 Speaker 1: and Wisconsin by some time late tonight tomorrow morning. Almost 165 00:12:11,515 --> 00:12:14,475 Speaker 1: all of Wisconsin and most of the rest incoming from 166 00:12:14,555 --> 00:12:18,355 Speaker 1: Michigan and Pennsylvania, but it could be even longer, more 167 00:12:18,435 --> 00:12:22,435 Speaker 1: days still for the full results in many key states, 168 00:12:22,475 --> 00:12:27,795 Speaker 1: including Pennsylvania. Hour by hour. Georgia polls close at seven PM, 169 00:12:28,075 --> 00:12:30,795 Speaker 1: so I would assume Trump declares victory at seven oh one. 170 00:12:31,635 --> 00:12:34,675 Speaker 1: Laugh loudly enough that nobody even has to open a 171 00:12:34,715 --> 00:12:38,515 Speaker 1: window to hear you. There's a new law in Georgia 172 00:12:38,635 --> 00:12:41,875 Speaker 1: requiring counties release their absentee and early votes within an 173 00:12:41,875 --> 00:12:44,995 Speaker 1: hour of poll closing, so it's possible Georgia will be 174 00:12:45,075 --> 00:12:47,915 Speaker 1: reporting eighty percent of its vote by eight pm Eastern. 175 00:12:48,755 --> 00:12:52,275 Speaker 1: Biden won that state by twelve thousand, as you will 176 00:12:52,275 --> 00:12:56,235 Speaker 1: remember from Trump's call. If you want to gauge Harris's 177 00:12:56,315 --> 00:13:00,955 Speaker 1: chances in Georgia, Cherokee and fortsyth Counties are the Republican bedrocks. 178 00:13:01,635 --> 00:13:04,195 Speaker 1: North Carolina closes at seven point thirty. They will be 179 00:13:04,235 --> 00:13:07,915 Speaker 1: delayed by a new law demanding counties wait until after 180 00:13:07,995 --> 00:13:14,315 Speaker 1: poll's close to tabulate the early, by mail and absentee ballots. Now, 181 00:13:15,075 --> 00:13:17,315 Speaker 1: if Harris has pulled off a win in either of 182 00:13:17,355 --> 00:13:22,715 Speaker 1: these states, she's almost president. But the big one, of course, 183 00:13:22,755 --> 00:13:25,995 Speaker 1: remains Pennsylvania. Polls close at eight o'clock results. Last time, 184 00:13:26,035 --> 00:13:31,395 Speaker 1: it was for Friday morning, when Decision Desk HQ called 185 00:13:31,435 --> 00:13:34,875 Speaker 1: it for Biden, and the answer to the question how 186 00:13:34,915 --> 00:13:39,195 Speaker 1: long could Keith hold his breath? Was Friday morning. This 187 00:13:39,435 --> 00:13:44,355 Speaker 1: time they have streamlined the count, but Pennsylvania could easily 188 00:13:44,435 --> 00:13:51,915 Speaker 1: not report a winner before mid morning tomorrow Thursday. Maybe. 189 00:13:51,955 --> 00:13:54,915 Speaker 1: Michigan and Wisconsin close at nine eastern eight local ten 190 00:13:54,955 --> 00:13:59,915 Speaker 1: am tomorrow. In Bali, Arizona also closes at nine eastern. 191 00:13:59,995 --> 00:14:03,195 Speaker 1: Iowa also closes at nine eastern. As you have heard her, 192 00:14:03,235 --> 00:14:07,355 Speaker 1: polling margins in Michigan and Wisconsin have been growing. Wisconsin 193 00:14:07,435 --> 00:14:10,555 Speaker 1: also gets its results out fast. We might hear Wisconsin 194 00:14:10,915 --> 00:14:16,515 Speaker 1: first of all states. You know the drill. Harris gets Michigan, Pennsylvania, 195 00:14:16,555 --> 00:14:19,955 Speaker 1: Wisconsin ninety nine out of one hundred scenarios are Then 196 00:14:20,315 --> 00:14:25,955 Speaker 1: she wins Nevada closes at ten eastern. Other states. If 197 00:14:25,955 --> 00:14:30,675 Speaker 1: Harris actually does win Iowa or any other supposedly solid 198 00:14:30,715 --> 00:14:34,235 Speaker 1: red state, you will know by that same reference I 199 00:14:34,355 --> 00:14:37,035 Speaker 1: made earlier. You would even have to open your window. 200 00:14:37,235 --> 00:14:42,435 Speaker 1: You'll just hear the giant sigh of relief sound. Now 201 00:14:42,515 --> 00:14:46,595 Speaker 1: all times are subject to modification due to riots by fascists. 202 00:14:47,275 --> 00:14:49,995 Speaker 1: To quote Jeffrey Clark, though, well, that's why there's an 203 00:14:49,995 --> 00:14:55,595 Speaker 1: Insurrection Act, President Biden. And then the current schedule looking 204 00:14:55,675 --> 00:14:59,515 Speaker 1: out into the next six weeks or so is as follows. 205 00:14:59,635 --> 00:15:03,075 Speaker 1: There is a new national deadline. It is December eleventh 206 00:15:03,355 --> 00:15:06,795 Speaker 1: for governors to certify their state's vote and submit their 207 00:15:06,835 --> 00:15:13,275 Speaker 1: slate of electors. One slate of electors per Customer Police. 208 00:15:13,995 --> 00:15:18,475 Speaker 1: December seventeenth is the in state electoral college vote. A 209 00:15:18,635 --> 00:15:23,755 Speaker 1: vote in each state capital. January sixth, you'd think we'd 210 00:15:23,755 --> 00:15:29,075 Speaker 1: have changed the date. That's the certification in the House, which, 211 00:15:29,115 --> 00:15:32,475 Speaker 1: if it hasn't been sabotaged by Mike Johnson, should proceed 212 00:15:32,555 --> 00:15:35,395 Speaker 1: come hell or high water due to the Updated Electoral 213 00:15:35,475 --> 00:15:38,675 Speaker 1: Count Act of twenty twenty two. The variabilities, of course, 214 00:15:38,715 --> 00:15:41,755 Speaker 1: are there is an excellent chance the Democrats take the House, 215 00:15:42,595 --> 00:15:44,555 Speaker 1: and even if they don't, there is an even more 216 00:15:44,595 --> 00:15:47,755 Speaker 1: excellent chance that the Republicans, some of them, will try 217 00:15:47,795 --> 00:15:50,395 Speaker 1: to sink Mike Johnson, or there will at least be 218 00:15:50,515 --> 00:15:53,915 Speaker 1: a multi day balloting over who should be Speaker of 219 00:15:53,915 --> 00:15:58,075 Speaker 1: the House. So certification day could easily take place without 220 00:15:58,075 --> 00:16:02,595 Speaker 1: there being a Speaker of the House. Oh, I'm sorry, 221 00:16:02,635 --> 00:16:08,235 Speaker 1: I left one critical date out. I'm sorry, November twenty sixth. 222 00:16:08,515 --> 00:16:13,315 Speaker 1: November twenty sixth, if the case hasn't been dismissed. That's 223 00:16:13,395 --> 00:16:16,875 Speaker 1: the sentencing of Trump on the hush money election interference 224 00:16:16,955 --> 00:16:21,355 Speaker 1: case here in New York, two days before the final 225 00:16:21,435 --> 00:16:34,795 Speaker 1: Thursday of November. So have a happy Thanksgiving when nor 226 00:16:34,835 --> 00:16:38,635 Speaker 1: lose raids the headline atop the op ed in where 227 00:16:38,635 --> 00:16:45,235 Speaker 1: else the holy goddamned New York Times When noorlse Jesus H. 228 00:16:45,555 --> 00:16:50,395 Speaker 1: Christ on hockey skates. It really says this when nor 229 00:16:50,435 --> 00:16:57,115 Speaker 1: lose Trump has already won. I don't know how much 230 00:16:57,235 --> 00:17:02,395 Speaker 1: further towards absolute metaphysical both sides of nihilism the New 231 00:17:02,475 --> 00:17:05,155 Speaker 1: York Times can get. Maybe they could take out the 232 00:17:05,435 --> 00:17:08,995 Speaker 1: word win and just write even in losing, Trump has 233 00:17:09,035 --> 00:17:11,635 Speaker 1: already won, or cut right to the chase, win or 234 00:17:11,715 --> 00:17:15,675 Speaker 1: lose death has already won. The thing is the piece 235 00:17:16,435 --> 00:17:21,235 Speaker 1: when norlouse is actually just drivel about free trade and 236 00:17:21,395 --> 00:17:25,995 Speaker 1: immigration and it sounds all serious and changes at the FED, 237 00:17:26,795 --> 00:17:29,115 Speaker 1: and it just happens to have a stupid Election Day 238 00:17:29,155 --> 00:17:30,915 Speaker 1: headline on it, And then you find out the author 239 00:17:31,035 --> 00:17:36,355 Speaker 1: is a founder and editor of Compact Magazine, other whose 240 00:17:36,515 --> 00:17:40,515 Speaker 1: editors are Glenn Greenwald and Michael Tracy, who have never 241 00:17:40,595 --> 00:17:44,395 Speaker 1: as much as rented one ethic between them. So no, 242 00:17:45,515 --> 00:17:51,315 Speaker 1: Compact Magazine is not about trash compactors, or not about 243 00:17:51,435 --> 00:17:57,235 Speaker 1: ladies portable makeup mirrors or portable makeup mirrors for male anchors. 244 00:17:58,475 --> 00:18:01,195 Speaker 1: It would probably be more politically insightful if it were 245 00:18:01,315 --> 00:18:07,275 Speaker 1: when norloose Trump has already won. How about win or 246 00:18:07,355 --> 00:18:13,555 Speaker 1: lose cancer has already won? Or maybe the New York Times, 247 00:18:14,075 --> 00:18:17,915 Speaker 1: and I assume they're just trolling this now, or they 248 00:18:17,955 --> 00:18:21,035 Speaker 1: have a bet a tontine as to who gets The 249 00:18:21,075 --> 00:18:25,435 Speaker 1: Times when everybody else is no longer subscribed, the last 250 00:18:25,435 --> 00:18:28,955 Speaker 1: subscriber gets the paper. I don't know. Maybe the Times 251 00:18:28,955 --> 00:18:30,915 Speaker 1: could be honest for once and frame this win or 252 00:18:30,995 --> 00:18:34,275 Speaker 1: lose Trump is cancer. It's not only I don't want 253 00:18:34,275 --> 00:18:37,635 Speaker 1: anybody fighting cancer or cancer in their family to hurt 254 00:18:37,835 --> 00:18:39,995 Speaker 1: because of that reference or this next one. I've been 255 00:18:40,035 --> 00:18:43,675 Speaker 1: there more even than twenty twenty. This to me right 256 00:18:43,715 --> 00:18:46,795 Speaker 1: now feels like waiting for a biopsy to come back. 257 00:18:47,555 --> 00:18:50,355 Speaker 1: So then there are two ways to get through today 258 00:18:51,035 --> 00:18:56,075 Speaker 1: and tonight and however long the counting goes on. Keep busy. 259 00:18:56,395 --> 00:18:58,715 Speaker 1: If you have a means of contributing to the safety 260 00:18:58,715 --> 00:19:00,955 Speaker 1: of polling places, do so. If you need a voter 261 00:19:01,035 --> 00:19:03,235 Speaker 1: who needs a ride, provide it. If you have to 262 00:19:03,275 --> 00:19:05,035 Speaker 1: make a phone call to get somebody to get out 263 00:19:05,075 --> 00:19:11,955 Speaker 1: there and vote, do something. Do you have a podcast. Secondly, yeah, 264 00:19:11,955 --> 00:19:15,235 Speaker 1: it kind is a biopsy. Don't assume the worst. Be 265 00:19:15,355 --> 00:19:18,115 Speaker 1: prepared for the worst. Make an internal plan of how 266 00:19:18,115 --> 00:19:20,155 Speaker 1: to fight back if it breaks that way. If you 267 00:19:20,195 --> 00:19:22,595 Speaker 1: don't need that plan, it'll be the happiest day of 268 00:19:22,635 --> 00:19:28,875 Speaker 1: your year, if not your life. But also make another 269 00:19:28,955 --> 00:19:31,915 Speaker 1: internal plan, because for twenty years now, somebody has asked 270 00:19:31,915 --> 00:19:35,595 Speaker 1: me the same question every election, most prominently in two 271 00:19:35,635 --> 00:19:39,195 Speaker 1: thousand and eight, when dozens of people, smart, people who 272 00:19:39,235 --> 00:19:42,555 Speaker 1: could tie their own shoes and everything, ask me the 273 00:19:42,595 --> 00:19:45,395 Speaker 1: same question, don't you really want McCain to win? Don't 274 00:19:45,435 --> 00:19:48,315 Speaker 1: you really want McCain as president? I mean, your opposition 275 00:19:48,355 --> 00:19:51,195 Speaker 1: to Bush made your news career, it made your network, 276 00:19:51,235 --> 00:19:55,035 Speaker 1: it made you your money. Most of these people were 277 00:19:55,075 --> 00:19:58,635 Speaker 1: actually shocked, and I answered no, See, I also live 278 00:19:58,715 --> 00:20:03,355 Speaker 1: in this country. I'm much more concerned about who's president 279 00:20:03,395 --> 00:20:06,995 Speaker 1: than how my ratings bring. And they were even more 280 00:20:07,035 --> 00:20:09,835 Speaker 1: shocked by my follow up. Do you think, by the way, 281 00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:14,475 Speaker 1: that if they lose, these people are going away? Now? 282 00:20:14,475 --> 00:20:16,395 Speaker 1: I don't know what you mean. If McCain loses, it's 283 00:20:16,435 --> 00:20:21,795 Speaker 1: all over. Next year we had the Tea Party, and 284 00:20:21,835 --> 00:20:23,515 Speaker 1: of course it got worse. If it wasn't clear in 285 00:20:23,515 --> 00:20:25,515 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, it's got to be clear to you now. 286 00:20:25,555 --> 00:20:28,715 Speaker 1: These people not only do not revere democracy or equality 287 00:20:28,835 --> 00:20:33,115 Speaker 1: or America, but they have never lived within democracy or 288 00:20:33,155 --> 00:20:36,955 Speaker 1: equality or America. Consider the speaker of the House of 289 00:20:36,995 --> 00:20:41,715 Speaker 1: Representatives ten days after the next inauguration. For assuming we 290 00:20:41,755 --> 00:20:45,915 Speaker 1: have one, Mike Johnson turns fifty three years old, which 291 00:20:45,955 --> 00:20:48,835 Speaker 1: means he was eight years old when Ronald Effing Reagan 292 00:20:48,915 --> 00:20:53,155 Speaker 1: was elected and seventeen when Reagan left office, so he's 293 00:20:53,195 --> 00:20:57,075 Speaker 1: like fourteen the last day Reagan remembered he was in office. 294 00:20:57,395 --> 00:21:01,035 Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh was already nationally syndicated when Mike Johnson was sixteen. 295 00:21:02,035 --> 00:21:04,995 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson graduated college in nineteen ninety five, Fox News 296 00:21:04,995 --> 00:21:07,795 Speaker 1: One on the air in nineteen ninety six. Johnson graduated 297 00:21:07,835 --> 00:21:11,035 Speaker 1: law school in nineteen ninety eight. Mike Johnson has only 298 00:21:11,075 --> 00:21:14,835 Speaker 1: lived in two Americas, one in which repression and white 299 00:21:14,875 --> 00:21:20,235 Speaker 1: supremacy and misogyny have been officially enshrined in government, and 300 00:21:20,275 --> 00:21:25,475 Speaker 1: the other in which those forces are actively trying to unseat, undermine, 301 00:21:25,675 --> 00:21:32,315 Speaker 1: and thwart well truth, justice in the American way. And 302 00:21:32,355 --> 00:21:34,715 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson is supposed to be one of the reasonable ones. 303 00:21:36,035 --> 00:21:38,675 Speaker 1: Because there are people voting for Donald Trump today who 304 00:21:38,715 --> 00:21:43,835 Speaker 1: were nine when he began his first campaign. They don't 305 00:21:43,875 --> 00:21:51,355 Speaker 1: know an America without a subculture of boastful stupidity and conspiracy. 306 00:21:52,155 --> 00:21:55,435 Speaker 1: They don't know even in America, where it's just George W. 307 00:21:55,595 --> 00:21:59,035 Speaker 1: Bush making up terror threats to start wars and win elections. 308 00:22:00,515 --> 00:22:08,515 Speaker 1: They only know this shit, So either way, win or lose, 309 00:22:11,915 --> 00:22:16,395 Speaker 1: we have to begin to correct this. The question that 310 00:22:16,475 --> 00:22:18,915 Speaker 1: will be decided today and the days or weeks to 311 00:22:18,955 --> 00:22:21,595 Speaker 1: come is whether or not we will have all the 312 00:22:21,715 --> 00:22:25,675 Speaker 1: tools to begin to correct this and do it this time, 313 00:22:27,275 --> 00:22:36,315 Speaker 1: or we will be left using our bare hands. By 314 00:22:36,315 --> 00:22:38,555 Speaker 1: the way, I don't think it'll be weeks. I think 315 00:22:38,555 --> 00:22:40,555 Speaker 1: it's an even bet that it'll be settled tonight, and 316 00:22:40,595 --> 00:22:46,675 Speaker 1: I'm serious. Also of interest here, we haven't heard word 317 00:22:46,995 --> 00:22:51,275 Speaker 1: one from good old herschel Walker since he lost that 318 00:22:51,355 --> 00:22:55,675 Speaker 1: Senate seat in Georgia. Now we know why. Apparently he 319 00:22:55,715 --> 00:22:59,395 Speaker 1: had forgotten Donald Trump's name. Do you think I'm kidding? 320 00:22:59,915 --> 00:23:07,195 Speaker 1: That's next this Discountdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman 321 00:23:28,115 --> 00:23:30,435 Speaker 1: still ahead on this edition of Countdown. On a day's 322 00:23:30,475 --> 00:23:32,555 Speaker 1: stress like today, I find it useful to think of 323 00:23:32,595 --> 00:23:36,875 Speaker 1: all those who stand behind me, my parents, my ancestors, 324 00:23:36,915 --> 00:23:39,835 Speaker 1: my friends of decades, my friends of just a few years. 325 00:23:40,315 --> 00:23:42,835 Speaker 1: I like to invoke their memory and the joy they 326 00:23:42,915 --> 00:23:46,235 Speaker 1: brought me. There's no reason to bring up one of 327 00:23:46,275 --> 00:23:49,195 Speaker 1: them in particular today, but retelling how I met her 328 00:23:49,555 --> 00:23:54,355 Speaker 1: always makes me happy, And so the day that actress 329 00:23:54,395 --> 00:24:00,835 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Montgomery pranked my parents on their doorstep. Next in 330 00:24:00,955 --> 00:24:03,835 Speaker 1: Things I Promised not to tell first, there are still 331 00:24:03,875 --> 00:24:06,195 Speaker 1: more new idiots talk about the daily roundup of the 332 00:24:06,195 --> 00:24:09,835 Speaker 1: miss Grints, morons and Dunning Kruegerriffet specimens, who constitute two 333 00:24:09,915 --> 00:24:15,875 Speaker 1: days most bewitched worst persons in the world, the Bronze 334 00:24:15,915 --> 00:24:19,235 Speaker 1: Worst Politico, as the New York Times had to get 335 00:24:19,275 --> 00:24:23,315 Speaker 1: one last both sidest absurdity in before the deadline, so 336 00:24:23,515 --> 00:24:26,795 Speaker 1: too did Politico. What happened to Trump on Sunday? Do 337 00:24:26,835 --> 00:24:29,315 Speaker 1: you remember back that far he said you should shoot 338 00:24:29,315 --> 00:24:32,715 Speaker 1: the press, acted like he wouldn't mind if you shot 339 00:24:32,755 --> 00:24:37,115 Speaker 1: through the press and shot him. He clearly thought he 340 00:24:37,195 --> 00:24:39,475 Speaker 1: was in Pennsylvania when he was really in North Carolina. 341 00:24:40,115 --> 00:24:42,715 Speaker 1: He's still getting ripped for pretending to felle a microphone 342 00:24:42,715 --> 00:24:44,795 Speaker 1: the day before, still getting ripped for his desire the 343 00:24:44,875 --> 00:24:47,715 Speaker 1: day before that to see Liz Cheney shot. He saw 344 00:24:47,715 --> 00:24:51,435 Speaker 1: his polls collapse from the previous Sunday's anti Hispanic slur 345 00:24:51,715 --> 00:24:56,115 Speaker 1: fest at Madison Square Garden. So late night every night 346 00:24:56,155 --> 00:25:00,235 Speaker 1: eleven pm Eastern or so Politico home of editor Ryan Lizza, 347 00:25:00,395 --> 00:25:04,275 Speaker 1: the lowest ranked participant in the RFK junior my ex 348 00:25:04,675 --> 00:25:09,275 Speaker 1: and Ryan Lizzi scandal. Politico selects who won the day? 349 00:25:09,755 --> 00:25:13,395 Speaker 1: So who won the day? On Sunday quote who won 350 00:25:13,435 --> 00:25:16,315 Speaker 1: the Day? Trump? Trump won the day because he's still 351 00:25:16,355 --> 00:25:18,915 Speaker 1: in a margin of error election after a week filled 352 00:25:18,915 --> 00:25:23,435 Speaker 1: with talk of garbage, grievances and hell. Or as the 353 00:25:23,475 --> 00:25:25,515 Speaker 1: Times might have put it, win or lose, Trump has 354 00:25:25,515 --> 00:25:27,315 Speaker 1: already won. Oh wait, they did put it that way. 355 00:25:28,715 --> 00:25:32,995 Speaker 1: Next on Politico's who won the day? Explosive diarrhea because 356 00:25:33,035 --> 00:25:37,275 Speaker 1: somebody still has it somewhere, or if Harris wins today? 357 00:25:37,315 --> 00:25:40,195 Speaker 1: Who won the day? Trump? Because he finished a strong second. 358 00:25:42,155 --> 00:25:46,875 Speaker 1: The runner up worser Carrie Lake, the fascist Senate candidate 359 00:25:46,915 --> 00:25:50,515 Speaker 1: from Arizona, losing in the last polls to Reuben Diego 360 00:25:50,595 --> 00:25:54,395 Speaker 1: by four or five, six, a couple of unreliable ones 361 00:25:54,435 --> 00:25:57,435 Speaker 1: by eight, even the crap Zone Republican polls have are 362 00:25:57,475 --> 00:26:00,595 Speaker 1: losing by two or three. But that's not the world, 363 00:26:00,715 --> 00:26:05,235 Speaker 1: Carrie Lake lives in. My internal polling looks good good, 364 00:26:05,555 --> 00:26:08,755 Speaker 1: she says, We're ahead of my opponent, and I feel 365 00:26:08,755 --> 00:26:12,515 Speaker 1: comfortable with our polling. Our polling is a little different. 366 00:26:13,075 --> 00:26:17,475 Speaker 1: We take polling, but we also combine it with AI, 367 00:26:18,555 --> 00:26:22,115 Speaker 1: which reads all of what's happening on social media and 368 00:26:22,195 --> 00:26:30,195 Speaker 1: across the Internet. So Carrie, you use AI to read 369 00:26:30,235 --> 00:26:34,395 Speaker 1: the Internet and see what's happening on social media. So 370 00:26:34,435 --> 00:26:39,275 Speaker 1: it's your bots recording the opinions of Russian bots about 371 00:26:39,275 --> 00:26:43,595 Speaker 1: the Arizona Senate race. Okay, I mean, it never dawned 372 00:26:43,595 --> 00:26:46,315 Speaker 1: on me until I read this quote, but it makes sense. 373 00:26:46,475 --> 00:26:48,475 Speaker 1: It makes all the sense in the world. You ever 374 00:26:48,475 --> 00:26:50,355 Speaker 1: seen one of those carry Lake interviews where she's in 375 00:26:50,395 --> 00:26:53,515 Speaker 1: her own studio and she has maybe six gauze filters 376 00:26:54,235 --> 00:26:59,595 Speaker 1: over her own camera lens. She looks like she's speaking 377 00:26:59,595 --> 00:27:07,115 Speaker 1: to you from a crystal ballune and tell HER's shop Hello, 378 00:27:07,635 --> 00:27:13,715 Speaker 1: I'm coming from another world, the world of weekend TV weather. Well, 379 00:27:13,715 --> 00:27:15,235 Speaker 1: it never dawn of me if you think about all 380 00:27:15,235 --> 00:27:18,475 Speaker 1: those lenses. She must look out at the world through 381 00:27:18,475 --> 00:27:22,835 Speaker 1: the back of those same gauze filters. And by the way, 382 00:27:22,875 --> 00:27:25,395 Speaker 1: since this may be God willing my last chance to 383 00:27:25,395 --> 00:27:27,915 Speaker 1: take a gratuitous shot at her, and she is among 384 00:27:27,955 --> 00:27:30,955 Speaker 1: the worst. It hit me the other day, between that 385 00:27:31,115 --> 00:27:35,315 Speaker 1: haircut and that voice and that contemptuous attitude of hers 386 00:27:35,755 --> 00:27:38,395 Speaker 1: doesn't carry late give off the vibe that she tried 387 00:27:38,475 --> 00:27:41,875 Speaker 1: real hard but she just couldn't help it. She bombed 388 00:27:41,915 --> 00:27:47,355 Speaker 1: out of Dominatrix School. But finally our winner the worst 389 00:27:48,115 --> 00:27:55,035 Speaker 1: He's back, Hershel Walker, father of our nation, almost literally, 390 00:27:56,995 --> 00:27:58,755 Speaker 1: the man who appeared to have run for the Senate 391 00:27:58,795 --> 00:28:01,035 Speaker 1: in Georgia two years ago because Donald Trump gave him 392 00:28:01,035 --> 00:28:02,475 Speaker 1: a lot of money to play for the New Jersey 393 00:28:02,515 --> 00:28:06,915 Speaker 1: General's football team. Forty years ago, Walker lost. He kept 394 00:28:06,955 --> 00:28:10,035 Speaker 1: all the campaign funds. He's been paying off the lawyers 395 00:28:10,075 --> 00:28:12,795 Speaker 1: ever since, and we have not seen him since then 396 00:28:13,435 --> 00:28:19,475 Speaker 1: until he came out of wherever he's been to endorse Trump. Well, 397 00:28:19,555 --> 00:28:21,555 Speaker 1: I think that's who he endorsed, and. 398 00:28:21,555 --> 00:28:24,075 Speaker 3: It is time for it to stop, and to stop 399 00:28:24,235 --> 00:28:26,835 Speaker 3: on Tuesday, when we get to the polls and we 400 00:28:26,995 --> 00:28:30,875 Speaker 3: vote from my friend and your friend Donald Trump Junior, 401 00:28:31,595 --> 00:28:32,675 Speaker 3: Donald Trump J. 402 00:28:33,515 --> 00:28:41,355 Speaker 1: Trump Herschel, I'm Jnald J. Trump jenij approved this message 403 00:28:41,435 --> 00:29:17,475 Speaker 1: Walker two days worst person and Elizabeth Montgomery, one of 404 00:29:17,475 --> 00:29:20,955 Speaker 1: the most famous actresses of the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies, 405 00:29:21,195 --> 00:29:24,675 Speaker 1: star of the TV series Bewitched, daughter of a famous 406 00:29:24,675 --> 00:29:28,075 Speaker 1: actor Robert Montgomery, and my friend from early on the 407 00:29:28,115 --> 00:29:32,035 Speaker 1: morning of January fourteenth, nineteen ninety two, until she died 408 00:29:32,075 --> 00:29:35,555 Speaker 1: in the spring of nineteen ninety five. Our friendship happened 409 00:29:35,795 --> 00:29:39,995 Speaker 1: only because of one thing. My sister had given me 410 00:29:40,035 --> 00:29:43,115 Speaker 1: a book about one of our favorite topics, the never 411 00:29:43,195 --> 00:29:45,955 Speaker 1: to be solved mystery of Lizzie Borden and the Borden 412 00:29:45,995 --> 00:29:50,995 Speaker 1: Family Acts murders of eighteen ninety two in Fall River, Massachusetts. Yes, 413 00:29:51,235 --> 00:29:54,635 Speaker 1: We're weird. And also the fact that Elizabeth Montgomery had 414 00:29:54,675 --> 00:29:58,435 Speaker 1: played Lizzie Borden in a TV movie. So on January fourteenth, 415 00:29:58,515 --> 00:30:00,915 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, as I sat waiting for our flight 416 00:30:00,995 --> 00:30:03,835 Speaker 1: to leave ICJFK Airport in New York from my then 417 00:30:03,875 --> 00:30:06,635 Speaker 1: home in Los Angeles, then I began to read from 418 00:30:06,635 --> 00:30:11,275 Speaker 1: my airplane seat my sister's gift from the aisle. From 419 00:30:11,315 --> 00:30:13,875 Speaker 1: the last one to board, I hear the voice of 420 00:30:13,915 --> 00:30:18,395 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Montgomery saying to me, ooh, Keith, you're reading about me. 421 00:30:19,795 --> 00:30:24,875 Speaker 1: She was a gas my brief but eternal friendship with 422 00:30:24,915 --> 00:30:28,275 Speaker 1: Lizzie Montgomery, and the eternal lesson she taught me in 423 00:30:28,355 --> 00:30:30,355 Speaker 1: one moment. Please While I first explained what I was 424 00:30:30,395 --> 00:30:33,715 Speaker 1: doing on that flight a month or two earlier, I 425 00:30:33,755 --> 00:30:37,075 Speaker 1: had agreed to join ESPN to co host Sports Center 426 00:30:37,115 --> 00:30:40,035 Speaker 1: with Dan Patrick starting in late March nineteen ninety two. 427 00:30:40,635 --> 00:30:43,875 Speaker 1: I had just finished up three financially rewarding but souls 428 00:30:43,955 --> 00:30:46,595 Speaker 1: sucking years at Channel two in Los Angeles, and I 429 00:30:46,675 --> 00:30:48,475 Speaker 1: was going to go to Hawaii for three months and 430 00:30:48,555 --> 00:30:52,715 Speaker 1: just live are until I felt better. On Monday, December thirtieth, 431 00:30:52,795 --> 00:30:55,635 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one, I had literally just opened my address 432 00:30:55,675 --> 00:30:57,995 Speaker 1: book to find the number of a travel agent I 433 00:30:58,035 --> 00:31:00,755 Speaker 1: knew to make the Hawaii arrangements. I was reaching for 434 00:31:00,835 --> 00:31:05,235 Speaker 1: the phone when the phone rang. It was my business 435 00:31:05,275 --> 00:31:07,155 Speaker 1: agent who had just gotten off the phone with my 436 00:31:07,235 --> 00:31:10,435 Speaker 1: new ESPN boss, John Walsh. He and they were launching 437 00:31:10,515 --> 00:31:13,915 Speaker 1: a new radio network in five days. I found this 438 00:31:14,155 --> 00:31:18,675 Speaker 1: interesting but not particularly relevant. ESPN was one thing then 439 00:31:18,675 --> 00:31:21,635 Speaker 1: it was one TV network, no magazine, no radio, No 440 00:31:21,955 --> 00:31:25,275 Speaker 1: ESPN the O SHO. So this was their first big 441 00:31:25,435 --> 00:31:29,115 Speaker 1: move outwards. The radio network would start with only two 442 00:31:29,355 --> 00:31:32,555 Speaker 1: seven hour shows on Saturday and Sunday nights, and Walsh 443 00:31:32,635 --> 00:31:34,595 Speaker 1: explained to my agent that everything was going great and 444 00:31:34,595 --> 00:31:36,355 Speaker 1: they were right on target, and they had great guests 445 00:31:36,435 --> 00:31:38,875 Speaker 1: lined up for the first weekend, like Ronald Reagan, and 446 00:31:38,915 --> 00:31:41,275 Speaker 1: they only had one tiny problem. They needed three hosts, 447 00:31:41,355 --> 00:31:44,035 Speaker 1: and they had two terrific hosts, just terrific hosts, one 448 00:31:44,115 --> 00:31:46,515 Speaker 1: Keith worked with named Tony Bruno, and another terrific, just 449 00:31:46,595 --> 00:31:49,155 Speaker 1: terrific host from Providence named Chuck Wilson. And they tried 450 00:31:49,195 --> 00:31:50,795 Speaker 1: this guy as the third host, and that guy, and 451 00:31:50,835 --> 00:31:52,755 Speaker 1: this guy and that guy, and all told, forty different 452 00:31:52,755 --> 00:31:54,795 Speaker 1: people had tried out to be hosts. They had nobody, 453 00:31:54,835 --> 00:31:56,475 Speaker 1: nobody to be the third host. Who was any good 454 00:31:56,515 --> 00:31:58,475 Speaker 1: good Keith just come here just for the first weekend, 455 00:31:58,635 --> 00:31:59,875 Speaker 1: just to get it off the ground. Then he can 456 00:31:59,915 --> 00:32:01,515 Speaker 1: go back to LA and come back here in March 457 00:32:01,555 --> 00:32:04,675 Speaker 1: takeover sports. And please, please please get Keith help us, please, 458 00:32:04,715 --> 00:32:06,395 Speaker 1: because if he Canada, what on earth they're going to 459 00:32:06,475 --> 00:32:11,515 Speaker 1: do it? Please please please. As I said to my agent, 460 00:32:11,595 --> 00:32:15,755 Speaker 1: well all right, I suppose at least way, at least 461 00:32:15,755 --> 00:32:18,115 Speaker 1: a ESPN will always think of me as a team player. 462 00:32:21,355 --> 00:32:25,915 Speaker 1: So instead of going to Hawaii in January, I go 463 00:32:25,995 --> 00:32:31,195 Speaker 1: to Bristol, Connecticut in January, and I go stay at 464 00:32:31,195 --> 00:32:33,395 Speaker 1: my folks house outside New York City, and a friend 465 00:32:33,395 --> 00:32:36,355 Speaker 1: I had recommended to help ESPN launch their radio network 466 00:32:36,355 --> 00:32:38,315 Speaker 1: offers me a ride up to ESPN for the weekend, 467 00:32:38,715 --> 00:32:41,395 Speaker 1: and it's like twenty degrees and we get out of 468 00:32:41,435 --> 00:32:43,835 Speaker 1: his car and his parking lot, and three spots over 469 00:32:43,835 --> 00:32:46,275 Speaker 1: getting out of his car in the parking lot is 470 00:32:46,395 --> 00:32:48,555 Speaker 1: Chris Berman, who I went to high school with, and 471 00:32:48,755 --> 00:32:51,795 Speaker 1: already in January nineteen ninety two, when I'm not quite 472 00:32:51,915 --> 00:32:55,315 Speaker 1: thirty three years old, I already know Chris for twenty years. 473 00:32:55,315 --> 00:32:58,875 Speaker 1: And before I can say hey, he screams, listen, we 474 00:32:58,955 --> 00:33:05,275 Speaker 1: had a good thing going here, don't if it up. 475 00:33:06,675 --> 00:33:08,875 Speaker 1: And I say, good to see you too, Chris, And 476 00:33:08,915 --> 00:33:11,835 Speaker 1: I remind myself it's only till Monday. And I meet 477 00:33:11,835 --> 00:33:13,475 Speaker 1: the gang, and then I go to the hotel and 478 00:33:13,515 --> 00:33:16,155 Speaker 1: the hotel is beige. The walls are beage, the carpets 479 00:33:16,155 --> 00:33:18,755 Speaker 1: are page, the guests are beige, the food is beage. 480 00:33:18,795 --> 00:33:21,155 Speaker 1: The only thing that isn't beige is the six inches 481 00:33:21,195 --> 00:33:23,835 Speaker 1: of snow that falls overnight. And remind myself it's only 482 00:33:23,875 --> 00:33:27,995 Speaker 1: till Monday. The launch of the network on Saturday goes well. 483 00:33:28,275 --> 00:33:30,995 Speaker 1: They have me interview Ronald Reagan about something in football. 484 00:33:31,635 --> 00:33:33,475 Speaker 1: The Sunday Night show is going well too, and we're 485 00:33:33,475 --> 00:33:35,795 Speaker 1: trying to figure out where the big baseball free agent 486 00:33:35,835 --> 00:33:39,115 Speaker 1: of that winner, Danny Tartable is going to sign. And 487 00:33:39,155 --> 00:33:41,435 Speaker 1: we're interviewing Bobby Valentine, who was the manager of the 488 00:33:41,435 --> 00:33:43,475 Speaker 1: Texas Rangers, and they were one of the team's rumored 489 00:33:43,475 --> 00:33:46,355 Speaker 1: to be a likely landing for Tartable, and I asked Valentine, 490 00:33:46,395 --> 00:33:48,635 Speaker 1: he says, no, not anymore. They just canceled their trip. 491 00:33:48,915 --> 00:33:50,915 Speaker 1: I was supposed to go meet them at the airport tonight. 492 00:33:51,155 --> 00:33:53,875 Speaker 1: I think he signed with somebody else. And the alarm 493 00:33:53,875 --> 00:33:55,515 Speaker 1: bells go off in my head and I tell the producer, 494 00:33:55,595 --> 00:33:58,035 Speaker 1: let's call everybody we know in baseball and put them 495 00:33:58,075 --> 00:34:01,115 Speaker 1: on and figure out where Danny Tartable is going. I 496 00:34:01,155 --> 00:34:03,195 Speaker 1: have a source who knows his agent. Let me call him. 497 00:34:03,635 --> 00:34:07,075 Speaker 1: We'll go story chase. So we spend four hours following 498 00:34:07,075 --> 00:34:10,675 Speaker 1: the story in real time, and it's great radio, and 499 00:34:10,715 --> 00:34:12,675 Speaker 1: we're coming up on the last hour and our guests 500 00:34:12,715 --> 00:34:16,235 Speaker 1: have helped us eliminate like thirty teams out of twenty eight. 501 00:34:16,715 --> 00:34:19,235 Speaker 1: But we're not sure where Tartable is going still, and 502 00:34:19,275 --> 00:34:21,795 Speaker 1: the producer says, if only we had his home phone number, 503 00:34:21,795 --> 00:34:25,515 Speaker 1: And I look at the producer and go, oh, crap, sorry, 504 00:34:25,875 --> 00:34:27,995 Speaker 1: And I grabbed my address book and I explained he 505 00:34:28,115 --> 00:34:30,715 Speaker 1: was my co host. Tartable was on some of our 506 00:34:31,315 --> 00:34:35,075 Speaker 1: baseball postgame shows in La last I'm sorry, I forgot 507 00:34:35,315 --> 00:34:38,355 Speaker 1: I had his number all this time. Hang on, So 508 00:34:38,435 --> 00:34:41,155 Speaker 1: I called Danny Tartabule, and just as our last hour 509 00:34:41,235 --> 00:34:43,715 Speaker 1: on Sunday Night is starting, he calls me back and 510 00:34:43,755 --> 00:34:46,715 Speaker 1: I say to him, look, we know you've decided. It's 511 00:34:46,755 --> 00:34:48,835 Speaker 1: all over baseball. It's got to be the Phillies, the Mets, 512 00:34:48,915 --> 00:34:52,235 Speaker 1: or the Yankees. And he's saying, correctly, I can't tell you. 513 00:34:52,715 --> 00:34:55,355 Speaker 1: And I said, give me one guess and just tell 514 00:34:55,395 --> 00:34:56,915 Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, and I will call you a 515 00:34:56,995 --> 00:35:00,195 Speaker 1: source close to the negotiations, that's all. And he says okay, 516 00:35:00,195 --> 00:35:02,875 Speaker 1: And I say, is it a team that wears pinstripes? 517 00:35:02,915 --> 00:35:04,475 Speaker 1: And of course the Phillies, the Mets, and the Yankees 518 00:35:04,515 --> 00:35:06,795 Speaker 1: all wear pinstripe so he laughs and he says yes. 519 00:35:07,075 --> 00:35:09,075 Speaker 1: And I say, is it the team I grew up 520 00:35:09,115 --> 00:35:12,075 Speaker 1: a fan of? And he says, what team did you 521 00:35:12,075 --> 00:35:13,955 Speaker 1: grow up a fan of? And by the way, the 522 00:35:14,075 --> 00:35:16,595 Speaker 1: phone call is taking place with me on the floor 523 00:35:16,635 --> 00:35:19,475 Speaker 1: of the studio in which the other two hosts are 524 00:35:19,515 --> 00:35:21,915 Speaker 1: live on the new radio network. So I whispered as 525 00:35:21,955 --> 00:35:26,315 Speaker 1: Tartable if I say it to the Yankees, Am I wrong? 526 00:35:27,675 --> 00:35:30,715 Speaker 1: And he says, I can't tell you and starts whispering. 527 00:35:31,315 --> 00:35:33,635 Speaker 1: But off the record, the press conference is Wednesday at 528 00:35:33,715 --> 00:35:36,755 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium. Is that enough for you, you bastard? And of 529 00:35:36,755 --> 00:35:38,515 Speaker 1: course I said no, come on the show and tell 530 00:35:38,595 --> 00:35:40,235 Speaker 1: us come on and he laughs and says I'll see 531 00:35:40,235 --> 00:35:42,075 Speaker 1: you Wednesday and hangs up. And I get up and 532 00:35:42,075 --> 00:35:43,715 Speaker 1: I sit in the vacant chair and I can say 533 00:35:43,955 --> 00:35:47,235 Speaker 1: breaking news. ESPN report now that the free agent outfield 534 00:35:47,275 --> 00:35:49,755 Speaker 1: or Danny Tartable, has agreed to a multi year deal 535 00:35:49,795 --> 00:35:53,115 Speaker 1: with the New York Yankees. Sources close to the negotiation 536 00:35:53,275 --> 00:35:55,955 Speaker 1: say there will be a press conference Wednesday at Yankee Stadium, 537 00:35:56,355 --> 00:35:58,315 Speaker 1: and the other hosts are trying not to crack up 538 00:35:58,355 --> 00:36:01,035 Speaker 1: because they know I've just been talking too Tartable from 539 00:36:01,075 --> 00:36:05,675 Speaker 1: the phone in the same room with them. Well, this 540 00:36:05,755 --> 00:36:10,155 Speaker 1: story explodes way more than it deserved. It's a dull 541 00:36:10,235 --> 00:36:12,755 Speaker 1: Sunday night. It's still early enough in the evening that 542 00:36:12,795 --> 00:36:15,955 Speaker 1: the story makes all the Monday newspapers and it's attributed 543 00:36:15,995 --> 00:36:18,515 Speaker 1: not to ESPN or to Sports Center, but to the 544 00:36:18,555 --> 00:36:23,035 Speaker 1: brand new ESPN Radio network on its second day in business, 545 00:36:23,395 --> 00:36:25,755 Speaker 1: and it's on the front page of USA Today and 546 00:36:25,835 --> 00:36:29,395 Speaker 1: the New York Times. New ESPN Radio Network makes splash 547 00:36:29,435 --> 00:36:32,435 Speaker 1: with tartabules scoop the next morning, and I can't tell 548 00:36:32,515 --> 00:36:35,635 Speaker 1: you how big a deal that was back then in 549 00:36:35,715 --> 00:36:39,235 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two. So now, instead of going back to 550 00:36:39,395 --> 00:36:42,235 Speaker 1: LA on Monday and maybe to Hawaii on Tuesday, as 551 00:36:42,275 --> 00:36:43,715 Speaker 1: I had planned, I have to go to the press 552 00:36:43,715 --> 00:36:46,115 Speaker 1: conference at Yankee Stadium to say hi to Tartable on 553 00:36:46,155 --> 00:36:48,115 Speaker 1: Wednesday and sort of thank him for the scoop. And 554 00:36:48,195 --> 00:36:51,675 Speaker 1: on Tuesday, this guy, John Walls from ESPN calls me 555 00:36:51,715 --> 00:36:54,195 Speaker 1: and my agent says, look, we have to take advantage 556 00:36:54,195 --> 00:36:56,115 Speaker 1: of this. It's the best possible start we could have 557 00:36:56,155 --> 00:36:58,915 Speaker 1: hoped for for the radio network. Keith has to stay 558 00:36:58,955 --> 00:37:01,755 Speaker 1: with us for the next three months. Why doesn't he 559 00:37:01,795 --> 00:37:03,755 Speaker 1: stay in and do this weekend and then go back 560 00:37:03,755 --> 00:37:05,835 Speaker 1: to LA and pack up apartment, then come back here 561 00:37:05,875 --> 00:37:06,715 Speaker 1: the weekend after that. 562 00:37:06,955 --> 00:37:07,395 Speaker 3: And and. 563 00:37:09,355 --> 00:37:12,035 Speaker 1: I say again to my agent, well, at least ESPN 564 00:37:12,075 --> 00:37:14,875 Speaker 1: will always think of me as a team player if 565 00:37:14,875 --> 00:37:21,835 Speaker 1: I do this a So I am not in Hawaii 566 00:37:21,915 --> 00:37:24,715 Speaker 1: and instead I am on board this flight. When Elizabeth 567 00:37:24,795 --> 00:37:27,835 Speaker 1: Montgomery walks down the aisle and sees my Lizzie Bordon 568 00:37:27,875 --> 00:37:30,475 Speaker 1: book given to me by my sister and says, ooh, Keith, 569 00:37:30,515 --> 00:37:33,355 Speaker 1: you're reading about me. Hi, I'm Lizzie Montgomery. I'm a 570 00:37:33,395 --> 00:37:36,075 Speaker 1: big fan of yours. Is that seat taken? And I say, 571 00:37:36,075 --> 00:37:38,715 Speaker 1: the hell if I care, sit down? And the only 572 00:37:38,795 --> 00:37:41,035 Speaker 1: time we're not talking for the next six hours is 573 00:37:41,075 --> 00:37:45,115 Speaker 1: when we are drinking. I believe, if I remember this correctly, 574 00:37:45,435 --> 00:37:48,755 Speaker 1: they had to send up a champagne refueling flight halfway 575 00:37:48,795 --> 00:37:52,755 Speaker 1: to LA And she's a huge sports fan. Her father 576 00:37:52,835 --> 00:37:54,635 Speaker 1: was a founder of one of the southern California horse 577 00:37:54,675 --> 00:37:57,355 Speaker 1: racing tracks, and she loves the Lakers, and she thinks 578 00:37:57,355 --> 00:37:59,675 Speaker 1: she was related to Lizzie Borden. Did I ever see 579 00:37:59,715 --> 00:38:02,155 Speaker 1: the European version of her Lizzie Bordon film where they 580 00:38:02,155 --> 00:38:04,195 Speaker 1: show the wide shots where they make it look like 581 00:38:04,235 --> 00:38:06,875 Speaker 1: she's new And I say, I'm absolutely certain I have not. 582 00:38:07,955 --> 00:38:10,555 Speaker 1: And her son and her driver and her rolls Royce 583 00:38:10,595 --> 00:38:12,635 Speaker 1: meet us at Lax and she wants me to see 584 00:38:12,635 --> 00:38:14,995 Speaker 1: her house, and then her driver and her rolls Royce 585 00:38:15,035 --> 00:38:16,555 Speaker 1: will give me a lyft home and oh, by the way, 586 00:38:16,595 --> 00:38:18,475 Speaker 1: she's flying back to New York in a week, should 587 00:38:18,555 --> 00:38:23,595 Speaker 1: we become flying buddies. On that trip, our flight gets 588 00:38:23,675 --> 00:38:26,195 Speaker 1: canceled and we have to find a new one. I'm 589 00:38:26,235 --> 00:38:28,835 Speaker 1: hand carrying a lot of my more valuable baseball cards, 590 00:38:28,835 --> 00:38:31,555 Speaker 1: including like five hundred different from the year nineteen oh nine, 591 00:38:31,835 --> 00:38:34,035 Speaker 1: and she wants to see them, and she wants me 592 00:38:34,075 --> 00:38:37,235 Speaker 1: to tell her something about each player while we drink again. 593 00:38:38,155 --> 00:38:40,035 Speaker 1: And we land and she says, how you getting to 594 00:38:40,075 --> 00:38:42,435 Speaker 1: your folks house? And I say, well, I'm going to 595 00:38:42,475 --> 00:38:44,955 Speaker 1: get a car here or something, and she says, no, 596 00:38:44,995 --> 00:38:46,435 Speaker 1: you're not. I'll give you a lift in my limo 597 00:38:46,635 --> 00:38:50,555 Speaker 1: going right past your house. And sure enough we get there. 598 00:38:50,635 --> 00:38:53,315 Speaker 1: And as Lizzie Montgomery's limo is taking me to my 599 00:38:53,395 --> 00:38:56,515 Speaker 1: folks house at ten o'clock at night, she says, will 600 00:38:56,555 --> 00:38:58,355 Speaker 1: they still be up? Your folks want to play a 601 00:38:58,395 --> 00:39:01,875 Speaker 1: practical joke on them. So two minutes later I knock 602 00:39:01,955 --> 00:39:03,755 Speaker 1: on the door of my childhood home and my father 603 00:39:03,835 --> 00:39:07,155 Speaker 1: opens it instead of seeing me, it's her in the doorway, 604 00:39:07,195 --> 00:39:10,035 Speaker 1: and she says, hi, mister Olderman, I'm Lizzie. I'm a 605 00:39:10,035 --> 00:39:13,155 Speaker 1: friend of Keiths. Can he come out and play? And 606 00:39:13,235 --> 00:39:16,195 Speaker 1: my dad goes silent for the only time I in 607 00:39:16,275 --> 00:39:19,235 Speaker 1: my life. And now my mother appears, so Lizzie can 608 00:39:19,275 --> 00:39:22,555 Speaker 1: pull the same routine on her. Hi, missus olverman, I'm Lizzie. 609 00:39:22,555 --> 00:39:24,155 Speaker 1: I'm a friend of Keiths. Can he come out and play? 610 00:39:24,235 --> 00:39:26,755 Speaker 1: And now my mother is silent for the only time 611 00:39:26,795 --> 00:39:32,395 Speaker 1: in my life, I might add. I thought Lizzie looked fabulous, 612 00:39:32,435 --> 00:39:34,755 Speaker 1: and I looked her up in Hallowell's film Guide, and 613 00:39:34,795 --> 00:39:36,675 Speaker 1: I saw she was forty eight, and I thought, boy, 614 00:39:36,755 --> 00:39:38,595 Speaker 1: she looks fabulous for forty eight, And then I realized 615 00:39:38,595 --> 00:39:40,955 Speaker 1: my math is wrong. She was fifty eight, and she 616 00:39:41,075 --> 00:39:43,875 Speaker 1: was a joy. We talked my phone every couple of 617 00:39:43,915 --> 00:39:46,035 Speaker 1: weeks after that, and she died three years later of 618 00:39:46,035 --> 00:39:50,475 Speaker 1: colon cancer. But she is with me always, and not 619 00:39:50,755 --> 00:39:54,715 Speaker 1: just as the proverbial force of nature. Within minutes of 620 00:39:54,715 --> 00:39:57,595 Speaker 1: that day we met, January fourteenth, nineteen ninety two, she 621 00:39:57,755 --> 00:40:03,395 Speaker 1: bestowed upon me a lesson, an eternal lesson. We were 622 00:40:03,435 --> 00:40:05,795 Speaker 1: a little late taking off, and since she had just 623 00:40:05,875 --> 00:40:08,675 Speaker 1: loudly introduced herself to me like I didn't know who 624 00:40:08,715 --> 00:40:12,035 Speaker 1: she was, anybody on the plane who wasn't sure it 625 00:40:12,075 --> 00:40:15,915 Speaker 1: was her was now sure. As we waited to taxi. 626 00:40:15,995 --> 00:40:18,115 Speaker 1: Every man on that plane came over and did the 627 00:40:18,115 --> 00:40:22,515 Speaker 1: same thing. Oh hi, miss Montgomery, excuse me, and they 628 00:40:22,755 --> 00:40:25,195 Speaker 1: give me some sort of nodding acknowledgment, like, hey, how 629 00:40:25,235 --> 00:40:27,555 Speaker 1: you doing? As they lean in past me. I was 630 00:40:27,595 --> 00:40:29,035 Speaker 1: a big fan of you, witch. I know you must 631 00:40:29,075 --> 00:40:30,795 Speaker 1: get asked this a million times a day, but is 632 00:40:30,835 --> 00:40:32,755 Speaker 1: there anything I'm so sorry to ask? Could you do 633 00:40:32,835 --> 00:40:34,795 Speaker 1: that little nose twitch you used to do in the show? 634 00:40:34,995 --> 00:40:37,035 Speaker 1: And she would say, of course, and then she'd do it, 635 00:40:37,075 --> 00:40:39,875 Speaker 1: and these men age twenty two one hundred all then 636 00:40:39,995 --> 00:40:46,435 Speaker 1: giggle like schoolboys. After the thirtieth or thirty first time 637 00:40:46,515 --> 00:40:49,115 Speaker 1: this happened, I say to her, Lizzie, I don't know you, 638 00:40:49,195 --> 00:40:52,395 Speaker 1: but I like you a lot already, and your attitude 639 00:40:52,395 --> 00:40:57,075 Speaker 1: towards your fans and the nose twitch is wonderful. And 640 00:40:57,195 --> 00:40:59,715 Speaker 1: I have to tell you I certainly hope that was 641 00:40:59,755 --> 00:41:01,915 Speaker 1: the last of them, because the next one who comes over, 642 00:41:02,475 --> 00:41:04,675 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to strangle him with my bare hands 643 00:41:04,715 --> 00:41:08,195 Speaker 1: because I can't take it anymore. And for the only 644 00:41:08,315 --> 00:41:10,995 Speaker 1: minutes of all the time I knew her, Elizabeth Montgomery 645 00:41:11,075 --> 00:41:14,115 Speaker 1: got very serious and said, oh no, Keith, that is 646 00:41:14,155 --> 00:41:17,155 Speaker 1: not the attitude you must have about this remind me 647 00:41:17,555 --> 00:41:21,315 Speaker 1: what year did Bewitched go off the air. I had 648 00:41:21,315 --> 00:41:25,595 Speaker 1: to guess, nineteen seventy two, and she said, exactly, good, correct, 649 00:41:25,635 --> 00:41:30,115 Speaker 1: twenty years ago. And these people have remembered that nose 650 00:41:30,275 --> 00:41:34,995 Speaker 1: twitch for twenty years at least bewitched. Keith is not Hamlet, 651 00:41:35,475 --> 00:41:38,035 Speaker 1: it is not Arthur Miller, it is not the Godfather, 652 00:41:38,155 --> 00:41:41,675 Speaker 1: but they remembered it. This is why you and I 653 00:41:41,755 --> 00:41:44,155 Speaker 1: both do what we do for a living. We have 654 00:41:44,315 --> 00:41:48,155 Speaker 1: transcended time with what we do for a living, something artistic, 655 00:41:48,275 --> 00:41:50,995 Speaker 1: something creative, no matter how small that we have done, 656 00:41:51,635 --> 00:41:54,795 Speaker 1: they have remembered it. People do it with you, I'm sure, 657 00:41:55,075 --> 00:41:57,595 Speaker 1: and I'm sure they'll continue to. And what you do 658 00:41:57,715 --> 00:42:01,435 Speaker 1: then is you say thank you for remembering, as if 659 00:42:01,515 --> 00:42:04,595 Speaker 1: they were the only one who ever remembered. Because that's 660 00:42:04,995 --> 00:42:09,115 Speaker 1: why we do this, Because they remembered me from twenty 661 00:42:09,195 --> 00:42:15,835 Speaker 1: years ago for a stupid little nose twitch. Duly chastised, 662 00:42:16,675 --> 00:42:23,115 Speaker 1: I apologized, and the huge, welcoming, conspiratorial, permanent friendship sexy 663 00:42:23,235 --> 00:42:27,835 Speaker 1: smile of Elizabeth Montgomery broke across her face like the sunrise, 664 00:42:28,595 --> 00:42:33,675 Speaker 1: and she whispered, either that Keith or they saw Bewitched 665 00:42:33,715 --> 00:42:37,835 Speaker 1: on cable last week, which means Lizzie gets another check 666 00:42:37,955 --> 00:42:42,795 Speaker 1: next week. And she twitched her nose at me and 667 00:42:42,995 --> 00:43:01,195 Speaker 1: I will always love her. I've done all the damage 668 00:43:01,195 --> 00:43:03,635 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. Follow me 669 00:43:03,675 --> 00:43:10,315 Speaker 1: for the podcast videos on Blue Sky YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, x, Instagram, threads, 670 00:43:10,715 --> 00:43:14,915 Speaker 1: and Bluetube, but no longer on TikTok. I got banned 671 00:43:14,955 --> 00:43:19,155 Speaker 1: forever from TikTok. I shared a satirical anti Trump meme 672 00:43:19,515 --> 00:43:22,835 Speaker 1: because TikTok is crap, though their production tools are good. 673 00:43:23,355 --> 00:43:27,235 Speaker 1: But enough about me. What are you doing tonight watching hockey? 674 00:43:28,075 --> 00:43:30,915 Speaker 1: I'll be hiding in the corner behind all of my dogs. 675 00:43:32,355 --> 00:43:36,075 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Shaneil the musical directors have Countdown, arranged, produced, 676 00:43:36,115 --> 00:43:39,035 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Shanelle handled orchestration 677 00:43:39,115 --> 00:43:42,275 Speaker 1: and keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. 678 00:43:42,515 --> 00:43:45,755 Speaker 1: It was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy 679 00:43:45,835 --> 00:43:48,595 Speaker 1: musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, 680 00:43:48,715 --> 00:43:51,915 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme from 681 00:43:52,155 --> 00:43:55,915 Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. 682 00:43:56,355 --> 00:43:59,355 Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 683 00:43:59,835 --> 00:44:03,515 Speaker 1: My announcer today was my friend Stevie van Zant. Everything 684 00:44:03,515 --> 00:44:08,435 Speaker 1: else was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for today, 685 00:44:09,315 --> 00:44:13,835 Speaker 1: the day of the twenty twenty four presidential election and 686 00:44:13,875 --> 00:44:18,635 Speaker 1: the fourteenth hundredth day since convicted felon dissociative fugue Jay 687 00:44:18,755 --> 00:44:21,995 Speaker 1: Trump got away with his first attempted coup against the 688 00:44:22,035 --> 00:44:25,835 Speaker 1: democratically elected government of the United States. Use the election, 689 00:44:26,435 --> 00:44:29,235 Speaker 1: did I mention? It's today, Use the mental health system, 690 00:44:29,315 --> 00:44:32,235 Speaker 1: use presidential immunity to keep him from doing it again 691 00:44:33,275 --> 00:44:37,595 Speaker 1: while we still have a chance. The next scheduled countdown 692 00:44:37,675 --> 00:44:41,595 Speaker 1: is tomorrow. I guess I'll put something out, but if 693 00:44:41,675 --> 00:44:43,515 Speaker 1: we don't have a result, I'll be damned if I 694 00:44:43,555 --> 00:44:45,875 Speaker 1: know what I mean. What can I tell you that 695 00:44:45,995 --> 00:44:47,995 Speaker 1: isn't going to be outdated by the time you hear it? 696 00:44:48,835 --> 00:44:51,675 Speaker 1: Run that risk every day, don't I in any event? 697 00:44:51,795 --> 00:44:56,875 Speaker 1: Till then? Breathe? Yeah right, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, 698 00:44:56,915 --> 00:45:00,195 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, And I've never meant this more 699 00:45:00,235 --> 00:45:17,275 Speaker 1: than I mean it right now. Good Luck. Countdown with 700 00:45:17,435 --> 00:45:21,675 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts 701 00:45:21,715 --> 00:45:26,475 Speaker 1: from iHeartRadio, Visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 702 00:45:26,515 --> 00:45:27,875 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.