Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I
Speaker 1: Got good news and I Got bad news. The bad
Speaker 1: news is we are finally here. We are staring into
Speaker 1: the abyss. The good news is the abyss that the
Speaker 1: Trump cult is staring into is way worse. The polls
Speaker 1: and especially the interior numbers in the polls show it
Speaker 1: and more. Obviously, the behavior down the stretch of Trump
Speaker 1: and Vance and their surrogates and their staffers is in freefall.
Speaker 1: The closing argument of the Trump Dvance campaign hemorrhaging women
Speaker 1: voters as it is is misogyny, especially violence towards women.
Speaker 1: Was ruminating about former heavyweight championship boxer Mike Tyson, a
Speaker 1: convicted rapist himself who served three years in prison for that,
Speaker 1: when he picked up on somebody's suggestion that Tyson should
Speaker 1: physically fight Vice President Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: Mike, Mike's went through a lot, but he could fight.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you that I could fight. But can
Speaker 2: you imagine Mike, Oh, he says, put Mike in the
Speaker 2: ring with Kamala Nelbant.
Speaker 1: That was less than four days after Trump suggested Liz
Speaker 1: Cheney should face nine guns pointed at her face firing
Speaker 1: at her. And before you could finish processing that murderous brutality, JD. Vance,
Speaker 1: possibly the most condescending sexist in America, went after the
Speaker 1: vice president in a different way, with potentially just as
Speaker 1: much violence in its imagery.
Speaker 2: But in two.
Speaker 1: Days, we are going to take out the trash in Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. And the trash's name is Kamala Harris. The
Speaker 1: Trump campaign had devoted an entire week to insisting that
Speaker 1: it's comedian who called Puerto Rico garbage did not speak
Speaker 1: for Trump. Then it tried to turn the word garbage
Speaker 1: into a bloody shirt attack on its own supporters. Now,
Speaker 1: on election Eve, Vance just ruined the entirety of that
Speaker 1: week long argument and called Kamala Harris trash. If you
Speaker 1: saw good internal polling numbers, if you saw fair internal
Speaker 1: polling numbers, if you saw internal polling numbers that were
Speaker 1: not some kind of irrevocable disaster, even the least disciplined
Speaker 1: campaign in the history of this nation would still have
Speaker 1: managed to shut its two lead idiots up for one day,
Speaker 1: the one day before the election. It didn't. That's because
Speaker 1: it didn't see any good internal polling numbers. What we
Speaker 1: saw was the ABS NPR Marris poll, with Harris head
Speaker 1: by four nationally, and more importantly, there are those interior numbers.
Speaker 1: In that poll, Harris has cut Trump's lead among men
Speaker 1: from sixteen points last month to four points now, and
Speaker 1: having cut Trump's essential argument that he is stronger on
Speaker 1: the economy to a one point deficit now. A week ago,
Speaker 1: the Fox News polls of the swing States showed her
Speaker 1: within two to six points of Trump on the economy.
Speaker 1: Focal Data, the British company that pulled thirty thousand Americans
Speaker 1: over a month Mega polls the way they do them
Speaker 1: in the UK, put out swing state numbers yesterday. She's
Speaker 1: up by five in Michigan. She's up by three in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: She's up by two in Pennsylvania. She's up by one
Speaker 1: in Nevada. She's tied in North Carolina, down by one
Speaker 1: in Arizona and Georgia. Three other sets of interior numbers
Speaker 1: inside the Times Siena pole of the swing states from Sunday,
Speaker 1: Harris continued to get three out of every five late
Speaker 1: deciders in that poll. It was have you decided in
Speaker 1: the last few days? And fifty eight percent of them
Speaker 1: were saying yes. I have and I voted for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: In the demographics that will decide the Blue Wall states,
Speaker 1: so called, Harris is uniformly doing better than Biden did
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty and Hillary did in twenty sixteen. In
Speaker 1: voters sixty five and older, she is either ahead by
Speaker 1: a couple or trailing by a couple, depending on which pole.
Speaker 1: Obama lost that group by nine points in twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: She is comfortably far ahead among women voters, and the
Speaker 1: next largest demo in those blue Wall swing states, non
Speaker 1: college educated whites, is showing her trailing Trump, but by
Speaker 1: only twenty seven points, and yes, twenty seven points only
Speaker 1: it is only Biden lost non college educated whites by
Speaker 1: thirty one points, Hillary lost him by thirty three. And
Speaker 1: we are now only now getting a measurement of the
Speaker 1: true impact of the disaster. At Trump's Madison Square Garden
Speaker 1: Nazi rally two weekends ago, Unevisione polled Hispanic voters in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: There are about half a million of them. They are
Speaker 1: breaking for Harris sixty four to thirty now, and those
Speaker 1: specifically of Puerto Rican heritage go for her sixty seven
Speaker 1: to twenty seven. In short, Trump has lost eighteen percent
Speaker 1: of his Hispanic support from twenty twenty and all of
Speaker 1: his supposed gains in this campaign. And yes, eighty nine
Speaker 1: percent of Hispanic voters in that poll by Unevisione had
Speaker 1: heard quote a remark referring to Puerto Rico as a
Speaker 1: floating island of garbage eighty nine percent, sixty percent had
Speaker 1: heard a lot about it. How does Trump have any
Speaker 1: remaining support among Hispanics? Out from the October New York
Speaker 1: Times Siena Pole asking Hispanic voters if when Trump talks
Speaker 1: about problems with immigration, they feel as if he is
Speaker 1: talking about them, sixty three percent say no, he's not
Speaker 1: talking about me. The number among voters under age thirty
Speaker 1: zooms to seventy one percent who say no, he's not
Speaker 1: talking about me. He'd never eat my face. What we
Speaker 1: do not have is an updated version of that demographic
Speaker 1: after the Madison Square Garden garbage remarks. My guess is
Speaker 1: it's only a guess that what is going on inside
Speaker 1: the Trump campragn right now. That could have made somebody think.
Speaker 1: Having jd Vance call Kamala Harris trash the night before
Speaker 1: the election, while the line to get into her rally
Speaker 1: was a mile and a quarter long, and there were
Speaker 1: no lines of any kind at Trump's rallies. I'm just
Speaker 1: guessing this has something to do with those Hispanic interior nones,
Speaker 1: and the Trump camp is presumably also seen another round
Speaker 1: of terrible numbers among women after a brief rebound for Trump.
Speaker 1: As Ron philip Kowski noted, a round of MAGA influencers
Speaker 1: all came out with the same belligerent, insistent message by
Speaker 1: midday yesterday, white men, you must vote. That would also
Speaker 1: explain calling Harris trash and implying Mike Tyson should have
Speaker 1: a boxing match with her. Who in the hell would
Speaker 1: that appeal to white men and psychopaths and psychopathic white men.
Speaker 1: They've also probably seen more and more harrowing data on
Speaker 1: a macro level, like what the PBS Marris poll reported
Speaker 1: publicly that by last Saturday, fifty five percent of likely
Speaker 1: voters said they had already voted, and Harris had fifty
Speaker 1: six percent of that vote. Among those who say they
Speaker 1: have yet to vote, only fifty three percent said they
Speaker 1: intended to vote for Trump. That math, That math doesn't
Speaker 1: work for Trump at all. And of course, the other
Speaker 1: thing the Trump campaign saw was the beautiful architecture at
Speaker 1: the historic Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, yesterday because
Speaker 1: the first rally of Trump's last day on the trail
Speaker 1: was there and at least thirty percent or more of
Speaker 1: its seventy five hundred seats were empty and available to
Speaker 1: be appreciated for their mid twentieth century design elements, and
Speaker 1: there was no line to get in, And as has
Speaker 1: been obvious four weeks, the phenomenon of the Trump rally
Speaker 1: has petered out, as has any self discipline among Trump's help.
Speaker 1: Jen O'Malley dylan, chair of the Harris campaign, her husband
Speaker 1: Patrick tweet's pro tip campaign manager's confident of winning do
Speaker 1: not leak their whole CYA case in long form for
Speaker 1: the weekend before the election, points to Susie Wiles and
Speaker 1: Chris Lasavita for clocking that the Atlantic is not really
Speaker 1: at their candidate's literacy level. Though Stephen Chung, official Trump
Speaker 1: spokesperson the Guy who says all the wise ass remarks,
Speaker 1: responds to this snarky, cynical, mean spirited comment from Jen
Speaker 1: O'Malley Dylan's husband by retweeting it with this edition. Kuck,
Speaker 1: husband of Kamala chairperson, has no idea what he's talking about,
Speaker 1: because he's used to not knowing what's going on behind
Speaker 1: his back. First off, mister Chung, I'm sixty five years
Speaker 1: old and I'm barely plugged into the internet anymore. And
Speaker 1: even I know nobody uses the word cuck anymore and
Speaker 1: has it for at least five or six years. Secondly,
Speaker 1: you're the spokesman for a presidential candidate. My god, the
Speaker 1: two of you have the IQs of waffles. And if
Speaker 1: you think that was bad, gen Z democratic influencer Harry
Speaker 1: Sisson tweeted and Rob O'Neill, the Trump advocate who claims
Speaker 1: he was the guy who killed Ben Laden, He replied,
Speaker 1: you remember he's the one who killed Bin Laden, just
Speaker 1: him on his own with just a toothbrush or something.
Speaker 1: This guy O'Neill responds, The original tweet was a picture
Speaker 1: of five of them. We're gen Z voters, wrote Harry Sisson,
Speaker 1: and we all proudly voted for Kamala Harris. Real men
Speaker 1: support Harris. I'm sorry I'm laughing already. But Captain Bouya
Speaker 1: or whatever he calls himself, Robert J. O'Neil, Seal Team
Speaker 1: six member, proud shoot him up guy. He retweeted this
Speaker 1: and added, you're not men, your boys. If there was
Speaker 1: no social media, you would be my concubines. It's a
Speaker 1: picture of five guys. What exactly are you revealing here?
Speaker 1: Seal Team six guy, it was my friend, the late
Speaker 1: genius Bill Goldman who wrote the line for the Princess Bride.
Speaker 1: You keep using that word. I do not think it
Speaker 1: means what you think it means. Okay, here is your
Speaker 1: schedule for today. The Harris campaign is expecting nearly complete
Speaker 1: results from Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvany, Virginia,
Speaker 1: and Wisconsin by some time late tonight tomorrow morning. Almost
Speaker 1: all of Wisconsin and most of the rest incoming from
Speaker 1: Michigan and Pennsylvania, but it could be even longer, more
Speaker 1: days still for the full results in many key states,
Speaker 1: including Pennsylvania. Hour by hour. Georgia polls close at seven PM,
Speaker 1: so I would assume Trump declares victory at seven oh one.
Speaker 1: Laugh loudly enough that nobody even has to open a
Speaker 1: window to hear you. There's a new law in Georgia
Speaker 1: requiring counties release their absentee and early votes within an
Speaker 1: hour of poll closing, so it's possible Georgia will be
Speaker 1: reporting eighty percent of its vote by eight pm Eastern.
Speaker 1: Biden won that state by twelve thousand, as you will
Speaker 1: remember from Trump's call. If you want to gauge Harris's
Speaker 1: chances in Georgia, Cherokee and fortsyth Counties are the Republican bedrocks.
Speaker 1: North Carolina closes at seven point thirty. They will be
Speaker 1: delayed by a new law demanding counties wait until after
Speaker 1: poll's close to tabulate the early, by mail and absentee ballots. Now,
Speaker 1: if Harris has pulled off a win in either of
Speaker 1: these states, she's almost president. But the big one, of course,
Speaker 1: remains Pennsylvania. Polls close at eight o'clock results. Last time,
Speaker 1: it was for Friday morning, when Decision Desk HQ called
Speaker 1: it for Biden, and the answer to the question how
Speaker 1: long could Keith hold his breath? Was Friday morning. This
Speaker 1: time they have streamlined the count, but Pennsylvania could easily
Speaker 1: not report a winner before mid morning tomorrow Thursday. Maybe.
Speaker 1: Michigan and Wisconsin close at nine eastern eight local ten
Speaker 1: am tomorrow. In Bali, Arizona also closes at nine eastern.
Speaker 1: Iowa also closes at nine eastern. As you have heard her,
Speaker 1: polling margins in Michigan and Wisconsin have been growing. Wisconsin
Speaker 1: also gets its results out fast. We might hear Wisconsin
Speaker 1: first of all states. You know the drill. Harris gets Michigan, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: Wisconsin ninety nine out of one hundred scenarios are Then
Speaker 1: she wins Nevada closes at ten eastern. Other states. If
Speaker 1: Harris actually does win Iowa or any other supposedly solid
Speaker 1: red state, you will know by that same reference I
Speaker 1: made earlier. You would even have to open your window.
Speaker 1: You'll just hear the giant sigh of relief sound. Now
Speaker 1: all times are subject to modification due to riots by fascists.
Speaker 1: To quote Jeffrey Clark, though, well, that's why there's an
Speaker 1: Insurrection Act, President Biden. And then the current schedule looking
Speaker 1: out into the next six weeks or so is as follows.
Speaker 1: There is a new national deadline. It is December eleventh
Speaker 1: for governors to certify their state's vote and submit their
Speaker 1: slate of electors. One slate of electors per Customer Police.
Speaker 1: December seventeenth is the in state electoral college vote. A
Speaker 1: vote in each state capital. January sixth, you'd think we'd
Speaker 1: have changed the date. That's the certification in the House, which,
Speaker 1: if it hasn't been sabotaged by Mike Johnson, should proceed
Speaker 1: come hell or high water due to the Updated Electoral
Speaker 1: Count Act of twenty twenty two. The variabilities, of course,
Speaker 1: are there is an excellent chance the Democrats take the House,
Speaker 1: and even if they don't, there is an even more
Speaker 1: excellent chance that the Republicans, some of them, will try
Speaker 1: to sink Mike Johnson, or there will at least be
Speaker 1: a multi day balloting over who should be Speaker of
Speaker 1: the House. So certification day could easily take place without
Speaker 1: there being a Speaker of the House. Oh, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I left one critical date out. I'm sorry, November twenty sixth.
Speaker 1: November twenty sixth, if the case hasn't been dismissed. That's
Speaker 1: the sentencing of Trump on the hush money election interference
Speaker 1: case here in New York, two days before the final
Speaker 1: Thursday of November. So have a happy Thanksgiving when nor
Speaker 1: lose raids the headline atop the op ed in where
Speaker 1: else the holy goddamned New York Times When noorlse Jesus H.
Speaker 1: Christ on hockey skates. It really says this when nor
Speaker 1: lose Trump has already won. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: further towards absolute metaphysical both sides of nihilism the New
Speaker 1: York Times can get. Maybe they could take out the
Speaker 1: word win and just write even in losing, Trump has
Speaker 1: already won, or cut right to the chase, win or
Speaker 1: lose death has already won. The thing is the piece
Speaker 1: when norlouse is actually just drivel about free trade and
Speaker 1: immigration and it sounds all serious and changes at the FED,
Speaker 1: and it just happens to have a stupid Election Day
Speaker 1: headline on it, And then you find out the author
Speaker 1: is a founder and editor of Compact Magazine, other whose
Speaker 1: editors are Glenn Greenwald and Michael Tracy, who have never
Speaker 1: as much as rented one ethic between them. So no,
Speaker 1: Compact Magazine is not about trash compactors, or not about
Speaker 1: ladies portable makeup mirrors or portable makeup mirrors for male anchors.
Speaker 1: It would probably be more politically insightful if it were
Speaker 1: when norloose Trump has already won. How about win or
Speaker 1: lose cancer has already won? Or maybe the New York Times,
Speaker 1: and I assume they're just trolling this now, or they
Speaker 1: have a bet a tontine as to who gets The
Speaker 1: Times when everybody else is no longer subscribed, the last
Speaker 1: subscriber gets the paper. I don't know. Maybe the Times
Speaker 1: could be honest for once and frame this win or
Speaker 1: lose Trump is cancer. It's not only I don't want
Speaker 1: anybody fighting cancer or cancer in their family to hurt
Speaker 1: because of that reference or this next one. I've been
Speaker 1: there more even than twenty twenty. This to me right
Speaker 1: now feels like waiting for a biopsy to come back.
Speaker 1: So then there are two ways to get through today
Speaker 1: and tonight and however long the counting goes on. Keep busy.
Speaker 1: If you have a means of contributing to the safety
Speaker 1: of polling places, do so. If you need a voter
Speaker 1: who needs a ride, provide it. If you have to
Speaker 1: make a phone call to get somebody to get out
Speaker 1: there and vote, do something. Do you have a podcast. Secondly, yeah,
Speaker 1: it kind is a biopsy. Don't assume the worst. Be
Speaker 1: prepared for the worst. Make an internal plan of how
Speaker 1: to fight back if it breaks that way. If you
Speaker 1: don't need that plan, it'll be the happiest day of
Speaker 1: your year, if not your life. But also make another
Speaker 1: internal plan, because for twenty years now, somebody has asked
Speaker 1: me the same question every election, most prominently in two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight, when dozens of people, smart, people who
Speaker 1: could tie their own shoes and everything, ask me the
Speaker 1: same question, don't you really want McCain to win? Don't
Speaker 1: you really want McCain as president? I mean, your opposition
Speaker 1: to Bush made your news career, it made your network,
Speaker 1: it made you your money. Most of these people were
Speaker 1: actually shocked, and I answered no, See, I also live
Speaker 1: in this country. I'm much more concerned about who's president
Speaker 1: than how my ratings bring. And they were even more
Speaker 1: shocked by my follow up. Do you think, by the way,
Speaker 1: that if they lose, these people are going away? Now?
Speaker 1: I don't know what you mean. If McCain loses, it's
Speaker 1: all over. Next year we had the Tea Party, and
Speaker 1: of course it got worse. If it wasn't clear in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, it's got to be clear to you now.
Speaker 1: These people not only do not revere democracy or equality
Speaker 1: or America, but they have never lived within democracy or
Speaker 1: equality or America. Consider the speaker of the House of
Speaker 1: Representatives ten days after the next inauguration. For assuming we
Speaker 1: have one, Mike Johnson turns fifty three years old, which
Speaker 1: means he was eight years old when Ronald Effing Reagan
Speaker 1: was elected and seventeen when Reagan left office, so he's
Speaker 1: like fourteen the last day Reagan remembered he was in office.
Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh was already nationally syndicated when Mike Johnson was sixteen.
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson graduated college in nineteen ninety five, Fox News
Speaker 1: One on the air in nineteen ninety six. Johnson graduated
Speaker 1: law school in nineteen ninety eight. Mike Johnson has only
Speaker 1: lived in two Americas, one in which repression and white
Speaker 1: supremacy and misogyny have been officially enshrined in government, and
Speaker 1: the other in which those forces are actively trying to unseat, undermine,
Speaker 1: and thwart well truth, justice in the American way. And
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson is supposed to be one of the reasonable ones.
Speaker 1: Because there are people voting for Donald Trump today who
Speaker 1: were nine when he began his first campaign. They don't
Speaker 1: know an America without a subculture of boastful stupidity and conspiracy.
Speaker 1: They don't know even in America, where it's just George W.
Speaker 1: Bush making up terror threats to start wars and win elections.
Speaker 1: They only know this shit, So either way, win or lose,
Speaker 1: we have to begin to correct this. The question that
Speaker 1: will be decided today and the days or weeks to
Speaker 1: come is whether or not we will have all the
Speaker 1: tools to begin to correct this and do it this time,
Speaker 1: or we will be left using our bare hands. By
Speaker 1: the way, I don't think it'll be weeks. I think
Speaker 1: it's an even bet that it'll be settled tonight, and
Speaker 1: I'm serious. Also of interest here, we haven't heard word
Speaker 1: one from good old herschel Walker since he lost that
Speaker 1: Senate seat in Georgia. Now we know why. Apparently he
Speaker 1: had forgotten Donald Trump's name. Do you think I'm kidding?
Speaker 1: That's next this Discountdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman
Speaker 1: still ahead on this edition of Countdown. On a day's
Speaker 1: stress like today, I find it useful to think of
Speaker 1: all those who stand behind me, my parents, my ancestors,
Speaker 1: my friends of decades, my friends of just a few years.
Speaker 1: I like to invoke their memory and the joy they
Speaker 1: brought me. There's no reason to bring up one of
Speaker 1: them in particular today, but retelling how I met her
Speaker 1: always makes me happy, And so the day that actress
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Montgomery pranked my parents on their doorstep. Next in
Speaker 1: Things I Promised not to tell first, there are still
Speaker 1: more new idiots talk about the daily roundup of the
Speaker 1: miss Grints, morons and Dunning Kruegerriffet specimens, who constitute two
Speaker 1: days most bewitched worst persons in the world, the Bronze
Speaker 1: Worst Politico, as the New York Times had to get
Speaker 1: one last both sidest absurdity in before the deadline, so
Speaker 1: too did Politico. What happened to Trump on Sunday? Do
Speaker 1: you remember back that far he said you should shoot
Speaker 1: the press, acted like he wouldn't mind if you shot
Speaker 1: through the press and shot him. He clearly thought he
Speaker 1: was in Pennsylvania when he was really in North Carolina.
Speaker 1: He's still getting ripped for pretending to felle a microphone
Speaker 1: the day before, still getting ripped for his desire the
Speaker 1: day before that to see Liz Cheney shot. He saw
Speaker 1: his polls collapse from the previous Sunday's anti Hispanic slur
Speaker 1: fest at Madison Square Garden. So late night every night
Speaker 1: eleven pm Eastern or so Politico home of editor Ryan Lizza,
Speaker 1: the lowest ranked participant in the RFK junior my ex
Speaker 1: and Ryan Lizzi scandal. Politico selects who won the day?
Speaker 1: So who won the day? On Sunday quote who won
Speaker 1: the Day? Trump? Trump won the day because he's still
Speaker 1: in a margin of error election after a week filled
Speaker 1: with talk of garbage, grievances and hell. Or as the
Speaker 1: Times might have put it, win or lose, Trump has
Speaker 1: already won. Oh wait, they did put it that way.
Speaker 1: Next on Politico's who won the day? Explosive diarrhea because
Speaker 1: somebody still has it somewhere, or if Harris wins today?
Speaker 1: Who won the day? Trump? Because he finished a strong second.
Speaker 1: The runner up worser Carrie Lake, the fascist Senate candidate
Speaker 1: from Arizona, losing in the last polls to Reuben Diego
Speaker 1: by four or five, six, a couple of unreliable ones
Speaker 1: by eight, even the crap Zone Republican polls have are
Speaker 1: losing by two or three. But that's not the world,
Speaker 1: Carrie Lake lives in. My internal polling looks good good,
Speaker 1: she says, We're ahead of my opponent, and I feel
Speaker 1: comfortable with our polling. Our polling is a little different.
Speaker 1: We take polling, but we also combine it with AI,
Speaker 1: which reads all of what's happening on social media and
Speaker 1: across the Internet. So Carrie, you use AI to read
Speaker 1: the Internet and see what's happening on social media. So
Speaker 1: it's your bots recording the opinions of Russian bots about
Speaker 1: the Arizona Senate race. Okay, I mean, it never dawned
Speaker 1: on me until I read this quote, but it makes sense.
Speaker 1: It makes all the sense in the world. You ever
Speaker 1: seen one of those carry Lake interviews where she's in
Speaker 1: her own studio and she has maybe six gauze filters
Speaker 1: over her own camera lens. She looks like she's speaking
Speaker 1: to you from a crystal ballune and tell HER's shop Hello,
Speaker 1: I'm coming from another world, the world of weekend TV weather. Well,
Speaker 1: it never dawn of me if you think about all
Speaker 1: those lenses. She must look out at the world through
Speaker 1: the back of those same gauze filters. And by the way,
Speaker 1: since this may be God willing my last chance to
Speaker 1: take a gratuitous shot at her, and she is among
Speaker 1: the worst. It hit me the other day, between that
Speaker 1: haircut and that voice and that contemptuous attitude of hers
Speaker 1: doesn't carry late give off the vibe that she tried
Speaker 1: real hard but she just couldn't help it. She bombed
Speaker 1: out of Dominatrix School. But finally our winner the worst
Speaker 1: He's back, Hershel Walker, father of our nation, almost literally,
Speaker 1: the man who appeared to have run for the Senate
Speaker 1: in Georgia two years ago because Donald Trump gave him
Speaker 1: a lot of money to play for the New Jersey
Speaker 1: General's football team. Forty years ago, Walker lost. He kept
Speaker 1: all the campaign funds. He's been paying off the lawyers
Speaker 1: ever since, and we have not seen him since then
Speaker 1: until he came out of wherever he's been to endorse Trump. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that's who he endorsed, and.
Speaker 3: It is time for it to stop, and to stop
Speaker 3: on Tuesday, when we get to the polls and we
Speaker 3: vote from my friend and your friend Donald Trump Junior,
Speaker 3: Donald Trump J.
Speaker 1: Trump Herschel, I'm Jnald J. Trump jenij approved this message
Speaker 1: Walker two days worst person and Elizabeth Montgomery, one of
Speaker 1: the most famous actresses of the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies,
Speaker 1: star of the TV series Bewitched, daughter of a famous
Speaker 1: actor Robert Montgomery, and my friend from early on the
Speaker 1: morning of January fourteenth, nineteen ninety two, until she died
Speaker 1: in the spring of nineteen ninety five. Our friendship happened
Speaker 1: only because of one thing. My sister had given me
Speaker 1: a book about one of our favorite topics, the never
Speaker 1: to be solved mystery of Lizzie Borden and the Borden
Speaker 1: Family Acts murders of eighteen ninety two in Fall River, Massachusetts. Yes,
Speaker 1: We're weird. And also the fact that Elizabeth Montgomery had
Speaker 1: played Lizzie Borden in a TV movie. So on January fourteenth,
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, as I sat waiting for our flight
Speaker 1: to leave ICJFK Airport in New York from my then
Speaker 1: home in Los Angeles, then I began to read from
Speaker 1: my airplane seat my sister's gift from the aisle. From
Speaker 1: the last one to board, I hear the voice of
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Montgomery saying to me, ooh, Keith, you're reading about me.
Speaker 1: She was a gas my brief but eternal friendship with
Speaker 1: Lizzie Montgomery, and the eternal lesson she taught me in
Speaker 1: one moment. Please While I first explained what I was
Speaker 1: doing on that flight a month or two earlier, I
Speaker 1: had agreed to join ESPN to co host Sports Center
Speaker 1: with Dan Patrick starting in late March nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1: I had just finished up three financially rewarding but souls
Speaker 1: sucking years at Channel two in Los Angeles, and I
Speaker 1: was going to go to Hawaii for three months and
Speaker 1: just live are until I felt better. On Monday, December thirtieth,
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one, I had literally just opened my address
Speaker 1: book to find the number of a travel agent I
Speaker 1: knew to make the Hawaii arrangements. I was reaching for
Speaker 1: the phone when the phone rang. It was my business
Speaker 1: agent who had just gotten off the phone with my
Speaker 1: new ESPN boss, John Walsh. He and they were launching
Speaker 1: a new radio network in five days. I found this
Speaker 1: interesting but not particularly relevant. ESPN was one thing then
Speaker 1: it was one TV network, no magazine, no radio, No
Speaker 1: ESPN the O SHO. So this was their first big
Speaker 1: move outwards. The radio network would start with only two
Speaker 1: seven hour shows on Saturday and Sunday nights, and Walsh
Speaker 1: explained to my agent that everything was going great and
Speaker 1: they were right on target, and they had great guests
Speaker 1: lined up for the first weekend, like Ronald Reagan, and
Speaker 1: they only had one tiny problem. They needed three hosts,
Speaker 1: and they had two terrific hosts, just terrific hosts, one
Speaker 1: Keith worked with named Tony Bruno, and another terrific, just
Speaker 1: terrific host from Providence named Chuck Wilson. And they tried
Speaker 1: this guy as the third host, and that guy, and
Speaker 1: this guy and that guy, and all told, forty different
Speaker 1: people had tried out to be hosts. They had nobody,
Speaker 1: nobody to be the third host. Who was any good
Speaker 1: good Keith just come here just for the first weekend,
Speaker 1: just to get it off the ground. Then he can
Speaker 1: go back to LA and come back here in March
Speaker 1: takeover sports. And please, please please get Keith help us, please,
Speaker 1: because if he Canada, what on earth they're going to
Speaker 1: do it? Please please please. As I said to my agent,
Speaker 1: well all right, I suppose at least way, at least
Speaker 1: a ESPN will always think of me as a team player.
Speaker 1: So instead of going to Hawaii in January, I go
Speaker 1: to Bristol, Connecticut in January, and I go stay at
Speaker 1: my folks house outside New York City, and a friend
Speaker 1: I had recommended to help ESPN launch their radio network
Speaker 1: offers me a ride up to ESPN for the weekend,
Speaker 1: and it's like twenty degrees and we get out of
Speaker 1: his car and his parking lot, and three spots over
Speaker 1: getting out of his car in the parking lot is
Speaker 1: Chris Berman, who I went to high school with, and
Speaker 1: already in January nineteen ninety two, when I'm not quite
Speaker 1: thirty three years old, I already know Chris for twenty years.
Speaker 1: And before I can say hey, he screams, listen, we
Speaker 1: had a good thing going here, don't if it up.
Speaker 1: And I say, good to see you too, Chris, And
Speaker 1: I remind myself it's only till Monday. And I meet
Speaker 1: the gang, and then I go to the hotel and
Speaker 1: the hotel is beige. The walls are beage, the carpets
Speaker 1: are page, the guests are beige, the food is beage.
Speaker 1: The only thing that isn't beige is the six inches
Speaker 1: of snow that falls overnight. And remind myself it's only
Speaker 1: till Monday. The launch of the network on Saturday goes well.
Speaker 1: They have me interview Ronald Reagan about something in football.
Speaker 1: The Sunday Night show is going well too, and we're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out where the big baseball free agent
Speaker 1: of that winner, Danny Tartable is going to sign. And
Speaker 1: we're interviewing Bobby Valentine, who was the manager of the
Speaker 1: Texas Rangers, and they were one of the team's rumored
Speaker 1: to be a likely landing for Tartable, and I asked Valentine,
Speaker 1: he says, no, not anymore. They just canceled their trip.
Speaker 1: I was supposed to go meet them at the airport tonight.
Speaker 1: I think he signed with somebody else. And the alarm
Speaker 1: bells go off in my head and I tell the producer,
Speaker 1: let's call everybody we know in baseball and put them
Speaker 1: on and figure out where Danny Tartable is going. I
Speaker 1: have a source who knows his agent. Let me call him.
Speaker 1: We'll go story chase. So we spend four hours following
Speaker 1: the story in real time, and it's great radio, and
Speaker 1: we're coming up on the last hour and our guests
Speaker 1: have helped us eliminate like thirty teams out of twenty eight.
Speaker 1: But we're not sure where Tartable is going still, and
Speaker 1: the producer says, if only we had his home phone number,
Speaker 1: And I look at the producer and go, oh, crap, sorry,
Speaker 1: And I grabbed my address book and I explained he
Speaker 1: was my co host. Tartable was on some of our
Speaker 1: baseball postgame shows in La last I'm sorry, I forgot
Speaker 1: I had his number all this time. Hang on, So
Speaker 1: I called Danny Tartabule, and just as our last hour
Speaker 1: on Sunday Night is starting, he calls me back and
Speaker 1: I say to him, look, we know you've decided. It's
Speaker 1: all over baseball. It's got to be the Phillies, the Mets,
Speaker 1: or the Yankees. And he's saying, correctly, I can't tell you.
Speaker 1: And I said, give me one guess and just tell
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, and I will call you a
Speaker 1: source close to the negotiations, that's all. And he says okay,
Speaker 1: And I say, is it a team that wears pinstripes?
Speaker 1: And of course the Phillies, the Mets, and the Yankees
Speaker 1: all wear pinstripe so he laughs and he says yes.
Speaker 1: And I say, is it the team I grew up
Speaker 1: a fan of? And he says, what team did you
Speaker 1: grow up a fan of? And by the way, the
Speaker 1: phone call is taking place with me on the floor
Speaker 1: of the studio in which the other two hosts are
Speaker 1: live on the new radio network. So I whispered as
Speaker 1: Tartable if I say it to the Yankees, Am I wrong?
Speaker 1: And he says, I can't tell you and starts whispering.
Speaker 1: But off the record, the press conference is Wednesday at
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium. Is that enough for you, you bastard? And of
Speaker 1: course I said no, come on the show and tell
Speaker 1: us come on and he laughs and says I'll see
Speaker 1: you Wednesday and hangs up. And I get up and
Speaker 1: I sit in the vacant chair and I can say
Speaker 1: breaking news. ESPN report now that the free agent outfield
Speaker 1: or Danny Tartable, has agreed to a multi year deal
Speaker 1: with the New York Yankees. Sources close to the negotiation
Speaker 1: say there will be a press conference Wednesday at Yankee Stadium,
Speaker 1: and the other hosts are trying not to crack up
Speaker 1: because they know I've just been talking too Tartable from
Speaker 1: the phone in the same room with them. Well, this
Speaker 1: story explodes way more than it deserved. It's a dull
Speaker 1: Sunday night. It's still early enough in the evening that
Speaker 1: the story makes all the Monday newspapers and it's attributed
Speaker 1: not to ESPN or to Sports Center, but to the
Speaker 1: brand new ESPN Radio network on its second day in business,
Speaker 1: and it's on the front page of USA Today and
Speaker 1: the New York Times. New ESPN Radio Network makes splash
Speaker 1: with tartabules scoop the next morning, and I can't tell
Speaker 1: you how big a deal that was back then in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two. So now, instead of going back to
Speaker 1: LA on Monday and maybe to Hawaii on Tuesday, as
Speaker 1: I had planned, I have to go to the press
Speaker 1: conference at Yankee Stadium to say hi to Tartable on
Speaker 1: Wednesday and sort of thank him for the scoop. And
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, this guy, John Walls from ESPN calls me
Speaker 1: and my agent says, look, we have to take advantage
Speaker 1: of this. It's the best possible start we could have
Speaker 1: hoped for for the radio network. Keith has to stay
Speaker 1: with us for the next three months. Why doesn't he
Speaker 1: stay in and do this weekend and then go back
Speaker 1: to LA and pack up apartment, then come back here
Speaker 1: the weekend after that.
Speaker 3: And and.
Speaker 1: I say again to my agent, well, at least ESPN
Speaker 1: will always think of me as a team player if
Speaker 1: I do this a So I am not in Hawaii
Speaker 1: and instead I am on board this flight. When Elizabeth
Speaker 1: Montgomery walks down the aisle and sees my Lizzie Bordon
Speaker 1: book given to me by my sister and says, ooh, Keith,
Speaker 1: you're reading about me. Hi, I'm Lizzie Montgomery. I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of yours. Is that seat taken? And I say,
Speaker 1: the hell if I care, sit down? And the only
Speaker 1: time we're not talking for the next six hours is
Speaker 1: when we are drinking. I believe, if I remember this correctly,
Speaker 1: they had to send up a champagne refueling flight halfway
Speaker 1: to LA And she's a huge sports fan. Her father
Speaker 1: was a founder of one of the southern California horse
Speaker 1: racing tracks, and she loves the Lakers, and she thinks
Speaker 1: she was related to Lizzie Borden. Did I ever see
Speaker 1: the European version of her Lizzie Bordon film where they
Speaker 1: show the wide shots where they make it look like
Speaker 1: she's new And I say, I'm absolutely certain I have not.
Speaker 1: And her son and her driver and her rolls Royce
Speaker 1: meet us at Lax and she wants me to see
Speaker 1: her house, and then her driver and her rolls Royce
Speaker 1: will give me a lyft home and oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: she's flying back to New York in a week, should
Speaker 1: we become flying buddies. On that trip, our flight gets
Speaker 1: canceled and we have to find a new one. I'm
Speaker 1: hand carrying a lot of my more valuable baseball cards,
Speaker 1: including like five hundred different from the year nineteen oh nine,
Speaker 1: and she wants to see them, and she wants me
Speaker 1: to tell her something about each player while we drink again.
Speaker 1: And we land and she says, how you getting to
Speaker 1: your folks house? And I say, well, I'm going to
Speaker 1: get a car here or something, and she says, no,
Speaker 1: you're not. I'll give you a lift in my limo
Speaker 1: going right past your house. And sure enough we get there.
Speaker 1: And as Lizzie Montgomery's limo is taking me to my
Speaker 1: folks house at ten o'clock at night, she says, will
Speaker 1: they still be up? Your folks want to play a
Speaker 1: practical joke on them. So two minutes later I knock
Speaker 1: on the door of my childhood home and my father
Speaker 1: opens it instead of seeing me, it's her in the doorway,
Speaker 1: and she says, hi, mister Olderman, I'm Lizzie. I'm a
Speaker 1: friend of Keiths. Can he come out and play? And
Speaker 1: my dad goes silent for the only time I in
Speaker 1: my life. And now my mother appears, so Lizzie can
Speaker 1: pull the same routine on her. Hi, missus olverman, I'm Lizzie.
Speaker 1: I'm a friend of Keiths. Can he come out and play?
Speaker 1: And now my mother is silent for the only time
Speaker 1: in my life, I might add. I thought Lizzie looked fabulous,
Speaker 1: and I looked her up in Hallowell's film Guide, and
Speaker 1: I saw she was forty eight, and I thought, boy,
Speaker 1: she looks fabulous for forty eight, And then I realized
Speaker 1: my math is wrong. She was fifty eight, and she
Speaker 1: was a joy. We talked my phone every couple of
Speaker 1: weeks after that, and she died three years later of
Speaker 1: colon cancer. But she is with me always, and not
Speaker 1: just as the proverbial force of nature. Within minutes of
Speaker 1: that day we met, January fourteenth, nineteen ninety two, she
Speaker 1: bestowed upon me a lesson, an eternal lesson. We were
Speaker 1: a little late taking off, and since she had just
Speaker 1: loudly introduced herself to me like I didn't know who
Speaker 1: she was, anybody on the plane who wasn't sure it
Speaker 1: was her was now sure. As we waited to taxi.
Speaker 1: Every man on that plane came over and did the
Speaker 1: same thing. Oh hi, miss Montgomery, excuse me, and they
Speaker 1: give me some sort of nodding acknowledgment, like, hey, how
Speaker 1: you doing? As they lean in past me. I was
Speaker 1: a big fan of you, witch. I know you must
Speaker 1: get asked this a million times a day, but is
Speaker 1: there anything I'm so sorry to ask? Could you do
Speaker 1: that little nose twitch you used to do in the show?
Speaker 1: And she would say, of course, and then she'd do it,
Speaker 1: and these men age twenty two one hundred all then
Speaker 1: giggle like schoolboys. After the thirtieth or thirty first time
Speaker 1: this happened, I say to her, Lizzie, I don't know you,
Speaker 1: but I like you a lot already, and your attitude
Speaker 1: towards your fans and the nose twitch is wonderful. And
Speaker 1: I have to tell you I certainly hope that was
Speaker 1: the last of them, because the next one who comes over,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to strangle him with my bare hands
Speaker 1: because I can't take it anymore. And for the only
Speaker 1: minutes of all the time I knew her, Elizabeth Montgomery
Speaker 1: got very serious and said, oh no, Keith, that is
Speaker 1: not the attitude you must have about this remind me
Speaker 1: what year did Bewitched go off the air. I had
Speaker 1: to guess, nineteen seventy two, and she said, exactly, good, correct,
Speaker 1: twenty years ago. And these people have remembered that nose
Speaker 1: twitch for twenty years at least bewitched. Keith is not Hamlet,
Speaker 1: it is not Arthur Miller, it is not the Godfather,
Speaker 1: but they remembered it. This is why you and I
Speaker 1: both do what we do for a living. We have
Speaker 1: transcended time with what we do for a living, something artistic,
Speaker 1: something creative, no matter how small that we have done,
Speaker 1: they have remembered it. People do it with you, I'm sure,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure they'll continue to. And what you do
Speaker 1: then is you say thank you for remembering, as if
Speaker 1: they were the only one who ever remembered. Because that's
Speaker 1: why we do this, Because they remembered me from twenty
Speaker 1: years ago for a stupid little nose twitch. Duly chastised,
Speaker 1: I apologized, and the huge, welcoming, conspiratorial, permanent friendship sexy
Speaker 1: smile of Elizabeth Montgomery broke across her face like the sunrise,
Speaker 1: and she whispered, either that Keith or they saw Bewitched
Speaker 1: on cable last week, which means Lizzie gets another check
Speaker 1: next week. And she twitched her nose at me and
Speaker 1: I will always love her. I've done all the damage
Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. Follow me
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Speaker 1: forever from TikTok. I shared a satirical anti Trump meme
Speaker 1: because TikTok is crap, though their production tools are good.
Speaker 1: But enough about me. What are you doing tonight watching hockey?
Speaker 1: I'll be hiding in the corner behind all of my dogs.
Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Shaneil the musical directors have Countdown, arranged, produced,
Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Shanelle handled orchestration
Speaker 1: and keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums.
Speaker 1: It was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy
Speaker 1: musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever,
Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme from
Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc.
Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed.
Speaker 1: My announcer today was my friend Stevie van Zant. Everything
Speaker 1: else was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for today,
Speaker 1: the day of the twenty twenty four presidential election and
Speaker 1: the fourteenth hundredth day since convicted felon dissociative fugue Jay
Speaker 1: Trump got away with his first attempted coup against the
Speaker 1: democratically elected government of the United States. Use the election,
Speaker 1: did I mention? It's today, Use the mental health system,
Speaker 1: use presidential immunity to keep him from doing it again
Speaker 1: while we still have a chance. The next scheduled countdown
Speaker 1: is tomorrow. I guess I'll put something out, but if
Speaker 1: we don't have a result, I'll be damned if I
Speaker 1: know what I mean. What can I tell you that
Speaker 1: isn't going to be outdated by the time you hear it?
Speaker 1: Run that risk every day, don't I in any event?
Speaker 1: Till then? Breathe? Yeah right, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning,
Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, And I've never meant this more
Speaker 1: than I mean it right now. Good Luck. Countdown with
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