1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,875 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:21,955 --> 00:00:25,395 Speaker 1: Democracy will certainly not survive Donald Trump Round two, but 3 00:00:25,435 --> 00:00:27,275 Speaker 1: I am now wondering if it has any chance of 4 00:00:27,315 --> 00:00:33,875 Speaker 1: surviving Sarah Wallace, of surviving Patricia Molett, of surviving Cornelia Pillard, 5 00:00:34,475 --> 00:00:37,795 Speaker 1: of surviving Brad Garcia. And if you don't know who 6 00:00:37,835 --> 00:00:39,795 Speaker 1: they are, they are the latest people on the latest 7 00:00:39,835 --> 00:00:43,835 Speaker 1: list of supposed liberals and supposed officers of the court 8 00:00:44,115 --> 00:00:50,195 Speaker 1: who could get us all killed. They are four supposedly 9 00:00:50,715 --> 00:00:54,315 Speaker 1: liberal judges who have evidently spent the last eight years 10 00:00:54,355 --> 00:00:57,235 Speaker 1: living at a resort in the Bahamas, or in a 11 00:00:57,275 --> 00:01:00,635 Speaker 1: cave or somewhere else where they have been able to 12 00:01:00,675 --> 00:01:05,755 Speaker 1: devote themselves full time to perfecting legal hair splitting, and 13 00:01:05,835 --> 00:01:10,235 Speaker 1: who are absolutely determined to give Trump every last opportunity 14 00:01:10,515 --> 00:01:14,795 Speaker 1: to get Special Counsel Jack Smith or somebody else killed 15 00:01:14,835 --> 00:01:20,035 Speaker 1: by proxy, and to make every last grasp at denying 16 00:01:20,075 --> 00:01:24,155 Speaker 1: democracy any chance of making it until the first of 17 00:01:24,155 --> 00:01:30,355 Speaker 1: February twenty twenty five. Judge Garcia is the Biden appointee, 18 00:01:30,355 --> 00:01:34,315 Speaker 1: and Mallette and Pillard the Obama appointees to the District 19 00:01:34,315 --> 00:01:37,275 Speaker 1: Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals. And if I'm contributing three 20 00:01:37,435 --> 00:01:41,955 Speaker 1: cents a year to their salaries, I want my goddamned 21 00:01:42,195 --> 00:01:46,795 Speaker 1: money back. Millet seems to be the most clueless of 22 00:01:46,875 --> 00:01:51,515 Speaker 1: these dilettants, who first stayed the gag order issued against 23 00:01:51,555 --> 00:01:55,515 Speaker 1: Trump in the election subversion case, and then yesterday conducted 24 00:01:55,515 --> 00:01:57,875 Speaker 1: the in person hearing and all but announced that they 25 00:01:57,915 --> 00:02:02,555 Speaker 1: will significantly limit the order because apparently, when Trump starts 26 00:02:02,555 --> 00:02:06,195 Speaker 1: ignoring laws he doesn't like and jailing judges he doesn't like, 27 00:02:06,515 --> 00:02:10,635 Speaker 1: these idiots somehow think they will be immune because they 28 00:02:10,675 --> 00:02:14,035 Speaker 1: were so fair to him back there. In November of 29 00:02:14,075 --> 00:02:18,315 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Judge Mallette seemed to base her nit 30 00:02:18,355 --> 00:02:20,875 Speaker 1: witted reaction to the two and a half hours of 31 00:02:20,995 --> 00:02:24,235 Speaker 1: oral arguments on the impact of the gag order on 32 00:02:25,875 --> 00:02:32,115 Speaker 1: presidential debates. He has to speak mismanners while everyone else 33 00:02:32,195 --> 00:02:35,555 Speaker 1: is throwing targets at him. It would be really hard 34 00:02:35,595 --> 00:02:38,235 Speaker 1: in a debate when everyone else is going at you 35 00:02:38,355 --> 00:02:42,635 Speaker 1: full bore. Your attorneys would have to have scripted little things. 36 00:02:42,675 --> 00:02:47,915 Speaker 1: You can say, this is a judge, and yes, this 37 00:02:48,075 --> 00:02:53,275 Speaker 1: is a vital legal issue here, slightly proscribing the number 38 00:02:53,275 --> 00:02:57,995 Speaker 1: of stochastic death threats Trump can make during a debate 39 00:02:59,955 --> 00:03:04,275 Speaker 1: an essence to preserving the sanctity of the Constitution and 40 00:03:04,355 --> 00:03:09,595 Speaker 1: our laws protecting Trump from being forced to speak quote 41 00:03:10,195 --> 00:03:17,755 Speaker 1: mismanners unquote. What part of denying him the chance to 42 00:03:17,955 --> 00:03:24,675 Speaker 1: call the Special Council deranged is the Missmanners part? Judge, 43 00:03:25,115 --> 00:03:34,435 Speaker 1: not from this earth, Missmanners, Trump has to speak mismanners. 44 00:03:34,675 --> 00:03:36,755 Speaker 1: Do you get the same feeling I do? Judge Mlette 45 00:03:36,755 --> 00:03:41,155 Speaker 1: has no earthly clue who Donald J. Trump is? Do 46 00:03:41,195 --> 00:03:43,515 Speaker 1: you get the other same feeling that I do? That 47 00:03:43,595 --> 00:03:46,555 Speaker 1: it has not occurred to and will never occur to 48 00:03:46,715 --> 00:03:49,755 Speaker 1: Judge Mallett that so far there have been three presidential 49 00:03:49,755 --> 00:03:52,475 Speaker 1: debates in the Republican primary, and Trump has not shown 50 00:03:52,515 --> 00:03:55,195 Speaker 1: up to any of them, and there is no reason 51 00:03:55,235 --> 00:03:57,075 Speaker 1: to expect he would have the guts to show up 52 00:03:57,115 --> 00:03:58,995 Speaker 1: to the one in the general election, when the only 53 00:03:59,075 --> 00:04:01,955 Speaker 1: possible result would be to show his culpt that President 54 00:04:01,995 --> 00:04:05,075 Speaker 1: Biden is not only not enfeebled nor slow, oh, but 55 00:04:05,435 --> 00:04:09,155 Speaker 1: just as in twenty twenty, he's twice as sharp as 56 00:04:09,195 --> 00:04:20,195 Speaker 1: Trump is. Miss Manners, wad it gets worse. Millette suggested 57 00:04:20,235 --> 00:04:24,435 Speaker 1: that when her court rules and none of the lawyers, 58 00:04:24,555 --> 00:04:28,555 Speaker 1: and none of the participants, and none of the judges 59 00:04:29,195 --> 00:04:32,355 Speaker 1: either know when they will rule or will say when 60 00:04:32,395 --> 00:04:34,635 Speaker 1: they will rule. Could be days, could be weeks, could 61 00:04:34,635 --> 00:04:37,835 Speaker 1: be months, and even then it could then be appealed 62 00:04:37,835 --> 00:04:40,235 Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court, during all of which time Trump 63 00:04:40,275 --> 00:04:44,115 Speaker 1: will be able to threaten Judge Chutkin and Jack Smith 64 00:04:44,155 --> 00:04:46,515 Speaker 1: and all the witnesses, as he's already threatened Bill Barr 65 00:04:46,515 --> 00:04:51,955 Speaker 1: and Mark Meadows. This Appeals Court pretty much gave away 66 00:04:51,955 --> 00:04:54,875 Speaker 1: the story. It will reinstate some of the gag order 67 00:04:54,915 --> 00:05:00,795 Speaker 1: while stripping away the mismanners part. We have to use 68 00:05:00,835 --> 00:05:06,155 Speaker 1: a careful scalpel here, said Millette, And don't forget your 69 00:05:06,195 --> 00:05:09,155 Speaker 1: honor to keep the pinky raised away from the hand 70 00:05:09,195 --> 00:05:13,075 Speaker 1: as a sign of good breeding and complete disconnection from 71 00:05:13,075 --> 00:05:16,155 Speaker 1: the real world, in which the future of America as 72 00:05:16,195 --> 00:05:19,675 Speaker 1: a free nation hangs in the balance and could be 73 00:05:19,755 --> 00:05:28,395 Speaker 1: lost forever by the application of your careful scalpel. Judge 74 00:05:28,475 --> 00:05:32,075 Speaker 1: Mallet may epitomize the old observation that the higher up 75 00:05:32,115 --> 00:05:35,475 Speaker 1: you go in the judiciary, the more the judges are 76 00:05:35,515 --> 00:05:38,315 Speaker 1: like the old New York City planner Robert Moses, who 77 00:05:38,435 --> 00:05:42,035 Speaker 1: vivisected and destroyed neighborhood after neighborhood so he could build 78 00:05:42,115 --> 00:05:45,435 Speaker 1: thirteen bridges and four hundred and sixteen miles of highway, 79 00:05:45,875 --> 00:05:51,235 Speaker 1: even though he could not drive a car himself. But 80 00:05:52,595 --> 00:05:55,835 Speaker 1: as great an example as Mallet may be of this, 81 00:05:56,355 --> 00:06:01,075 Speaker 1: her fellow judge, Nina Pillard gave her a run for 82 00:06:01,755 --> 00:06:05,275 Speaker 1: her money. Reporters in the courtroom set that on at 83 00:06:05,395 --> 00:06:10,075 Speaker 1: least five occasions, Pillard said that Judge Chutkin had overreached 84 00:06:10,555 --> 00:06:14,715 Speaker 1: by barring Trump from making comments hostile to public figures 85 00:06:14,915 --> 00:06:18,315 Speaker 1: who might be witnesses in the case. How could he 86 00:06:18,515 --> 00:06:22,435 Speaker 1: really impact the testimony of bar Or Meadows, or Mike 87 00:06:22,555 --> 00:06:26,395 Speaker 1: Pence or General Millie even if they were threatened, Pillard 88 00:06:26,475 --> 00:06:29,835 Speaker 1: had the nerve to conclude, quote, I would assume that 89 00:06:29,875 --> 00:06:35,355 Speaker 1: their testimony would not be affected unquote. Guess what, Judge, 90 00:06:35,435 --> 00:06:38,195 Speaker 1: If Trump incites his cult to kill one of them, 91 00:06:38,475 --> 00:06:44,675 Speaker 1: their testimony it will be affected. The read from legal 92 00:06:44,715 --> 00:06:47,995 Speaker 1: experts and reporters seems to be that the likeliest outcome 93 00:06:48,075 --> 00:06:51,035 Speaker 1: is a new gag order that denies Trump the right 94 00:06:51,115 --> 00:06:54,675 Speaker 1: to attack the judge or ordinary witnesses, but gives him 95 00:06:54,675 --> 00:06:58,355 Speaker 1: the freedom to threaten the prosecutor and the name witnesses 96 00:06:58,355 --> 00:07:01,515 Speaker 1: at least like Mike Pence. I guess on the premise 97 00:07:01,875 --> 00:07:04,555 Speaker 1: that when Trump tried to get Pence killed by remote 98 00:07:04,555 --> 00:07:07,915 Speaker 1: control two and a half years ago, he failed, so 99 00:07:07,955 --> 00:07:14,035 Speaker 1: that protecting Pence is therefore unnecessary. This whole thing is nuts. 100 00:07:14,995 --> 00:07:19,315 Speaker 1: The judges are lost in a sea of self importance 101 00:07:19,795 --> 00:07:23,075 Speaker 1: and in that pleasant fantasy land in which the most 102 00:07:23,115 --> 00:07:27,515 Speaker 1: important part of a law is understanding what it really 103 00:07:27,595 --> 00:07:32,875 Speaker 1: means to you, not how you actually apply it, or 104 00:07:32,915 --> 00:07:39,555 Speaker 1: what it's supposed to prevent or disencourage, or making sure 105 00:07:39,555 --> 00:07:41,875 Speaker 1: it is not perverted and twisted and manipulated by a 106 00:07:41,955 --> 00:07:43,995 Speaker 1: madman who wants us to live in a world in 107 00:07:44,035 --> 00:07:47,635 Speaker 1: which he makes all the laws and we have to 108 00:07:47,675 --> 00:07:54,675 Speaker 1: abide by them. We judge Millette, We judge Pillard. Trump's concierge, 109 00:07:54,755 --> 00:07:57,995 Speaker 1: Judge Eileen Cannon, is all but suggesting new ways to 110 00:07:58,195 --> 00:08:02,675 Speaker 1: stall the Florida trial sometime into the thirty third century. 111 00:08:03,355 --> 00:08:06,155 Speaker 1: And we can't even get the Buyid and Obama appointees 112 00:08:06,195 --> 00:08:10,755 Speaker 1: to look realistically at the threat to everything that Trump represents. 113 00:08:10,755 --> 00:08:13,635 Speaker 1: It just get them to even hurry up and do 114 00:08:13,755 --> 00:08:16,515 Speaker 1: whatever damage they plan to do so we can compensate 115 00:08:16,555 --> 00:08:20,275 Speaker 1: for this latest failure of an American institution to protect 116 00:08:20,315 --> 00:08:23,715 Speaker 1: the nation from a would be dictator? Could you have 117 00:08:23,835 --> 00:08:32,075 Speaker 1: ruled yesterday? WHOA? What about Thanksgiving? And then there is 118 00:08:32,235 --> 00:08:35,035 Speaker 1: Judge Sarah Wallace, and I am not sure she did 119 00:08:35,075 --> 00:08:38,475 Speaker 1: not harm the country even more than Judge Mismanners and 120 00:08:38,595 --> 00:08:42,795 Speaker 1: Judge I would assume did. Judge Wallace is the one 121 00:08:42,835 --> 00:08:47,755 Speaker 1: who heard the Fourteenth Amendment disqualification case in Colorado, and 122 00:08:47,795 --> 00:08:50,835 Speaker 1: at the same time that she ruled quote that Trump 123 00:08:51,035 --> 00:08:54,075 Speaker 1: incited an insurrection on January sixth, twenty twenty one, and 124 00:08:54,115 --> 00:08:58,595 Speaker 1: therefore engaged in insurrection within the meeting of section three 125 00:08:58,595 --> 00:09:02,995 Speaker 1: of the fourteenth Amendment, she then superseded the Amendment itself 126 00:09:03,035 --> 00:09:07,675 Speaker 1: in as remarkable an act of judicial cowardice as I 127 00:09:07,835 --> 00:09:14,395 Speaker 1: have ever heard of. Trump's lawyers are hiding his girth 128 00:09:15,075 --> 00:09:18,595 Speaker 1: behind an extraordinary legal argument that the authors of the 129 00:09:18,675 --> 00:09:26,795 Speaker 1: disqualification clause deliberately excluded all presidents from being disqualified just 130 00:09:26,915 --> 00:09:30,155 Speaker 1: because they might have engaged in a little insurrection, some 131 00:09:30,395 --> 00:09:37,075 Speaker 1: minor treason. And they did so vaguely, inexactly, opaquely, and 132 00:09:37,115 --> 00:09:39,315 Speaker 1: they wrote it in a way that made sure that 133 00:09:39,355 --> 00:09:41,755 Speaker 1: everybody would have left guessing for a century and a 134 00:09:41,795 --> 00:09:45,035 Speaker 1: half by writing that their amendment applies only to quote 135 00:09:45,115 --> 00:09:49,115 Speaker 1: officers of the United States, those who took oaths as 136 00:09:49,355 --> 00:09:54,395 Speaker 1: officers of the United States quote. After considering the arguments 137 00:09:54,395 --> 00:09:58,795 Speaker 1: on both sides, wrote Judge Wallace, like, we didn't know. 138 00:09:58,835 --> 00:10:02,155 Speaker 1: That's what a judge does. The Court is persuaded that 139 00:10:02,395 --> 00:10:05,475 Speaker 1: quote officers of the United States did not include the 140 00:10:05,555 --> 00:10:09,835 Speaker 1: President of the United States. It appears to the Court that, 141 00:10:09,915 --> 00:10:13,755 Speaker 1: for whatever reason, the drafters of section three did not 142 00:10:13,875 --> 00:10:16,795 Speaker 1: intend to include a person who had only taken the 143 00:10:16,955 --> 00:10:23,435 Speaker 1: presidential oath unquote. So she has ordered that Trump can 144 00:10:23,475 --> 00:10:29,955 Speaker 1: be on the Colorado primary ballot. Now, this is some 145 00:10:30,115 --> 00:10:35,475 Speaker 1: serious bullshit right here. Bullshit they keep underglass with red 146 00:10:35,555 --> 00:10:38,835 Speaker 1: letters on the glass saying for use in emergencies where 147 00:10:38,875 --> 00:10:41,315 Speaker 1: the how many angels can dance on the head of 148 00:10:41,355 --> 00:10:47,595 Speaker 1: a pin bullshit is insufficient. Yes, that's right, Judge Wallace. 149 00:10:48,035 --> 00:10:51,595 Speaker 1: Judge Wallace, who has been a judge for exactly three 150 00:10:51,675 --> 00:10:56,115 Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen days, makes Eileen Cannon look like Oliver 151 00:10:56,275 --> 00:11:01,675 Speaker 1: Wendell freaking Holmes. And Judge Wallace, who one has to assume. 152 00:11:01,755 --> 00:11:04,315 Speaker 1: And if Judge Pillard can assume Mike Pence won't be 153 00:11:04,395 --> 00:11:07,155 Speaker 1: scared off by a second attempt to get him hanged, 154 00:11:07,395 --> 00:11:10,435 Speaker 1: I can assume this one has to assume she was 155 00:11:10,435 --> 00:11:13,875 Speaker 1: looking for an emergency exit here, rather than having to 156 00:11:13,915 --> 00:11:18,235 Speaker 1: summon up the courage to be the one who says, yeah, sure, 157 00:11:18,275 --> 00:11:23,275 Speaker 1: looks like the fourteenth Amendment is self executing. That's probably 158 00:11:23,315 --> 00:11:26,835 Speaker 1: why they put that clause in there about letting Congress 159 00:11:26,955 --> 00:11:30,515 Speaker 1: overrule it by a two thirds vote, because if it 160 00:11:30,595 --> 00:11:33,395 Speaker 1: has to be litigated, if it has to be voted 161 00:11:33,395 --> 00:11:35,915 Speaker 1: on in the first place, why do you need an 162 00:11:36,035 --> 00:11:40,795 Speaker 1: override clause rather than being the one who says that 163 00:11:42,035 --> 00:11:44,195 Speaker 1: or the one who says yeah, I'm thinking they meant 164 00:11:44,235 --> 00:11:49,115 Speaker 1: to include presidents because otherwise, having just survived the Civil War, 165 00:11:49,195 --> 00:11:51,675 Speaker 1: these guys who wrote the fourteenth Amendment, they decided to 166 00:11:51,715 --> 00:11:56,355 Speaker 1: make sure to make sure that Jefferson Davis and Robert E. 167 00:11:56,435 --> 00:12:00,195 Speaker 1: Lee and Nathan Bedford Forrest could not run for anything 168 00:12:00,395 --> 00:12:06,995 Speaker 1: except president of the United States. Rather than showing guts 169 00:12:07,835 --> 00:12:10,755 Speaker 1: and some concern for the future of the country she 170 00:12:10,835 --> 00:12:16,995 Speaker 1: happens to live in, Judge Wallace folded, and now she 171 00:12:17,115 --> 00:12:20,715 Speaker 1: won't get the death threats, which takes us back to 172 00:12:20,835 --> 00:12:24,795 Speaker 1: Judge Pillard in DC, who would assume death threats won't 173 00:12:24,795 --> 00:12:30,675 Speaker 1: affect Pantser bar or Millie or meadows, especially if somebody 174 00:12:30,715 --> 00:12:34,355 Speaker 1: carries through on them. As I said last week, quoting 175 00:12:34,395 --> 00:12:37,555 Speaker 1: from the pre Nazi invasion French film Rules of the Game, 176 00:12:37,595 --> 00:12:41,755 Speaker 1: the awful thing about life is this. Everybody has their reasons. 177 00:12:42,915 --> 00:12:46,835 Speaker 1: Everybody has their reasons, Judge Wallace, everybody has their reasons, 178 00:12:46,915 --> 00:12:54,555 Speaker 1: Judge Pillard, everybody has their reasons. Judge Millette worms the 179 00:12:54,635 --> 00:12:59,515 Speaker 1: people who could do something, and they actually divide in 180 00:12:59,595 --> 00:13:03,595 Speaker 1: this country at this moment into two categories, and two 181 00:13:03,675 --> 00:13:08,755 Speaker 1: categories only judges who are too defeat and disconnected to 182 00:13:08,915 --> 00:13:13,595 Speaker 1: do anything just by enforcing the law, and judges who 183 00:13:13,675 --> 00:13:18,075 Speaker 1: are too scared to do anything just by enforcing the law. 184 00:13:20,715 --> 00:13:23,595 Speaker 1: Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot 185 00:13:23,635 --> 00:13:29,355 Speaker 1: hear the falconer. Things fall apart, the center cannot hold mere. 186 00:13:29,395 --> 00:13:33,355 Speaker 1: Anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood dimmed, tide 187 00:13:34,235 --> 00:13:39,035 Speaker 1: is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. 188 00:13:39,835 --> 00:13:46,195 Speaker 1: The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full 189 00:13:46,235 --> 00:13:52,795 Speaker 1: of passionate intensity. Oh, by the way, Judge Wallace, Judge Molett, 190 00:13:53,475 --> 00:14:04,395 Speaker 1: Judge Pillard, Judge Garcia, you ain't the best. Also, by 191 00:14:04,395 --> 00:14:06,875 Speaker 1: the way, Trump wants to turn the position of Attorney 192 00:14:06,875 --> 00:14:11,675 Speaker 1: general into which finder general. And they aren't even bothering 193 00:14:11,715 --> 00:14:16,115 Speaker 1: to hide it now, as evidenced by the ex dilemma, 194 00:14:17,115 --> 00:14:22,035 Speaker 1: they want to jail journalists who expose people like Elon 195 00:14:22,235 --> 00:14:29,475 Speaker 1: Musk memo to Kristin Welker and Andrea Mitchell and my 196 00:14:29,635 --> 00:14:33,355 Speaker 1: ex mis Turr and Maggie Haberman and Josh Dawzy and 197 00:14:33,475 --> 00:14:37,075 Speaker 1: David Shalian of CNN, pretty much everybody except George Stephanopoulos. 198 00:14:37,795 --> 00:14:44,315 Speaker 1: You are journalists. You are the ones Trump and his 199 00:14:44,475 --> 00:14:50,715 Speaker 1: minions want to jail. The stage manager will not be 200 00:14:50,795 --> 00:14:53,595 Speaker 1: able to protect you from the Attorney General Mike Davis 201 00:14:53,955 --> 00:14:58,035 Speaker 1: or Attorney General Andrew Bailey, or Attorney General Jeff Clark 202 00:14:58,875 --> 00:15:02,595 Speaker 1: or Attorney General Stephen Miller when they decide to prosecute 203 00:15:02,595 --> 00:15:07,795 Speaker 1: you for fraud for having created extra Twitter accounts to 204 00:15:08,075 --> 00:15:13,155 Speaker 1: verify that Disney ads and Apple ads and NBC ads 205 00:15:13,235 --> 00:15:17,595 Speaker 1: and CNN ads and Lionsgate ads and IBM ads and 206 00:15:17,715 --> 00:15:23,235 Speaker 1: CBS ads and some virtual reality company ads were being 207 00:15:23,315 --> 00:15:26,915 Speaker 1: placed next to Nazi posts And how dare you tell 208 00:15:26,995 --> 00:15:30,435 Speaker 1: Disney and Apple and NBC and CNN and Lionsgate and 209 00:15:30,475 --> 00:15:34,675 Speaker 1: IBM and CBS and the virtual reality guys, because now 210 00:15:34,715 --> 00:15:38,275 Speaker 1: they've all canceled their ads. And that's that's think of 211 00:15:38,315 --> 00:15:41,755 Speaker 1: something quick, what is it? That's that's that's that's fraud. 212 00:15:42,315 --> 00:15:45,315 Speaker 1: That's what that is. And first thing Monday, X Corp. 213 00:15:45,355 --> 00:15:50,235 Speaker 1: Will be filing a thermore nuclear lawsuit that thermonuclear loss 214 00:15:50,235 --> 00:15:56,235 Speaker 1: out against media matters, even though in the same announcement 215 00:15:56,315 --> 00:16:00,195 Speaker 1: must admitted, Yeah, there are mainstream advertisers placed adjacent to nazis, 216 00:16:00,235 --> 00:16:04,475 Speaker 1: just not that many of them. And before you could 217 00:16:04,515 --> 00:16:09,315 Speaker 1: turn around the leading evidence that there really are undead 218 00:16:09,355 --> 00:16:14,155 Speaker 1: among us. The Trump henchman Stephen Miller wrote, fraud is 219 00:16:14,195 --> 00:16:18,235 Speaker 1: both a civil and criminal violation. There are two dozen 220 00:16:18,315 --> 00:16:24,915 Speaker 1: plus conservative state attorney's general and Musk replies interesting both 221 00:16:24,955 --> 00:16:27,955 Speaker 1: sybil and criminal, and the Attorney General of Missouri this 222 00:16:28,075 --> 00:16:31,835 Speaker 1: Bailey clown writes, my team is looking into this matter. 223 00:16:33,755 --> 00:16:40,115 Speaker 1: They want to put reporters in jail for reporting the truth. 224 00:16:43,875 --> 00:16:49,675 Speaker 1: Memo Kristen Andrea, Katie, Maggie, Josh David, pretty much everybody 225 00:16:49,715 --> 00:16:53,435 Speaker 1: except George. They want to put you in jail for 226 00:16:53,595 --> 00:16:59,675 Speaker 1: reporting the truth. How much more obvious do you need 227 00:16:59,755 --> 00:17:05,155 Speaker 1: them to make it? Whether you are active against Trump 228 00:17:05,315 --> 00:17:10,155 Speaker 1: or you aren't. These lunatics are going to treat you 229 00:17:10,755 --> 00:17:14,555 Speaker 1: as if you have been active against Trump, you are 230 00:17:14,795 --> 00:17:18,435 Speaker 1: already guilty. There is no way back. You might as 231 00:17:18,435 --> 00:17:22,155 Speaker 1: well get some shots in in self defense. Before this, 232 00:17:22,315 --> 00:17:27,475 Speaker 1: Mike Davis fulfills his promise to stuff all of Trump's 233 00:17:27,595 --> 00:17:33,635 Speaker 1: quote enemies unquote into GITMO. Don't anybody notice this? I 234 00:17:33,715 --> 00:17:43,635 Speaker 1: feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Also of interest here 235 00:17:43,675 --> 00:17:47,835 Speaker 1: Biden polls. No, not that one, this one, the Harris 236 00:17:47,875 --> 00:17:51,915 Speaker 1: Pole with Harvard. Biden was at forty two percent approval 237 00:17:52,515 --> 00:17:55,755 Speaker 1: in this one in September, then it was forty four 238 00:17:56,115 --> 00:18:01,515 Speaker 1: in October. This month it's forty five. Biden handling of 239 00:18:01,515 --> 00:18:04,675 Speaker 1: the economy forty one percent last month, forty four percent 240 00:18:04,875 --> 00:18:10,715 Speaker 1: this month. Look, polls are vague extrapolations of reality, and 241 00:18:10,795 --> 00:18:12,595 Speaker 1: we live in a time in which the President of 242 00:18:12,635 --> 00:18:17,595 Speaker 1: the United States exist largely for people to blame. But 243 00:18:18,515 --> 00:18:22,555 Speaker 1: if those two numbers are actually growing a point and 244 00:18:22,595 --> 00:18:27,075 Speaker 1: a half per month for Joe Biden, by March, his 245 00:18:27,235 --> 00:18:32,875 Speaker 1: approval rating will be fifty one percent, And then where 246 00:18:32,995 --> 00:18:42,395 Speaker 1: will all the pundits be also? Biden pardons Trump. Oh, 247 00:18:42,915 --> 00:18:47,635 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I misread that. Sorry, Biden pardons Thanksgiving Turkey, 248 00:18:49,195 --> 00:18:52,875 Speaker 1: and once again democracy has survived to this point not 249 00:18:52,915 --> 00:18:54,595 Speaker 1: by the efforts of those of us who are trying 250 00:18:54,635 --> 00:18:58,075 Speaker 1: to preserve it, but from the stupidity of those trying 251 00:18:58,115 --> 00:19:02,035 Speaker 1: to destroy it and BUYO BYO boy is Senator Mike 252 00:19:02,155 --> 00:19:07,515 Speaker 1: Lee of Utah stupid. He's got a new January sixth 253 00:19:07,595 --> 00:19:10,475 Speaker 1: gas lighting going. But in this one, just as in 254 00:19:10,595 --> 00:19:17,235 Speaker 1: Mike's brain, the pilot light is turned off. That's next. 255 00:19:17,835 --> 00:19:32,875 Speaker 1: This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Open postscripts 256 00:19:32,875 --> 00:19:37,315 Speaker 1: to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snark, some predictions. 257 00:19:40,075 --> 00:19:43,555 Speaker 1: Eight line Buenos Aires. I'd like to congratulate Argentina on 258 00:19:43,635 --> 00:19:48,475 Speaker 1: electing a far right libertarian economist and TV personality as president. 259 00:19:48,915 --> 00:19:52,435 Speaker 1: Hobbier Mila has promised to take a chainsaw to government 260 00:19:52,475 --> 00:19:55,915 Speaker 1: there and wants to eliminate the national Central Bank and abortion, 261 00:19:56,155 --> 00:19:59,355 Speaker 1: increase guns, and eliminate the national currency and replace it with, 262 00:19:59,395 --> 00:20:03,515 Speaker 1: of all things, the American dollar. Why not bubblegum the 263 00:20:03,555 --> 00:20:06,475 Speaker 1: American dollar? You want to rely on the American dollar. 264 00:20:07,195 --> 00:20:10,275 Speaker 1: Also in the Great Trump Boris Johnson tradition, he has 265 00:20:10,315 --> 00:20:12,675 Speaker 1: not had a good haircut this century. In fact, it 266 00:20:12,715 --> 00:20:15,515 Speaker 1: looks like he's already used a chainsaw on that, but 267 00:20:15,595 --> 00:20:18,715 Speaker 1: he also has enormous mutton chop sideburns that make him 268 00:20:18,755 --> 00:20:24,755 Speaker 1: look like well wolverine. Well done, Argentina, you've elected Wolverine, 269 00:20:24,995 --> 00:20:28,595 Speaker 1: an aged wolverine Wolverine as if he were being played 270 00:20:28,595 --> 00:20:31,995 Speaker 1: by my long lost friend Jason Bateman, only later in 271 00:20:32,035 --> 00:20:39,715 Speaker 1: life aged Wolverine Dateline Devon in England, one of the 272 00:20:39,715 --> 00:20:42,555 Speaker 1: great actors has died. Unless you are British, you may 273 00:20:42,595 --> 00:20:45,035 Speaker 1: not have known his name, but you'd recognize his face. 274 00:20:45,075 --> 00:20:50,435 Speaker 1: He was Joss Ackland Sidney Edmund Jocelyn Ackland, to be precise, 275 00:20:50,475 --> 00:20:54,275 Speaker 1: and he was in Everything Impeccable as the dim but 276 00:20:54,435 --> 00:20:58,395 Speaker 1: earnest sportswriter and British secret agent Jerry Westerby in the 277 00:20:58,435 --> 00:21:01,795 Speaker 1: Alec Guinness version of Tinker Taylor's Soldier Spy. He was 278 00:21:01,835 --> 00:21:04,675 Speaker 1: also the Russian Ambassador and The Hunt for Red October. 279 00:21:04,915 --> 00:21:08,075 Speaker 1: And he was also in The Mighty Ducks and Bill 280 00:21:08,155 --> 00:21:12,195 Speaker 1: and Ted's Bogus Journey, and a memorable Sherlock Holmes with 281 00:21:12,315 --> 00:21:15,875 Speaker 1: Jeremy Brent, and countless stage plays. He explained once to 282 00:21:15,875 --> 00:21:19,075 Speaker 1: an interviewer he was a workaholic. He was an actor 283 00:21:19,075 --> 00:21:22,155 Speaker 1: since nineteen forty five. Joss Acklin died at home at 284 00:21:22,195 --> 00:21:28,035 Speaker 1: the age of ninety five, and dateline Wherever your fur 285 00:21:28,115 --> 00:21:31,315 Speaker 1: Babies Are. The National Association of Real Tours reports that 286 00:21:31,395 --> 00:21:34,435 Speaker 1: approximately won in five recent home buyers have said that 287 00:21:34,475 --> 00:21:37,115 Speaker 1: in choosing a neighborhood to buy a home in, they 288 00:21:37,155 --> 00:21:42,035 Speaker 1: have factored in proximity to parks and the office of 289 00:21:43,475 --> 00:21:49,235 Speaker 1: the veterinarian. Moreover, one search on Pinterest has jumped one 290 00:21:49,315 --> 00:21:51,795 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two percent year to year since October 291 00:21:51,835 --> 00:21:57,435 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. The pintererist searches for pet bedroom similar 292 00:21:57,475 --> 00:22:04,435 Speaker 1: searches for do it yourself cat patios, ballpits, private dog parks, 293 00:22:04,755 --> 00:22:08,995 Speaker 1: and built in dog showers. I'd tell you more about this, 294 00:22:09,155 --> 00:22:11,515 Speaker 1: but I'd have to I'd have to do it in 295 00:22:11,555 --> 00:22:15,115 Speaker 1: a whisper because while I sold my last place because 296 00:22:15,155 --> 00:22:18,475 Speaker 1: it was in a Trump branded building, I chose my 297 00:22:18,635 --> 00:22:21,995 Speaker 1: new place because it's across the street from the park, 298 00:22:22,675 --> 00:22:27,395 Speaker 1: but it doesn't have a built in dog shower. I 299 00:22:27,555 --> 00:22:53,675 Speaker 1: feel great shame still ahead of us on countdown the 300 00:22:53,715 --> 00:22:56,955 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two baseball Expansion Draft, how I anchored it 301 00:22:57,075 --> 00:23:00,635 Speaker 1: all day, and how a Baseball Hall of Famer working 302 00:23:00,715 --> 00:23:03,475 Speaker 1: the show with us on ESPN skipped the day before 303 00:23:03,555 --> 00:23:06,915 Speaker 1: final rundown meeting, I pretending he thought the meeting started 304 00:23:06,955 --> 00:23:09,995 Speaker 1: at nine pm instead of nine am, and he pretended 305 00:23:10,035 --> 00:23:12,235 Speaker 1: to be at a golf course hours away, even though 306 00:23:12,275 --> 00:23:14,275 Speaker 1: it was thirty degrees out and he was calling telling 307 00:23:14,395 --> 00:23:17,555 Speaker 1: us that from his room in the hotel. Next in 308 00:23:17,635 --> 00:23:20,035 Speaker 1: things I promised not to tell first time for the 309 00:23:20,075 --> 00:23:22,475 Speaker 1: daily round up of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Kruger 310 00:23:22,475 --> 00:23:26,595 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute today's worse persons in the world 311 00:23:27,275 --> 00:23:30,715 Speaker 1: Worse Fox News. For the longest time, we all thought 312 00:23:30,795 --> 00:23:33,555 Speaker 1: that the error ridden graphics department was just made up 313 00:23:33,635 --> 00:23:37,435 Speaker 1: of the proverbial monkeys pounding away on the proverbial typewriters 314 00:23:37,475 --> 00:23:40,835 Speaker 1: for the proverbial million years. After twenty five years, though, 315 00:23:40,875 --> 00:23:44,355 Speaker 1: I'm beginning to suspect otherwise. During a report on Special 316 00:23:44,395 --> 00:23:47,995 Speaker 1: Operations members killed in a recent crash, the on screen 317 00:23:48,035 --> 00:23:50,555 Speaker 1: banner at the bottom of the screen read that they 318 00:23:50,555 --> 00:23:54,555 Speaker 1: were quote in elite unit that helped kill Osama Biden 319 00:23:54,715 --> 00:23:57,995 Speaker 1: Ladden Osama Biden Ladden. I don't think that was a 320 00:23:58,035 --> 00:24:01,915 Speaker 1: typo kid, by the way, Yes, it could have been worse, 321 00:24:02,195 --> 00:24:05,555 Speaker 1: far worse. Fox could have typed in unit that helped 322 00:24:05,635 --> 00:24:11,195 Speaker 1: kill Obama Biden lawden worser Moms for Hitler Liberty, the 323 00:24:11,235 --> 00:24:13,955 Speaker 1: group that quoted Hitler to rationalize its own attempt to 324 00:24:14,035 --> 00:24:17,155 Speaker 1: harass an and endanger librarians and teachers around the country 325 00:24:17,435 --> 00:24:21,515 Speaker 1: on behalf of vigilante fascism. From the Philadelphia Inquirer, the 326 00:24:21,595 --> 00:24:25,075 Speaker 1: Moms for Hitler Liberty faith based outreach coordinator for the 327 00:24:25,075 --> 00:24:31,475 Speaker 1: Philadelphia chapter is a registered sex offender. Philip Fisher, Junior 328 00:24:31,515 --> 00:24:34,395 Speaker 1: insists he did nothing wrong, which is why he pleaded 329 00:24:34,395 --> 00:24:36,675 Speaker 1: guilty to one of twelve charges filed against him in 330 00:24:36,675 --> 00:24:40,315 Speaker 1: twenty twelve for felony aggravated sexual abuse of a fourteen 331 00:24:40,395 --> 00:24:43,715 Speaker 1: year old boy in Chicago. He's a Republican ward leader 332 00:24:44,075 --> 00:24:46,995 Speaker 1: and he works for Moms for Hitler Liberty and the 333 00:24:47,075 --> 00:24:51,995 Speaker 1: Coup de Gras. He's a pastor, Pastor Fisher, I don't 334 00:24:51,995 --> 00:24:55,435 Speaker 1: think that's what they mean by outreach. But our winner, 335 00:24:55,515 --> 00:24:58,675 Speaker 1: Senator Mike Lee of Utah, Mike's fascist, and if he's 336 00:24:58,675 --> 00:25:01,995 Speaker 1: not an insurrectionist, he's an insurrectionist sympathizer. The good news is, 337 00:25:02,035 --> 00:25:05,915 Speaker 1: as always, Mike Lee is not very smart. The actual 338 00:25:05,995 --> 00:25:09,715 Speaker 1: insurrectionist Derek Evans, the former West Virginia House Republican, who 339 00:25:09,715 --> 00:25:12,755 Speaker 1: is one of the January sixth thugs, posted a still 340 00:25:12,875 --> 00:25:14,915 Speaker 1: from some of the cherry picked video they think they 341 00:25:14,955 --> 00:25:18,555 Speaker 1: can completely gaslight America with. It's of a guy in 342 00:25:18,595 --> 00:25:20,755 Speaker 1: the halls of Congress during the coup attempt that he's 343 00:25:20,795 --> 00:25:23,475 Speaker 1: got a Maga hat on and something in his left hand, 344 00:25:23,475 --> 00:25:25,635 Speaker 1: and Evans is convinced he knows what it is. Quote 345 00:25:25,755 --> 00:25:28,715 Speaker 1: is this person flashing a badge? If so, this would 346 00:25:28,715 --> 00:25:33,275 Speaker 1: prove there we were undercover federal agents disguised as Maga Unquote? 347 00:25:33,515 --> 00:25:36,395 Speaker 1: First off, no, it wouldn't. I have a badge too. 348 00:25:36,835 --> 00:25:39,995 Speaker 1: It was my grandfather's New York City firefighter's badge. Doesn't 349 00:25:39,995 --> 00:25:43,435 Speaker 1: make me a federal agent or a firefatter or a 350 00:25:43,475 --> 00:25:50,155 Speaker 1: firefighter incidentally, maybe a fatter firefighter anything further father. Incidentally, 351 00:25:50,195 --> 00:25:52,755 Speaker 1: I think somewhere I still own my deputy dog badge 352 00:25:52,795 --> 00:25:54,555 Speaker 1: that I got for my birthday when I was four. 353 00:25:55,115 --> 00:25:58,955 Speaker 1: Does that make me deputy dog? Secondly, okay, walk me 354 00:25:59,035 --> 00:26:01,715 Speaker 1: through why and undercover agent time trying to set off 355 00:26:01,715 --> 00:26:05,515 Speaker 1: a fake insurrection would blow his cover by flashing his 356 00:26:05,795 --> 00:26:09,035 Speaker 1: badge in the middle of it. None of this occurred 357 00:26:09,075 --> 00:26:12,915 Speaker 1: to Senator Mike Lee moron. He retweeted the image and added, 358 00:26:12,995 --> 00:26:15,595 Speaker 1: I can't wait to ask FBI Director Christopher Ray about 359 00:26:15,595 --> 00:26:18,075 Speaker 1: this at our next oversight hearing. I predict that it, 360 00:26:18,075 --> 00:26:22,395 Speaker 1: as always, his answers will be ninety seven percent information free. 361 00:26:22,555 --> 00:26:24,675 Speaker 1: Then it turned out that the guy holding the quote 362 00:26:24,715 --> 00:26:28,435 Speaker 1: badge unquote had long since been identified. His name is 363 00:26:28,515 --> 00:26:30,915 Speaker 1: Kevin Lyons, and he's from Chicago, and we could ask 364 00:26:30,995 --> 00:26:33,755 Speaker 1: him about the quote badge unquote that Mike Lee thinks 365 00:26:33,795 --> 00:26:36,755 Speaker 1: he's flashing. Except Kevin's in the big house right at 366 00:26:36,755 --> 00:26:39,875 Speaker 1: the moment. Sentenced Lash July to fifty one months in 367 00:26:39,955 --> 00:26:43,755 Speaker 1: prison for stealing cash and a framed photo of John 368 00:26:43,835 --> 00:26:48,035 Speaker 1: Lewis from Nancy Pelosi's office during the coup attempt, oh 369 00:26:48,075 --> 00:26:52,755 Speaker 1: In filming himself doing it, and the badge Kevin Lyons 370 00:26:52,835 --> 00:26:56,635 Speaker 1: is shown flashing it throughout the video on January sixth, inside, outside, 371 00:26:56,675 --> 00:26:59,435 Speaker 1: all over the place. It's not a badge, it's a 372 00:26:59,555 --> 00:27:03,835 Speaker 1: vape pen. He was vaping, which means he was a 373 00:27:03,875 --> 00:27:08,275 Speaker 1: secret undercover agent for Big Tobacco. You picked a winner 374 00:27:08,315 --> 00:27:13,755 Speaker 1: for your conspiracy theory, Senator Lee, Please please ask FBI 375 00:27:13,835 --> 00:27:17,315 Speaker 1: director about this one. Please. I'm begging you to ask him, 376 00:27:17,875 --> 00:27:22,875 Speaker 1: Mike Lee, the esteemed senator representing the great state of Denial, 377 00:27:23,555 --> 00:27:48,915 Speaker 1: today's worst person. And now just to hand things I 378 00:27:48,995 --> 00:27:53,035 Speaker 1: promised not to tell and Joe Morgan really did not 379 00:27:53,315 --> 00:27:57,955 Speaker 1: want to be covering the Baseball Expansion draft on ESPN 380 00:27:58,075 --> 00:28:01,075 Speaker 1: that created the Marlins and the Rockies thirty one years ago. 381 00:28:01,115 --> 00:28:04,435 Speaker 1: This week Things I promised not to tell? Coming up first, 382 00:28:04,475 --> 00:28:06,715 Speaker 1: I'm to feature another great dog in need that you 383 00:28:06,795 --> 00:28:10,355 Speaker 1: can help. Every dog has its day. Milo, a young, 384 00:28:10,555 --> 00:28:13,675 Speaker 1: ordinary looking white mutt with a big brown patch who 385 00:28:13,715 --> 00:28:16,955 Speaker 1: was found on the streets of spring Hill, Tennessee by 386 00:28:16,955 --> 00:28:20,795 Speaker 1: the folks at House of Strays. There was a grotesque tumor. 387 00:28:20,835 --> 00:28:24,075 Speaker 1: It was bleeding. It's cancerous, and the first thought was euthanasia. 388 00:28:24,475 --> 00:28:27,435 Speaker 1: But he's a sweet dog. He was eating like crazy. 389 00:28:27,475 --> 00:28:32,475 Speaker 1: He wants to live. Early chemo results have been excellent, promising. 390 00:28:32,955 --> 00:28:35,755 Speaker 1: Now House of Strays needs the money to keep them going. 391 00:28:36,195 --> 00:28:38,875 Speaker 1: As somebody who has had a dog survive cancer, those 392 00:28:38,955 --> 00:28:43,355 Speaker 1: early results are usually the story. Let's invest in Milo. 393 00:28:43,835 --> 00:28:45,915 Speaker 1: Make a contribution to him if you can at Cuddy 394 00:28:45,995 --> 00:28:48,635 Speaker 1: dot com or have I tweeted the link on my 395 00:28:48,755 --> 00:28:52,755 Speaker 1: regular and dog accounts on Twitter. Retweeting can help him. 396 00:28:52,795 --> 00:29:10,475 Speaker 1: Milo thanks you, and I thank you. See the number 397 00:29:10,475 --> 00:29:12,875 Speaker 1: one story on the countdown on my favorite topic, me 398 00:29:13,075 --> 00:29:15,955 Speaker 1: and things I promised not to tell. And I get 399 00:29:15,995 --> 00:29:20,355 Speaker 1: nostalgic for this extraordinary week every time mid November rolls 400 00:29:20,355 --> 00:29:23,595 Speaker 1: around on the weather on QE gets really cold, as 401 00:29:23,675 --> 00:29:26,555 Speaker 1: it just did over the weekend, or for that matter, 402 00:29:26,635 --> 00:29:29,275 Speaker 1: I'm reminded of it every time somebody mentions the Colorado 403 00:29:29,355 --> 00:29:34,035 Speaker 1: Rockies or the Florida now Miami Marlins, because this was 404 00:29:34,115 --> 00:29:36,675 Speaker 1: the time of year when they were born thirty one 405 00:29:36,755 --> 00:29:39,315 Speaker 1: years ago this week. The exact date was November seventeenth, 406 00:29:39,435 --> 00:29:44,475 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two Baseball's Colorado Rockies and Florida now Miami 407 00:29:44,555 --> 00:29:50,235 Speaker 1: Marlins in the first real expansion draft that was televised, 408 00:29:50,475 --> 00:29:52,595 Speaker 1: the first expansion draft of any kind in twenty one 409 00:29:52,715 --> 00:29:56,115 Speaker 1: years in New York. I always think of Joe Morgan, 410 00:29:56,395 --> 00:29:59,315 Speaker 1: the late Hall of Fame second baseman and ESPN Sunday 411 00:29:59,355 --> 00:30:02,475 Speaker 1: Night Baseball and NBC Baseball analyst, with whom I worked 412 00:30:02,475 --> 00:30:04,955 Speaker 1: for many years and was great to me most of 413 00:30:04,995 --> 00:30:09,475 Speaker 1: the time, but who was so angry that ESPN forced 414 00:30:09,515 --> 00:30:12,915 Speaker 1: a clause in his contract and made him come to 415 00:30:12,955 --> 00:30:16,035 Speaker 1: New York for this in the middle of November, the 416 00:30:16,075 --> 00:30:19,075 Speaker 1: morning of the final run through, which was November sixteenth, 417 00:30:19,115 --> 00:30:20,915 Speaker 1: I guess. The phone rings at nine am, and the 418 00:30:20,955 --> 00:30:24,715 Speaker 1: executive producer, Jed Drake answers it, and we thirty of 419 00:30:24,795 --> 00:30:27,035 Speaker 1: us or so in the room waiting for Joe to 420 00:30:27,075 --> 00:30:33,235 Speaker 1: show up. Hear this. Hi Joe, Oh no really, no, no, no, 421 00:30:33,275 --> 00:30:38,395 Speaker 1: the final meeting started at nine am, not PM. That's right. 422 00:30:38,435 --> 00:30:40,835 Speaker 1: It was a morning meeting. That's what it says. It's 423 00:30:41,235 --> 00:30:45,315 Speaker 1: the morning rundown meeting. It's right now. We're waiting for you. 424 00:30:46,555 --> 00:30:50,795 Speaker 1: Oh no, kidding in New Jersey. You say you're in 425 00:30:50,835 --> 00:30:54,475 Speaker 1: New Jersey playing golf. Nice morning for it. Huh. It's 426 00:30:54,515 --> 00:30:59,515 Speaker 1: like thirty degrees out. We'll dress up warm. Yeah. So 427 00:30:59,555 --> 00:31:03,795 Speaker 1: you're near the Pennsylvania border and you'll be happy to 428 00:31:03,795 --> 00:31:07,635 Speaker 1: come back. Well, no, I suppose not, Joe. Now, it 429 00:31:07,675 --> 00:31:09,795 Speaker 1: doesn't make sense for you to drive back two hours. 430 00:31:09,835 --> 00:31:13,115 Speaker 1: We'll probably be done before then. You're right, Yeah, the 431 00:31:13,115 --> 00:31:19,395 Speaker 1: broadcast starts at ten tomorrow, ten am, right, Joe? Yeah, yeah, 432 00:31:19,395 --> 00:31:23,875 Speaker 1: I'll give everybody your best. Thanks Joe. He put the 433 00:31:23,875 --> 00:31:27,075 Speaker 1: phone down and the room erupted in laughter, and then 434 00:31:27,155 --> 00:31:30,835 Speaker 1: Jed said, by the way, the phone id the caller 435 00:31:30,875 --> 00:31:34,195 Speaker 1: id that call came from Joe's room in the hotel. 436 00:31:35,315 --> 00:31:39,795 Speaker 1: The room erupted in laughter. Somebody shouted the call came 437 00:31:39,795 --> 00:31:45,155 Speaker 1: from inside the house. The room erupted in laughter again. Anyway, 438 00:31:45,195 --> 00:31:48,035 Speaker 1: the next day was the actual expansion draft. The Rockies 439 00:31:48,355 --> 00:31:54,115 Speaker 1: and the Marlins and Joe Morgan and let's see, John 440 00:31:54,275 --> 00:31:58,315 Speaker 1: Miller was there, and Dave Campbell and Chris Myers and 441 00:31:58,355 --> 00:32:00,715 Speaker 1: Peter Gammon's and right there were like twenty of us 442 00:32:00,755 --> 00:32:03,835 Speaker 1: covering this. I think we had more announcers than there 443 00:32:03,835 --> 00:32:07,995 Speaker 1: were players. And Joe made it and I anchored it, 444 00:32:08,315 --> 00:32:14,355 Speaker 1: and I anchored it all day, and before it started, 445 00:32:14,755 --> 00:32:16,835 Speaker 1: I was able to figure out who the first pick 446 00:32:16,915 --> 00:32:20,035 Speaker 1: was going to be, and I wasn't proud of it. 447 00:32:20,155 --> 00:32:22,715 Speaker 1: Then how I confirmed the story, but I did it. 448 00:32:22,715 --> 00:32:25,595 Speaker 1: It wasn't planned, it didn't do any real harm. And 449 00:32:25,635 --> 00:32:27,675 Speaker 1: then what followed it was one of the weirdest things 450 00:32:27,715 --> 00:32:33,515 Speaker 1: I've ever experienced in broadcasting. The draft and our interminable broadcast. 451 00:32:34,155 --> 00:32:36,315 Speaker 1: I got on the set before it was light and 452 00:32:36,435 --> 00:32:39,395 Speaker 1: left after it got dark. Took place in the Marriott 453 00:32:39,395 --> 00:32:42,395 Speaker 1: Marquee Hotel in Times Square in New York on November seventeenth, 454 00:32:42,475 --> 00:32:45,395 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two. And not only were we on the air, 455 00:32:45,555 --> 00:32:48,235 Speaker 1: Peter Gammons and Ray Knight and me at the anchor 456 00:32:48,315 --> 00:32:51,235 Speaker 1: desk from like ten in the morning until ten at night, 457 00:32:51,395 --> 00:32:54,235 Speaker 1: but the three of us plus dozens of staffers had 458 00:32:54,275 --> 00:32:58,595 Speaker 1: been sequestered to prepare in that hotel for almost the 459 00:32:58,755 --> 00:33:01,395 Speaker 1: entirety of the previous week. They didn't even want us 460 00:33:01,515 --> 00:33:05,835 Speaker 1: leaving the hotel. Moreover, Gammons and I and others had 461 00:33:05,835 --> 00:33:08,595 Speaker 1: been meeting for an hour or so every Tuesday since 462 00:33:08,755 --> 00:33:12,315 Speaker 1: August to go over the thousands of possibilities of who 463 00:33:12,355 --> 00:33:15,035 Speaker 1: would be eligible for this draft, who would not, and 464 00:33:15,075 --> 00:33:18,875 Speaker 1: who would likely to be taken. Our preparation was like 465 00:33:18,915 --> 00:33:21,235 Speaker 1: a real life version of the apocryphal story of the 466 00:33:21,235 --> 00:33:24,915 Speaker 1: ancient king assembling scholars to study for years to find 467 00:33:24,995 --> 00:33:30,635 Speaker 1: him one phrase that was true and usable in any circumstance. Well, 468 00:33:30,675 --> 00:33:33,235 Speaker 1: by the time November rolled around, we had had so 469 00:33:33,275 --> 00:33:35,315 Speaker 1: many of these meetings that I was dreaming the names 470 00:33:35,355 --> 00:33:38,435 Speaker 1: of one hundred possible minor leaguers they might draft off 471 00:33:38,475 --> 00:33:42,275 Speaker 1: the New York Mets. Future Hall of Famer Trevor Hoffman 472 00:33:42,395 --> 00:33:45,075 Speaker 1: was selected in that draft. We talked about him, so 473 00:33:45,515 --> 00:33:48,995 Speaker 1: were later Yankees and Phillies manager Joe Girardi and two 474 00:33:49,115 --> 00:33:52,195 Speaker 1: other future major league managers, Brad Ausmas and Eric Wedge. 475 00:33:53,155 --> 00:33:56,235 Speaker 1: Then it's a pretty quick fall off to the Ryan 476 00:33:56,275 --> 00:34:00,835 Speaker 1: Hall Blitzels and Andre's barre Men's who were selected in 477 00:34:00,875 --> 00:34:05,155 Speaker 1: the draft. Anyway, maybe on the Sunday before the draft, 478 00:34:05,155 --> 00:34:07,835 Speaker 1: which was on a Tuesday that year, Peter Gammons found 479 00:34:07,875 --> 00:34:11,195 Speaker 1: out that the guy the Florida Marlins really wanted was 480 00:34:11,235 --> 00:34:14,195 Speaker 1: a minor league outfielder who had been left exposed by 481 00:34:14,235 --> 00:34:18,555 Speaker 1: the Toronto Blue Jays named Nigel Wilson. But the number 482 00:34:18,675 --> 00:34:23,155 Speaker 1: one pick by the Colorado Rockies was still uncertain. Since August, 483 00:34:23,235 --> 00:34:26,195 Speaker 1: we had figured the Rockies would take the best pitcher available, 484 00:34:26,435 --> 00:34:28,635 Speaker 1: and that that would be whichever one of three or 485 00:34:28,675 --> 00:34:32,315 Speaker 1: four guys the Atlanta Braves did not protect then, as 486 00:34:32,355 --> 00:34:34,515 Speaker 1: now they had a lot of good young pitchers. The 487 00:34:34,595 --> 00:34:37,155 Speaker 1: two likeliest possibilities that they were going to have to 488 00:34:37,195 --> 00:34:43,075 Speaker 1: expose were named Kent Merker and David Nead. So early 489 00:34:43,195 --> 00:34:46,435 Speaker 1: on Monday, somebody I knew in the Rockies organization confirmed 490 00:34:46,435 --> 00:34:48,915 Speaker 1: to me off the record that their franchise had decided 491 00:34:48,955 --> 00:34:53,275 Speaker 1: on taking the Atlanta pitcher. And when I said which one, 492 00:34:53,715 --> 00:34:58,275 Speaker 1: he laughed and said, scap for it, which was something 493 00:34:58,275 --> 00:34:59,995 Speaker 1: we used to say on the playground when I was 494 00:35:00,035 --> 00:35:01,595 Speaker 1: a kid, when we wanted the other kid to have 495 00:35:01,635 --> 00:35:05,235 Speaker 1: to search for something like a dropped coin or marble 496 00:35:05,435 --> 00:35:09,635 Speaker 1: or the homework answers. Then another source told me that 497 00:35:09,675 --> 00:35:13,915 Speaker 1: the Braves in deciding on the Atlanta pitcher, well, they 498 00:35:13,995 --> 00:35:17,035 Speaker 1: had chosen to protect Kent Mrker, but not to protect 499 00:35:17,155 --> 00:35:20,875 Speaker 1: David Need. And so I asked our researcher at the draft, 500 00:35:20,915 --> 00:35:24,515 Speaker 1: Vinnie Vassallo, Vinnie the statman who I mentioned ten days 501 00:35:24,515 --> 00:35:27,235 Speaker 1: ago after he passed away. I asked Vinnie to see 502 00:35:27,235 --> 00:35:29,595 Speaker 1: if there was some way he could find the phone 503 00:35:29,675 --> 00:35:34,755 Speaker 1: number for David Need's family in Texas I think it was, 504 00:35:35,115 --> 00:35:38,115 Speaker 1: And of course Vinnie found the number, and I knew 505 00:35:38,155 --> 00:35:40,435 Speaker 1: the Rockies were going to have to have whoever they 506 00:35:40,435 --> 00:35:43,635 Speaker 1: were going to pick first in New York with us 507 00:35:44,075 --> 00:35:47,835 Speaker 1: for the announcement on Tuesday morning. So if David Need 508 00:35:48,515 --> 00:35:51,195 Speaker 1: was still at his parents' home in Texas or wherever 509 00:35:51,235 --> 00:35:53,675 Speaker 1: it was at five pm Monday local time, he was 510 00:35:53,835 --> 00:35:58,115 Speaker 1: really unlikely to be in New York before ten am Tuesday, 511 00:35:59,235 --> 00:36:03,235 Speaker 1: they would not cut it that close. So I took 512 00:36:03,275 --> 00:36:05,475 Speaker 1: the phone number Vinnie got for me, and I called, 513 00:36:05,515 --> 00:36:10,235 Speaker 1: and a young voice answered, his younger sister, maybe maybe 514 00:36:10,275 --> 00:36:13,755 Speaker 1: a tween ten eleven, something like that, And I asked, 515 00:36:14,315 --> 00:36:17,195 Speaker 1: is David there? And she said no, he's not. Can 516 00:36:17,235 --> 00:36:19,595 Speaker 1: I take a message? And that's when it came to 517 00:36:19,635 --> 00:36:24,955 Speaker 1: me some kind of evil repertorial instinct which made me say, oh, 518 00:36:24,995 --> 00:36:27,075 Speaker 1: I'm sorry I missed him. Did he already get on 519 00:36:27,115 --> 00:36:31,795 Speaker 1: the plane for New York? And she said yes. Before 520 00:36:31,835 --> 00:36:34,275 Speaker 1: I had finished thanking her, I began to feel a 521 00:36:34,315 --> 00:36:39,515 Speaker 1: guilt that I have retained to this day. Still, A 522 00:36:39,555 --> 00:36:41,795 Speaker 1: scoop is a scoop. We were there to cover the 523 00:36:41,835 --> 00:36:44,915 Speaker 1: expansion draft, and I sure had covered it. A Rocky 524 00:36:44,995 --> 00:36:47,635 Speaker 1: source said they were taking the Atlanta pitcher, and Atlanta 525 00:36:47,715 --> 00:36:50,515 Speaker 1: source said the Braves had not protected David Need. A 526 00:36:50,635 --> 00:36:53,275 Speaker 1: Need family source had said he was already on the 527 00:36:53,275 --> 00:36:57,315 Speaker 1: plane to New York. At the last big staff meeting 528 00:36:57,315 --> 00:37:00,275 Speaker 1: in a conference room in the hotel just before dinner 529 00:37:00,275 --> 00:37:03,995 Speaker 1: on Monday, we all agreed ESPN had learned that David 530 00:37:04,115 --> 00:37:06,515 Speaker 1: Need would be the first player chosen in the nineteen 531 00:37:06,595 --> 00:37:09,955 Speaker 1: ninety two expansion draft and Nigel Wilson would be the second, 532 00:37:10,675 --> 00:37:14,275 Speaker 1: And this being thirty years ago. We sat on all 533 00:37:14,395 --> 00:37:17,915 Speaker 1: that there was no Internet. There was no value in 534 00:37:17,955 --> 00:37:19,995 Speaker 1: putting it on the eleven PM Sports Center because the 535 00:37:20,035 --> 00:37:22,395 Speaker 1: only suspense we had for the actual broadcast of the 536 00:37:22,475 --> 00:37:25,595 Speaker 1: draft the next day was letting people wonder if maybe 537 00:37:25,675 --> 00:37:27,955 Speaker 1: some of the wilder rumors were correct and the first 538 00:37:27,955 --> 00:37:30,115 Speaker 1: guy chosen in the draft the next day wouldn't be 539 00:37:30,195 --> 00:37:33,635 Speaker 1: some obscure prospect like David Need, but would be a 540 00:37:33,675 --> 00:37:36,675 Speaker 1: big name like Eddie Murray or Lee Smith or some 541 00:37:36,795 --> 00:37:40,595 Speaker 1: other high priced guy. It is hard to believe, but 542 00:37:40,675 --> 00:37:46,355 Speaker 1: we kept these two scoops to ourselves for sixteen hours. 543 00:37:46,955 --> 00:37:51,515 Speaker 1: Nobody knew until we signed on the next morning. That 544 00:37:51,675 --> 00:37:55,155 Speaker 1: used to happen all the time. I confirmed the trade 545 00:37:55,155 --> 00:37:57,595 Speaker 1: of Wayne Gretzky to the La Kings in August nineteen 546 00:37:57,635 --> 00:37:59,715 Speaker 1: eighty eight at about five PM Pacific time. It was 547 00:37:59,755 --> 00:38:02,435 Speaker 1: still a breaking news exclusive when we led with it 548 00:38:02,475 --> 00:38:07,995 Speaker 1: on the Channel five News at ten. However, there was 549 00:38:08,035 --> 00:38:11,035 Speaker 1: a fairly new ESPN correspondent who was with us in 550 00:38:11,115 --> 00:38:13,875 Speaker 1: the New York hotel representing ESPN Radio, and I think 551 00:38:13,915 --> 00:38:16,155 Speaker 1: she is still with the company, so I will leave 552 00:38:16,195 --> 00:38:18,395 Speaker 1: her name out of it because I really think in 553 00:38:18,475 --> 00:38:23,035 Speaker 1: retrospect She just had no idea. This wasn't what all 554 00:38:23,115 --> 00:38:26,435 Speaker 1: of ESPN management had wanted her to do. And she 555 00:38:26,635 --> 00:38:29,315 Speaker 1: listened very carefully to Gammon's reporting to the group that 556 00:38:29,355 --> 00:38:32,795 Speaker 1: he'd figured out and figured out and was going to 557 00:38:32,835 --> 00:38:35,675 Speaker 1: report that Nigel Wilson was the first choice of the Marlins, 558 00:38:36,715 --> 00:38:39,115 Speaker 1: and me reporting to the group that I'd figured out 559 00:38:39,515 --> 00:38:42,795 Speaker 1: and had figured out was going to report by deceiving 560 00:38:42,875 --> 00:38:48,075 Speaker 1: David Need's kid's sister. And then she said, this reporter 561 00:38:48,195 --> 00:38:51,195 Speaker 1: did excuse me. I don't want to just walk out 562 00:38:51,195 --> 00:38:52,835 Speaker 1: of the room, but I'm just leaving to go back 563 00:38:52,875 --> 00:38:55,235 Speaker 1: to my room and phone all this into ESPN Radio 564 00:38:55,315 --> 00:38:56,915 Speaker 1: so we can put it on the air right away, 565 00:38:58,315 --> 00:39:02,235 Speaker 1: as in a movie. Several dozen heads turned towards her, 566 00:39:02,395 --> 00:39:05,115 Speaker 1: each with a look of astonishment on it, except for 567 00:39:05,155 --> 00:39:07,635 Speaker 1: one or two guys who just assumed she was kidding. 568 00:39:07,875 --> 00:39:12,635 Speaker 1: They laughed. I laughed. I was one of the hosts 569 00:39:12,675 --> 00:39:15,475 Speaker 1: song ESPN Radio. Hell I was one of the founding 570 00:39:15,515 --> 00:39:18,995 Speaker 1: hosts of ESPN Radio. So I said, what do you 571 00:39:19,075 --> 00:39:22,275 Speaker 1: mean we're embargoing this. We're not even running it on 572 00:39:22,315 --> 00:39:24,315 Speaker 1: Sports Center. We're going to lead the draft coverage with 573 00:39:24,395 --> 00:39:29,035 Speaker 1: it tomorrow. And she smiled pleasantly and said, well, that 574 00:39:29,155 --> 00:39:31,515 Speaker 1: might be what they told you to do, but I 575 00:39:31,635 --> 00:39:34,555 Speaker 1: was told to report any breaking news immediately, and this 576 00:39:34,715 --> 00:39:39,075 Speaker 1: is breaking news. At this point. Peter Gammon's got very red. 577 00:39:39,595 --> 00:39:43,275 Speaker 1: The hell you are, he said, and she said pleasantly, yes, 578 00:39:43,595 --> 00:39:46,435 Speaker 1: the hell I am, and she got up and left. 579 00:39:47,395 --> 00:39:50,715 Speaker 1: I wasn't quite as mad as Peter, or as our 580 00:39:50,795 --> 00:39:53,875 Speaker 1: executive producer, or as any of the other dozen producers 581 00:39:53,995 --> 00:39:55,955 Speaker 1: or anybody else in the room, because, as I said, 582 00:39:55,995 --> 00:39:59,555 Speaker 1: I worked for ESPN Radio two. I knew something the 583 00:39:59,595 --> 00:40:02,115 Speaker 1: others in the room did not, And more importantly, I 584 00:40:02,155 --> 00:40:04,275 Speaker 1: knew something the reporter who had just left the room 585 00:40:04,315 --> 00:40:07,555 Speaker 1: inten need to scoop us and her own employers did not. 586 00:40:08,355 --> 00:40:11,555 Speaker 1: But I had to make sure. As the producers began 587 00:40:11,595 --> 00:40:15,395 Speaker 1: to say things like follow her and stop her and 588 00:40:15,635 --> 00:40:19,715 Speaker 1: fire her, I said, just wait. Let me call the 589 00:40:19,755 --> 00:40:23,595 Speaker 1: general manager of the radio network first. I did. He 590 00:40:23,755 --> 00:40:26,435 Speaker 1: was in the hotel. He never missed an opportunity like that. 591 00:40:27,675 --> 00:40:31,035 Speaker 1: I explained the situation to him. I'll talk to her, 592 00:40:31,235 --> 00:40:35,035 Speaker 1: he sighed, she's just being overly enthusiastic. I didn't tell 593 00:40:35,035 --> 00:40:36,915 Speaker 1: her to do that. Nobody told her to do that. 594 00:40:37,555 --> 00:40:39,995 Speaker 1: And I asked him if there were any special reports 595 00:40:40,115 --> 00:40:43,195 Speaker 1: or anything that she could be filing somewhere. In other words, 596 00:40:43,275 --> 00:40:45,315 Speaker 1: she went back to her room to call this in 597 00:40:45,355 --> 00:40:47,995 Speaker 1: to go on the ESPN Radio network and report it 598 00:40:48,035 --> 00:40:53,515 Speaker 1: before we could Nope, said the general manager, Same schedule 599 00:40:53,555 --> 00:40:58,195 Speaker 1: as ever, We're dark until tomorrow afternoon's extra point commentary 600 00:40:58,235 --> 00:41:03,515 Speaker 1: at five. Well, there was now ugly murmuring in the room, 601 00:41:03,515 --> 00:41:05,875 Speaker 1: and I told them all to real what had just 602 00:41:05,915 --> 00:41:08,395 Speaker 1: been confirmed by the general manager of the radio network, 603 00:41:08,435 --> 00:41:10,195 Speaker 1: which had only been on the air for ten months 604 00:41:10,235 --> 00:41:12,915 Speaker 1: and was anything but full time, was that there was 605 00:41:13,635 --> 00:41:17,835 Speaker 1: nothing on ESPN Radio right now. There was no place 606 00:41:17,835 --> 00:41:22,315 Speaker 1: for their reporter to scoop us on ESPN Radio was 607 00:41:22,515 --> 00:41:27,915 Speaker 1: off the air, literally silent, until four pm the following afternoon. 608 00:41:29,635 --> 00:41:32,755 Speaker 1: I know people at ESPN who still hold grudges against 609 00:41:32,755 --> 00:41:48,115 Speaker 1: her for this, though I've done all the damage I 610 00:41:48,155 --> 00:41:50,315 Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown has come 611 00:41:50,315 --> 00:41:52,715 Speaker 1: to you from the Vin Scully Studios at the Elberman 612 00:41:52,795 --> 00:41:57,395 Speaker 1: Broadcasting Empire in New York. Countdown musical directors Brian Ray 613 00:41:57,435 --> 00:42:00,355 Speaker 1: and John Phillip Schanel arranged, produced, and performed most of 614 00:42:00,395 --> 00:42:04,475 Speaker 1: our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. 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Everything else is pretty much my fault. 623 00:42:30,075 --> 00:42:32,635 Speaker 1: That's countdown for this the one thy forty ninth day 624 00:42:32,995 --> 00:42:36,115 Speaker 1: since dementia J Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 625 00:42:36,115 --> 00:42:39,595 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. Convict him now while 626 00:42:39,635 --> 00:42:43,755 Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins 627 00:42:43,755 --> 00:42:46,875 Speaker 1: as the news warrants till then, I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, 628 00:42:46,875 --> 00:43:01,755 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith 629 00:43:01,795 --> 00:43:06,835 Speaker 1: Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. More podcasts from iHeartRadio 630 00:43:06,995 --> 00:43:11,035 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 631 00:43:11,075 --> 00:43:11,955 Speaker 1: your podcasts.