1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:22,395 --> 00:00:25,395 Speaker 1: I have not done this before. I have two separate 3 00:00:25,435 --> 00:00:28,515 Speaker 1: commentaries for you today because a series of small, under 4 00:00:28,595 --> 00:00:32,275 Speaker 1: publicized news stories is giving me the creeps. But I 5 00:00:32,355 --> 00:00:35,875 Speaker 1: also have a lot to say about my ex Kirsten Cinema, 6 00:00:36,515 --> 00:00:39,715 Speaker 1: speaking of giving me the creeps, pretending to become an 7 00:00:39,715 --> 00:00:46,035 Speaker 1: independent those underpublicized news stories. First, it seems to have 8 00:00:46,115 --> 00:00:51,555 Speaker 1: started with the Russians Monday, October. They bombed sixteen different 9 00:00:51,635 --> 00:00:55,235 Speaker 1: Ukrainian cities that day. Sadly, nothing unusual about that, except 10 00:00:55,315 --> 00:01:00,715 Speaker 1: for the targets power plants, water heating facilities, electrical grids. 11 00:01:01,555 --> 00:01:05,195 Speaker 1: It was repeated in Kiev in October, repeat it across 12 00:01:05,315 --> 00:01:08,555 Speaker 1: Ukraine as recently as December one, enough damage just to 13 00:01:08,675 --> 00:01:12,475 Speaker 1: power plants to plunge a nation the size of Texas 14 00:01:12,995 --> 00:01:19,275 Speaker 1: into darkness and cold indefinitely. Then came December three. Somebody 15 00:01:19,315 --> 00:01:23,235 Speaker 1: fired shots into the Duke Energy substations in Carthage and 16 00:01:23,315 --> 00:01:27,755 Speaker 1: West End, North Carolina. Not terrorist assaults, not commando raids, 17 00:01:27,795 --> 00:01:32,315 Speaker 1: not cyber attacks, not break ins, just ordinary gunfire, and 18 00:01:32,395 --> 00:01:36,275 Speaker 1: within minutes, virtually all of Moore County, North Carolina was 19 00:01:36,355 --> 00:01:40,195 Speaker 1: without electricity. And would be for four full days, and 20 00:01:40,235 --> 00:01:43,235 Speaker 1: it was only that brief because of round the clock 21 00:01:43,275 --> 00:01:46,475 Speaker 1: efforts to put the county's power grid back together again. 22 00:01:47,875 --> 00:01:50,275 Speaker 1: The same day the lights came back on in North Carolina, 23 00:01:50,395 --> 00:01:55,235 Speaker 1: three thousand German cops and special forces troops conducted one 24 00:01:55,635 --> 00:01:58,995 Speaker 1: and fifty separate raids in eleven different German states and 25 00:01:59,155 --> 00:02:02,835 Speaker 1: rolled up a plot to overthrow the German government, and 26 00:02:02,915 --> 00:02:05,075 Speaker 1: at the home of the would be dictator a new 27 00:02:05,115 --> 00:02:09,595 Speaker 1: German Reich, they found a cash of irridium satellite phones 28 00:02:09,995 --> 00:02:13,755 Speaker 1: that cost twenty one thousand dollars a piece that were 29 00:02:13,795 --> 00:02:16,275 Speaker 1: there so members of the plot could communicate with each 30 00:02:16,315 --> 00:02:21,075 Speaker 1: other after they sabotaged as much of the German national 31 00:02:21,195 --> 00:02:26,555 Speaker 1: power grid as they could. German coup destroy the power grid, 32 00:02:26,955 --> 00:02:31,075 Speaker 1: North Carolina terrorism destroy the power grid. Russian attack on 33 00:02:31,235 --> 00:02:37,355 Speaker 1: Ukraine destroy the power grid following me. Yet, I don't 34 00:02:37,395 --> 00:02:38,995 Speaker 1: want to make more of this than it deserves, and 35 00:02:39,035 --> 00:02:41,635 Speaker 1: I genuinely hope I'm being paranoid about this, But I 36 00:02:41,635 --> 00:02:45,555 Speaker 1: am getting that same skin crawling feeling that I had 37 00:02:46,475 --> 00:02:48,715 Speaker 1: as we began to piece together what we didn't piece 38 00:02:48,755 --> 00:02:52,435 Speaker 1: together before nine eleven about frequent flyers seeing the same 39 00:02:52,475 --> 00:02:56,235 Speaker 1: passengers acting bizarrely on the same roots out of Logan 40 00:02:56,355 --> 00:03:00,155 Speaker 1: and Newark and Dulless, but nobody cross referencing what they saw, 41 00:03:01,075 --> 00:03:04,555 Speaker 1: which were dry runs, or the hijackers learning how to 42 00:03:04,835 --> 00:03:07,595 Speaker 1: fly but not bothering with landings or takeoffs, or the 43 00:03:07,635 --> 00:03:10,755 Speaker 1: two terrorists who flew the plane into the Pentagon renting 44 00:03:10,835 --> 00:03:15,435 Speaker 1: rooms from an FBI informant who never suspected them. But 45 00:03:15,475 --> 00:03:18,595 Speaker 1: of course this is premature and wild and irresponsible of me, 46 00:03:18,675 --> 00:03:22,755 Speaker 1: because it's just one attack on two substations in North Carolina, 47 00:03:22,955 --> 00:03:25,035 Speaker 1: and that may still turn out to have been a 48 00:03:25,155 --> 00:03:28,475 Speaker 1: crazy scheme to prevent a drag show from these imbeciles 49 00:03:28,715 --> 00:03:31,715 Speaker 1: incited by the manipulative record rhetoric now being fueled by 50 00:03:31,755 --> 00:03:34,875 Speaker 1: the likes of Elon Musk. It is not as if 51 00:03:34,915 --> 00:03:37,955 Speaker 1: there have been other attacks on power stations not in America. 52 00:03:39,915 --> 00:03:43,835 Speaker 1: Moore County is the thirteenth attack on a power station 53 00:03:44,395 --> 00:03:50,675 Speaker 1: in America since September. Duke Energy Bay Ridge Substation, Florida, 54 00:03:50,715 --> 00:03:56,675 Speaker 1: September intruder Duke Energy pay Ridge Substation, Florida, September Intruder 55 00:03:56,915 --> 00:04:02,995 Speaker 1: Duke Energy Orange Blossom Substation, Florida, September intruder Duke Energy 56 00:04:03,075 --> 00:04:07,115 Speaker 1: Zephyr Hills Substation, Florida, September twenty one. Intruder Duke Energy 57 00:04:07,235 --> 00:04:11,835 Speaker 1: Zephyry Hills North Substation, Florida, September twenty one, forced entry, 58 00:04:11,955 --> 00:04:17,675 Speaker 1: nine minute outage. Duke Energy East Clearwater Substation, Florida, September 59 00:04:18,515 --> 00:04:23,035 Speaker 1: forced entry, manually locked the substation, taking it offline. Two 60 00:04:23,075 --> 00:04:29,955 Speaker 1: minute outage. Cowlitz County Public Utility, Woodland, Washington, mid November. 61 00:04:30,035 --> 00:04:34,675 Speaker 1: Two substations attacked. Puget Sound Energy, Washington State. Late November. 62 00:04:34,835 --> 00:04:40,435 Speaker 1: Two substations attacked Portland General Electric, Clackamus, Oregon, late November. 63 00:04:40,675 --> 00:04:45,835 Speaker 1: Bonnaville Power Administration, Clackamus County, Oregon. November. Fence cut equipment 64 00:04:45,915 --> 00:04:50,635 Speaker 1: damaged the Bonneville Power Administration attack number twelve on your 65 00:04:50,675 --> 00:04:54,955 Speaker 1: list here, not counting North Carolina, is especially noteworthy because 66 00:04:55,235 --> 00:04:58,275 Speaker 1: the Bonneville Power Administration runs a key part of the 67 00:04:58,315 --> 00:05:04,235 Speaker 1: power transmission system from the Federal hydro Electrical Dams, but 68 00:05:04,355 --> 00:05:10,995 Speaker 1: goes the entire Northwest. Again. Maybe maybe, maybe this isn't 69 00:05:11,035 --> 00:05:15,315 Speaker 1: some sort of nationwide testing of the defenses at substations 70 00:05:15,355 --> 00:05:20,915 Speaker 1: in the Northwest, in the southeast, in Florida. Maybe it 71 00:05:20,995 --> 00:05:23,915 Speaker 1: all isn't in furtherance of some plot or plots to 72 00:05:23,955 --> 00:05:28,595 Speaker 1: shut off the power to enable what a fascist coup? 73 00:05:29,035 --> 00:05:32,595 Speaker 1: Something on Trump's behalf support for the oath keepers or 74 00:05:32,635 --> 00:05:36,755 Speaker 1: the Proud Boys, and excuse for martial law, something from 75 00:05:36,755 --> 00:05:40,315 Speaker 1: the crazy parts of the left. Your guests is as 76 00:05:40,395 --> 00:05:43,315 Speaker 1: good as mine. Maybe somebody just wants to see the 77 00:05:43,315 --> 00:05:47,275 Speaker 1: inside of power substations. Maybe somebody has a grudge against 78 00:05:47,315 --> 00:05:51,235 Speaker 1: power companies. Ludicrous as that sounds. For sixteen years, New 79 00:05:51,315 --> 00:05:53,635 Speaker 1: York City was terrorized by a man identified as the 80 00:05:53,635 --> 00:05:57,395 Speaker 1: Mad Bomber. His real name was George mattes Ki. He 81 00:05:57,555 --> 00:06:02,035 Speaker 1: hid thirty three bombs in Grand Central, in Radio City, 82 00:06:02,035 --> 00:06:05,155 Speaker 1: the public Library, thirty Rock, the subway. George Mattsky turned 83 00:06:05,155 --> 00:06:07,395 Speaker 1: out to be a former con Edison employee who was 84 00:06:07,435 --> 00:06:11,555 Speaker 1: injured in an accident there in the bombs he believed 85 00:06:12,115 --> 00:06:17,875 Speaker 1: were his revenge. So it could be that, But there 86 00:06:17,915 --> 00:06:19,875 Speaker 1: comes a point at which the motive is not the 87 00:06:19,915 --> 00:06:24,755 Speaker 1: primary concern. Just consider the confusion, the fear, and the 88 00:06:24,835 --> 00:06:30,675 Speaker 1: insecurity in More County, North Carolina, population one thousand. Just 89 00:06:30,795 --> 00:06:33,115 Speaker 1: remember the confusion, the fear of the insecurity in the 90 00:06:33,115 --> 00:06:36,715 Speaker 1: Northeast Blackout from two thousand three. Just consider a scenario 91 00:06:36,795 --> 00:06:41,635 Speaker 1: where your lights don't work. Your heat doesn't work, your 92 00:06:41,635 --> 00:06:45,235 Speaker 1: air conditioning doesn't work, your refrigerator doesn't work, your phone 93 00:06:45,275 --> 00:06:49,155 Speaker 1: doesn't work, your Internet doesn't work. And somebody has done 94 00:06:49,155 --> 00:06:53,715 Speaker 1: this deliberately. Because the defenses around the soft targets of 95 00:06:53,715 --> 00:06:58,675 Speaker 1: our electrical grid are a bunch of chain link fences. 96 00:06:59,355 --> 00:07:01,715 Speaker 1: You don't even have to cut through them, as More 97 00:07:01,755 --> 00:07:06,235 Speaker 1: County showed, you can just shoot through them. The Wall 98 00:07:06,275 --> 00:07:08,435 Speaker 1: Street Journal got hold of a study by the Federal 99 00:07:08,515 --> 00:07:12,235 Speaker 1: Energy Regulatory Commission. There are more than fifty five thousand 100 00:07:12,275 --> 00:07:16,035 Speaker 1: transmission substations in this country. Most of them are privately owned, 101 00:07:16,475 --> 00:07:20,235 Speaker 1: so forget some easy security fix. One hundred of the 102 00:07:20,275 --> 00:07:24,355 Speaker 1: fifty thousand are considered vital, but just nine of them 103 00:07:24,395 --> 00:07:27,995 Speaker 1: are so critical that attacks on just those just those 104 00:07:28,115 --> 00:07:33,035 Speaker 1: nine could plunge the nation into darkness. According to this study, 105 00:07:33,275 --> 00:07:38,155 Speaker 1: nine as opposed to the thirteen that have been attacked 106 00:07:39,155 --> 00:07:44,755 Speaker 1: since September. Why away the Federal Energy Regulatories Commission, warning 107 00:07:44,875 --> 00:07:47,155 Speaker 1: that the Wall Street Journal got ahold of It's from 108 00:07:47,195 --> 00:07:55,795 Speaker 1: March March of two thousand fourteen. And speaking of being 109 00:07:55,835 --> 00:07:59,475 Speaker 1: in the dark, there is Kirsten Cinema, The handwringing mystified 110 00:07:59,515 --> 00:08:03,395 Speaker 1: Confusion in Washington is in and of itself mystifying to me. 111 00:08:04,115 --> 00:08:08,435 Speaker 1: Her move to rebrand herself Friday is independent is not mysterious, 112 00:08:08,475 --> 00:08:11,355 Speaker 1: nor is it enigmatic. It is obviously not sincere it 113 00:08:11,515 --> 00:08:15,195 Speaker 1: is in fact her last option. She is Sheriff bart 114 00:08:15,275 --> 00:08:17,755 Speaker 1: In blazing saddles, let me out of here, or the 115 00:08:17,835 --> 00:08:21,395 Speaker 1: cinema gets it. She is the lamest lame duck ever 116 00:08:21,435 --> 00:08:24,595 Speaker 1: to hold a Senate or House seat. Liz Chenese numbers 117 00:08:24,595 --> 00:08:28,675 Speaker 1: were better. Kirsten's only remaining play is to threaten without 118 00:08:28,755 --> 00:08:31,715 Speaker 1: saying she is threatening that she will run as an 119 00:08:31,715 --> 00:08:37,075 Speaker 1: independent in four for the seat she currently holds. Mark 120 00:08:37,155 --> 00:08:40,235 Speaker 1: Kelly just beat blake Y. Yes, I was hypnotized at 121 00:08:40,235 --> 00:08:42,035 Speaker 1: the county fair and never snapped out of it. Why 122 00:08:42,035 --> 00:08:45,115 Speaker 1: do you ask? Masters? By a hundred and twenty six 123 00:08:45,155 --> 00:08:47,155 Speaker 1: thousand votes out of two and a half million votes 124 00:08:47,235 --> 00:08:51,395 Speaker 1: cast Kirsten Cinema running as a third party candidate getting 125 00:08:51,435 --> 00:08:55,875 Speaker 1: literally six percent of the vote in the Arizona Senate 126 00:08:55,875 --> 00:09:01,355 Speaker 1: election could throw it to the Republican. She is underwater 127 00:09:01,475 --> 00:09:05,995 Speaker 1: in terms of the polls. Her unfavorable exceed her favorables 128 00:09:05,995 --> 00:09:10,275 Speaker 1: by thirteen points among college educated voters. That is her 129 00:09:10,435 --> 00:09:15,675 Speaker 1: best net score. She's minus fourteen among men over fifty, 130 00:09:15,995 --> 00:09:19,995 Speaker 1: minus fifteen among whites over fifty, minus sixteen among all men, 131 00:09:20,395 --> 00:09:25,035 Speaker 1: and among all voters over fifty. Kirsten is minus seventeen 132 00:09:25,075 --> 00:09:29,475 Speaker 1: among women and all likely voters. She's minus eighteen among Republicans. 133 00:09:29,475 --> 00:09:33,875 Speaker 1: She's minus twenty among Democrats. She's minus twenty two among Hispanics. 134 00:09:34,035 --> 00:09:39,875 Speaker 1: It's amazing. It's like they all dated her. This is 135 00:09:39,915 --> 00:09:44,195 Speaker 1: why Friday she declared herself a quote independent. She might 136 00:09:44,235 --> 00:09:46,515 Speaker 1: not even bother to run for renomination by the Democrats. 137 00:09:47,595 --> 00:09:50,995 Speaker 1: She just has to convince Democratic leadership in Arizona and 138 00:09:51,115 --> 00:09:53,635 Speaker 1: Washington that she can get on the ballot through a 139 00:09:53,675 --> 00:09:56,875 Speaker 1: third party, and then she hopes they will fold to 140 00:09:56,955 --> 00:10:00,795 Speaker 1: her unspoken blackmail and keep other Democrats from challenging her. 141 00:10:01,035 --> 00:10:04,355 Speaker 1: I mean keep all the other Democrats in the world 142 00:10:04,435 --> 00:10:08,475 Speaker 1: from challenging her for that Senate nomination. If they do that, 143 00:10:08,995 --> 00:10:11,675 Speaker 1: and she can maintain her absolute conviction that she is 144 00:10:11,715 --> 00:10:14,595 Speaker 1: a super genius while the rest of us are idiots, 145 00:10:15,235 --> 00:10:18,395 Speaker 1: and by us, I mean all of humanity. I truly 146 00:10:18,435 --> 00:10:21,635 Speaker 1: believe that she believes she can con Arizona into re 147 00:10:21,835 --> 00:10:25,955 Speaker 1: electing her, even if they cleared the field for her. 148 00:10:25,995 --> 00:10:28,395 Speaker 1: It will not work, but it does allow for her 149 00:10:28,435 --> 00:10:32,315 Speaker 1: to TULSEI gabbered this thing. Identify as a Democrat for 150 00:10:32,355 --> 00:10:34,915 Speaker 1: a while, vote as a Republican, get a job at 151 00:10:34,955 --> 00:10:39,675 Speaker 1: Fox News as the in house pet, alleged liberal, and 152 00:10:39,715 --> 00:10:42,835 Speaker 1: if it's none of those, she may actually be suffering 153 00:10:42,915 --> 00:10:46,555 Speaker 1: under delusion. One of those you should get a ct 154 00:10:46,795 --> 00:10:50,235 Speaker 1: scanned delusions that she can run for president to some 155 00:10:50,355 --> 00:10:55,755 Speaker 1: sort of centrist in personally, given the choice between having 156 00:10:55,755 --> 00:10:58,275 Speaker 1: to work for Cinema for president twenty four and Kanye 157 00:10:58,355 --> 00:11:03,795 Speaker 1: for President twenty four, I think I m hm flee 158 00:11:03,835 --> 00:11:09,435 Speaker 1: the country. My question is why did she choose this path. 159 00:11:10,515 --> 00:11:13,835 Speaker 1: We dated briefly in eleven It was not a big deal. 160 00:11:14,315 --> 00:11:17,955 Speaker 1: It was always friendly. There was no break up. We 161 00:11:17,995 --> 00:11:21,075 Speaker 1: went to Book of Mormon twice. She was clear she 162 00:11:21,075 --> 00:11:23,795 Speaker 1: didn't have relationships, so there was no expectation from either 163 00:11:23,835 --> 00:11:27,275 Speaker 1: of us, no scenes, no anger. We talked a lot 164 00:11:27,875 --> 00:11:30,195 Speaker 1: before and after. I have seen her in eleven years, 165 00:11:30,195 --> 00:11:32,275 Speaker 1: but we stayed in touch right through her election to 166 00:11:32,315 --> 00:11:36,475 Speaker 1: the Senate and then she disappeared. And I couldn't calculate 167 00:11:36,515 --> 00:11:40,555 Speaker 1: the exact percentage, but she was thoroughly and in all 168 00:11:40,635 --> 00:11:47,835 Speaker 1: respects phenomenally more liberal than I am minus twenty among Democrats, 169 00:11:48,555 --> 00:11:52,435 Speaker 1: minus twenty among all voters without four years of college. 170 00:11:52,715 --> 00:11:54,555 Speaker 1: Do you know how difficult it is to put up 171 00:11:54,595 --> 00:11:57,755 Speaker 1: both of those numbers together. It's like being attacked for 172 00:11:57,795 --> 00:12:00,835 Speaker 1: an hour by me and then being attacked for an 173 00:12:00,835 --> 00:12:05,195 Speaker 1: hour by Tucker Carlson. The popular theory is that when 174 00:12:05,235 --> 00:12:08,275 Speaker 1: exposed to the money available to her from the corporations, 175 00:12:08,515 --> 00:12:12,395 Speaker 1: especially the hedge funds, her liberality, her bond to people 176 00:12:12,435 --> 00:12:17,195 Speaker 1: like herself raised on the brink of financial disaster, melted away. 177 00:12:17,235 --> 00:12:21,115 Speaker 1: That she suddenly discovered that being a warrior for the underprivileged, 178 00:12:21,315 --> 00:12:24,235 Speaker 1: being a member of and the champion for half a 179 00:12:24,355 --> 00:12:28,595 Speaker 1: dozen minority groups was great, but that money was better. 180 00:12:31,555 --> 00:12:34,995 Speaker 1: The communications director on her two thousand eighteen Senate campaign 181 00:12:35,115 --> 00:12:38,315 Speaker 1: spared nothing Friday, quote, Cinema is showing us who she's 182 00:12:38,355 --> 00:12:42,595 Speaker 1: been all along out for herself. One of her rivals 183 00:12:42,595 --> 00:12:46,235 Speaker 1: in her race for Congress, her one time friend, David Shapira, 184 00:12:46,715 --> 00:12:50,235 Speaker 1: says she has always been like this. They made a 185 00:12:50,315 --> 00:12:53,155 Speaker 1: joint public promise to run a clean campaign in two 186 00:12:53,155 --> 00:12:56,915 Speaker 1: thousand twelve, and she promptly lied and put out ads 187 00:12:57,195 --> 00:13:00,075 Speaker 1: in which she said he had supported McCain over Obama, 188 00:13:00,115 --> 00:13:02,835 Speaker 1: he had supported Obama over McCain, and that he favored 189 00:13:02,875 --> 00:13:06,675 Speaker 1: private school abouchers. He was, in fact wildly against private 190 00:13:06,675 --> 00:13:11,155 Speaker 1: school vouchers. Shapirah writes, quote, she later apologized and told 191 00:13:11,195 --> 00:13:13,675 Speaker 1: me she had to do it or she would have lost, 192 00:13:14,395 --> 00:13:19,155 Speaker 1: as if that made it okay unquote. I can see 193 00:13:19,195 --> 00:13:24,595 Speaker 1: that even twelve years ago, she was messianic. But she's 194 00:13:24,635 --> 00:13:28,915 Speaker 1: also messy. If I and my experiences are any indicator, 195 00:13:29,355 --> 00:13:32,875 Speaker 1: Kirsten Cinema is remarkably free with the let's call them 196 00:13:32,915 --> 00:13:36,875 Speaker 1: atypical details of her personal life. And as I've seen 197 00:13:36,915 --> 00:13:39,475 Speaker 1: her turn into a red dog Democrat these last four years, 198 00:13:39,475 --> 00:13:42,755 Speaker 1: at best, a red dog democrat, I find myself thinking 199 00:13:42,955 --> 00:13:45,315 Speaker 1: and thinking each time as if it has just occurred 200 00:13:45,315 --> 00:13:48,395 Speaker 1: to me for the first time. I wonder if somebody 201 00:13:48,435 --> 00:13:53,715 Speaker 1: is blackmailing her Now. I do not underrate what money 202 00:13:53,755 --> 00:13:57,195 Speaker 1: can do. I have seen better people in every industry 203 00:13:57,235 --> 00:14:01,595 Speaker 1: in this country, better people than Kirsten Cinema corrupted by money. 204 00:14:01,955 --> 00:14:05,395 Speaker 1: But what if it's both? I mean, Tobe, it's neither. 205 00:14:05,475 --> 00:14:09,275 Speaker 1: Maybe she's just a schmuck. But her political instincts were 206 00:14:09,275 --> 00:14:12,915 Speaker 1: once so solid and practical that to have collapsed in 207 00:14:12,955 --> 00:14:18,355 Speaker 1: this way makes her the John Edwards of her time 208 00:14:32,355 --> 00:14:35,875 Speaker 1: still ahead, Trump confesses he deliberately left the former marine 209 00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:39,115 Speaker 1: Paul Wheeling in a Russian jail, even though he was 210 00:14:39,195 --> 00:14:42,315 Speaker 1: offered a straight up prisoner swap for him, And that 211 00:14:42,515 --> 00:14:47,355 Speaker 1: is some confession even for Trump. Marjorie Trader Green boasts 212 00:14:47,395 --> 00:14:49,355 Speaker 1: the next time they try a coup, they will bring 213 00:14:49,355 --> 00:14:54,675 Speaker 1: more guns. Quillan is in full flower. Elon Musk threatens 214 00:14:54,715 --> 00:14:58,315 Speaker 1: Anthony Faucci. When is the Senate hearing into how he's 215 00:14:58,355 --> 00:15:01,315 Speaker 1: jeopardized the lives of former Twitter employees say nothing of 216 00:15:01,395 --> 00:15:05,955 Speaker 1: Dr Fauci by promulgating Pizza Gate. Chuck Todd finally makes 217 00:15:05,955 --> 00:15:08,355 Speaker 1: it into worse persons. And it was one of the 218 00:15:08,355 --> 00:15:11,675 Speaker 1: great privileges of my career, covering the miracle on ice, 219 00:15:12,035 --> 00:15:14,795 Speaker 1: the hockey game against the Soviets at the nineteen Olympics, 220 00:15:14,795 --> 00:15:18,555 Speaker 1: and Lake Plastics. Of course, a week before that, I 221 00:15:18,635 --> 00:15:21,555 Speaker 1: found myself stranded at atop a mountain in La Plasid 222 00:15:21,635 --> 00:15:24,475 Speaker 1: about to be fired because the only other radio reporter 223 00:15:24,555 --> 00:15:27,595 Speaker 1: up there would not help me out things I promised 224 00:15:27,595 --> 00:15:34,675 Speaker 1: not to tell coming up. That's next, This discountdown. This 225 00:15:34,875 --> 00:15:42,355 Speaker 1: is countdown. With Keith Alberman still ahead, did we just 226 00:15:42,595 --> 00:15:46,835 Speaker 1: finally make in roads towards making nuclear fusion of practical 227 00:15:46,875 --> 00:15:50,115 Speaker 1: source of energy is gonna be announced tomorrow? 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He needs training 238 00:16:24,435 --> 00:16:27,595 Speaker 1: and socialization, and he needs our pledges to help defray 239 00:16:27,675 --> 00:16:30,915 Speaker 1: the costs a rescue will incur by saving him from 240 00:16:30,915 --> 00:16:33,955 Speaker 1: that kill list tomorrow. You can find Benji on my 241 00:16:33,995 --> 00:16:39,035 Speaker 1: Twitter feeds. Please retweet him and pledge if you can. Hi, 242 00:16:39,155 --> 00:17:01,075 Speaker 1: thank you, and Benji, thanks you. Post Scripts to the 243 00:17:01,075 --> 00:17:03,915 Speaker 1: news and there's a lot of it. Some headlines, some updates, 244 00:17:03,955 --> 00:17:06,795 Speaker 1: some snarks, some prediction, state line, Mari Lago. Quite a 245 00:17:06,835 --> 00:17:10,835 Speaker 1: confession last night from Trump, quoting his social media post, 246 00:17:10,995 --> 00:17:13,995 Speaker 1: I turned down a deal with Russia for a one 247 00:17:14,155 --> 00:17:17,115 Speaker 1: on one swap of the so called merchant of death 248 00:17:17,355 --> 00:17:21,595 Speaker 1: for Paul Wheeland end quote. Trump brother remarkably admitting he 249 00:17:21,715 --> 00:17:24,395 Speaker 1: let the former marine wrought in a Russian prison for 250 00:17:24,435 --> 00:17:27,475 Speaker 1: two years because the trade terms were more important to 251 00:17:27,515 --> 00:17:30,835 Speaker 1: him than the American citizen in question. Quote. I wouldn't 252 00:17:30,875 --> 00:17:33,115 Speaker 1: have made the deal for a hundred people in exchange 253 00:17:33,115 --> 00:17:35,875 Speaker 1: for someone that has killed untold numbers of people with 254 00:17:35,995 --> 00:17:39,275 Speaker 1: his arms. Deals. Trump neglects to note that Victor Boot 255 00:17:39,315 --> 00:17:42,395 Speaker 1: the so called merchant of death, his sentence ends in 256 00:17:42,515 --> 00:17:45,675 Speaker 1: six years and he will be released anyway. Quote. I 257 00:17:45,715 --> 00:17:48,275 Speaker 1: would have gotten Paul out, however, just as I did 258 00:17:48,275 --> 00:17:51,155 Speaker 1: with a record number of other hostages unquote, even though, 259 00:17:51,155 --> 00:17:54,715 Speaker 1: of course he didn't get Paul Wheeling out last quote. 260 00:17:54,715 --> 00:17:57,475 Speaker 1: The deal for Griner is crazy and bad. The taking 261 00:17:57,515 --> 00:18:00,715 Speaker 1: wouldn't have ever happened during my administration, but if it did, 262 00:18:00,755 --> 00:18:03,475 Speaker 1: I would have gotten her out fast unquote, even though 263 00:18:03,515 --> 00:18:07,195 Speaker 1: he didn't get Paul wheel And out at all. Dateline 264 00:18:07,235 --> 00:18:11,315 Speaker 1: the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, the financial Times 265 00:18:11,315 --> 00:18:15,475 Speaker 1: reports that the quote major scientific breakthrough to be announced 266 00:18:15,515 --> 00:18:18,435 Speaker 1: tomorrow by the Department of Energy is nothing less than 267 00:18:18,475 --> 00:18:24,355 Speaker 1: a successful experiment in harnessing nuclear fusion, quoting a process 268 00:18:24,435 --> 00:18:29,315 Speaker 1: called inertial confinement fusion that involves bombarding a tiny pellet 269 00:18:29,355 --> 00:18:33,275 Speaker 1: of hydrogen plasma with the world's biggest laser had achieved 270 00:18:33,515 --> 00:18:37,115 Speaker 1: net energy gain in a fusion experiment in the past 271 00:18:37,155 --> 00:18:40,955 Speaker 1: two weeks. If this is true, it could change everything 272 00:18:41,035 --> 00:18:43,315 Speaker 1: from the future of energy production to the chance we 273 00:18:43,355 --> 00:18:46,195 Speaker 1: still have to save this planet from climate change. The 274 00:18:46,235 --> 00:18:49,395 Speaker 1: real test as to whether or not nuclear fusion as 275 00:18:49,395 --> 00:18:53,275 Speaker 1: opposed to nuclear fission i e. Doctor Strange Love is 276 00:18:53,315 --> 00:18:56,475 Speaker 1: how quickly the fossil fuel industry will start rumors that 277 00:18:56,595 --> 00:19:02,155 Speaker 1: nuclear fusion kills birds and spreads COVID dateline San Francisco, 278 00:19:02,195 --> 00:19:05,475 Speaker 1: speaking of which que Elon is in fulller. No word 279 00:19:05,555 --> 00:19:08,955 Speaker 1: yet whether Dr Anthony Fauci will sue Elon Musk after 280 00:19:09,035 --> 00:19:12,475 Speaker 1: Musk last night stated as if fact that Fauci quote 281 00:19:12,515 --> 00:19:16,395 Speaker 1: lied to Congress unquote and funded research that quote killed 282 00:19:16,475 --> 00:19:19,955 Speaker 1: millions of people. Earlier, Musk had tweeted that his pronouns 283 00:19:19,955 --> 00:19:24,035 Speaker 1: were quote prosecute slash Fauci. What is needed now is 284 00:19:24,075 --> 00:19:27,595 Speaker 1: Senate hearings into Elon Musk and who or what might 285 00:19:27,635 --> 00:19:31,195 Speaker 1: be behind his transformation of Twitter into one long pizza 286 00:19:31,195 --> 00:19:36,115 Speaker 1: gate tweet For context, On March, Musk tweeted quote the 287 00:19:36,155 --> 00:19:41,955 Speaker 1: coronavirus is dumb, and on March Musk tweeted probably close 288 00:19:42,035 --> 00:19:45,435 Speaker 1: to zero cases in US two by end of April, 289 00:19:46,075 --> 00:19:48,995 Speaker 1: also looking idiotic today The New York Times, which on 290 00:19:48,995 --> 00:19:52,795 Speaker 1: Saturday reported that it was difficult to tell what Musk's 291 00:19:52,875 --> 00:19:56,315 Speaker 1: politics really were, and based on how quickly that bit 292 00:19:56,355 --> 00:20:08,515 Speaker 1: of sophistry was disproved, the time should probably fold today. 293 00:20:12,475 --> 00:20:18,195 Speaker 1: Thank you, Nancy Faust at Dateline, New York, and speaking 294 00:20:18,235 --> 00:20:21,555 Speaker 1: of Mickey Mouse, Marjorie Trader Green addressed a Young Republicans 295 00:20:21,595 --> 00:20:25,115 Speaker 1: dinner or cell meeting or whatever Saturday and endorsed the 296 00:20:25,195 --> 00:20:28,515 Speaker 1: January six coup attempt and then explained how the mob 297 00:20:28,635 --> 00:20:32,155 Speaker 1: sent by Trump could have successfully prevented the certification of 298 00:20:32,235 --> 00:20:36,875 Speaker 1: President Biden's election and overthrown the government and installed Trump 299 00:20:37,035 --> 00:20:40,835 Speaker 1: as dictator. Where it happens the next thing, you know, 300 00:20:40,995 --> 00:20:46,435 Speaker 1: I organized the whole thing along with step here, and 301 00:20:46,515 --> 00:20:50,195 Speaker 1: I don't and I had organized that we would have 302 00:20:50,195 --> 00:21:05,315 Speaker 1: won Chro Magnu woman speaks the last lie in their hands. 303 00:21:05,315 --> 00:21:09,115 Speaker 1: At where Taylor Green went next, repeating the lie that 304 00:21:09,195 --> 00:21:12,355 Speaker 1: there were no guns at the Capitol or on the 305 00:21:12,395 --> 00:21:32,715 Speaker 1: Capitol grounds during the coup attempt. You'll notice no laughs 306 00:21:32,835 --> 00:21:36,635 Speaker 1: or applause. They're just shock, I guess because Green inadvertently 307 00:21:36,755 --> 00:21:39,755 Speaker 1: proved that it was the Second Amendment people who did 308 00:21:39,795 --> 00:21:43,155 Speaker 1: in fact carry out the attempted coup. On January six, 309 00:21:43,675 --> 00:21:46,635 Speaker 1: there were at least seven arrests for gun possession at 310 00:21:46,635 --> 00:21:49,875 Speaker 1: the Capitol that day. Mark Masa is going to jail 311 00:21:49,955 --> 00:21:52,955 Speaker 1: for five years for having brought two handguns hand guns 312 00:21:53,035 --> 00:21:56,595 Speaker 1: rather in Lonnie Kaufman got four years for one gun. 313 00:21:56,955 --> 00:21:59,235 Speaker 1: Guy refit convicted of having one on the grounds, And 314 00:21:59,275 --> 00:22:01,875 Speaker 1: of course the oath keepers had a stash of literally 315 00:22:01,955 --> 00:22:05,035 Speaker 1: dozens of long guns waiting at a Virginia who tell 316 00:22:05,635 --> 00:22:08,555 Speaker 1: On the other hand, Green says, it's so called twitter 317 00:22:08,635 --> 00:22:11,875 Speaker 1: files are quote evidence of a coup, a comment that 318 00:22:12,115 --> 00:22:15,715 Speaker 1: is in itself evidence of a moron. And in her 319 00:22:15,755 --> 00:22:19,555 Speaker 1: New York speech she complained about transgenderism and how quote 320 00:22:20,395 --> 00:22:23,035 Speaker 1: you can pick up a butt plug or a dildo 321 00:22:23,315 --> 00:22:27,435 Speaker 1: at target nowadays unquote, and you have to admit that 322 00:22:27,555 --> 00:22:30,595 Speaker 1: at least it's nice she has finally turned to talking 323 00:22:30,635 --> 00:22:49,875 Speaker 1: about her areas of expertise. This is Sports Center. Wait 324 00:22:50,075 --> 00:22:57,675 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Alberman, 325 00:22:58,355 --> 00:23:04,555 Speaker 1: Nuclear fusion and butt plugs in the same podcast. In Sport. 326 00:23:05,155 --> 00:23:08,275 Speaker 1: After the shocking death of America's top soccer journalist Grant 327 00:23:08,275 --> 00:23:12,155 Speaker 1: Wall on Friday, another journalist has died at the World Cup. 328 00:23:12,395 --> 00:23:16,875 Speaker 1: Qatari photographer Khalid al miss Lam collapsed yesterday and died 329 00:23:16,955 --> 00:23:18,875 Speaker 1: at the age of forty eight. There is as yet 330 00:23:18,955 --> 00:23:21,675 Speaker 1: nothing further on what caused it, and nothing further on 331 00:23:21,755 --> 00:23:25,035 Speaker 1: Grant walls death, though his brother Eric tells the Kansas 332 00:23:25,035 --> 00:23:27,995 Speaker 1: City Star quote there's enough that I know in my 333 00:23:28,115 --> 00:23:32,115 Speaker 1: conversations with Grant to make me legitimately suspicious if nothing else, 334 00:23:32,395 --> 00:23:36,075 Speaker 1: That's why we want transparency. Those remarks were made on Sunday. 335 00:23:36,235 --> 00:23:39,835 Speaker 1: Eric Wall says he has been assured his brother's autopsy 336 00:23:39,915 --> 00:23:43,595 Speaker 1: will be conducted in the US. In happier sports news, 337 00:23:43,595 --> 00:23:46,355 Speaker 1: Brittany Grinder is still being assessed at Fort sam Houston 338 00:23:46,355 --> 00:23:49,355 Speaker 1: and San Antonio, but her agents telling ESPN that she 339 00:23:49,475 --> 00:23:52,235 Speaker 1: picked up a basketball yesterday for the first time in 340 00:23:52,315 --> 00:23:56,435 Speaker 1: ten months, and she started her light workout with a dunk. 341 00:23:57,315 --> 00:24:00,875 Speaker 1: Basketball is mourning a great loss to Paul Silas has died, 342 00:24:00,915 --> 00:24:03,875 Speaker 1: another product of mcclemens High School in Oakland, a sports 343 00:24:03,875 --> 00:24:07,395 Speaker 1: factory for narrations, a member of the NBA champions Celtics 344 00:24:07,395 --> 00:24:10,075 Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy four and seventy six and the Seattle 345 00:24:10,155 --> 00:24:13,475 Speaker 1: Sonics of nineteen seventy nine, sixteen years as an NBA 346 00:24:13,555 --> 00:24:16,315 Speaker 1: player and eleven as a head coach, and a big 347 00:24:16,355 --> 00:24:20,795 Speaker 1: anniversary in baseball. Over the weekend fifty one years ago Saturday, 348 00:24:20,835 --> 00:24:23,155 Speaker 1: the New York Mets gave up on a promising picture, 349 00:24:23,235 --> 00:24:26,275 Speaker 1: easily the hardest thrower in the game, but one who's 350 00:24:26,355 --> 00:24:30,475 Speaker 1: inconsistency had be doubled the Mets for six seasons. They 351 00:24:30,555 --> 00:24:35,115 Speaker 1: sent Noelan Ryan to the California Angels with three prospects 352 00:24:35,115 --> 00:24:38,355 Speaker 1: for shortstop Jim for Goosie, whom they envisioned as the 353 00:24:38,355 --> 00:24:40,275 Speaker 1: man who would end their ten years search for a 354 00:24:40,315 --> 00:24:43,275 Speaker 1: star third baseman. It was not a good trade. It 355 00:24:43,355 --> 00:24:45,995 Speaker 1: did not work out, but it has been enshrined as 356 00:24:46,035 --> 00:24:48,715 Speaker 1: one of the worst trades in sports history. And this 357 00:24:48,835 --> 00:24:52,795 Speaker 1: is terrifically unfair to everybody involved. In the first half 358 00:24:52,875 --> 00:24:55,595 Speaker 1: of the season before the deal in nineteen seventy one, 359 00:24:55,955 --> 00:24:58,955 Speaker 1: Nolan Ryan struck out one hundred men in his first 360 00:24:59,035 --> 00:25:02,555 Speaker 1: one four innings that year. His earned run average at 361 00:25:02,595 --> 00:25:05,315 Speaker 1: mid season was two point two four and his whip 362 00:25:05,515 --> 00:25:08,435 Speaker 1: was one point to nine. In the second half of 363 00:25:08,475 --> 00:25:10,635 Speaker 1: the same year, he pitched only forty eight innings, walked 364 00:25:10,675 --> 00:25:13,595 Speaker 1: fifty three men, struck out just thirty seven. His e 365 00:25:13,795 --> 00:25:15,915 Speaker 1: r A went up five and a half runs to 366 00:25:16,075 --> 00:25:19,235 Speaker 1: seven point seven four, and his whip went up an 367 00:25:19,355 --> 00:25:22,315 Speaker 1: entire base runner to two point to two. And that 368 00:25:22,395 --> 00:25:25,475 Speaker 1: was the second straight year that Ryan, despite a light workload, 369 00:25:25,755 --> 00:25:29,315 Speaker 1: had imploded at mid season. There were also all sorts 370 00:25:29,315 --> 00:25:31,875 Speaker 1: of rumors that Nolan Ryan did not want to play 371 00:25:31,955 --> 00:25:35,115 Speaker 1: in New York anymore, that his family hated the place. 372 00:25:35,675 --> 00:25:38,275 Speaker 1: The Mets might have had the best pitching coach in baseball, 373 00:25:38,315 --> 00:25:40,675 Speaker 1: he had nurtured and refined the likes of Tom Sieber 374 00:25:40,715 --> 00:25:43,275 Speaker 1: and Jerry Kuzman and others, and he could never get 375 00:25:43,275 --> 00:25:45,835 Speaker 1: through to Nolan Ryan. And as to the players, the 376 00:25:45,875 --> 00:25:49,595 Speaker 1: Mets got Jim for Gosie was only four years and 377 00:25:49,635 --> 00:25:52,875 Speaker 1: ten months older than Nolan Ryan. So much for the 378 00:25:52,915 --> 00:25:56,555 Speaker 1: cliche that they traded Nolan Ryan for some old guy 379 00:25:56,675 --> 00:25:59,435 Speaker 1: for Goosie had had an off year in nineteen seventy one, 380 00:25:59,755 --> 00:26:02,555 Speaker 1: but in the eight seasons ending in nineteen seventy, Jim 381 00:26:02,595 --> 00:26:06,355 Speaker 1: for Gosie had gotten votes each year in every election 382 00:26:06,835 --> 00:26:10,235 Speaker 1: for the most Valuable player in the American League. Modern 383 00:26:10,315 --> 00:26:13,795 Speaker 1: calculations showed that twice, including in nineteen seventy, for Goosie 384 00:26:13,835 --> 00:26:16,635 Speaker 1: had the second highest wins above replacement total in the 385 00:26:16,755 --> 00:26:20,035 Speaker 1: entire American League. He had made six All Star teams 386 00:26:20,115 --> 00:26:23,675 Speaker 1: in seven years, four winters earlier. Future Hall of Fame 387 00:26:23,715 --> 00:26:27,515 Speaker 1: Angels beat writer Ross Newhan reported that the Giants so 388 00:26:27,715 --> 00:26:30,435 Speaker 1: coveted Jim for Gosi that they offered to give the 389 00:26:30,475 --> 00:26:34,395 Speaker 1: Angels future Hall of Fame picture Juan Marichal, slugger Jim 390 00:26:34,475 --> 00:26:38,195 Speaker 1: ray Heart and infielder Tito Fuentes just for for Goosie, 391 00:26:38,635 --> 00:26:41,795 Speaker 1: and the Angels turned them down. At one point, the 392 00:26:41,835 --> 00:26:46,075 Speaker 1: Angels contemplated asking Jim for Gosi to become player manager 393 00:26:46,155 --> 00:26:48,515 Speaker 1: of the team, and they actually kind of did that 394 00:26:48,875 --> 00:26:51,395 Speaker 1: in night, when he was finishing up as an active 395 00:26:51,395 --> 00:26:54,555 Speaker 1: player for Pittsburgh, the Angels traded for him and made 396 00:26:54,635 --> 00:26:57,835 Speaker 1: him their manager, and they then led them and Nolan 397 00:26:57,955 --> 00:27:01,075 Speaker 1: Ryan his picture to the American League Championship Series the 398 00:27:01,115 --> 00:27:04,035 Speaker 1: next year. Was it a good trade? No, it was 399 00:27:04,155 --> 00:27:07,115 Speaker 1: not a good trade. But very few people would have 400 00:27:07,155 --> 00:27:10,555 Speaker 1: told you that fifty one years ago today. Ultimately the 401 00:27:10,595 --> 00:27:13,675 Speaker 1: Mets needed to trade Nolan Ryan. They could not have 402 00:27:13,795 --> 00:27:16,315 Speaker 1: forecast that in his first spring training in New York, 403 00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:19,235 Speaker 1: Jim for Gosie would hurt his thumb and never be 404 00:27:19,315 --> 00:27:22,035 Speaker 1: able to hit with power again. For Goosie was a 405 00:27:22,035 --> 00:27:25,795 Speaker 1: great player, and nobody, nobody knew that he had hit 406 00:27:25,915 --> 00:27:28,075 Speaker 1: the end of the road before that trade was made. 407 00:27:28,475 --> 00:27:30,835 Speaker 1: He should be remembered for more than just that trade, 408 00:27:31,075 --> 00:27:33,555 Speaker 1: and it should probably also be remembered that Nolan Ryan 409 00:27:33,635 --> 00:27:36,795 Speaker 1: pitched for twenty two years after the trade and not 410 00:27:36,995 --> 00:27:42,715 Speaker 1: once did his team win a single postseason series. For Gosie, 411 00:27:43,195 --> 00:27:54,875 Speaker 1: he managed the Philadelphia Phillies into the World Series ahead. 412 00:27:54,955 --> 00:27:57,475 Speaker 1: You know that phrase, I have been to the top 413 00:27:57,515 --> 00:28:01,475 Speaker 1: of the mountain. Well, I have, and I can tell 414 00:28:01,475 --> 00:28:03,675 Speaker 1: you the view is not always that good. For it 415 00:28:03,715 --> 00:28:05,435 Speaker 1: was at the top of the mount that I discovered 416 00:28:05,435 --> 00:28:07,275 Speaker 1: I didn't have all the equipment I needed to do 417 00:28:07,355 --> 00:28:11,435 Speaker 1: my job, and the only other radio reporter on top 418 00:28:11,475 --> 00:28:15,755 Speaker 1: of the mountain refused to help me. Things I promised 419 00:28:15,795 --> 00:28:19,315 Speaker 1: not to tell about the ninety Olympics. Next, first, the 420 00:28:19,355 --> 00:28:22,115 Speaker 1: daily roundup of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Krueger effect 421 00:28:22,115 --> 00:28:28,115 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute two day's worst persons in the WARLD Bronze. 422 00:28:28,515 --> 00:28:31,595 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd, who at this rate will be the twelve 423 00:28:31,755 --> 00:28:35,715 Speaker 1: and final moderator of NBC's Meet the Press, discussing the 424 00:28:35,715 --> 00:28:39,355 Speaker 1: possibility of criminal referrals by the January sixth Committee with 425 00:28:39,515 --> 00:28:44,155 Speaker 1: ex prosecutor pre Perrara, Chuck asked, but doesn't it add 426 00:28:44,235 --> 00:28:49,395 Speaker 1: negatively to the political stew Just when you thought Chuck 427 00:28:49,435 --> 00:28:51,995 Speaker 1: had run out of euphemisms for I have to say 428 00:28:52,035 --> 00:28:54,675 Speaker 1: something to let the Republicans off some hooks somewhere, or 429 00:28:54,675 --> 00:28:58,315 Speaker 1: they'll get me fired tomorrow morning. I've known Chuck Todd 430 00:28:58,395 --> 00:29:02,315 Speaker 1: eighteen years now, and he will never understand that. He 431 00:29:02,355 --> 00:29:07,715 Speaker 1: will never understand that the political stu is merely the 432 00:29:07,755 --> 00:29:10,675 Speaker 1: package that America comes in. It is not the contents 433 00:29:11,755 --> 00:29:15,835 Speaker 1: the runner up, Kyle Rittenhouse. Kyle Rittenhouse has tweeted, quote, 434 00:29:16,275 --> 00:29:22,875 Speaker 1: people need to start being held accountable. Unquote Wow, I 435 00:29:22,875 --> 00:29:26,875 Speaker 1: don't know, Sonny. People need to start being held accountable. 436 00:29:27,675 --> 00:29:31,475 Speaker 1: You better hope not. But our winner Supreme Court Justice 437 00:29:31,515 --> 00:29:34,955 Speaker 1: Brett Kavanaugh, Politico and it's the only roundup of awards 438 00:29:34,995 --> 00:29:39,195 Speaker 1: season for ugly people listed some of those quote spotted 439 00:29:39,675 --> 00:29:42,955 Speaker 1: at the annual Christmas party of the Czar and Czarina 440 00:29:43,035 --> 00:29:49,355 Speaker 1: of Spack. Matt and Mercedes Schlepp. I'm sorry, slap schlap 441 00:29:49,395 --> 00:29:54,315 Speaker 1: Actually sounds better, doesn't it, Matt and Mercedes Schlepp. Matt 442 00:29:54,315 --> 00:30:00,955 Speaker 1: and Mercedes slap quote Matt Gates, Greta van Sustern, Eric Prince, 443 00:30:01,235 --> 00:30:05,875 Speaker 1: that's the mercenary, Eric Prince, Eric Prince, Sebastian Gorka, Sean, 444 00:30:06,475 --> 00:30:09,875 Speaker 1: I don't know what day it is, Spicer and Justice 445 00:30:09,995 --> 00:30:13,835 Speaker 1: Brett Kavanaugh. Before you ask, what on earth is a 446 00:30:13,915 --> 00:30:16,715 Speaker 1: Supreme Court justice doing at a party for the scummiest 447 00:30:16,755 --> 00:30:20,115 Speaker 1: fascists in town, you already know the answer to that question. 448 00:30:20,315 --> 00:30:24,435 Speaker 1: What is he doing at that party? Well, he's serving canopies, 449 00:30:25,675 --> 00:30:29,235 Speaker 1: Justice Brett. Would you like a cockdail napkin with that? Ms? 450 00:30:29,275 --> 00:30:37,075 Speaker 1: Van Soustern Kavanaugh Today's worst person? Oh, have this drink too? 451 00:30:37,235 --> 00:30:51,715 Speaker 1: In the way to the number one story on the 452 00:30:51,715 --> 00:30:54,995 Speaker 1: Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things I promised 453 00:30:54,995 --> 00:30:57,915 Speaker 1: not to tell and I swear I saw a snowflake 454 00:30:58,075 --> 00:31:00,795 Speaker 1: or too late Saturday night here, the first of the year, 455 00:31:01,515 --> 00:31:05,315 Speaker 1: and that makes it forty two consecutive winners. That at first, 456 00:31:05,475 --> 00:31:09,275 Speaker 1: snow has triggered me in exactly the same way, sending 457 00:31:09,315 --> 00:31:12,875 Speaker 1: me back in my mind to the nineteen eighty Winter 458 00:31:13,115 --> 00:31:18,435 Speaker 1: Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. The alarm goes off. 459 00:31:19,155 --> 00:31:21,795 Speaker 1: It is pitch black in my room at the Swiss 460 00:31:21,915 --> 00:31:29,075 Speaker 1: Acres Motel. It is Valentine's Day, and I am still drunk. 461 00:31:30,995 --> 00:31:34,675 Speaker 1: Keith knew he was in trouble, but I was also 462 00:31:34,715 --> 00:31:36,795 Speaker 1: twenty one years old, and in fact, my twenty one 463 00:31:36,915 --> 00:31:43,435 Speaker 1: birthday had only been eighteen days earlier. So somehow I survived, showered, dressed, packed, 464 00:31:43,435 --> 00:31:46,475 Speaker 1: and I mean I packed two cassette tape recorders, four 465 00:31:46,515 --> 00:31:49,715 Speaker 1: sets of batteries, an audio processing machine that weighed like 466 00:31:49,835 --> 00:31:53,395 Speaker 1: fourteen pounds. The nine volt batteries it took, I think 467 00:31:53,395 --> 00:31:56,635 Speaker 1: it was a dozen of them, a telephone, a backup telephone, 468 00:31:56,755 --> 00:32:01,315 Speaker 1: twelve assorted patch chords to loose leaf notebooks, about eight pens, 469 00:32:01,395 --> 00:32:05,395 Speaker 1: two microphones, to extra pair of socks, and I got dressed, 470 00:32:05,515 --> 00:32:10,235 Speaker 1: two full sets of thermal underwear, shirts, sweaters, snow pants, 471 00:32:10,355 --> 00:32:14,835 Speaker 1: snow shoes because it was eleven degrees below zero that morning. 472 00:32:15,955 --> 00:32:18,435 Speaker 1: I got something quick to eat at the commissary, and 473 00:32:18,475 --> 00:32:21,355 Speaker 1: I made it out somehow to the line for the 474 00:32:21,395 --> 00:32:24,835 Speaker 1: bus from the Lake Placid Olympics Center to the Lake 475 00:32:24,955 --> 00:32:28,995 Speaker 1: Placid Transportation Center to Lake Placid's own White Face Mountain, 476 00:32:29,315 --> 00:32:33,435 Speaker 1: then onto the snow track the open penned mountain tractor 477 00:32:33,515 --> 00:32:35,755 Speaker 1: that went up the side of White Face Mountain and 478 00:32:35,795 --> 00:32:39,115 Speaker 1: took me to the finish line of the nineteen Olympic 479 00:32:39,235 --> 00:32:45,075 Speaker 1: Men's downhill ski final still drunk. That is how a 480 00:32:45,115 --> 00:32:49,075 Speaker 1: reporter covered the Olympics nearly forty three years ago. You drank, 481 00:32:49,595 --> 00:32:53,235 Speaker 1: you woke up, you went, You stood near the finish line, 482 00:32:53,235 --> 00:32:56,355 Speaker 1: and when the skiers completed their runs, you hiked or 483 00:32:56,515 --> 00:32:59,315 Speaker 1: wobbled over to them, and you took out your microphone 484 00:32:59,355 --> 00:33:02,475 Speaker 1: or your pen and you interviewed them, like two minutes 485 00:33:02,515 --> 00:33:05,395 Speaker 1: after they had finished hurtling towards you down the hill. 486 00:33:06,595 --> 00:33:08,915 Speaker 1: You could see almost nothing of the race from there. 487 00:33:09,355 --> 00:33:12,795 Speaker 1: There were no TV monitors. Basically, your only clue was 488 00:33:12,835 --> 00:33:14,915 Speaker 1: the sound of the crowd. That would give you about 489 00:33:14,915 --> 00:33:17,875 Speaker 1: thirty seconds worth of warning that the skier was coming 490 00:33:17,875 --> 00:33:20,555 Speaker 1: over the near horizon, and you should be prepared to 491 00:33:20,755 --> 00:33:25,955 Speaker 1: flee just in case he or she wiped out. Also, 492 00:33:26,875 --> 00:33:29,755 Speaker 1: you were on top of a mountain at the dead 493 00:33:29,875 --> 00:33:32,515 Speaker 1: point of winter, and whereas it might have been a 494 00:33:32,675 --> 00:33:35,875 Speaker 1: balmy eleven degrees below zero in the comfort of the 495 00:33:35,955 --> 00:33:39,795 Speaker 1: Swiss Acres Motel with the wind chill at the base 496 00:33:39,835 --> 00:33:43,395 Speaker 1: of the mountain, it was forty eight below zero and 497 00:33:43,435 --> 00:33:46,315 Speaker 1: there had already been four inches of new snow since 498 00:33:46,395 --> 00:33:50,755 Speaker 1: the sun came up, which is where the still drunk 499 00:33:50,795 --> 00:33:54,515 Speaker 1: part came in Handy my boss is at my first job, 500 00:33:54,595 --> 00:33:57,995 Speaker 1: the thousand station radio network called United President National Audio, 501 00:33:58,315 --> 00:34:00,835 Speaker 1: had decided the night before to teach me how to 502 00:34:01,075 --> 00:34:05,595 Speaker 1: drink while on assignment. My bosses were the bureau manager 503 00:34:05,635 --> 00:34:07,915 Speaker 1: for that part of u p I, the late Stan Sebek, 504 00:34:07,915 --> 00:34:11,075 Speaker 1: who had hired me, and Sam Rosen, the sports director 505 00:34:11,075 --> 00:34:14,355 Speaker 1: of the network, who not only somehow survived being my 506 00:34:14,435 --> 00:34:18,315 Speaker 1: first boss, but today, just forty three years later, is 507 00:34:18,395 --> 00:34:21,275 Speaker 1: still working as the television voice of the New York 508 00:34:21,355 --> 00:34:24,395 Speaker 1: Rangers hockey team and is in the Hockey Hall of Fame. 509 00:34:24,555 --> 00:34:27,315 Speaker 1: So I guess my reputation is a tough employee is 510 00:34:27,355 --> 00:34:32,675 Speaker 1: wildly overrated, or at least Sam think so. Sam and 511 00:34:32,755 --> 00:34:35,515 Speaker 1: Stan kept me drinking at the motel until two am, 512 00:34:35,635 --> 00:34:37,355 Speaker 1: knowing full well that I had to get on the 513 00:34:37,515 --> 00:34:40,435 Speaker 1: six am bus to go cover the men's downhill, because 514 00:34:40,435 --> 00:34:42,555 Speaker 1: it was the two of them who had assigned me 515 00:34:42,595 --> 00:34:47,115 Speaker 1: to go cover the men's downhill, and bluntly, I was 516 00:34:47,155 --> 00:34:50,755 Speaker 1: surprisingly pleased with myself that freezing morning, because I had 517 00:34:50,755 --> 00:34:53,915 Speaker 1: indeed learned how to drink while on assignment. I had 518 00:34:54,035 --> 00:34:57,075 Speaker 1: somehow found the phone jack for the U P I 519 00:34:57,155 --> 00:35:00,715 Speaker 1: phone buried under all the new snow, which of course 520 00:35:00,795 --> 00:35:04,155 Speaker 1: was buried under all the old snow, attached the phone 521 00:35:04,195 --> 00:35:06,995 Speaker 1: to it in a dial tone, called the office, checked 522 00:35:07,035 --> 00:35:09,515 Speaker 1: the alligator clips with which I would feed the tape, 523 00:35:09,715 --> 00:35:15,555 Speaker 1: and always well until I went to put a cassette 524 00:35:15,595 --> 00:35:24,315 Speaker 1: tape into the cassette recorder. I didn't have one. Fat 525 00:35:24,355 --> 00:35:26,795 Speaker 1: A lot of good two cassette tape machines gonna do 526 00:35:26,875 --> 00:35:30,795 Speaker 1: you without a cassette to stick in one of them. 527 00:35:30,955 --> 00:35:33,915 Speaker 1: I looked forlornly around the base of White Face Mountain, 528 00:35:35,195 --> 00:35:37,875 Speaker 1: twelve feet above sea level. As we were. There was 529 00:35:37,915 --> 00:35:41,675 Speaker 1: a surprisingly nice shalet and a decent restaurant, but there 530 00:35:41,715 --> 00:35:45,995 Speaker 1: were no radio shacks or other electronics stores. There was, however, 531 00:35:46,115 --> 00:35:51,195 Speaker 1: one other radio guy Jack Briggs from the Associated Press 532 00:35:51,275 --> 00:35:54,355 Speaker 1: Radio network, the nominal arch rival to our own up 533 00:35:54,515 --> 00:35:57,435 Speaker 1: I Audio. I knew Jack a little. He was a 534 00:35:57,515 --> 00:36:01,275 Speaker 1: nice guy. I went and explained my plight, making sure 535 00:36:01,315 --> 00:36:05,435 Speaker 1: to blame my bosses for my predicament. Oh man, he said, 536 00:36:06,115 --> 00:36:09,715 Speaker 1: his breath turning into first steam and then ice cubes. 537 00:36:10,435 --> 00:36:14,395 Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, but I can't give you a cassette. 538 00:36:15,275 --> 00:36:18,155 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you're U p I and I'm a p 539 00:36:19,995 --> 00:36:23,915 Speaker 1: oh how, I laughed. That was a great line to 540 00:36:23,955 --> 00:36:26,875 Speaker 1: say to a rookie reporter still drunk thanks to the 541 00:36:26,915 --> 00:36:30,755 Speaker 1: initiation rituals of his own bosses, the possessor of one 542 00:36:30,875 --> 00:36:35,715 Speaker 1: great buzz but zero audio cassettes, Jack Briggs could tell 543 00:36:35,755 --> 00:36:39,155 Speaker 1: I thought he was kidding. That's when he said, I'm 544 00:36:39,195 --> 00:36:41,955 Speaker 1: not kidding. Look. Look, if my boss, Shelby Whitfield ever 545 00:36:41,995 --> 00:36:46,195 Speaker 1: found out, he'd fire me. I suddenly wasn't drunk anymore, 546 00:36:46,315 --> 00:36:51,155 Speaker 1: not at all. My my boss will will will fire me. 547 00:36:51,955 --> 00:36:54,995 Speaker 1: Briggs was adamant. I can't run the risk of Shelby 548 00:36:55,075 --> 00:37:00,515 Speaker 1: finding out. I have to confess, I shouted, how the 549 00:37:00,595 --> 00:37:05,395 Speaker 1: hell is he gonna find out? Jack? I think subconsciously 550 00:37:05,435 --> 00:37:07,435 Speaker 1: I was hoping to create an avalanche, which would have 551 00:37:07,435 --> 00:37:09,395 Speaker 1: been a better solution than the one I was faced with. 552 00:37:10,355 --> 00:37:13,515 Speaker 1: I said to him, there's you and there's me, and 553 00:37:13,515 --> 00:37:16,595 Speaker 1: we're on top of a goddamn mountain and Shelby Whitfield, 554 00:37:16,595 --> 00:37:19,835 Speaker 1: your boss is in Washington, d C. And he's a drunk, 555 00:37:21,195 --> 00:37:24,275 Speaker 1: and he's probably more drunk than I am, and he'd 556 00:37:24,275 --> 00:37:28,155 Speaker 1: probably thank you for helping me to drink more. Briggs 557 00:37:28,195 --> 00:37:30,875 Speaker 1: would not budge. I told him I would pay him. 558 00:37:31,075 --> 00:37:33,115 Speaker 1: I told him I would give him the cassette back 559 00:37:33,235 --> 00:37:35,595 Speaker 1: after I fed my boss the interviews over the phone, 560 00:37:35,715 --> 00:37:37,795 Speaker 1: so there'd be no evidence and he wouldn't even have 561 00:37:37,795 --> 00:37:42,075 Speaker 1: to do any interviews. No good, I'm sorry, and I 562 00:37:42,075 --> 00:37:43,995 Speaker 1: know you're gonna tell this story about me for a while. 563 00:37:44,955 --> 00:37:47,995 Speaker 1: As he walked away from me, I shouted after him forever. 564 00:37:51,195 --> 00:37:54,955 Speaker 1: Turned out there was no radio shack and no camaraderie, 565 00:37:55,035 --> 00:37:58,115 Speaker 1: but there was a West Coast newspaper reporter atop the 566 00:37:58,155 --> 00:38:01,515 Speaker 1: mountain who heard some of this conversation. I guess I 567 00:38:01,595 --> 00:38:04,995 Speaker 1: yelled a little loudly at Mr Briggs. Some guys ending 568 00:38:04,995 --> 00:38:07,155 Speaker 1: next to us St. Bernard and told me to quiet down. 569 00:38:07,195 --> 00:38:09,595 Speaker 1: He mentioned something else about the avalanches, or maybe I 570 00:38:09,755 --> 00:38:12,555 Speaker 1: dreamed that part. I don't know anyway, The West Coast 571 00:38:12,555 --> 00:38:16,155 Speaker 1: newspaper guy said he had a micro cassette machine and 572 00:38:16,195 --> 00:38:17,755 Speaker 1: he would loan it to me and I could give 573 00:38:17,755 --> 00:38:19,515 Speaker 1: it back to him at the media center that day 574 00:38:19,555 --> 00:38:20,995 Speaker 1: or the next one. But I had to do him 575 00:38:20,995 --> 00:38:23,235 Speaker 1: a favor because there was this really cute reporter in 576 00:38:23,235 --> 00:38:25,275 Speaker 1: our up I bureau and he really wanted to be 577 00:38:25,315 --> 00:38:27,115 Speaker 1: introduced to her. And I said, I can promise you 578 00:38:27,195 --> 00:38:29,715 Speaker 1: nothing but a handshake, and he understood, and that's how 579 00:38:29,755 --> 00:38:33,435 Speaker 1: I did not get fired. But of course, a story 580 00:38:33,515 --> 00:38:37,755 Speaker 1: like this has punchlines, and this one has two of them. 581 00:38:37,795 --> 00:38:40,915 Speaker 1: The first is two years and a couple of months later, 582 00:38:41,075 --> 00:38:44,515 Speaker 1: Shelby Whitfield asked me to lunch. He had left the 583 00:38:44,555 --> 00:38:47,155 Speaker 1: Associated Press to run the sports department at the ABC 584 00:38:47,395 --> 00:38:50,155 Speaker 1: Radio network, back when that was not only a thing 585 00:38:50,355 --> 00:38:53,595 Speaker 1: but a big thing. We went to a terrific New 586 00:38:53,675 --> 00:38:58,075 Speaker 1: York City Chinese restaurant near ABC called shun Lee, and 587 00:38:58,115 --> 00:39:00,755 Speaker 1: Shelby Whitfield interviewed me for a job when that kind 588 00:39:00,755 --> 00:39:03,115 Speaker 1: of job paid eighty thousand a year and my very 589 00:39:03,235 --> 00:39:05,395 Speaker 1: nice studio apartment in a very nice part of town 590 00:39:05,555 --> 00:39:09,915 Speaker 1: costs less than five dollars. A month later, in an 591 00:39:09,915 --> 00:39:13,995 Speaker 1: interesting twist, I found out that jobs didn't exist. I 592 00:39:14,035 --> 00:39:16,595 Speaker 1: was mentioning the interview in a press box somewhere I 593 00:39:16,635 --> 00:39:19,395 Speaker 1: think Madison Square Garden, and there was another kid reporter 594 00:39:19,515 --> 00:39:22,715 Speaker 1: named how He Rose and how are you still working? 595 00:39:22,755 --> 00:39:24,635 Speaker 1: He does the New York Mets games on the radio, 596 00:39:25,035 --> 00:39:28,235 Speaker 1: and how He said, wait, they interviewed me for that 597 00:39:28,515 --> 00:39:31,635 Speaker 1: job last year. Just an excuse for that damn Whitfield 598 00:39:31,875 --> 00:39:36,955 Speaker 1: to go drink his lunch on ABC's tab. Anyway, before 599 00:39:36,955 --> 00:39:38,995 Speaker 1: we started the interview for the job I did not 600 00:39:39,075 --> 00:39:42,155 Speaker 1: know did not exist at ABC. I told Shelby Whitfield 601 00:39:42,195 --> 00:39:44,635 Speaker 1: the white Face Mountain, can I borrow a cassette Jack 602 00:39:44,715 --> 00:39:48,795 Speaker 1: Briggs story? And Shelby's exact reply was, I don't know. 603 00:39:48,955 --> 00:39:50,915 Speaker 1: Was I going to find out? There was you and 604 00:39:50,955 --> 00:39:52,195 Speaker 1: there was him, and you were on top of a 605 00:39:52,235 --> 00:39:55,595 Speaker 1: goddamn mountain and I was in Washington. Only he didn't 606 00:39:55,595 --> 00:40:00,075 Speaker 1: say goddamn that Briggs. He added, always trying to suck 607 00:40:00,155 --> 00:40:02,515 Speaker 1: up to me. I gotta tell you something. I actually 608 00:40:02,515 --> 00:40:04,475 Speaker 1: once promised I wouldn't tell you if we ever met this. 609 00:40:04,795 --> 00:40:07,115 Speaker 1: When the Olympics were over and came back to the office, 610 00:40:07,755 --> 00:40:09,635 Speaker 1: he told me what happened. He expected me to be 611 00:40:09,675 --> 00:40:11,555 Speaker 1: happy or give him a bonus or something, and I 612 00:40:11,555 --> 00:40:15,195 Speaker 1: called him a little snitch. Only Shelby didn't say snitch, 613 00:40:15,795 --> 00:40:19,515 Speaker 1: just a word that rhymed with it. The other punch 614 00:40:19,555 --> 00:40:24,395 Speaker 1: line is from and remember this happened at the Olympics. 615 00:40:25,355 --> 00:40:27,515 Speaker 1: I go to work at ESPN and come in a 616 00:40:27,555 --> 00:40:30,155 Speaker 1: little early to launch their radio network of story I've 617 00:40:30,155 --> 00:40:33,315 Speaker 1: told here before. And there I find a friend of 618 00:40:33,315 --> 00:40:35,435 Speaker 1: mine since my radio days who I have not seen 619 00:40:35,515 --> 00:40:37,915 Speaker 1: in a year or so, and he says, hey, last month, 620 00:40:37,955 --> 00:40:39,995 Speaker 1: I was in an NBA game in Washington. I ran 621 00:40:40,035 --> 00:40:42,595 Speaker 1: it at Jack Briggs. He heard you were going to ESPN. 622 00:40:42,595 --> 00:40:44,155 Speaker 1: He asked me if you were still telling that story 623 00:40:44,155 --> 00:40:46,715 Speaker 1: about the time you got stuck on White Face Mountain 624 00:40:46,715 --> 00:40:48,635 Speaker 1: without a cassette and he was the only other reporter 625 00:40:48,755 --> 00:40:50,515 Speaker 1: there and he wouldn't give you a spare And I 626 00:40:50,595 --> 00:40:53,755 Speaker 1: told him you were, and I smiled, and I replied, 627 00:40:53,915 --> 00:41:12,235 Speaker 1: I hope you remembered to use the word forever. I mean, 628 00:41:12,275 --> 00:41:15,195 Speaker 1: how is it going to find out spy satellites? It's 629 00:41:15,435 --> 00:41:19,835 Speaker 1: there no spy satellites. I've done all the damage I 630 00:41:19,835 --> 00:41:21,875 Speaker 1: can do here. Thanks for listening. If you're not following 631 00:41:21,955 --> 00:41:24,435 Speaker 1: or subscribed or whatever to this podcast, please do so 632 00:41:24,515 --> 00:41:26,315 Speaker 1: and stop somebody on the street and get them too 633 00:41:26,355 --> 00:41:29,155 Speaker 1: as well. Here are the credits. Most of the music, 634 00:41:29,155 --> 00:41:31,995 Speaker 1: including our theme from Beethoven's Ninth, was arranged, produced, and 635 00:41:32,075 --> 00:41:34,915 Speaker 1: performed by Brian Ray and John Philip Channel. They are 636 00:41:34,955 --> 00:41:38,795 Speaker 1: the Countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John 637 00:41:38,795 --> 00:41:42,755 Speaker 1: Philip Chanelle, guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray, produced 638 00:41:42,755 --> 00:41:46,355 Speaker 1: by t Ko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged 639 00:41:46,355 --> 00:41:49,395 Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports 640 00:41:49,475 --> 00:41:52,595 Speaker 1: music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two. It was 641 00:41:52,635 --> 00:41:56,315 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Musical 642 00:41:56,355 --> 00:41:59,555 Speaker 1: comments by Nancy Faust. The best baseball stadium organist ever. 643 00:41:59,995 --> 00:42:03,355 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was Richard Lewis. Everything else was pretty 644 00:42:03,395 --> 00:42:06,395 Speaker 1: much my fault because I left the cassette back in 645 00:42:06,475 --> 00:42:11,515 Speaker 1: the hotel room. Mr Prigg's Thank God, I'm not better. 646 00:42:11,675 --> 00:42:13,995 Speaker 1: That's countdown for this the seven hundred and sixth day 647 00:42:14,035 --> 00:42:16,955 Speaker 1: since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected 648 00:42:16,955 --> 00:42:20,315 Speaker 1: government of the United States. Arrest him now, while we 649 00:42:20,395 --> 00:42:24,075 Speaker 1: still can. There'll be a new addition tomorrow. Until then, 650 00:42:24,155 --> 00:42:27,075 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 651 00:42:27,155 --> 00:42:34,995 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith old Reman is a production 652 00:42:35,155 --> 00:42:38,755 Speaker 1: of I heart Radio. For more podcasts from I heart Radio, 653 00:42:38,955 --> 00:42:42,475 Speaker 1: visit the i heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 654 00:42:42,555 --> 00:42:43,915 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.