1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:14,915 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Donald 2 00:00:14,995 --> 00:00:18,155 Speaker 1: Trump is again attempting to foment a violent coup against 3 00:00:18,195 --> 00:00:20,595 Speaker 1: the government of the United States, and in so doing 4 00:00:20,715 --> 00:00:23,475 Speaker 1: confirming that he is about to be indicted by the 5 00:00:23,515 --> 00:00:27,755 Speaker 1: Special Council Jack Smith, and whatever charges Smith has ready now, 6 00:00:28,035 --> 00:00:31,075 Speaker 1: he should bring them before his grand jury today and 7 00:00:31,235 --> 00:00:35,435 Speaker 1: arrest Trump immediately, and insists that this stochastic terrorist be 8 00:00:35,555 --> 00:00:39,355 Speaker 1: detained without bail indefinitely, insomuch as he is a clear 9 00:00:39,395 --> 00:00:42,315 Speaker 1: and present danger to the safety of this country and 10 00:00:42,355 --> 00:00:45,715 Speaker 1: its citizens, and we have the scars of January sixth 11 00:00:45,915 --> 00:00:51,235 Speaker 1: to prove that. Quote. It's about election interference, Trump wrote 12 00:00:51,275 --> 00:00:53,475 Speaker 1: at the start of a social media post at a 13 00:00:53,675 --> 00:00:57,435 Speaker 1: twelve Eastern time this morning. It ends they are using 14 00:00:57,475 --> 00:01:01,235 Speaker 1: the DOJ and FBI against me to rig the twenty 15 00:01:01,315 --> 00:01:05,475 Speaker 1: twenty four election. They'll hit Hunter with some something small 16 00:01:05,595 --> 00:01:09,075 Speaker 1: to make their strike on me look fair. Nothing about 17 00:01:09,075 --> 00:01:14,635 Speaker 1: these fascists is fair or honest. Fight unquote. The word 18 00:01:14,675 --> 00:01:17,755 Speaker 1: fight is in capital letters and followed by an exclamation point, 19 00:01:17,795 --> 00:01:21,355 Speaker 1: and it is clearly not directed at his attorneys. Trump 20 00:01:21,395 --> 00:01:25,315 Speaker 1: followed up two minutes later with quote election interference, don't 21 00:01:25,435 --> 00:01:28,915 Speaker 1: let it happen again. That instruction to prevent his indictment 22 00:01:29,035 --> 00:01:32,515 Speaker 1: or arrest was not directed to attorneys or the government, 23 00:01:32,635 --> 00:01:35,835 Speaker 1: or family members or anybody else. It was directed to 24 00:01:35,995 --> 00:01:39,115 Speaker 1: his mob, just as it was directed to his mob 25 00:01:39,355 --> 00:01:43,315 Speaker 1: on January sixth, twenty twenty one. It is not political speech, 26 00:01:43,515 --> 00:01:45,915 Speaker 1: It is not dissent, it is not protest, it is 27 00:01:45,995 --> 00:01:50,435 Speaker 1: not free speech. It is stochastic terrorism. And the word 28 00:01:50,475 --> 00:01:55,115 Speaker 1: that elevates this from Trump's usual psychopathic communications is quote 29 00:01:55,275 --> 00:01:59,755 Speaker 1: fight unquote. That should send cold chills down your spine, 30 00:02:00,035 --> 00:02:03,275 Speaker 1: because he used that exact word in its various forms 31 00:02:03,555 --> 00:02:07,875 Speaker 1: sixteen times in that incendiary speech from the Ellipse that 32 00:02:08,035 --> 00:02:10,995 Speaker 1: sent the gang into the Capitol and sent democracy teetering 33 00:02:11,035 --> 00:02:14,795 Speaker 1: to the edge of destruction. We fight, he shouted that day. 34 00:02:15,035 --> 00:02:18,115 Speaker 1: We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, 35 00:02:18,355 --> 00:02:21,875 Speaker 1: you're not going to have a country anymore. And now, literally, 36 00:02:22,035 --> 00:02:25,515 Speaker 1: in the days before his indictment for stealing this country's 37 00:02:25,715 --> 00:02:30,155 Speaker 1: and other countries nuclear secrets and our militaries war plans, 38 00:02:30,195 --> 00:02:33,795 Speaker 1: for attacking Iran, and lord knows what else, he has 39 00:02:33,875 --> 00:02:37,075 Speaker 1: now used his social media account to again attempt to 40 00:02:37,275 --> 00:02:42,435 Speaker 1: incite insurrection, and more immediately to somehow prevent by violence 41 00:02:42,675 --> 00:02:46,835 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice from indicting him, from mishandling classified 42 00:02:46,835 --> 00:02:51,715 Speaker 1: documents for obstructing justice, possibly for destruction of evidence, suborning 43 00:02:51,755 --> 00:02:54,315 Speaker 1: of perjury. And though they will not do this for 44 00:02:54,435 --> 00:03:00,395 Speaker 1: these violent inspirational posts today, because this time this nation 45 00:03:00,595 --> 00:03:04,835 Speaker 1: can take no chances with this active recidivist terrorists, this 46 00:03:04,955 --> 00:03:10,235 Speaker 1: madman whose perception of the entire world is himself and 47 00:03:10,435 --> 00:03:14,395 Speaker 1: his needs, and whose perception of this country and everybody 48 00:03:14,435 --> 00:03:17,195 Speaker 1: living in it is not a people with their own lives, 49 00:03:17,435 --> 00:03:21,195 Speaker 1: but of furniture that can make itself move and either 50 00:03:21,315 --> 00:03:24,715 Speaker 1: do things that help him or do things that hurt him, 51 00:03:25,075 --> 00:03:27,355 Speaker 1: and none of them have any more meaning to him 52 00:03:27,395 --> 00:03:32,155 Speaker 1: than that. This is a creature whose base includes violent militias, 53 00:03:32,555 --> 00:03:37,835 Speaker 1: masked gangs, white supremacists, and gun fetishizing lunatics in every 54 00:03:37,875 --> 00:03:40,755 Speaker 1: part of this country and in many parts of this government. 55 00:03:41,675 --> 00:03:44,635 Speaker 1: Jack Smith, caught by NBC News this morning as he 56 00:03:44,795 --> 00:03:47,995 Speaker 1: entered his offices across from the Justice Department headquarters on 57 00:03:48,075 --> 00:03:53,195 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Avenue in DC, said nothing about indictments or anything else, 58 00:03:53,475 --> 00:03:56,235 Speaker 1: did not make a sound, But he needs to act 59 00:03:56,435 --> 00:04:00,715 Speaker 1: now and to use Trump's stochastic terrorism to get a 60 00:04:00,795 --> 00:04:06,835 Speaker 1: judge to detain Trump immediately and indefinitely until trial. Today, 61 00:04:06,995 --> 00:04:11,595 Speaker 1: Trump changed his endless, bottomless ability to complain and whine 62 00:04:11,795 --> 00:04:16,915 Speaker 1: and bleach into another direct call for political violence in 63 00:04:16,955 --> 00:04:20,915 Speaker 1: this country against anybody he perceives as an enemy or 64 00:04:20,955 --> 00:04:25,715 Speaker 1: an opponent, or a Democrat or a liberal, or anybody 65 00:04:25,795 --> 00:04:30,395 Speaker 1: his crazed cultists perceives as an enemy. And on the 66 00:04:30,435 --> 00:04:36,675 Speaker 1: anniversary of D Day, no less patriotism on display Trump style. 67 00:04:37,115 --> 00:04:41,755 Speaker 1: Arrest him now. The rest of this podcast is the Tuesday, 68 00:04:41,835 --> 00:04:45,115 Speaker 1: June sixth episode of Countdown as originally posted. If you've 69 00:04:45,115 --> 00:04:47,875 Speaker 1: heard it already, no need to continue, but it goes 70 00:04:47,915 --> 00:04:50,875 Speaker 1: into details about the conclusions we can draw from this 71 00:04:50,955 --> 00:04:53,875 Speaker 1: sequence of facts. That the Special Council was willing to 72 00:04:53,875 --> 00:04:56,915 Speaker 1: meet with Trump's lawyers yesterday, that within minutes of the 73 00:04:56,995 --> 00:04:59,955 Speaker 1: end of that meeting, Trump exploded on social media with 74 00:05:00,115 --> 00:05:03,795 Speaker 1: rhetorical questions about how the DOJ could possibly indict him. 75 00:05:04,075 --> 00:05:07,635 Speaker 1: That sequel events now extends to these dog whistles this morning, 76 00:05:07,955 --> 00:05:11,595 Speaker 1: and the inevitable conclusion that he is about to be indicted, 77 00:05:12,355 --> 00:05:16,435 Speaker 1: And again those quotes, nothing about these fascists is fair 78 00:05:16,635 --> 00:05:23,355 Speaker 1: or honest fight quote, election interference don't let it happen, 79 00:05:24,315 --> 00:05:43,915 Speaker 1: Jack Smith, don't let this happen again. Trump's lawyers think 80 00:05:43,955 --> 00:05:46,875 Speaker 1: we are at the endgame, and Trump thinks we are 81 00:05:46,915 --> 00:05:49,955 Speaker 1: at the endgame, and the New York Times, the Washington Post, 82 00:05:50,035 --> 00:05:52,555 Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal, and CNN all think we are 83 00:05:52,595 --> 00:05:55,515 Speaker 1: at the endgame. And I sure as hell think we 84 00:05:55,555 --> 00:05:58,835 Speaker 1: are at the endgame. And the real headline from where 85 00:05:58,835 --> 00:06:02,555 Speaker 1: we all sit in Jack Smith's waiting room kind of 86 00:06:02,595 --> 00:06:06,115 Speaker 1: implies we are at the endgame. And it was noted 87 00:06:06,115 --> 00:06:09,155 Speaker 1: by the former District of Columbia federal prosecutor and now 88 00:06:09,235 --> 00:06:13,835 Speaker 1: TV legal analyst Glenn Kirshner. The headline is this, we 89 00:06:14,035 --> 00:06:19,115 Speaker 1: actually now know one thing for certain. There clearly has 90 00:06:19,235 --> 00:06:22,275 Speaker 1: been no decision by the Special Counsel or the Attorney 91 00:06:22,315 --> 00:06:26,715 Speaker 1: General to not charge Trump for the theft of the 92 00:06:26,755 --> 00:06:31,235 Speaker 1: classified documents. If all of this wrapping up of testimony 93 00:06:31,275 --> 00:06:34,715 Speaker 1: and investigations and grand jury recalls had led to a 94 00:06:34,755 --> 00:06:37,915 Speaker 1: conclusion not to indict Trump, there would have been no 95 00:06:38,035 --> 00:06:43,595 Speaker 1: reason for Smith and an unidentified DOJ career official to 96 00:06:43,715 --> 00:06:47,515 Speaker 1: have had that meeting with Trump attorneys Jim Trusty, John Rowley, 97 00:06:47,555 --> 00:06:52,355 Speaker 1: and Lindsay Halligan yesterday. And it's not just proving the negative. 98 00:06:52,875 --> 00:06:58,475 Speaker 1: It's not a no, and it's pretty certainly not an undecided, 99 00:06:59,075 --> 00:07:06,075 Speaker 1: which leaves UH with me a yes quote. The last 100 00:07:06,075 --> 00:07:09,555 Speaker 1: thing federal prosecutors often do before indicting is to meet 101 00:07:09,595 --> 00:07:12,795 Speaker 1: the target's defense team and give them an opportunity to 102 00:07:12,835 --> 00:07:17,235 Speaker 1: present any evidence or arguments they want to offer. The 103 00:07:17,395 --> 00:07:20,915 Speaker 1: Washington Post presented the same thought. It is not uncommon 104 00:07:20,955 --> 00:07:24,035 Speaker 1: in high profile cases for defense lawyers to get such 105 00:07:24,075 --> 00:07:27,875 Speaker 1: a meeting with Justice Department officials towards the end of 106 00:07:27,915 --> 00:07:32,235 Speaker 1: an investigation. And there is a second fact, a new one. 107 00:07:32,995 --> 00:07:36,075 Speaker 1: Jack Smith has had another grand jury working on the 108 00:07:36,155 --> 00:07:40,435 Speaker 1: document's case in Florida, in the West Palm area, in 109 00:07:40,475 --> 00:07:44,635 Speaker 1: the jurisdiction covering Mari Lago itself. I had heard this 110 00:07:44,835 --> 00:07:48,035 Speaker 1: last week but couldn't confirm it. The Wall Street Journal 111 00:07:48,115 --> 00:07:51,315 Speaker 1: confirmed it first. The New York Times says there is 112 00:07:51,355 --> 00:07:53,835 Speaker 1: at least one more witness going to testify to that 113 00:07:53,875 --> 00:07:57,875 Speaker 1: Florida grand jury later this week, like everybody else, though 114 00:07:57,955 --> 00:08:01,155 Speaker 1: the Times writers confess it is not clear why a 115 00:08:01,275 --> 00:08:05,515 Speaker 1: second grand jury is taking testimony in Florida, because it isn't, 116 00:08:06,115 --> 00:08:09,435 Speaker 1: although some legal analysts suggested it gives Smith the flexibility 117 00:08:09,475 --> 00:08:13,435 Speaker 1: to try the case in Washington or West Palm, depending 118 00:08:13,475 --> 00:08:17,515 Speaker 1: on how the juris land. We can also infer a 119 00:08:17,675 --> 00:08:22,115 Speaker 1: third fact from the least likely and usually least reliable source. 120 00:08:22,435 --> 00:08:27,035 Speaker 1: Trump himself, literally just minutes after his latest lawyers left 121 00:08:27,115 --> 00:08:31,235 Speaker 1: the department headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue between ninth and tenth Northwest, 122 00:08:31,555 --> 00:08:35,555 Speaker 1: Trump erupted on social media and gave away what he 123 00:08:35,675 --> 00:08:38,355 Speaker 1: was still hoping for, is still hoping for, must remain 124 00:08:38,475 --> 00:08:41,955 Speaker 1: hoping for, because his world of self delusion depends on 125 00:08:42,155 --> 00:08:46,915 Speaker 1: this that for some reason they will not indict him 126 00:08:47,235 --> 00:08:53,315 Speaker 1: just cuz quote, how can doj possibly charge me who 127 00:08:53,355 --> 00:08:57,075 Speaker 1: did nothing wrong? When no other presidents were charged? When 128 00:08:57,635 --> 00:09:00,275 Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah, And then the usual psychotic 129 00:09:00,515 --> 00:09:05,435 Speaker 1: meanderings through Biden this and Hillary's emails that and which hunt, 130 00:09:05,435 --> 00:09:10,315 Speaker 1: which hunt? Which hunt? I think we can reconstruct yesterday's meeting. 131 00:09:10,835 --> 00:09:14,995 Speaker 1: Smith there, but Attorney General Garland and Deputy Attorney General 132 00:09:15,075 --> 00:09:19,315 Speaker 1: Monacote not there. The Trump team goes in complains, as 133 00:09:19,355 --> 00:09:23,115 Speaker 1: instructed by their client, about the rare piercing of attorney 134 00:09:23,115 --> 00:09:26,275 Speaker 1: client privilege in the case of Evan Corcoran gets nowhere, 135 00:09:26,675 --> 00:09:29,595 Speaker 1: stretches it out for two hours according to most reports, 136 00:09:29,795 --> 00:09:32,795 Speaker 1: ninety minutes according to at least one other report, and 137 00:09:32,835 --> 00:09:36,195 Speaker 1: then leaves and then, presumably trust he gets the pleasure 138 00:09:36,235 --> 00:09:38,835 Speaker 1: of calling Trump and telling him, no, you know what, 139 00:09:38,955 --> 00:09:41,795 Speaker 1: he wouldn't promise not to indicte you, or call you 140 00:09:41,835 --> 00:09:45,875 Speaker 1: innocent publicly, or accept your offer to become attorney general 141 00:09:45,875 --> 00:09:49,235 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. And then Trump loses his fragile 142 00:09:49,275 --> 00:09:51,755 Speaker 1: self control because again, deep down, he believes he is 143 00:09:51,835 --> 00:09:57,475 Speaker 1: immortal and untouchable. ABC News did provide a valuable sidelight 144 00:09:57,595 --> 00:10:00,155 Speaker 1: on that meeting and on why it would have taken 145 00:10:00,275 --> 00:10:02,835 Speaker 1: ninety minutes to two hours reporting to the meeting. Quote 146 00:10:02,955 --> 00:10:07,115 Speaker 1: focused mostly on Pross and very little on the legal 147 00:10:07,235 --> 00:10:11,035 Speaker 1: matters central to the document's probe. Trump's lawyer's got no 148 00:10:11,115 --> 00:10:15,595 Speaker 1: indication of any potential charges or timing associated with any 149 00:10:15,675 --> 00:10:19,875 Speaker 1: possible indictment end quote. The word process here would be 150 00:10:19,955 --> 00:10:24,275 Speaker 1: that whole attorney client thing and the other prosecutorial anomalies 151 00:10:24,435 --> 00:10:28,355 Speaker 1: real or imagined, the standard technicalities and loopholes. Trump has 152 00:10:28,355 --> 00:10:31,795 Speaker 1: spent his life wriggling through, around, and under like a 153 00:10:31,875 --> 00:10:37,835 Speaker 1: bulbous but surprisingly nimble limbo dancer. The bigger picture continues 154 00:10:37,875 --> 00:10:41,795 Speaker 1: to be Yeah, We're at the endgame. The Times. The 155 00:10:41,915 --> 00:10:45,195 Speaker 1: visit came amid indications that prosecutors in the Special Council's 156 00:10:45,195 --> 00:10:49,195 Speaker 1: Office were approaching the end of their documents inquiry. It 157 00:10:49,315 --> 00:10:51,675 Speaker 1: also came at a time when mister Trump's advisors have 158 00:10:51,795 --> 00:10:54,515 Speaker 1: concluded that there might not be much more time to 159 00:10:54,515 --> 00:10:59,315 Speaker 1: stave off charges. Trump expects to face charges, The Times Rights, 160 00:10:59,515 --> 00:11:02,355 Speaker 1: according to people who have spoken to him, although that 161 00:11:02,395 --> 00:11:05,475 Speaker 1: does not mean he has been assured that charges are pending. 162 00:11:06,235 --> 00:11:10,395 Speaker 1: From the Post. Two Trump advisors briefed on Monday's meetings 163 00:11:10,435 --> 00:11:13,755 Speaker 1: said they continue to believe Smith will finalize a charging 164 00:11:13,795 --> 00:11:17,995 Speaker 1: decision in coming weeks. The advisors said they are preparing 165 00:11:18,035 --> 00:11:20,755 Speaker 1: for a potential indictment of the former president, and the 166 00:11:20,795 --> 00:11:25,155 Speaker 1: meeting did not change their expectations. The Journal's second sentence, 167 00:11:25,795 --> 00:11:30,035 Speaker 1: the meeting is the latest indication that Smith has all 168 00:11:30,115 --> 00:11:34,875 Speaker 1: but wrapped up his investigation. CNN's second sentence, it appears 169 00:11:34,915 --> 00:11:40,395 Speaker 1: to be nearing its final stage. There did not seem 170 00:11:40,395 --> 00:11:43,435 Speaker 1: to be anything new on the reported reconvening of the 171 00:11:43,475 --> 00:11:46,555 Speaker 1: grand jury this week, nor what it would be reconvening. 172 00:11:46,675 --> 00:11:50,795 Speaker 1: For nearly every report contained a useful reminder, though for 173 00:11:50,915 --> 00:11:54,235 Speaker 1: all of us that whatever happens on this document's case, 174 00:11:54,235 --> 00:11:57,435 Speaker 1: and whenever it happens, Jack Smith will then pivot to 175 00:11:57,555 --> 00:12:01,875 Speaker 1: focusing particularly on January sixth, And as we've discussed previously, 176 00:12:01,955 --> 00:12:05,475 Speaker 1: the easier to prove elements of fraude funds for a 177 00:12:05,515 --> 00:12:09,195 Speaker 1: stolen election Trump knew wasn't stolen. So if we are 178 00:12:09,235 --> 00:12:14,915 Speaker 1: expecting indictments, we are expecting them in stages. On the 179 00:12:14,995 --> 00:12:19,875 Speaker 1: twelfth day of Christmas. There is a solid joke about 180 00:12:19,875 --> 00:12:23,195 Speaker 1: the damaged marri A Lago security video story that came 181 00:12:23,235 --> 00:12:27,915 Speaker 1: out yesterday. Jack Smith isn't leaking, but Trump's pool is, 182 00:12:28,835 --> 00:12:33,955 Speaker 1: And so we turn to a leak about leaking, which, 183 00:12:33,955 --> 00:12:37,315 Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, was one of the very first 184 00:12:37,315 --> 00:12:39,915 Speaker 1: things we all tried to get Trump investigated over in 185 00:12:39,955 --> 00:12:47,835 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Think about it. We may have an answer 186 00:12:48,075 --> 00:12:50,435 Speaker 1: as to what that second grand jury is looking at 187 00:12:50,435 --> 00:12:52,755 Speaker 1: in Florida, and we probably have the answer as to 188 00:12:52,795 --> 00:12:56,075 Speaker 1: why the Special Council seems so obsessed with not just 189 00:12:56,315 --> 00:12:59,435 Speaker 1: staffers moving boxes in and out of the storage room 190 00:12:59,475 --> 00:13:02,555 Speaker 1: at mari A Lago, and not just security video of 191 00:13:02,595 --> 00:13:05,155 Speaker 1: staffers moving boxes in and out of the storage but 192 00:13:05,515 --> 00:13:10,835 Speaker 1: vaguely worded hints about glitches on the security video. And finally, 193 00:13:10,875 --> 00:13:14,035 Speaker 1: the hilarious report that the marri A Lago staffer who 194 00:13:14,115 --> 00:13:17,475 Speaker 1: helped Walt Naouda with the heavy lifting actually went to 195 00:13:17,555 --> 00:13:20,675 Speaker 1: the IT guy at Mary Lago and asked him how 196 00:13:20,755 --> 00:13:26,475 Speaker 1: soon before the CCTV system would delete video of say, 197 00:13:27,995 --> 00:13:34,715 Speaker 1: just as a hypothetical name himself quote, an employee at 198 00:13:34,715 --> 00:13:38,915 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's Mary Lago Residents drained the resort's swimming pool 199 00:13:39,035 --> 00:13:43,515 Speaker 1: last October and ended up flooding a room where computer 200 00:13:43,675 --> 00:13:50,155 Speaker 1: servers containing surveillance video logs were kept. What are the 201 00:13:50,155 --> 00:13:55,355 Speaker 1: odds against that? The punchline of courses that CNN identifies 202 00:13:55,395 --> 00:13:58,155 Speaker 1: the guy who drained the pool as the same guy 203 00:13:58,155 --> 00:14:03,555 Speaker 1: who helped Walt Naota move the boxes, coincidence, no doubt. 204 00:14:05,675 --> 00:14:08,235 Speaker 1: CNN reports at least one grand jury witness has been 205 00:14:08,275 --> 00:14:10,675 Speaker 1: asked about the washout. It is not clear if it 206 00:14:10,715 --> 00:14:13,755 Speaker 1: was accidental or deliberate. It seems to be clear that 207 00:14:13,795 --> 00:14:17,595 Speaker 1: the IT equipment in that room was not damaged, but 208 00:14:17,635 --> 00:14:20,195 Speaker 1: the whole thing is obviously focused on weather. Like the 209 00:14:20,315 --> 00:14:22,675 Speaker 1: eighteen and a half minute gap on one of Nixon's 210 00:14:22,715 --> 00:14:27,035 Speaker 1: Watergate tapes, somebody had deliberately tried to destroy evidence by 211 00:14:27,155 --> 00:14:33,275 Speaker 1: destroying recordings by draining a swimming pool, and there are 212 00:14:33,315 --> 00:14:36,715 Speaker 1: all the seeming cosmic callbacks in this idea that the 213 00:14:36,835 --> 00:14:40,675 Speaker 1: draining of a country club swimming pool might be of 214 00:14:40,755 --> 00:14:44,555 Speaker 1: critical importance in the revelation of the crimes of a president. 215 00:14:45,595 --> 00:14:51,115 Speaker 1: The Watergate break in itself was uncovered in progress because 216 00:14:51,155 --> 00:14:54,875 Speaker 1: of what first looked like trivial routine building maintenance. When 217 00:14:54,915 --> 00:14:58,555 Speaker 1: the burglars used duct tape to keep a stairwell door 218 00:14:58,595 --> 00:15:02,555 Speaker 1: from locking behind them. The night watchman, Frank Wills, removed 219 00:15:02,635 --> 00:15:05,755 Speaker 1: the tape, but the next time he passed that same door, 220 00:15:06,315 --> 00:15:09,995 Speaker 1: he saw more tape had been applied to cover the lock. 221 00:15:11,035 --> 00:15:14,715 Speaker 1: That's when he called the cops. More recently, we have 222 00:15:14,835 --> 00:15:18,875 Speaker 1: seen Trump move from drain the swamp to drain the pool, 223 00:15:19,075 --> 00:15:21,835 Speaker 1: and of course, draining a swimming pool at a country 224 00:15:21,835 --> 00:15:25,675 Speaker 1: club well, that's also a callback for yes, right out 225 00:15:25,715 --> 00:15:29,515 Speaker 1: of the script for the movie Caddyshack, Where's that Baby 226 00:15:29,595 --> 00:15:33,195 Speaker 1: Ruth Candy Bar? And of course there is the ultimate 227 00:15:33,475 --> 00:15:38,675 Speaker 1: Trump callback. To paraphrase what Frank Lesser writes on Twitter, 228 00:15:39,275 --> 00:15:43,955 Speaker 1: how this won't be the first time Trump denies causing 229 00:15:44,515 --> 00:15:54,315 Speaker 1: water damage at a hotel. Also of note today, I 230 00:15:54,475 --> 00:15:56,675 Speaker 1: may have been the first person with any kind of 231 00:15:56,755 --> 00:15:59,955 Speaker 1: national platform to suggest that Chris lickt was going to 232 00:15:59,995 --> 00:16:03,995 Speaker 1: destroy CNN, and I must tell you I really did 233 00:16:04,075 --> 00:16:07,195 Speaker 1: hope it was just my inability to override my vivid 234 00:16:07,235 --> 00:16:10,795 Speaker 1: memories of seeing his worminess up close and personal when 235 00:16:10,795 --> 00:16:14,435 Speaker 1: we were at MSNBC. But even I am beginning to 236 00:16:14,515 --> 00:16:19,355 Speaker 1: wonder if defenestrating him then going downstairs and bringing him 237 00:16:19,355 --> 00:16:23,195 Speaker 1: back upstairs and defenestrating him again, is you know, really 238 00:16:23,355 --> 00:16:28,035 Speaker 1: fair too? Am I kidding? Let's go down and get 239 00:16:28,115 --> 00:16:33,315 Speaker 1: him again. Licht's apology to his staff yesterday has only 240 00:16:33,355 --> 00:16:36,595 Speaker 1: made things worse. It earned him praise not from his 241 00:16:36,715 --> 00:16:40,235 Speaker 1: own people, but from only a couple of horrible human 242 00:16:40,275 --> 00:16:45,315 Speaker 1: beings who work at MSNBC and the one remaining kind 243 00:16:45,355 --> 00:16:49,275 Speaker 1: of feel good part of that whole nightmarish magazine story. 244 00:16:49,275 --> 00:16:53,395 Speaker 1: In The Atlantic, lickts dedication to working out and getting 245 00:16:53,435 --> 00:16:57,075 Speaker 1: healthy with a trainer that was blown up yesterday by 246 00:16:57,155 --> 00:17:02,155 Speaker 1: one tabloid headline quote say an ND boss Chris lick 247 00:17:02,395 --> 00:17:07,915 Speaker 1: bragged about taking ozeb for weight loss. Side effects of 248 00:17:07,915 --> 00:17:10,315 Speaker 1: oz I'm pick, including nausea, diarrhea, and loss of any 249 00:17:10,355 --> 00:17:13,195 Speaker 1: remaining credibility as a newsman. That's next. This is countdown. 250 00:17:14,555 --> 00:17:23,155 Speaker 1: This is countdown with Keith Olbern. Postscripts to the news, 251 00:17:23,315 --> 00:17:26,835 Speaker 1: some headlines, some updates, some snarks, some predictions. Date line, 252 00:17:26,915 --> 00:17:31,595 Speaker 1: CNN Headquarters, Hudson Yards, New York. I believe the Simpsons 253 00:17:31,715 --> 00:17:37,795 Speaker 1: meme applies here. Stop stop, He's already dead. Yesterday began 254 00:17:37,955 --> 00:17:41,995 Speaker 1: with CNN's Chris Licked being raked over the coals because 255 00:17:42,035 --> 00:17:44,795 Speaker 1: having destroyed most of the network in the live Trump 256 00:17:44,875 --> 00:17:49,235 Speaker 1: CNN town Hall moderated by the hopelessly outmatched Caitlin Collins, 257 00:17:49,715 --> 00:17:52,675 Speaker 1: he had pretty much finished off the self destruction job 258 00:17:52,755 --> 00:17:56,475 Speaker 1: during the live Nikki Haley CNN town Hall on Sunday night, 259 00:17:56,515 --> 00:18:00,075 Speaker 1: in which Jake Tapper, apparently too bored or too burned 260 00:18:00,115 --> 00:18:02,995 Speaker 1: out to give a damn, never pushed back when Haley, 261 00:18:03,315 --> 00:18:06,515 Speaker 1: who is a genuinely stupid person with no principles she 262 00:18:06,555 --> 00:18:09,675 Speaker 1: would not sell out for money or power, actually tried 263 00:18:09,675 --> 00:18:14,395 Speaker 1: to blame suicides by teenaged girls in this country on 264 00:18:14,475 --> 00:18:18,395 Speaker 1: the idea that they might have to deal with transgendered 265 00:18:18,435 --> 00:18:22,515 Speaker 1: girls in the bathroom or on the sports field, something 266 00:18:22,515 --> 00:18:26,595 Speaker 1: of which the number of reported examples is approximately more 267 00:18:26,675 --> 00:18:32,035 Speaker 1: or less zero. That repeat in miniature of the blowback 268 00:18:32,115 --> 00:18:36,035 Speaker 1: against Lickt after the Trump Hindenburg disaster was still in 269 00:18:36,075 --> 00:18:39,515 Speaker 1: progress when Chris Lickt got onto the CNN nine am 270 00:18:39,715 --> 00:18:43,355 Speaker 1: internal conference call and tried to apologize to everybody, and 271 00:18:43,435 --> 00:18:48,155 Speaker 1: by ten am all the quotes were all over the place. First, 272 00:18:48,515 --> 00:18:52,435 Speaker 1: Lickt praised the Haley town hall debacle, then went off 273 00:18:52,475 --> 00:18:55,635 Speaker 1: on a monologue that did almost as much damage to 274 00:18:55,715 --> 00:18:58,555 Speaker 1: himself and his network as the piece by Tim Alberta 275 00:18:58,595 --> 00:19:01,715 Speaker 1: in The Atlantic did. To begin with, let me quote 276 00:19:02,075 --> 00:19:05,715 Speaker 1: and translate as we go along, all right, quoting Licked. 277 00:19:06,315 --> 00:19:09,075 Speaker 1: I know these past few days have been very hard 278 00:19:09,115 --> 00:19:13,635 Speaker 1: for this group unquote wait days. Since Lickt took over 279 00:19:13,755 --> 00:19:16,235 Speaker 1: CNN a year ago, the network has been a real 280 00:19:16,315 --> 00:19:19,835 Speaker 1: life version of the legend of Sisiphus, Only it's the 281 00:19:19,915 --> 00:19:22,675 Speaker 1: actual journalists there who've had to try to push the 282 00:19:22,795 --> 00:19:25,995 Speaker 1: damn rock back up the hill every day, while it's Licked, 283 00:19:26,275 --> 00:19:30,595 Speaker 1: who has then deliberately rolled it back down every night days. 284 00:19:31,635 --> 00:19:36,635 Speaker 1: Try month's pace, boy, quoting Licked again. I fully recognize 285 00:19:36,635 --> 00:19:39,435 Speaker 1: that this news cycle and my role in it, overshadowed 286 00:19:39,475 --> 00:19:42,395 Speaker 1: the incredible week of reporting that we just had and 287 00:19:42,515 --> 00:19:46,755 Speaker 1: distracted from the work of every single journalist in this organization, 288 00:19:47,115 --> 00:19:51,435 Speaker 1: and for that, I'm sorry. Unquote. First of all, he's 289 00:19:51,475 --> 00:19:56,435 Speaker 1: not sorry, he's sorry, he's getting criticized. The reporting he's 290 00:19:56,475 --> 00:20:00,515 Speaker 1: talking about is CNN's continuing breaking of Trump's Special Council 291 00:20:00,595 --> 00:20:04,955 Speaker 1: stories like the flooding of the IT room I mentioned. Remember, 292 00:20:05,075 --> 00:20:09,435 Speaker 1: Chris lick was hired by David Zaslav and John Malone 293 00:20:09,955 --> 00:20:14,915 Speaker 1: so he would overshadow bad stories about Trump and Republicans, 294 00:20:15,155 --> 00:20:20,035 Speaker 1: overshadow them or keep them off the CNN air. Quote. 295 00:20:20,075 --> 00:20:23,555 Speaker 1: As I read that article, I found myself thinking, CNN 296 00:20:23,635 --> 00:20:26,635 Speaker 1: is not about me. I should not be in the 297 00:20:26,675 --> 00:20:31,515 Speaker 1: news unless it's taking arrows for you. Your work is 298 00:20:31,515 --> 00:20:35,595 Speaker 1: what should be written about. Unquote. Well, that's the biggest 299 00:20:35,635 --> 00:20:39,555 Speaker 1: bullspit in this vast pile of bullspit. That is Chris Licked. 300 00:20:40,075 --> 00:20:44,235 Speaker 1: He has always metaphorically jumped in front of somebody else's 301 00:20:44,275 --> 00:20:48,715 Speaker 1: camera shot Joe Scarborough publicity licked, made sure he was 302 00:20:48,755 --> 00:20:52,635 Speaker 1: in it too, Gail King publicity, Gail King and licked. 303 00:20:52,875 --> 00:20:59,075 Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert saved by Chris LICKT. The new, old, old 304 00:20:59,275 --> 00:21:03,675 Speaker 1: new whatever it is CNN. Remember you can't spell CNN 305 00:21:03,755 --> 00:21:09,715 Speaker 1: without Chris SLICKT. I mean the publicity generation of Chris 306 00:21:09,755 --> 00:21:14,635 Speaker 1: Licht is so institutionalized now that maybe before the CNN 307 00:21:14,755 --> 00:21:19,315 Speaker 1: nine am call yesterday was even over, Joe Scarborough the 308 00:21:19,395 --> 00:21:23,555 Speaker 1: most despicable scumbag I have ever worked with, and I've 309 00:21:23,635 --> 00:21:28,475 Speaker 1: worked with Chris Myers. Joe Scarborough was already reading those 310 00:21:28,595 --> 00:21:33,195 Speaker 1: quotes from another network's internal phone call and defending his 311 00:21:33,315 --> 00:21:37,675 Speaker 1: former producer live on MSNBC, and one of Scarborough's on 312 00:21:37,875 --> 00:21:43,435 Speaker 1: air sickophants on MSNBC, the ridiculous Donnie Deutsch, said I 313 00:21:43,595 --> 00:21:46,915 Speaker 1: would never bet against Chris Licht, even though it was 314 00:21:46,955 --> 00:21:50,435 Speaker 1: reportedly Chris Lickt who told Deutsch when he was filling 315 00:21:50,435 --> 00:21:53,435 Speaker 1: in as an MSNBC anchor years ago, that a good 316 00:21:53,435 --> 00:21:56,315 Speaker 1: idea for a show would be to criticize me on 317 00:21:56,475 --> 00:21:58,595 Speaker 1: the air. I mean, I never even heard about it 318 00:21:58,635 --> 00:22:01,595 Speaker 1: until after management came in and apologized and told me 319 00:22:01,635 --> 00:22:04,595 Speaker 1: Deutsch had been suspended and would not be anchoring again. 320 00:22:05,635 --> 00:22:09,995 Speaker 1: And if anything defines the seriousness of Licht's series of 321 00:22:10,075 --> 00:22:13,075 Speaker 1: disasters better than that, I don't know what it could be. 322 00:22:13,835 --> 00:22:19,035 Speaker 1: Daintily vilified by CNN's Christian I'm on poor flacidly badly 323 00:22:19,075 --> 00:22:23,355 Speaker 1: defended by Anderson Cooper of CNN shot fall holes by 324 00:22:23,475 --> 00:22:27,275 Speaker 1: dozens of off the record CNN people. Chris Lickts only 325 00:22:27,595 --> 00:22:31,835 Speaker 1: on the record defense in the entire television industry has 326 00:22:31,875 --> 00:22:36,395 Speaker 1: now come from two guys on one of the networks 327 00:22:36,595 --> 00:22:42,035 Speaker 1: he is supposed to be destroying. One more quote from 328 00:22:42,075 --> 00:22:45,515 Speaker 1: the apology tour, to those whose trust I've lost, I 329 00:22:45,595 --> 00:22:48,795 Speaker 1: will fight like hell to win it back, because you 330 00:22:49,235 --> 00:22:54,235 Speaker 1: deserve a leader who will be in the trenches unquote. 331 00:22:54,395 --> 00:22:57,595 Speaker 1: He'll be in the trenches, all right, and then metaphorically 332 00:22:57,635 --> 00:23:00,875 Speaker 1: they will bury him in the trenches because Warner Bros. 333 00:23:00,995 --> 00:23:04,315 Speaker 1: Discovery may not actually fire Chris Lickt, but he will 334 00:23:04,315 --> 00:23:08,075 Speaker 1: not be running CNN by autumn at the latest. And 335 00:23:08,155 --> 00:23:11,675 Speaker 1: the second half of that last quote, in the trenches, 336 00:23:12,035 --> 00:23:16,235 Speaker 1: fighting to ensure CNN remains the world's most trusted name 337 00:23:16,315 --> 00:23:23,435 Speaker 1: in news unquote, most trusted, least watched. So let's see 338 00:23:23,515 --> 00:23:27,435 Speaker 1: how Licht's pretend humility played out there in the real world, 339 00:23:27,515 --> 00:23:30,435 Speaker 1: shall we? Off the record quotes to the first guy 340 00:23:30,515 --> 00:23:35,555 Speaker 1: Lickt fired for liberaling while broadcasting Brian Stelter quote, he's 341 00:23:35,715 --> 00:23:40,315 Speaker 1: over quote there's no coming back from that profile. Quote. 342 00:23:40,515 --> 00:23:43,155 Speaker 1: If he's so concerned with the CNN brand, what is 343 00:23:43,195 --> 00:23:46,395 Speaker 1: the point of saying any of this stuff publicly? And 344 00:23:46,475 --> 00:23:49,635 Speaker 1: somebody else said Lickt told him to fight like hell quote, 345 00:23:49,635 --> 00:23:54,115 Speaker 1: but added I've got nothing to lose now, which just 346 00:23:54,155 --> 00:23:56,955 Speaker 1: shows Lickt is still delusional. He's got a lot to 347 00:23:57,035 --> 00:24:00,995 Speaker 1: lose now. To the Washington Post, a CNN anchor added, 348 00:24:01,675 --> 00:24:06,635 Speaker 1: this just seems unsustainable unquote. Also, the Post article had 349 00:24:06,675 --> 00:24:09,715 Speaker 1: one more quote from that Licked apology on the conference call, 350 00:24:09,915 --> 00:24:15,315 Speaker 1: which doesn't need much amplification or explanation. They say, he said, quote, 351 00:24:15,955 --> 00:24:23,435 Speaker 1: this experience has been tremendously humbling. I bet it has. So. 352 00:24:23,515 --> 00:24:26,235 Speaker 1: That seemed to be it for day twenty seven of 353 00:24:26,355 --> 00:24:29,195 Speaker 1: Chris Licked in crisis, and then came the moment when 354 00:24:29,195 --> 00:24:33,355 Speaker 1: it was obvious that everybody Chris Licked ever tried to 355 00:24:33,555 --> 00:24:38,075 Speaker 1: damage or hurt or interfere with they were going to 356 00:24:38,115 --> 00:24:41,675 Speaker 1: get in one last shot while he was still breathing. 357 00:24:42,835 --> 00:24:46,115 Speaker 1: The saddest truth about the piece in the Atlantic, the 358 00:24:46,155 --> 00:24:52,355 Speaker 1: one moment when some of us had a moment of pity, empathy, 359 00:24:53,355 --> 00:24:57,875 Speaker 1: felt bad about feeling so good reading it. That saddest 360 00:24:57,915 --> 00:25:01,355 Speaker 1: truth was that, basically the only person who would go 361 00:25:01,475 --> 00:25:04,595 Speaker 1: on the record to the Atlantic writer praising Chris Licked 362 00:25:04,915 --> 00:25:09,595 Speaker 1: was his personal trainer, though the fact that Licked looked 363 00:25:09,635 --> 00:25:13,195 Speaker 1: so desperate that he would left magazine writer watch his 364 00:25:13,315 --> 00:25:15,955 Speaker 1: five am workouts, and when he finished a bunch of 365 00:25:16,035 --> 00:25:19,475 Speaker 1: squats while he was humping a rope or whatever it was, 366 00:25:19,715 --> 00:25:25,115 Speaker 1: he shouted, Jeff Zucker couldn't do this spit. He had 367 00:25:25,195 --> 00:25:28,875 Speaker 1: at least managed to lose fifty pounds and get in shape. 368 00:25:28,915 --> 00:25:31,515 Speaker 1: This was a guy who had a brain problem. Stay 369 00:25:31,555 --> 00:25:35,715 Speaker 1: in shape, Stay in shape while destroying your television network. 370 00:25:37,035 --> 00:25:40,635 Speaker 1: And then it comes from the London tabloid rag, The 371 00:25:40,795 --> 00:25:44,195 Speaker 1: Daily Mail and The Daily Beast had this story too, 372 00:25:44,195 --> 00:25:48,515 Speaker 1: They just didn't get it published fast enough. Headline exclusive 373 00:25:49,155 --> 00:25:55,355 Speaker 1: CNN boss Chris Licked bragged about taking Ozempic for weight loss. 374 00:25:55,915 --> 00:26:03,435 Speaker 1: Oh quote. Multiple sources tell dailymail dot com that the 375 00:26:03,515 --> 00:26:08,235 Speaker 1: self proclaimed meal skipping machine actually bragged about using the 376 00:26:08,275 --> 00:26:12,795 Speaker 1: diabetes drug turned weight loss miracle ozempic before it became 377 00:26:12,875 --> 00:26:16,915 Speaker 1: popular among a listers earlier this year. I heard about 378 00:26:16,915 --> 00:26:20,475 Speaker 1: ozempic from Chris, a close friend of lickt told dailymail 379 00:26:20,555 --> 00:26:22,995 Speaker 1: dot Com when he was at Colbert. He explained that 380 00:26:23,035 --> 00:26:25,195 Speaker 1: he was a huge fan of it and he'd been 381 00:26:25,275 --> 00:26:27,675 Speaker 1: using it to get his weight under control. This was 382 00:26:27,755 --> 00:26:31,155 Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty one, so I was shocked when 383 00:26:31,155 --> 00:26:33,115 Speaker 1: I read the Atlantic story and he was claiming it 384 00:26:33,155 --> 00:26:36,755 Speaker 1: was due to a trainer and cutting meals. Paul Lees 385 00:26:37,435 --> 00:26:43,075 Speaker 1: he told me point blank he uses it unquote. Oh 386 00:26:43,315 --> 00:27:02,875 Speaker 1: god ozempic. Jeff Zucker couldn't do that spit either, Still 387 00:27:02,875 --> 00:27:04,555 Speaker 1: ahead on countdown. All I had to do in the 388 00:27:04,755 --> 00:27:07,755 Speaker 1: mershall was stride over into the newsroom, grabbed the guy's 389 00:27:07,795 --> 00:27:11,355 Speaker 1: guitar and smash it against a room divider. The trick was, 390 00:27:11,595 --> 00:27:14,795 Speaker 1: we didn't tell anybody in the newsroom first, and a 391 00:27:14,875 --> 00:27:18,635 Speaker 1: mighty roar went up from the crowd. Coming up first 392 00:27:18,675 --> 00:27:20,355 Speaker 1: the daily rout up with the miss Grants, morons and 393 00:27:20,435 --> 00:27:23,755 Speaker 1: Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in 394 00:27:23,795 --> 00:27:28,155 Speaker 1: the world. Lebronze. David Begley an attorney in Omaha who 395 00:27:28,195 --> 00:27:31,035 Speaker 1: did not like the fact that Nebraska State Senator Meghan 396 00:27:31,155 --> 00:27:35,795 Speaker 1: Hunt voted against the creeping meatballism in his state, in 397 00:27:35,875 --> 00:27:39,515 Speaker 1: this case, Legislative Bill five seventy four, which would have 398 00:27:39,555 --> 00:27:44,635 Speaker 1: further restricted gender affirming care in Nebraska. So he filed 399 00:27:44,635 --> 00:27:49,315 Speaker 1: a conflict of interest complaint against Senator Hunt. Why because 400 00:27:49,355 --> 00:27:52,795 Speaker 1: Senator Hunt has a transgender son. And even though Medicaid 401 00:27:52,835 --> 00:27:55,715 Speaker 1: doesn't pay for transgender care, David Begley said her family 402 00:27:55,795 --> 00:27:59,115 Speaker 1: might get money someday from Medicaid because of it, and 403 00:27:59,155 --> 00:28:01,715 Speaker 1: she should have had to disclose this before the vote, 404 00:28:01,835 --> 00:28:04,275 Speaker 1: even though her side lost and her chances of getting 405 00:28:04,275 --> 00:28:06,795 Speaker 1: Medicaid for this or about as big as this worm. 406 00:28:06,915 --> 00:28:12,195 Speaker 1: Begley now growing a soul. The Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure 407 00:28:12,275 --> 00:28:16,035 Speaker 1: Commission began an investigation into this Begley guy's attempt to 408 00:28:16,075 --> 00:28:20,435 Speaker 1: stop legislators from voting unless they agree with him. They've 409 00:28:20,435 --> 00:28:24,555 Speaker 1: now dismissed his complaint. They spent taxpayer money on this. Frankly, 410 00:28:24,595 --> 00:28:29,275 Speaker 1: they should charge Begley because this was intimidation and transphobia 411 00:28:29,315 --> 00:28:32,235 Speaker 1: and it was funded by the taxpayers of Nebraska. And 412 00:28:32,275 --> 00:28:35,755 Speaker 1: you have Begley's offices in the phone book. The runner 413 00:28:35,875 --> 00:28:40,795 Speaker 1: up Space Karen again Elmo muskrat joined in a Space's 414 00:28:40,915 --> 00:28:44,595 Speaker 1: conversation by the decaying remains of Robert F. Kennedy Junior. 415 00:28:45,275 --> 00:28:47,635 Speaker 1: The good news is the thing did not crash this 416 00:28:47,755 --> 00:28:50,955 Speaker 1: time like I did with DeSantis. The bad news Elmo 417 00:28:51,155 --> 00:28:54,635 Speaker 1: yesterday pushed yet another conspiracy theory in this one, the 418 00:28:54,675 --> 00:29:00,075 Speaker 1: conspiracy is against him. Musk said half of advertising disappeared 419 00:29:00,075 --> 00:29:03,635 Speaker 1: from Twitter overnight because we're insisting on free speech and 420 00:29:03,995 --> 00:29:07,435 Speaker 1: they're literal. He's trying to drive Twitter bankrupt. And when 421 00:29:07,475 --> 00:29:10,955 Speaker 1: he says they, of course, he means I'm driving Twitter 422 00:29:11,035 --> 00:29:13,795 Speaker 1: bankrupt because I have no idea how life works when 423 00:29:13,835 --> 00:29:16,475 Speaker 1: somebody take this goddamn thing away from me, and he 424 00:29:16,555 --> 00:29:21,355 Speaker 1: might as well say, go anti woke, go broke. By 425 00:29:21,395 --> 00:29:23,035 Speaker 1: the way, is there a way we could do that? 426 00:29:23,755 --> 00:29:27,195 Speaker 1: Is there some legal construction in which Twitter, being online 427 00:29:27,275 --> 00:29:30,875 Speaker 1: and using public bandwidth and such is declared a public 428 00:29:30,915 --> 00:29:33,675 Speaker 1: communications medium, and you could take it away from this 429 00:29:33,795 --> 00:29:36,155 Speaker 1: idiot Musk the way the FCC could take a local 430 00:29:36,155 --> 00:29:41,595 Speaker 1: TV station away from inappropriate owners. Just a thought, but 431 00:29:41,715 --> 00:29:44,915 Speaker 1: our winner, good old Congressman Jamie Comer of Kentucky, Chairman 432 00:29:44,955 --> 00:29:49,435 Speaker 1: of the House Committee for Wasting Time. I think that's 433 00:29:49,435 --> 00:29:52,715 Speaker 1: the title of it, the one pursuing the Biden whistleblower 434 00:29:52,755 --> 00:29:56,115 Speaker 1: complaint that turns out to actually have originated with Rudy Giuliani. 435 00:29:56,675 --> 00:29:58,795 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani is the guy at the heart of this 436 00:29:58,835 --> 00:30:03,555 Speaker 1: whole whistleblower crap. This is the memo, Republicans say is 437 00:30:03,595 --> 00:30:05,915 Speaker 1: more important than whether or not anything alleged in the 438 00:30:05,955 --> 00:30:09,715 Speaker 1: memo is true. Well, yesterday the FBI briefed Jamie and 439 00:30:09,875 --> 00:30:13,715 Speaker 1: Jamie Comber and the ranking Committee Democrat Jamie Raskin, and 440 00:30:13,755 --> 00:30:16,115 Speaker 1: the two emerged from the briefing and Comer had the 441 00:30:16,115 --> 00:30:19,715 Speaker 1: gall to say the allegation quote has not been disproven, 442 00:30:20,275 --> 00:30:23,795 Speaker 1: and Raskin just looked at him and said, yad had quote. 443 00:30:23,915 --> 00:30:27,035 Speaker 1: The FBI, the Department of Justice team under William Barr 444 00:30:27,115 --> 00:30:30,595 Speaker 1: and Brady terminated the investigation. They said there were no 445 00:30:30,715 --> 00:30:35,355 Speaker 1: grounds for further investigative steps. Can we please just start 446 00:30:35,395 --> 00:30:40,235 Speaker 1: calling this what it is? This partner abuse allegation, skating yokel. 447 00:30:40,315 --> 00:30:43,515 Speaker 1: Comer is making this crap up as he goes along, 448 00:30:43,835 --> 00:30:47,475 Speaker 1: and he should be treated as the semi sentient fire 449 00:30:47,595 --> 00:30:51,595 Speaker 1: hydrant that he is representative. Jamie, you know what else 450 00:30:51,635 --> 00:30:54,995 Speaker 1: has not been disproven? Your college girlfriend's allegation that you 451 00:30:55,075 --> 00:30:57,475 Speaker 1: hit her and took her to her abortion and threatened 452 00:30:57,515 --> 00:31:03,435 Speaker 1: to kill her. Comber two days worst person in the world, 453 00:31:14,235 --> 00:31:16,355 Speaker 1: still ahead of Heir on countdown. Somebody asked me about 454 00:31:16,355 --> 00:31:18,595 Speaker 1: the old This is Sports Center commercials the other day, 455 00:31:18,635 --> 00:31:20,955 Speaker 1: and if I had a favorite, and I had three, 456 00:31:21,435 --> 00:31:24,195 Speaker 1: and they all have great stories, but the Alexei Lallis 457 00:31:24,315 --> 00:31:27,475 Speaker 1: guitar story is probably the best of them. Things I 458 00:31:27,555 --> 00:31:31,035 Speaker 1: promise not to tell next. First, in each tradition of Countdown, 459 00:31:31,035 --> 00:31:33,235 Speaker 1: we feature a dog in need you can help. Every 460 00:31:33,275 --> 00:31:36,915 Speaker 1: dog has its day. This is about Lee Lou and 461 00:31:37,115 --> 00:31:41,195 Speaker 1: Powty Cake Rescue, which saves dogs in the Bahamas. Powty 462 00:31:41,235 --> 00:31:43,515 Speaker 1: Cake Rescue had to close recently because it has to 463 00:31:43,595 --> 00:31:47,475 Speaker 1: change buildings, but try explaining that to dogs in trouble. 464 00:31:48,155 --> 00:31:51,475 Speaker 1: The woman in charge of Pottycake saw Leelu and knew 465 00:31:51,515 --> 00:31:54,155 Speaker 1: she really needed help. She was hiding in a school, 466 00:31:54,475 --> 00:31:56,515 Speaker 1: just the white mutt, with ears as big as her 467 00:31:56,555 --> 00:31:59,875 Speaker 1: face and clearly some kind of neurological problem. She was 468 00:31:59,915 --> 00:32:03,995 Speaker 1: having trouble standing and keeping standing, so if she fell 469 00:32:04,035 --> 00:32:06,195 Speaker 1: while trying to across the road, she would never make 470 00:32:06,235 --> 00:32:08,475 Speaker 1: it to the other side. So they rescue her and 471 00:32:08,475 --> 00:32:10,435 Speaker 1: they're trying to raise funds to get her treated and 472 00:32:10,475 --> 00:32:13,155 Speaker 1: placed in a foster home. They've set up a giving 473 00:32:13,275 --> 00:32:17,355 Speaker 1: grid page and you can find her on there. Leelu Llou, 474 00:32:17,795 --> 00:32:19,635 Speaker 1: and you can find her on my Twitter feeds. If 475 00:32:19,635 --> 00:32:23,435 Speaker 1: you can donate, please do and your retweet will also help. 476 00:32:23,955 --> 00:32:37,555 Speaker 1: I thank you, and Leelu, thanks you. Nineteen ninety four 477 00:32:37,595 --> 00:32:40,595 Speaker 1: World Cup did not really do that much for American soccer, 478 00:32:40,715 --> 00:32:43,635 Speaker 1: which as you know, is the sport of the future 479 00:32:43,635 --> 00:32:47,715 Speaker 1: in this country and always will be. It did make 480 00:32:47,755 --> 00:32:51,515 Speaker 1: a lot of Americans into fans, but fans of European clubs, 481 00:32:51,595 --> 00:32:55,155 Speaker 1: especially the British clubs. But for a while, Alexey Lalis, 482 00:32:55,195 --> 00:32:57,835 Speaker 1: with his shoulder length reddish blonde hair and his billy 483 00:32:57,915 --> 00:33:01,475 Speaker 1: goat beard and his anti establishment vibe, he was on 484 00:33:01,555 --> 00:33:06,075 Speaker 1: the front burners of American sports. Really, ESPN wanted him 485 00:33:06,075 --> 00:33:10,755 Speaker 1: for the surrealist fake documentary commercials called this his Sports Center, 486 00:33:10,795 --> 00:33:14,075 Speaker 1: and sure enough he came to Bristol and they devised 487 00:33:14,115 --> 00:33:17,715 Speaker 1: a bit in which Gary Miller John Luca Polyuca's Gary 488 00:33:17,755 --> 00:33:20,355 Speaker 1: Miller would be sitting at a desk in the sports 489 00:33:20,355 --> 00:33:24,755 Speaker 1: Center newsroom. As atop the adjoining desk, Lalas sat cross legged, 490 00:33:24,995 --> 00:33:29,595 Speaker 1: philosophizing on relaxation and vibes, and finally playing Michael Row 491 00:33:29,675 --> 00:33:33,675 Speaker 1: the boat Ashore on his guitar. At that point the 492 00:33:33,675 --> 00:33:36,475 Speaker 1: commercial turned into one of the classic scenes from John 493 00:33:36,515 --> 00:33:41,555 Speaker 1: Belushi's Animal House film. Another sportscaster was to storm into 494 00:33:41,595 --> 00:33:44,635 Speaker 1: the newsroom, pull the guitar out of Lalas's hands, and 495 00:33:44,675 --> 00:33:48,755 Speaker 1: then smash it against a cubicle wall with the greatest 496 00:33:48,835 --> 00:33:51,995 Speaker 1: grunt he could achieve, and then hand Lallas back whatever 497 00:33:52,195 --> 00:33:58,515 Speaker 1: was left of the guitar, and like Belushi, say sorry. Well, 498 00:33:59,435 --> 00:34:02,395 Speaker 1: they asked me to be the other sportscaster who smashes 499 00:34:02,435 --> 00:34:06,235 Speaker 1: the guitar. So picture that in your mind as I 500 00:34:06,315 --> 00:34:09,475 Speaker 1: play what it sounded like for twenty seconds or so. 501 00:34:09,835 --> 00:34:12,355 Speaker 1: And then I have what I think is a really 502 00:34:12,475 --> 00:34:16,235 Speaker 1: good backstory about the filming of this one. And I'm 503 00:34:16,355 --> 00:34:20,275 Speaker 1: talking to you all afternoon about the tension, about the darkness. 504 00:34:21,475 --> 00:34:39,835 Speaker 1: We got to do something about that, Michael sEH. For 505 00:34:39,955 --> 00:34:44,795 Speaker 1: time's sake, the word sorry didn't make it. So the backstory, 506 00:34:44,955 --> 00:34:48,195 Speaker 1: and it's out of chronological order. The guitar that Alexei 507 00:34:48,235 --> 00:34:51,235 Speaker 1: Laois was playing was not the one I smashed. There 508 00:34:51,275 --> 00:34:53,515 Speaker 1: was an exact duplicate that had been bought. It had 509 00:34:53,515 --> 00:34:56,715 Speaker 1: been taken apart, it had been sawed, and basically it 510 00:34:56,755 --> 00:34:59,475 Speaker 1: was put back together with scotch tape. It would hold 511 00:34:59,515 --> 00:35:02,475 Speaker 1: together long enough for him to scrum a few sour 512 00:35:02,595 --> 00:35:05,755 Speaker 1: notes on it, and then for me to and smash it. 513 00:35:06,235 --> 00:35:09,475 Speaker 1: They were confident it would not fly apart until I 514 00:35:09,595 --> 00:35:11,915 Speaker 1: hit the cubicle wall with it, but they still told 515 00:35:11,955 --> 00:35:15,475 Speaker 1: me to simply grab it, not yanked out of his hands, 516 00:35:16,075 --> 00:35:17,995 Speaker 1: or I might be left holding the neck of the 517 00:35:18,035 --> 00:35:22,275 Speaker 1: guitar and Alexe holding the rest of it. This was 518 00:35:22,395 --> 00:35:25,995 Speaker 1: especially problematic because we only had the one prop guitar. 519 00:35:27,115 --> 00:35:29,835 Speaker 1: That's right, we made the business end of that commercial 520 00:35:29,875 --> 00:35:34,275 Speaker 1: in one take. This is SportsCenter campaign. Not only Freaquly 521 00:35:34,315 --> 00:35:38,355 Speaker 1: achieved something approaching genius levels of originality and creativity, but 522 00:35:38,395 --> 00:35:42,915 Speaker 1: they were all done cheaper than local news promos. In Burlington, 523 00:35:43,035 --> 00:35:47,635 Speaker 1: Vermont in nineteen eighty two. We often shot three of 524 00:35:47,675 --> 00:35:51,515 Speaker 1: these commercials in one day, and it wasn't until the 525 00:35:51,555 --> 00:35:54,355 Speaker 1: second series of ads did the Sports Center anchors who 526 00:35:54,395 --> 00:35:57,595 Speaker 1: starred in one, or two or three even get credit 527 00:35:57,675 --> 00:36:01,315 Speaker 1: for a day off. In one of them, Charlie Sneiner 528 00:36:01,435 --> 00:36:03,395 Speaker 1: is trying to get his tape of highlights back from 529 00:36:03,435 --> 00:36:06,435 Speaker 1: the Harlem Globe trotter who are passing it around like 530 00:36:06,475 --> 00:36:08,955 Speaker 1: a basketball, and he says, can He's a little help. 531 00:36:09,275 --> 00:36:12,435 Speaker 1: Then I'm typing away at my computer and I say sure, Charlie, 532 00:36:12,435 --> 00:36:14,675 Speaker 1: and I don't even look at him, let alone stop typing, 533 00:36:14,875 --> 00:36:18,395 Speaker 1: let alone give any help. And that's done. Because the 534 00:36:18,435 --> 00:36:22,035 Speaker 1: commercial was shot in the area right behind my desk, 535 00:36:22,435 --> 00:36:25,595 Speaker 1: because nobody was working there that day except me, and 536 00:36:25,675 --> 00:36:28,555 Speaker 1: it was around five PM, and I was, in fact 537 00:36:28,635 --> 00:36:31,955 Speaker 1: sitting at my desk writing the eleven PM Sports Center script, 538 00:36:32,555 --> 00:36:34,835 Speaker 1: and the original commercial script did not call for me 539 00:36:34,915 --> 00:36:37,955 Speaker 1: to even be in Charlie's commercial. But on the fly 540 00:36:38,115 --> 00:36:40,595 Speaker 1: the writer said, hey, Keith, can you give us one line? 541 00:36:41,075 --> 00:36:42,835 Speaker 1: And I said, as long as I can keep writing, 542 00:36:43,195 --> 00:36:47,715 Speaker 1: and they said perfect. By the way, Charlie did the 543 00:36:47,715 --> 00:36:51,275 Speaker 1: commercial around five o'clock or so and then went and 544 00:36:51,315 --> 00:36:55,115 Speaker 1: anchored the six thirty PM Sports Center. The spot we 545 00:36:55,155 --> 00:36:58,275 Speaker 1: did where hockey legend Gordy Howe beats me up while 546 00:36:58,275 --> 00:37:01,035 Speaker 1: I am trying to read through a script also shot 547 00:37:01,075 --> 00:37:03,595 Speaker 1: at my desk, also on a day I was anchoring 548 00:37:03,635 --> 00:37:08,315 Speaker 1: the show, and that was my real script. Anyway, back 549 00:37:08,355 --> 00:37:11,595 Speaker 1: to Alex A. Lallis and the guitar, so we only 550 00:37:11,635 --> 00:37:13,675 Speaker 1: had the one prop guitar, and so we only had 551 00:37:13,715 --> 00:37:15,635 Speaker 1: the one take, and we were shooting it in the 552 00:37:15,675 --> 00:37:19,035 Speaker 1: actual Sports Center newsroom of course, in fact, they were 553 00:37:19,155 --> 00:37:22,075 Speaker 1: remodeling the real newsroom to accommodate the launch of the 554 00:37:22,075 --> 00:37:27,435 Speaker 1: new ESPN News network. So this was the temporary even 555 00:37:27,515 --> 00:37:31,155 Speaker 1: more crowded than usual newsroom. So the cameraman and the 556 00:37:31,195 --> 00:37:33,315 Speaker 1: producer and the writer and I walked through how they 557 00:37:33,395 --> 00:37:35,475 Speaker 1: thought it would work best, since I would have to 558 00:37:35,515 --> 00:37:38,515 Speaker 1: weave past people who were really doing their jobs and 559 00:37:38,555 --> 00:37:41,115 Speaker 1: going to other desks and talking to people and stuff. 560 00:37:41,835 --> 00:37:44,795 Speaker 1: They had two cameras in the little hallway that constituted 561 00:37:44,795 --> 00:37:48,395 Speaker 1: the temporary newsroom's northern border, and they put a third, 562 00:37:48,515 --> 00:37:50,955 Speaker 1: smaller camera on the floor where they guessed that a 563 00:37:50,995 --> 00:37:54,195 Speaker 1: piece of the guitar might land after I smashed it. 564 00:37:55,075 --> 00:37:56,875 Speaker 1: See if you can get the fret or something to 565 00:37:56,915 --> 00:37:59,795 Speaker 1: go here. The producer said that would make a great shot. 566 00:38:00,715 --> 00:38:02,195 Speaker 1: I asked him how in the hell I was supposed 567 00:38:02,235 --> 00:38:05,075 Speaker 1: to do that since we couldn't even practice this, and 568 00:38:05,075 --> 00:38:10,195 Speaker 1: he said, well, honestly, I don't know. Telepathy. Maybe that 569 00:38:10,395 --> 00:38:13,875 Speaker 1: was the other salient part of the backstory, since we 570 00:38:13,955 --> 00:38:15,995 Speaker 1: only had the one take and we wouldn't even be 571 00:38:16,035 --> 00:38:18,035 Speaker 1: doing a dry run because they didn't want the guitar 572 00:38:18,075 --> 00:38:20,835 Speaker 1: to fall apart in my hands. I would say less 573 00:38:20,835 --> 00:38:24,515 Speaker 1: than half the people crowded into the temporary newsroom had 574 00:38:24,595 --> 00:38:27,915 Speaker 1: any idea that when I came in i was in 575 00:38:27,995 --> 00:38:30,995 Speaker 1: the commercial let alone, that I was going to actually 576 00:38:31,035 --> 00:38:35,035 Speaker 1: and loudly destroy a guitar by smashing it against a 577 00:38:35,075 --> 00:38:38,995 Speaker 1: low cubicle wall. Even if the guitar has been pre 578 00:38:39,155 --> 00:38:41,555 Speaker 1: broken and taped back together, as that one was, it 579 00:38:41,595 --> 00:38:45,075 Speaker 1: is still going to make a lot of noise. Wait. 580 00:38:45,595 --> 00:38:48,075 Speaker 1: I said to my friend Hank, who wrote it. You're 581 00:38:48,075 --> 00:38:51,315 Speaker 1: not warning anybody, are you, your little devil? Hank got 582 00:38:51,355 --> 00:38:54,875 Speaker 1: a gleeful, evil glazed look in his eyes. No, isn't 583 00:38:54,915 --> 00:38:58,315 Speaker 1: that great. So they filmed the closeups of Gary, and 584 00:38:58,355 --> 00:39:00,515 Speaker 1: they filmed the closeups of Alexi, and then they set 585 00:39:00,555 --> 00:39:03,275 Speaker 1: me up to enter from a vestibule through two swinging 586 00:39:03,315 --> 00:39:06,275 Speaker 1: doors with windows in them, which was along the periphery 587 00:39:06,275 --> 00:39:08,755 Speaker 1: of the temporary newsroom. Then a right turn, and then 588 00:39:08,755 --> 00:39:11,635 Speaker 1: about no, no, No, fifteen twenty feet to where Alexei and 589 00:39:11,675 --> 00:39:15,275 Speaker 1: Gary were still sitting. My target for exactly where I 590 00:39:15,275 --> 00:39:18,835 Speaker 1: should hit the guitar was clearly marked on the cubicle wall, 591 00:39:18,875 --> 00:39:21,595 Speaker 1: and they even put marks on the carpet of where 592 00:39:21,635 --> 00:39:23,555 Speaker 1: a couple of practice walks had shown would give me 593 00:39:23,555 --> 00:39:27,155 Speaker 1: the best chance at a solid stance when I swung 594 00:39:27,235 --> 00:39:31,515 Speaker 1: the guitar and sent it el kabonging to its doom, 595 00:39:31,995 --> 00:39:36,155 Speaker 1: and nobody ever said quiet or roll or here we go. 596 00:39:36,915 --> 00:39:38,755 Speaker 1: They told people in the room that they were just 597 00:39:38,795 --> 00:39:42,635 Speaker 1: shooting some cover angles on Gary and Alexi, and people 598 00:39:42,675 --> 00:39:45,835 Speaker 1: could say or move whatever and wherever they wanted to 599 00:39:46,355 --> 00:39:49,475 Speaker 1: just a long they didn't get away the cameras. Then 600 00:39:49,515 --> 00:39:52,515 Speaker 1: they just tapped the desks for Alexa and Gary to start, 601 00:39:52,835 --> 00:39:55,275 Speaker 1: and the producer waved to me and in I went, 602 00:39:55,635 --> 00:39:58,035 Speaker 1: trying to channel John Bulushi when he takes the guitar 603 00:39:58,075 --> 00:39:59,995 Speaker 1: away from Stephen Bishop on the stairs of the Front 604 00:40:00,035 --> 00:40:03,715 Speaker 1: House and Animal House. I furrowed my brow and I 605 00:40:03,795 --> 00:40:07,795 Speaker 1: tried to fake so venom towards Alexei Lalas. I found 606 00:40:07,875 --> 00:40:10,555 Speaker 1: the emotion as I came through the doors. I kept 607 00:40:10,595 --> 00:40:12,915 Speaker 1: thinking that since I had been eight years old, I 608 00:40:12,955 --> 00:40:15,315 Speaker 1: had heard people call soccer the sport of the future 609 00:40:15,355 --> 00:40:17,475 Speaker 1: here and I was now thirty seven, and I was 610 00:40:17,555 --> 00:40:21,595 Speaker 1: damn tired of hearing it. Lalas was scrumming on the 611 00:40:21,635 --> 00:40:26,035 Speaker 1: nearly neutered prop guitar. It made a sick sound. I 612 00:40:26,075 --> 00:40:28,435 Speaker 1: took my strides, I hit the marks, I grabbed the 613 00:40:28,435 --> 00:40:31,275 Speaker 1: guitar by the neck with my right hand, and simultaneously 614 00:40:31,315 --> 00:40:34,355 Speaker 1: Alexey let go, and then with both hands, I swung 615 00:40:34,435 --> 00:40:36,835 Speaker 1: the guitar back over my head and smashed it right 616 00:40:36,875 --> 00:40:54,115 Speaker 1: on the mark. As you heard Michael Shale. The Sports 617 00:40:54,155 --> 00:40:58,795 Speaker 1: Center newsroom promptly went silent for several seconds. The reaction 618 00:40:58,995 --> 00:41:01,635 Speaker 1: was identical to what it would have been had there 619 00:41:01,715 --> 00:41:04,795 Speaker 1: been no commercial being made and no cameras present. And 620 00:41:04,835 --> 00:41:08,595 Speaker 1: I had just walked in and destroyed somebody's guitar, which 621 00:41:08,635 --> 00:41:10,595 Speaker 1: I guess a lot of people expect that I might 622 00:41:10,675 --> 00:41:13,915 Speaker 1: do someday, because even a lot of the people who 623 00:41:13,955 --> 00:41:18,915 Speaker 1: were surprised were not surprised surprised. Craig Wax, the skinny 624 00:41:18,955 --> 00:41:21,715 Speaker 1: research guy, can be seen in the finished commercial, which 625 00:41:21,755 --> 00:41:26,075 Speaker 1: is on YouTube, for a second far left, just staring 626 00:41:26,115 --> 00:41:28,715 Speaker 1: at me, like, yeah, well, we always knew Keys would 627 00:41:28,715 --> 00:41:32,035 Speaker 1: do something like that. After I'd destroyed the guitar, and 628 00:41:32,075 --> 00:41:34,515 Speaker 1: I have to say, I did it really well. I 629 00:41:34,595 --> 00:41:38,035 Speaker 1: kept moving for the plan until I walked back through 630 00:41:38,075 --> 00:41:41,875 Speaker 1: the swinging doors and out of shot. The director shouted cut. 631 00:41:41,995 --> 00:41:44,755 Speaker 1: I walked back in, and the crew gave me a 632 00:41:44,875 --> 00:41:47,155 Speaker 1: round of applause, and a couple of them were cheering 633 00:41:47,195 --> 00:41:49,155 Speaker 1: out of all proportion, even if I had done is 634 00:41:49,555 --> 00:41:51,755 Speaker 1: good of a job as I thought, Come here, Come here. 635 00:41:51,795 --> 00:41:55,675 Speaker 1: The cameraman kept saying, come here. That extra camera on 636 00:41:55,715 --> 00:41:59,515 Speaker 1: the floor. They backed the videotape up from it, and 637 00:41:59,555 --> 00:42:02,235 Speaker 1: they showed it to me. When I smashed the guitar, 638 00:42:02,995 --> 00:42:06,235 Speaker 1: the fret board, the actual wood and metal piece on 639 00:42:06,315 --> 00:42:09,755 Speaker 1: the neck flew off and not only landed near the 640 00:42:09,795 --> 00:42:12,795 Speaker 1: third camera's lens, it hit it on the fly and 641 00:42:12,875 --> 00:42:16,595 Speaker 1: it stuck there. They were as happy as if they 642 00:42:16,595 --> 00:42:19,635 Speaker 1: were engineers imploding a building for the first time and 643 00:42:19,755 --> 00:42:22,955 Speaker 1: it had fallen exactly as they had hoped. Plus, they 644 00:42:22,995 --> 00:42:25,635 Speaker 1: showed me the playback from the first camera, and there 645 00:42:25,715 --> 00:42:27,955 Speaker 1: was an assignment desk editor with her back to the 646 00:42:27,995 --> 00:42:31,355 Speaker 1: action on the phone, completely unaware of what was happening 647 00:42:31,435 --> 00:42:34,395 Speaker 1: or even that they were rolling film and videotape, and 648 00:42:34,475 --> 00:42:38,235 Speaker 1: she literally jumped several inches out of her seat of 649 00:42:38,275 --> 00:42:42,075 Speaker 1: her chair. But to me, the best part of this 650 00:42:42,115 --> 00:42:45,755 Speaker 1: thing is Gary Miller. Even if you know a loud 651 00:42:45,955 --> 00:42:48,595 Speaker 1: noise is coming, it is quite the effort to not 652 00:42:48,835 --> 00:42:52,595 Speaker 1: flinch a little when it happens basically right over your shoulder. 653 00:42:52,995 --> 00:42:56,555 Speaker 1: I mean, ask the little kid in the movie north 654 00:42:56,635 --> 00:43:01,795 Speaker 1: By Northwest where Iva Marie Saint shoots Carry Grant and 655 00:43:01,875 --> 00:43:04,195 Speaker 1: he sticks his fingers in his ears because it's take 656 00:43:04,235 --> 00:43:07,915 Speaker 1: thirty seve and he knows the noise is coming. I mean, 657 00:43:08,515 --> 00:43:11,875 Speaker 1: you're aware of it just for the possibility that somebody 658 00:43:11,915 --> 00:43:15,235 Speaker 1: will screw it up like me and debris will fly 659 00:43:15,355 --> 00:43:18,035 Speaker 1: into the back of your head. But if you watch 660 00:43:18,075 --> 00:43:21,035 Speaker 1: Gary Miller in this Sports Center commercial, he doesn't even blink, 661 00:43:21,475 --> 00:43:26,635 Speaker 1: just a little dead pan head jerk. It's perfect. What 662 00:43:26,835 --> 00:43:29,035 Speaker 1: also amazes me is that we got all this done 663 00:43:29,075 --> 00:43:31,875 Speaker 1: in twenty four seconds of running time. Alexei goes on 664 00:43:31,915 --> 00:43:34,355 Speaker 1: about negativity. They have to do something about it. He 665 00:43:34,395 --> 00:43:36,355 Speaker 1: plays enough of the song that you recognize it. You 666 00:43:36,395 --> 00:43:39,115 Speaker 1: got a shot at cheerleaders incongruously in the middle of 667 00:43:39,155 --> 00:43:42,435 Speaker 1: the background. I appear from nowhere, move over there, smash 668 00:43:42,475 --> 00:43:45,915 Speaker 1: the guitar while roaring spectacularly. I give him back the 669 00:43:45,955 --> 00:43:48,235 Speaker 1: neck of the thing. The only thing missing is that 670 00:43:48,355 --> 00:43:50,795 Speaker 1: shot from the fret bar flying into camera three. They 671 00:43:50,835 --> 00:43:56,315 Speaker 1: explained they didn't have the extra two seconds scene. I 672 00:43:56,355 --> 00:43:59,555 Speaker 1: remember enjoying doing this so much that I asked them 673 00:43:59,555 --> 00:44:01,795 Speaker 1: for the front of the body of the guitar, and 674 00:44:01,835 --> 00:44:04,395 Speaker 1: I had Alexi sign it to me on the spot. 675 00:44:04,715 --> 00:44:09,035 Speaker 1: It hung framed in my various offices for about fifteen years. 676 00:44:09,755 --> 00:44:12,875 Speaker 1: In twenty fourteen, I was leaving the recording of Stephen 677 00:44:12,915 --> 00:44:15,715 Speaker 1: Colbert's final episode for Comedy Central. I was one of 678 00:44:15,715 --> 00:44:18,395 Speaker 1: one hundred guests, and I went out onto the street 679 00:44:18,395 --> 00:44:21,035 Speaker 1: to find a cab home and I got one, and 680 00:44:21,155 --> 00:44:24,435 Speaker 1: in getting into it, I nearly ran into Alexei Lalas, 681 00:44:24,475 --> 00:44:27,115 Speaker 1: who was one of the other one hundred guests. I laughed, 682 00:44:27,115 --> 00:44:28,555 Speaker 1: He laughed, and he said, and I don't even have 683 00:44:28,635 --> 00:44:32,795 Speaker 1: my guitar with me. And one last note, I doubt 684 00:44:32,835 --> 00:44:35,155 Speaker 1: this will be of any practical use to you, but 685 00:44:35,235 --> 00:44:39,475 Speaker 1: I must say as somebody who was accorded this rare privilege, 686 00:44:39,675 --> 00:44:43,355 Speaker 1: not only of doing this, but of doing this with impunity, 687 00:44:43,675 --> 00:44:47,715 Speaker 1: and doing this to applause. If you are trying to 688 00:44:47,875 --> 00:44:53,395 Speaker 1: HEALTHI event any frustrations or anger in your life, smashing 689 00:44:53,435 --> 00:44:58,275 Speaker 1: a guitar against a workplace cubicle wall is exactly as 690 00:44:58,355 --> 00:45:15,075 Speaker 1: satisfying as you would expect it would be. I've done 691 00:45:15,115 --> 00:45:17,315 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Countdown has come 692 00:45:17,355 --> 00:45:19,475 Speaker 1: to you from the Vin Scully Studio at the world 693 00:45:19,515 --> 00:45:23,555 Speaker 1: Headquarters of the Old Women Broadcasting Empire Sports Capsule Building, 694 00:45:23,635 --> 00:45:26,515 Speaker 1: New York. Here are the credits. Most of the music 695 00:45:26,595 --> 00:45:29,075 Speaker 1: was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray and John 696 00:45:29,075 --> 00:45:32,995 Speaker 1: Phillip Shanel. The countdown musical directors, all orchestration and keyboards 697 00:45:32,995 --> 00:45:36,555 Speaker 1: by John Phillip Shanel, guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray, 698 00:45:37,195 --> 00:45:40,795 Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections 699 00:45:40,795 --> 00:45:43,275 Speaker 1: have been arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 700 00:45:43,635 --> 00:45:46,475 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two 701 00:45:46,555 --> 00:45:48,915 Speaker 1: and it was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of 702 00:45:49,115 --> 00:45:52,715 Speaker 1: ESPN Inc. Musical comments by Nancy Faust. The best baseball 703 00:45:52,715 --> 00:45:56,235 Speaker 1: stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was my friend Tony Kornheiser, 704 00:45:56,395 --> 00:45:59,515 Speaker 1: and everything else was pretty much my fault. That's countdown 705 00:45:59,555 --> 00:46:01,715 Speaker 1: for this the eight hundred and eighty second day since 706 00:46:01,715 --> 00:46:05,475 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government 707 00:46:05,475 --> 00:46:08,515 Speaker 1: of the United States. Don't forget to keep arresting him 708 00:46:08,555 --> 00:46:11,715 Speaker 1: while we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. 709 00:46:11,835 --> 00:46:14,515 Speaker 1: Until then, I'm Keith Oulraman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, 710 00:46:14,995 --> 00:46:24,835 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Oldman is a production 711 00:46:25,075 --> 00:46:30,355 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 712 00:46:30,475 --> 00:46:33,835 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.