1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:25,555 --> 00:00:29,235 Speaker 1: I cannot be certain which scumbag I hate more today, 3 00:00:29,475 --> 00:00:37,195 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough or Samuel Alito. The grotesque on feeling in human, arrogant, condescending, 4 00:00:37,435 --> 00:00:40,915 Speaker 1: holier than thou attacks on John Fetterman for not healing 5 00:00:41,035 --> 00:00:44,795 Speaker 1: fast enough from a stroke to please the slime of 6 00:00:44,835 --> 00:00:50,755 Speaker 1: our society like Joe Goddamn Scarborough almost defies description. John 7 00:00:50,835 --> 00:00:56,555 Speaker 1: Fetterman's ability to communicate, Scarborough wrote, is seriously impaired. Pennsylvania 8 00:00:56,635 --> 00:00:59,595 Speaker 1: voters will be talking about this obvious fact, even if 9 00:00:59,635 --> 00:01:02,715 Speaker 1: many in the media will not. This is painful to watch, 10 00:01:02,795 --> 00:01:08,195 Speaker 1: regardless of one's politics. Who in the hell do you 11 00:01:08,315 --> 00:01:13,195 Speaker 1: think you are? Scarborough? Everybody who has ever known you, 12 00:01:13,875 --> 00:01:17,035 Speaker 1: anybody who has ever known any of the ten or 13 00:01:17,155 --> 00:01:22,155 Speaker 1: twenty different Joe Scarborough's who have darkened our horizons. Everybody 14 00:01:22,195 --> 00:01:27,355 Speaker 1: knows your ability to communicate has been seriously impaired for 15 00:01:27,635 --> 00:01:34,355 Speaker 1: thirty years. Never mind Joe Scarborough's impenetrable dialect and frequent mallepropisms. 16 00:01:34,835 --> 00:01:37,035 Speaker 1: What he has said through the length of his public 17 00:01:37,035 --> 00:01:40,835 Speaker 1: career has been painful to watch, regardless of one's politics, 18 00:01:40,995 --> 00:01:44,995 Speaker 1: and it has rarely been the same thing twice. Things 19 00:01:44,995 --> 00:01:47,275 Speaker 1: he has said have not been honest, they have not 20 00:01:47,355 --> 00:01:50,555 Speaker 1: been true, they have not been consistent, They have not 21 00:01:50,635 --> 00:01:54,915 Speaker 1: been anything but self serving and destructive. And unlike John Fetterman, 22 00:01:55,275 --> 00:01:58,555 Speaker 1: who in his debate Tuesday night, was about ten times 23 00:01:58,595 --> 00:02:02,155 Speaker 1: as coherent as herschel Walker and twenty times as coherent 24 00:02:02,195 --> 00:02:04,875 Speaker 1: as Donald Trump, and who was still less painful to 25 00:02:04,955 --> 00:02:07,715 Speaker 1: listen to than a mement oz claiming that a woman's 26 00:02:07,755 --> 00:02:11,035 Speaker 1: fundamental right to have an abortion should be decided by herself, 27 00:02:11,035 --> 00:02:16,075 Speaker 1: her doctor, and local political leaders. Unlike John Fetterman, who 28 00:02:16,115 --> 00:02:20,435 Speaker 1: has gotten better, is better, and who is getting better still. 29 00:02:20,915 --> 00:02:25,595 Speaker 1: There are no mitigating factors for the impenetrable unintelligibility of 30 00:02:25,675 --> 00:02:28,475 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough and the fact that he has not been 31 00:02:28,475 --> 00:02:32,755 Speaker 1: the same person for three consecutive years running. At any 32 00:02:32,795 --> 00:02:36,235 Speaker 1: time in the last three decades, there are no mitigating 33 00:02:36,275 --> 00:02:39,915 Speaker 1: factors for whatever is going on in Joe Scarborough's mind 34 00:02:40,195 --> 00:02:45,515 Speaker 1: at the moment, or is not going on there. First, 35 00:02:45,715 --> 00:02:50,155 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough was a doctrinaire prostitute for NEWT Gingrich, regurgitating 36 00:02:50,235 --> 00:02:54,515 Speaker 1: poorly memorized buzzwords on the house floor, pushing the Gingrich 37 00:02:54,635 --> 00:02:58,875 Speaker 1: contract on America and perpetrating the assault on democracy that 38 00:02:58,995 --> 00:03:03,355 Speaker 1: was the Clinton impeachment. Then Joe Scarborough suddenly and without explanation, 39 00:03:03,795 --> 00:03:10,155 Speaker 1: quit Congress. Then Joe Scarborough resurfaced on MSNBC spewing the 40 00:03:10,275 --> 00:03:15,515 Speaker 1: standard diseased mind garbage of an antidemocracy Republican on television, 41 00:03:15,795 --> 00:03:21,395 Speaker 1: while off television, constantly lobbying management for favors for Republican friends, 42 00:03:21,835 --> 00:03:25,035 Speaker 1: calling the Democrats quote the party on the side of 43 00:03:25,115 --> 00:03:28,595 Speaker 1: death unquote, interfering with what was said, and who appeared 44 00:03:28,595 --> 00:03:31,755 Speaker 1: on other shows on his network, threatening to accuse his 45 00:03:31,795 --> 00:03:35,675 Speaker 1: own employers of prejudice against him because he was a Conservative, 46 00:03:35,915 --> 00:03:39,075 Speaker 1: attacking his co workers in public and getting away with 47 00:03:39,115 --> 00:03:42,515 Speaker 1: it though it was a violation of NBC rules. Then 48 00:03:42,515 --> 00:03:45,915 Speaker 1: he stopped thinking that way too. Suddenly, and without logic 49 00:03:46,035 --> 00:03:50,395 Speaker 1: or explanation, Joe Scarborough morphed overnight again from right wing 50 00:03:50,515 --> 00:03:55,475 Speaker 1: primetime firebrand to calm and sage mourning. Both sides are 51 00:03:56,595 --> 00:04:00,395 Speaker 1: the transformation defied logic and defied the orderly processes of 52 00:04:00,435 --> 00:04:04,115 Speaker 1: an uninjured mind, and it was not the last transformation. 53 00:04:04,275 --> 00:04:09,315 Speaker 1: Sudden Scarborough re re reinvented himself as the man who 54 00:04:09,355 --> 00:04:13,075 Speaker 1: was going to mainstream Donald Trump to the MSNBC audience 55 00:04:13,275 --> 00:04:16,315 Speaker 1: in two thousand fifteen and two thousand sixteen, and in 56 00:04:16,435 --> 00:04:20,755 Speaker 1: that whitewashing of Trump, Scarborough never once addressed the obvious 57 00:04:20,755 --> 00:04:24,515 Speaker 1: fact that Donald Trump's brain has never worked correctly, and 58 00:04:24,595 --> 00:04:27,715 Speaker 1: whatever has been secretly wrong with it for decades, it 59 00:04:27,835 --> 00:04:32,595 Speaker 1: worsened perilously no more than ten years ago. Joe Scarborough 60 00:04:32,635 --> 00:04:35,435 Speaker 1: never once asked Trump, why do you say things that 61 00:04:35,555 --> 00:04:38,875 Speaker 1: make no sense? He never asked have you had an 62 00:04:38,875 --> 00:04:43,755 Speaker 1: aneurysm or concussion? He never asked have you used drugs, 63 00:04:43,995 --> 00:04:48,075 Speaker 1: Mr Trump that can interfere with or damage your cognitive ability? 64 00:04:48,275 --> 00:04:52,995 Speaker 1: Scarborough never once said Donald Trump's ability to communicate is 65 00:04:53,035 --> 00:04:56,995 Speaker 1: seriously impaired. Voters will be talking about this obvious fact, 66 00:04:57,195 --> 00:05:01,795 Speaker 1: even if many in the media will not. Then, after 67 00:05:01,915 --> 00:05:06,595 Speaker 1: months of desperately positioning t as a realistic candidate for 68 00:05:06,755 --> 00:05:11,075 Speaker 1: president and not insane, nor dictatorial nor threat to everything 69 00:05:11,115 --> 00:05:14,955 Speaker 1: America stands for, after months of seeing Trump in private, 70 00:05:15,155 --> 00:05:19,875 Speaker 1: after months of advising Trump in secret, suddenly and without explanations, 71 00:05:19,955 --> 00:05:25,035 Speaker 1: Scarborough's mind abruptly changed again, a re re re re 72 00:05:25,595 --> 00:05:30,875 Speaker 1: reinvention as a fervent never Trumper, and just as quickly 73 00:05:30,915 --> 00:05:33,475 Speaker 1: as if there were no copies of his fawning interviews 74 00:05:33,475 --> 00:05:37,035 Speaker 1: with Trump, or his vacuous wife's fawning interviews with Trump, 75 00:05:37,275 --> 00:05:40,475 Speaker 1: or their sycophatic visits with Trump, or the infamous photo 76 00:05:40,475 --> 00:05:44,395 Speaker 1: of Scarborough and Trump both doing Trump's inane thumbs up gesture. 77 00:05:44,595 --> 00:05:48,875 Speaker 1: Scarborough tried to pretend, believed in his own dubious mind 78 00:05:49,235 --> 00:05:52,235 Speaker 1: that nobody would ever remember that during the critical months 79 00:05:52,275 --> 00:05:56,395 Speaker 1: in which the media transformed Trump from an unacceptable destroyer 80 00:05:56,835 --> 00:06:02,355 Speaker 1: into just an eccentric rule breaker, that he Scarborough had 81 00:06:02,355 --> 00:06:07,555 Speaker 1: been one of Trump's many media whore And Joe Scarborough's 82 00:06:07,555 --> 00:06:11,155 Speaker 1: attack on John Fetterman is somehow even worse than it seems, 83 00:06:11,355 --> 00:06:16,195 Speaker 1: because for every American, every human being recovering from any illness, 84 00:06:16,355 --> 00:06:20,355 Speaker 1: any injury, any physical problem, any emotional problems, but especially 85 00:06:20,395 --> 00:06:24,675 Speaker 1: as stroke or an aneurysm or Alzheimer's or just a concussion, 86 00:06:25,115 --> 00:06:28,955 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough's attack on John Fetterman was a slap to 87 00:06:29,195 --> 00:06:37,395 Speaker 1: all their faces. The brain is fragile, incredibly precise, incredibly resilient, 88 00:06:37,995 --> 00:06:44,675 Speaker 1: and John Fetterman's performance Tuesday Night was miraculous and inspirational, 89 00:06:45,275 --> 00:06:47,875 Speaker 1: especially if you have ever been touched, even in the 90 00:06:47,955 --> 00:06:51,315 Speaker 1: mildest of ways by head trauma. I have told this 91 00:06:51,435 --> 00:06:54,915 Speaker 1: story before. At the age of twenty one, I stupidly 92 00:06:55,035 --> 00:06:58,075 Speaker 1: ran headfirst into the side of a New York City 93 00:06:58,155 --> 00:07:01,955 Speaker 1: subway train. Fortunately I escaped with nothing more than a 94 00:07:01,995 --> 00:07:06,315 Speaker 1: serious concussion. Nearly all the symptom is cleared within six months, 95 00:07:06,315 --> 00:07:10,835 Speaker 1: but some pertaining to depth, perception and vision are now 96 00:07:10,915 --> 00:07:14,595 Speaker 1: in their forty second year. And I do ocular muscle 97 00:07:14,675 --> 00:07:18,315 Speaker 1: exercises that helped considerably. In fact, I did them this morning, 98 00:07:19,355 --> 00:07:22,115 Speaker 1: but less than an hour after I hit my head. 99 00:07:22,635 --> 00:07:27,235 Speaker 1: At the emergency room in Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, I 100 00:07:27,275 --> 00:07:30,955 Speaker 1: was asked at the desk to provide a family contact. 101 00:07:31,875 --> 00:07:34,555 Speaker 1: I selected my father. I gave them his likely whereabouts 102 00:07:34,555 --> 00:07:36,875 Speaker 1: with no problem. I gave them his phone number with 103 00:07:36,955 --> 00:07:40,395 Speaker 1: no problem. I gave them his name, Theodore, with no problem. 104 00:07:40,475 --> 00:07:42,995 Speaker 1: And then the nurse asked me for my full name, 105 00:07:43,035 --> 00:07:47,075 Speaker 1: and I could not, for the life of me remember 106 00:07:47,635 --> 00:07:56,115 Speaker 1: my middle name Keith something. My middle name is Theodore. 107 00:07:57,675 --> 00:08:00,675 Speaker 1: The brain is so fragile and its functions so delicate 108 00:08:00,715 --> 00:08:04,635 Speaker 1: and so precise, that I could, immediately after a series 109 00:08:04,715 --> 00:08:08,515 Speaker 1: is concussion remember that my father's name was Theodore. But 110 00:08:08,635 --> 00:08:11,355 Speaker 1: it took me literally hours before it came back to 111 00:08:11,395 --> 00:08:15,595 Speaker 1: me that my own middle name was Theodore. And instead 112 00:08:15,675 --> 00:08:19,035 Speaker 1: of looking at John Fetterman and saying he's still fighting it, 113 00:08:19,115 --> 00:08:23,355 Speaker 1: but god damnit, his recovery is astonishing. Joe wholier than 114 00:08:23,395 --> 00:08:28,595 Speaker 1: thou Scarborough, Joe quit congress Scarborough, Joe break up other 115 00:08:28,635 --> 00:08:32,875 Speaker 1: people's marriages Scarborough, Joe, don't ask Trump I be stoned 116 00:08:32,995 --> 00:08:36,795 Speaker 1: or brain damaged. Scarborough, Joe, my brain won't let me 117 00:08:36,875 --> 00:08:39,515 Speaker 1: be the same person. Three years in a row. Scarborough 118 00:08:39,635 --> 00:08:44,675 Speaker 1: attacked Vetterman, attacked people who criticized him for attacking Fetterman, 119 00:08:44,875 --> 00:08:47,715 Speaker 1: attacked the media who would not attack Vetterman, and then 120 00:08:47,795 --> 00:08:50,835 Speaker 1: welcomed as a guest on his show a man who 121 00:08:50,995 --> 00:08:55,315 Speaker 1: used to literally pretend to have hearing and vision problems 122 00:08:55,515 --> 00:08:59,195 Speaker 1: in order to get away with interrupting his guests, sabotaging 123 00:08:59,275 --> 00:09:03,915 Speaker 1: his co hosts, and making inappropriate remarks to women. Chris 124 00:09:03,995 --> 00:09:13,955 Speaker 1: Matthews scumbag. Joe Scarborough scumbag, and I'm still not certain 125 00:09:14,035 --> 00:09:20,235 Speaker 1: he's worse than Samuel Alito addressing the Heritage Foundation and 126 00:09:20,275 --> 00:09:23,595 Speaker 1: what in the hell is a Supreme Court justice or 127 00:09:23,635 --> 00:09:26,235 Speaker 1: a part time judge in the smallest county in this 128 00:09:26,355 --> 00:09:30,955 Speaker 1: country doing Addressing a right wing semi fascist advocacy group. 129 00:09:31,955 --> 00:09:36,915 Speaker 1: Addressing the Heritage Foundation, Justice Alito revealed he is not 130 00:09:37,035 --> 00:09:41,315 Speaker 1: merely the most dishonest man in America, but potentially the stupidest. 131 00:09:42,275 --> 00:09:46,075 Speaker 1: The leak of his draft, in which he lied and 132 00:09:46,275 --> 00:09:51,075 Speaker 1: overturned Roe v. Wade anyway quote, was a grave betrayal 133 00:09:51,195 --> 00:09:54,355 Speaker 1: of trust by somebody. The leak also made those of 134 00:09:54,435 --> 00:09:56,675 Speaker 1: us who were thought to be in the majority in 135 00:09:56,755 --> 00:10:02,355 Speaker 1: supportive overruling Row and Casey targets for assassination, because it 136 00:10:02,435 --> 00:10:05,675 Speaker 1: gave people a rational reason to think they could prevent 137 00:10:05,755 --> 00:10:11,115 Speaker 1: that from happening by killing one of us. Putting a 138 00:10:11,155 --> 00:10:14,035 Speaker 1: sign for the moment, the fact that the only individual 139 00:10:14,115 --> 00:10:18,795 Speaker 1: whoever took any steps towards that calamity stopped himself, called 140 00:10:18,835 --> 00:10:22,835 Speaker 1: the cops, told them he was suicidal, and asked them 141 00:10:22,875 --> 00:10:25,275 Speaker 1: to come get him before he did a terrible thing, 142 00:10:25,435 --> 00:10:28,595 Speaker 1: Putting that aside for a moment. The vote in the 143 00:10:28,635 --> 00:10:32,555 Speaker 1: court was six to three if any one of the 144 00:10:32,715 --> 00:10:37,595 Speaker 1: six had stopped being a Supreme Court justice by dint 145 00:10:37,635 --> 00:10:42,675 Speaker 1: of death, resignation, impeachment, fleeing the country over his wife's 146 00:10:42,755 --> 00:10:46,475 Speaker 1: role in the coup. Whatever the vote, would still have 147 00:10:46,595 --> 00:10:53,635 Speaker 1: been five to four unless Sam Alito, you know something 148 00:10:53,675 --> 00:10:56,835 Speaker 1: about that vote and the leak and who leaked it 149 00:10:57,195 --> 00:10:59,955 Speaker 1: and why that you are not telling us, like if 150 00:10:59,955 --> 00:11:03,355 Speaker 1: the leak came from your clerk's office or Thomas's clerk's 151 00:11:03,475 --> 00:11:09,155 Speaker 1: office or coney Arit's clerk's office. And Alito has also 152 00:11:09,275 --> 00:11:12,795 Speaker 1: lied again. He said he welcomed criticism of the Court's decision. 153 00:11:14,235 --> 00:11:16,315 Speaker 1: That's why he gave the speech in Rome, trying to 154 00:11:16,635 --> 00:11:21,275 Speaker 1: humiliate everybody who criticized the Court's decision. I guess, but 155 00:11:21,475 --> 00:11:24,235 Speaker 1: quote to say that the Court is exhibiting a lack 156 00:11:24,275 --> 00:11:27,595 Speaker 1: of integrity is quite different. That goes to character, not 157 00:11:27,715 --> 00:11:30,355 Speaker 1: a disagreement with the result or the reasoning. It goes 158 00:11:30,435 --> 00:11:34,515 Speaker 1: to character. Someone also crosses an important line when they 159 00:11:34,515 --> 00:11:36,155 Speaker 1: say that the Court is acting in a way that 160 00:11:36,315 --> 00:11:41,395 Speaker 1: is illegitimate. That's not just ordinary criticism. If you tell 161 00:11:41,435 --> 00:11:44,355 Speaker 1: the Senate you believe in precedent and privacy, and you 162 00:11:44,395 --> 00:11:48,115 Speaker 1: tell Ted Kennedy to his face to ignore your previous 163 00:11:48,155 --> 00:11:51,595 Speaker 1: memos attacking Roe v. Wade because you were just ambitiously 164 00:11:51,675 --> 00:11:55,995 Speaker 1: angling for promotion in the Reagan administration, and then you 165 00:11:56,115 --> 00:12:00,355 Speaker 1: overturn Roe v. Wade. You don't have any character, you 166 00:12:00,395 --> 00:12:04,395 Speaker 1: don't have any legitimacy, you don't have any integrity. You 167 00:12:04,475 --> 00:12:08,675 Speaker 1: have have what were your words, Justice Alito, you have 168 00:12:09,595 --> 00:12:14,915 Speaker 1: a grave betrayal of trust. There is, in fact, no 169 00:12:15,035 --> 00:12:19,115 Speaker 1: excuse to permit the Supreme Court, excuse me, the Supreme 170 00:12:19,155 --> 00:12:23,635 Speaker 1: Republican Religious Court, to continue in its present form, nor 171 00:12:23,755 --> 00:12:26,795 Speaker 1: for Alito to continue to serve on it. Maybe he 172 00:12:26,835 --> 00:12:30,195 Speaker 1: can resign and we can replace him with Joe Scarborough. 173 00:12:31,555 --> 00:12:37,115 Speaker 1: You didn't know Scarborough was a lawyer. Sure, he was 174 00:12:37,155 --> 00:12:40,235 Speaker 1: the lawyer from Michael Frederick Griffin. And it was on 175 00:12:40,315 --> 00:12:44,955 Speaker 1: March that Michael Frederick Griffin went to the Pensacola Women's 176 00:12:44,995 --> 00:12:48,555 Speaker 1: Medical Services Clinic in Florida and waited for an abortion 177 00:12:48,595 --> 00:12:51,675 Speaker 1: provider named Dr David Gunn to walk past him, and 178 00:12:51,715 --> 00:12:57,235 Speaker 1: then he shot him three times with a shotgun in 179 00:12:57,275 --> 00:13:02,555 Speaker 1: the back. And the lawyer who defended Michael Frederick Griffin 180 00:13:03,595 --> 00:13:09,835 Speaker 1: was Joe Scarborough. Scumbag in the law, scumbag in Congress, 181 00:13:10,635 --> 00:13:15,995 Speaker 1: scumbag on television, to John Fetterman and to every American 182 00:13:16,355 --> 00:13:34,075 Speaker 1: who is differently abled. I'm not sure did I get 183 00:13:34,075 --> 00:13:38,555 Speaker 1: my point across there about him being a scumbag? Still 184 00:13:38,555 --> 00:13:42,195 Speaker 1: ahead uncountdown, Speaking of which herschel Walker pressured another woman 185 00:13:42,195 --> 00:13:46,475 Speaker 1: for another abortion. As a mock sign, somebody put up 186 00:13:46,555 --> 00:13:48,835 Speaker 1: yesterday says, if you're here for the herschel Walker rally, 187 00:13:48,875 --> 00:13:50,995 Speaker 1: please wait in the line on the left. If you're 188 00:13:51,035 --> 00:13:53,195 Speaker 1: here because herschel got you pregnant, please wait in the 189 00:13:53,235 --> 00:13:57,875 Speaker 1: line on the right. You know that supposedly neutral TV 190 00:13:58,155 --> 00:14:02,715 Speaker 1: network News Nation, the one Chris Cuomo washed up on, 191 00:14:03,595 --> 00:14:06,315 Speaker 1: just fired a reporter for asking the boss why they 192 00:14:06,395 --> 00:14:10,395 Speaker 1: carried a two hour Trump rally. Yeah, that's neutral. A 193 00:14:10,435 --> 00:14:12,395 Speaker 1: little problem for the new chief of the New York 194 00:14:12,475 --> 00:14:17,435 Speaker 1: City Marathon. She was once testing positive for performance enhancing drugs. 195 00:14:18,755 --> 00:14:20,915 Speaker 1: And it is the forte anniversary of the day. I 196 00:14:20,955 --> 00:14:23,475 Speaker 1: had to call a Hall of Fame athlete for an interview, 197 00:14:24,435 --> 00:14:29,435 Speaker 1: and he answered the phone in a falsetto voice, pretending 198 00:14:29,435 --> 00:14:33,675 Speaker 1: to be one of his own employees. That's next. This 199 00:14:33,795 --> 00:14:50,195 Speaker 1: is countdown. This is countdown. With Keith still ahead on countdown, 200 00:14:50,235 --> 00:14:54,755 Speaker 1: how many women did herschel Walker impregnate? Or to cut 201 00:14:54,795 --> 00:14:59,755 Speaker 1: to the chase. Next, The National Review Online quotes a 202 00:14:59,875 --> 00:15:03,555 Speaker 1: dr OZ voter whose male partner then says, all the 203 00:15:03,635 --> 00:15:08,395 Speaker 1: Democrats will be killed and they publish it anyway, waiting 204 00:15:08,395 --> 00:15:11,675 Speaker 1: for the Yankees to fire their manager. Keep waiting and 205 00:15:11,755 --> 00:15:14,835 Speaker 1: speaking of how many how many home runs would Willie 206 00:15:14,915 --> 00:15:17,835 Speaker 1: Mays have hit had he not been drafted in his 207 00:15:17,955 --> 00:15:21,795 Speaker 1: second season. First, In each edition of Countdown, we feature 208 00:15:21,795 --> 00:15:24,235 Speaker 1: a dog in need whom you can help. Every dog 209 00:15:24,315 --> 00:15:27,755 Speaker 1: has its day. 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Your donation, big 219 00:15:56,755 --> 00:15:59,955 Speaker 1: or small will be gratefully welcomed, as will your retweet 220 00:16:00,035 --> 00:16:10,675 Speaker 1: of Coda's story, and thank you very much. Poe. Scripts 221 00:16:10,715 --> 00:16:13,995 Speaker 1: to the news, some headlines, some inside, some snark. Dateline 222 00:16:14,035 --> 00:16:17,755 Speaker 1: Early voting headquarters The nd nd thank I Think Tank 223 00:16:17,835 --> 00:16:21,955 Speaker 1: reports early voting is sixteen percent higher than the surge 224 00:16:22,035 --> 00:16:24,835 Speaker 1: that led the Democrats to upset wins back in two 225 00:16:24,875 --> 00:16:28,955 Speaker 1: thousand eighteen. Than nationally, the early votes are even more 226 00:16:28,995 --> 00:16:35,435 Speaker 1: democratic than in it was fifty two percent Democrats it's 227 00:16:35,635 --> 00:16:38,635 Speaker 1: thus far this year. The state by state numbers are 228 00:16:38,675 --> 00:16:44,075 Speaker 1: also hopeful. In Texas, early voting in was in favor 229 00:16:44,155 --> 00:16:49,155 Speaker 1: of Republicans. This year, it's three in favor of Democrats. 230 00:16:49,195 --> 00:16:55,515 Speaker 1: Also morning consults Wednesday, Generic congressional ballot for Politico Democrats 231 00:16:55,515 --> 00:17:00,475 Speaker 1: forty seven, Republicans forty five. Dateline Washington, clarification on what 232 00:17:00,555 --> 00:17:05,235 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice wants out of Cash Patel testimony 233 00:17:05,275 --> 00:17:09,275 Speaker 1: about Trump's claims that he declassified all the stolen documents. 234 00:17:09,555 --> 00:17:13,435 Speaker 1: More importantly, The New York Times reports Patel's attorneys want 235 00:17:13,515 --> 00:17:17,715 Speaker 1: immunity for that, which means Patel is willing to testify 236 00:17:17,755 --> 00:17:22,435 Speaker 1: against Trump. Dateline Mari Lago Political reports they finally found 237 00:17:22,515 --> 00:17:26,435 Speaker 1: some Trump lawyer to accept the subpoena to testify before 238 00:17:26,475 --> 00:17:30,755 Speaker 1: the January six committee. Dateline Atlanta. Trump chief of staff 239 00:17:30,835 --> 00:17:34,715 Speaker 1: Mark Meadows, the human Voicemail of January six, has been 240 00:17:34,835 --> 00:17:38,275 Speaker 1: ordered to testify to the Georgia grand jury investigating Trump's 241 00:17:38,275 --> 00:17:41,595 Speaker 1: attempt to subvert the election outcome there via the Eastman coup. 242 00:17:42,235 --> 00:17:45,555 Speaker 1: Dateline Salt Lake City guests. The first Utah Senate debate 243 00:17:45,595 --> 00:17:49,395 Speaker 1: did not go so well for Senator Mike Insurrection Lee. 244 00:17:49,555 --> 00:17:53,675 Speaker 1: Fox News proposed a second debate between Lee and Evan McMullen, 245 00:17:53,755 --> 00:17:59,035 Speaker 1: and Lee has runaway hiding. Dateline Manhattan Beach, California. Boy, 246 00:17:59,075 --> 00:18:03,315 Speaker 1: were they surprised At the headquarters of Sketchers yesterday, Kanye 247 00:18:03,435 --> 00:18:08,035 Speaker 1: West walks in with cameraman recording, apparently looking for a 248 00:18:08,075 --> 00:18:12,955 Speaker 1: new shoe company to sell his sneakers after Adidas dumped him. 249 00:18:13,075 --> 00:18:15,995 Speaker 1: The Sketcher's people had him escorted out of the building 250 00:18:16,075 --> 00:18:20,435 Speaker 1: by guards. Obviously this ends with Kanye selling shoes door 251 00:18:20,475 --> 00:18:26,675 Speaker 1: to door, now what? Dateline San Francisco and at Twitter headquarters, 252 00:18:26,955 --> 00:18:30,435 Speaker 1: Elon Musk spotted apparently on the verge of finally sealing 253 00:18:30,475 --> 00:18:33,795 Speaker 1: that deal. He was videoed in the lobby saying, quote, 254 00:18:34,235 --> 00:18:38,595 Speaker 1: let that sink in while he was carrying a sink 255 00:18:39,115 --> 00:18:43,315 Speaker 1: because he's funny, or at least that's what the sick 256 00:18:43,315 --> 00:18:46,755 Speaker 1: offense around him tell him. Sure, Boss, carry a sink 257 00:18:46,835 --> 00:18:52,115 Speaker 1: into Twitter. That'll that'll be epic, dude, Boss and Dateline Dallas. 258 00:18:52,795 --> 00:18:57,395 Speaker 1: That is where an anonymous woman. Another anonymous woman says 259 00:18:57,435 --> 00:19:02,235 Speaker 1: herschel Walker urged her to abort their pregnancy. In she 260 00:19:02,315 --> 00:19:05,435 Speaker 1: says she didn't want to. She says he insisted and 261 00:19:05,515 --> 00:19:08,435 Speaker 1: drove her to the clinic. He says it's not true. 262 00:19:08,515 --> 00:19:13,755 Speaker 1: Quote I've moved on, just as he did as a father. Bizarrely, 263 00:19:13,915 --> 00:19:17,395 Speaker 1: even for herschel Walker added quote, I also want to 264 00:19:17,475 --> 00:19:21,595 Speaker 1: let you know I didn't kill JFK either. So far, 265 00:19:21,675 --> 00:19:24,115 Speaker 1: every other defense he's offered for his count with scandals 266 00:19:24,155 --> 00:19:26,915 Speaker 1: has been a lie. On. Suddenly I'm not so sure 267 00:19:26,955 --> 00:19:31,315 Speaker 1: about the jfk assassination and Dateline right wing echo chamber 268 00:19:31,835 --> 00:19:36,115 Speaker 1: while interviewing Senator Rick Scott, commentator Hugh Hewitt says of Walker, 269 00:19:36,675 --> 00:19:40,195 Speaker 1: he does better and better. He's gotten so good unquote, 270 00:19:41,275 --> 00:20:01,755 Speaker 1: gotten so good at what insemination? This is sports Senate? Wait, 271 00:20:01,955 --> 00:20:09,555 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is countdown with Keith Alberman 272 00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:13,035 Speaker 1: in sports. There are three stories. They are all from 273 00:20:13,075 --> 00:20:15,315 Speaker 1: New York. Honestly, I didn't plan it. I don't even 274 00:20:15,395 --> 00:20:18,035 Speaker 1: like it this way. They're just the three most interesting stories. 275 00:20:18,315 --> 00:20:21,395 Speaker 1: Aaron Boone, whom I met for the first time when 276 00:20:21,435 --> 00:20:24,995 Speaker 1: he was thirteen years old, is apparently going to return 277 00:20:25,075 --> 00:20:27,275 Speaker 1: as manager of the New York Yankees, even though they 278 00:20:27,275 --> 00:20:30,275 Speaker 1: were just eliminated for the fourth time in eight years 279 00:20:30,315 --> 00:20:33,115 Speaker 1: by the Houston Astros, and they have one exactly one 280 00:20:33,195 --> 00:20:36,075 Speaker 1: World Series and played in only three World Series since 281 00:20:36,115 --> 00:20:39,755 Speaker 1: the year two thousand. The Associated Press quotes owner hal 282 00:20:39,835 --> 00:20:43,195 Speaker 1: Steinbrenner is saying, I believe he is a very good manager. 283 00:20:43,435 --> 00:20:46,635 Speaker 1: I don't see a change there. About ten years ago, 284 00:20:46,675 --> 00:20:49,275 Speaker 1: the Yankees banned me from their press box after I 285 00:20:49,275 --> 00:20:52,115 Speaker 1: wrote that I would not be convinced that hal Steinbrenner 286 00:20:52,195 --> 00:20:55,315 Speaker 1: was actually the son of my friend, the voluable and 287 00:20:55,475 --> 00:20:59,835 Speaker 1: successful Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, until I saw the results 288 00:20:59,835 --> 00:21:03,075 Speaker 1: of a paternity test. It was a huge move for 289 00:21:03,115 --> 00:21:06,475 Speaker 1: the people who run the New York Marathon. Chairman George 290 00:21:06,555 --> 00:21:10,235 Speaker 1: Hirsch is stepping down, so Nana Lynch was stepping in. 291 00:21:10,795 --> 00:21:13,035 Speaker 1: She would become the first woman chief of the New 292 00:21:13,115 --> 00:21:16,635 Speaker 1: York road Runners, and the first African American chief and 293 00:21:16,755 --> 00:21:20,195 Speaker 1: the first former Star Runner chief, and, as The New 294 00:21:20,275 --> 00:21:23,275 Speaker 1: York Times now reports, the first chief who would be 295 00:21:23,315 --> 00:21:27,395 Speaker 1: barred from running in the marathon because she once tested 296 00:21:27,435 --> 00:21:31,475 Speaker 1: positive for performance enhancing drugs. The New York Marathon has 297 00:21:31,515 --> 00:21:35,275 Speaker 1: a zero tolerance policy for dopers, although they do listen 298 00:21:35,315 --> 00:21:40,235 Speaker 1: to appeals. Lynch was busted in for asthma meds that 299 00:21:40,355 --> 00:21:43,875 Speaker 1: could double as stimulants. No comment from Lynch yet, but 300 00:21:43,955 --> 00:21:47,635 Speaker 1: the Roadrunner statement indicates this info is new to them, 301 00:21:47,715 --> 00:21:51,075 Speaker 1: which is a bad look on top of another bad look. 302 00:21:51,795 --> 00:21:55,275 Speaker 1: And this is especially tough for me to say since 303 00:21:55,315 --> 00:21:59,395 Speaker 1: I was a New York Rangers hockey fan from through 304 00:22:01,195 --> 00:22:07,555 Speaker 1: But congratulations to the Long Island Islanders. Since I was 305 00:22:07,635 --> 00:22:11,955 Speaker 1: in college, Rangers fans have chanted something about Islander Hall 306 00:22:11,995 --> 00:22:15,035 Speaker 1: of Famer Dennis pot Fan. They chanted it when he 307 00:22:15,115 --> 00:22:17,635 Speaker 1: played for the Islanders, they chanted it when he no 308 00:22:17,715 --> 00:22:20,995 Speaker 1: longer played for the Islanders, they chanted it when the 309 00:22:21,075 --> 00:22:24,035 Speaker 1: Rangers weren't even playing the Islanders. And now Dennis pot 310 00:22:24,075 --> 00:22:27,315 Speaker 1: Fan has turned it into a merchandise gimmick with ten 311 00:22:27,355 --> 00:22:30,395 Speaker 1: percent of proceeds going to charity. The product he is 312 00:22:30,435 --> 00:22:44,475 Speaker 1: selling is called pot Fan Socks. Think about it coming up? 313 00:22:44,515 --> 00:22:47,955 Speaker 1: So I had to call Willie Mays to ask him 314 00:22:47,995 --> 00:22:53,155 Speaker 1: about him getting banned from baseball for working for a casino. No, seriously, 315 00:22:53,355 --> 00:22:55,155 Speaker 1: and it was a long time ago when that used 316 00:22:55,195 --> 00:22:58,315 Speaker 1: to be an issue. The thing is the voice that 317 00:22:58,475 --> 00:23:02,675 Speaker 1: answered his phone sort of sounded like him, only it 318 00:23:02,755 --> 00:23:06,475 Speaker 1: also sort of sounded like a woman. Things I promised 319 00:23:06,475 --> 00:23:09,755 Speaker 1: not to tell. Coming up first, the daily roundup of 320 00:23:09,755 --> 00:23:13,155 Speaker 1: the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute 321 00:23:13,155 --> 00:23:18,795 Speaker 1: today's worst persons in the world. Le Bronze, Lewis DeJoy, 322 00:23:18,955 --> 00:23:22,515 Speaker 1: the schnook Trump appointed to destroy the post office and 323 00:23:22,595 --> 00:23:26,795 Speaker 1: derail voting by mail, finally has forty three scalps on 324 00:23:26,915 --> 00:23:29,635 Speaker 1: his belt. The U S mail truck, the size of 325 00:23:29,635 --> 00:23:33,835 Speaker 1: a small jeep caught fire near Albany, Georgia. Nobody hurts, 326 00:23:34,155 --> 00:23:37,235 Speaker 1: but the truck is a total burnt out shell, and 327 00:23:37,395 --> 00:23:41,555 Speaker 1: so is the mail inside it, and authorities believe among 328 00:23:41,595 --> 00:23:45,595 Speaker 1: the male forty three mail in ballots. Fox News is 329 00:23:45,635 --> 00:23:50,435 Speaker 1: panicking over this and election security, and suddenly Marco Rubio 330 00:23:50,595 --> 00:23:55,955 Speaker 1: from his Florida debate doesn't sound quite so crazy after all, 331 00:23:56,075 --> 00:23:58,955 Speaker 1: does he. There's danger involved in drop boxes. People need 332 00:23:58,995 --> 00:24:01,195 Speaker 1: to think about it. Okay, imagine if someone decides, oh, 333 00:24:01,195 --> 00:24:03,075 Speaker 1: there's a drop box, I'm just gonna put some explosive 334 00:24:03,115 --> 00:24:04,435 Speaker 1: and then blow it up and burn all of those 335 00:24:04,715 --> 00:24:07,515 Speaker 1: us and now those votes don't count at all, wrote him, 336 00:24:07,595 --> 00:24:12,315 Speaker 1: up good, blow them up real good. Wait, how did 337 00:24:12,555 --> 00:24:16,435 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio know that they were going to be burned ballots? 338 00:24:19,755 --> 00:24:23,515 Speaker 1: The runners up News Nation that he self proclaimed centrist 339 00:24:23,555 --> 00:24:25,795 Speaker 1: TV news operation now in its second year and having 340 00:24:25,795 --> 00:24:29,515 Speaker 1: gotten absolutely no traction or audience. Yet despite having hired 341 00:24:29,595 --> 00:24:35,475 Speaker 1: Dan Abrahams and now Chris Cuomo and being so centrist 342 00:24:35,555 --> 00:24:39,115 Speaker 1: that they run Trump rallies live for two hours at 343 00:24:39,115 --> 00:24:42,835 Speaker 1: a time. In a press conference call with News Nation 344 00:24:42,915 --> 00:24:47,155 Speaker 1: president Michael Corne, News Nations owned New York reporter Paul 345 00:24:47,315 --> 00:24:51,195 Speaker 1: Gurky got on and Paul Gurky asked Corn about why 346 00:24:51,355 --> 00:24:55,235 Speaker 1: his network covered a Trump rally while it advertises itself 347 00:24:55,275 --> 00:24:58,875 Speaker 1: as unbiased, and yet it ran the thing raw, no host, 348 00:24:58,955 --> 00:25:04,315 Speaker 1: no analysis, no correction of Trump lies. So naturally, President 349 00:25:04,355 --> 00:25:08,195 Speaker 1: Michael Corn of this neutral, objective, centrist News Nation network 350 00:25:08,235 --> 00:25:14,315 Speaker 1: responded to reporter Gurky's great questions by firing him. But 351 00:25:14,435 --> 00:25:17,835 Speaker 1: our winner n r OH National Review Online, you think 352 00:25:17,915 --> 00:25:21,995 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough's John Fetterman coverage was reprehensible? I'm just gonna 353 00:25:22,035 --> 00:25:24,915 Speaker 1: read part of this n r O report about the 354 00:25:24,955 --> 00:25:31,555 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Senate race from Duncanon p a verbatim quote registered 355 00:25:31,595 --> 00:25:35,315 Speaker 1: Republican Cathy Louch also said she plans to vote for 356 00:25:35,355 --> 00:25:39,475 Speaker 1: Oz and cited crime as her top concern. National Reviews 357 00:25:39,515 --> 00:25:42,555 Speaker 1: discussion with Louch was cut short when a man she 358 00:25:42,715 --> 00:25:45,635 Speaker 1: was with began ranting the January six was not an 359 00:25:45,635 --> 00:25:49,915 Speaker 1: insurrection and that seven million Americans will eventually rise up 360 00:25:50,315 --> 00:25:55,995 Speaker 1: and kill Democrats. National Sure, her guy promised to kind 361 00:25:55,995 --> 00:25:58,995 Speaker 1: of genocide against Democrats, but her quote was too good 362 00:25:58,995 --> 00:26:06,155 Speaker 1: not to use. Review Today's worst part singing is in 363 00:26:06,315 --> 00:26:19,475 Speaker 1: the world. Now to the number one story on the 364 00:26:19,475 --> 00:26:22,115 Speaker 1: countdown on my favorite topic, me and things I promised 365 00:26:22,115 --> 00:26:25,595 Speaker 1: not to tell. And this has been a somewhat uh 366 00:26:25,915 --> 00:26:29,035 Speaker 1: fierce edition of the program. So let me do something 367 00:26:29,035 --> 00:26:32,835 Speaker 1: here at the end that's a little lighter. October is 368 00:26:32,835 --> 00:26:35,915 Speaker 1: the anniversary of one of the damnedest interviews I ever did, 369 00:26:36,475 --> 00:26:39,195 Speaker 1: and it was with Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays. 370 00:26:40,395 --> 00:26:42,835 Speaker 1: Every time Willie May's his name comes up, I think 371 00:26:42,835 --> 00:26:45,795 Speaker 1: of two things. One is that interview at my first 372 00:26:45,875 --> 00:26:49,755 Speaker 1: job from my first radio network, and like I wasn't 373 00:26:49,795 --> 00:26:53,315 Speaker 1: scared enough, he did a bit that if I would 374 00:26:53,355 --> 00:26:55,515 Speaker 1: have done it, they would have fired me on the spot. 375 00:26:56,635 --> 00:27:01,115 Speaker 1: The other thing is an amazing injustice that befell Willie 376 00:27:01,155 --> 00:27:05,755 Speaker 1: Mays that nobody talks about. Okay, So it's Saturday afternoon, 377 00:27:06,155 --> 00:27:12,195 Speaker 1: October nine, just forty three years ago today, and Willie 378 00:27:12,235 --> 00:27:16,515 Speaker 1: Mays has just been banned from baseball because word has 379 00:27:16,555 --> 00:27:18,315 Speaker 1: gotten out that he has signed a contract to do 380 00:27:18,395 --> 00:27:22,075 Speaker 1: promotional events for an Atlantic city casino and there's a 381 00:27:22,075 --> 00:27:27,235 Speaker 1: press conference coming up on Monday. I know, try explaining 382 00:27:27,235 --> 00:27:30,355 Speaker 1: this concept to any current sports fan now used to 383 00:27:30,395 --> 00:27:34,635 Speaker 1: seeing retired players on TV, not just telling them to 384 00:27:34,835 --> 00:27:38,435 Speaker 1: bet on games, but telling them how to bet and 385 00:27:38,475 --> 00:27:43,475 Speaker 1: who to bet on. Plus even then this made no sense. 386 00:27:43,475 --> 00:27:45,635 Speaker 1: It was like three months after Willie Mays had been 387 00:27:45,675 --> 00:27:50,355 Speaker 1: inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Three months now 388 00:27:50,395 --> 00:27:55,035 Speaker 1: he's being banned for life for something that today the 389 00:27:55,115 --> 00:27:58,035 Speaker 1: Commissioner Baseball would send him a note of congratulations and 390 00:27:58,075 --> 00:28:02,995 Speaker 1: a paycheck. So anyway, nobody has done an interview with 391 00:28:03,035 --> 00:28:05,435 Speaker 1: Willie yet because he has been traveled, and my phone 392 00:28:05,515 --> 00:28:08,675 Speaker 1: rings and my little cubby hole at United President Nationals 393 00:28:08,755 --> 00:28:13,355 Speaker 1: Radio Network three months that coincidentally was how long my 394 00:28:13,435 --> 00:28:16,435 Speaker 1: full time broadcasting career had been to this point. And 395 00:28:16,595 --> 00:28:19,555 Speaker 1: on the phone is maybe the top baseball reporter of 396 00:28:19,675 --> 00:28:24,475 Speaker 1: his day, Keith. It's Milt Richmond. This man once reported 397 00:28:24,475 --> 00:28:28,155 Speaker 1: in July that if the Milwaukee Braves didn't start winning 398 00:28:28,315 --> 00:28:31,835 Speaker 1: that they would fire their manager. Exactly one year later, 399 00:28:32,475 --> 00:28:35,275 Speaker 1: they didn't start winning, and exactly one year later to 400 00:28:35,315 --> 00:28:37,835 Speaker 1: the day, they fired their manager. That's how good Milt 401 00:28:37,955 --> 00:28:41,955 Speaker 1: Richmond was. Keith, write this phone number down. It's William 402 00:28:41,995 --> 00:28:46,675 Speaker 1: Mays home. He's expecting your call for an interview about 403 00:28:46,675 --> 00:28:53,075 Speaker 1: this banishment story. I squeaked, yes, sir, yes, sir, and 404 00:28:53,115 --> 00:28:55,195 Speaker 1: I went into one of our recording studios and I 405 00:28:55,275 --> 00:28:57,835 Speaker 1: dialed the number. And I will not recreate the voice 406 00:28:57,835 --> 00:29:01,355 Speaker 1: that I heard answer William Mays' phone, because while doing 407 00:29:01,355 --> 00:29:03,635 Speaker 1: this voice was once considered to be a staple of 408 00:29:03,675 --> 00:29:07,715 Speaker 1: American humor, even American humor written or performed by the liberals. 409 00:29:07,995 --> 00:29:10,755 Speaker 1: James Thurber short stories are full of this voice. The 410 00:29:10,835 --> 00:29:14,075 Speaker 1: voice is wildly racist. It is racist enough that if 411 00:29:14,155 --> 00:29:18,675 Speaker 1: today you heard an African American man do this voice, 412 00:29:19,115 --> 00:29:24,435 Speaker 1: you might still say still racist. It is a voice 413 00:29:24,715 --> 00:29:29,075 Speaker 1: similar to that of the actress Hattie McDaniel, who won 414 00:29:29,115 --> 00:29:32,355 Speaker 1: the Academy Award in nine for Gone with the Wind, 415 00:29:32,555 --> 00:29:35,915 Speaker 1: who was a world class blues singer, a top patriotic 416 00:29:35,995 --> 00:29:40,235 Speaker 1: fundraiser during World War Two who played maids, housekeepers, and 417 00:29:40,355 --> 00:29:43,275 Speaker 1: maybe two hundred films. She also played one on a 418 00:29:43,315 --> 00:29:46,475 Speaker 1: famous radio show and was paid so little that while 419 00:29:46,595 --> 00:29:49,275 Speaker 1: she was performing her role of the maid, she had 420 00:29:49,275 --> 00:29:54,875 Speaker 1: to keep working as a real maid. Anyway, I'm twenty 421 00:29:54,955 --> 00:29:57,395 Speaker 1: years old and I have to interview Willie Mays about 422 00:29:57,475 --> 00:30:02,555 Speaker 1: him getting banned from baseball. By the way, getting banned 423 00:30:02,555 --> 00:30:04,635 Speaker 1: from baseball at the same time they were banning Mickey 424 00:30:04,715 --> 00:30:08,475 Speaker 1: Mantle from baseball for doing promotional announcements for a casino. 425 00:30:09,515 --> 00:30:12,315 Speaker 1: And I call Willie Mays's number and I'm shaking like 426 00:30:12,395 --> 00:30:15,235 Speaker 1: a leaf and the phone is answered, and a gravelly 427 00:30:15,275 --> 00:30:20,755 Speaker 1: but feminine voice that sounded exactly like Addie McDaniel says hello, 428 00:30:21,435 --> 00:30:28,275 Speaker 1: Mr Mays's residence. And I am a little throne by this, 429 00:30:29,595 --> 00:30:32,275 Speaker 1: but I power through and I explain who I am, 430 00:30:32,475 --> 00:30:34,675 Speaker 1: and she says uh huh. And I say where I'm 431 00:30:34,675 --> 00:30:36,995 Speaker 1: calling from, and she says uh huh. And I say, 432 00:30:37,035 --> 00:30:39,995 Speaker 1: Milt Richmond said Mr Mays was expecting me. And she 433 00:30:40,235 --> 00:30:45,635 Speaker 1: interrupts me and says, this is Willie. The Hattie McDaniel 434 00:30:45,675 --> 00:30:49,195 Speaker 1: like impersonation was done by Willie Mays. Now I do 435 00:30:49,315 --> 00:30:53,915 Speaker 1: not have this on tape. Silly me when they said 436 00:30:53,955 --> 00:30:58,235 Speaker 1: you could never start recording before you got expressed permission 437 00:30:58,235 --> 00:31:03,595 Speaker 1: from the interviewee to start recording, I believed them. Anybody 438 00:31:03,635 --> 00:31:06,235 Speaker 1: else would have a tape of the phone being answered 439 00:31:06,275 --> 00:31:10,035 Speaker 1: and that impression done by William Hays. I'm afraid you 440 00:31:10,035 --> 00:31:13,035 Speaker 1: will have to take my word for it, because why 441 00:31:13,155 --> 00:31:19,795 Speaker 1: would I make this up October nineteen seventy nine, And honestly, 442 00:31:19,875 --> 00:31:25,435 Speaker 1: I still haven't recovered from Mr Mays's residence. Now. The 443 00:31:25,555 --> 00:31:29,675 Speaker 1: injustice about William Hay's that nobody talks about this is 444 00:31:29,715 --> 00:31:33,155 Speaker 1: something else no fan believes today. The US military used 445 00:31:33,155 --> 00:31:37,715 Speaker 1: to draft Major League Baseball players and NFL players and 446 00:31:37,995 --> 00:31:41,515 Speaker 1: NBA players and other athletes and send them into the 447 00:31:41,595 --> 00:31:45,435 Speaker 1: service in the middle of their seasons, in the primes 448 00:31:45,475 --> 00:31:49,075 Speaker 1: of their careers, even if there was no war in progress. 449 00:31:50,435 --> 00:31:52,875 Speaker 1: Now they only did it a couple of times after, 450 00:31:54,715 --> 00:31:59,035 Speaker 1: and usually that was thinly veiled racist political pressure, like 451 00:31:59,075 --> 00:32:01,875 Speaker 1: when they drafted Muhammad Ali in nineteen sixty six when 452 00:32:01,915 --> 00:32:05,235 Speaker 1: he was heavyweight champion of the world at an activist 453 00:32:05,315 --> 00:32:08,675 Speaker 1: Muslim and twenty four years old, when everybody else who 454 00:32:08,715 --> 00:32:13,595 Speaker 1: was getting drafted was eighteen. Remember but in nineteen fifty 455 00:32:13,635 --> 00:32:17,155 Speaker 1: two they drafted Willy Mays. William Mays had come up 456 00:32:17,155 --> 00:32:18,995 Speaker 1: from the minors the year before and led the New 457 00:32:19,075 --> 00:32:21,875 Speaker 1: York Giants from thirteen games back to the National League 458 00:32:21,875 --> 00:32:24,715 Speaker 1: pennant and was the kind of all around rural wind 459 00:32:24,755 --> 00:32:27,435 Speaker 1: of a player nobody had ever seen before. And on 460 00:32:27,515 --> 00:32:31,395 Speaker 1: May twenty nine, thirty four games into his second season boom, 461 00:32:31,435 --> 00:32:34,635 Speaker 1: he was drafted and inducted, and he missed the rest 462 00:32:34,715 --> 00:32:37,795 Speaker 1: of that season, and he missed all of the nineteen 463 00:32:37,835 --> 00:32:42,875 Speaker 1: fifty three season. They didn't draft Mickey Mantle, who also 464 00:32:42,955 --> 00:32:46,235 Speaker 1: broke in also in New York, also in nineteen fifty one, 465 00:32:46,875 --> 00:32:49,275 Speaker 1: and to be fair, Mickey Mantle had about four hundred 466 00:32:49,315 --> 00:32:53,195 Speaker 1: medical problems. But they also didn't draft nineteen fifty one 467 00:32:53,195 --> 00:32:56,195 Speaker 1: American League Rookie of the Year Gil McDougald of the Yankees, 468 00:32:56,195 --> 00:32:59,075 Speaker 1: who was a white guy. Or Walt Dropo who was 469 00:32:59,115 --> 00:33:00,835 Speaker 1: the Rookie of the Year in nineteen fifty and was 470 00:33:00,875 --> 00:33:03,595 Speaker 1: a white guy. Or Roy Sievers who was the rookie 471 00:33:03,595 --> 00:33:05,075 Speaker 1: of the Year in nineteen forty one, and it was 472 00:33:05,115 --> 00:33:11,075 Speaker 1: a white guy or or or you get the point now, 473 00:33:11,115 --> 00:33:13,995 Speaker 1: trying to calculate should have beens and would have been. 474 00:33:14,115 --> 00:33:16,675 Speaker 1: In sports is a risky business, but you can get 475 00:33:17,115 --> 00:33:21,675 Speaker 1: a statistical approximation. If a player hits twenty homers in 476 00:33:21,715 --> 00:33:25,715 Speaker 1: his first season, then misses two years, then comes back 477 00:33:26,035 --> 00:33:28,595 Speaker 1: and hits forty one homers in his first year back, 478 00:33:28,795 --> 00:33:31,995 Speaker 1: you can extrapolate from that that he probably would have 479 00:33:32,075 --> 00:33:35,995 Speaker 1: hit twenty seven homers in the first missing year and 480 00:33:36,155 --> 00:33:40,515 Speaker 1: thirty four in the second missing year. Your numerical sequences 481 00:33:40,555 --> 00:33:44,235 Speaker 1: twenty homers, then twenty seven, then thirty four, then forty one. 482 00:33:45,435 --> 00:33:47,155 Speaker 1: You have to take her a little bit with it. 483 00:33:47,195 --> 00:33:49,795 Speaker 1: In Maizees case, because he did not miss all of 484 00:33:49,875 --> 00:33:52,435 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty two, just from June on, and he had 485 00:33:52,435 --> 00:33:55,715 Speaker 1: a slow start. He only hit four homers in the 486 00:33:55,715 --> 00:33:58,435 Speaker 1: first two months of nineteen fifty two, so instead of 487 00:33:58,435 --> 00:34:01,155 Speaker 1: twenty seven that year, maybe he only hits twenty four. 488 00:34:02,075 --> 00:34:05,235 Speaker 1: So a good guest as to how many homers William 489 00:34:05,235 --> 00:34:08,235 Speaker 1: Hays did not hit because he got drafted and all 490 00:34:08,235 --> 00:34:11,955 Speaker 1: the other guys didn't. The good guess is all told, 491 00:34:12,755 --> 00:34:15,475 Speaker 1: he missed the chance to hit fifty four homers that 492 00:34:15,515 --> 00:34:20,835 Speaker 1: he probably would have hit in real life. William May's 493 00:34:20,955 --> 00:34:24,955 Speaker 1: finished with six hundred and sixty career home runs. For 494 00:34:25,115 --> 00:34:27,675 Speaker 1: most of the nineteen sixties, it was thought he was 495 00:34:27,715 --> 00:34:31,195 Speaker 1: the man who would challenge Babe Ruth's career home run record, 496 00:34:31,275 --> 00:34:35,595 Speaker 1: not Hank Aaron, but William Mays. William Hays hit six 497 00:34:35,675 --> 00:34:38,915 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty homers, but if you give him the 498 00:34:39,115 --> 00:34:41,675 Speaker 1: fifty four more homers he might have hit if he 499 00:34:41,715 --> 00:34:45,395 Speaker 1: hadn't been so curiously drafted. In nineteen fifty two, William 500 00:34:45,395 --> 00:34:49,915 Speaker 1: Mays finishes with seven hundred fourteen home runs, which is 501 00:34:49,955 --> 00:34:56,035 Speaker 1: exactly how many Babe Ruth hit seven hundred fourteen, So 502 00:34:56,555 --> 00:35:00,395 Speaker 1: no drafting, and maybe in nineteen seventy two and nineteen 503 00:35:00,435 --> 00:35:04,075 Speaker 1: seventy three and nineteen seventy four, we are seeing William 504 00:35:04,115 --> 00:35:08,115 Speaker 1: May's hit his seven hundred home run and challenging Babe 505 00:35:08,195 --> 00:35:11,395 Speaker 1: Ruth and coming down the stretch and tying and breaking 506 00:35:11,475 --> 00:35:14,835 Speaker 1: Babe Ruth's record, and then right behind him, Henry Aaron 507 00:35:15,315 --> 00:35:20,555 Speaker 1: hits his seven homer and then his seven homer to 508 00:35:20,755 --> 00:35:40,075 Speaker 1: break the all time record held by Willie Mays. 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