1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,435 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio Funniest 2 00:00:22,555 --> 00:00:27,875 Speaker 1: Dog Gone Thing Trump. Friday, Microsoft said the Iranians would 3 00:00:27,875 --> 00:00:32,595 Speaker 1: try to meddle in the election. Saturday. Your campaign computers 4 00:00:33,435 --> 00:00:38,795 Speaker 1: got hacked, you say, by the Iranians, you say, and 5 00:00:39,195 --> 00:00:45,035 Speaker 1: you hadn't reported it to the FBI, you say, even 6 00:00:45,115 --> 00:00:49,395 Speaker 1: though it's by Iran, and part of the whole campaign 7 00:00:49,635 --> 00:00:53,235 Speaker 1: scam from Trump Headquarters Trump is that Iran is the 8 00:00:53,315 --> 00:00:55,435 Speaker 1: root of all evil, and you didn't report it to 9 00:00:55,475 --> 00:00:57,555 Speaker 1: the FBI, and you didn't provide any evidence that it 10 00:00:57,635 --> 00:01:01,675 Speaker 1: actually happened. A two hundred and seventy one page Trump 11 00:01:02,035 --> 00:01:06,035 Speaker 1: privileged and confidential document gets sent to The Washington Post 12 00:01:06,475 --> 00:01:11,635 Speaker 1: from an AOL user named Robert. Do you call Homeland 13 00:01:11,675 --> 00:01:15,475 Speaker 1: Security Trump? You do not? And then Politico says it's 14 00:01:15,515 --> 00:01:19,155 Speaker 1: been getting documents, including a long vetting report on JV 15 00:01:19,355 --> 00:01:23,315 Speaker 1: Vance from Robert since the twenty second of July. Called 16 00:01:23,355 --> 00:01:27,435 Speaker 1: the DOJ. Then nope, you just announced it. We've been 17 00:01:27,515 --> 00:01:34,555 Speaker 1: hacked by the Iranians. Iranians named Robert Monday, the FBI 18 00:01:35,195 --> 00:01:39,595 Speaker 1: again anonymously, not even a spokesman's name attached to this, 19 00:01:39,835 --> 00:01:41,995 Speaker 1: just like that. No, he was too hit by a 20 00:01:41,995 --> 00:01:45,355 Speaker 1: bullet announcement by the FBI. The FBI gives a clear 21 00:01:45,395 --> 00:01:49,395 Speaker 1: and compelling picture of the vast team that has fanned 22 00:01:49,435 --> 00:01:53,795 Speaker 1: out across our country, across the Internet, across the world 23 00:01:54,315 --> 00:01:58,275 Speaker 1: to track down this evil quote. We can confirm the 24 00:01:58,395 --> 00:02:05,075 Speaker 1: FBI is investigating this matter, said, is anything on the 25 00:02:05,115 --> 00:02:08,155 Speaker 1: back maybe on the statement. We can confirm the FBI 26 00:02:08,275 --> 00:02:14,795 Speaker 1: is investigating, investigating who, investigating what, investigating whether they were 27 00:02:14,835 --> 00:02:19,275 Speaker 1: really hacked, whether they were really hacked by Iranians, whether 28 00:02:19,355 --> 00:02:22,755 Speaker 1: Trump just made it all up, whether the Trump campaign 29 00:02:23,115 --> 00:02:26,755 Speaker 1: fell for some sort of fishing op at a porn site. 30 00:02:27,035 --> 00:02:32,115 Speaker 1: Can you be a little more specific or just specific 31 00:02:32,235 --> 00:02:36,555 Speaker 1: at all? No, No, all the doctors know he got 32 00:02:36,595 --> 00:02:39,395 Speaker 1: shot by a bullet. Oh, none of them will be 33 00:02:39,515 --> 00:02:41,315 Speaker 1: quoted on the record. And we don't have any medical 34 00:02:41,355 --> 00:02:44,555 Speaker 1: records or anything from the hospital. But trust us, we've 35 00:02:44,595 --> 00:02:48,035 Speaker 1: never lied. But now, of course Trump says I was 36 00:02:48,155 --> 00:02:52,915 Speaker 1: hacked by Iran and the FBI says it's investigating, like 37 00:02:53,155 --> 00:03:00,675 Speaker 1: I'm investigating buying Warner Bros. Discovery for one hundred dollars cash. 38 00:03:01,355 --> 00:03:07,315 Speaker 1: Because Trump's campaign claims this, that means that you Washington 39 00:03:07,355 --> 00:03:10,555 Speaker 1: Post and you Politico, you can't print any of it 40 00:03:11,155 --> 00:03:14,155 Speaker 1: because it's all part of an internal attempt to interfere 41 00:03:14,235 --> 00:03:17,435 Speaker 1: with the election by a foreign agent, and the American 42 00:03:17,515 --> 00:03:22,315 Speaker 1: media can't participate in anything like that this time. Anyway, 43 00:03:23,395 --> 00:03:28,155 Speaker 1: Oh bullshit, publish all of it. You have some proof Trump? 44 00:03:29,555 --> 00:03:32,355 Speaker 1: I should ask the Trump campaign. Trump no longer knows 45 00:03:32,355 --> 00:03:34,595 Speaker 1: where he is, let alone what's happening to his campaign? 46 00:03:34,715 --> 00:03:38,115 Speaker 1: You have some proof, Trump campaign, Let's see it, anything, 47 00:03:38,995 --> 00:03:44,715 Speaker 1: any proof otherwise to not publish whatever. The Trumpists are 48 00:03:44,755 --> 00:03:47,635 Speaker 1: so worried about that they've made up this story about 49 00:03:47,675 --> 00:03:50,795 Speaker 1: how the Iranians are better at computers than they the 50 00:03:50,835 --> 00:03:59,675 Speaker 1: Trumpists are. Any decision to not publish this is campaign interference. Yeah, 51 00:03:59,675 --> 00:04:02,955 Speaker 1: the Iranians did it, and they sent it to the 52 00:04:02,995 --> 00:04:10,715 Speaker 1: Post in Politico via AOL. But American journalism, let's let 53 00:04:10,755 --> 00:04:14,195 Speaker 1: Trump set the rules here without evidence, because why would 54 00:04:14,235 --> 00:04:18,635 Speaker 1: people like Roger turn in the barrel? I love wiki leaks. 55 00:04:19,075 --> 00:04:23,435 Speaker 1: Oh no, I've been hacked. Stone and Chris swift Boat, 56 00:04:23,635 --> 00:04:28,595 Speaker 1: Junior las Sevita and Susie Wiles and Don the basket case. 57 00:04:28,675 --> 00:04:32,435 Speaker 1: Trump and Stephen Chung try to manipulate the major media 58 00:04:32,475 --> 00:04:40,475 Speaker 1: outlets again. Stephen Chung October seventeenth, twenty sixteen quote, must 59 00:04:40,555 --> 00:04:43,955 Speaker 1: watch leaked emails from Wiki Leaks show what Hillary Clinton's 60 00:04:43,955 --> 00:04:48,595 Speaker 1: staff and allies really think. And there's a link to YouTube. 61 00:04:48,955 --> 00:04:55,235 Speaker 1: Washington Post, Politico America. You're getting played by the Trump 62 00:04:55,275 --> 00:05:03,555 Speaker 1: campaign like Toby Ziegler's two dollars banjo again. Besides which 63 00:05:04,235 --> 00:05:07,915 Speaker 1: maybe the salient hole in the logic here that any 64 00:05:08,035 --> 00:05:13,595 Speaker 1: part of this Trump story is true. You're Robert from 65 00:05:14,115 --> 00:05:19,035 Speaker 1: Iran and you want to hurt Trump by hacking his 66 00:05:19,115 --> 00:05:22,915 Speaker 1: computers and sending all his stuff to news organizations that 67 00:05:23,315 --> 00:05:27,875 Speaker 1: so clearly oppose him. So you sent it to the 68 00:05:28,235 --> 00:05:33,235 Speaker 1: Washington Post and Politico. Have you read the Washington Post 69 00:05:33,315 --> 00:05:36,115 Speaker 1: in Politico lately? I mean, why not just send it 70 00:05:36,115 --> 00:05:39,355 Speaker 1: to the New York Times while you're at it. Dear 71 00:05:40,275 --> 00:05:47,675 Speaker 1: Joe Kahan, this will really hurt Trump at Wait but 72 00:05:48,955 --> 00:05:54,155 Speaker 1: why what? Because they're still mad Biden wouldn't drop out 73 00:05:54,955 --> 00:06:23,195 Speaker 1: when they told him to. The lead story in politicos 74 00:06:23,355 --> 00:06:31,555 Speaker 1: PM newsletter yesterday was eight gullible paragraphs about Trump returning 75 00:06:31,635 --> 00:06:36,235 Speaker 1: to Twitter and doing this crap with Musk because they're 76 00:06:36,355 --> 00:06:40,595 Speaker 1: not enough crazy white supremacists on Twitter x right now. 77 00:06:42,035 --> 00:06:46,155 Speaker 1: The lead story in Politico's morning newsletter had been about 78 00:06:46,235 --> 00:06:49,515 Speaker 1: the lack of a comprehensive Kamala Harris policy book after 79 00:06:49,675 --> 00:06:52,715 Speaker 1: twenty three days of her campaign. I mean the nerve 80 00:06:52,835 --> 00:06:58,475 Speaker 1: of the woman. Not Trump's insane AI charges against the 81 00:06:58,515 --> 00:07:01,675 Speaker 1: vice president and the unexpected damage he did to himself 82 00:07:01,675 --> 00:07:04,635 Speaker 1: with that, or why that resonated the way it did, 83 00:07:05,035 --> 00:07:06,795 Speaker 1: not the fact that he was only off on his 84 00:07:06,875 --> 00:07:13,395 Speaker 1: Willie Brown's story by twenty eight years, three thousand miles, 85 00:07:13,395 --> 00:07:16,915 Speaker 1: two cities and seven inches in height, not that his 86 00:07:17,115 --> 00:07:22,635 Speaker 1: polling is cratering. Politico's lead was Trump returning to Twitter 87 00:07:22,995 --> 00:07:28,395 Speaker 1: x with tweets he clearly didn't write, Yeah, boy, I'm 88 00:07:28,435 --> 00:07:31,075 Speaker 1: telling you, and that's who I'd call Politico. This is 89 00:07:31,115 --> 00:07:36,795 Speaker 1: a well coordinated campaign to damage Trump. And oh, by 90 00:07:36,835 --> 00:07:40,755 Speaker 1: the way, Trump's polling is cratering. The polls continue to 91 00:07:40,795 --> 00:07:45,795 Speaker 1: be Kamala Palooza. The most startling of them have gotten 92 00:07:45,835 --> 00:07:48,555 Speaker 1: the least attention. The New York Times buried this in 93 00:07:48,595 --> 00:07:52,595 Speaker 1: one of its buried stories on the Buried Trump Buried crisis. 94 00:07:52,755 --> 00:08:00,555 Speaker 1: Buried it in paragraph forty fty internal polls from Ohio. 95 00:08:01,355 --> 00:08:05,075 Speaker 1: Quote for those three of you still reading down here 96 00:08:05,115 --> 00:08:08,235 Speaker 1: in paragraph forty way down here. We're down here the 97 00:08:08,275 --> 00:08:11,195 Speaker 1: most important part of the story. We're down here. 98 00:08:11,235 --> 00:08:13,155 Speaker 2: In paragraph forty. 99 00:08:15,315 --> 00:08:20,475 Speaker 1: Two, private polls conducted in Ohio recently by Republican pollsters, 100 00:08:21,235 --> 00:08:24,835 Speaker 1: which mister Trump carried in twenty twenty with fifty three 101 00:08:24,955 --> 00:08:28,235 Speaker 1: percent of the vote, showed him receiving less than fifty 102 00:08:28,275 --> 00:08:30,795 Speaker 1: percent of the vote against Ms Harris in the state, 103 00:08:30,995 --> 00:08:36,595 Speaker 1: according to a person with direct knowledge of the data. 104 00:08:36,795 --> 00:08:41,875 Speaker 1: First off, that's probably Kelly an Conway. What's the difference. 105 00:08:42,275 --> 00:08:45,995 Speaker 1: Note it does not say Trump is losing to Harris Hell. 106 00:08:46,035 --> 00:08:48,875 Speaker 1: It is only the start of week four of her campaign, 107 00:08:49,675 --> 00:08:52,955 Speaker 1: and there is a Trump honeymoon there, given that Ohioans 108 00:08:52,955 --> 00:08:56,355 Speaker 1: are still rejoicing because if he wins, he would take 109 00:08:56,355 --> 00:09:01,915 Speaker 1: this weirdo Senator JV. Vance off their hands. But if 110 00:09:01,955 --> 00:09:04,955 Speaker 1: Trump is in trouble in Ohio, find a spot on 111 00:09:04,995 --> 00:09:08,795 Speaker 1: the golf course, because his twenty twenty four campaign is 112 00:09:08,955 --> 00:09:14,155 Speaker 1: already dying. And that's just the start. She is now 113 00:09:14,195 --> 00:09:17,675 Speaker 1: more trusted than Trump on the economy. All the less 114 00:09:17,715 --> 00:09:20,235 Speaker 1: big name poles ask questions like this, but now we're 115 00:09:20,235 --> 00:09:23,395 Speaker 1: getting the marquee poles. This one about the economy is 116 00:09:23,435 --> 00:09:26,835 Speaker 1: from the Financial Times. She's favored forty two to forty 117 00:09:26,875 --> 00:09:29,675 Speaker 1: one in polling done by the University of Michigan School 118 00:09:29,675 --> 00:09:32,515 Speaker 1: of Business, and the last time they asked anybody, Trump 119 00:09:32,555 --> 00:09:35,275 Speaker 1: was favored over Biden on the economy forty one to 120 00:09:35,355 --> 00:09:40,155 Speaker 1: thirty five. She made up a seven point swing on 121 00:09:40,235 --> 00:09:44,875 Speaker 1: the economy in three weeks on the economy, who He's 122 00:09:44,915 --> 00:09:47,035 Speaker 1: going to be on Twitter today, Let's do a story 123 00:09:47,035 --> 00:09:53,275 Speaker 1: about boot where Political CNBC did a poll with a 124 00:09:53,275 --> 00:09:57,315 Speaker 1: group called Generation Lab surveying only voters under the age 125 00:09:57,355 --> 00:10:00,075 Speaker 1: of thirty five. They believe she is a better choice 126 00:10:00,115 --> 00:10:04,195 Speaker 1: on the economy, also by a point. The kiddos also 127 00:10:04,235 --> 00:10:07,195 Speaker 1: believed he is their pick for the presidency by twelve points. 128 00:10:07,995 --> 00:10:10,955 Speaker 1: She's forty six to thirty four ahead voters under the 129 00:10:10,995 --> 00:10:14,795 Speaker 1: age of thirty five. We saw Harris leapfrog Trump in 130 00:10:14,835 --> 00:10:17,035 Speaker 1: the Rust Belt last week. Now we are seeing it 131 00:10:17,235 --> 00:10:21,275 Speaker 1: in polling that did not close until Sunday. Bullfinch Group 132 00:10:21,915 --> 00:10:25,875 Speaker 1: for a site supposedly servicing independent voters. Harris by four 133 00:10:26,075 --> 00:10:30,275 Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania, by five in Michigan, by nine in Wisconsin. 134 00:10:30,475 --> 00:10:34,595 Speaker 1: And the pollsters claim their respondents rate themselves on average 135 00:10:34,835 --> 00:10:39,995 Speaker 1: independent with a marginal lean towards the right. This is 136 00:10:40,035 --> 00:10:43,115 Speaker 1: after the New York Times Siena College poll that closed 137 00:10:43,315 --> 00:10:47,955 Speaker 1: last Friday. Michigan Harris fifty Trump forty six, Pennsylvania Harris 138 00:10:47,955 --> 00:10:51,355 Speaker 1: fifty Trump forty six, Wisconsin Harris fifty Trump forty six. 139 00:10:51,355 --> 00:10:56,995 Speaker 1: I'm beginning to sense a pattern. Insider advantage. A polling 140 00:10:57,035 --> 00:10:59,915 Speaker 1: group that often works for the GOPN the Trump campaign 141 00:11:00,275 --> 00:11:03,235 Speaker 1: also did a Michigan poll Harris forty nine Trump forty 142 00:11:03,235 --> 00:11:08,475 Speaker 1: seven as of Thursday. A Republican polster. Another republican polster, 143 00:11:08,675 --> 00:11:13,595 Speaker 1: decipher AI, did its own poll. No Republican money involved 144 00:11:13,595 --> 00:11:16,035 Speaker 1: in this one in Nevada, and if they try to 145 00:11:16,035 --> 00:11:17,675 Speaker 1: sell it to Republicans, they're not going to get any 146 00:11:17,715 --> 00:11:20,915 Speaker 1: of their money this time either. Harris forty nine point 147 00:11:20,955 --> 00:11:24,555 Speaker 1: two Trump forty three point six. That's nearly six points. 148 00:11:24,715 --> 00:11:27,635 Speaker 1: It is three times the lead in Nevada that was 149 00:11:27,675 --> 00:11:31,995 Speaker 1: seen when she took over the nomination. You gov. North 150 00:11:32,035 --> 00:11:36,315 Speaker 1: Carolina results are from polling ending Friday, Harris forty six 151 00:11:36,355 --> 00:11:42,515 Speaker 1: Trump forty six, a tie in North Carolina among voters 152 00:11:42,595 --> 00:11:49,075 Speaker 1: under thirty. Della Volpe Polling for Won't pack Down. It 153 00:11:49,115 --> 00:11:52,315 Speaker 1: has Biden trailing Trump as of a month ago by 154 00:11:52,355 --> 00:11:58,395 Speaker 1: a point. It now has Harris, beating him by nine points, 155 00:11:59,755 --> 00:12:03,155 Speaker 1: and it has her approval with voters under thirty, jumping 156 00:12:03,315 --> 00:12:07,555 Speaker 1: sixteen points she got the nomination. Then there's the JD 157 00:12:07,795 --> 00:12:12,755 Speaker 1: Vance poll blueprint, which bills itself as a Democratic polster, 158 00:12:12,875 --> 00:12:18,475 Speaker 1: but centrist polled on good old JV on July twenty 159 00:12:18,475 --> 00:12:20,675 Speaker 1: first and twenty second, the two days after Trump picked 160 00:12:20,715 --> 00:12:24,555 Speaker 1: the weirdo. His net favorability then was seven points underwater. 161 00:12:24,635 --> 00:12:28,715 Speaker 1: But with exposure and the post convention honeymoon and Trump's 162 00:12:28,755 --> 00:12:33,715 Speaker 1: seal of ungodly approval, Vance should have improved. Right. New 163 00:12:33,795 --> 00:12:37,035 Speaker 1: numbers from last week, His net favorability has changed, as 164 00:12:37,115 --> 00:12:42,155 Speaker 1: predicted here, from seven points underwater to eleven points underwater. 165 00:12:42,995 --> 00:12:48,755 Speaker 1: They polled on specific words and terms too young, smart, businessman, 166 00:12:49,755 --> 00:12:55,355 Speaker 1: sank on the rise about JV Vance, anti woman, weird, 167 00:12:56,195 --> 00:13:02,555 Speaker 1: and extreme extreme about JV Vance is up by thirteen points. 168 00:13:03,555 --> 00:13:07,915 Speaker 1: The lead polster, a man named Evan roth Smith said 169 00:13:07,955 --> 00:13:11,275 Speaker 1: up the Vance data to semaphore news quote, everything has 170 00:13:11,315 --> 00:13:14,835 Speaker 1: gone exactly as bad as Democrats had hoped and Republicans 171 00:13:14,875 --> 00:13:22,955 Speaker 1: have feared. Is it loll or loll? Five point thirty 172 00:13:22,995 --> 00:13:25,755 Speaker 1: eight average is now Harris forty six, Trump forty three 173 00:13:25,795 --> 00:13:29,475 Speaker 1: point three, even the Real Clear Politics average of polls, 174 00:13:29,915 --> 00:13:32,315 Speaker 1: which they spend an hour a day compiling and the 175 00:13:32,355 --> 00:13:34,155 Speaker 1: other twenty three hours a day trying to figure out 176 00:13:34,235 --> 00:13:36,755 Speaker 1: how to make the ras muscin Pole seem not only 177 00:13:36,875 --> 00:13:39,475 Speaker 1: legit but ten times as important as anybody else's poll. 178 00:13:39,675 --> 00:13:43,795 Speaker 1: Even the Real Clear Politics poll the RCP has Harris 179 00:13:43,875 --> 00:13:49,435 Speaker 1: up by half a point. But just remember the rules. 180 00:13:49,675 --> 00:13:53,835 Speaker 1: The polls are rigged unless they favored Trump, just like 181 00:13:53,915 --> 00:13:57,395 Speaker 1: you backed the Blue except on January sixth. And you 182 00:13:57,435 --> 00:14:01,035 Speaker 1: should carry the rallies live unless they're Kamala Harris's rallies. 183 00:14:01,475 --> 00:14:04,515 Speaker 1: And misspeaking is nothing to worry about unless it's by 184 00:14:04,795 --> 00:14:09,115 Speaker 1: Joe Biden. And vagueness about military service should be covered 185 00:14:09,195 --> 00:14:13,915 Speaker 1: endlessly unless it's Trump's draft dodging or Dvance's work in 186 00:14:13,995 --> 00:14:19,555 Speaker 1: the killing fields of press release management in Iraq. And insults, 187 00:14:20,715 --> 00:14:29,435 Speaker 1: especially insults about furniture, are hilarious unless they're about JV. Vance. 188 00:14:30,955 --> 00:14:37,635 Speaker 1: And most important to remember, hacked emails stolen emails are 189 00:14:37,835 --> 00:14:46,355 Speaker 1: sacro sanct and cannot be published under any circumstances unless 190 00:14:46,395 --> 00:14:59,635 Speaker 1: they're Hillary Clinton's. Perhaps it is kind of funny what 191 00:14:59,755 --> 00:15:03,835 Speaker 1: has actually tripped up Trump here The crazy post not 192 00:15:03,955 --> 00:15:07,555 Speaker 1: a charge, but an absolute statement of fact in which 193 00:15:07,595 --> 00:15:10,595 Speaker 1: he assumed everybody agreed with him that the images of 194 00:15:10,635 --> 00:15:14,795 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris's airport crowd were ai. That really was some 195 00:15:14,875 --> 00:15:16,835 Speaker 1: kind of tipping point for a lot of people who 196 00:15:16,875 --> 00:15:20,355 Speaker 1: somehow or another now revealed they were holding out hope 197 00:15:20,395 --> 00:15:23,755 Speaker 1: that Trump actually isn't or wasn't insane, that it was 198 00:15:24,275 --> 00:15:29,835 Speaker 1: a marketing scheme or campaign strategy. People who believe that 199 00:15:29,835 --> 00:15:31,875 Speaker 1: those of us who have been insisting he actually is 200 00:15:31,915 --> 00:15:35,955 Speaker 1: insane were being hyperbolic for some reason. Oh, yeah, we 201 00:15:36,035 --> 00:15:39,835 Speaker 1: know what you mean. You mean he's quote crazy unquote No, 202 00:15:40,155 --> 00:15:46,955 Speaker 1: I mean he's crazy. Norm Eisen Trump Impeachment Council, former 203 00:15:47,035 --> 00:15:51,355 Speaker 1: Obama White House ethicist in residence. I never really thought 204 00:15:51,355 --> 00:15:54,275 Speaker 1: about this before. There's one thing even more scary than 205 00:15:54,275 --> 00:15:56,755 Speaker 1: the idea that Donald Trump was lying about winning in 206 00:15:56,795 --> 00:16:01,955 Speaker 1: twenty twenty or about today's nutty claim. It's this that 207 00:16:02,075 --> 00:16:08,435 Speaker 1: he really believes it. Really. Norm never thought of that before. 208 00:16:09,675 --> 00:16:14,515 Speaker 1: Trump's mental health crisis must be urgently covered by the media. 209 00:16:15,875 --> 00:16:20,515 Speaker 2: Jesus H. Christ, what do you think I've been doing here? 210 00:16:21,595 --> 00:16:25,795 Speaker 2: I started in twenty sixteen. I still had some dark 211 00:16:25,875 --> 00:16:31,075 Speaker 2: hairs back then. Okay, all right, I'll stop whatever. Better 212 00:16:31,155 --> 00:16:32,475 Speaker 2: late than ever. Welcome norm. 213 00:16:34,395 --> 00:16:37,315 Speaker 1: I mean, the right wing troll ian Miles Chong said 214 00:16:37,315 --> 00:16:41,475 Speaker 1: Trump's nuts about the AI thing. Tom Nichols went over 215 00:16:41,555 --> 00:16:44,875 Speaker 1: the line. Here the ex congressman Joe Walsh. They now 216 00:16:45,075 --> 00:16:49,955 Speaker 1: see it. I'm not alone. I'm not alone. This did 217 00:16:49,995 --> 00:16:55,515 Speaker 1: not occur to them before, I guess. I mean, there 218 00:16:55,555 --> 00:16:57,435 Speaker 1: aren't a lot of times in life where you have 219 00:16:57,515 --> 00:17:00,995 Speaker 1: to pick the title of a book. The one I 220 00:17:01,035 --> 00:17:07,835 Speaker 1: went with about Trump was Trump is effing crazy. I 221 00:17:07,875 --> 00:17:11,395 Speaker 1: didn't choose that because it marketed well. It doesn't mark 222 00:17:11,475 --> 00:17:18,395 Speaker 1: it well. Christ It's like the Chopper story. Sure it 223 00:17:18,475 --> 00:17:22,595 Speaker 1: was Willie Brown slamming Kamala Harris on a white knuckled 224 00:17:22,675 --> 00:17:27,355 Speaker 1: chopper flight with Trump and San Francisco in twenty eighteen. No, no, no, 225 00:17:27,395 --> 00:17:32,675 Speaker 1: not Willie Brown. Jerry Brown. No, no, not Jerry Brown. 226 00:17:32,755 --> 00:17:38,035 Speaker 1: The other politician, Nate Holden from San Francisco. No, he's 227 00:17:38,035 --> 00:17:41,675 Speaker 1: from Los Angeles. And the flight wasn't in California, it 228 00:17:41,755 --> 00:17:43,955 Speaker 1: was in Jersey. And no, it wasn't twenty eighteen, it 229 00:17:43,995 --> 00:17:47,435 Speaker 1: was nineteen ninety. And none of them had ever heard 230 00:17:47,475 --> 00:17:49,835 Speaker 1: of Kamala Harris In nineteen ninety. Oh, and Nate is 231 00:17:49,915 --> 00:17:52,515 Speaker 1: like my height and Trump's height, and Willy is like 232 00:17:52,555 --> 00:17:55,755 Speaker 1: five foot six inches tall. Other than that, just another 233 00:17:56,275 --> 00:17:59,875 Speaker 1: gold standard take it to the bank, Trump's stable genius recollection. 234 00:18:02,795 --> 00:18:05,555 Speaker 1: I mean, do these things have any thing in common? 235 00:18:06,235 --> 00:18:10,035 Speaker 1: Probably not, except if there is the proverbial run on 236 00:18:10,155 --> 00:18:15,035 Speaker 1: the honesty bank where suddenly everything Trump does flying in 237 00:18:15,195 --> 00:18:18,875 Speaker 1: Epstein's plane over the weekend. Oh wait, Epstein's been dead 238 00:18:18,915 --> 00:18:23,115 Speaker 1: five years, five years last week. Epstein probably has nothing 239 00:18:23,155 --> 00:18:26,395 Speaker 1: to do with that plane. Now, I'm just saying, but 240 00:18:26,795 --> 00:18:29,795 Speaker 1: there's that story. There's the Kamala harris Ai story, the 241 00:18:29,915 --> 00:18:33,275 Speaker 1: Nate Holden nineteen ninety story that became Willie Brown twenty eighteen. 242 00:18:34,555 --> 00:18:38,355 Speaker 1: There becomes a moment where everything he does that nobody 243 00:18:38,435 --> 00:18:41,275 Speaker 1: thought to make a big deal of that, Nobody actually thought, 244 00:18:41,995 --> 00:18:45,955 Speaker 1: maybe this guy's just crazy. They're now all looking for 245 00:18:46,035 --> 00:18:50,915 Speaker 1: things to make a big deal about, in which case, oops, 246 00:18:51,875 --> 00:18:55,235 Speaker 1: just say oops and get out. Let me quote Burt 247 00:18:55,315 --> 00:18:59,435 Speaker 1: Lancaster as JJ Hunsecker in the Dark classic the Sweet 248 00:18:59,435 --> 00:19:05,595 Speaker 1: Smell of success, Your dead son, get yourself buried. But 249 00:19:05,675 --> 00:19:10,315 Speaker 1: not to worry. Trump hasn't crashed and burned. He's not 250 00:19:10,435 --> 00:19:15,995 Speaker 1: out of control. He's not crashing in the polls. He's 251 00:19:16,035 --> 00:19:19,875 Speaker 1: not responding to the disastrous consequences of his obsession with 252 00:19:19,995 --> 00:19:25,675 Speaker 1: revenge by stepping on the pedal and being even more 253 00:19:25,675 --> 00:19:29,435 Speaker 1: obsessed with revenge. He's not dead and get yourself buried. 254 00:19:29,435 --> 00:19:32,155 Speaker 1: And the media isn't suddenly looking for things to make 255 00:19:32,195 --> 00:19:35,315 Speaker 1: big deals of. Oh no, he's winning. Don't you see that? 256 00:19:35,875 --> 00:19:40,075 Speaker 1: Look at all those pole that said the Rasmus and Pole. 257 00:19:40,275 --> 00:19:44,595 Speaker 1: Those are they? They made ESPN and then sold it 258 00:19:44,595 --> 00:19:48,115 Speaker 1: for three dollars. They're the geniuses. Everybody else is wrong. 259 00:19:48,835 --> 00:19:52,995 Speaker 1: You'll see it be like nineteen forty eight with Harry True. 260 00:19:53,035 --> 00:19:56,035 Speaker 1: Oh he was a Democrat. Don't use nineteen forty eight. No, No, 261 00:19:56,515 --> 00:20:00,875 Speaker 1: we're winning. Don't you see that? We're winning like the Nazis. 262 00:20:00,915 --> 00:20:05,275 Speaker 1: We're winning in nineteen forty five. At this point, Eric 263 00:20:05,355 --> 00:20:09,155 Speaker 1: Erickson grew up so poor we could only afford the 264 00:20:09,235 --> 00:20:14,155 Speaker 1: one name. The GOP has so devastated. Tim Walls. I 265 00:20:14,195 --> 00:20:17,435 Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised to see Josh Shapiro show up at 266 00:20:17,435 --> 00:20:22,075 Speaker 1: the DNC as their vice presidential pick unquote, which is 267 00:20:22,155 --> 00:20:25,155 Speaker 1: such a wildly inaccurate and desperate thing to write. I 268 00:20:25,195 --> 00:20:28,515 Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised to see somebody else One of those 269 00:20:28,555 --> 00:20:32,475 Speaker 1: patented QAnon body doubles show up at the DNC, claiming 270 00:20:32,475 --> 00:20:36,995 Speaker 1: to be the actual Eric Erickson, as if anybody knows 271 00:20:37,195 --> 00:20:41,755 Speaker 1: who the f Eric Erickson is or you know what 272 00:20:41,915 --> 00:20:51,115 Speaker 1: the f he looks like? Oh he's winning. No, absolutely don't, don't. 273 00:20:51,155 --> 00:20:53,555 Speaker 1: Don't listen to the polls. They're all, they're all, they're all. 274 00:20:53,755 --> 00:20:57,555 Speaker 1: They're all rigged. They're all rigged. Also of interest here 275 00:20:58,075 --> 00:21:03,235 Speaker 1: with the Olympics, over what percentage of the public now 276 00:21:03,315 --> 00:21:08,195 Speaker 1: thinks that if it started right now it could make 277 00:21:08,275 --> 00:21:12,395 Speaker 1: the Olympic team? Would you believe The correct answer is 278 00:21:12,595 --> 00:21:16,035 Speaker 1: about twenty five percent people think they could make the 279 00:21:16,035 --> 00:21:22,395 Speaker 1: Olympic team. And the death of news is usually slow 280 00:21:22,435 --> 00:21:26,195 Speaker 1: and incremental, and don't you know what you got till 281 00:21:26,195 --> 00:21:31,915 Speaker 1: it's gone, except when it is sudden and traumatizing. The 282 00:21:31,915 --> 00:21:39,435 Speaker 1: best all news radio station in history is dead. That's next. 283 00:21:39,995 --> 00:21:55,315 Speaker 1: This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman. Postscripts 284 00:21:55,355 --> 00:21:59,795 Speaker 1: to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks, some predictions, 285 00:21:59,835 --> 00:22:04,475 Speaker 1: and today the words postscripts and news are actually in 286 00:22:04,875 --> 00:22:09,635 Speaker 1: linked and never more appropriately so, and never more sadly so, 287 00:22:12,955 --> 00:22:18,195 Speaker 1: Dateline New York WCBS News Radio eight eighty formerly WCBS 288 00:22:18,235 --> 00:22:22,355 Speaker 1: News Radio eighty eight, two week shy of its fifty 289 00:22:22,475 --> 00:22:26,035 Speaker 1: seventh anniversary as the lynchpin in the CBS News brand, 290 00:22:26,395 --> 00:22:31,195 Speaker 1: the nerve center of its operation, WCBS News Radio is 291 00:22:31,275 --> 00:22:35,075 Speaker 1: going off the air two weeks from yesterday, the home 292 00:22:35,115 --> 00:22:38,035 Speaker 1: of Charles Osgood and Lou Adler and Jim Donnelly and 293 00:22:38,115 --> 00:22:41,395 Speaker 1: Rita Sands and Ed Ingles and Rich Lamb and Arth 294 00:22:41,475 --> 00:22:45,395 Speaker 1: Athens and Irene Cornell and more recently Wayne Cabot and 295 00:22:45,435 --> 00:22:50,075 Speaker 1: Paul Murnaine and Tom Kaminski and thousands of others of 296 00:22:50,155 --> 00:22:54,075 Speaker 1: the best radio news broadcasters at the best radio news 297 00:22:54,115 --> 00:22:57,875 Speaker 1: operation in history. They are all going off the air. 298 00:22:58,475 --> 00:23:02,875 Speaker 1: The other allnews radio station in New York WIS WINS 299 00:23:03,315 --> 00:23:06,275 Speaker 1: We'll stay on the air. The two started to share 300 00:23:06,355 --> 00:23:10,235 Speaker 1: reporters and some anchors two years ago, which was the 301 00:23:10,275 --> 00:23:13,555 Speaker 1: first sign of the apocalypse. There are many people who 302 00:23:13,595 --> 00:23:16,875 Speaker 1: prefer the WINS style, which dates back to their days 303 00:23:16,875 --> 00:23:22,835 Speaker 1: as bloodthirsty rivals Wions, using the Westinghouse bulletin style. WCBS 304 00:23:22,875 --> 00:23:25,835 Speaker 1: the more thorough style. I have been listening to them 305 00:23:25,915 --> 00:23:28,795 Speaker 1: both since about nineteen seventy and I have met in 306 00:23:28,835 --> 00:23:32,715 Speaker 1: that time many of those people who have preferred wions. 307 00:23:32,835 --> 00:23:35,475 Speaker 1: And when I say many, I mean I have met 308 00:23:35,515 --> 00:23:39,395 Speaker 1: two of them. This is what it's sounden like when 309 00:23:39,515 --> 00:23:44,155 Speaker 1: WCBS signed on on August twenty eighth, nineteen sixty seven. 310 00:23:44,555 --> 00:23:51,235 Speaker 1: From the beginning, the news happened there. Literally that morning, 311 00:23:51,595 --> 00:23:54,315 Speaker 1: August twenty eighth, nineteen sixty seven, the morning of the 312 00:23:54,435 --> 00:24:00,155 Speaker 1: launch of all News CBS Radio, a plane hit their tower. 313 00:24:01,115 --> 00:24:02,475 Speaker 1: I swear. 314 00:24:05,315 --> 00:24:09,635 Speaker 3: This is News Radio eighty eight WCBS FM, New York, 315 00:24:10,435 --> 00:24:13,035 Speaker 3: para shooting disaster on Lake Erie, as many as five 316 00:24:13,115 --> 00:24:16,075 Speaker 3: feared killed as a light plane hits the WCBS radio tower, 317 00:24:16,395 --> 00:24:18,435 Speaker 3: and a wave of terrorism in Vietnam. 318 00:24:18,795 --> 00:24:21,835 Speaker 1: Good morning, this is Charles Osgood, News Radio eighty eight, 319 00:24:22,355 --> 00:24:26,755 Speaker 1: Boats and Plane. That newscast anchored that morning by Charles 320 00:24:26,755 --> 00:24:31,195 Speaker 1: Osgood continues at this hour, and it will continue until 321 00:24:31,235 --> 00:24:34,555 Speaker 1: two weeks from yesterday. It has been occasionally interrupted by 322 00:24:34,595 --> 00:24:40,035 Speaker 1: sporting events and some paid for broadcasts on Sunday mornings. 323 00:24:40,195 --> 00:24:42,675 Speaker 1: Other than that, they have been on the air since 324 00:24:42,715 --> 00:24:46,475 Speaker 1: August twenty eighth, nineteen sixty seven. WCBS was on the 325 00:24:46,475 --> 00:24:48,955 Speaker 1: air for forty four years before it went all news 326 00:24:48,995 --> 00:24:51,955 Speaker 1: will be replaced at eight eighty on the AM dial 327 00:24:52,035 --> 00:24:56,195 Speaker 1: by ESPN Radio in New York. And I say this 328 00:24:56,315 --> 00:25:00,195 Speaker 1: in the following context. When the news director at WCBS 329 00:25:00,275 --> 00:25:02,275 Speaker 1: told me when I was twenty years old that I 330 00:25:02,435 --> 00:25:07,035 Speaker 1: would make it in broadcasting, I began to believe that 331 00:25:07,195 --> 00:25:09,315 Speaker 1: I would make it in broadcasting. I want to tell 332 00:25:09,355 --> 00:25:11,875 Speaker 1: that story in full in a moment when I heard 333 00:25:11,915 --> 00:25:15,835 Speaker 1: my own work on WCBS later the same year. I 334 00:25:16,035 --> 00:25:20,115 Speaker 1: confirmed my own existence when they had an opening for 335 00:25:20,195 --> 00:25:24,875 Speaker 1: a sportscaster the next year at WCBS, and they hired 336 00:25:25,035 --> 00:25:28,595 Speaker 1: somebody else instead. Although I was the runner up, I 337 00:25:28,635 --> 00:25:31,275 Speaker 1: could barely get out of bed for the next week. 338 00:25:31,915 --> 00:25:35,315 Speaker 1: When I began to work on the sister station of WCBS, 339 00:25:35,515 --> 00:25:38,155 Speaker 1: the one in Los Angeles KNX News Radio, at age 340 00:25:38,155 --> 00:25:41,555 Speaker 1: twenty six, I grew about an inch taller. I sometimes 341 00:25:41,595 --> 00:25:45,355 Speaker 1: would mention KNX before I mentioned the TV station of 342 00:25:45,395 --> 00:25:47,995 Speaker 1: which I happened to be sports director and paid half 343 00:25:47,995 --> 00:25:51,715 Speaker 1: a million dollars. And when ESPN bought a station in 344 00:25:51,795 --> 00:25:54,355 Speaker 1: New York in two thousand and one, the first person 345 00:25:54,395 --> 00:25:57,835 Speaker 1: they approached to be the primary host for that station 346 00:25:58,515 --> 00:26:01,395 Speaker 1: was me. I had to sign a non disclosure agreement 347 00:26:01,755 --> 00:26:04,475 Speaker 1: just to talk about it with them. So I've had 348 00:26:04,755 --> 00:26:09,395 Speaker 1: a lot invested over the years in WCBS and WIS 349 00:26:09,755 --> 00:26:16,435 Speaker 1: and ESPN Radio, and WIS outliving WCBS and WCBS to 350 00:26:16,435 --> 00:26:20,675 Speaker 1: be replaced by ESPN Radio. It's like the war of 351 00:26:20,835 --> 00:26:24,635 Speaker 1: Coke versus Pepsi finally ending and the winner turning out 352 00:26:24,635 --> 00:26:33,955 Speaker 1: to be RC Cola diet r c Cola. They're all 353 00:26:33,995 --> 00:26:38,795 Speaker 1: gone now, or they will be WNW, the unstoppable owner 354 00:26:38,835 --> 00:26:45,035 Speaker 1: of the big band market. Here WABC, the Beatles station WOOR, 355 00:26:45,195 --> 00:26:49,715 Speaker 1: which ran live daily shows by Bob Elliott and Ray 356 00:26:49,755 --> 00:26:52,595 Speaker 1: Goulding and then one at night from Gene Shephard. They 357 00:26:52,635 --> 00:26:57,115 Speaker 1: might as well have had Thurber working there and now WCBS. No, 358 00:26:57,275 --> 00:27:00,595 Speaker 1: you don't need to all news radio stations in New 359 00:27:00,715 --> 00:27:03,195 Speaker 1: York City. It didn't need them in La. I worked 360 00:27:03,195 --> 00:27:06,475 Speaker 1: for both of them in KFU. B doesn't exist anymore either. 361 00:27:07,595 --> 00:27:09,755 Speaker 1: You don't need them both, just like you don't need 362 00:27:10,075 --> 00:27:15,235 Speaker 1: coke and pepsi, or you don't need AM and FM 363 00:27:16,435 --> 00:27:53,755 Speaker 1: or rock and roll. Yeah, that was the WCBS sounder 364 00:27:54,795 --> 00:27:59,115 Speaker 1: twice an hour, three times an hour. Those notes mean 365 00:27:59,235 --> 00:28:01,875 Speaker 1: news still ahead of us. On this edition of countdown 366 00:28:01,875 --> 00:28:05,435 Speaker 1: as I just referenced a letter from the news director 367 00:28:05,515 --> 00:28:09,675 Speaker 1: at WCBS. The late Lou Adler, sits framed on my wall, 368 00:28:10,835 --> 00:28:13,755 Speaker 1: memorized the way my dad used to keep his first 369 00:28:13,875 --> 00:28:17,755 Speaker 1: architectural license above his drafting table. The letter and the 370 00:28:17,755 --> 00:28:20,995 Speaker 1: future it promised was one thing that I nearly got 371 00:28:21,075 --> 00:28:24,675 Speaker 1: killed on the drive to Ithaca, New York to read 372 00:28:24,755 --> 00:28:27,555 Speaker 1: that letter after my friend's father had taken the snow 373 00:28:27,595 --> 00:28:29,675 Speaker 1: tires off his son's car because it was April, and 374 00:28:29,715 --> 00:28:31,835 Speaker 1: since when did it snow in April? That story is 375 00:28:31,875 --> 00:28:34,115 Speaker 1: nearly as good. It's next in things I promised not 376 00:28:34,235 --> 00:28:38,475 Speaker 1: to tell, along with the Lou Adler letter. First, there 377 00:28:38,475 --> 00:28:40,635 Speaker 1: are still more new idiots to talk about. The daily 378 00:28:40,715 --> 00:28:43,275 Speaker 1: roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects 379 00:28:43,275 --> 00:28:48,515 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute two days worse persons in the world, 380 00:28:49,995 --> 00:28:56,035 Speaker 1: Lebrons worse. Usef Dikeatz, the Turkish Olympic air pistol Olympic medalist. 381 00:28:56,675 --> 00:29:01,915 Speaker 1: You've seen him everybody else wearing these extraordinary form fitting 382 00:29:01,955 --> 00:29:04,795 Speaker 1: outfits to shoot their little guns at the Olympics, some 383 00:29:05,475 --> 00:29:09,395 Speaker 1: wearing sights on their fingers and having one eye forcibly closed. 384 00:29:09,755 --> 00:29:12,155 Speaker 1: And this guy Yusef Dickhetz just sort of stood there 385 00:29:12,155 --> 00:29:17,355 Speaker 1: and went keep the target still boom and want to metal. Well, 386 00:29:17,395 --> 00:29:20,835 Speaker 1: it's all his fault. YouGov did a survey and it 387 00:29:20,875 --> 00:29:24,555 Speaker 1: reports that twenty seven percent of British people now think 388 00:29:24,595 --> 00:29:29,675 Speaker 1: that if they started to train today, they could make 389 00:29:29,795 --> 00:29:34,435 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty eight British Olympic team. Isn't that special? 390 00:29:36,435 --> 00:29:41,035 Speaker 1: Twenty seven percent of everybody in the United Kingdom, including 391 00:29:41,075 --> 00:29:45,475 Speaker 1: everybody who really can't get up to change channels to 392 00:29:45,515 --> 00:29:48,795 Speaker 1: stop watching the Olympics now, they think they could make 393 00:29:48,835 --> 00:29:51,155 Speaker 1: the team if they started doing it now. This is 394 00:29:51,275 --> 00:29:57,235 Speaker 1: the fundamental problem with and the reason for the continuation 395 00:29:57,315 --> 00:30:00,395 Speaker 1: of humanity. No, you're wrong. None of you have a 396 00:30:00,555 --> 00:30:03,355 Speaker 1: chance of making the team. And you're gonna try anyway, 397 00:30:03,395 --> 00:30:06,075 Speaker 1: and one person will and that will be enough for 398 00:30:06,115 --> 00:30:09,155 Speaker 1: another one hundred years of humanity. But listen to this. 399 00:30:10,635 --> 00:30:14,635 Speaker 1: The ten meter air rifle, the shooting competition, fifteen percent 400 00:30:14,675 --> 00:30:17,475 Speaker 1: of Britain's think they can make that team. Thirteen percent 401 00:30:17,515 --> 00:30:20,555 Speaker 1: think they could make the archery team, ten percent believe 402 00:30:20,595 --> 00:30:24,355 Speaker 1: they could make Olympic badminton, nine percent believe they could 403 00:30:24,395 --> 00:30:28,635 Speaker 1: play Olympic table tennis, seven percent believe they could row 404 00:30:29,035 --> 00:30:32,195 Speaker 1: on the Olympic rowing team. Have you ever tried rowing? 405 00:30:32,315 --> 00:30:35,235 Speaker 1: I mean competitive rowing? Have you ever tried to be 406 00:30:35,275 --> 00:30:38,475 Speaker 1: a member of a crew, just to say the collegiate level. 407 00:30:38,875 --> 00:30:41,835 Speaker 1: I went to one practice one day and went five 408 00:30:41,875 --> 00:30:44,235 Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning. Are you out of your minds? 409 00:30:46,475 --> 00:30:49,035 Speaker 1: Six percent believe they can make the one hundred meters 410 00:30:49,115 --> 00:30:59,075 Speaker 1: sprint team. Yeah, what's your name? Usain Bolt McGillicuddy cycling. 411 00:30:59,515 --> 00:31:02,515 Speaker 1: Six percent believe they could make a cycling road race 412 00:31:02,595 --> 00:31:06,795 Speaker 1: Olympic team one hundred stoke. Six percent believe they could 413 00:31:06,795 --> 00:31:09,435 Speaker 1: make the Olympic swimming team. Six percent believe they could 414 00:31:09,435 --> 00:31:12,795 Speaker 1: make the Olympic British trampoline team. Five percent believe they 415 00:31:12,835 --> 00:31:16,075 Speaker 1: could make the shot put. Five percent believe they could 416 00:31:16,235 --> 00:31:20,395 Speaker 1: win a spot on the British cycling team. In track 417 00:31:20,515 --> 00:31:23,755 Speaker 1: cycling the sprints, they could go faster than everybody else. 418 00:31:23,915 --> 00:31:27,075 Speaker 1: Five percent believe they could make the equestrian team. Five 419 00:31:27,115 --> 00:31:31,595 Speaker 1: percent fencing five percent Olympic golf, Well, this is universal. 420 00:31:31,715 --> 00:31:34,435 Speaker 1: All golfers think they could make the Olympic team. Five 421 00:31:34,475 --> 00:31:38,155 Speaker 1: percent believe they could make Olympic volleyball. Four percent believe 422 00:31:38,395 --> 00:31:43,635 Speaker 1: they could make the British Olympic basketball team. Four percent 423 00:31:43,675 --> 00:31:47,035 Speaker 1: believe they could make the British Olympic soccer team, which 424 00:31:47,075 --> 00:31:49,635 Speaker 1: is far crazier than the ones who think they could 425 00:31:49,635 --> 00:31:52,395 Speaker 1: make the basketball team. Four percent believe they could make 426 00:31:52,435 --> 00:31:55,755 Speaker 1: the sailing team, the triathlon team, four percent believe they 427 00:31:55,795 --> 00:31:58,395 Speaker 1: could make water polo, three percent believe they could make 428 00:31:58,475 --> 00:32:03,635 Speaker 1: rhythmic gymnastics or artistic gymnastics. Three percent believe they could 429 00:32:03,675 --> 00:32:09,235 Speaker 1: make the diving team. So let's everybody go and stand 430 00:32:09,315 --> 00:32:12,195 Speaker 1: by the pool. To fish these people out of the water, 431 00:32:12,435 --> 00:32:14,915 Speaker 1: you have to be able to swim. I didn't know that. 432 00:32:15,915 --> 00:32:19,515 Speaker 1: Three percent believe they could make the British Olympic rugby team, 433 00:32:20,075 --> 00:32:24,195 Speaker 1: and three percent believe they could make the Olympic skateboarding team. 434 00:32:25,035 --> 00:32:27,595 Speaker 1: I am flashed back to a day in nineteen eighty 435 00:32:27,595 --> 00:32:30,035 Speaker 1: four when I was at Channel five in LA and 436 00:32:30,115 --> 00:32:33,475 Speaker 1: we were carrying the Olympics, and we got the spillover 437 00:32:33,595 --> 00:32:35,795 Speaker 1: phone calls from viewers who didn't know what the hell 438 00:32:35,835 --> 00:32:38,155 Speaker 1: they were watching because it was a Wednesday afternoon and 439 00:32:38,195 --> 00:32:41,035 Speaker 1: the soap operas weren't on, and they wanted to know 440 00:32:41,075 --> 00:32:43,315 Speaker 1: what they were seeing. And one guy called in and said, 441 00:32:43,355 --> 00:32:45,075 Speaker 1: what is this sport you have on? And I looked 442 00:32:45,115 --> 00:32:47,515 Speaker 1: up at the monitor and it was a soccer game. 443 00:32:47,995 --> 00:32:51,035 Speaker 1: The guy had never seen soccer before. This is very interesting. 444 00:32:51,275 --> 00:32:53,595 Speaker 1: How do you try out for this team? Well you don't. 445 00:32:53,915 --> 00:32:56,635 Speaker 1: Those are basically professionals. Oh no, I could do that. 446 00:32:56,675 --> 00:32:58,235 Speaker 1: I can run up and down a field like that 447 00:32:58,835 --> 00:33:01,195 Speaker 1: for sixty minutes. Sure, I could do it all day. 448 00:33:01,555 --> 00:33:03,515 Speaker 1: Where are they playing this match? And I said, it's 449 00:33:03,555 --> 00:33:06,235 Speaker 1: at the Rose Bowl and pass Adena, California. And the 450 00:33:06,275 --> 00:33:08,755 Speaker 1: guy said, what part of Boston is that? Is it 451 00:33:08,795 --> 00:33:13,555 Speaker 1: on the tee? He was not making this up. But 452 00:33:13,635 --> 00:33:17,555 Speaker 1: the one I don't understand is I understand that the 453 00:33:17,715 --> 00:33:20,195 Speaker 1: United Kingdom has not had a lot of success in 454 00:33:20,195 --> 00:33:24,515 Speaker 1: international football recently, but four percent of people in Great 455 00:33:24,555 --> 00:33:28,915 Speaker 1: Britain believe they could make the soccer team that would 456 00:33:28,955 --> 00:33:31,675 Speaker 1: represent the UK in the twenty twenty Olympics if they 457 00:33:31,715 --> 00:33:35,155 Speaker 1: started trying. Now. The key thing in all this is 458 00:33:35,195 --> 00:33:38,195 Speaker 1: this includes all the people who will turn forty nine 459 00:33:38,395 --> 00:33:41,635 Speaker 1: four years from now or thirty nine four years from now, 460 00:33:42,755 --> 00:33:45,075 Speaker 1: and now fifteen percent because of this, one guy from 461 00:33:45,115 --> 00:33:49,555 Speaker 1: Turkey think they can make the air rifle competition. Ald Stell, 462 00:33:49,755 --> 00:33:52,715 Speaker 1: Ald Stell, you ever used a gun before. No, you're 463 00:33:52,715 --> 00:33:56,115 Speaker 1: supposed to point the hole out towards the target. No kidden, 464 00:33:56,635 --> 00:34:01,635 Speaker 1: no Kiddenovna. The runner up, the worser Chris las Savita 465 00:34:02,555 --> 00:34:06,235 Speaker 1: Trump simp. You will recall he was behind the swift 466 00:34:06,235 --> 00:34:09,635 Speaker 1: boating of John Kerry during the two thousand and four campaign. 467 00:34:10,195 --> 00:34:14,275 Speaker 1: He tweeted or somebody else tweeted a criticism of the 468 00:34:14,355 --> 00:34:17,435 Speaker 1: lies of the two thousand and four swift boat campaign, 469 00:34:17,555 --> 00:34:20,555 Speaker 1: which was designed to prove that John Kerry, during his 470 00:34:20,635 --> 00:34:25,195 Speaker 1: service in Vietnam, when he won his medals during everybody 471 00:34:25,235 --> 00:34:28,115 Speaker 1: getting around him, around him getting killed, didn't deserve any 472 00:34:28,115 --> 00:34:30,275 Speaker 1: of those medals, and therefore should be defeated for the 473 00:34:30,315 --> 00:34:34,875 Speaker 1: presidency by George W. Stay at home, fly a plane 474 00:34:34,915 --> 00:34:40,955 Speaker 1: in Texas Bush. Yes, Chris Losovita was the guy in 475 00:34:41,035 --> 00:34:44,315 Speaker 1: charge of that. Rick Losovita was a CBS sports producer, 476 00:34:45,195 --> 00:34:49,075 Speaker 1: almost as big a jackass, but not quite. Chris Losovita 477 00:34:49,195 --> 00:34:51,675 Speaker 1: is now on the course the Trump campaign, basically the 478 00:34:51,715 --> 00:34:55,395 Speaker 1: co manager. He responded to this criticism by tweeting, swift 479 00:34:55,435 --> 00:34:59,675 Speaker 1: boat veterans for truth were never disproven. Reply to that, yes, 480 00:34:59,715 --> 00:35:03,115 Speaker 1: it was disproven. I was chief strategist for Bush Cheney 481 00:35:03,115 --> 00:35:05,675 Speaker 1: two thousand and four, and this, the swift boat attack 482 00:35:05,795 --> 00:35:10,195 Speaker 1: was nearly all lies. That's from Matt Dowd. I believe 483 00:35:10,675 --> 00:35:14,475 Speaker 1: Chris Losovita was hoisted or hoist on his own petard. 484 00:35:15,075 --> 00:35:17,435 Speaker 1: Of course los Aveta was hoist on his own petard 485 00:35:17,515 --> 00:35:20,315 Speaker 1: into his own hell. The trump Ists have already landed 486 00:35:20,355 --> 00:35:24,395 Speaker 1: on him and Pat Semral's daughter Susie Susie Wiles as 487 00:35:24,475 --> 00:35:27,955 Speaker 1: the reason Trump has already lost the election, even though 488 00:35:27,995 --> 00:35:31,515 Speaker 1: it's November and we're just in August. Now he's been attacked, 489 00:35:31,555 --> 00:35:35,555 Speaker 1: this Lasavita has by everybody from James Carville to Nick Fuentes. 490 00:35:36,035 --> 00:35:40,835 Speaker 1: You have to feel sorry for krit now you don't fham. 491 00:35:40,875 --> 00:35:44,235 Speaker 1: Speaking of which, the winner a woman named Michelle Morrow. 492 00:35:44,795 --> 00:35:46,675 Speaker 1: Why do we have to play this election like it 493 00:35:46,715 --> 00:35:49,475 Speaker 1: will be decided by one point each in fifty different 494 00:35:49,515 --> 00:35:53,075 Speaker 1: states because of the Michelle Morrows of this world. It's 495 00:35:53,115 --> 00:35:55,795 Speaker 1: not just that Trump has to be beaten. His gang 496 00:35:55,875 --> 00:35:59,395 Speaker 1: has to be metaphorically chased down like they were the Clantons. 497 00:35:59,595 --> 00:36:03,995 Speaker 1: And this is Wyatt earp Day. Who is Michelle Morrow. 498 00:36:04,315 --> 00:36:07,475 Speaker 1: She is the Republican candidate to run the public schools 499 00:36:07,475 --> 00:36:11,915 Speaker 1: in North Carolina, and she is one hundred percent fascist, 500 00:36:12,435 --> 00:36:16,595 Speaker 1: kill everybody else nuts you think they're eight hundred pound 501 00:36:16,635 --> 00:36:20,515 Speaker 1: candidate for governor who thinks his opponent needs killing is 502 00:36:20,555 --> 00:36:24,715 Speaker 1: a bad guy. This is Michelle Morrow, as CNN found 503 00:36:24,835 --> 00:36:28,075 Speaker 1: on Facebook, and she recorded this on the night of 504 00:36:28,195 --> 00:36:33,235 Speaker 1: January sixth, twenty twenty one. Oh, Michelle, it's your turn 505 00:36:33,355 --> 00:36:34,155 Speaker 1: to be crazy. 506 00:36:34,475 --> 00:36:39,475 Speaker 4: President Trump is still president until the twentieth so he 507 00:36:39,515 --> 00:36:44,955 Speaker 4: can still invoke the Executive Order against voter fraud. And 508 00:36:45,035 --> 00:36:51,795 Speaker 4: now he has every player that participated in his sights 509 00:36:52,915 --> 00:36:57,835 Speaker 4: and they can all be arrested for treason. And if 510 00:36:57,835 --> 00:37:00,595 Speaker 4: the police won't do it, and the Department of Justice 511 00:37:00,595 --> 00:37:03,195 Speaker 4: won't do it, then he will have to enact the 512 00:37:03,235 --> 00:37:11,355 Speaker 4: Insurrection Act, in which case the Insurrection Act completely puts 513 00:37:11,395 --> 00:37:17,795 Speaker 4: the Constitution to the side and says now the military rules. 514 00:37:17,835 --> 00:37:24,835 Speaker 4: All okay, And let me tell you President Trump. President 515 00:37:24,875 --> 00:37:29,555 Speaker 4: Trump has the military on his side because the military 516 00:37:29,915 --> 00:37:33,195 Speaker 4: and many leaders in the military who love this nation 517 00:37:33,715 --> 00:37:36,315 Speaker 4: and who love our constitution, and who have put their 518 00:37:36,355 --> 00:37:39,915 Speaker 4: life on the line to protect the freedoms of people 519 00:37:39,915 --> 00:37:43,795 Speaker 4: in the United States that they will never meet, they 520 00:37:44,835 --> 00:37:50,555 Speaker 4: chose President Trump to be their candidate. So as long 521 00:37:50,555 --> 00:37:58,795 Speaker 4: as he invokes the Insurrection Act, before the inauguration. Then 522 00:37:59,275 --> 00:38:02,435 Speaker 4: he's going to be reinaugurated. He's going to be put. 523 00:38:02,275 --> 00:38:05,995 Speaker 1: Back in as our grandfather is and great grandfather said 524 00:38:06,035 --> 00:38:12,155 Speaker 1: during World War Two? Why we fight Michelle Morrow, who 525 00:38:12,235 --> 00:38:16,315 Speaker 1: thinks that the military should take over the government to 526 00:38:16,355 --> 00:38:21,635 Speaker 1: make sure Trump becomes president again. And guess what I'm thinking. 527 00:38:21,675 --> 00:38:24,995 Speaker 1: She hasn't repudiated that point of view. Maybe we could 528 00:38:24,995 --> 00:38:27,195 Speaker 1: have just a little bit of an insurrection Act by 529 00:38:27,235 --> 00:38:31,075 Speaker 1: President Biden just directed at her. We're going to invoke 530 00:38:31,155 --> 00:38:33,515 Speaker 1: the Insurrection Act for the next thirty five seconds while 531 00:38:33,555 --> 00:38:37,595 Speaker 1: we lock her up and she dies in prison. Two. Michelle, 532 00:38:38,075 --> 00:38:40,915 Speaker 1: we lost that January sixth, but we're going to win 533 00:38:40,995 --> 00:38:44,555 Speaker 1: the next one, in which the victims are your children. Morrow, 534 00:38:45,035 --> 00:38:48,955 Speaker 1: Republican candidate to run public schools in North Carolina and 535 00:38:49,075 --> 00:39:02,475 Speaker 1: today's worst person in the world. This is the story, 536 00:39:02,955 --> 00:39:06,675 Speaker 1: and it is a long one of the Adler Letter 537 00:39:07,075 --> 00:39:09,595 Speaker 1: and the hell through which I had to go just 538 00:39:09,715 --> 00:39:13,515 Speaker 1: to read it. The Adler Letter falling into my hands 539 00:39:13,515 --> 00:39:16,635 Speaker 1: on the night of Sunday, April eight, nineteen seventy nine, 540 00:39:17,515 --> 00:39:20,195 Speaker 1: was like the PostScript to a breathless, five hundred page 541 00:39:20,275 --> 00:39:23,115 Speaker 1: novel that turns out to be a million times, more exciting, 542 00:39:23,155 --> 00:39:25,835 Speaker 1: more interesting, and more important than any of those five 543 00:39:25,915 --> 00:39:29,675 Speaker 1: hundred pages or the five hundred pages combined. We had 544 00:39:29,795 --> 00:39:34,515 Speaker 1: driven by that point around nine or ten hours. I 545 00:39:34,595 --> 00:39:38,275 Speaker 1: do not believe I ever actually expected to die on 546 00:39:38,315 --> 00:39:40,515 Speaker 1: the trip, but I was at least a dozen times 547 00:39:40,835 --> 00:39:43,675 Speaker 1: absolutely convinced that George and I would wind up in 548 00:39:43,715 --> 00:39:47,195 Speaker 1: the hospital. He and I were college seniors, gone home 549 00:39:47,235 --> 00:39:49,435 Speaker 1: to see the defending two time world champion New York 550 00:39:49,515 --> 00:39:52,875 Speaker 1: Yankees opened the nineteen seventy nine baseball season, and then 551 00:39:52,995 --> 00:39:54,795 Speaker 1: back on the road for the four and a half 552 00:39:54,875 --> 00:39:58,155 Speaker 1: hour trip from the parking garage at Yankee Stadium to 553 00:39:58,275 --> 00:40:01,475 Speaker 1: the rural wilds of Ithaca, New York. We had done 554 00:40:01,475 --> 00:40:04,795 Speaker 1: this countless times, but I did not know, as I 555 00:40:04,835 --> 00:40:07,755 Speaker 1: got out of my dad's car and later on into 556 00:40:07,795 --> 00:40:15,235 Speaker 1: George's that this trip had two previously unimaginable components. First, 557 00:40:15,755 --> 00:40:19,155 Speaker 1: at that hour, the Adler letter had already been sitting 558 00:40:19,235 --> 00:40:22,155 Speaker 1: in my mailbox at my apartment at two hundred and 559 00:40:22,195 --> 00:40:24,795 Speaker 1: seven Delaware Avenue at the New York for at least 560 00:40:24,795 --> 00:40:27,755 Speaker 1: one day, maybe two, and I did not know the 561 00:40:27,795 --> 00:40:30,995 Speaker 1: other thing, and only found it out as George told 562 00:40:30,995 --> 00:40:33,635 Speaker 1: me about it at the ball game. His father had 563 00:40:33,755 --> 00:40:37,115 Speaker 1: yelled towards him as George backed out of the driveway 564 00:40:37,155 --> 00:40:41,675 Speaker 1: that morning, George, there's rain in the forecast. Drive carefully, 565 00:40:42,155 --> 00:40:46,075 Speaker 1: remember I took off your snow tires because it's spring now. 566 00:40:48,715 --> 00:40:52,315 Speaker 1: The midpoint of the trip to my school, Cornell and 567 00:40:52,435 --> 00:40:56,835 Speaker 1: his Ethaca College, more or less, was a McDonald's restaurant 568 00:40:56,835 --> 00:40:59,875 Speaker 1: in Liberty, New York. And we stopped there and got 569 00:40:59,875 --> 00:41:02,115 Speaker 1: a late lunch or an early dinner. And I was 570 00:41:02,115 --> 00:41:04,475 Speaker 1: sitting facing the window and George was sitting facing the 571 00:41:04,475 --> 00:41:08,435 Speaker 1: ca outer And as we ate and mumbled, I said, George, 572 00:41:09,235 --> 00:41:11,995 Speaker 1: you have a really bad case of dan drift or 573 00:41:12,035 --> 00:41:17,155 Speaker 1: did it just start really snowing? George wheeled around to 574 00:41:17,195 --> 00:41:20,875 Speaker 1: look out the window. Uh oh. We wrapped up our 575 00:41:20,915 --> 00:41:23,075 Speaker 1: burgers and took them with us and literally ran to 576 00:41:23,115 --> 00:41:26,715 Speaker 1: the car my father and his goddamn snow tire obsession. 577 00:41:26,875 --> 00:41:31,555 Speaker 1: George shouted. Within an hour on the outskirts of Binghamton, 578 00:41:31,595 --> 00:41:33,675 Speaker 1: New York, three or four inches of snow had reduced 579 00:41:33,675 --> 00:41:36,515 Speaker 1: speed to just above single digits and visibility to next 580 00:41:36,515 --> 00:41:40,475 Speaker 1: to nothing. George was a meticulously good driver, didn't matter. 581 00:41:40,875 --> 00:41:44,795 Speaker 1: We spun out a full three sixty loop the loop. 582 00:41:45,155 --> 00:41:48,275 Speaker 1: We're going north. Oops, we're going west and oncoming traffic. Oops, 583 00:41:48,315 --> 00:41:50,315 Speaker 1: we're going south into the cars behind us. Oops, we're 584 00:41:50,355 --> 00:41:52,675 Speaker 1: going east into the ditch next to the highway. Oh boy, 585 00:41:52,755 --> 00:41:56,915 Speaker 1: we're going north again. I think we spun out six 586 00:41:57,035 --> 00:42:00,075 Speaker 1: or seven times on the highway alone before we got 587 00:42:00,075 --> 00:42:04,355 Speaker 1: to Binghamton. There was some sola scenes seeing other cars 588 00:42:04,355 --> 00:42:07,235 Speaker 1: in both directions doing exactly the same thing, and concluding 589 00:42:07,275 --> 00:42:09,395 Speaker 1: that George's father could not have had the time to 590 00:42:09,435 --> 00:42:14,115 Speaker 1: remove all their snow tires too. We were not far 591 00:42:14,235 --> 00:42:18,355 Speaker 1: north of Binghamton, still skidding, still spinning, George swearing NonStop. 592 00:42:18,555 --> 00:42:20,955 Speaker 1: When he interrupted himself long enough to ask me what 593 00:42:21,115 --> 00:42:23,955 Speaker 1: time it was, I had to hold my watch up 594 00:42:23,995 --> 00:42:27,595 Speaker 1: to the car window to get brief flashes of illumination 595 00:42:27,635 --> 00:42:30,875 Speaker 1: from the highway lights. A little after seven, we skid 596 00:42:30,915 --> 00:42:34,795 Speaker 1: it again. George swore loudly put the Ranger game on. 597 00:42:35,115 --> 00:42:38,955 Speaker 1: I'd do it myself, but we skid it again. By now, 598 00:42:39,035 --> 00:42:41,315 Speaker 1: I was getting kind of used to it. I turned 599 00:42:41,355 --> 00:42:44,675 Speaker 1: the radio literally before George regained control of the steering. 600 00:42:45,515 --> 00:42:48,635 Speaker 1: I found the Rangers station, the one in New York. Wnaw. 601 00:42:49,115 --> 00:42:50,755 Speaker 1: If you had told me that night that a little 602 00:42:50,795 --> 00:42:53,795 Speaker 1: over a year later, I would be broadcasting on WNW. 603 00:42:53,955 --> 00:42:56,115 Speaker 1: My first thought would have been, so we don't get 604 00:42:56,195 --> 00:42:59,835 Speaker 1: killed tonight because George's father took off the snow tires. 605 00:42:59,875 --> 00:43:01,555 Speaker 1: That's nice. Oh and I work there and I'm not 606 00:43:01,595 --> 00:43:04,395 Speaker 1: a ghost. If you told me that night that the 607 00:43:04,395 --> 00:43:07,475 Speaker 1: aper letter was waiting for me back in my snow 608 00:43:07,515 --> 00:43:09,995 Speaker 1: covered mailbox in Ithaca, I might have pressed George to 609 00:43:10,035 --> 00:43:14,275 Speaker 1: go faster, and they might never have even found our bodies. 610 00:43:16,355 --> 00:43:20,235 Speaker 1: The storm, as storms often did in those long gone days, 611 00:43:20,275 --> 00:43:23,475 Speaker 1: somehow boosted the AM radio signal from New York, and 612 00:43:23,555 --> 00:43:26,075 Speaker 1: though we were two hundred miles away from the transmitter, 613 00:43:26,435 --> 00:43:30,235 Speaker 1: Marv Albert and the WAW Rangers broadcast was clear as 614 00:43:30,275 --> 00:43:33,875 Speaker 1: a bell. The traction even seemed to get a little better, 615 00:43:34,635 --> 00:43:39,315 Speaker 1: But we both knew the ordeal that lay ahead. The 616 00:43:39,435 --> 00:43:47,115 Speaker 1: exit from the highway at Whitney Point. It amazed us, 617 00:43:47,555 --> 00:43:50,835 Speaker 1: as it amazes the students there now, as it must 618 00:43:50,835 --> 00:43:53,795 Speaker 1: have amazed the students who went there a century ago. 619 00:43:54,075 --> 00:43:56,955 Speaker 1: A century and a half ago. That Cornell University, which 620 00:43:56,955 --> 00:43:59,275 Speaker 1: I attended at Ithaca College, which George attended, were both 621 00:43:59,435 --> 00:44:03,195 Speaker 1: an hour's drive away from the nearest highway There was 622 00:44:03,235 --> 00:44:05,955 Speaker 1: in fact, no access to at the New York by 623 00:44:05,955 --> 00:44:09,435 Speaker 1: anything more than a two lane road. It was legendary 624 00:44:09,475 --> 00:44:12,395 Speaker 1: on the Cornell campus that old Ezra Cornell, the barely 625 00:44:12,475 --> 00:44:16,755 Speaker 1: literate railroad tie preservative tycoon of the nineteenth century, decided 626 00:44:16,755 --> 00:44:19,275 Speaker 1: to give away nearly all of his fortune, which today 627 00:44:19,315 --> 00:44:21,475 Speaker 1: would have been at least a billion dollars. And he 628 00:44:21,515 --> 00:44:23,635 Speaker 1: told a friend he was going to open a university 629 00:44:23,675 --> 00:44:29,835 Speaker 1: where anyone can study anything. His friend reacted in horror, 630 00:44:30,555 --> 00:44:36,035 Speaker 1: They will stampede the place. Ezra Cornell laughed, Wait, you 631 00:44:36,075 --> 00:44:41,275 Speaker 1: see where I put it. Ezra Cornell's little geographical joke 632 00:44:41,435 --> 00:44:44,835 Speaker 1: was still vividly alive one hundred and ten odd years later. 633 00:44:45,435 --> 00:44:47,795 Speaker 1: The easiest of the roots to his university was the 634 00:44:47,795 --> 00:44:52,035 Speaker 1: one that took you from Ithaca to Whitney Point. Whitney 635 00:44:52,035 --> 00:44:55,515 Speaker 1: Point the capital of the metroplex there Whitney Point, Lyle 636 00:44:55,555 --> 00:44:59,515 Speaker 1: and Center Lyle, also known as the Calcutta of Broome County, 637 00:44:59,795 --> 00:45:02,275 Speaker 1: where nearly three thousand people live atop each other in 638 00:45:02,275 --> 00:45:05,995 Speaker 1: conditions so crowded that every person barely has his own 639 00:45:06,075 --> 00:45:10,275 Speaker 1: square mile. Once you got off at Whitney Point, you 640 00:45:10,315 --> 00:45:13,355 Speaker 1: were at the mercies of route seventy nine, where if 641 00:45:13,355 --> 00:45:15,915 Speaker 1: traffic were light or the driver's adroit you might make 642 00:45:15,915 --> 00:45:18,395 Speaker 1: it back to it again in thirty minutes, but if 643 00:45:18,395 --> 00:45:21,435 Speaker 1: you got stuck behind somebody, it could be an hour 644 00:45:21,755 --> 00:45:25,355 Speaker 1: or two. Or if there was an April blizzard and 645 00:45:25,395 --> 00:45:28,435 Speaker 1: George's father had taken off your snow tires, it could 646 00:45:28,475 --> 00:45:31,235 Speaker 1: take you longer than it took Antarctic explorers to reach 647 00:45:31,315 --> 00:45:34,075 Speaker 1: the South Pole, and you'd see more snow and ice 648 00:45:34,115 --> 00:45:38,635 Speaker 1: than they did. I believe George and I skidded making 649 00:45:38,675 --> 00:45:41,315 Speaker 1: the left turn off the highway, but he managed to 650 00:45:41,315 --> 00:45:45,355 Speaker 1: stay on the road. The radio signal was not quite 651 00:45:45,395 --> 00:45:48,955 Speaker 1: as fortunate. Within minutes of leaving the highway, WNEW began 652 00:45:49,035 --> 00:45:51,675 Speaker 1: to compete for space on George's car radio, with some 653 00:45:51,915 --> 00:45:55,755 Speaker 1: audible noise that the radio could suddenly pick up from 654 00:45:55,835 --> 00:45:59,875 Speaker 1: his turn signals, Make a right, and Marv Albert was 655 00:45:59,915 --> 00:46:06,235 Speaker 1: being drowned out by allowed Ejan Vickers crossed click pop 656 00:46:06,275 --> 00:46:11,275 Speaker 1: plan and slashes click click click. Within minutes after the 657 00:46:11,315 --> 00:46:14,835 Speaker 1: first spin out on Route seventy nine, mercifully with literally 658 00:46:14,915 --> 00:46:18,235 Speaker 1: no other cars on the road, the woo woos arrived. 659 00:46:19,035 --> 00:46:22,195 Speaker 1: We never figured out what they were, but they waxed 660 00:46:22,275 --> 00:46:25,435 Speaker 1: and waned so slowly that at first I asked George 661 00:46:25,635 --> 00:46:29,675 Speaker 1: why Ranger fans at Madison Square Garden were chanting woo 662 00:46:29,795 --> 00:46:34,355 Speaker 1: woo during the game. George was too busy swearing to answer. 663 00:46:34,875 --> 00:46:37,675 Speaker 1: The snow was now horizontal, and as it danced towards 664 00:46:37,755 --> 00:46:40,715 Speaker 1: us in George's headlights, it was hypnotic, and the Ranger 665 00:46:40,755 --> 00:46:45,475 Speaker 1: broadcast now sounded like this vickers crossly woo woo, woooo 666 00:46:45,835 --> 00:46:48,675 Speaker 1: pok plan slashes click click, click, click, click, damn it 667 00:46:48,755 --> 00:46:53,075 Speaker 1: all to hell, wooooo, tigrandson holds in the same woo woo, 668 00:46:53,395 --> 00:46:58,475 Speaker 1: son of a bench. The trip from Whitney Point had 669 00:46:58,515 --> 00:47:01,155 Speaker 1: taken well over an hour, and we were not halfway 670 00:47:01,195 --> 00:47:04,635 Speaker 1: there yet when the inevitable happened. George kept a stay 671 00:47:04,675 --> 00:47:07,675 Speaker 1: at he slow paced ten or fifteen miles an hour tops. 672 00:47:07,675 --> 00:47:11,275 Speaker 1: He really was a great driver. He did not accelerate, 673 00:47:11,475 --> 00:47:13,835 Speaker 1: he did not turn, yet all of a moment, his 674 00:47:13,955 --> 00:47:17,875 Speaker 1: green nineteen seventy Dodge Dark decided to make an abrupt 675 00:47:17,995 --> 00:47:21,635 Speaker 1: left at about a forty five degree angle. We were 676 00:47:21,715 --> 00:47:24,595 Speaker 1: off the road in seconds and headed for an unscheduled 677 00:47:24,675 --> 00:47:26,715 Speaker 1: visit to the front porch of a farmer's house that 678 00:47:26,795 --> 00:47:28,355 Speaker 1: had to have been sent back at least two hundred 679 00:47:28,395 --> 00:47:32,795 Speaker 1: feet from the road here. Finally, the heavy snow worked 680 00:47:32,835 --> 00:47:36,795 Speaker 1: to our advantage. It slowed us, then it stopped us 681 00:47:37,315 --> 00:47:40,595 Speaker 1: just two or three feet before we would have plowed 682 00:47:40,635 --> 00:47:44,635 Speaker 1: into this guy's house. However, since we were in Richford, 683 00:47:44,715 --> 00:47:47,915 Speaker 1: New York, birthplace of John Rockefeller, by the way, or 684 00:47:47,955 --> 00:47:52,635 Speaker 1: we were in Caroline or Caroline Center or Slaterville Springs, 685 00:47:52,915 --> 00:47:57,635 Speaker 1: or wherever the hell we were, the homeowner emerged bearing 686 00:47:57,675 --> 00:48:01,795 Speaker 1: not a gun nor an attitude, but genuine concern. In fact, 687 00:48:01,795 --> 00:48:03,635 Speaker 1: he heard the Ranger game on the radio and asked 688 00:48:03,635 --> 00:48:06,635 Speaker 1: me the score, which is when I noticed, at the 689 00:48:06,675 --> 00:48:08,915 Speaker 1: moment we had left the road, the woo woos had 690 00:48:08,915 --> 00:48:11,755 Speaker 1: stopped and the waw signal was as good as it 691 00:48:11,835 --> 00:48:14,075 Speaker 1: must have been in Madison Square Garden in New York. 692 00:48:15,995 --> 00:48:18,355 Speaker 1: The farmer helped us push the car back onto Route 693 00:48:18,395 --> 00:48:22,475 Speaker 1: seventy nine, and as we got in he went and said, uh, 694 00:48:23,035 --> 00:48:26,435 Speaker 1: wear are you snow tires? George started to swear again. 695 00:48:26,955 --> 00:48:30,555 Speaker 1: I took over and explained about George's father, never been 696 00:48:30,635 --> 00:48:33,915 Speaker 1: up here has he? George started the car back up 697 00:48:33,915 --> 00:48:36,795 Speaker 1: and now drove even slower. Within a minute, the woo 698 00:48:36,835 --> 00:48:40,715 Speaker 1: woos were back marv Alvert Imsel Messina. Woo Woo woo 699 00:48:41,275 --> 00:48:42,475 Speaker 1: where the Rangers lead. 700 00:48:42,715 --> 00:48:43,755 Speaker 2: Woo woo woo. 701 00:48:46,035 --> 00:48:50,915 Speaker 1: We got there finally. George was actually going to try 702 00:48:50,995 --> 00:48:53,515 Speaker 1: to drive up the hill that led to the other 703 00:48:53,675 --> 00:48:57,395 Speaker 1: hill that led to the Delaware Avenue hill where my 704 00:48:57,475 --> 00:49:01,315 Speaker 1: apartment was. Calculating that I had pressed my luck sufficiently, 705 00:49:01,395 --> 00:49:03,195 Speaker 1: I told him just let me out at East State 706 00:49:03,275 --> 00:49:07,315 Speaker 1: and Mitchell and I'd make it from there on foot. Thankfully, 707 00:49:07,435 --> 00:49:10,435 Speaker 1: George's father had not removed the sure grip souls from 708 00:49:10,515 --> 00:49:14,235 Speaker 1: my winter boots. I actually went to my radio station first. 709 00:49:14,275 --> 00:49:15,875 Speaker 1: It was literally a two minute walk from there to 710 00:49:15,955 --> 00:49:19,515 Speaker 1: my apartment. I lingered at WVBR for fifteen or twenty minutes, 711 00:49:19,515 --> 00:49:22,235 Speaker 1: and then hiked back. The Rangers had won their game 712 00:49:22,915 --> 00:49:24,995 Speaker 1: from the station I had called George's apartment and he 713 00:49:25,035 --> 00:49:27,555 Speaker 1: had made it back there, and I took my first 714 00:49:27,635 --> 00:49:30,715 Speaker 1: deep breath since the McDonald's in Liberty. Then I reflected 715 00:49:30,755 --> 00:49:33,875 Speaker 1: that it was only six hours until my next class, 716 00:49:33,915 --> 00:49:37,795 Speaker 1: and guess what I was going to cut. I stopped 717 00:49:37,835 --> 00:49:40,315 Speaker 1: off the snow on my porch at two hundred and 718 00:49:40,355 --> 00:49:43,315 Speaker 1: seven Delaware Avenue and I opened the door and I 719 00:49:43,435 --> 00:49:45,995 Speaker 1: dumped my bag inside, and then I reached into the 720 00:49:46,035 --> 00:49:55,675 Speaker 1: mailbox and I saw it immediately the return address Adler WCBS, 721 00:49:56,675 --> 00:50:01,115 Speaker 1: CBS Radio, the Division of CBS, Inc. Fifty one West 722 00:50:01,195 --> 00:50:03,555 Speaker 1: fifty two Street, New York, New York, one zero zero 723 00:50:03,675 --> 00:50:06,755 Speaker 1: one to nine two nine seven five four three two one. 724 00:50:08,635 --> 00:50:14,595 Speaker 1: Lou Adler was radio news in New York City in 725 00:50:14,715 --> 00:50:19,635 Speaker 1: April nineteen seventy nine. And this was April nineteen seventy nine. 726 00:50:20,635 --> 00:50:28,035 Speaker 1: I could barely breathe the Adler letter. What was in 727 00:50:28,875 --> 00:50:33,475 Speaker 1: the Adler letter? Which explains why five decades later, I 728 00:50:33,595 --> 00:50:35,635 Speaker 1: know it by heart and can tell you exactly where 729 00:50:35,795 --> 00:50:39,195 Speaker 1: it is at the moment. That's next. This is Countdown, 730 00:50:45,515 --> 00:50:48,115 Speaker 1: resuming the number one story on the Countdown and the 731 00:50:48,195 --> 00:50:52,675 Speaker 1: several lifetimes contained. On Sunday, April eighth, nineteen seventy nine, 732 00:50:53,675 --> 00:50:58,555 Speaker 1: I survived nine or ten eight hundred hour drive in 733 00:50:58,635 --> 00:51:01,395 Speaker 1: a blizzard, right after my friend's dad had helpfully removed 734 00:51:01,795 --> 00:51:05,675 Speaker 1: the snow tires from my friend's car. I had lived 735 00:51:05,755 --> 00:51:08,595 Speaker 1: to resume my desperate bid to graduate college in two 736 00:51:08,675 --> 00:51:11,275 Speaker 1: months and get a job somewhere in radio in three months, 737 00:51:11,355 --> 00:51:14,115 Speaker 1: and against all odds, amid all the snow and mess. 738 00:51:14,275 --> 00:51:16,755 Speaker 1: There was a letter waiting for me at my apartment 739 00:51:17,075 --> 00:51:20,635 Speaker 1: in silent snow inundated Ithaca, New York, A letter from 740 00:51:20,835 --> 00:51:25,195 Speaker 1: Lou Adler, the news director of the leading all news 741 00:51:25,275 --> 00:51:30,755 Speaker 1: station in the United States of America. Lou Adler had 742 00:51:30,835 --> 00:51:34,595 Speaker 1: begun on WCBS the year I was born. In nineteen 743 00:51:34,635 --> 00:51:37,435 Speaker 1: sixty seven, the station went all news, and it immediately 744 00:51:37,475 --> 00:51:40,155 Speaker 1: became the best all news station in the country. Lou 745 00:51:40,195 --> 00:51:43,235 Speaker 1: Adler co anchored the mornings, and eight years earlier he 746 00:51:43,315 --> 00:51:46,595 Speaker 1: had become the station's news director. He was the best. 747 00:51:47,235 --> 00:51:50,475 Speaker 1: His co anchor, Jim Donnelly, was the best. His sportscaster 748 00:51:50,595 --> 00:51:53,475 Speaker 1: at Engles was the best. His reporters were the best. 749 00:51:53,595 --> 00:51:56,195 Speaker 1: His weatherman was the best. His traffic guys were the best. 750 00:51:56,395 --> 00:52:00,635 Speaker 1: His jingles were the best. I listened daily in high school, 751 00:52:01,195 --> 00:52:03,435 Speaker 1: and when I was home from college, I did not 752 00:52:03,635 --> 00:52:07,755 Speaker 1: take literal notes on, only mental ones. My college graduation, 753 00:52:07,955 --> 00:52:10,755 Speaker 1: if I made it, was seven weeks away. I had 754 00:52:10,835 --> 00:52:12,995 Speaker 1: never worked on television in any form, but I had 755 00:52:13,075 --> 00:52:16,195 Speaker 1: been on radio two or three thousand times by then, 756 00:52:16,235 --> 00:52:18,555 Speaker 1: and I thought I was pretty good at it. In 757 00:52:18,675 --> 00:52:21,795 Speaker 1: the preceding months, I had flooded every radio station in 758 00:52:21,915 --> 00:52:24,875 Speaker 1: every major market in the Northeast. With a demo tape 759 00:52:24,955 --> 00:52:27,515 Speaker 1: and a resume, I figured I might as well start 760 00:52:27,715 --> 00:52:30,515 Speaker 1: in my home of New York and not eliminate a 761 00:52:30,555 --> 00:52:33,155 Speaker 1: potential job, no matter how long a long shot it 762 00:52:33,275 --> 00:52:36,595 Speaker 1: might have been. If I wasn't good enough to work there, 763 00:52:36,675 --> 00:52:39,195 Speaker 1: I concluded I should let the people who ran New 764 00:52:39,275 --> 00:52:42,755 Speaker 1: York's radio stations decide that, since that's what they were 765 00:52:42,835 --> 00:52:47,395 Speaker 1: paid to do. To this point, they had decided that 766 00:52:48,515 --> 00:52:52,075 Speaker 1: by not responding. I got a few nibbles from some 767 00:52:52,155 --> 00:52:54,875 Speaker 1: of the smaller stations, but as April eighth turned to 768 00:52:54,915 --> 00:52:58,435 Speaker 1: April ninth, I had no job prospects. Other friends were 769 00:52:58,475 --> 00:53:03,835 Speaker 1: getting offers in Waterbury, Connecticut, and Laconia, New Hampshire, thought 770 00:53:03,875 --> 00:53:06,115 Speaker 1: of which and nothing against either of those cities filled 771 00:53:06,155 --> 00:53:10,875 Speaker 1: me with terror. And now, after this ordeal by snow 772 00:53:11,195 --> 00:53:15,075 Speaker 1: and without snow tires, after the wnw wooo's and Georgia's 773 00:53:15,075 --> 00:53:18,395 Speaker 1: father's near fatal decision to remove those winter tires, here 774 00:53:18,515 --> 00:53:21,195 Speaker 1: in my hand was a letter from the man who was, 775 00:53:21,275 --> 00:53:23,875 Speaker 1: to my mind, the best radio newscaster I had ever heard. 776 00:53:25,115 --> 00:53:28,395 Speaker 1: Obviously it would be a rejection, but even in that moment, 777 00:53:28,515 --> 00:53:31,755 Speaker 1: even at my age twenty years two months and change. 778 00:53:32,435 --> 00:53:36,075 Speaker 1: I was awe struck not only that Lou Adler had replied, 779 00:53:36,475 --> 00:53:40,115 Speaker 1: but that he alone, of all I had written to, 780 00:53:40,475 --> 00:53:43,995 Speaker 1: he had been the one who replied. I believe I 781 00:53:44,115 --> 00:53:47,675 Speaker 1: did not remove my parka before opening the envelope. I 782 00:53:47,835 --> 00:53:50,515 Speaker 1: did put on one lamp in my apartment, and I 783 00:53:50,715 --> 00:53:55,395 Speaker 1: read WCBS. CBS Radio, a division of CBS Inc. Fifty 784 00:53:55,435 --> 00:53:57,555 Speaker 1: one West fifty two Street, New York, New York, one 785 00:53:57,635 --> 00:53:59,635 Speaker 1: zero zero one nine two one two nine seventy five 786 00:53:59,635 --> 00:54:03,395 Speaker 1: four three two one April third, nineteen seventy nine, mister 787 00:54:03,515 --> 00:54:06,555 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman, two hundred seven Delaware Avenue, Etica, New York, 788 00:54:06,635 --> 00:54:11,275 Speaker 1: one four eight five. Oh, dear mister Olderman. This will 789 00:54:11,355 --> 00:54:14,155 Speaker 1: reply to your letter of March twenty seventh, with which 790 00:54:14,195 --> 00:54:17,595 Speaker 1: you included a tape of your sports work on WVBRFM. 791 00:54:19,395 --> 00:54:21,515 Speaker 1: Sometimes it's hard to know what a man can do 792 00:54:21,715 --> 00:54:27,115 Speaker 1: by listening to a brief tape. I stopped wait a man, 793 00:54:28,435 --> 00:54:34,075 Speaker 1: which oh me, I'm just a kid. Sometimes it's hard 794 00:54:34,115 --> 00:54:35,835 Speaker 1: to know what a man can do by listening to 795 00:54:35,915 --> 00:54:37,755 Speaker 1: a brief tape. But I must tell you I was 796 00:54:37,835 --> 00:54:41,475 Speaker 1: excited by what I heard of yours. I think you 797 00:54:41,635 --> 00:54:45,995 Speaker 1: have exceptional talent and poise considering your age and experience. 798 00:54:46,795 --> 00:54:49,075 Speaker 1: You read well, and you write well, and you know 799 00:54:49,195 --> 00:54:52,595 Speaker 1: how to use tape. If the short tape is truly 800 00:54:52,715 --> 00:54:55,635 Speaker 1: representative of what you can do, and if your knowledge 801 00:54:55,675 --> 00:54:58,795 Speaker 1: of sports is broad, and if you can perform under 802 00:54:58,875 --> 00:55:02,075 Speaker 1: pressure well, then I feel you have an excellent future 803 00:55:02,235 --> 00:55:07,475 Speaker 1: in this industry. By this point, my heart was beating 804 00:55:07,555 --> 00:55:10,235 Speaker 1: so furiously I could hear it. I was this close 805 00:55:10,275 --> 00:55:13,675 Speaker 1: to hearing it make the woo woo sound. I think 806 00:55:13,755 --> 00:55:15,715 Speaker 1: it might be a good idea for us to meet. 807 00:55:16,395 --> 00:55:18,355 Speaker 1: Let me know when you can make it to New York. 808 00:55:18,755 --> 00:55:20,715 Speaker 1: I have nothing here for you, and I know of 809 00:55:20,835 --> 00:55:23,515 Speaker 1: nothing solid. But if I feel as strongly about your 810 00:55:23,595 --> 00:55:26,355 Speaker 1: potential after we meet as I do now, a meeting 811 00:55:26,475 --> 00:55:32,075 Speaker 1: certainly could do you no harm. Sincerely, Lewis c Adler, 812 00:55:32,275 --> 00:55:41,435 Speaker 1: Director News, Operations and Programs LCA slash Peepe George, I 813 00:55:41,515 --> 00:55:43,635 Speaker 1: screamed into the phone. Can we drive back to the 814 00:55:43,715 --> 00:55:48,755 Speaker 1: city right now? He swore. I read George the letter. 815 00:55:49,075 --> 00:55:52,355 Speaker 1: He paused, No, we shouldn't go tonight. You're not going 816 00:55:52,395 --> 00:55:54,235 Speaker 1: to see him tomorrow. Wait till you get your appointment. 817 00:55:54,275 --> 00:55:56,235 Speaker 1: But Jesus. This is like the manager of the Yankees 818 00:55:56,435 --> 00:55:58,475 Speaker 1: asking you to stop by the stadium and bring your 819 00:55:58,475 --> 00:56:02,915 Speaker 1: glove and bat, just in case I think I got 820 00:56:02,955 --> 00:56:05,555 Speaker 1: to sleep at sunrise. I had read the Adler letter 821 00:56:05,755 --> 00:56:08,635 Speaker 1: twenty or thirty times, and not until the fifteenth or 822 00:56:08,715 --> 00:56:11,155 Speaker 1: so did I stop expecting it to have turned back 823 00:56:11,195 --> 00:56:15,835 Speaker 1: into some courteous form letter rejection. Badly xeroxyton slightly offsetter. 824 00:56:17,115 --> 00:56:19,995 Speaker 1: Slowly it dawned on me that my own assessment of 825 00:56:20,075 --> 00:56:24,995 Speaker 1: my radio skills were not predicated on ego or even 826 00:56:25,035 --> 00:56:27,475 Speaker 1: the context of what else I could hear in Ithaca, 827 00:56:27,915 --> 00:56:30,555 Speaker 1: which was then the three hundred and fifty first largest 828 00:56:30,635 --> 00:56:34,195 Speaker 1: radio market in the country. Good but still three hundred 829 00:56:34,195 --> 00:56:39,275 Speaker 1: and fifty first. I cannot now describe the sense of validation, 830 00:56:39,475 --> 00:56:43,555 Speaker 1: except to say that I have seriously considered not taking 831 00:56:43,675 --> 00:56:45,875 Speaker 1: Lou Adler up on his offer to meet him at 832 00:56:45,995 --> 00:56:50,075 Speaker 1: CBS World Headquarters, black Rock itself, where Bill Paley would 833 00:56:50,115 --> 00:56:54,595 Speaker 1: be working upstairs, because short of offering me a job, 834 00:56:54,675 --> 00:56:57,435 Speaker 1: there really was no chance mister Adler could do or 835 00:56:57,515 --> 00:57:01,195 Speaker 1: say anything more that could make me feel better or 836 00:57:01,315 --> 00:57:04,595 Speaker 1: more confident that my dream of becoming a sportscaster would 837 00:57:04,755 --> 00:57:08,595 Speaker 1: not lead me to starvation or to Laconia, New Hampshire. 838 00:57:10,675 --> 00:57:14,795 Speaker 1: In fact, in person, Lou Adler found more things to say. 839 00:57:14,955 --> 00:57:16,995 Speaker 1: If I had an opening for a sportscaster right now, 840 00:57:17,075 --> 00:57:20,555 Speaker 1: I would seriously consider you for it. I would hesitate 841 00:57:20,635 --> 00:57:22,995 Speaker 1: because of your age and your lack of practical experience, 842 00:57:23,355 --> 00:57:26,275 Speaker 1: and then I'd probably do it anyway. He was as 843 00:57:26,435 --> 00:57:29,955 Speaker 1: warm and supportive and informal as his letter had been, 844 00:57:29,995 --> 00:57:32,795 Speaker 1: structured and serious and tempered. Let me take you on 845 00:57:32,875 --> 00:57:36,355 Speaker 1: a tour. We saw the live studios, the production studios, 846 00:57:36,395 --> 00:57:40,275 Speaker 1: the writer's area. I wasn't just speechless again, I was breathless. 847 00:57:41,275 --> 00:57:43,795 Speaker 1: And you should probably recognize this man by voice, if 848 00:57:43,835 --> 00:57:48,235 Speaker 1: not by sight. Keith Olderman. Meet our sports director. Ed Engles, ed, 849 00:57:49,035 --> 00:57:53,195 Speaker 1: this is Keith. This is the fellow with the tape. 850 00:57:54,595 --> 00:57:57,395 Speaker 1: Ed Engles took a moment that his eyes widened. Hi, 851 00:57:58,075 --> 00:58:01,315 Speaker 1: what a tape, Jesus, Lou, don't tell me you've hired him? 852 00:58:01,475 --> 00:58:05,435 Speaker 1: Did you fire me? I must, ad meant. I thought 853 00:58:05,475 --> 00:58:07,915 Speaker 1: for a second it might have happened. I did not 854 00:58:08,155 --> 00:58:12,955 Speaker 1: shrink entirely from that fantasy. Lou Adler laughed, No, Eddie. 855 00:58:13,315 --> 00:58:17,675 Speaker 1: Then he paused, it was irresistible, not yet we went 856 00:58:17,755 --> 00:58:20,595 Speaker 1: back to Lou Adweer's office. Have you got any job prospects? 857 00:58:21,275 --> 00:58:23,315 Speaker 1: I explained that a month earlier, thanks to a chain 858 00:58:23,355 --> 00:58:26,195 Speaker 1: of recommendations that stretched from my internship at Channel five 859 00:58:26,275 --> 00:58:29,715 Speaker 1: Television the year before through a young ABC sports executive 860 00:58:29,795 --> 00:58:33,435 Speaker 1: named Bob Eiger. I think it was to a friend 861 00:58:33,515 --> 00:58:34,995 Speaker 1: of a friend of a friend of a friend. I 862 00:58:35,075 --> 00:58:38,675 Speaker 1: had met everybody at the radio network of United Press International, 863 00:58:38,715 --> 00:58:40,315 Speaker 1: and I was supposed to go back and see them 864 00:58:40,795 --> 00:58:45,075 Speaker 1: about working their freelance as summer vacation relief for the 865 00:58:45,155 --> 00:58:48,235 Speaker 1: year ahead in sports and in news. Oh, that would 866 00:58:48,275 --> 00:58:51,195 Speaker 1: be ideal for you, Lou Adwer said. It's a tough 867 00:58:51,235 --> 00:58:53,875 Speaker 1: place to work. They don't pay well at UPI, but 868 00:58:53,955 --> 00:58:56,515 Speaker 1: it's here in the city, and every other radio station 869 00:58:56,595 --> 00:58:59,275 Speaker 1: in this country will hear you on the feed. That's 870 00:58:59,315 --> 00:59:02,155 Speaker 1: where we hired ed from ed Ingles. So if we 871 00:59:02,275 --> 00:59:05,395 Speaker 1: have an opening, he smiled broadly, can poach you and 872 00:59:05,435 --> 00:59:07,195 Speaker 1: get you here in less than two weeks? Can I? 873 00:59:10,635 --> 00:59:13,755 Speaker 1: Mister Adler then suggested that CBS station in Atlanta would 874 00:59:13,755 --> 00:59:16,075 Speaker 1: be needing a sportscaster in a few months. I'll stay 875 00:59:16,115 --> 00:59:17,875 Speaker 1: on top of that. They already have a copy of 876 00:59:17,875 --> 00:59:19,675 Speaker 1: your tape. I hope you don't mind. I made several 877 00:59:19,795 --> 00:59:23,035 Speaker 1: copies of your tape. If UPI does not work out, 878 00:59:23,235 --> 00:59:25,675 Speaker 1: I am confident you will be offered a job in Atlanta, 879 00:59:25,795 --> 00:59:28,315 Speaker 1: and maybe quite a few other jobs. I hope I've 880 00:59:28,315 --> 00:59:30,075 Speaker 1: been of some help. Stay in touch. It's one of 881 00:59:30,155 --> 00:59:32,035 Speaker 1: the privileges of this job to be able to help. 882 00:59:32,035 --> 00:59:35,155 Speaker 1: But frankly, you're not going to need that much help. 883 00:59:37,875 --> 00:59:40,195 Speaker 1: I may have taken the train back to my folks house, 884 00:59:40,275 --> 00:59:43,515 Speaker 1: or I may have just walked the twenty miles or floated. 885 00:59:45,515 --> 00:59:48,435 Speaker 1: The UPI job worked out full time. Two months later, 886 00:59:48,995 --> 00:59:52,515 Speaker 1: at the first game I covered for money, I walked 887 00:59:52,595 --> 00:59:55,555 Speaker 1: into the press box at Shay Stadium and there was 888 00:59:55,835 --> 00:59:59,435 Speaker 1: ed ingles. Thank god you went to UPI. The way 889 00:59:59,515 --> 01:00:01,715 Speaker 1: Adler went on about you, I seriously wondered if he 890 01:00:01,795 --> 01:00:03,515 Speaker 1: was planning to bring you in and kick me out. 891 01:00:04,915 --> 01:00:08,395 Speaker 1: The Atlanta offer Lou Adler arranged came I turned it down. 892 01:00:09,155 --> 01:00:11,115 Speaker 1: About a year later, I got a call from Adler's 893 01:00:11,115 --> 01:00:13,755 Speaker 1: assistant saying they were going to need a new afternoon 894 01:00:13,795 --> 01:00:16,475 Speaker 1: sportscaster at WCBS and would I send a new tape. 895 01:00:17,395 --> 01:00:19,675 Speaker 1: But by that fall, when the job opened, Lou Adler 896 01:00:19,955 --> 01:00:23,755 Speaker 1: was leaving WCBS to become news director and vice president 897 01:00:23,835 --> 01:00:27,715 Speaker 1: of another New York radio station, wor his successor would 898 01:00:27,755 --> 01:00:30,395 Speaker 1: choose somebody else for the job. Just as I heard 899 01:00:30,395 --> 01:00:32,115 Speaker 1: from the people who ran the radio network that the 900 01:00:32,275 --> 01:00:35,435 Speaker 1: WR folks had started the year before, it was not 901 01:00:35,595 --> 01:00:39,635 Speaker 1: coincidental Lou Adler had sent these people starting this new 902 01:00:39,715 --> 01:00:46,115 Speaker 1: network my tape there is inevitably from the distant future 903 01:00:46,755 --> 01:00:50,075 Speaker 1: a punchline. In two thousand and six or two thousand 904 01:00:50,075 --> 01:00:52,475 Speaker 1: and seven, when Countdown had become the highest rated cable 905 01:00:52,515 --> 01:00:56,115 Speaker 1: news program that wasn't on Fox, an email appeared in 906 01:00:56,235 --> 01:01:00,115 Speaker 1: my inbox. I could not believe the name of the sender, 907 01:01:01,395 --> 01:01:04,635 Speaker 1: Lou Adler. He began just as formally as he had 908 01:01:04,675 --> 01:01:06,755 Speaker 1: had in nineteen seventy nine. He actually felt it was 909 01:01:06,875 --> 01:01:11,195 Speaker 1: necessary to remind me about his letter. He said he 910 01:01:11,275 --> 01:01:13,755 Speaker 1: watched every night, and when he found other viewers of 911 01:01:13,795 --> 01:01:16,395 Speaker 1: the program, he told them the story. Proudly, he said. 912 01:01:16,595 --> 01:01:22,675 Speaker 1: He asked if I remembered. I wrote back, immediately, remembered remembered. 913 01:01:23,315 --> 01:01:25,675 Speaker 1: I told him I still had his letter, and I 914 01:01:25,715 --> 01:01:27,715 Speaker 1: still had the sense of confidence it had given me 915 01:01:28,115 --> 01:01:30,395 Speaker 1: that it was central to my decision to more or 916 01:01:30,475 --> 01:01:32,155 Speaker 1: less give up my sports career at the age of 917 01:01:32,235 --> 01:01:34,475 Speaker 1: thirty eight and try news. And I told him the 918 01:01:34,475 --> 01:01:36,875 Speaker 1: whole driving back to Ithaca and the snow tire story, 919 01:01:36,995 --> 01:01:41,875 Speaker 1: just for fun. Lou wrote back again within minutes. He 920 01:01:41,995 --> 01:01:44,795 Speaker 1: had just retired after running the mass communications program at 921 01:01:44,835 --> 01:01:46,995 Speaker 1: Quinnipiac College, and he said he had had a strong 922 01:01:47,155 --> 01:01:49,915 Speaker 1: sense of his career having been the proverbial punch into 923 01:01:49,995 --> 01:01:54,755 Speaker 1: a pail of water. Now it was my turn to 924 01:01:54,795 --> 01:01:57,355 Speaker 1: reassure him that the people like me who he had 925 01:01:57,435 --> 01:02:00,715 Speaker 1: supported and taught and broadcast to had long since begun 926 01:02:01,235 --> 01:02:05,035 Speaker 1: to support and teach the next generation, and that generation 927 01:02:05,195 --> 01:02:07,075 Speaker 1: was already supporting the one after that. And there would 928 01:02:07,075 --> 01:02:10,075 Speaker 1: be people in this business beginning their careers after both 929 01:02:10,115 --> 01:02:13,275 Speaker 1: of us were dead who would owe a debt of gratitude, 930 01:02:13,315 --> 01:02:17,675 Speaker 1: whether or not they knew it to Lou Adler, as 931 01:02:17,715 --> 01:02:23,795 Speaker 1: I always will. Lou Adler died five years ago at 932 01:02:23,795 --> 01:02:27,915 Speaker 1: the age of eighty eight. There are letters and photos 933 01:02:28,115 --> 01:02:30,915 Speaker 1: in the hallway that leads in from the front door 934 01:02:30,995 --> 01:02:35,395 Speaker 1: of my home. They are from Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, 935 01:02:36,435 --> 01:02:57,995 Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, and Lou Adler, and now WCBS 936 01:02:58,195 --> 01:03:01,915 Speaker 1: will be off the air in thirteen days, might as 937 01:03:01,955 --> 01:03:06,355 Speaker 1: well shut off CBS News. Well, from my point of view, 938 01:03:06,435 --> 01:03:10,075 Speaker 1: this does seventy five percent of that. Anyway, I've done 939 01:03:10,075 --> 01:03:12,035 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here, not as much 940 01:03:12,035 --> 01:03:15,715 Speaker 1: as Odissy has. Thank you for listening. Please share this 941 01:03:15,875 --> 01:03:18,915 Speaker 1: pod with somebody who doesn't listen. Maybe we can pick 942 01:03:18,995 --> 01:03:21,995 Speaker 1: up all the CBS listeners. We're up to a total 943 01:03:22,035 --> 01:03:25,475 Speaker 1: audience of a million of a week. Let's go. Brian 944 01:03:25,555 --> 01:03:29,435 Speaker 1: Ray and John Phillip Shaneil the musical directors have Countdown, arranged, produced, 945 01:03:29,475 --> 01:03:32,995 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handling orchestration 946 01:03:33,115 --> 01:03:36,275 Speaker 1: and keyboards, Mister Ray on guitars, bass and drums, and 947 01:03:36,355 --> 01:03:39,675 Speaker 1: it was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and fifty 948 01:03:39,795 --> 01:03:42,515 Speaker 1: musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, 949 01:03:42,795 --> 01:03:46,155 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Alderman theme from 950 01:03:46,395 --> 01:03:50,195 Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. 951 01:03:50,795 --> 01:03:54,155 Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 952 01:03:54,715 --> 01:03:58,195 Speaker 1: My announcer today was speaking of music, my friend Stevie 953 01:03:58,315 --> 01:04:02,155 Speaker 1: van zandt everything else was pretty much my fault, although 954 01:04:02,235 --> 01:04:04,275 Speaker 1: I tend on occasions like this to blame it all 955 01:04:04,315 --> 01:04:07,915 Speaker 1: on lou That's countdown for this the eighty fifth day 956 01:04:07,955 --> 01:04:11,515 Speaker 1: until the twenty twenty four presidential election, the one three 957 01:04:11,595 --> 01:04:15,635 Speaker 1: hundred and fourteenth day since convicted felon dementia j Trump's 958 01:04:15,675 --> 01:04:19,235 Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the 959 01:04:19,355 --> 01:04:23,595 Speaker 1: United States. Use the September eighteenth sentencing hearing. Use the 960 01:04:23,635 --> 01:04:27,275 Speaker 1: mental health system. You've got it. President Biden used presidential 961 01:04:27,315 --> 01:04:31,995 Speaker 1: immunity to stop him from doing it again while we 962 01:04:32,195 --> 01:04:38,755 Speaker 1: still can. And anti Semitic, anti immigration MAGA Republicans, please 963 01:04:38,795 --> 01:04:42,555 Speaker 1: stop shooting at Trump. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. 964 01:04:42,955 --> 01:04:45,955 Speaker 1: Bulletins as the news requires until the next one. I'm 965 01:04:45,995 --> 01:04:50,875 Speaker 1: Keith Oldruman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 966 01:05:04,715 --> 01:05:08,595 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Alderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 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