1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,115 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Biden 2 00:00:22,355 --> 00:00:29,315 Speaker 1: fifty two Trump forty eight likely voters. New Marquette Law 3 00:00:29,355 --> 00:00:34,235 Speaker 1: School poll impressive, not decisive, but more impressive with this 4 00:00:34,435 --> 00:00:39,075 Speaker 1: context noted Marquette Law School poll ending February fifteenth, Likely 5 00:00:39,195 --> 00:00:44,395 Speaker 1: voters Trump fifty two, Biden forty eight. So that's Biden 6 00:00:44,635 --> 00:00:49,715 Speaker 1: minus four to Biden plus four in forty three days, 7 00:00:50,115 --> 00:00:55,155 Speaker 1: an eight points wing in forty three days. Marquette defines 8 00:00:55,355 --> 00:00:59,235 Speaker 1: its likely voters as registered and claiming they are certain 9 00:00:59,315 --> 00:01:03,355 Speaker 1: to vote. Broaden it out to all registered and it's 10 00:01:03,395 --> 00:01:09,395 Speaker 1: still a Biden's swing. Okay, I'll say it. It's joementum. 11 00:01:09,435 --> 00:01:12,635 Speaker 1: Among all registered voters in the Marquette poll, it is 12 00:01:12,675 --> 00:01:15,275 Speaker 1: now fifty to fifty. In the middle of February, it 13 00:01:15,355 --> 00:01:18,915 Speaker 1: was Trump fifty one to forty nine. It was on 14 00:01:19,035 --> 00:01:23,675 Speaker 1: January fifteenth of this year when internal Biden polling data leaked, 15 00:01:24,275 --> 00:01:27,515 Speaker 1: or at least the conclusions thereof leaked, And as I 16 00:01:27,555 --> 00:01:31,275 Speaker 1: will go into depth, in a moment, they insisted, at 17 00:01:31,315 --> 00:01:35,235 Speaker 1: what was for them the nadir of this campaign, that 18 00:01:35,355 --> 00:01:41,915 Speaker 1: there would be an osm an oh spit moment. Only 19 00:01:41,955 --> 00:01:45,435 Speaker 1: they didn't say spit, not at which Biden or Biden 20 00:01:45,515 --> 00:01:50,275 Speaker 1: supporters spat, but a point at which the undecideds, who 21 00:01:50,275 --> 00:01:53,635 Speaker 1: had convinced themselves that somehow Trump would not be the 22 00:01:53,675 --> 00:01:56,955 Speaker 1: Republican nominee and thus that they would have a different 23 00:01:57,075 --> 00:02:03,275 Speaker 1: alternative coming from the GOP, that they would realize, oh, spit, 24 00:02:03,955 --> 00:02:07,195 Speaker 1: Trump has gotten the Republican nomination. And it was the 25 00:02:07,395 --> 00:02:12,675 Speaker 1: firm belief inside Biden headquarters that when that moment occurred, 26 00:02:12,755 --> 00:02:17,275 Speaker 1: when he clinched the nomination, the Republican nomination, all the 27 00:02:17,395 --> 00:02:23,515 Speaker 1: undecideds would break for Biden, which seems to be the 28 00:02:23,555 --> 00:02:30,595 Speaker 1: case as a fascinating aside, a moronically fascinating aside. In 29 00:02:30,675 --> 00:02:34,235 Speaker 1: the Marquette poll, Trump is still thrashing the president by 30 00:02:34,315 --> 00:02:40,235 Speaker 1: sixty four to thirty six. In one demographic sixty four 31 00:02:40,275 --> 00:02:49,955 Speaker 1: to thirty six. Trump among those not registered to vote, Hey, dementia, Jay, 32 00:02:50,795 --> 00:02:57,875 Speaker 1: everybody who isn't voting is voting for you. I know 33 00:02:58,475 --> 00:03:01,915 Speaker 1: they could still register them, but that would involve spending 34 00:03:01,995 --> 00:03:06,795 Speaker 1: less money on lawyers. Apropos of the good Biden polling 35 00:03:06,875 --> 00:03:10,395 Speaker 1: news This from the Washington Post. Isaac Arnsdorf in a 36 00:03:10,515 --> 00:03:14,595 Speaker 1: new book, The other key besides the O spit moment. 37 00:03:14,955 --> 00:03:19,635 Speaker 1: The messaging routing back to November two, twenty twenty one, 38 00:03:19,875 --> 00:03:23,595 Speaker 1: when the Democrats ran the rather hapless and opportunistic and 39 00:03:23,675 --> 00:03:27,475 Speaker 1: generic Terry mccaulliffe for governor of Virginia because he'd been 40 00:03:27,555 --> 00:03:30,675 Speaker 1: such a good behind the scenes operator, and they were 41 00:03:30,715 --> 00:03:33,155 Speaker 1: convinced all they had to do to win was to 42 00:03:33,275 --> 00:03:38,235 Speaker 1: pin Trump to their bland Republican opponent, Glenn Youngkin. And 43 00:03:38,395 --> 00:03:42,995 Speaker 1: it never happened, and mccauliffe lost a nominally Democratic state 44 00:03:43,435 --> 00:03:46,675 Speaker 1: in the immediate aftermath of the Trump Insurrection, and he 45 00:03:46,755 --> 00:03:50,235 Speaker 1: lost it by two hundred and sixty thousand votes to 46 00:03:50,315 --> 00:03:55,195 Speaker 1: a guy in a parka vest. In his new book, 47 00:03:55,275 --> 00:03:58,595 Speaker 1: mister Arnsdorf says Anita Dunn of a White House promptly 48 00:03:58,635 --> 00:04:03,635 Speaker 1: convened the key guys from four different campaign consulting and 49 00:04:03,755 --> 00:04:07,315 Speaker 1: media groups to figure out why that happened. And the 50 00:04:07,355 --> 00:04:11,915 Speaker 1: answer was the messaging, Like the Democrats don't have any messaging, 51 00:04:12,875 --> 00:04:16,075 Speaker 1: so they put it out for research. They researched it, 52 00:04:16,475 --> 00:04:21,235 Speaker 1: and the polling came back thusly, eighty percent of American 53 00:04:21,315 --> 00:04:26,955 Speaker 1: voters of all kinds knew what MAGA was, and half 54 00:04:27,035 --> 00:04:31,035 Speaker 1: of that eighty percent had an unfavorable opinion of what 55 00:04:31,155 --> 00:04:39,635 Speaker 1: MAGA was. Voters used terms like dangerous, divisive, extreme, power hungry, maga. Now, 56 00:04:39,715 --> 00:04:46,835 Speaker 1: how could you paint Republicans all Republicans as mega hmm 57 00:04:48,035 --> 00:04:55,835 Speaker 1: maga and Republicans maga and Republicans knowing upper hierarchy Dems, 58 00:04:55,875 --> 00:05:02,755 Speaker 1: they probably workshopped Republican megas for eight weeks, then Hoopsucker, 59 00:05:03,315 --> 00:05:10,795 Speaker 1: then the Hudswinger before somebody said fellas fellas, fellas, I 60 00:05:10,955 --> 00:05:18,475 Speaker 1: got something Maga Republicans. That's when and why Biden began 61 00:05:18,675 --> 00:05:24,995 Speaker 1: calling them that Maga Republicans. And when Even Politico, which 62 00:05:25,035 --> 00:05:29,635 Speaker 1: reported this, says, and the rest was history. A corner 63 00:05:29,955 --> 00:05:34,235 Speaker 1: has been turned. By the way, go and do this, 64 00:05:34,515 --> 00:05:40,355 Speaker 1: google Maga Republicans in quotes Maga Republicans. There are one million, 65 00:05:40,475 --> 00:05:46,395 Speaker 1: three hundred and forty thousand results, the other evidence that 66 00:05:46,435 --> 00:05:51,075 Speaker 1: the rest might indeed be history. Gamblers, now they are 67 00:05:51,115 --> 00:05:55,115 Speaker 1: just as flawed in terms of predictive quality as pollsters 68 00:05:55,155 --> 00:05:58,795 Speaker 1: and analysts are. The gamblers were still heavily betting on 69 00:05:58,875 --> 00:06:02,555 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton the morning of the twenty sixteen elections. Still 70 00:06:02,555 --> 00:06:07,275 Speaker 1: this is worth a note. On March third, betting at 71 00:06:07,315 --> 00:06:11,155 Speaker 1: a thing called polymarket on who will win the twenty 72 00:06:11,235 --> 00:06:15,155 Speaker 1: twenty four US presidential election was Trump fifty four percent, 73 00:06:15,515 --> 00:06:21,835 Speaker 1: Biden thirty two percent. Betting at polymarket this Wednesday was 74 00:06:22,555 --> 00:06:28,035 Speaker 1: Trump forty seven percent, Biden forty three percent. Betting at 75 00:06:28,075 --> 00:06:35,315 Speaker 1: polymarket last night was Trump forty six percent, Biden forty 76 00:06:35,435 --> 00:06:43,635 Speaker 1: four percent. Again, this is the result of how people gamble. Still, 77 00:06:43,635 --> 00:06:45,595 Speaker 1: it is a good measure of what people think is 78 00:06:45,675 --> 00:06:49,155 Speaker 1: happening or what they believe is beginning to happen. And 79 00:06:49,195 --> 00:06:53,195 Speaker 1: it is usually dispassionate. It is concerned only with money. 80 00:06:54,395 --> 00:06:57,595 Speaker 1: And in thirty two days, Trump lost eight points and 81 00:06:57,675 --> 00:07:02,475 Speaker 1: Biden gained twelve points. In this polymarket, a twenty point 82 00:07:02,555 --> 00:07:07,515 Speaker 1: swing in thirty two days is a twenty point swing, 83 00:07:07,555 --> 00:07:10,555 Speaker 1: and I don't care if it's in the polymarket or 84 00:07:10,595 --> 00:07:16,115 Speaker 1: in the mini market. So that's what I was thinking 85 00:07:16,115 --> 00:07:20,795 Speaker 1: about while I was unconscious in the hospital yesterday, the 86 00:07:20,915 --> 00:07:25,715 Speaker 1: minor medical procedure, my colonoscopy. I was there when he 87 00:07:25,835 --> 00:07:28,915 Speaker 1: made his hemorrhoid joke at the nineteen eighty World Series. 88 00:07:29,355 --> 00:07:32,395 Speaker 1: So I think I'm entitled to paraphrase George Bread of 89 00:07:32,395 --> 00:07:36,755 Speaker 1: the Kansas City Royals. Well, there it is your proof 90 00:07:36,835 --> 00:07:42,555 Speaker 1: that I am a perfect asshole. All good, except for, 91 00:07:42,875 --> 00:07:46,835 Speaker 1: you know, the being unconscious part. So as I think 92 00:07:46,875 --> 00:07:50,115 Speaker 1: I may have warned you three times this week, today's 93 00:07:50,635 --> 00:07:55,515 Speaker 1: podcast is truncated. In fact, what you have heard is 94 00:07:55,635 --> 00:07:58,355 Speaker 1: all the new there is today. But I wanted to 95 00:07:58,395 --> 00:08:01,555 Speaker 1: do a redux of that first bit from two and 96 00:08:01,555 --> 00:08:03,755 Speaker 1: a half months ago. And people still remembered who Dean 97 00:08:03,835 --> 00:08:06,235 Speaker 1: Phillips used to be, and the White House was answering 98 00:08:06,275 --> 00:08:10,515 Speaker 1: not with panic but with the O Spit moment. And 99 00:08:11,315 --> 00:08:13,955 Speaker 1: I also wanted to recap last week's polling news that 100 00:08:14,115 --> 00:08:16,515 Speaker 1: very much lines up with this stuff from the Marquette Pole. 101 00:08:16,955 --> 00:08:19,075 Speaker 1: And if you don't want to hear it again, I 102 00:08:19,115 --> 00:08:22,595 Speaker 1: get it. I think it's insightful, not what I said, 103 00:08:22,635 --> 00:08:28,595 Speaker 1: but what they said. Plus I'm really tired. So here's 104 00:08:28,715 --> 00:08:31,315 Speaker 1: all the new ahead in me because I had other 105 00:08:31,355 --> 00:08:32,875 Speaker 1: things in me that we had to get out too. 106 00:08:33,755 --> 00:08:35,955 Speaker 1: And I'll see you with an all new on Monday 107 00:08:36,035 --> 00:08:40,995 Speaker 1: night Tuesday morning. Till then, goodnight and good luck. Play 108 00:08:41,035 --> 00:08:48,875 Speaker 1: the tape. Now, there is the possibility that if and 109 00:08:48,915 --> 00:08:52,035 Speaker 1: when Trump nails down the Republican nomination, the Biden Trump 110 00:08:52,155 --> 00:08:57,875 Speaker 1: race will suddenly tilt strongly towards Joe Biden. CNN had 111 00:08:57,915 --> 00:09:00,675 Speaker 1: a story, the importance of which flew right over the 112 00:09:00,675 --> 00:09:03,715 Speaker 1: head of every TV political pundit and over the head 113 00:09:03,755 --> 00:09:07,795 Speaker 1: of CNN's owner. Orders quoting sources with access to Biden 114 00:09:08,075 --> 00:09:12,395 Speaker 1: internal polling and research that may explain what a lot 115 00:09:12,395 --> 00:09:17,155 Speaker 1: of us have seen as well. Just visualize that dog 116 00:09:17,355 --> 00:09:21,915 Speaker 1: in the blazing room. This is fine meme again. Biden 117 00:09:22,115 --> 00:09:27,035 Speaker 1: campaign data indicates that among undecided voters, three out of 118 00:09:27,115 --> 00:09:30,195 Speaker 1: four of them do not seem to believe that the 119 00:09:30,235 --> 00:09:35,795 Speaker 1: Republican nominee will be Trump. CNN quotes one senior Biden 120 00:09:35,875 --> 00:09:41,235 Speaker 1: official as saying, you can't conceive of how tuned out 121 00:09:41,475 --> 00:09:48,115 Speaker 1: these folks are. Try me anyway. Another quote, apparently from 122 00:09:48,115 --> 00:09:51,195 Speaker 1: a different Biden campaign official, the realization will soon come 123 00:09:51,315 --> 00:09:54,675 Speaker 1: quote oh shit, it is an election between that guy 124 00:09:55,115 --> 00:10:01,875 Speaker 1: and that guy unquote. Three out of four undecideds are 125 00:10:01,995 --> 00:10:10,755 Speaker 1: politically illiterate and or in Trump denial impossible, impossible. The 126 00:10:10,835 --> 00:10:14,235 Speaker 1: Morris Berman book The Twilight of American Culture includes this. 127 00:10:14,275 --> 00:10:17,715 Speaker 1: I'm quoting a survey taken in October nineteen ninety six 128 00:10:17,795 --> 00:10:21,755 Speaker 1: revealed that one in ten voters did not know who 129 00:10:21,795 --> 00:10:25,995 Speaker 1: the Republican or Democratic nominees for president were. That was 130 00:10:26,075 --> 00:10:29,435 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, less than one month before the nineteen 131 00:10:29,515 --> 00:10:32,635 Speaker 1: ninety six election, by which point the Democratic nominee, if 132 00:10:32,675 --> 00:10:37,715 Speaker 1: you've forgotten, had been president for three years and nine months. Now. 133 00:10:37,755 --> 00:10:40,395 Speaker 1: This is a guess. I'm going way out on a 134 00:10:40,475 --> 00:10:43,795 Speaker 1: limb here, no empirical evidence, but even with the invention 135 00:10:43,915 --> 00:10:47,515 Speaker 1: of social media, I'm gonna guess that voter imbecility has 136 00:10:47,635 --> 00:10:54,115 Speaker 1: not improved since nineteen ninety six. So when a Yugov 137 00:10:54,315 --> 00:10:58,475 Speaker 1: poll from a week ago today had it Biden forty three, 138 00:10:58,835 --> 00:11:02,795 Speaker 1: Trump forty three, that's fourteen percent undecided or other, and 139 00:11:03,075 --> 00:11:06,595 Speaker 1: maybe one or two out of every ten of them 140 00:11:07,115 --> 00:11:13,235 Speaker 1: couldn't really place the names Biden and Trump. Plus per 141 00:11:13,315 --> 00:11:16,915 Speaker 1: the Biden research, seven or eight out of every ten 142 00:11:16,955 --> 00:11:19,875 Speaker 1: of them still really didn't believe Trump will be on 143 00:11:19,955 --> 00:11:37,155 Speaker 1: the ballot. Trump and Trump leaning undecided fifty, Biden and 144 00:11:37,235 --> 00:11:42,475 Speaker 1: Biden leaning undecideds fifty. And the Harvard Harris Pole, the 145 00:11:42,675 --> 00:11:46,155 Speaker 1: Harvard Harris Poll, about which a Harvard School newspaper columnist 146 00:11:46,195 --> 00:11:49,235 Speaker 1: wrote on Tuesday, Harvard should break up with the Harris 147 00:11:49,275 --> 00:11:52,715 Speaker 1: Pole because the university is quote lending its name to 148 00:11:52,835 --> 00:11:57,475 Speaker 1: a methodologically flawed poll that often promotes a right wing 149 00:11:57,595 --> 00:12:02,835 Speaker 1: political agenda. So forget the Olberman caveat numbers of undecideds 150 00:12:02,835 --> 00:12:07,475 Speaker 1: and margins of era. The Harris Poles leans right. Yet 151 00:12:07,515 --> 00:12:11,515 Speaker 1: even it has this race a tie, and moreover, with 152 00:12:11,635 --> 00:12:15,835 Speaker 1: the spoiler candidates and with the undecideds undecided, it has 153 00:12:15,875 --> 00:12:19,315 Speaker 1: it forty thirty seven Trump and the eight percent undecided 154 00:12:19,675 --> 00:12:23,915 Speaker 1: leaning sixty one percent to Biden, including fifty eight percent 155 00:12:23,915 --> 00:12:29,035 Speaker 1: of independent undecideds and forty one percent of Republican undecided. 156 00:12:29,155 --> 00:12:33,435 Speaker 1: And that is, after all, exactly what the Biden internal 157 00:12:33,515 --> 00:12:37,035 Speaker 1: metrics told the president's campaign months ago, and that is 158 00:12:37,115 --> 00:12:40,115 Speaker 1: exactly why they did not panic when everybody else panicked, 159 00:12:40,275 --> 00:12:42,875 Speaker 1: because they stuck to the mantra that the minute Trump 160 00:12:42,915 --> 00:12:46,835 Speaker 1: actually got the Republican nomination, the undecideds and the independents 161 00:12:46,835 --> 00:12:50,075 Speaker 1: would have their O spit moment and break for Biden. 162 00:12:50,595 --> 00:12:54,795 Speaker 1: Even in the right leaning Harvard Harris Pole or as 163 00:12:54,835 --> 00:12:59,715 Speaker 1: it is colloquially referred to the Mark Penn Personal Vendetta Pole, 164 00:13:00,955 --> 00:13:04,275 Speaker 1: and in the Bloomberg Morning Consult poll of swing states, 165 00:13:04,395 --> 00:13:07,395 Speaker 1: which it was the talk of politics when Trump was 166 00:13:07,435 --> 00:13:10,155 Speaker 1: ahead everywhere, but it is not the talk of politics 167 00:13:10,195 --> 00:13:12,395 Speaker 1: at this moment because in the new one Biden went 168 00:13:12,475 --> 00:13:16,035 Speaker 1: up in six out of the seven states, leading in Wisconsin, 169 00:13:16,315 --> 00:13:21,235 Speaker 1: tied in Michigan, tied in Pennsylvania, minus two in Nevada. 170 00:13:21,515 --> 00:13:25,515 Speaker 1: So if you looked a skance at last night's fundraiser 171 00:13:25,595 --> 00:13:28,355 Speaker 1: down the block from me at Radio City, the Father, 172 00:13:28,475 --> 00:13:30,875 Speaker 1: the Son, and the Holy Ghost and the twenty five 173 00:13:30,955 --> 00:13:34,635 Speaker 1: million dollar money bomb expected from the simultaneous appearance of 174 00:13:34,715 --> 00:13:38,635 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton, don't look a skance. 175 00:13:39,035 --> 00:13:42,235 Speaker 1: How much would you pay to not live under a 176 00:13:42,275 --> 00:13:47,195 Speaker 1: Trump dictatorship. More to the point, if the Harvard Harris 177 00:13:47,235 --> 00:13:51,235 Speaker 1: poll is sketchy at best, then its rationales are sketchy 178 00:13:51,315 --> 00:13:55,435 Speaker 1: at best. But Harvard Harris said it saw no bump 179 00:13:55,475 --> 00:13:57,635 Speaker 1: after Biden stated the union, but it did see a 180 00:13:57,675 --> 00:14:02,475 Speaker 1: bump after Biden's first wall to wall ad blitz. And yes, 181 00:14:02,795 --> 00:14:06,075 Speaker 1: it's the economy, or more correctly, the perception of the economy. 182 00:14:06,235 --> 00:14:08,235 Speaker 1: And yes, you should be able to win a campaign 183 00:14:08,235 --> 00:14:11,195 Speaker 1: against a lunatic whose brain is leaking out of his 184 00:14:11,275 --> 00:14:15,675 Speaker 1: ears and is running on a platform of fascism, despotism, revenge, 185 00:14:15,875 --> 00:14:19,035 Speaker 1: a national abortion ban, and cutting social security and medicare. 186 00:14:19,115 --> 00:14:21,475 Speaker 1: But in point of fact, you will only win such 187 00:14:21,475 --> 00:14:25,555 Speaker 1: a campaign if you flood all media with proof that 188 00:14:25,595 --> 00:14:28,075 Speaker 1: Trump is a fascist bent on revenge and a national 189 00:14:28,115 --> 00:14:30,595 Speaker 1: abortion ban and severing the safety net, and that is 190 00:14:30,675 --> 00:14:38,795 Speaker 1: called advertising. Wish it were otherwise, but it ain't. By 191 00:14:38,835 --> 00:14:41,315 Speaker 1: the way, if you were waiting for RFK Junior to 192 00:14:41,435 --> 00:14:44,395 Speaker 1: self destruct, he just gave you some of the ammunition. 193 00:14:44,915 --> 00:14:49,115 Speaker 1: This money spigot. He named as his running mate, the Shanahan. 194 00:14:49,955 --> 00:14:54,315 Speaker 1: She is against in vitro fertilization. She revealed this the 195 00:14:54,395 --> 00:14:58,955 Speaker 1: same day that Democrat maryland Lands, who lost Alabama State 196 00:14:58,995 --> 00:15:02,235 Speaker 1: House District ten by seven points in twenty twenty two, 197 00:15:02,995 --> 00:15:05,315 Speaker 1: she won it by twenty five point points running on 198 00:15:05,355 --> 00:15:10,555 Speaker 1: a platform to protect in vitro fertilization Tuesday. As a bonus, 199 00:15:11,275 --> 00:15:14,995 Speaker 1: the Shanahan part of the RFK Junior. Shanahan ticket is 200 00:15:15,035 --> 00:15:19,075 Speaker 1: not only anti in vitro, but believes IVF can easily 201 00:15:19,115 --> 00:15:24,195 Speaker 1: be replaced because two hours of exposure to morning sunshine 202 00:15:25,075 --> 00:15:29,395 Speaker 1: can make women pregnant. And now you know why crazy 203 00:15:29,435 --> 00:15:32,755 Speaker 1: Bob Junior picked her. Besides all her money, she makes 204 00:15:32,795 --> 00:15:37,915 Speaker 1: him look less insane. But memo to the Biden campaign, 205 00:15:38,315 --> 00:15:40,355 Speaker 1: you are going to have to spend some of that 206 00:15:40,515 --> 00:15:45,235 Speaker 1: advertising money telling the uninformed and the disconnected that RFK 207 00:15:45,515 --> 00:15:48,075 Speaker 1: is so brain damaged that he does not remember all 208 00:15:48,115 --> 00:15:51,795 Speaker 1: those times when he came out against all vaccines, and 209 00:15:51,915 --> 00:15:55,675 Speaker 1: his running mate is such a dits. She called IVF 210 00:15:55,795 --> 00:16:01,115 Speaker 1: a lie and said this at a conference last year. 211 00:16:01,435 --> 00:16:04,595 Speaker 2: What I would like to do and try out is 212 00:16:04,875 --> 00:16:09,835 Speaker 2: funding clinical trials that truly are for interventions that cost 213 00:16:09,915 --> 00:16:13,555 Speaker 2: no money, and one of those is sunlight. I'm not 214 00:16:13,595 --> 00:16:17,315 Speaker 2: sure that there has been a really throw like mitochondrial 215 00:16:17,435 --> 00:16:22,035 Speaker 2: respiration study on the effects of two hours of morning 216 00:16:22,115 --> 00:16:26,035 Speaker 2: sunlight on reproductive health. I would love to fund something 217 00:16:26,115 --> 00:16:32,715 Speaker 2: like that. Yeah, yeah, let's do it. So, you know, 218 00:16:32,875 --> 00:16:36,715 Speaker 2: interventions that really actually truly cost no money. You know 219 00:16:36,755 --> 00:16:40,075 Speaker 2: an employer benefit of you know, two hours out of 220 00:16:40,075 --> 00:16:43,515 Speaker 2: the workday to be outside under the direct sunlight. I 221 00:16:44,355 --> 00:16:48,195 Speaker 2: just have an intuition that could be interesting and maybe work. 222 00:16:49,155 --> 00:16:56,475 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. Here's the number one 223 00:16:56,515 --> 00:17:00,075 Speaker 1: story on the Countdown. A little early, I promised this 224 00:17:00,155 --> 00:17:02,555 Speaker 1: episode would probably be a little short because of the 225 00:17:02,595 --> 00:17:08,035 Speaker 1: impending medical procedure. Details to come. It's more a schedule 226 00:17:08,075 --> 00:17:11,515 Speaker 1: issue than a health one, and an unconsciousness issue, I 227 00:17:11,555 --> 00:17:14,395 Speaker 1: mean intentional unconsciousness, not like the normal type I have, 228 00:17:15,595 --> 00:17:19,235 Speaker 1: but it's okay because the topic of my favorite topic 229 00:17:19,355 --> 00:17:22,235 Speaker 1: me and things I promised not to tell, and the 230 00:17:22,315 --> 00:17:25,715 Speaker 1: missive in question, one of the most important letters in 231 00:17:25,755 --> 00:17:31,035 Speaker 1: my entire life was in the mail in transit to 232 00:17:31,275 --> 00:17:37,715 Speaker 1: me forty five years ago right now. Plus I just saw, 233 00:17:37,715 --> 00:17:39,995 Speaker 1: after all these years, a photograph of the man who 234 00:17:40,035 --> 00:17:43,075 Speaker 1: sent that letter when he was a newscaster at WCBS 235 00:17:43,195 --> 00:17:45,795 Speaker 1: radio in New York, and he sued it up in 236 00:17:45,875 --> 00:17:49,355 Speaker 1: a Yankees uniform at a radio All Star game at 237 00:17:49,395 --> 00:17:53,555 Speaker 1: the original Yankee Stadium in the summer of nineteen sixty five. 238 00:17:54,155 --> 00:17:58,595 Speaker 1: He looks serious and young. He was three months older 239 00:17:58,675 --> 00:18:01,555 Speaker 1: than my dad was, and it was as startling to 240 00:18:01,595 --> 00:18:05,075 Speaker 1: see him as it is still startling to read the 241 00:18:05,155 --> 00:18:09,315 Speaker 1: letter he wrote to me. This is the story, and 242 00:18:09,475 --> 00:18:13,475 Speaker 1: it is a long one of the Adler letter and 243 00:18:13,555 --> 00:18:16,075 Speaker 1: the hell through which I had to go just to 244 00:18:16,115 --> 00:18:19,795 Speaker 1: read it. The Adler letter falling into my hands on 245 00:18:19,835 --> 00:18:23,835 Speaker 1: the night of Sunday, April eight, nineteen seventy nine, was 246 00:18:23,955 --> 00:18:26,835 Speaker 1: like the PostScript to a breathless five hundred page novel 247 00:18:27,115 --> 00:18:29,395 Speaker 1: that turns out to be a million times more exciting, 248 00:18:29,395 --> 00:18:32,115 Speaker 1: more interesting, and more important than any of those five 249 00:18:32,155 --> 00:18:35,915 Speaker 1: hundred pages or the five hundred pages combined. We had 250 00:18:36,035 --> 00:18:40,795 Speaker 1: driven by that point around nine or ten hours. I 251 00:18:40,835 --> 00:18:44,515 Speaker 1: do not believe I ever actually expected to die on 252 00:18:44,555 --> 00:18:46,755 Speaker 1: the trip, but I was at least a dozen times 253 00:18:47,075 --> 00:18:49,915 Speaker 1: absolutely convinced that George and I would wind up in 254 00:18:49,955 --> 00:18:53,475 Speaker 1: the hospital. He and I were college seniors, gone home 255 00:18:53,515 --> 00:18:55,675 Speaker 1: to see the defending two time world champion New York 256 00:18:55,755 --> 00:18:59,115 Speaker 1: Yankees opened the nineteen seventy nine baseball season, and then 257 00:18:59,235 --> 00:19:01,035 Speaker 1: back on the road for the four and a half 258 00:19:01,115 --> 00:19:04,395 Speaker 1: hour trip from the parking garage at Yankee Stadium to 259 00:19:04,435 --> 00:19:07,715 Speaker 1: the rural wilds of Ithaca, New York. We had done 260 00:19:07,715 --> 00:19:10,915 Speaker 1: this countless times, but I did not know, as I 261 00:19:10,995 --> 00:19:14,035 Speaker 1: got out of my dad's car and later on into 262 00:19:14,075 --> 00:19:21,475 Speaker 1: George's that this trip had two previously unimaginable components. First, 263 00:19:22,035 --> 00:19:25,475 Speaker 1: at that hour, the Adler letter had already been sitting 264 00:19:25,515 --> 00:19:28,395 Speaker 1: in my mailbox at my apartment at two hundred and 265 00:19:28,435 --> 00:19:31,475 Speaker 1: seven Delaware Avenue, Ithaca, New York, for at least one day, 266 00:19:31,515 --> 00:19:34,675 Speaker 1: maybe two, and I did not know the other thing, 267 00:19:35,075 --> 00:19:37,635 Speaker 1: and only found it out as George told me about 268 00:19:37,635 --> 00:19:41,115 Speaker 1: it at the ballgame. His father had yelled towards him 269 00:19:41,435 --> 00:19:44,715 Speaker 1: as George backed out of the driveway that morning. George, 270 00:19:45,155 --> 00:19:49,715 Speaker 1: there's rain in the forecast. Drive carefully, remember I took 271 00:19:49,755 --> 00:19:55,715 Speaker 1: off your snow tires because it's spring now. The midpoint 272 00:19:55,835 --> 00:19:59,435 Speaker 1: of the trip to my school, Cornell and his Ethhaca 273 00:19:59,475 --> 00:20:03,795 Speaker 1: College more or less, was a McDonald's restaurant in Liberty, 274 00:20:03,835 --> 00:20:06,435 Speaker 1: New York. And we stopped there and got a late 275 00:20:06,515 --> 00:20:09,035 Speaker 1: lunch or an early dinner. And I was sitting facing 276 00:20:09,035 --> 00:20:11,955 Speaker 1: the window and George was sitting facing the counter. And 277 00:20:12,035 --> 00:20:15,795 Speaker 1: as we ate and mumbled, I said, George, you have 278 00:20:15,835 --> 00:20:18,475 Speaker 1: a really bad case of dan drift or did it 279 00:20:18,595 --> 00:20:23,795 Speaker 1: just start really snowing? George wheeled around to look out 280 00:20:23,835 --> 00:20:27,675 Speaker 1: the window. Uh oh. We wrapped up our burgers and 281 00:20:27,715 --> 00:20:29,795 Speaker 1: took them with us and literally ran to the car. 282 00:20:30,355 --> 00:20:33,875 Speaker 1: My father and his goddamn snow tire obsession. George shouted. 283 00:20:35,035 --> 00:20:38,235 Speaker 1: Within an hour on the outskirts of Bingham to New York, 284 00:20:38,275 --> 00:20:40,315 Speaker 1: three or four inches of snow had reduced speed to 285 00:20:40,355 --> 00:20:43,155 Speaker 1: just above single digits and visibility to next to nothing. 286 00:20:43,755 --> 00:20:47,635 Speaker 1: George was a meticulously good driver, didn't matter. We spun 287 00:20:47,675 --> 00:20:52,595 Speaker 1: out a full three sixty loop the loop. We're going north, Oops, 288 00:20:52,595 --> 00:20:55,195 Speaker 1: we're going west to oncoming traffic. Oops, we're going south 289 00:20:55,195 --> 00:20:57,195 Speaker 1: into the cars behind us. Oops, we're going east into 290 00:20:57,195 --> 00:20:59,395 Speaker 1: the ditch next to the highway. Oh boy, we're going 291 00:20:59,435 --> 00:21:03,675 Speaker 1: north again. I think we spun out six or seven 292 00:21:03,715 --> 00:21:06,955 Speaker 1: times on the highway alone before we got to Binghamton. 293 00:21:08,235 --> 00:21:10,995 Speaker 1: There was some sola scene, seeing other cars in both 294 00:21:11,035 --> 00:21:14,075 Speaker 1: directions doing exactly the same thing, and concluding that George's 295 00:21:14,075 --> 00:21:16,235 Speaker 1: father could not have had the time to remove all 296 00:21:16,315 --> 00:21:21,275 Speaker 1: their snow tires too. We were not far north of Binghamton, 297 00:21:21,355 --> 00:21:25,715 Speaker 1: still skidding, still spinning, George swearing NonStop. When he interrupted 298 00:21:25,795 --> 00:21:28,035 Speaker 1: himself long enough to ask me what time it was, 299 00:21:28,835 --> 00:21:30,835 Speaker 1: I had to hold my watch up to the car 300 00:21:30,875 --> 00:21:34,835 Speaker 1: window to get brief flashes of illumination from the highway lights. 301 00:21:35,195 --> 00:21:38,915 Speaker 1: A little after seven, we skid it again. George swore 302 00:21:39,115 --> 00:21:42,395 Speaker 1: loudly put the Ranger game on. I do it myself, 303 00:21:42,435 --> 00:21:45,755 Speaker 1: but we skid it again. By now I was getting 304 00:21:45,835 --> 00:21:48,595 Speaker 1: kind of used to it. I turned the radio literally 305 00:21:48,635 --> 00:21:52,235 Speaker 1: before George regained control of the steering. I found the 306 00:21:52,315 --> 00:21:55,595 Speaker 1: Rangers station, the one in New York WNAW. If you 307 00:21:55,635 --> 00:21:57,235 Speaker 1: had told me that night that a little over a 308 00:21:57,315 --> 00:22:00,435 Speaker 1: year later I would be broadcasting on WNEW. My first 309 00:22:00,435 --> 00:22:03,035 Speaker 1: thought would have been, so we don't get killed tonight, 310 00:22:03,595 --> 00:22:06,595 Speaker 1: because george Is father took off the snow tires. That's nice. 311 00:22:06,595 --> 00:22:08,315 Speaker 1: Oh and I worked there, and I'm not a ghost. 312 00:22:09,395 --> 00:22:11,595 Speaker 1: If you told me that night that the Adler letter 313 00:22:12,035 --> 00:22:14,635 Speaker 1: was waiting for me back in my snow covered mailbox 314 00:22:14,635 --> 00:22:16,875 Speaker 1: in Ithaca, I might have pressed George to go faster, 315 00:22:18,595 --> 00:22:23,155 Speaker 1: and they might never have even found our bodies. The storm, 316 00:22:23,395 --> 00:22:26,915 Speaker 1: as storms often did in those long gone days, somehow 317 00:22:26,995 --> 00:22:29,955 Speaker 1: boosted the AM radio signal from New York, and though 318 00:22:29,995 --> 00:22:32,995 Speaker 1: we were two hundred miles away from the transmitter, Marv 319 00:22:33,075 --> 00:22:37,795 Speaker 1: Albert and the WNAW Rangers broadcast was clear as a bell. 320 00:22:37,915 --> 00:22:40,955 Speaker 1: The traction even seemed to get a little better, but 321 00:22:41,075 --> 00:22:46,075 Speaker 1: we both knew the ordeal that lay ahead. The exit 322 00:22:46,355 --> 00:22:54,035 Speaker 1: from the highway at Whitney Point. It amazed us, as 323 00:22:54,115 --> 00:22:57,115 Speaker 1: it amazes the students there now, as it must have 324 00:22:57,195 --> 00:23:00,395 Speaker 1: amazed the students who went there a century ago. A 325 00:23:00,435 --> 00:23:03,635 Speaker 1: century and a half ago. That Cornell University, which I attended, 326 00:23:03,635 --> 00:23:06,555 Speaker 1: an Ithaca College, which attended, were both an hour's drive 327 00:23:06,595 --> 00:23:09,995 Speaker 1: away from the nearest highway. There was, in fact, no 328 00:23:10,195 --> 00:23:13,035 Speaker 1: access to Ithaca, New York by anything more than a 329 00:23:13,075 --> 00:23:16,675 Speaker 1: two lane road. It was legendary on the Cornell campus 330 00:23:16,675 --> 00:23:20,875 Speaker 1: that old Ezra Cornell, the barely literate railroad tie preservative 331 00:23:20,915 --> 00:23:23,835 Speaker 1: tycoon of the nineteenth century, decided to give away nearly 332 00:23:23,875 --> 00:23:26,035 Speaker 1: all of his fortune, which today would have been at 333 00:23:26,115 --> 00:23:28,355 Speaker 1: least a billion dollars. And he told a friend he 334 00:23:28,435 --> 00:23:32,595 Speaker 1: was going to open a university where anyone can study anything. 335 00:23:33,675 --> 00:23:38,395 Speaker 1: His friend reacted in horror, They will stampede the place. 336 00:23:39,275 --> 00:23:43,435 Speaker 1: Ezra Cornell laughed, Wait, you see where I put it. 337 00:23:45,235 --> 00:23:49,235 Speaker 1: Ezra Cornell's little geographical joke was still vividly alive one 338 00:23:49,275 --> 00:23:52,635 Speaker 1: hundred and ten odd years later. The easiest of the 339 00:23:52,715 --> 00:23:54,595 Speaker 1: routes to his university was the one that took you 340 00:23:54,675 --> 00:23:59,235 Speaker 1: from Ithaca to Whitney Point. Whitney Point the capital of 341 00:23:59,275 --> 00:24:03,475 Speaker 1: the metroplex there Whitney Point, Lyle and Center Lyle, also 342 00:24:03,555 --> 00:24:06,835 Speaker 1: known as the Calcutta of Broome County, where nearly three 343 00:24:06,875 --> 00:24:09,595 Speaker 1: thousand people live atop each other in conditions so crowded 344 00:24:10,115 --> 00:24:14,875 Speaker 1: that every person barely has his own square mile. Once 345 00:24:14,915 --> 00:24:16,875 Speaker 1: you got off at Whitney Point, you were at the 346 00:24:16,915 --> 00:24:20,395 Speaker 1: mercies of Route seventy nine, where if traffic were light 347 00:24:20,555 --> 00:24:22,555 Speaker 1: or the driver's adroit you might make it back to 348 00:24:22,595 --> 00:24:25,435 Speaker 1: it again in thirty minutes, but if you got stuck 349 00:24:25,475 --> 00:24:29,555 Speaker 1: behind somebody, it could be an hour or two. Or 350 00:24:30,155 --> 00:24:32,515 Speaker 1: if there was an April blizzard and George's father had 351 00:24:32,515 --> 00:24:35,355 Speaker 1: taken off your snow tires, it could take you longer 352 00:24:35,355 --> 00:24:38,435 Speaker 1: than it took Antarctic explorers to reach the South Pole, 353 00:24:38,795 --> 00:24:41,035 Speaker 1: and you'd see more snow and ice than they did. 354 00:24:42,635 --> 00:24:45,635 Speaker 1: I believe George and I skidded making the left turn 355 00:24:45,715 --> 00:24:48,315 Speaker 1: off the highway, but he managed to stay on the road. 356 00:24:49,915 --> 00:24:53,155 Speaker 1: The radio signal was not quite as fortunate. Within minutes 357 00:24:53,195 --> 00:24:56,155 Speaker 1: of leaving the highway, WNW began to compete for space 358 00:24:56,235 --> 00:24:59,875 Speaker 1: on George's car radio with some audible noise that the 359 00:24:59,995 --> 00:25:04,275 Speaker 1: radio could suddenly pick up from his turn signals, Make 360 00:25:04,315 --> 00:25:07,235 Speaker 1: a right, and Marv Albert was being drowned out by 361 00:25:07,275 --> 00:25:12,755 Speaker 1: a loud click e Jim Vickers crossly kick click, pop plans, 362 00:25:12,835 --> 00:25:18,395 Speaker 1: slashers click click. Within minutes after the first spin out 363 00:25:18,435 --> 00:25:21,835 Speaker 1: on Route seventy nine, mercifully with literally no other cars 364 00:25:21,835 --> 00:25:26,075 Speaker 1: on the road, the Woo Woo's arrived. We never figured 365 00:25:26,115 --> 00:25:29,435 Speaker 1: out what they were, but they waxed and waned so 366 00:25:29,715 --> 00:25:33,155 Speaker 1: slowly that at first I asked George why Ranger fans 367 00:25:33,155 --> 00:25:37,235 Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden were chanting woo woo during the game. 368 00:25:38,555 --> 00:25:41,675 Speaker 1: George was too busy swearing to answer. The snow was 369 00:25:41,715 --> 00:25:45,115 Speaker 1: now horizontal, and as it danced towards us in George's headlights, 370 00:25:45,115 --> 00:25:48,315 Speaker 1: it was hypnotic, and the Ranger broadcast now sounded like 371 00:25:48,395 --> 00:25:54,155 Speaker 1: this Vickers crossly woo woo oOoOO, pock plan slashes, click, click, click, click, 372 00:25:54,475 --> 00:25:58,235 Speaker 1: damn it all to hell woo Woodragranson holds of the 373 00:25:58,275 --> 00:26:03,795 Speaker 1: same woo woo, son of a bench. The trip from 374 00:26:03,795 --> 00:26:06,715 Speaker 1: Whitney Point taken well over an hour, and we were 375 00:26:06,715 --> 00:26:10,635 Speaker 1: not halfway there yet when the inevitable happened. George kept 376 00:26:10,675 --> 00:26:13,915 Speaker 1: a steady slow pace ten or fifteen miles an hour tops. 377 00:26:13,955 --> 00:26:17,515 Speaker 1: He really was a great driver. He did not accelerate, 378 00:26:17,715 --> 00:26:20,075 Speaker 1: he did not turn, yet all of a moment, his 379 00:26:20,195 --> 00:26:24,195 Speaker 1: green nineteen seventy Dodge Dart decided to make an abrupt 380 00:26:24,275 --> 00:26:27,915 Speaker 1: left at about a forty five degree angle. We were 381 00:26:27,955 --> 00:26:30,835 Speaker 1: off the road in seconds and headed for an unscheduled 382 00:26:30,915 --> 00:26:32,995 Speaker 1: visit to the front porch of a farmer's house that 383 00:26:33,035 --> 00:26:34,635 Speaker 1: had to have been set back at least two hundred 384 00:26:34,635 --> 00:26:39,075 Speaker 1: feet from the road. Here. Finally, the heavy snow worked 385 00:26:39,075 --> 00:26:43,075 Speaker 1: to our advantage. It slowed us, then it stopped us 386 00:26:43,555 --> 00:26:46,875 Speaker 1: just two or three feet before we would have plowed 387 00:26:46,875 --> 00:26:50,875 Speaker 1: into this guy's house. However, since we were in Richford, 388 00:26:50,955 --> 00:26:54,155 Speaker 1: New York, birthplace of John Rockefeller, by the way, or 389 00:26:54,195 --> 00:26:58,875 Speaker 1: we were in Caroline or Caroline Center or Slatterville Springs, 390 00:26:59,155 --> 00:27:03,875 Speaker 1: or wherever the hell we were, the homeowner emerged bearing 391 00:27:03,915 --> 00:27:07,995 Speaker 1: not a gun nor an attitude, but genuine concern. In fact, 392 00:27:08,075 --> 00:27:09,875 Speaker 1: he heard the Ranger game on the radio and asked 393 00:27:09,875 --> 00:27:12,875 Speaker 1: me the score, which is when I noticed, at the 394 00:27:12,955 --> 00:27:15,635 Speaker 1: moment we had left the road, the woo woos had stopped, 395 00:27:15,995 --> 00:27:18,275 Speaker 1: and the waw signal was as good as it must 396 00:27:18,275 --> 00:27:22,315 Speaker 1: have been in Madison Square Garden in New York. The 397 00:27:22,395 --> 00:27:25,235 Speaker 1: farmer helped us push the car back onto Route seventy nine, 398 00:27:25,235 --> 00:27:29,555 Speaker 1: and as we got in he went and said, wearre 399 00:27:29,555 --> 00:27:33,595 Speaker 1: you snow tires. George started to swear again. I took 400 00:27:33,635 --> 00:27:37,235 Speaker 1: over and explained about George's father. Never been up here, 401 00:27:37,275 --> 00:27:40,475 Speaker 1: has he. George started the car back up and now 402 00:27:40,555 --> 00:27:44,035 Speaker 1: drove even slower. Within a minute, the woo woos were back. 403 00:27:44,195 --> 00:27:48,715 Speaker 1: Marv Albert Imsel Messina Woo woo woo where the Rangers lead. 404 00:27:48,955 --> 00:27:56,675 Speaker 1: Woo woo woo. We got there finally. George was actually 405 00:27:56,675 --> 00:27:59,315 Speaker 1: going to try to drive up the hill that led 406 00:27:59,355 --> 00:28:02,675 Speaker 1: to the other hill that led to the Delaware Avenue 407 00:28:02,755 --> 00:28:06,635 Speaker 1: hill where my apartment was. Calculating that I had pressed 408 00:28:06,675 --> 00:28:08,715 Speaker 1: my luck sufficiently, I told him just let me out 409 00:28:08,755 --> 00:28:11,115 Speaker 1: at East State and Mitchell and I'd make it from 410 00:28:11,115 --> 00:28:15,395 Speaker 1: there on foot. Thankfully, George's father had not removed the 411 00:28:15,435 --> 00:28:19,115 Speaker 1: sure grip souls from my winter boots. I actually went 412 00:28:19,155 --> 00:28:21,315 Speaker 1: to my radio station first. It was literally a two 413 00:28:21,315 --> 00:28:23,675 Speaker 1: minute walk from there to my apartment. I lingered at 414 00:28:23,755 --> 00:28:26,875 Speaker 1: WVBR for fifteen or twenty minutes, and then hiked back. 415 00:28:27,195 --> 00:28:29,875 Speaker 1: The Rangers had won their game from the station I 416 00:28:29,875 --> 00:28:32,235 Speaker 1: had called George's apartment, and he had made it back there. 417 00:28:32,875 --> 00:28:35,235 Speaker 1: And I took my first deep breath since the McDonald's 418 00:28:35,235 --> 00:28:38,635 Speaker 1: in Liberty, and I reflected that it was only six 419 00:28:38,675 --> 00:28:41,955 Speaker 1: hours until my next class, and guess what I was 420 00:28:41,995 --> 00:28:45,475 Speaker 1: gonna cut. I stopped off the snow on my porch 421 00:28:45,875 --> 00:28:48,715 Speaker 1: at two hundred and seven Delaware Avenue, and I opened 422 00:28:48,715 --> 00:28:51,555 Speaker 1: the door and I dumped my bag inside, and then 423 00:28:51,595 --> 00:28:55,595 Speaker 1: I reached into the mailbox, and I saw it immediately 424 00:28:57,235 --> 00:29:05,115 Speaker 1: the return address Adler WCBS, CBS Radio, the vision of 425 00:29:05,155 --> 00:29:08,755 Speaker 1: CBS Inc. Fifty one West fifty two Street, New York, 426 00:29:08,755 --> 00:29:11,195 Speaker 1: New York, one zero zero one nine two one two 427 00:29:11,315 --> 00:29:16,915 Speaker 1: nine seven five four three two one. Lou Adler was 428 00:29:17,675 --> 00:29:23,395 Speaker 1: radio news in New York City in April nineteen seventy nine. 429 00:29:23,675 --> 00:29:28,675 Speaker 1: And this was April nineteen seventy nine. I could barely 430 00:29:29,395 --> 00:29:36,195 Speaker 1: breathe the Adler letter. What was in the Adler letter? 431 00:29:36,835 --> 00:29:40,275 Speaker 1: Which explains why five decades later, I know it by 432 00:29:40,275 --> 00:29:42,595 Speaker 1: heart and can tell you exactly where it is at 433 00:29:42,635 --> 00:29:52,755 Speaker 1: the moment. That's next. This is countdown, resuming the number 434 00:29:52,755 --> 00:29:56,115 Speaker 1: one story on the Countdown and the several lifetimes contained. 435 00:29:56,235 --> 00:30:01,395 Speaker 1: On Sunday, April eighth, nineteen seventy nine, I survived nine 436 00:30:01,635 --> 00:30:04,995 Speaker 1: or ten or eight hundred hour drive. I've been a 437 00:30:04,995 --> 00:30:08,115 Speaker 1: blizzard right after my friend's dad had healthfully removed the 438 00:30:08,155 --> 00:30:12,075 Speaker 1: snow tires from my friend's car. I had lived to 439 00:30:12,155 --> 00:30:15,235 Speaker 1: resume my desperate bid to graduate college in two months 440 00:30:15,235 --> 00:30:17,515 Speaker 1: and get a job somewhere in radio in three months, 441 00:30:17,595 --> 00:30:20,515 Speaker 1: And against all odds, amid all the snow and mess, 442 00:30:20,515 --> 00:30:23,035 Speaker 1: there was a letter waiting for me at my apartment 443 00:30:23,315 --> 00:30:26,955 Speaker 1: in silent snow inundated Ithaca, New York. A letter from 444 00:30:27,075 --> 00:30:31,515 Speaker 1: Lou Adler, the news director of the leading all news 445 00:30:31,555 --> 00:30:37,035 Speaker 1: station in the United States of America. Lou Adler had 446 00:30:37,075 --> 00:30:40,875 Speaker 1: begun on WCBS the year I was born. In nineteen 447 00:30:40,915 --> 00:30:43,755 Speaker 1: sixty seven, the station went all news, and it immediately 448 00:30:43,755 --> 00:30:46,435 Speaker 1: became the best all news station in the country. Lou 449 00:30:46,475 --> 00:30:49,555 Speaker 1: Adler co anchored the mornings, and eight years earlier he 450 00:30:49,555 --> 00:30:52,955 Speaker 1: had become the station's news director. He was the best. 451 00:30:53,475 --> 00:30:56,755 Speaker 1: His co anchor, Jim Donnelly, was the best. His sportscaster 452 00:30:56,835 --> 00:30:59,795 Speaker 1: at Engles was the best. His reporters were the best. 453 00:30:59,875 --> 00:31:02,515 Speaker 1: His weatherman was the best. His traffic guys were the best. 454 00:31:02,635 --> 00:31:06,955 Speaker 1: His jingles were the best. I listened daily in high school, 455 00:31:07,435 --> 00:31:09,675 Speaker 1: and when I was home from college. I did not 456 00:31:09,875 --> 00:31:14,395 Speaker 1: take literal notes, only mental ones. My college graduation, if 457 00:31:14,435 --> 00:31:17,275 Speaker 1: I made it, was seven weeks away. I had never 458 00:31:17,315 --> 00:31:19,515 Speaker 1: worked on television in any form, but I had been 459 00:31:19,515 --> 00:31:22,555 Speaker 1: on radio two or three thousand times by then, and 460 00:31:22,595 --> 00:31:25,035 Speaker 1: I thought I was pretty good at it. In the 461 00:31:25,075 --> 00:31:28,395 Speaker 1: preceding months, I had flooded every radio station in every 462 00:31:28,475 --> 00:31:31,315 Speaker 1: major market in the Northeast with a demo tape and 463 00:31:31,355 --> 00:31:34,035 Speaker 1: a resume, I figured I might as well start in 464 00:31:34,115 --> 00:31:37,635 Speaker 1: my home of New York and not eliminate a potential job, 465 00:31:37,675 --> 00:31:40,075 Speaker 1: no matter how long a long shot it might have been. 466 00:31:40,995 --> 00:31:43,595 Speaker 1: If I wasn't good enough to work there, I concluded 467 00:31:43,675 --> 00:31:46,195 Speaker 1: I should let the people who ran New York's radio 468 00:31:46,235 --> 00:31:49,915 Speaker 1: stations decide that, since that's what they were paid to do. 469 00:31:52,075 --> 00:31:55,795 Speaker 1: To this point, they had decided that. By not responding, 470 00:31:56,915 --> 00:31:59,555 Speaker 1: I got a few nibbles from some of the smaller stations, 471 00:31:59,595 --> 00:32:02,195 Speaker 1: But as April eighth turned to April ninth, I had 472 00:32:02,355 --> 00:32:06,555 Speaker 1: no job prospects. Other friends getting offers in Waterbury, Connecticut, 473 00:32:07,075 --> 00:32:11,155 Speaker 1: and Laconia, New Hampshire, thought of which and nothing against 474 00:32:11,195 --> 00:32:15,155 Speaker 1: either of those cities filled me with terror. And now, 475 00:32:15,235 --> 00:32:18,915 Speaker 1: after this ordeal by snow and without snow tires, after 476 00:32:18,955 --> 00:32:22,955 Speaker 1: the wnw wooo's and George's father's near fatal decision to 477 00:32:22,955 --> 00:32:25,555 Speaker 1: remove those winter tires, here in my hand was a 478 00:32:25,675 --> 00:32:28,195 Speaker 1: letter from the man who was, to my mind, the 479 00:32:28,195 --> 00:32:32,195 Speaker 1: best radio newscaster I had ever heard. Obviously it would 480 00:32:32,195 --> 00:32:35,155 Speaker 1: be a rejection, But even in that moment, even at 481 00:32:35,155 --> 00:32:39,075 Speaker 1: my age twenty years two months and change, I was 482 00:32:39,275 --> 00:32:42,875 Speaker 1: awe struck not only that Lou Adler had replied, but 483 00:32:42,915 --> 00:32:46,835 Speaker 1: that he alone, of all I had written to, he 484 00:32:47,075 --> 00:32:50,555 Speaker 1: had been the one who replied. I believe I did 485 00:32:50,555 --> 00:32:54,315 Speaker 1: not remove my parka before opening the envelope. I did 486 00:32:54,355 --> 00:32:57,235 Speaker 1: put on one lamp in my apartment, and I read 487 00:32:57,955 --> 00:33:01,835 Speaker 1: WCBS CBS Radio, a division of CBS Inc. Fifty one 488 00:33:01,955 --> 00:33:04,075 Speaker 1: Less fifty two Street, New York, New York, one zero 489 00:33:04,155 --> 00:33:06,435 Speaker 1: zero one Night, two nine seventy five four three two 490 00:33:06,475 --> 00:33:10,555 Speaker 1: one April third, nineteen seventy nine, mister Keith Olderman, two 491 00:33:10,635 --> 00:33:13,235 Speaker 1: hundred and seven Delaware Avenue, Atica, New York, one four 492 00:33:13,275 --> 00:33:18,115 Speaker 1: eighty five. Oh, dear mister Olderman. This will reply to 493 00:33:18,195 --> 00:33:20,995 Speaker 1: your letter of March twenty seventh, with which you included 494 00:33:20,995 --> 00:33:26,435 Speaker 1: a tape of your sports work on WVBRFM. Sometimes it's 495 00:33:26,475 --> 00:33:28,595 Speaker 1: hard to know what a man can do by listening 496 00:33:28,595 --> 00:33:34,915 Speaker 1: to a brief tape. I stopped, wait a man, wait 497 00:33:35,395 --> 00:33:40,155 Speaker 1: which which? Oh me, I'm just a kid. Sometimes it's 498 00:33:40,155 --> 00:33:42,035 Speaker 1: hard to know what a man can do by listening 499 00:33:42,035 --> 00:33:43,915 Speaker 1: to a brief tape. But I must tell you I 500 00:33:43,955 --> 00:33:47,675 Speaker 1: was excited by what I heard of yours. I think 501 00:33:47,715 --> 00:33:52,275 Speaker 1: you have exceptional talent. And poise considering your age and experience, 502 00:33:53,035 --> 00:33:55,395 Speaker 1: you read well, and you write well, and you know 503 00:33:55,435 --> 00:33:58,875 Speaker 1: how to use tape. If the short tape is truly 504 00:33:58,955 --> 00:34:01,915 Speaker 1: representative of what you can do, and if your knowledge 505 00:34:01,915 --> 00:34:05,155 Speaker 1: of sports is broad, and if you can perform under 506 00:34:05,155 --> 00:34:08,355 Speaker 1: pressure well, then I feel you have an excellent future 507 00:34:08,475 --> 00:34:13,755 Speaker 1: in this industry. By this point, my heart was beating 508 00:34:13,795 --> 00:34:16,515 Speaker 1: so furiously I could hear it. I was this close 509 00:34:16,515 --> 00:34:19,955 Speaker 1: to hearing it make the woo woo sound. I think 510 00:34:19,995 --> 00:34:21,955 Speaker 1: it might be a good idea for us to meet. 511 00:34:22,635 --> 00:34:24,635 Speaker 1: Let me know when you can make it to New York. 512 00:34:25,035 --> 00:34:27,035 Speaker 1: I have nothing here for you, and I know of 513 00:34:27,075 --> 00:34:29,795 Speaker 1: nothing solid. But if I feel as strongly about your 514 00:34:29,835 --> 00:34:32,635 Speaker 1: potential after we meet as I do now, a meeting 515 00:34:32,755 --> 00:34:38,355 Speaker 1: certainly could do you no harm. Sincerely, Lewis c Adler, 516 00:34:38,515 --> 00:34:47,715 Speaker 1: Director News, Operations and Programs LCA slash Peep, George, I 517 00:34:47,755 --> 00:34:49,955 Speaker 1: screamed into the phone. Can we drive back to the 518 00:34:49,955 --> 00:34:55,035 Speaker 1: city right now? He swore. I read George the letter. 519 00:34:55,315 --> 00:34:58,475 Speaker 1: He paused, No, we shouldn't go tonight, and you're not 520 00:34:58,515 --> 00:35:00,515 Speaker 1: going to see him tomorrow. Wait till you get your appointment. 521 00:35:00,515 --> 00:35:02,475 Speaker 1: But Jesus, this is like the manager of the Yankees, 522 00:35:02,715 --> 00:35:04,675 Speaker 1: asking you to stop by the stadium and bring your 523 00:35:04,755 --> 00:35:09,195 Speaker 1: glove and bat, just in case I think I got 524 00:35:09,235 --> 00:35:11,875 Speaker 1: to sleep at sunrise. I had read the Adler letter 525 00:35:11,995 --> 00:35:14,955 Speaker 1: twenty or thirty times, and not until the fifteenth or 526 00:35:14,955 --> 00:35:17,435 Speaker 1: so did I stop expecting it to have turned back 527 00:35:17,435 --> 00:35:22,115 Speaker 1: into some courteous form letter rejection badly xeroxton, slightly offsetter. 528 00:35:23,355 --> 00:35:26,315 Speaker 1: Slowly it dawned on me that my own assessment of 529 00:35:26,355 --> 00:35:31,275 Speaker 1: my radio skills were not predicated on ego or even 530 00:35:31,275 --> 00:35:33,835 Speaker 1: the context of what else I could hear in Ithaca, 531 00:35:34,155 --> 00:35:36,795 Speaker 1: which was then the three hundred and fifty first largest 532 00:35:36,875 --> 00:35:40,435 Speaker 1: radio market in the country. Good but still three hundred 533 00:35:40,435 --> 00:35:45,555 Speaker 1: and fifty first. I cannot now describe the sense of validation, 534 00:35:45,755 --> 00:35:49,875 Speaker 1: except to say that I half seriously considered not taking 535 00:35:49,955 --> 00:35:52,235 Speaker 1: Lou Adler up on his offer to meet him at 536 00:35:52,235 --> 00:35:56,355 Speaker 1: CBS World Headquarters, black Rock itself, where Bill Paley would 537 00:35:56,355 --> 00:36:00,875 Speaker 1: be working upstairs, because short of offering me a job, 538 00:36:00,915 --> 00:36:03,715 Speaker 1: there really was no chance mister Adler could do or 539 00:36:03,755 --> 00:36:07,515 Speaker 1: say anything more that could make me feel better or 540 00:36:07,595 --> 00:36:10,955 Speaker 1: more confident that my dream of becoming a sportscaster would 541 00:36:10,955 --> 00:36:14,915 Speaker 1: not lead me to starvation or to Laconia, New Hampshire. 542 00:36:16,915 --> 00:36:21,115 Speaker 1: In fact, in person, Lou Adler found more things to say. 543 00:36:21,235 --> 00:36:23,315 Speaker 1: If I had an opening for a sportscaster right now, 544 00:36:23,355 --> 00:36:26,875 Speaker 1: I would seriously consider you for it. I would hesitate 545 00:36:26,915 --> 00:36:29,275 Speaker 1: because of your age and your lack of practical experience, 546 00:36:29,595 --> 00:36:32,555 Speaker 1: and then I'd probably do it anyway. He was as 547 00:36:32,675 --> 00:36:36,235 Speaker 1: warm and supportive and informal as his letter had been, 548 00:36:36,235 --> 00:36:39,075 Speaker 1: structured and serious and tempered. Let me take you on 549 00:36:39,115 --> 00:36:42,635 Speaker 1: a tour. We saw the live studios, the production studios, 550 00:36:42,635 --> 00:36:46,555 Speaker 1: the writer's area. I wasn't just speechless again, I was breathless. 551 00:36:47,515 --> 00:36:50,075 Speaker 1: And you should probably recognize this man by voice, if 552 00:36:50,115 --> 00:36:54,515 Speaker 1: not by sight. Keith Olderman. Meet our sports director, Ed Engles. Ed, 553 00:36:55,315 --> 00:37:00,515 Speaker 1: this is Keith. This is the fellow with the tape. 554 00:37:00,835 --> 00:37:06,355 Speaker 1: Ed Engles took a moment that his eyes widened. Hip. Jesus, Lou, 555 00:37:06,395 --> 00:37:08,555 Speaker 1: don't tell me you've hired him? Did you fire me? 556 00:37:10,755 --> 00:37:12,475 Speaker 1: I must admit I thought for a second it might 557 00:37:12,515 --> 00:37:16,355 Speaker 1: have happened. I did not shrink entirely from that fantasy. 558 00:37:17,195 --> 00:37:21,675 Speaker 1: Lou Adler laughed, No, Eddie. Then he paused, it was irresistible. 559 00:37:21,755 --> 00:37:25,555 Speaker 1: Not yet. We went back to Lou Adwear's office. Have 560 00:37:25,635 --> 00:37:28,915 Speaker 1: you got any job? Prospects. I explained that a month earlier, 561 00:37:28,915 --> 00:37:31,155 Speaker 1: thanks to a chain of recommendations that stretched from my 562 00:37:31,235 --> 00:37:34,155 Speaker 1: internship at Channel five Television the year before through a 563 00:37:34,195 --> 00:37:38,555 Speaker 1: young ABC Sports executive named Bob Eiger. I think it 564 00:37:38,675 --> 00:37:40,755 Speaker 1: was to a friend of a friend of a friend 565 00:37:40,755 --> 00:37:43,275 Speaker 1: of a friend. I had met everybody at the radio 566 00:37:43,355 --> 00:37:45,635 Speaker 1: network of United Press International, and I was supposed to 567 00:37:45,675 --> 00:37:48,995 Speaker 1: go back and see them about working their freelance as 568 00:37:49,035 --> 00:37:52,715 Speaker 1: summer vacation relief for the year ahead in sports and 569 00:37:52,835 --> 00:37:56,235 Speaker 1: in news. Oh, that would be ideal for you, Lou 570 00:37:56,235 --> 00:37:58,915 Speaker 1: Adwer said. It's a tough place to work. They don't 571 00:37:58,955 --> 00:38:01,115 Speaker 1: pay well at UPI, but it's here in the city, 572 00:38:01,395 --> 00:38:03,835 Speaker 1: and every other radio station in this country will hear 573 00:38:03,875 --> 00:38:06,595 Speaker 1: you on the fee. That's where we hired ed from 574 00:38:06,795 --> 00:38:10,555 Speaker 1: ed Ingles. So if we have an opening, he smiled broadly, 575 00:38:10,795 --> 00:38:12,515 Speaker 1: I can poach you and get you here in less 576 00:38:12,515 --> 00:38:18,355 Speaker 1: than two weeks, can I. Mister Adler then suggested that 577 00:38:18,435 --> 00:38:21,235 Speaker 1: CBS station in Atlanta would be needing a sportscaster in 578 00:38:21,235 --> 00:38:23,235 Speaker 1: a few months. I'll stay on top of that. They 579 00:38:23,275 --> 00:38:24,835 Speaker 1: already have a copy of your tape. I hope you 580 00:38:24,835 --> 00:38:27,915 Speaker 1: don't mind. I made several copies of your tape. If 581 00:38:27,995 --> 00:38:30,555 Speaker 1: UPI does not work out, I am confident you will 582 00:38:30,595 --> 00:38:33,035 Speaker 1: be offered a job in Atlanta and maybe quite a 583 00:38:33,035 --> 00:38:35,195 Speaker 1: few other jobs. I hope I've been of some help. 584 00:38:35,235 --> 00:38:37,275 Speaker 1: Stay in touch. It's one of the privileges of this 585 00:38:37,355 --> 00:38:40,195 Speaker 1: job to be able to help. But frankly, you're not 586 00:38:40,275 --> 00:38:44,995 Speaker 1: going to need that much help. I may have taken 587 00:38:45,035 --> 00:38:46,835 Speaker 1: the train back to my folks house, or I may 588 00:38:46,875 --> 00:38:52,355 Speaker 1: have just walked the twenty miles or floated. The UPI 589 00:38:52,515 --> 00:38:55,555 Speaker 1: job worked out full time two months later, at the 590 00:38:55,595 --> 00:38:59,115 Speaker 1: first game I covered for money, I walked into the 591 00:38:59,115 --> 00:39:02,715 Speaker 1: press box at Shay Stadium and there was ed ingles 592 00:39:03,555 --> 00:39:06,315 Speaker 1: Thank god you went to you. The way Adler went 593 00:39:06,355 --> 00:39:08,395 Speaker 1: on about you, I seriously wondered if he was planning 594 00:39:08,395 --> 00:39:11,755 Speaker 1: to bring you in and kick me out. The Atlanta 595 00:39:11,835 --> 00:39:15,635 Speaker 1: offer Lou Adler arranged came, I turned it down. About 596 00:39:15,675 --> 00:39:17,875 Speaker 1: a year later, I got a call from Adler's assistant 597 00:39:17,915 --> 00:39:20,635 Speaker 1: saying they were going to need a new afternoon sportscaster 598 00:39:20,675 --> 00:39:23,715 Speaker 1: at WCBS and would I send a new tape. But 599 00:39:23,835 --> 00:39:26,275 Speaker 1: by that fall, when the job opened, Lou Adler was 600 00:39:26,355 --> 00:39:30,155 Speaker 1: leaving WCBS to become news director and vice president of 601 00:39:30,195 --> 00:39:34,235 Speaker 1: another New York radio station, wor his successor would choose 602 00:39:34,235 --> 00:39:36,795 Speaker 1: somebody else for the job. Just as I heard from 603 00:39:36,795 --> 00:39:39,075 Speaker 1: the people who ran the radio network that the WR 604 00:39:39,115 --> 00:39:42,595 Speaker 1: folks had started the year before, it was not coincidental 605 00:39:43,075 --> 00:39:46,435 Speaker 1: Lou Adler had sent these people starting this new network. 606 00:39:46,635 --> 00:39:53,915 Speaker 1: My tape there is inevitably from the distant future a punchline. 607 00:39:54,355 --> 00:39:56,715 Speaker 1: In two thousand and six or two thousand and seven, 608 00:39:56,755 --> 00:39:59,395 Speaker 1: when Countdown had become the highest rated cable news program 609 00:39:59,395 --> 00:40:03,235 Speaker 1: that wasn't on Fox, an email appeared in my inbox. 610 00:40:03,835 --> 00:40:08,315 Speaker 1: I could not leave the name of the sender, Lou Adler. 611 00:40:09,275 --> 00:40:11,475 Speaker 1: He began just as formally as he had in nineteen 612 00:40:11,515 --> 00:40:14,435 Speaker 1: seventy nine. He actually felt it was necessary to remind 613 00:40:14,555 --> 00:40:18,275 Speaker 1: me about his letter. He said he watched every night, 614 00:40:18,755 --> 00:40:20,635 Speaker 1: and when he found other viewers of the program, he 615 00:40:20,675 --> 00:40:24,115 Speaker 1: told them the story. Proudly, he said. He asked if 616 00:40:24,155 --> 00:40:29,835 Speaker 1: I remembered. I wrote back, immediately, remembered. Remembered. I told 617 00:40:29,915 --> 00:40:32,315 Speaker 1: him I still had his letter, and I still had 618 00:40:32,355 --> 00:40:34,595 Speaker 1: the sense of confidence it had given me that it 619 00:40:34,635 --> 00:40:37,075 Speaker 1: was central to my decision to more or less give 620 00:40:37,155 --> 00:40:38,915 Speaker 1: up my sports career. At the age of thirty eight, 621 00:40:38,955 --> 00:40:41,315 Speaker 1: and try news, and I told him the whole driving 622 00:40:41,355 --> 00:40:43,755 Speaker 1: back to Ithaca and the snow tire story, just for fun. 623 00:40:46,075 --> 00:40:49,035 Speaker 1: Lou wrote back again within minutes. He had just retired 624 00:40:49,075 --> 00:40:52,155 Speaker 1: after running the mass communications program at Quinnipiac College, and 625 00:40:52,195 --> 00:40:54,235 Speaker 1: he said he had a strong sense of his career 626 00:40:54,275 --> 00:40:57,355 Speaker 1: having been the proverbial punch into a pail of water. 627 00:40:59,875 --> 00:41:02,195 Speaker 1: Now it was my turn to reassure him that the 628 00:41:02,195 --> 00:41:04,875 Speaker 1: people like me who he had supported and taught and 629 00:41:04,955 --> 00:41:08,835 Speaker 1: broadcast too, had long since begun to support and teach 630 00:41:09,395 --> 00:41:12,275 Speaker 1: the next generation, and that generation was already supporting the 631 00:41:12,275 --> 00:41:13,955 Speaker 1: one after that. And there would be people in this 632 00:41:14,075 --> 00:41:17,235 Speaker 1: business beginning their careers after both of us were dead 633 00:41:17,835 --> 00:41:20,155 Speaker 1: who would owe a debt of gratitude, whether or not 634 00:41:20,195 --> 00:41:24,795 Speaker 1: they knew it to Lou Adler, as I always will. 635 00:41:28,395 --> 00:41:30,395 Speaker 1: Lou Adler died five years ago at the age of 636 00:41:30,395 --> 00:41:35,115 Speaker 1: eighty eight. There are letters and photos in the hallway 637 00:41:35,755 --> 00:41:37,795 Speaker 1: that leads in from the front door of my home. 638 00:41:38,875 --> 00:41:45,075 Speaker 1: They are from Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, 639 00:41:47,315 --> 00:42:03,115 Speaker 1: and Lou Adler. I've done all the damage I can 640 00:42:03,155 --> 00:42:05,795 Speaker 1: do here. Thank you for listening. Count On Musical Directors 641 00:42:05,795 --> 00:42:09,235 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Schaneale arranged, produced, and performed 642 00:42:09,315 --> 00:42:12,315 Speaker 1: most of our music. Mister Ray was on the guitars, 643 00:42:12,395 --> 00:42:17,075 Speaker 1: bass and drums. Mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Produced 644 00:42:17,075 --> 00:42:21,075 Speaker 1: by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, 645 00:42:21,155 --> 00:42:24,515 Speaker 1: arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. Sports 646 00:42:24,595 --> 00:42:27,755 Speaker 1: music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by 647 00:42:27,755 --> 00:42:31,555 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis, courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our satirical and 648 00:42:31,595 --> 00:42:34,755 Speaker 1: fifthy musical comments are by Nancy Faust. The best baseball 649 00:42:34,795 --> 00:42:39,315 Speaker 1: stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was my friend John Deem. 650 00:42:40,035 --> 00:42:44,195 Speaker 1: Everything else was pretty much my fault. That's countdown for 651 00:42:44,235 --> 00:42:47,195 Speaker 1: this the two hundred and seventeenth day until the twenty 652 00:42:47,235 --> 00:42:50,675 Speaker 1: twenty four presidential election, but one one hundred and eighty 653 00:42:50,675 --> 00:42:54,835 Speaker 1: fourth day since dementia j Trump's first attempted coup against 654 00:42:54,875 --> 00:42:58,315 Speaker 1: the democratically elected government of the United States. Use the 655 00:42:58,355 --> 00:43:02,675 Speaker 1: Fourteenth Amendment, use the not regularly given elector objection option, 656 00:43:03,315 --> 00:43:06,075 Speaker 1: use the Insurrection Act, used the justice system, use the 657 00:43:06,115 --> 00:43:09,155 Speaker 1: mental health system to stop him from doing it again 658 00:43:09,875 --> 00:43:14,315 Speaker 1: while we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow again, 659 00:43:14,915 --> 00:43:19,395 Speaker 1: it might not happen. It might be abridged, depending on 660 00:43:19,435 --> 00:43:24,555 Speaker 1: this routine medical procedure. If the hospital issues a bulletin, 661 00:43:25,115 --> 00:43:29,515 Speaker 1: don't look for a new addition tomorrow. Otherwise, bulletins is 662 00:43:29,555 --> 00:43:33,235 Speaker 1: the news warrants till then. I'm Keith Olreman. Good morning, 663 00:43:33,315 --> 00:43:53,755 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith 664 00:43:53,795 --> 00:43:58,835 Speaker 1: Oldreman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 665 00:43:58,995 --> 00:44:02,995 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 666 00:44:03,035 --> 00:44:03,955 Speaker 1: your podcasts.