1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,355 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Jack 2 00:00:21,515 --> 00:00:27,555 Speaker 1: Smith did not want Trump's tweets. Anybody can get Trump's tweets, 3 00:00:27,595 --> 00:00:32,475 Speaker 1: my gud, you couldn't avoid Trump's tweets. Jack Smith wanted 4 00:00:32,515 --> 00:00:39,475 Speaker 1: Trump's dms, his direct messages, and maybe more importantly, jack 5 00:00:39,475 --> 00:00:50,115 Speaker 1: Smith may have also wanted Trump's unsent drafts. Oh, because 6 00:00:50,155 --> 00:00:54,235 Speaker 1: it turns out that some people, maybe Trump maybe not 7 00:00:55,195 --> 00:01:01,715 Speaker 1: used use their Twitter account. As in spy parlance, an 8 00:01:01,755 --> 00:01:06,595 Speaker 1: electronic dead drop. You write something and rather than texting 9 00:01:06,635 --> 00:01:10,275 Speaker 1: it to somebody or sending it by a secure messaging 10 00:01:10,315 --> 00:01:13,115 Speaker 1: app to somebody, or emailing it to somebody, or saying 11 00:01:13,115 --> 00:01:15,755 Speaker 1: it out loud to somebody, you just leave it in 12 00:01:15,795 --> 00:01:19,395 Speaker 1: your Twitter drafts, and you give somebody else the password 13 00:01:19,515 --> 00:01:22,155 Speaker 1: to your Twitter account, and they go in and they 14 00:01:22,195 --> 00:01:26,195 Speaker 1: read it, and then they delete it, unless, of course, 15 00:01:26,275 --> 00:01:30,715 Speaker 1: when you hit delete on Twitter or on the Internet, 16 00:01:31,355 --> 00:01:36,595 Speaker 1: you know it doesn't actually delete, like on every email 17 00:01:36,675 --> 00:01:40,675 Speaker 1: in the world, and even on the encrypted messaging apps 18 00:01:40,755 --> 00:01:44,995 Speaker 1: and most of your homeword processing programs and your laptops 19 00:01:45,035 --> 00:01:51,915 Speaker 1: and all of your company servers, and there's deleted, and 20 00:01:51,955 --> 00:01:57,795 Speaker 1: then there's just deleted from your vision a friend of mine, 21 00:01:58,475 --> 00:02:01,195 Speaker 1: A thirty five year friend of mine, God help us, 22 00:02:01,435 --> 00:02:04,835 Speaker 1: a veteran of politics and television, reminded me of this. Yesterday. 23 00:02:05,195 --> 00:02:09,035 Speaker 1: Terrorists like colleague Sheik Muhammad of al Qaeda and Richard Reid, 24 00:02:09,115 --> 00:02:13,955 Speaker 1: the shoe bomber, used the draft folder in email to 25 00:02:14,115 --> 00:02:18,075 Speaker 1: communicate with other members of the terrorist gang. General Petraeus 26 00:02:18,235 --> 00:02:22,955 Speaker 1: used it. But why couldn't you use drafts in Twitter too? 27 00:02:23,875 --> 00:02:29,355 Speaker 1: And I gasped. Trump doesn't text, Trump doesn't WhatsApp, Trump 28 00:02:29,355 --> 00:02:33,795 Speaker 1: doesn't email. Trump often dictated tweets, so we know multiple 29 00:02:33,875 --> 00:02:37,715 Speaker 1: people had access to that Trump Twitter account. And even 30 00:02:37,755 --> 00:02:41,195 Speaker 1: if he didn't use Twitter drafts as a cheap secret 31 00:02:41,235 --> 00:02:46,155 Speaker 1: messaging system, there are still all those direct messages and 32 00:02:46,235 --> 00:02:51,195 Speaker 1: the ones he or somebody using his account sent, and 33 00:02:51,435 --> 00:02:59,995 Speaker 1: all the direct messages he received, and probably the ones 34 00:03:00,035 --> 00:03:04,635 Speaker 1: he wrote and then deleted. That's what Jack Smith want. 35 00:03:05,315 --> 00:03:10,315 Speaker 1: He didn't want Trump's tweets. He wanted Trump's drafts and dms, 36 00:03:10,355 --> 00:03:13,195 Speaker 1: and judging by the legal documents unsealed yesterday and all 37 00:03:13,275 --> 00:03:18,395 Speaker 1: the news accounts he got them, there are hints about 38 00:03:18,435 --> 00:03:21,275 Speaker 1: the secrecy element all through that news coverage, but they 39 00:03:21,315 --> 00:03:25,675 Speaker 1: are buried paragraph eight in the account by The New 40 00:03:25,755 --> 00:03:29,595 Speaker 1: York Times. Quote that prosecutors asked for a warrant to 41 00:03:29,635 --> 00:03:34,035 Speaker 1: search the account suggests they wanted specific company data or 42 00:03:34,115 --> 00:03:39,275 Speaker 1: were interested in some non public aspect of the account, 43 00:03:39,715 --> 00:03:43,595 Speaker 1: though it remains unclear precisely what that may have been. 44 00:03:44,915 --> 00:03:49,235 Speaker 1: Non public aspect of Twitter. You say, hmm, what could 45 00:03:49,315 --> 00:03:53,035 Speaker 1: that be? And then the giveaway came in the Washington 46 00:03:53,075 --> 00:04:00,355 Speaker 1: Post again. Paragraph five TLDR ruling against Twitter's bid to 47 00:04:00,515 --> 00:04:05,195 Speaker 1: not turn over Trump's account. Ruling against Twitter's demand that 48 00:04:05,355 --> 00:04:08,675 Speaker 1: it had to notify Trump first before turning anything over 49 00:04:08,835 --> 00:04:11,475 Speaker 1: and then finding musk when he tried to bully her. 50 00:04:11,835 --> 00:04:15,995 Speaker 1: Judge Beryl Howell quote upheld the non disclosure order and 51 00:04:16,075 --> 00:04:19,915 Speaker 1: imposed a three hundred and fifty thousand dollars contempt sanction 52 00:04:20,115 --> 00:04:23,795 Speaker 1: on Twitter. She found that there were reasonable grounds to 53 00:04:23,835 --> 00:04:28,075 Speaker 1: believe that disclosing the warrant to Trump quote would seriously 54 00:04:28,155 --> 00:04:33,115 Speaker 1: jeopardize the ongoing investigation by giving him quote an opportunity 55 00:04:33,195 --> 00:04:40,675 Speaker 1: to destroy evidence, change patterns of behavior, or notify confederates. 56 00:04:41,635 --> 00:04:46,035 Speaker 1: According to the appellate ruling, unquote, why would they think 57 00:04:46,075 --> 00:04:50,395 Speaker 1: he would destroy evidence his tweets, His tweets that are 58 00:04:50,515 --> 00:04:53,595 Speaker 1: archived by the government that are actually federal records. Because 59 00:04:53,635 --> 00:04:57,715 Speaker 1: he was president. The tweets he desperately wanted you to see. 60 00:04:57,995 --> 00:05:00,835 Speaker 1: The tweets He's so compulsively created that when he got 61 00:05:00,875 --> 00:05:04,635 Speaker 1: banned from Twitter, he created his own social media site 62 00:05:04,835 --> 00:05:08,435 Speaker 1: so he could tweet there instead, and may have bankrupted 63 00:05:08,515 --> 00:05:13,875 Speaker 1: himself in the process. They weren't afraid he would destroy 64 00:05:14,075 --> 00:05:17,475 Speaker 1: his tweets. They were afraid he would try to destroy 65 00:05:17,915 --> 00:05:24,475 Speaker 1: direct messages or drafts or quote. Notify confederates, as the 66 00:05:24,555 --> 00:05:29,275 Speaker 1: judge warned, notify them, notify them about what. Delete the 67 00:05:29,355 --> 00:05:32,115 Speaker 1: DM you sent me, for god sakes, do it now, 68 00:05:32,355 --> 00:05:36,875 Speaker 1: delete this one too. And if you want to take 69 00:05:36,955 --> 00:05:43,795 Speaker 1: this one step beyond Judge Howell's first finding, which they 70 00:05:43,795 --> 00:05:46,955 Speaker 1: took out of the subsequent ones, was that if they 71 00:05:47,075 --> 00:05:50,635 Speaker 1: told Trump they were turning over access to his Twitter account, 72 00:05:50,675 --> 00:05:55,395 Speaker 1: his entire Twitter account to Jack Smith, the judge thought 73 00:05:55,475 --> 00:06:01,755 Speaker 1: Trump might quote flee from prosecution, flee from the what now, 74 00:06:02,675 --> 00:06:07,155 Speaker 1: flee from prosecution over his thousands of tweets that some 75 00:06:07,195 --> 00:06:09,955 Speaker 1: of his cultists have made into t shirts and posters, 76 00:06:10,395 --> 00:06:17,275 Speaker 1: the dms and the drafts, a god, flee from prosecution. 77 00:06:17,635 --> 00:06:20,995 Speaker 1: I've been advising Trump to flee from prosecution for eight years. 78 00:06:21,235 --> 00:06:25,115 Speaker 1: We want him to goddamn flee from prosecution. Call us 79 00:06:25,155 --> 00:06:31,795 Speaker 1: from Bally will work something out anyway. PostScript. The right 80 00:06:31,835 --> 00:06:35,835 Speaker 1: wing rage about Trump and monitoring his social media, which 81 00:06:35,955 --> 00:06:40,515 Speaker 1: infringed on his rights, began when Jack Smith told the 82 00:06:40,635 --> 00:06:43,675 Speaker 1: judge about the I'm coming for you Trump threatening post 83 00:06:43,755 --> 00:06:47,715 Speaker 1: last Friday, And of course the right wing backlash is 84 00:06:47,795 --> 00:06:55,075 Speaker 1: as usual, utter imbecilic, infantile, balder dash. These are public statements. 85 00:06:57,355 --> 00:07:00,635 Speaker 1: Mark Levin somehow thinks you can turn that on and 86 00:07:00,675 --> 00:07:03,955 Speaker 1: off like a light switch. Mark Levin, a guy like 87 00:07:04,035 --> 00:07:08,555 Speaker 1: this on fire. He's complaining about the government monitoring I 88 00:07:08,635 --> 00:07:11,555 Speaker 1: might as well be complaining about it monitoring Trump's speeches. 89 00:07:12,235 --> 00:07:15,595 Speaker 1: I mean, holy crap. Trump makes those posts and give 90 00:07:15,715 --> 00:07:19,635 Speaker 1: those speeches to get people to monitor them. That is 91 00:07:19,755 --> 00:07:23,435 Speaker 1: the point of doing it. And do not come in 92 00:07:23,475 --> 00:07:26,875 Speaker 1: here with the But the dms are private communications and 93 00:07:26,915 --> 00:07:32,835 Speaker 1: the drafts, the drafts are sacred private presidential thoughts. You 94 00:07:32,835 --> 00:07:35,315 Speaker 1: never read any of the terms of service you agree 95 00:07:35,355 --> 00:07:39,675 Speaker 1: to just once you're lucky. It doesn't say that you're 96 00:07:39,715 --> 00:07:43,875 Speaker 1: donating your organs to them. Twitter is a private company. 97 00:07:44,275 --> 00:07:48,315 Speaker 1: Facebook is a private company. You write it, you post it. 98 00:07:48,515 --> 00:07:52,395 Speaker 1: They own it. You write it, you don't post it. 99 00:07:52,515 --> 00:07:58,515 Speaker 1: They own it. The day we first got a form 100 00:07:58,715 --> 00:08:02,475 Speaker 1: of email, it was in the late nineteen eighties and 101 00:08:02,635 --> 00:08:06,475 Speaker 1: KCBS in Los Angeles when they installed a computer monitor 102 00:08:06,515 --> 00:08:11,515 Speaker 1: at every desk, and I kissed my typewriter goodbye, and 103 00:08:11,635 --> 00:08:17,235 Speaker 1: we could send a message to anybody in CBS worldwide 104 00:08:17,315 --> 00:08:20,155 Speaker 1: and in several other companies CBS did a lot of 105 00:08:20,195 --> 00:08:22,515 Speaker 1: business with. And I said to somebody in the newsroom, 106 00:08:22,595 --> 00:08:26,115 Speaker 1: what happens to it after I hit this delete button? 107 00:08:27,035 --> 00:08:29,555 Speaker 1: And the guy said, I don't know. It just disappears. 108 00:08:30,395 --> 00:08:35,515 Speaker 1: And I said, really, which do you think is more likely? 109 00:08:35,595 --> 00:08:38,635 Speaker 1: It disappears like you say, and no computer in the 110 00:08:38,635 --> 00:08:41,915 Speaker 1: world can get to it ever again, or or it 111 00:08:41,955 --> 00:08:44,675 Speaker 1: gets stored in a computer the size of a small country, 112 00:08:45,115 --> 00:08:48,035 Speaker 1: and the computer is under a mountain in Colorado or somewhere. 113 00:08:48,995 --> 00:08:55,715 Speaker 1: This guy's eyes got real wide mountain, I guess. And 114 00:08:55,755 --> 00:09:00,675 Speaker 1: then he immediately ran back to his computer terminal. Smith 115 00:09:00,755 --> 00:09:05,715 Speaker 1: wanted the dms and the drafts, and oh, by the way, 116 00:09:06,555 --> 00:09:12,675 Speaker 1: he got them. He has them now. And Elon Musk 117 00:09:12,795 --> 00:09:16,875 Speaker 1: got fined, what did Trump get yesterday? Well, he seems 118 00:09:16,915 --> 00:09:20,995 Speaker 1: to have wasted another move to delay stuff. The Trump 119 00:09:21,075 --> 00:09:25,315 Speaker 1: Legal team. This would be number one, the one that's 120 00:09:25,355 --> 00:09:28,315 Speaker 1: on the Southern tour, as opposed to Number two, which 121 00:09:28,355 --> 00:09:31,115 Speaker 1: is doing the mid Atlantic tour, and the one the 122 00:09:31,155 --> 00:09:33,715 Speaker 1: third group that's going out on the upcoming Georgia tour. 123 00:09:34,395 --> 00:09:37,915 Speaker 1: Trump Legal Team Number one has asked Judge Eileen Cannon 124 00:09:37,955 --> 00:09:43,875 Speaker 1: to order the reinstallment of a skiff SCIF Sensitive Compartmented 125 00:09:43,915 --> 00:09:49,475 Speaker 1: Information Facility at Mary a Lago because that works so 126 00:09:49,515 --> 00:09:53,915 Speaker 1: well last time. A skiff at mary Lago so Trump 127 00:09:54,115 --> 00:09:59,275 Speaker 1: can personally examine and discuss the classified documents produced to 128 00:09:59,515 --> 00:10:01,875 Speaker 1: him and his defense as part of discovery in the 129 00:10:02,475 --> 00:10:05,355 Speaker 1: High I'm don Trump and I Stole Classified Document's case. 130 00:10:05,995 --> 00:10:09,475 Speaker 1: Trump wants one there because he says it's too much 131 00:10:09,555 --> 00:10:13,315 Speaker 1: trouble to haul his sorry ass to the courtroom handling 132 00:10:13,355 --> 00:10:17,555 Speaker 1: this case just to look at documents, even though he 133 00:10:17,595 --> 00:10:20,995 Speaker 1: flies to two or three different cities each weekend to 134 00:10:21,115 --> 00:10:26,995 Speaker 1: hold his Nazi rallies. The problem is, and this is 135 00:10:27,915 --> 00:10:31,235 Speaker 1: a rare mistake for people who are actually really good 136 00:10:31,235 --> 00:10:36,715 Speaker 1: at stalling and wasting legal time and delaying trial dates. 137 00:10:37,155 --> 00:10:40,755 Speaker 1: Skiffs are not under the jurisdiction of the civil courts, 138 00:10:41,075 --> 00:10:43,995 Speaker 1: and as much as Eileen Canon might be being pay 139 00:10:46,475 --> 00:10:49,715 Speaker 1: might be so inclined to help out the lazy slab 140 00:10:49,755 --> 00:10:54,835 Speaker 1: who appointed her, she has no conceivable right to do so. 141 00:10:56,515 --> 00:10:59,235 Speaker 1: Skiffs are under the control of the Office of the 142 00:10:59,275 --> 00:11:06,795 Speaker 1: Director of National Intelligence, not Judge Aileen Cannon or the 143 00:11:06,835 --> 00:11:12,555 Speaker 1: Supreme Court for that matter. Besides, doesn't Trump still have 144 00:11:12,635 --> 00:11:22,115 Speaker 1: that really professional one that he built himself in his bathroom? Next? 145 00:11:22,515 --> 00:11:27,195 Speaker 1: Widespread reporting Tuesday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis 146 00:11:27,235 --> 00:11:29,675 Speaker 1: will go to her grand jury in Atlanta next week 147 00:11:29,675 --> 00:11:32,875 Speaker 1: as early as next Tuesday for indictments in the I 148 00:11:33,155 --> 00:11:35,875 Speaker 1: just want to find eleven, seven hundred and eighty votes 149 00:11:35,955 --> 00:11:40,435 Speaker 1: case Now. Reporting from CNN yesterday that Willis will be 150 00:11:40,515 --> 00:11:44,555 Speaker 1: asking that grand jury for more than one dozen indictments, 151 00:11:45,075 --> 00:11:48,355 Speaker 1: there was no rewarding about the breakdown. Theoretically, it could 152 00:11:48,395 --> 00:11:51,955 Speaker 1: be more than one dozen indictments just against Trump, or 153 00:11:52,035 --> 00:11:54,595 Speaker 1: one each for more than a dozen different defendants, or 154 00:11:54,635 --> 00:11:58,715 Speaker 1: any combination. The latter. The combination or the dozen different 155 00:11:58,715 --> 00:12:03,035 Speaker 1: defendants obviously much more likely. CNN buried certain both sides 156 00:12:03,075 --> 00:12:07,595 Speaker 1: asm flourishes deep in its text. Willis a Democrat, but 157 00:12:07,715 --> 00:12:11,315 Speaker 1: also noted she has been eyeing conspiracy and racketeering charges, 158 00:12:11,555 --> 00:12:14,355 Speaker 1: and identified three witnesses who have been subpoened to be 159 00:12:14,435 --> 00:12:17,155 Speaker 1: there again when she is in front of the regular 160 00:12:17,235 --> 00:12:20,275 Speaker 1: grand jury, all of whom testified to the Special grand jury. 161 00:12:20,715 --> 00:12:23,475 Speaker 1: Those who'ld be the former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Jeff Duncan, 162 00:12:23,715 --> 00:12:27,235 Speaker 1: former State Senator Jen Jordan, and an independent journalist named 163 00:12:27,235 --> 00:12:30,555 Speaker 1: George Cheaty who has been with the Atlanta Journal Constitution 164 00:12:30,675 --> 00:12:33,995 Speaker 1: and several Atlanta TV stations and still produces commentaries for 165 00:12:34,115 --> 00:12:36,275 Speaker 1: Fox five in Atlanta. And if you're wondering what the 166 00:12:36,275 --> 00:12:39,475 Speaker 1: hell he is doing there, turns out he went to 167 00:12:39,515 --> 00:12:41,835 Speaker 1: the Capitol in December twenty twenty during the time the 168 00:12:41,915 --> 00:12:45,155 Speaker 1: electors were assembling. He recognized one of the people there 169 00:12:45,195 --> 00:12:48,915 Speaker 1: as a Republican operative. He followed him and before anybody 170 00:12:48,955 --> 00:12:51,795 Speaker 1: thought to stop George Cheaty, George Cheedty was in the 171 00:12:51,875 --> 00:12:57,075 Speaker 1: room with all the fake electors. Then all he got 172 00:12:57,115 --> 00:13:02,075 Speaker 1: was a slousy subpoena. This looks like Willis is going 173 00:13:02,115 --> 00:13:07,875 Speaker 1: to indict maybe each elector and the organizers as part 174 00:13:07,875 --> 00:13:11,835 Speaker 1: of a rico prosecution, presumably with Trump at the head 175 00:13:12,275 --> 00:13:18,435 Speaker 1: of this little miniature organized crime family and maybe others. 176 00:13:18,435 --> 00:13:22,835 Speaker 1: Lindsay Grime oh, to be a fly on the wall, 177 00:13:24,275 --> 00:13:29,875 Speaker 1: and speaking of flies, and is that a segue? Holy 178 00:13:30,155 --> 00:13:33,075 Speaker 1: cal Keith, is that a segue? Trump has done his 179 00:13:33,115 --> 00:13:37,595 Speaker 1: first joint interview in years. During one of those flatulent 180 00:13:38,115 --> 00:13:42,275 Speaker 1: lap sitting conversations with Newsmax Eric Bowling, the guy who 181 00:13:42,315 --> 00:13:46,795 Speaker 1: has descended steadily from CNBC through Fox Business, through The Blaze, 182 00:13:47,155 --> 00:13:51,675 Speaker 1: through Sinclair and now to Newsmax, Trump was in full 183 00:13:51,795 --> 00:13:55,595 Speaker 1: self martyred to mode when a fly landed on his 184 00:13:55,795 --> 00:13:58,075 Speaker 1: upper right cheek a few inches to the right of 185 00:13:58,115 --> 00:14:02,435 Speaker 1: his right eye. Trump did not seem to notice, of course, 186 00:14:02,515 --> 00:14:05,315 Speaker 1: not he was talking. Nobody wanted to go through the 187 00:14:05,435 --> 00:14:07,875 Speaker 1: ordeal of trying to stop either one of these schmucks, 188 00:14:07,875 --> 00:14:10,155 Speaker 1: to tell them to stop while they tried to get 189 00:14:10,235 --> 00:14:13,715 Speaker 1: rid of the fly, and so later in the same interview, 190 00:14:13,755 --> 00:14:17,995 Speaker 1: the same fly was seen buzzing around Trump's head, presumably 191 00:14:18,035 --> 00:14:22,435 Speaker 1: looking for any sign of life or anything not too 192 00:14:22,555 --> 00:14:28,555 Speaker 1: old to eat. By the way, entomologists confirmed that the 193 00:14:28,555 --> 00:14:31,675 Speaker 1: fly was almost certainly not the same fly that landed 194 00:14:31,715 --> 00:14:34,995 Speaker 1: on Mike Prince's forehead during the twenty twenty vice presidential 195 00:14:35,035 --> 00:14:39,195 Speaker 1: debate and briefly achieved viral fame. And if I'm remembering correctly, 196 00:14:39,195 --> 00:14:44,435 Speaker 1: you hosted Saturday Night Live. Household flies tend to live 197 00:14:44,475 --> 00:14:47,395 Speaker 1: only a month, so that fly would have to be 198 00:14:47,475 --> 00:14:52,035 Speaker 1: about three thousand and sixty human years old if it 199 00:14:52,155 --> 00:14:56,235 Speaker 1: was the same fly last night with Trump. As a PostScript, 200 00:14:56,795 --> 00:15:02,035 Speaker 1: after the usual Bowling metaphorical filating of Trump, the recorded 201 00:15:02,075 --> 00:15:07,155 Speaker 1: interview ended and viewers were returned to the Newsmax We're 202 00:15:07,195 --> 00:15:11,915 Speaker 1: being sued by Dominion and Smart Mattic Memorial Studio, where 203 00:15:12,035 --> 00:15:16,555 Speaker 1: Eric Bowling was seated again and he read this statement quote. Now, 204 00:15:16,755 --> 00:15:21,035 Speaker 1: just a note, Newsmax has accepted the election results as 205 00:15:21,155 --> 00:15:26,795 Speaker 1: legal and final. Unquote. You know, Bowling is a worm. 206 00:15:26,995 --> 00:15:30,915 Speaker 1: He was too greasy in terms of his dealing with 207 00:15:30,955 --> 00:15:34,715 Speaker 1: women to have lasted at Fox. That's how much of 208 00:15:34,755 --> 00:15:37,835 Speaker 1: a worm he is. But if he had had the 209 00:15:37,995 --> 00:15:43,315 Speaker 1: momentary cohones to read that, now, just to note, newsmax 210 00:15:43,355 --> 00:15:46,155 Speaker 1: has accepted the election results as legal and final. If 211 00:15:46,195 --> 00:15:49,955 Speaker 1: he had the cohones to read that while sitting across 212 00:15:49,995 --> 00:15:54,595 Speaker 1: from Trump, I would have personally sent him ten thousand 213 00:15:54,715 --> 00:16:03,475 Speaker 1: dollars in cash. I mean, that was what the fly 214 00:16:03,555 --> 00:16:07,035 Speaker 1: I was trying to do. There also of interest here, 215 00:16:07,155 --> 00:16:09,755 Speaker 1: remember the right wing was and those who have not 216 00:16:09,915 --> 00:16:13,835 Speaker 1: figured it out. Still are furious that Jack Smith was 217 00:16:13,915 --> 00:16:18,155 Speaker 1: even reading Trump's public Twitter feed. I mean they were 218 00:16:18,195 --> 00:16:23,595 Speaker 1: furious they were reading the public social media feed. The 219 00:16:23,635 --> 00:16:27,875 Speaker 1: truth social media and what is the point of this 220 00:16:28,195 --> 00:16:31,755 Speaker 1: incongruous magic trick on the part of the fascists. It's 221 00:16:31,835 --> 00:16:36,195 Speaker 1: public speech. You can't look at it. It's public speech. 222 00:16:36,795 --> 00:16:39,635 Speaker 1: As long as you have the ability to read anybody, 223 00:16:40,115 --> 00:16:41,835 Speaker 1: you can't look at it. Well, we found out what 224 00:16:41,875 --> 00:16:45,715 Speaker 1: this magic trick is about. Yesterday in Utah, a trump 225 00:16:45,835 --> 00:16:49,995 Speaker 1: stochastic terrorist threatened to assassinate President Biden. He did so 226 00:16:50,115 --> 00:16:54,195 Speaker 1: on Facebook repeatedly, he said roughly when so the FB 227 00:16:54,195 --> 00:16:56,555 Speaker 1: andi stopped by and there was shooting, and now the 228 00:16:56,595 --> 00:17:00,555 Speaker 1: trump ist is dead. And that's why Trumpists don't want 229 00:17:00,595 --> 00:17:04,355 Speaker 1: you looking at their public social media feeds. They only 230 00:17:04,395 --> 00:17:08,395 Speaker 1: want each other looking at their public social media feeds. 231 00:17:09,275 --> 00:17:16,875 Speaker 1: That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman. 232 00:17:24,595 --> 00:17:27,915 Speaker 1: Postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks, 233 00:17:27,955 --> 00:17:33,115 Speaker 1: some predictions. Dateline provo. Utah, a trump stochastic terrorist is 234 00:17:33,195 --> 00:17:38,115 Speaker 1: dead and President Biden is not because the FBI monitored 235 00:17:38,155 --> 00:17:41,795 Speaker 1: the man's social media feeds. Craig Robertson was not all 236 00:17:41,835 --> 00:17:46,075 Speaker 1: that subtle about it. Not just Facebook posts since Monday, 237 00:17:46,355 --> 00:17:50,795 Speaker 1: but Facebook posts in big block letters over bright color backgrounds. 238 00:17:50,995 --> 00:17:54,235 Speaker 1: Perhaps Utah will become famous this week as the place 239 00:17:54,715 --> 00:17:59,355 Speaker 1: a sniper took out Biden the Marxist. He wrote, Hey, FBI, 240 00:17:59,595 --> 00:18:03,035 Speaker 1: you still monitoring my social media checking so I can 241 00:18:03,075 --> 00:18:05,555 Speaker 1: be sure to have a loaded gun hand in case 242 00:18:05,595 --> 00:18:10,435 Speaker 1: you drop by again. These psychopaths never stopped to think, 243 00:18:11,035 --> 00:18:14,315 Speaker 1: not for a moment, that the FEDS will not show 244 00:18:14,435 --> 00:18:18,275 Speaker 1: up having out armed them, or that the FBI will 245 00:18:18,275 --> 00:18:24,515 Speaker 1: outstrategize them or outshoot them or whatever. It is remarkable 246 00:18:26,075 --> 00:18:28,515 Speaker 1: the Fed showed up in Utah ahead of the President's 247 00:18:28,555 --> 00:18:30,595 Speaker 1: trip there. They went to serve a warrant at Craig 248 00:18:30,675 --> 00:18:33,715 Speaker 1: Robertson's house based on his credible threats, and he apparently 249 00:18:33,715 --> 00:18:37,475 Speaker 1: believed his own memes. Craig is dead now. And by 250 00:18:37,475 --> 00:18:41,075 Speaker 1: the way, the Trump stochastic terrorist reference is not gratuitous 251 00:18:41,235 --> 00:18:44,875 Speaker 1: and it's not a guess, officials told ABC News. Robertson 252 00:18:44,915 --> 00:18:47,715 Speaker 1: had also threatened Vice President Harris, as well as the 253 00:18:47,755 --> 00:18:52,435 Speaker 1: Attorney General and Adam Schiff and other officials involved in 254 00:18:52,595 --> 00:18:57,715 Speaker 1: prosecuting Trump and dateline Los Angeles, Robbie Robertson is dead. 255 00:18:58,315 --> 00:19:02,755 Speaker 1: Guitarist for Dylan, founder of the band, writer of the Weight. 256 00:19:03,275 --> 00:19:06,955 Speaker 1: He died yesterday. On top of that remarkable musical performance 257 00:19:07,035 --> 00:19:08,915 Speaker 1: legacy which goes on for a lot longer than just 258 00:19:08,955 --> 00:19:13,635 Speaker 1: a sentence. Robertson had just completed scoring his fourteenth Martin 259 00:19:13,675 --> 00:19:17,995 Speaker 1: Scorsese film, and on December twenty ninth, twenty seventeen, Robbie 260 00:19:18,075 --> 00:19:22,995 Speaker 1: Robertson one Twitter, that's when it was decided like a 261 00:19:23,115 --> 00:19:26,755 Speaker 1: comedy writer from Seth MacFarland, things like The Cleveland Show 262 00:19:26,795 --> 00:19:31,395 Speaker 1: and Family Guy, and Ted Alec Sulkin posted quote, want 263 00:19:31,395 --> 00:19:34,475 Speaker 1: to listen to the band? No, I'm just gonna sit 264 00:19:34,635 --> 00:19:38,715 Speaker 1: on an accordion while watching the Civil War documentary. About 265 00:19:38,795 --> 00:19:42,755 Speaker 1: nine hours later, Robertson himself replied quote, wish I could 266 00:19:42,755 --> 00:19:47,435 Speaker 1: have written for the Cleveland Show instead. Robbie Robertson was eighty, 267 00:19:47,675 --> 00:20:03,835 Speaker 1: his burn was five and a half years old, still 268 00:20:03,835 --> 00:20:11,155 Speaker 1: ahead on countdown. Well, guess what, It's Elvis week, and 269 00:20:11,195 --> 00:20:13,795 Speaker 1: that means I get to tell you the story again 270 00:20:13,875 --> 00:20:20,235 Speaker 1: about how I may have done the last Elvis Presley commercial. 271 00:20:21,595 --> 00:20:23,355 Speaker 1: I won't play it for you coming up and things 272 00:20:23,395 --> 00:20:25,235 Speaker 1: I promise not to tell. First time. For the daily 273 00:20:25,275 --> 00:20:28,155 Speaker 1: roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects 274 00:20:28,155 --> 00:20:33,475 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute today's words the persons in word Bron's 275 00:20:33,635 --> 00:20:38,075 Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis, the fascist dictator of Florida. DeSantis just wiped 276 00:20:38,115 --> 00:20:42,595 Speaker 1: out another elected state official, Monique Warrel, the state attorney 277 00:20:42,595 --> 00:20:45,555 Speaker 1: in the Florida Ninth Judicial Circuit, who had been put 278 00:20:45,595 --> 00:20:51,675 Speaker 1: thereby you know, voters. Desantas said, she's under prosecuting criminals, 279 00:20:52,595 --> 00:20:55,555 Speaker 1: so he's taking her out and putting in a former 280 00:20:55,635 --> 00:20:59,355 Speaker 1: University of Miami football player named Andrew Bain in her place. 281 00:20:59,475 --> 00:21:02,635 Speaker 1: You want the backstory, here's the backstory. Monty Quarrel is 282 00:21:02,675 --> 00:21:06,475 Speaker 1: a black woman. And Ron DeSantis is an oinking racist 283 00:21:07,875 --> 00:21:12,395 Speaker 1: runner up federal judge Brantley Star in Texas. He is 284 00:21:12,515 --> 00:21:17,235 Speaker 1: appointed by the other oinking racist Trump. A Southwest Airline 285 00:21:17,235 --> 00:21:19,435 Speaker 1: flight attendant tried to ruin the life of the local 286 00:21:19,475 --> 00:21:23,235 Speaker 1: head of the Transportation Workers union, kept sending them graphic 287 00:21:23,315 --> 00:21:27,675 Speaker 1: images of abortions, hundreds of them. After two years of this, 288 00:21:27,835 --> 00:21:32,635 Speaker 1: Southwest fired her. She sued, and this guy Star, yes 289 00:21:32,755 --> 00:21:35,355 Speaker 1: his court would be a star chamber, not only found 290 00:21:35,475 --> 00:21:40,035 Speaker 1: that she had been discriminated against because of her religious beliefs. 291 00:21:40,355 --> 00:21:43,315 Speaker 1: Her religion apparently told her to send graphic images of 292 00:21:43,395 --> 00:21:48,235 Speaker 1: abortions to people who supported abortion. But when Southwest issued 293 00:21:48,275 --> 00:21:52,115 Speaker 1: a statement that it did not discriminate against people's religious beliefs, 294 00:21:52,395 --> 00:21:57,075 Speaker 1: Judge Starr ordered that three attorneys who represented the airline 295 00:21:57,115 --> 00:22:01,315 Speaker 1: now have to take quote religious liberty training from an 296 00:22:01,355 --> 00:22:07,435 Speaker 1: extremist theocratic, anti abortion, anti democracy group, eight hours each 297 00:22:07,675 --> 00:22:10,875 Speaker 1: in the classroom, and they have to pay to fly 298 00:22:11,155 --> 00:22:17,715 Speaker 1: the group's guide to Dallas, pure totalitarian theocracy. Judge Starr, 299 00:22:17,795 --> 00:22:19,475 Speaker 1: by the way, is the nephew of the man who 300 00:22:19,515 --> 00:22:22,515 Speaker 1: tried to run the Republican coup against President Clinton and 301 00:22:22,595 --> 00:22:26,515 Speaker 1: Vice President Gore in nineteen ninety eight. Ken Starr. Ken 302 00:22:26,515 --> 00:22:30,715 Speaker 1: Star died last year, and Ken Starr and Bradley Starr, 303 00:22:30,715 --> 00:22:35,115 Speaker 1: if their religion is correct, Kenstar is now in hell. 304 00:22:35,275 --> 00:22:39,435 Speaker 1: But the winner retired Air Force intel officer David Grush. 305 00:22:40,315 --> 00:22:43,715 Speaker 1: I hope you did not invest too much in the 306 00:22:43,755 --> 00:22:47,755 Speaker 1: words of that so called Air Force UFO whistleblower. That's 307 00:22:47,875 --> 00:22:50,795 Speaker 1: David Grush. He claimed he had been retaliated against because 308 00:22:50,835 --> 00:22:53,875 Speaker 1: even though he had the high level security clearances and 309 00:22:53,915 --> 00:22:57,075 Speaker 1: he had seen the unimaginable. He had dared to tell 310 00:22:57,115 --> 00:23:01,435 Speaker 1: of the non human biological material reportedly being recovered from 311 00:23:01,475 --> 00:23:06,595 Speaker 1: crash sites and the government's reverse and engineering of extraterrestrial craft, 312 00:23:06,875 --> 00:23:12,155 Speaker 1: and and the website The Intercept advises that Major Grush 313 00:23:12,235 --> 00:23:15,475 Speaker 1: was admitted to a mental health facility as recently as 314 00:23:15,515 --> 00:23:20,515 Speaker 1: October twenty eighteen after he asked his wife after she 315 00:23:20,555 --> 00:23:23,435 Speaker 1: had told him he was an alcoholic and needed help, 316 00:23:24,115 --> 00:23:27,195 Speaker 1: so he told her quote, I've just been waiting for 317 00:23:27,235 --> 00:23:30,235 Speaker 1: you to kill me. And there was apparently a similar 318 00:23:30,395 --> 00:23:34,475 Speaker 1: suicidal event in twenty fourteen, and the Air Force people 319 00:23:34,515 --> 00:23:36,915 Speaker 1: now really can't figure out how his security clearance was 320 00:23:36,995 --> 00:23:40,355 Speaker 1: not revoked after that. The UFO crowd thinks this is 321 00:23:40,395 --> 00:23:42,235 Speaker 1: all part of a cover up, But this is just 322 00:23:42,275 --> 00:23:46,475 Speaker 1: a smear that was handed urgently to this website, the Intercept. 323 00:23:46,875 --> 00:23:49,435 Speaker 1: In fact, it was part of a Freedom of Information 324 00:23:49,475 --> 00:23:52,435 Speaker 1: Act filing about him that took exactly the average amount 325 00:23:52,435 --> 00:23:56,435 Speaker 1: of time it takes to get an FOIA Act returned 326 00:23:56,555 --> 00:23:59,875 Speaker 1: to you for stuff like this. And of course, more importantly, 327 00:23:59,915 --> 00:24:03,475 Speaker 1: it circles back to that fundamental question of supposed alien 328 00:24:03,595 --> 00:24:08,555 Speaker 1: visitation of our planet. Here Earth, no Earth. That's what 329 00:24:08,595 --> 00:24:13,915 Speaker 1: it's called Earth. Why is the big point? Why is 330 00:24:13,955 --> 00:24:18,715 Speaker 1: the big question? Why would they come here? Would you 331 00:24:18,835 --> 00:24:21,595 Speaker 1: come here if you had a choice, if you could 332 00:24:21,595 --> 00:24:25,755 Speaker 1: get around the galaxy? Why would you come here for 333 00:24:25,875 --> 00:24:31,875 Speaker 1: the parking? Unless the great late comedian Bill Hicks was right. 334 00:24:32,275 --> 00:24:36,435 Speaker 1: Hecks noted that the landings and sightings of UFO are 335 00:24:36,475 --> 00:24:40,395 Speaker 1: never in Washington, or a world capital, or even a 336 00:24:40,675 --> 00:24:45,555 Speaker 1: county seat of government. They're inevitably in places like Fife, Alabama. 337 00:24:45,675 --> 00:24:50,675 Speaker 1: Maybe these aren't the super intelligent beings Bill Hicks posited. 338 00:24:51,035 --> 00:24:56,595 Speaker 1: Maybe they're hillbilly aliens. We just want to sit back 339 00:24:56,635 --> 00:25:02,275 Speaker 1: and whittlesome. Major David and the aliens forced me to 340 00:25:02,355 --> 00:25:08,715 Speaker 1: drink the tequila grush today. These worst person in this 341 00:25:09,235 --> 00:25:22,755 Speaker 1: or any other world. Finally, our number one story on 342 00:25:22,795 --> 00:25:25,635 Speaker 1: the countdown back to my favorite topic, Me and Things 343 00:25:25,675 --> 00:25:30,595 Speaker 1: I Promised Not to Tell, And Elvis Week is underway. 344 00:25:31,515 --> 00:25:37,595 Speaker 1: Highlights include today's Ultimate Elvis Tribute artist contest, Meet and Greet, 345 00:25:38,755 --> 00:25:42,515 Speaker 1: a room full of Elvi and I'll just read this part. 346 00:25:42,995 --> 00:25:47,275 Speaker 1: Join Gates of Graceland host Tom Brown and Graceland's VP 347 00:25:47,395 --> 00:25:51,435 Speaker 1: of Archives and Exhibits, Angie Marchesy on an exclusive after 348 00:25:51,475 --> 00:25:54,755 Speaker 1: hours tour of Graceland Mansion. Have you ever wondered what 349 00:25:54,835 --> 00:25:58,715 Speaker 1: might be inside a drawer or around a corner? This 350 00:25:58,995 --> 00:26:01,115 Speaker 1: one of a kind experience. We'll give you a glimpse 351 00:26:01,155 --> 00:26:03,835 Speaker 1: of items you will not see on tour and will 352 00:26:03,835 --> 00:26:12,315 Speaker 1: feature a special photo op inside Graceland Mansion. Frankly, I 353 00:26:12,315 --> 00:26:16,035 Speaker 1: don't want to know what's inside the drawer? Is it Graceland? 354 00:26:17,915 --> 00:26:20,995 Speaker 1: The week continues through next Wednesday, which is the anniversary 355 00:26:21,035 --> 00:26:25,155 Speaker 1: of Elvis Presley's death August sixteenth, nineteen seventy seven, A 356 00:26:25,235 --> 00:26:29,875 Speaker 1: king on his throne August sixteenth, nineteen seventy seven, not 357 00:26:29,955 --> 00:26:33,915 Speaker 1: on tour, but on toilet in Memphis, Tennessee. And leading 358 00:26:34,195 --> 00:26:38,515 Speaker 1: to this timeless and immortal question, does this mean you 359 00:26:38,555 --> 00:26:43,715 Speaker 1: don't get paid? That pertains to this next point. Amazingly, 360 00:26:43,955 --> 00:26:47,755 Speaker 1: Elvis Week does not contain any sort of tribute or 361 00:26:47,835 --> 00:26:53,115 Speaker 1: mention or ceremony or candlelit vigil to this giddying fact. 362 00:26:53,395 --> 00:26:59,915 Speaker 1: I maybe the youngest person now alive who can say this. 363 00:27:01,075 --> 00:27:07,035 Speaker 1: I did a radio commercial for an Elvis Presley concert 364 00:27:08,955 --> 00:27:35,195 Speaker 1: oh Nancy in August of nineteen seventy seven. Elvis was 365 00:27:35,195 --> 00:27:37,675 Speaker 1: scheduled to do a series of live shows in the Northeast, 366 00:27:37,675 --> 00:27:40,715 Speaker 1: and the day he died he was leaving for Portland, Maine, 367 00:27:40,715 --> 00:27:43,195 Speaker 1: and two nights at the then brand new Cumberland County 368 00:27:43,195 --> 00:27:46,275 Speaker 1: Civic Center there, then Utica, New York on the nineteenth, 369 00:27:46,435 --> 00:27:49,475 Speaker 1: Syracuse the next night, the Nassau County Coliseum on Long 370 00:27:49,515 --> 00:27:53,755 Speaker 1: Island on the twenty first, then Rupp Arena in Kentucky, Roanoke, Virginia, 371 00:27:53,835 --> 00:27:56,395 Speaker 1: two stops in North Carolina, and wrapping up with two 372 00:27:56,515 --> 00:28:00,555 Speaker 1: nights at the Memphis Mid South Coylseum. Having lived through 373 00:28:00,595 --> 00:28:03,435 Speaker 1: the end, I have to say that by this point 374 00:28:03,475 --> 00:28:06,515 Speaker 1: Elvis Presley was something of a self parody. Arriving at 375 00:28:06,555 --> 00:28:11,155 Speaker 1: one concert he fell out of the limo. He was enormous, 376 00:28:11,515 --> 00:28:14,555 Speaker 1: he could barely sing, and when he sang, he was 377 00:28:14,595 --> 00:28:17,955 Speaker 1: now essentially a country Western singer, and not a very 378 00:28:17,995 --> 00:28:21,835 Speaker 1: good one. We had an album oriented commercial rock station 379 00:28:21,995 --> 00:28:24,835 Speaker 1: run by Cornell students in Ithaca, New York, and I 380 00:28:24,915 --> 00:28:29,155 Speaker 1: do not remember ever hearing an Elvis song played during 381 00:28:29,155 --> 00:28:31,355 Speaker 1: one of the regular shows, maybe on the Saturday night 382 00:28:31,395 --> 00:28:34,715 Speaker 1: Oldie Show, but the thought of playing hound Dog or 383 00:28:34,835 --> 00:28:38,515 Speaker 1: Jailhouse Rock, which are genuine rock and roll classics, would 384 00:28:38,515 --> 00:28:42,635 Speaker 1: have provoked laughter or maybe a walkout by the disc jockeys. 385 00:28:43,155 --> 00:28:46,115 Speaker 1: So when our advertising sales manager walked into my office 386 00:28:46,155 --> 00:28:48,555 Speaker 1: in July nineteen seventy seven and said, we have a 387 00:28:48,595 --> 00:28:52,075 Speaker 1: one hundred spot by from Elvis Presley's concert promoter, there 388 00:28:52,115 --> 00:28:56,475 Speaker 1: was only one possible answer to this. Why. Well, it 389 00:28:56,515 --> 00:28:58,795 Speaker 1: turned out we were an hour or so from the 390 00:28:58,835 --> 00:29:01,635 Speaker 1: War Memorial Coliseum in Syracuse, where Elvis was to play 391 00:29:01,675 --> 00:29:05,635 Speaker 1: on August twentieth, and the promoters had bought time on 392 00:29:05,875 --> 00:29:10,075 Speaker 1: every radio station that played music between Syracuse and US. 393 00:29:11,195 --> 00:29:13,355 Speaker 1: They got out a map, pulled out a protractor, and 394 00:29:13,435 --> 00:29:16,875 Speaker 1: drew a circle representing a sixty mile radius. There we 395 00:29:16,875 --> 00:29:21,475 Speaker 1: were WVBRFM, Antha of New York, out at the edge. 396 00:29:21,715 --> 00:29:24,195 Speaker 1: That summer, I was the operations director of the station. 397 00:29:24,315 --> 00:29:26,635 Speaker 1: I was in charge, filling in for the general manager 398 00:29:26,635 --> 00:29:29,955 Speaker 1: who had a summer job in Rochester, New York, Larry Epstein. 399 00:29:30,515 --> 00:29:32,715 Speaker 1: Why Larry thought I would be good at this I 400 00:29:32,835 --> 00:29:37,115 Speaker 1: will never never know. In any event, the sales manager 401 00:29:37,155 --> 00:29:39,595 Speaker 1: next asked me who on earth could do an Elvis 402 00:29:39,635 --> 00:29:42,515 Speaker 1: commercial on a rock station that was known for playing 403 00:29:42,755 --> 00:29:47,395 Speaker 1: entire Jethro Tull album sides after eleven at night. I said, 404 00:29:47,435 --> 00:29:49,835 Speaker 1: I had no idea somebody who would want the five 405 00:29:49,875 --> 00:29:52,315 Speaker 1: percent commission for making the ads, And he said, how 406 00:29:52,355 --> 00:29:55,875 Speaker 1: about you? The buck does stop here, right, And he 407 00:29:55,915 --> 00:29:58,595 Speaker 1: handed me the script they wanted, and I swallowed hard 408 00:29:58,635 --> 00:30:00,555 Speaker 1: and read it out loud. And I don't still have 409 00:30:00,595 --> 00:30:03,435 Speaker 1: a copy of that original script, but I know this 410 00:30:03,515 --> 00:30:07,435 Speaker 1: is a real cur close recreation, because you don't forget 411 00:30:07,475 --> 00:30:11,515 Speaker 1: something like imagining the impact of this playing on the 412 00:30:11,675 --> 00:30:16,555 Speaker 1: coolest FM rock radio station in four adjoining counties. Here 413 00:30:16,635 --> 00:30:22,315 Speaker 1: goes Elvis, Elvis, Elvis Live Live Live, Elvis Presley, though 414 00:30:22,355 --> 00:30:25,275 Speaker 1: one and only the immortal Elvis Live at the Onondaga 415 00:30:25,275 --> 00:30:29,715 Speaker 1: County War Memortal Auto Tournament, Syracuse ELBS Elvis Elvis one 416 00:30:29,915 --> 00:30:34,435 Speaker 1: night only, Saturday Night, August twentieth Elvis ELBS Elvis Live 417 00:30:34,635 --> 00:30:39,995 Speaker 1: Live Live. Yeah, turned out, of course it was Elvis, Elvis, 418 00:30:39,995 --> 00:30:44,235 Speaker 1: Elvis dead, dead dead anyway. There was something in there 419 00:30:44,275 --> 00:30:46,515 Speaker 1: about prices and where he could send a letter in 420 00:30:46,595 --> 00:30:49,115 Speaker 1: a self address stamped envelope for tickets, and it was 421 00:30:49,115 --> 00:30:52,315 Speaker 1: supposed to be done in full reverb, that old time 422 00:30:52,435 --> 00:30:56,595 Speaker 1: am radio echo effect defect effect. I think they wanted 423 00:30:56,595 --> 00:30:59,795 Speaker 1: one or two soundful pops from Elvis's greatest hits, and 424 00:30:59,835 --> 00:31:02,155 Speaker 1: I wondered if in our library of five thousand or 425 00:31:02,195 --> 00:31:05,355 Speaker 1: so records in the back we even had Elvis's greatest hits. 426 00:31:05,355 --> 00:31:08,195 Speaker 1: And I'm not exaggerating about that script. There were at 427 00:31:08,275 --> 00:31:11,755 Speaker 1: least two dozen exclamation points on that page. We would 428 00:31:11,755 --> 00:31:13,995 Speaker 1: not have put on a commercial with that many exclamation 429 00:31:14,075 --> 00:31:16,155 Speaker 1: points in it, even if it was for a Beatles 430 00:31:16,155 --> 00:31:19,715 Speaker 1: reunion live in our back studio. We can't run this, 431 00:31:20,355 --> 00:31:23,155 Speaker 1: I told the sales manager. They want everything in the 432 00:31:23,195 --> 00:31:26,195 Speaker 1: A schedule. The sales manager said, meaning they were paying 433 00:31:26,275 --> 00:31:30,635 Speaker 1: our top rate. Did you ask korn? I asked, invoking 434 00:31:30,635 --> 00:31:34,035 Speaker 1: our program director Glenn Cornelius. He says, we can run it. 435 00:31:34,115 --> 00:31:37,035 Speaker 1: No Elvis songs in it. But and I said, not 436 00:31:37,195 --> 00:31:39,875 Speaker 1: like this. Did you call them? Well, they let us 437 00:31:39,915 --> 00:31:42,995 Speaker 1: tone it down a little, and he said, the account 438 00:31:43,035 --> 00:31:46,275 Speaker 1: is yours. Rewrite it. Tone it down if they say, yes, 439 00:31:46,435 --> 00:31:49,315 Speaker 1: this is what fifty bucks for you. Now, don't laugh 440 00:31:49,355 --> 00:31:52,035 Speaker 1: about the fifty bucks in nineteen seventy seven money in Ethica, 441 00:31:52,035 --> 00:31:55,435 Speaker 1: New York. My rent that summer per month was fifty 442 00:31:55,515 --> 00:31:59,755 Speaker 1: one bucks. So I toned it down. Turned out the 443 00:31:59,795 --> 00:32:02,035 Speaker 1: promoters didn't give a crap if I toned it down. 444 00:32:02,195 --> 00:32:06,835 Speaker 1: They just wanted something played about Elvis every hour. I 445 00:32:06,915 --> 00:32:10,115 Speaker 1: recorded it, and soon the mystified listeners of the coolest 446 00:32:10,195 --> 00:32:13,795 Speaker 1: FM rock station in four adjoining counties, we're hearing my flat, 447 00:32:14,115 --> 00:32:17,755 Speaker 1: still slightly nasal, eighteen year old voice saying the same 448 00:32:17,835 --> 00:32:21,515 Speaker 1: thing like six seven times a day, and like everything else. 449 00:32:22,035 --> 00:32:24,595 Speaker 1: I made a copy of this. Now I swear. I 450 00:32:24,715 --> 00:32:27,155 Speaker 1: used to record my broadcast and listen to them later 451 00:32:27,235 --> 00:32:30,235 Speaker 1: and say, I've got to get better. Am I getting better? 452 00:32:30,395 --> 00:32:33,755 Speaker 1: This doesn't sound better? So I still have this on 453 00:32:33,835 --> 00:32:37,795 Speaker 1: a cassette, and I have a cassette player. So here 454 00:32:37,835 --> 00:32:43,515 Speaker 1: it is Elvis. Elvis, Elvis Live Live, Live, toned down, 455 00:32:43,675 --> 00:32:46,235 Speaker 1: tone down, toned down. 456 00:32:46,875 --> 00:32:51,195 Speaker 2: Elvis Presley Live at the War Memorial Auditorium in Syracuse, Saturday, 457 00:32:51,275 --> 00:32:55,155 Speaker 2: August twentieth, at eight thirty pm. Tickets priced at fifteen dollars, 458 00:32:55,195 --> 00:32:58,075 Speaker 2: twelve fifty and ten dollars plus twenty five cents per 459 00:32:58,115 --> 00:33:01,075 Speaker 2: ticket service charge. So kits are on sale now at 460 00:33:01,075 --> 00:33:04,195 Speaker 2: the auditorium box office and by mail. Send a self 461 00:33:04,195 --> 00:33:07,635 Speaker 2: address Stanton Flow to ell this Auditorium MOX Office, five 462 00:33:07,795 --> 00:33:11,955 Speaker 2: fifteen Montgomery Street, Syracuse, one three two oh two. That's 463 00:33:11,955 --> 00:33:15,395 Speaker 2: Elvis Live at the War Memorial in Syracuse, August twentieth. 464 00:33:15,635 --> 00:33:19,675 Speaker 1: Hey, kid, you have a deviated septum. Actually it's not 465 00:33:19,795 --> 00:33:24,475 Speaker 1: bad for age eighteen. Anyway, there were people I knew 466 00:33:24,515 --> 00:33:27,795 Speaker 1: then at the station and in town that lovely summer 467 00:33:27,795 --> 00:33:31,355 Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy seven who just assumed, who just told 468 00:33:31,395 --> 00:33:34,435 Speaker 1: me that they assumed that that commercial was some kind 469 00:33:34,475 --> 00:33:37,195 Speaker 1: of satire or gag on my part. So at least 470 00:33:37,235 --> 00:33:40,795 Speaker 1: we knew they were listening. So this is how this 471 00:33:40,835 --> 00:33:44,155 Speaker 1: turns out. We did a nightly half hour newscast called 472 00:33:44,235 --> 00:33:46,595 Speaker 1: World Report at five point thirty every day, and it 473 00:33:46,675 --> 00:33:49,275 Speaker 1: was a good newscast, and that title was neither ironic 474 00:33:49,915 --> 00:33:53,275 Speaker 1: nor undeserved. We were affiliated with ABC Radio. We ran 475 00:33:53,315 --> 00:33:55,915 Speaker 1: the Howard Cosell sports commentary every night. We had a 476 00:33:55,955 --> 00:33:59,915 Speaker 1: stock report, we had local reporters. I did a sports cast, 477 00:34:00,355 --> 00:34:04,195 Speaker 1: and our news director and my friend of forty seven years, 478 00:34:04,195 --> 00:34:06,475 Speaker 1: Peter Shaw, who is still on the board of directors 479 00:34:06,475 --> 00:34:09,195 Speaker 1: of the radio station and still in the business at CNBC, 480 00:34:09,595 --> 00:34:12,595 Speaker 1: he did the news. Pete had just gone into our 481 00:34:12,675 --> 00:34:15,435 Speaker 1: main announced booth and I was just polishing my sports 482 00:34:15,435 --> 00:34:18,995 Speaker 1: copy when every bell on our United Press International Wire 483 00:34:19,035 --> 00:34:21,795 Speaker 1: Service teletype machine went off. And this is where that 484 00:34:21,875 --> 00:34:24,915 Speaker 1: timeless question I mentioned several minutes ago comes into play 485 00:34:25,395 --> 00:34:30,515 Speaker 1: the UPI bulletin five twenty eight pm. I think datelined Memphis, Tennessee, 486 00:34:30,755 --> 00:34:36,155 Speaker 1: urgent music legend Elvis Presley dead, aged forty two. As 487 00:34:36,195 --> 00:34:39,115 Speaker 1: the clanging of the bulletin bells faded in the background, 488 00:34:39,195 --> 00:34:41,835 Speaker 1: I ripped the death notice off the wire and sprinted. 489 00:34:42,235 --> 00:34:45,955 Speaker 1: I could still sprint. Then to Pete's announce booth. The 490 00:34:45,995 --> 00:34:48,355 Speaker 1: sweep hand of the giant clock right in front of him, 491 00:34:48,395 --> 00:34:50,475 Speaker 1: so giant it was twice the size of my head 492 00:34:50,955 --> 00:34:54,395 Speaker 1: was nearing the twelve. I think this is your new lead, Pete. 493 00:34:54,475 --> 00:34:58,275 Speaker 1: I'll run in whatever else they send, and I jammed 494 00:34:58,315 --> 00:35:01,835 Speaker 1: the door open and closed. He read the copy, looked 495 00:35:01,875 --> 00:35:04,475 Speaker 1: up at me, listened as the disc jockey introduced him, 496 00:35:04,475 --> 00:35:07,035 Speaker 1: and pausing only to separate the wise crack from his 497 00:35:07,115 --> 00:35:11,475 Speaker 1: actual broadcast, he said, does this mean you don't get paid? 498 00:35:12,035 --> 00:35:14,395 Speaker 1: Good evening? I'm Peter Shack now, and this is world 499 00:35:14,395 --> 00:35:18,115 Speaker 1: report Elvis Presley has died, a bulletin report from United 500 00:35:18,115 --> 00:35:22,835 Speaker 1: Press International, et cetera. I then raced into our main 501 00:35:22,915 --> 00:35:26,635 Speaker 1: studio to physically remove my commercial from the rack of 502 00:35:26,675 --> 00:35:29,395 Speaker 1: cartridges in which the ads all sat because my main 503 00:35:29,435 --> 00:35:31,995 Speaker 1: concern now was that it had to be scheduled to 504 00:35:32,035 --> 00:35:34,195 Speaker 1: play soon on our air, maybe in the middle of 505 00:35:34,235 --> 00:35:36,555 Speaker 1: the newscast. And honestly, the last thing we needed was 506 00:35:36,595 --> 00:35:43,235 Speaker 1: me on tape suddenly appearing on the air saying Elvis 507 00:35:43,275 --> 00:35:44,155 Speaker 1: Presley Live. 508 00:35:44,195 --> 00:35:47,995 Speaker 2: But the War Memorial Auditorium in Syracuse Saturday, August twentieth 509 00:35:48,035 --> 00:35:51,395 Speaker 2: at eight thirty pm, tickets priced the ten dollars. 510 00:35:51,195 --> 00:35:54,555 Speaker 1: Twelve more like the Elvis Memorial, Am I right? So 511 00:35:54,635 --> 00:35:57,635 Speaker 1: that was my concern. It was not Peter shack Now's. Well. 512 00:35:57,675 --> 00:36:00,875 Speaker 1: I was frantically looking for my Elvis commercial kart and 513 00:36:00,915 --> 00:36:03,595 Speaker 1: we were playing an ABC News report from correspond at 514 00:36:03,675 --> 00:36:07,915 Speaker 1: Russell Spur in Hong Kong. Pete spoke over an intercom 515 00:36:07,955 --> 00:36:10,835 Speaker 1: from the announcementoth and he asked me again, no, seriously, 516 00:36:10,875 --> 00:36:13,115 Speaker 1: does this mean you don't get paid for the commercials? 517 00:36:13,995 --> 00:36:17,075 Speaker 1: Guess what it sure as hell did mean I wouldn't 518 00:36:17,115 --> 00:36:22,075 Speaker 1: get paid to this day now, forty five freaking years. 519 00:36:23,555 --> 00:36:26,155 Speaker 1: Maybe Elvis is dead, maybe he's alive, Maybe he can 520 00:36:26,195 --> 00:36:28,675 Speaker 1: be found sitting home all alone, age eighty seven. If 521 00:36:28,715 --> 00:36:30,595 Speaker 1: you can't come around, at least please tell the phone. 522 00:36:31,155 --> 00:36:35,675 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't care. All I know is 523 00:36:35,715 --> 00:36:52,515 Speaker 1: Elvis Presley. You owe me money. I've done all the 524 00:36:52,555 --> 00:36:55,035 Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you, thank you very much, 525 00:36:55,715 --> 00:36:58,115 Speaker 1: Thank you very much for listening. Here are the credits. 526 00:36:58,155 --> 00:37:01,075 Speaker 1: Most of the music arrange produced and performed by Brian 527 00:37:01,195 --> 00:37:04,515 Speaker 1: Ray and John Phillip Chanel who are the countdown musical 528 00:37:04,715 --> 00:37:09,995 Speaker 1: All orchestration and keyboards by John Phillip Scheneil guitars, bass 529 00:37:10,035 --> 00:37:13,755 Speaker 1: and drums by Brian Ray, produced by TKO Brothers. The 530 00:37:13,875 --> 00:37:17,435 Speaker 1: scarves handed to Me about Charla Hodge, Charla Hodge, everybody. 531 00:37:18,355 --> 00:37:21,075 Speaker 1: Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by the 532 00:37:21,075 --> 00:37:24,715 Speaker 1: group No Horns Allowed. Sports music is the Olberman theme 533 00:37:24,755 --> 00:37:27,755 Speaker 1: from ESPN two, and it was written by Mitch Warren 534 00:37:27,835 --> 00:37:31,675 Speaker 1: Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Musical comments by Nancy Fauss. 535 00:37:31,715 --> 00:37:35,395 Speaker 1: The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was 536 00:37:35,395 --> 00:37:38,635 Speaker 1: my friend Stevie van Zant. Everything else was pretty much 537 00:37:38,755 --> 00:37:42,555 Speaker 1: my fault except the scarves handed to me by Charla Hodge. 538 00:37:42,915 --> 00:37:46,635 Speaker 1: Charla Hodge, everybody that's countdown for this the nine hundred 539 00:37:46,675 --> 00:37:49,875 Speaker 1: and forty sixth day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup 540 00:37:50,235 --> 00:37:53,435 Speaker 1: against the democratically elected government of the United States arrest 541 00:37:53,515 --> 00:37:57,555 Speaker 1: him again. I always still can. The next scheduled countdown 542 00:37:57,595 --> 00:38:00,755 Speaker 1: is tomorrow. Bulletin says the news warrants till then. I'm 543 00:38:00,835 --> 00:38:04,915 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and goodlie Buck. 544 00:38:16,955 --> 00:38:20,915 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 545 00:38:21,075 --> 00:38:26,155 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 546 00:38:26,235 --> 00:38:28,195 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.