1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,515 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart 2 00:00:08,595 --> 00:00:26,635 Speaker 1: Radio as we watch morons like herschel Walker and washed 3 00:00:26,715 --> 00:00:30,395 Speaker 1: up newscasters like Carrie Lake and amoral Khan men like 4 00:00:30,555 --> 00:00:34,915 Speaker 1: mem at Oz march steadily towards election thirteen days from now, 5 00:00:35,475 --> 00:00:39,355 Speaker 1: while the head of the Progressive Caucus undercuts Ukraine in 6 00:00:39,395 --> 00:00:42,795 Speaker 1: a letter, than issues another letter, then retracts both letters, 7 00:00:42,795 --> 00:00:48,155 Speaker 1: then assumes responsibility but blames her staff. Somebody asked me, 8 00:00:49,035 --> 00:00:53,475 Speaker 1: why do things keep getting worse? The answers some of 9 00:00:53,515 --> 00:00:57,595 Speaker 1: the less obvious answers. Anyway, Let's set Trump and Trump's 10 00:00:57,635 --> 00:01:01,435 Speaker 1: imitators and Trump's prostitutes aside for the moment. How about 11 00:01:01,475 --> 00:01:07,435 Speaker 1: these forty years of Rush Limbaugh and his imitators, individual 12 00:01:07,555 --> 00:01:13,475 Speaker 1: moral failures and blackmail, media incompetence, and maybe most subtly 13 00:01:13,515 --> 00:01:19,475 Speaker 1: of all, the ubiquity of platforms for opinions. Limbaugh first 14 00:01:20,555 --> 00:01:23,715 Speaker 1: starting in the nineteen eighties, a construction was presented to 15 00:01:23,795 --> 00:01:28,795 Speaker 1: conservatives and fascists and Republicans and others whose misunderstanding of 16 00:01:28,875 --> 00:01:32,755 Speaker 1: life requires them to believe that for them to succeed, 17 00:01:33,195 --> 00:01:38,155 Speaker 1: most others must fail. To these people for whom sharing 18 00:01:38,635 --> 00:01:44,195 Speaker 1: and empathy are weaknesses, was presented a man embittered at 19 00:01:44,475 --> 00:01:47,515 Speaker 1: soul level because he did not achieve what he wanted 20 00:01:47,515 --> 00:01:51,115 Speaker 1: in life, who in turn offered these people exactly what 21 00:01:51,195 --> 00:01:54,275 Speaker 1: they wanted to hear, that the failures of their lives 22 00:01:54,515 --> 00:01:58,435 Speaker 1: and the successes of others was not their fault, that 23 00:01:58,515 --> 00:02:01,075 Speaker 1: in fact, they had no control over it, that in fact, 24 00:02:01,075 --> 00:02:05,075 Speaker 1: it was a conspiracy to deny them what life owed them, 25 00:02:05,115 --> 00:02:12,235 Speaker 1: and that conspiracy was run by minorities, Democrats, liberals, Hillary Clinton, 26 00:02:12,715 --> 00:02:18,595 Speaker 1: George Sorrows, terrorists, globalists, immigrants, whoever was easiest to hate 27 00:02:18,915 --> 00:02:22,755 Speaker 1: at the moment. Nothing will dissolve the backbone of a 28 00:02:22,875 --> 00:02:26,555 Speaker 1: society faster than telling failures that they are really successes, 29 00:02:26,595 --> 00:02:31,315 Speaker 1: but these others have made them fail. Tell a society that, 30 00:02:31,435 --> 00:02:34,115 Speaker 1: and eventually those who believe it will find those they 31 00:02:34,155 --> 00:02:41,435 Speaker 1: blame and try to destroy them. Second, individual failure and blackmail. 32 00:02:41,555 --> 00:02:45,475 Speaker 1: I have brought this up before. Remember the Jeff Bezos 33 00:02:45,555 --> 00:02:49,395 Speaker 1: case when the National Inquirer got photos of his girlfriend 34 00:02:49,875 --> 00:02:53,675 Speaker 1: and it's Trump Wore publisher figured he could extort Bezos 35 00:02:53,715 --> 00:02:57,315 Speaker 1: into praising Trump in the Washington Post, except Bezos said, 36 00:02:57,955 --> 00:03:00,995 Speaker 1: dam my marriage is ending anyway, My wife deserves the money, 37 00:03:01,035 --> 00:03:05,115 Speaker 1: and you deserve to go to jail. Remember, what are 38 00:03:05,195 --> 00:03:09,035 Speaker 1: the odds that Bezos was the first guy they tried 39 00:03:09,075 --> 00:03:13,195 Speaker 1: to blackmail on behalf of Trump and his allies? And 40 00:03:13,835 --> 00:03:15,995 Speaker 1: what are the odds that the first guy they tried 41 00:03:16,035 --> 00:03:20,355 Speaker 1: to blackmail on Trump's behalf said no? I mean, how 42 00:03:20,395 --> 00:03:24,755 Speaker 1: many people went from ardently, fervently die on this hill 43 00:03:24,795 --> 00:03:29,795 Speaker 1: opposition to Trump to fawning and fell aiding Ted Cruz, 44 00:03:30,395 --> 00:03:36,115 Speaker 1: Dr Ronnie Jackson, Lindsey Graham, almost all of Fox News. 45 00:03:37,275 --> 00:03:41,635 Speaker 1: How easy would their individual failures, their collaboration, their self 46 00:03:41,715 --> 00:03:47,355 Speaker 1: degradation be explained by blackmail? It could be happening against 47 00:03:47,395 --> 00:03:55,155 Speaker 1: Democrats to Joe Mansion, Kirsten Cinema acting repeatedly in Trump's interests. Thirdly, 48 00:03:56,115 --> 00:04:00,915 Speaker 1: media incompetence. The morning they broke into Democratic headquarters at 49 00:04:00,915 --> 00:04:03,995 Speaker 1: the Watergate Complex in Washington, I was thirteen years old. 50 00:04:04,195 --> 00:04:06,315 Speaker 1: It was right at that time when I began to 51 00:04:06,315 --> 00:04:09,755 Speaker 1: take the world seriously. By fourteen and the time of 52 00:04:09,795 --> 00:04:13,635 Speaker 1: the televised Watergate hearings, I was an avid consumer of 53 00:04:13,675 --> 00:04:18,995 Speaker 1: television news and politics. In that year ninety three, perhaps 54 00:04:18,995 --> 00:04:23,715 Speaker 1: there were a hundred people truly qualified to cover politics 55 00:04:23,755 --> 00:04:28,915 Speaker 1: and government on American television and maybe fifty jobs for 56 00:04:28,995 --> 00:04:34,435 Speaker 1: those hundred people. Seriously look up the career of Charles Collingwood. 57 00:04:34,555 --> 00:04:40,075 Speaker 1: Charles Collingwood worked for CBS News from ninety one through two. 58 00:04:40,395 --> 00:04:43,235 Speaker 1: He was one of the radio reporters on the landing 59 00:04:43,315 --> 00:04:46,915 Speaker 1: crafts that hit Utah Beach in the first hours of 60 00:04:47,115 --> 00:04:49,915 Speaker 1: D Day. He was the guy who took over anchoring 61 00:04:49,955 --> 00:04:54,075 Speaker 1: the Kennedy assassination when they let cronkite go get some sleep. 62 00:04:54,755 --> 00:04:59,155 Speaker 1: By the time of Watergate, Charles Collingwood was one of 63 00:04:59,195 --> 00:05:04,155 Speaker 1: the back up anchors of the CBS Evening News Weekend edition. 64 00:05:05,395 --> 00:05:10,275 Speaker 1: One hundred competent TV people, fifty jobs, seventy three and 65 00:05:10,315 --> 00:05:15,595 Speaker 1: not just technically competent, but ethically competent to know that 66 00:05:15,675 --> 00:05:18,675 Speaker 1: what they said, what they didn't say, what they chose 67 00:05:18,715 --> 00:05:21,675 Speaker 1: to report, what they chose to ignore, had real life, 68 00:05:21,755 --> 00:05:27,995 Speaker 1: often titanic consequences. They knew every decision was subjective and 69 00:05:28,035 --> 00:05:31,635 Speaker 1: that those decisions, great and small, maintained or undermined the 70 00:05:31,675 --> 00:05:35,995 Speaker 1: continuance and survival of the republic. They knew the important 71 00:05:36,035 --> 00:05:39,635 Speaker 1: thing was to serve and build truth and not just 72 00:05:39,755 --> 00:05:43,955 Speaker 1: recite facts. By the time I became a news and 73 00:05:44,035 --> 00:05:49,315 Speaker 1: political anchor with five all news cable networks up and 74 00:05:49,475 --> 00:05:51,875 Speaker 1: dozens of other networks that did a lot of news. 75 00:05:52,195 --> 00:05:56,235 Speaker 1: There were still only about one hundred competent TV people 76 00:05:56,355 --> 00:06:00,435 Speaker 1: covering the field, but now not fifty jobs, but probably 77 00:06:00,475 --> 00:06:03,475 Speaker 1: a thousand. I mean that's the only way I made it. 78 00:06:03,555 --> 00:06:06,355 Speaker 1: I had no experience, only instinct. And one day I 79 00:06:06,395 --> 00:06:09,235 Speaker 1: was interviewing John Lithgow on the set of Third Rock 80 00:06:09,275 --> 00:06:11,395 Speaker 1: from the Sun, and they came and they said, no, 81 00:06:11,395 --> 00:06:13,955 Speaker 1: no change of plans, the president might resign. You're interviewing 82 00:06:13,955 --> 00:06:18,115 Speaker 1: Tim Russer. And somehow I did not sink, I swam. 83 00:06:18,155 --> 00:06:20,435 Speaker 1: But there were still only about a hundred people competent 84 00:06:20,635 --> 00:06:24,595 Speaker 1: to do political and governmental news. And understand it meant 85 00:06:24,795 --> 00:06:31,195 Speaker 1: something today? How many streaming networks and feeds and podcasts 86 00:06:31,235 --> 00:06:34,475 Speaker 1: are there at least claiming to cover the news and 87 00:06:34,515 --> 00:06:40,915 Speaker 1: the political world A thousand, five thousand thou how many 88 00:06:40,955 --> 00:06:46,155 Speaker 1: people on those networks understand enough, care enough about the 89 00:06:46,195 --> 00:06:49,115 Speaker 1: impact of their words to know that they might be 90 00:06:49,315 --> 00:06:54,555 Speaker 1: undermining not only somebody else's freedom now, but ultimately their 91 00:06:54,675 --> 00:06:59,075 Speaker 1: own freedom later on. Just the fifty or so most 92 00:06:59,235 --> 00:07:02,715 Speaker 1: mainstream of these quote news operations, how many of the 93 00:07:02,795 --> 00:07:06,675 Speaker 1: ethical self assessments and health. Criticisms of the reporters and 94 00:07:06,755 --> 00:07:11,515 Speaker 1: anchors start and end with, well, both sides criticize me, 95 00:07:11,555 --> 00:07:14,235 Speaker 1: so I must be doing it right. I have heard 96 00:07:14,515 --> 00:07:19,715 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd say that, I have heard Andrea Mitchell say that. 97 00:07:20,075 --> 00:07:25,835 Speaker 1: I have heard Katie Ter say that. In VY three 98 00:07:25,875 --> 00:07:29,635 Speaker 1: we had one hundred competent people in political TV and 99 00:07:29,715 --> 00:07:35,555 Speaker 1: fifty jobs, had one competent people in political TV and 100 00:07:35,675 --> 00:07:40,315 Speaker 1: one thousand jobs. In two we have one hundred competent 101 00:07:40,315 --> 00:07:45,275 Speaker 1: people in political TV and ten thousand jobs. And honest 102 00:07:45,315 --> 00:07:47,235 Speaker 1: to God, I'd be hard pressed to fill out that 103 00:07:47,315 --> 00:07:50,075 Speaker 1: list of one hundred competent people. The numbers may be dropping, 104 00:07:50,115 --> 00:07:54,915 Speaker 1: we may be going backwards. And lastly, this point about 105 00:07:54,955 --> 00:08:00,195 Speaker 1: the ubiquity of platforms of opinions, there's nothing actually wrong 106 00:08:00,275 --> 00:08:04,555 Speaker 1: with that. It's what that causes that matters that make 107 00:08:04,795 --> 00:08:10,315 Speaker 1: kill us. Yet, think about this thirty years ago today, 108 00:08:10,355 --> 00:08:13,395 Speaker 1: if you did not have a job in media, if 109 00:08:13,395 --> 00:08:16,155 Speaker 1: you were not on the air somewhere or writing for 110 00:08:16,195 --> 00:08:19,755 Speaker 1: a magazine or a newspaper somewhere, and you had an 111 00:08:19,795 --> 00:08:25,915 Speaker 1: opinion about anything from impeachment to implants, and you wanted 112 00:08:25,955 --> 00:08:30,995 Speaker 1: to make that opinion public, you had two platforms. You 113 00:08:30,995 --> 00:08:34,035 Speaker 1: could find a call in show on radio or television, 114 00:08:35,155 --> 00:08:37,795 Speaker 1: or you could write a letter to somebody in a 115 00:08:37,835 --> 00:08:40,675 Speaker 1: print medium, maybe a letter to the editor of a 116 00:08:40,715 --> 00:08:44,275 Speaker 1: newspaper or a magazine. And I swear thirty years ago 117 00:08:44,675 --> 00:08:47,315 Speaker 1: I saw a letter to the editor of a magazine 118 00:08:47,355 --> 00:08:50,795 Speaker 1: criticizing a previous letter to the editor of that magazine, 119 00:08:50,915 --> 00:08:54,035 Speaker 1: which itself criticized an article in that magazine that had 120 00:08:54,075 --> 00:08:58,435 Speaker 1: been published four weeks earlier. Nobody remembered any of it 121 00:08:58,515 --> 00:09:03,155 Speaker 1: by then. And even if you availed yourself of writing 122 00:09:03,235 --> 00:09:06,595 Speaker 1: a letter to the editor or calling into radio or TV, 123 00:09:06,835 --> 00:09:10,475 Speaker 1: your opinion had to be to some degree thought out 124 00:09:11,475 --> 00:09:15,955 Speaker 1: and certainly well presented. They asked you first before putting 125 00:09:15,955 --> 00:09:18,955 Speaker 1: you on the air, they read the letter before printing it, 126 00:09:19,395 --> 00:09:22,595 Speaker 1: and even then your odds of getting the letter published 127 00:09:22,915 --> 00:09:26,915 Speaker 1: or your comment aired were tiny. If a radio call 128 00:09:26,995 --> 00:09:30,835 Speaker 1: in show put forty listeners on the air per day, 129 00:09:31,195 --> 00:09:35,195 Speaker 1: you would need a thousand radio call in shows to 130 00:09:35,395 --> 00:09:40,635 Speaker 1: let just one million people express one opinion once every year. 131 00:09:42,435 --> 00:09:46,195 Speaker 1: How many opinions have you expressed publicly on some sort 132 00:09:46,195 --> 00:09:51,435 Speaker 1: of media already today, and how many other people have 133 00:09:51,515 --> 00:09:57,075 Speaker 1: done that in this country? How many millions you don't 134 00:09:57,075 --> 00:09:59,435 Speaker 1: have to tell me. Just think about this. How carefully 135 00:09:59,555 --> 00:10:04,035 Speaker 1: was your opinion thought out? How certain were you that 136 00:10:04,115 --> 00:10:07,195 Speaker 1: you had not posted the exact opposite opinion last week 137 00:10:07,275 --> 00:10:11,595 Speaker 1: or last year, And most importantly, how quickly were you 138 00:10:11,635 --> 00:10:16,315 Speaker 1: attacked for one of those opinions, first for its argument 139 00:10:16,435 --> 00:10:20,035 Speaker 1: or its conclusion, and then attacked personally for who you 140 00:10:20,115 --> 00:10:23,835 Speaker 1: are or who they want to paint you. As the 141 00:10:23,995 --> 00:10:28,035 Speaker 1: moment you are disagreed with and attacked, your adamants, your certainty, 142 00:10:28,075 --> 00:10:32,555 Speaker 1: your defensiveness about that opinion becomes almost impossible to break. 143 00:10:32,915 --> 00:10:37,915 Speaker 1: I have done this. People don't say it might be right, 144 00:10:38,275 --> 00:10:40,435 Speaker 1: or here's where I agree with you, and here's where 145 00:10:40,475 --> 00:10:43,955 Speaker 1: I disagree. They say, well, the obscenities say it for them, 146 00:10:43,955 --> 00:10:47,635 Speaker 1: and I'm not excluding myself. I have done this. Suddenly 147 00:10:47,675 --> 00:10:51,355 Speaker 1: that opinion is the most important thing in the world, 148 00:10:51,955 --> 00:10:54,355 Speaker 1: and the person who has attacked you for having it 149 00:10:54,475 --> 00:11:04,475 Speaker 1: must be destroyed or at least damaged, immediately permanently. Why 150 00:11:04,515 --> 00:11:07,955 Speaker 1: do things keep getting worse? Nearly half of us believe 151 00:11:08,035 --> 00:11:10,835 Speaker 1: we are the victims of conspiracies. Some of us may 152 00:11:10,875 --> 00:11:13,355 Speaker 1: be the victims of blackmailers. All of us are the 153 00:11:13,435 --> 00:11:18,235 Speaker 1: victims of a television video audio podcast monolith literally thousands 154 00:11:18,235 --> 00:11:21,035 Speaker 1: of times larger than it was just twenty five years ago, 155 00:11:21,315 --> 00:11:23,715 Speaker 1: than it was just ten years ago, than it was 156 00:11:23,795 --> 00:11:27,555 Speaker 1: just five years ago. All of those platforms victimize us 157 00:11:27,555 --> 00:11:31,555 Speaker 1: with people who on average might be one thousand as 158 00:11:31,555 --> 00:11:35,835 Speaker 1: skilled as their predecessors, and who have erased complex ethical 159 00:11:35,875 --> 00:11:41,915 Speaker 1: formulas and labyrinthine checks and balances and substituted for them. 160 00:11:42,075 --> 00:11:46,555 Speaker 1: Some believe in a middle ground of both sides is 161 00:11:46,635 --> 00:11:50,915 Speaker 1: um and it's a middle ground that the ubiquitousness of 162 00:11:50,995 --> 00:11:53,955 Speaker 1: public opinion, how Twitter and Facebook and streaming has turned 163 00:11:54,075 --> 00:11:57,835 Speaker 1: everybody into not just a political commentator but a political combatant, 164 00:11:58,435 --> 00:12:05,235 Speaker 1: a middle ground that modern America has made extinct. Why 165 00:12:05,235 --> 00:12:09,595 Speaker 1: do things keep getting worse? The real question maybe, how 166 00:12:09,595 --> 00:12:12,235 Speaker 1: on earth have we not already completely destroyed what used 167 00:12:12,275 --> 00:12:29,835 Speaker 1: to be our society? Still ahead on countdown Fetterman versus Oz, 168 00:12:30,395 --> 00:12:34,115 Speaker 1: Whitmer versus Dixon, Hocal versus Zelden, or in short, reality 169 00:12:34,235 --> 00:12:41,635 Speaker 1: versus Snake oil debates palooza really unexpected and truly disturbing 170 00:12:41,715 --> 00:12:45,075 Speaker 1: reality about who is and who is not going to 171 00:12:45,155 --> 00:12:48,675 Speaker 1: play in the upcoming Baseball World Series as part of 172 00:12:48,715 --> 00:12:53,515 Speaker 1: America marches backwards to the segregated world of nineteen fifty, 173 00:12:54,835 --> 00:12:56,635 Speaker 1: and it was a week or two before the Carter 174 00:12:56,755 --> 00:13:00,995 Speaker 1: Reagan presidential election at the headquarters of the world's second 175 00:13:01,235 --> 00:13:04,515 Speaker 1: largest news organization. The man in charge of it's in 176 00:13:04,755 --> 00:13:09,995 Speaker 1: higher radio network for eight critical hours was the year 177 00:13:09,995 --> 00:13:16,475 Speaker 1: old sportscaster. Me and our chief Washington correspondent was drunk 178 00:13:16,595 --> 00:13:21,395 Speaker 1: enough to pose a fire hazard things I promised not 179 00:13:21,515 --> 00:13:31,555 Speaker 1: to tell Coming up. That's next. This is countdown. This 180 00:13:31,755 --> 00:13:38,675 Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith old woman still ahead on Countdown 181 00:13:38,715 --> 00:13:42,715 Speaker 1: a shocking and disturbing fact about who is playing in 182 00:13:42,755 --> 00:13:47,835 Speaker 1: the upcoming World Series and who isn't. First. In each 183 00:13:47,955 --> 00:13:50,035 Speaker 1: edition of Countdown, we feature a dog in need whom 184 00:13:50,035 --> 00:13:53,115 Speaker 1: you can help. Every dog has its day here in 185 00:13:53,115 --> 00:13:56,915 Speaker 1: New York. There is an astonishing number twenty five dogs 186 00:13:57,755 --> 00:14:01,355 Speaker 1: on the possible kill list at the City Pound. Blaze 187 00:14:01,595 --> 00:14:04,835 Speaker 1: was a loyal and loving family dog for thirteen years. 188 00:14:05,235 --> 00:14:07,955 Speaker 1: Then they had a baby and they decided they needed 189 00:14:07,995 --> 00:14:12,035 Speaker 1: the space Blaze was taking up, so at thirteen they 190 00:14:12,075 --> 00:14:14,355 Speaker 1: took him to the pound and left him to be 191 00:14:14,555 --> 00:14:18,395 Speaker 1: killed there. Blaze is perfectly behaved with dogs, people, kids, 192 00:14:18,515 --> 00:14:20,555 Speaker 1: fine when you leave him all alone at home. If 193 00:14:20,555 --> 00:14:23,355 Speaker 1: you'll live anywhere from Virginia to Maine. You can adopt 194 00:14:23,475 --> 00:14:25,955 Speaker 1: him today. You just have to come get him in 195 00:14:25,995 --> 00:14:29,355 Speaker 1: New York City's thirteen and he deserves better from our species. 196 00:14:29,795 --> 00:14:32,715 Speaker 1: If you can't become his forever human, you can pledge 197 00:14:32,715 --> 00:14:35,635 Speaker 1: to help a rescue pull him off death row. Blaze 198 00:14:35,675 --> 00:14:37,515 Speaker 1: will be in the pin to tweet on my account 199 00:14:37,595 --> 00:14:41,355 Speaker 1: for dogs in need at tom Jumbo Grumbo. Your donation, 200 00:14:41,435 --> 00:14:44,515 Speaker 1: big or small, will be gratefully welcomed, as will your 201 00:14:44,595 --> 00:14:59,955 Speaker 1: retweet a Blaze's story Thank you. Poscripts to the news, 202 00:14:59,995 --> 00:15:04,355 Speaker 1: some headlines, some inside, some snark dateline debate of Paluza. 203 00:15:04,435 --> 00:15:07,235 Speaker 1: What you do not want in any political debate is 204 00:15:07,275 --> 00:15:10,435 Speaker 1: to say something that comes across without much need for 205 00:15:10,635 --> 00:15:15,595 Speaker 1: salesmanship by your opponent, without much prodding, as tone deaf. 206 00:15:15,595 --> 00:15:18,875 Speaker 1: You do not want to do to borrow a word 207 00:15:19,355 --> 00:15:22,715 Speaker 1: a cruditay two of them from Amendment OS in his 208 00:15:22,715 --> 00:15:25,915 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Senate debate with John Federman last night. One No, 209 00:15:26,115 --> 00:15:28,755 Speaker 1: he says he does not want abortions to be decided 210 00:15:29,075 --> 00:15:32,075 Speaker 1: by the federal government. He wants an abortion to be 211 00:15:32,155 --> 00:15:38,315 Speaker 1: decided by a woman, her doctor, and her local political leaders. 212 00:15:38,955 --> 00:15:43,395 Speaker 1: I want women, doctors, local political leaders, letting the democracy 213 00:15:43,435 --> 00:15:45,595 Speaker 1: that's always allowed our nation to thrive, to put the 214 00:15:45,635 --> 00:15:49,595 Speaker 1: best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves. Holy cow, 215 00:15:49,715 --> 00:15:52,315 Speaker 1: a woman, a doctor and her local political leaders. Then 216 00:15:52,315 --> 00:15:54,995 Speaker 1: there was one even simpler and even worse. CD you 217 00:15:55,195 --> 00:15:58,435 Speaker 1: or your company make a profit from promoting those products. 218 00:15:58,515 --> 00:16:01,275 Speaker 1: You have thirty seconds. I never sold weight loss products 219 00:16:01,275 --> 00:16:04,755 Speaker 1: as as described in those commercials. It's a it's a 220 00:16:04,795 --> 00:16:07,635 Speaker 1: television show, like this is a television show, so people 221 00:16:07,635 --> 00:16:10,155 Speaker 1: can run commercials on this. A debate for a seat 222 00:16:10,195 --> 00:16:13,395 Speaker 1: in the Senate of the United States is a television show, 223 00:16:13,555 --> 00:16:16,995 Speaker 1: just like his quack medicine program is a television show. 224 00:16:17,515 --> 00:16:21,755 Speaker 1: Not good Oz. Federman was also blasted by fascists, including 225 00:16:21,755 --> 00:16:25,435 Speaker 1: the nos Ferato of California, Stephen Miller, for using his 226 00:16:25,515 --> 00:16:29,355 Speaker 1: dictation device to help him understand the questions fully as 227 00:16:29,355 --> 00:16:32,555 Speaker 1: he continues his recovery from his stroke, until it turned 228 00:16:32,555 --> 00:16:35,195 Speaker 1: out that Federman wanted to show the audience on TV 229 00:16:35,395 --> 00:16:39,475 Speaker 1: the dictation device before the debate itself started. But Oz 230 00:16:39,595 --> 00:16:43,155 Speaker 1: vetoed that it's also a problem in a debate when 231 00:16:43,155 --> 00:16:45,515 Speaker 1: you go in for the kill with your strongest argument, 232 00:16:45,555 --> 00:16:49,635 Speaker 1: a perception that your opponent is ignoring supposedly increasing violence, 233 00:16:49,915 --> 00:16:52,635 Speaker 1: and then your opponent shoves it back down your throat 234 00:16:52,755 --> 00:16:56,155 Speaker 1: and politely gets you to shut up as she does so. 235 00:16:57,395 --> 00:17:00,595 Speaker 1: It's Lee's Elden and Kathy Hokle for New York Governor. 236 00:17:01,915 --> 00:17:05,035 Speaker 1: A crime fund of our laws, especially with the changing 237 00:17:05,115 --> 00:17:08,235 Speaker 1: made to bail, has consequences. I don't know why that's 238 00:17:08,235 --> 00:17:09,955 Speaker 1: so important to you. All I know is that we 239 00:17:10,035 --> 00:17:13,715 Speaker 1: could do more more. Excuse me, I'm speaking. We could 240 00:17:13,795 --> 00:17:16,955 Speaker 1: do so much more if there was a nationwide band 241 00:17:16,995 --> 00:17:19,315 Speaker 1: it's only a state band, and teenagers be able to 242 00:17:19,315 --> 00:17:23,395 Speaker 1: get guns, assault weapons. I mean, that's what happened in Buffalo. 243 00:17:23,435 --> 00:17:26,075 Speaker 1: A teenager walked into a shop and was able to 244 00:17:26,115 --> 00:17:30,195 Speaker 1: buy an assault weapon, the kind you use on military battlefields. 245 00:17:30,315 --> 00:17:32,955 Speaker 1: It happened just yesterday in St. Louis. Let me just 246 00:17:32,995 --> 00:17:35,235 Speaker 1: start talking about the crimes that are the most frightening, 247 00:17:35,315 --> 00:17:38,595 Speaker 1: and that's murders and shootings, which across this country are 248 00:17:38,675 --> 00:17:42,075 Speaker 1: down about two New York State because he worked so 249 00:17:42,155 --> 00:17:44,755 Speaker 1: hard on this since I became governor, they're down four 250 00:17:45,555 --> 00:17:48,635 Speaker 1: down eight percent on thank you. Excuse me, I'm speaking. 251 00:17:48,715 --> 00:17:51,275 Speaker 1: Le zeld into a lot of blinking during that clip, 252 00:17:51,515 --> 00:17:54,995 Speaker 1: same thing happened to Tutor Dixon in the Michigan governor's debate. 253 00:17:55,235 --> 00:17:58,675 Speaker 1: She tried to ride the fascist book banning message and 254 00:17:58,715 --> 00:18:03,315 Speaker 1: Gretchen Whitmer made the Republican look soft on crime. He said, 255 00:18:03,315 --> 00:18:06,275 Speaker 1: because Democrats won't and up for our children and go 256 00:18:06,355 --> 00:18:09,835 Speaker 1: back to the basics, I'm leaving the Democrat Party. Governor. 257 00:18:10,835 --> 00:18:14,635 Speaker 1: Do you really think books are more dangerous than guns? 258 00:18:14,755 --> 00:18:17,475 Speaker 1: Do you really think that books pose a greater danger 259 00:18:17,515 --> 00:18:21,475 Speaker 1: to our kids than gun violence does? Mrs Dixon is 260 00:18:21,515 --> 00:18:25,155 Speaker 1: trying to distract us. She's trying to divert attention from 261 00:18:25,155 --> 00:18:28,595 Speaker 1: the fact that she's bankrolled by Betsy Divas. She has 262 00:18:28,755 --> 00:18:32,755 Speaker 1: endorsed Betsy Devas's plan to drain half a billion dollars 263 00:18:32,755 --> 00:18:35,275 Speaker 1: out of our public schools, and that's why she's waging 264 00:18:35,595 --> 00:18:40,635 Speaker 1: these these fights. We have to protect our kids. Tutor 265 00:18:40,675 --> 00:18:43,755 Speaker 1: Dixon is her married name. Her maiden name was Tutor Deer. 266 00:18:43,795 --> 00:18:46,155 Speaker 1: In the Headlights, she did a lot of staring during 267 00:18:46,195 --> 00:18:48,915 Speaker 1: that clip day line Washington. If you thought there was 268 00:18:48,955 --> 00:18:51,795 Speaker 1: a backstory to Biden strip to Saudi Arabia over the 269 00:18:51,835 --> 00:18:55,075 Speaker 1: summer to kiss the ring. There was New York Times 270 00:18:55,075 --> 00:18:58,915 Speaker 1: reporting the administration and many lawmakers on Capitol Hill were 271 00:18:58,955 --> 00:19:02,675 Speaker 1: aware of a deal made with Prince Mohammed been Bonesaw 272 00:19:03,075 --> 00:19:05,955 Speaker 1: to boost oil production and not cut it through the 273 00:19:06,075 --> 00:19:09,195 Speaker 1: end of the year. After the trip, the Saudias reneged 274 00:19:09,435 --> 00:19:11,715 Speaker 1: on the deal. Time for Biden to take the bone 275 00:19:11,755 --> 00:19:15,075 Speaker 1: saw to the arms deals we have with these scumbags 276 00:19:15,155 --> 00:19:19,595 Speaker 1: and Dateline Phoenix. Fox News has a sycophantic documentary about 277 00:19:19,635 --> 00:19:23,075 Speaker 1: Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters, the guy who looks like 278 00:19:23,115 --> 00:19:25,435 Speaker 1: he was hypnotized at the county fair and never snapped 279 00:19:25,435 --> 00:19:28,435 Speaker 1: out of it. As if everything on Fox News isn't 280 00:19:28,435 --> 00:19:32,395 Speaker 1: a sycophantic documentary about one fascist or another. It did 281 00:19:32,435 --> 00:19:37,155 Speaker 1: contain about thirty seconds of remarkable insights. Masters taking a 282 00:19:37,195 --> 00:19:43,155 Speaker 1: phone call and taking micromanaged instructions from l. Douche himself. 283 00:19:43,875 --> 00:19:45,635 Speaker 1: You want to get acrost the line you gotta go 284 00:19:45,715 --> 00:19:54,515 Speaker 1: stronger than that one thing, And they say, how is 285 00:19:54,555 --> 00:19:57,595 Speaker 1: your family? He says, the election it was red star. 286 00:20:01,555 --> 00:20:04,595 Speaker 1: I'm not going solved. The quote was from a profile 287 00:20:04,675 --> 00:20:07,355 Speaker 1: of Trump and Vanity Fair, one of his lawyers saying 288 00:20:07,435 --> 00:20:10,995 Speaker 1: Donald is a believer in the big lie theory. If 289 00:20:11,035 --> 00:20:14,235 Speaker 1: you say something again and again, people will believe you. 290 00:20:14,515 --> 00:20:21,435 Speaker 1: That profile and that quote are from thirty two years ago. 291 00:20:33,155 --> 00:20:39,435 Speaker 1: This is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This 292 00:20:40,435 --> 00:20:45,915 Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith, in a ritual as old as 293 00:20:45,915 --> 00:20:50,355 Speaker 1: time itself. Another retired athlete turns out to have not retired. 294 00:20:50,715 --> 00:20:54,955 Speaker 1: I am not retired, announced Serena Williams, who said goodbye 295 00:20:54,955 --> 00:20:57,515 Speaker 1: to everybody after losing at the US Open in September. 296 00:20:58,115 --> 00:21:01,675 Speaker 1: This other statement was at the Tech Crunch conference in California. 297 00:21:01,755 --> 00:21:05,275 Speaker 1: It was reported yesterday. It's true she'd never really used 298 00:21:05,275 --> 00:21:09,035 Speaker 1: the word retire. She had said I'm evolving away from tennis. 299 00:21:09,515 --> 00:21:12,515 Speaker 1: Some in the sports suggests she means she'll keep playing doubles, 300 00:21:12,835 --> 00:21:16,115 Speaker 1: which is sort of tennis only if you didn't know 301 00:21:16,235 --> 00:21:19,675 Speaker 1: any of the players names. New manager of Baseball's Miami 302 00:21:19,715 --> 00:21:25,115 Speaker 1: Marlin's Skip Schumacher all players everywhere in all time in 303 00:21:25,195 --> 00:21:29,915 Speaker 1: baseball history, and they still do it call their manager Skip. 304 00:21:30,475 --> 00:21:34,395 Speaker 1: So this will simplify things considerably. In South Florida. The 305 00:21:34,475 --> 00:21:37,395 Speaker 1: World Series, which still does not start until two nights 306 00:21:37,395 --> 00:21:41,275 Speaker 1: from now, already had enough flaws before. My friends and colleagues, 307 00:21:41,315 --> 00:21:44,995 Speaker 1: Paul Olden, voice of Yankee Stadium, and Dave Simms, voice 308 00:21:44,995 --> 00:21:49,355 Speaker 1: of the Seattle Mariners, pointed out this genuinely shocking reality. 309 00:21:49,795 --> 00:21:53,235 Speaker 1: When the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies players line up 310 00:21:53,235 --> 00:21:56,955 Speaker 1: on the baselines for the introductions before Game one Friday 311 00:21:57,035 --> 00:22:01,035 Speaker 1: night in Houston, the number of African American players on 312 00:22:01,075 --> 00:22:08,635 Speaker 1: the two rosters combined will be zero. No African Americans 313 00:22:09,155 --> 00:22:12,915 Speaker 1: playing in the World Series for the first time since 314 00:22:13,035 --> 00:22:18,875 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty nineteen fifty. To be fair, the Astros are 315 00:22:18,995 --> 00:22:22,435 Speaker 1: managed by Dusty Baker and his third base coach is 316 00:22:22,515 --> 00:22:26,355 Speaker 1: Gary Pettis, and they are African American. But for a 317 00:22:26,435 --> 00:22:29,635 Speaker 1: sport that annually treats Jackie Robinson Day as if it 318 00:22:29,675 --> 00:22:34,115 Speaker 1: granted eternal immunity from being questioned about the topic of diversity, 319 00:22:34,155 --> 00:22:38,475 Speaker 1: this is astonishing and it has an ugly undertone to it. 320 00:22:38,955 --> 00:22:42,435 Speaker 1: Since the nineteen eighties, baseball has steadily increased its recruitment 321 00:22:42,475 --> 00:22:45,635 Speaker 1: of players from Latin America. They are not subject to 322 00:22:45,675 --> 00:22:49,395 Speaker 1: the player draft, thus they are cheap, They are fungible, 323 00:22:49,515 --> 00:22:51,875 Speaker 1: especially the pictures. You can sign two hundred of them 324 00:22:51,915 --> 00:22:54,755 Speaker 1: at a time and have them play for development teams 325 00:22:54,835 --> 00:22:58,435 Speaker 1: in Latin America. You keep the good one and basically 326 00:22:58,475 --> 00:23:01,195 Speaker 1: throw away the other one. D ninety nine who aren't 327 00:23:01,235 --> 00:23:04,195 Speaker 1: so good or who got injured and you ruin their lives, 328 00:23:04,715 --> 00:23:08,195 Speaker 1: and the one who makes the major leagues largely takes 329 00:23:08,195 --> 00:23:11,795 Speaker 1: the roster spot formerly filled by African American players. In 330 00:23:13,115 --> 00:23:17,395 Speaker 1: Major League Baseball demographics amounted to this about sixty white, 331 00:23:17,915 --> 00:23:24,675 Speaker 1: sixteen percent black, sixteen percent Latino. Today about sixty two 332 00:23:24,715 --> 00:23:30,635 Speaker 1: percent white, about eight percent Latino, about seven percent black. 333 00:23:31,115 --> 00:23:34,075 Speaker 1: This is nothing against Latin American baseball players. They are 334 00:23:34,195 --> 00:23:36,915 Speaker 1: victims here too. They are the ones who are underpaid 335 00:23:36,955 --> 00:23:41,035 Speaker 1: and when injured, thrown away. But baseball has an informal 336 00:23:41,155 --> 00:23:45,275 Speaker 1: and secret quota system still and finally, we have come 337 00:23:45,275 --> 00:23:50,555 Speaker 1: to this a World Series without one African American player 338 00:23:51,035 --> 00:23:55,315 Speaker 1: for the first time in seventy two years, since the 339 00:23:55,395 --> 00:24:00,515 Speaker 1: year Connie McK retired and Vince Scully started broadcasting baseball 340 00:24:00,555 --> 00:24:09,235 Speaker 1: games coming up. It was then, as it is now, 341 00:24:09,315 --> 00:24:11,835 Speaker 1: the waning days of the election season, and a flu 342 00:24:11,995 --> 00:24:15,835 Speaker 1: bug meant that I, a twenty one year old sportscaster, 343 00:24:16,515 --> 00:24:19,235 Speaker 1: had to fill in for eight hours as the news 344 00:24:19,475 --> 00:24:22,795 Speaker 1: editor in charge of a one thousand station radio network 345 00:24:23,275 --> 00:24:27,955 Speaker 1: of the second largest news organization in the world. That 346 00:24:28,235 --> 00:24:31,755 Speaker 1: is when our chief Washington correspondent phoned in his reports 347 00:24:32,195 --> 00:24:35,555 Speaker 1: he had had a few drinks, like around twenty of 348 00:24:35,595 --> 00:24:39,155 Speaker 1: them coming up in things I promised not to tell 349 00:24:39,755 --> 00:24:42,475 Speaker 1: what a night that was. First, the daily roundup of 350 00:24:42,515 --> 00:24:45,755 Speaker 1: the miscrants, morons and Dunning Krueger effect specimens who constitute 351 00:24:46,075 --> 00:24:51,315 Speaker 1: today's worst persons in the world. Le Bronze Doug mass Criano, 352 00:24:51,435 --> 00:24:54,315 Speaker 1: Fascist candidate for the Senate from Pennsylvania. How does this 353 00:24:54,475 --> 00:24:58,115 Speaker 1: keep happening to the Republicans? There's a new mass Triano ad. 354 00:24:58,395 --> 00:25:01,955 Speaker 1: It shows two blonde little girls happily and innocently running 355 00:25:01,995 --> 00:25:05,835 Speaker 1: through the grass. It says, for their future, there is hope, 356 00:25:06,195 --> 00:25:10,115 Speaker 1: Doug Mastriano. The image turns out to be from a 357 00:25:10,275 --> 00:25:14,995 Speaker 1: government issued video called Time to Move to Russia, which 358 00:25:15,035 --> 00:25:18,075 Speaker 1: was distributed in late July this year by Russian embassies 359 00:25:18,115 --> 00:25:20,875 Speaker 1: around the world. This is like five or six Republican 360 00:25:20,915 --> 00:25:24,875 Speaker 1: ads extolling traditional American virtues that actually show images of Russia. 361 00:25:25,595 --> 00:25:28,875 Speaker 1: I would assume there's a plot here, but more likely 362 00:25:28,915 --> 00:25:33,035 Speaker 1: the images are like the Republicans just cheaper to buy 363 00:25:34,635 --> 00:25:37,075 Speaker 1: our runner up lost in debate POLUSA last night. The 364 00:25:37,115 --> 00:25:41,195 Speaker 1: debate for Oklahoma State Superintendent of Schools Democrat Gina Nelson, 365 00:25:41,475 --> 00:25:46,875 Speaker 1: Sensible Party versus State Secretary of Education Ryan Walters Mooney Party. 366 00:25:46,955 --> 00:25:52,955 Speaker 1: Besides the usual buzzwords Biden woke, transgender indoctrination choice, Walters 367 00:25:53,035 --> 00:25:56,755 Speaker 1: has vowed to make Oklahoma's school teachers public school teachers 368 00:25:57,275 --> 00:26:04,955 Speaker 1: undergo Christian patriotic education training provided by Hillsdale College in Mission. Again, 369 00:26:05,755 --> 00:26:08,915 Speaker 1: so no indoctrination except the indoctrination provided by a right 370 00:26:08,955 --> 00:26:12,755 Speaker 1: wing religious nut indoctrination college which happens to have an 371 00:26:12,875 --> 00:26:16,555 Speaker 1: educational center in Washington, d C. Whose speaker series was 372 00:26:16,675 --> 00:26:23,795 Speaker 1: run by and he guesses, Ginny Thomas, but our winner 373 00:26:23,875 --> 00:26:29,995 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio. Early Monday, Marco Rubio dramatically informed the waiting 374 00:26:30,115 --> 00:26:33,635 Speaker 1: nation quote, one of our canvassers, wearing my T shirt 375 00:26:33,675 --> 00:26:37,395 Speaker 1: and a Dessanti's hat, was brutally attacked by four animals 376 00:26:37,715 --> 00:26:41,635 Speaker 1: who told him Republicans weren't allowed in their neighborhood in Aialdia, Florida. 377 00:26:42,115 --> 00:26:45,275 Speaker 1: He suffered internal bleeding, a broken jaw, and we'll need 378 00:26:45,315 --> 00:26:50,275 Speaker 1: facial reconstructive surgery. Hand me that water I made up. 379 00:26:50,275 --> 00:26:53,355 Speaker 1: The last part looks like Marco again rushed into martyr 380 00:26:53,395 --> 00:26:58,675 Speaker 1: himself again without checking again. The police report indicates that 381 00:26:58,755 --> 00:27:02,555 Speaker 1: the Marco Rubio Canvasser wearing the Marco Rubio T shirt 382 00:27:02,595 --> 00:27:05,755 Speaker 1: and the Ron Dessanti's hat arddly turns out to be 383 00:27:05,875 --> 00:27:10,155 Speaker 1: Christopher Monzone. Christopher Monzone has quite the track record. He 384 00:27:10,235 --> 00:27:13,155 Speaker 1: was at the Unite the Right fascist rally in Charlottesville 385 00:27:13,155 --> 00:27:16,715 Speaker 1: in two thousand seventeen. He charged a crowd of anti 386 00:27:16,835 --> 00:27:21,355 Speaker 1: racism demonstrators in Hollywood, Florida, waiving a Confederate flag on 387 00:27:21,395 --> 00:27:23,875 Speaker 1: a pole as he did so. He has a history 388 00:27:23,875 --> 00:27:26,875 Speaker 1: of violence. He was guarded in the hospital by members 389 00:27:26,915 --> 00:27:29,755 Speaker 1: of the Proud Boys when the police report says that 390 00:27:29,835 --> 00:27:32,835 Speaker 1: two men fought with Monzone, not for and that there 391 00:27:32,915 --> 00:27:35,795 Speaker 1: is no indication of a political motivation for the brawl. 392 00:27:36,235 --> 00:27:38,515 Speaker 1: Oh and the neighborhood in which the fight took places 393 00:27:38,555 --> 00:27:42,755 Speaker 1: considered mostly Cuban American. Oh one other also also, the 394 00:27:42,795 --> 00:27:47,635 Speaker 1: Florida Republican Party paid those white nationalists ten thousand dollars 395 00:27:47,995 --> 00:27:53,115 Speaker 1: between June and September of this year. But that part 396 00:27:53,195 --> 00:27:58,635 Speaker 1: about Monzone wearing the ruby O T shirt, that was accurate. Marco, Yes, 397 00:27:58,755 --> 00:28:01,715 Speaker 1: that's my white supremacist street thug. He and I are 398 00:28:01,715 --> 00:28:09,235 Speaker 1: the real victims here. Rubio today is worst person in 399 00:28:09,355 --> 00:28:25,915 Speaker 1: the world now to the number one story on the 400 00:28:25,955 --> 00:28:29,435 Speaker 1: countdown and my favorite topic, me and things I promised 401 00:28:29,475 --> 00:28:32,315 Speaker 1: not to tell. And with the election looming, I was 402 00:28:32,395 --> 00:28:34,915 Speaker 1: reminded that in two thousand six, this was the week 403 00:28:34,995 --> 00:28:38,235 Speaker 1: we lost one of the great political reporters of the 404 00:28:38,275 --> 00:28:42,435 Speaker 1: twentieth century. It was also, i think, the same week 405 00:28:42,675 --> 00:28:46,635 Speaker 1: as in when this great political reporter centered in one 406 00:28:46,675 --> 00:28:50,355 Speaker 1: of the most extraordinary stories of my career. The man's 407 00:28:50,435 --> 00:28:53,515 Speaker 1: name was Pie Chamberlain, and he might have been my 408 00:28:53,595 --> 00:28:57,515 Speaker 1: favorite person among many favorites at my first job at 409 00:28:57,635 --> 00:29:02,435 Speaker 1: United Press International's radio network u p I Audio. It 410 00:29:02,675 --> 00:29:05,475 Speaker 1: is amazing. I was twenty years old when I went 411 00:29:05,515 --> 00:29:08,955 Speaker 1: to work there for sixteen thousand, five hundred dollars a 412 00:29:09,035 --> 00:29:12,675 Speaker 1: year in New York. It was literally six decades ago 413 00:29:12,835 --> 00:29:17,035 Speaker 1: nine and at least three of the people I worked 414 00:29:17,075 --> 00:29:21,435 Speaker 1: with are somehow still in this business. My friend dating 415 00:29:21,435 --> 00:29:24,795 Speaker 1: back to college, Peter Shack, now is at CNBC. We 416 00:29:24,915 --> 00:29:29,915 Speaker 1: only know each other almost fifty years. My boss, Sam 417 00:29:29,995 --> 00:29:31,955 Speaker 1: Rose and still does the New York Rangers games and 418 00:29:32,075 --> 00:29:36,875 Speaker 1: NHL Network radio. My friend Tom Fodi, who invented radio news, 419 00:29:36,955 --> 00:29:42,195 Speaker 1: by the way, is still at CBS. But II Chamberlain 420 00:29:42,275 --> 00:29:46,795 Speaker 1: was something else. Altogether. He was the lead Washington correspondent 421 00:29:46,835 --> 00:29:50,755 Speaker 1: for our radio network, White House Hearing's political campaigns. He 422 00:29:50,835 --> 00:29:54,275 Speaker 1: had been our guy at Andrews Air Force Base the 423 00:29:54,435 --> 00:29:58,275 Speaker 1: night President Kennedy's body was returned from Dallas. It was 424 00:29:58,315 --> 00:30:02,875 Speaker 1: slightly before my time. Pie was outstanding to the point 425 00:30:02,875 --> 00:30:06,715 Speaker 1: of being unique. And the name Pie that was not 426 00:30:06,795 --> 00:30:10,675 Speaker 1: some sort of nickname. He was Edward Pie Chamberlain Jr. 427 00:30:10,755 --> 00:30:14,995 Speaker 1: P y E and his father, Pie p y E 428 00:30:15,155 --> 00:30:18,395 Speaker 1: Chamberlain Sr. Had been the news editor of the international 429 00:30:18,515 --> 00:30:21,195 Speaker 1: edition of the New York Herald Tribune in Paris. Both 430 00:30:21,315 --> 00:30:26,915 Speaker 1: Pies spoke fluent French. Our lead American governmental and political 431 00:30:26,955 --> 00:30:30,675 Speaker 1: correspondent spoke fluent French. Most of the guys on TV 432 00:30:30,835 --> 00:30:35,355 Speaker 1: doing what Pie did then don't even speak passable English. 433 00:30:35,675 --> 00:30:39,795 Speaker 1: He also did not take topics seriously. U p I 434 00:30:39,955 --> 00:30:43,475 Speaker 1: Audio's primary function was to feed its one thousand stations 435 00:30:43,475 --> 00:30:47,475 Speaker 1: audio clips called cuts radio sound bites, if you will, 436 00:30:48,035 --> 00:30:51,955 Speaker 1: from newsmakers, reporters, whatever, hard news, the hog prices, from 437 00:30:51,995 --> 00:30:56,435 Speaker 1: Chicago entertainment, sports, whatever you have, for ease of reference, 438 00:30:56,475 --> 00:30:59,115 Speaker 1: and because lists of these cuts had to be fed 439 00:30:59,155 --> 00:31:01,155 Speaker 1: out on the u p I printer on the u 440 00:31:01,155 --> 00:31:05,115 Speaker 1: p I wire from dawn to dusk. The cuts were numbered. 441 00:31:05,355 --> 00:31:07,435 Speaker 1: The first one of the day was number one, the 442 00:31:07,515 --> 00:31:10,435 Speaker 1: last one might be number one, eight seven or something. 443 00:31:11,555 --> 00:31:14,395 Speaker 1: One day and Pie happened to be in my bureau 444 00:31:14,435 --> 00:31:16,755 Speaker 1: in New York. That one day there had been a 445 00:31:16,835 --> 00:31:21,435 Speaker 1: ruling by a new boss that sports was not really news. 446 00:31:21,475 --> 00:31:25,715 Speaker 1: So the sports cuts the radio sound bites would be 447 00:31:25,795 --> 00:31:28,475 Speaker 1: numbered differently. They would not be number thirty three, number 448 00:31:28,475 --> 00:31:30,755 Speaker 1: thirty four, number thirty five. There will be S one, 449 00:31:31,595 --> 00:31:36,675 Speaker 1: S two, S three, et cetera. It was. It was nonsense. 450 00:31:36,755 --> 00:31:40,715 Speaker 1: It was bureaucracy at its worst. Pie saw me typing 451 00:31:40,755 --> 00:31:43,075 Speaker 1: that into the computer terminal, the only one we had, 452 00:31:43,115 --> 00:31:45,555 Speaker 1: and he said, well, if we're gonna make sports cuts 453 00:31:45,755 --> 00:31:49,155 Speaker 1: S one and S two because sports isn't news, we're 454 00:31:49,155 --> 00:31:51,795 Speaker 1: gonna have to make political cuts P one and P 455 00:31:51,955 --> 00:31:57,635 Speaker 1: two because politics isn't news either. Kid. Anyway, one early 456 00:31:57,715 --> 00:32:00,755 Speaker 1: autumn weekend, late in the presidential campaign of nine eight, 457 00:32:00,955 --> 00:32:03,475 Speaker 1: a flu bug roared through the U p I New 458 00:32:03,555 --> 00:32:07,235 Speaker 1: York bureau. Two of our three weekday news editors were 459 00:32:07,235 --> 00:32:11,235 Speaker 1: out sick, so to several newscasters and much of the 460 00:32:11,275 --> 00:32:15,995 Speaker 1: weekend staff. Somehow, I, who always got sick, had avoided it, 461 00:32:16,355 --> 00:32:18,835 Speaker 1: and I was finishing up my Sunday night sports shift 462 00:32:18,875 --> 00:32:21,395 Speaker 1: when the news editor came over to my desk. Listen. 463 00:32:21,555 --> 00:32:24,795 Speaker 1: She said, the morning editor just called in sick. I 464 00:32:24,835 --> 00:32:26,755 Speaker 1: was going to stay all night to do the overnight shift, 465 00:32:26,795 --> 00:32:28,835 Speaker 1: but now I have to be back here in eight hours. 466 00:32:29,715 --> 00:32:31,515 Speaker 1: I said, this was bad news for her. I was 467 00:32:31,595 --> 00:32:33,875 Speaker 1: very sorry. I hope she had a good time. She said, 468 00:32:33,915 --> 00:32:36,995 Speaker 1: you don't understand how sorry you are. You are now 469 00:32:37,035 --> 00:32:42,355 Speaker 1: going to be the overnight editor. I laughed. She Roberta. 470 00:32:42,355 --> 00:32:46,115 Speaker 1: Facinelli did not laugh. It'll be easy. It's Sunday night. 471 00:32:46,155 --> 00:32:48,395 Speaker 1: Everything on the Monday morning feeds already in the house. 472 00:32:48,635 --> 00:32:50,275 Speaker 1: You just have to make a copy of it, send 473 00:32:50,315 --> 00:32:53,315 Speaker 1: it out at five am, and remember the engineer the 474 00:32:53,315 --> 00:32:56,555 Speaker 1: newscast every hour. Oh and Pie Chamberlayne is traveling with 475 00:32:56,595 --> 00:32:59,675 Speaker 1: President Carter in California. He'll be calling in collect around 476 00:32:59,675 --> 00:33:05,755 Speaker 1: three am. By suddenly, I was the news editor of 477 00:33:05,795 --> 00:33:10,155 Speaker 1: a one thousand station radio network. Pie, by the way, 478 00:33:10,275 --> 00:33:12,435 Speaker 1: did not call in collect at three. He called in 479 00:33:12,475 --> 00:33:15,155 Speaker 1: closer to five thirty, and when he did, he was 480 00:33:15,715 --> 00:33:22,995 Speaker 1: astonishingly drunk, which translated as this is Pie? Who is this? 481 00:33:23,795 --> 00:33:27,715 Speaker 1: I explained, not following you. I'm late. Sorry. I met 482 00:33:27,755 --> 00:33:31,395 Speaker 1: two nice sisters at the hotel bar, Millie and Molly 483 00:33:31,755 --> 00:33:35,635 Speaker 1: or something. Suddenly I hear squeals in the background. I 484 00:33:35,675 --> 00:33:40,555 Speaker 1: wrote my scripts though, uh, they're over there. Hang on 485 00:33:41,075 --> 00:33:45,555 Speaker 1: roll tape. I rolled tape. This was obviously not going 486 00:33:45,595 --> 00:33:48,635 Speaker 1: to produce anything we could use on the air, but 487 00:33:48,715 --> 00:33:50,915 Speaker 1: I needed proof that he had called in and was 488 00:33:50,955 --> 00:33:54,555 Speaker 1: so inebriated that I could smell him from Los Angeles. 489 00:33:55,195 --> 00:33:58,355 Speaker 1: As I inhaled deeply, I heard down the phone line 490 00:33:58,795 --> 00:34:05,755 Speaker 1: a tremendous crash, as if someone had knocked over a table. Okay, okay, 491 00:34:05,795 --> 00:34:08,355 Speaker 1: I just fell over one of the girls and we 492 00:34:08,475 --> 00:34:12,715 Speaker 1: knocked over a table. As this scrapped, I could not 493 00:34:12,835 --> 00:34:16,515 Speaker 1: wait to hear what was next. You're ready, I told Pie. 494 00:34:16,515 --> 00:34:21,475 Speaker 1: I was very ready. Okay, here's here's the first one. Suddenly, 495 00:34:21,555 --> 00:34:30,995 Speaker 1: more squealing, laughter, girls, quiet, I'm reporting on the network. Okay, one. Two, 496 00:34:31,755 --> 00:34:40,315 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I got that backwards free two? Uh to one. 497 00:34:41,115 --> 00:34:43,755 Speaker 1: President Carter met with Governor Brown of California here in 498 00:34:43,795 --> 00:34:46,155 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Sunday, and the governor pledged his full support 499 00:34:46,195 --> 00:34:49,555 Speaker 1: for the President's campaign in the Golden State. I couldn't 500 00:34:49,555 --> 00:34:53,475 Speaker 1: believe it. The reports were only forty seconds long. This, 501 00:34:53,915 --> 00:34:58,995 Speaker 1: like most of Pie's work, was impeccable, succinct, informative, and 502 00:34:59,195 --> 00:35:02,515 Speaker 1: just funny enough. And it was ending, and there was 503 00:35:02,555 --> 00:35:04,515 Speaker 1: no indication of the fact that he was at sp 504 00:35:04,675 --> 00:35:09,355 Speaker 1: spontaneous combustion levels of inebriation. Today, President Carter moves on 505 00:35:09,395 --> 00:35:12,435 Speaker 1: to San Francisco to meet there with local leaders. Pie 506 00:35:12,475 --> 00:35:16,035 Speaker 1: Tamberlin with the Carter Campaign Los Angeles. How is that? 507 00:35:17,795 --> 00:35:22,555 Speaker 1: I told Pie the truth? Pie, that was amazingly good. Yeah, 508 00:35:22,635 --> 00:35:26,755 Speaker 1: I was listen it. I can do it in my sleep. Okay, 509 00:35:26,795 --> 00:35:30,515 Speaker 1: here's the second one, the advancer. You still rolling? Okay? 510 00:35:30,635 --> 00:35:39,035 Speaker 1: Ten nine eight, Wait, that's too many, three two one. 511 00:35:39,355 --> 00:35:42,155 Speaker 1: President Carter will meet with San Francisco's mayor and address 512 00:35:42,195 --> 00:35:45,155 Speaker 1: a campaign rally downtown before moving on to Sacramento late 513 00:35:45,155 --> 00:35:48,835 Speaker 1: in the evening, same thing, flawless. Pie Treamberlin with the 514 00:35:49,075 --> 00:35:52,475 Speaker 1: Carter Campaign, Los Angeles. Okay, let me get you the 515 00:35:52,475 --> 00:35:55,915 Speaker 1: second one now. So I told him, Pie, that was 516 00:35:55,955 --> 00:35:59,755 Speaker 1: the second one. Damn, you're right, It's gonna be a 517 00:35:59,755 --> 00:36:03,835 Speaker 1: great day. Okay, cayl thanks. I told him my name 518 00:36:03,875 --> 00:36:08,635 Speaker 1: was Keith, not caw. Okay, Cal whatever you say good night. Okay, girls, 519 00:36:09,035 --> 00:36:12,795 Speaker 1: that was cow. It was a quick squeal, then a 520 00:36:12,875 --> 00:36:16,875 Speaker 1: dial tone, and then it was all over. The news editor, 521 00:36:17,275 --> 00:36:20,115 Speaker 1: the real news editor, arrived a few minutes later and 522 00:36:20,115 --> 00:36:21,955 Speaker 1: looked at me, and I guess the shock was still 523 00:36:22,035 --> 00:36:25,395 Speaker 1: visible in my eyes, because she said I was gonna 524 00:36:25,475 --> 00:36:28,155 Speaker 1: ask if everything was okay. But I see Pie Pie 525 00:36:28,155 --> 00:36:33,835 Speaker 1: file drunk again, didn't he? How many takes? I mumbled? One? 526 00:36:34,195 --> 00:36:38,595 Speaker 1: One take? She smiled. Yeah, he's the best, isn't he. 527 00:36:39,915 --> 00:36:43,595 Speaker 1: Pie Chamberlain retired from U p I at the age 528 00:36:43,595 --> 00:36:46,835 Speaker 1: of sixty. He kept covering news for a really small 529 00:36:46,915 --> 00:36:50,915 Speaker 1: newspaper in Virginia. He died aged sixty eight this week 530 00:36:50,955 --> 00:36:54,635 Speaker 1: in October two thousand six. I saw him only once 531 00:36:54,675 --> 00:36:57,475 Speaker 1: again in my life at a press conference in Washington 532 00:36:57,715 --> 00:37:00,595 Speaker 1: when I was with CNN and I asked him about 533 00:37:00,635 --> 00:37:04,435 Speaker 1: the night I took in that feed. My God that 534 00:37:04,675 --> 00:37:07,555 Speaker 1: knows you. He said, let me give you five words 535 00:37:07,555 --> 00:37:10,635 Speaker 1: of advice I should have given you that night. Don't 536 00:37:11,395 --> 00:37:28,235 Speaker 1: try this at home. I've done all the damage I 537 00:37:28,275 --> 00:37:31,075 Speaker 1: can do here. Since you have listened, this bar helped 538 00:37:31,115 --> 00:37:34,555 Speaker 1: me out spread the word. Tell somebody about this podcast, 539 00:37:34,955 --> 00:37:38,475 Speaker 1: get them to subscribe, and have a drink in pies memory, 540 00:37:39,195 --> 00:37:42,155 Speaker 1: but just the one here the credits. Most of the music, 541 00:37:42,195 --> 00:37:45,835 Speaker 1: including this our theme from Beethoven's Ninth was arranged, produced, 542 00:37:45,835 --> 00:37:48,475 Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray and John Philip Chanelle. They 543 00:37:48,475 --> 00:37:51,675 Speaker 1: are the Countdown musical directors. All the orchestration and the 544 00:37:51,755 --> 00:37:55,355 Speaker 1: keyboards by John Philip Chanelle, guitarist, bass and drums by 545 00:37:55,355 --> 00:37:59,035 Speaker 1: Brian Ray, produced by T k O Brothers. Other Beethoven 546 00:37:59,075 --> 00:38:01,915 Speaker 1: selections have been arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed. 547 00:38:02,275 --> 00:38:05,675 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Overman theme from ESPN two, 548 00:38:05,875 --> 00:38:08,315 Speaker 1: and it was written by Mitch Warren Davis and appears 549 00:38:08,315 --> 00:38:12,275 Speaker 1: courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Musical comments by Nancy Faust. The 550 00:38:12,275 --> 00:38:16,355 Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was Jonathan 551 00:38:16,395 --> 00:38:20,115 Speaker 1: Banks from Breaking Bad. Everything else is pretty much my fault. 552 00:38:20,795 --> 00:38:23,915 Speaker 1: So that's countdown for this the sixty eight day since 553 00:38:23,955 --> 00:38:27,715 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government 554 00:38:27,715 --> 00:38:30,115 Speaker 1: of the United States. HA asked him, now, while we 555 00:38:30,195 --> 00:38:33,835 Speaker 1: still can a new episode tomorrow, till then, I'm Keith Olderman. 556 00:38:33,915 --> 00:38:46,395 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with 557 00:38:46,475 --> 00:38:49,595 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman is a production of I heart Radio. For 558 00:38:49,755 --> 00:38:52,755 Speaker 1: more podcasts from I heart Radio, visit the I heart 559 00:38:52,835 --> 00:38:56,915 Speaker 1: Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.