1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,075 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Joe 2 00:00:22,075 --> 00:00:24,835 Speaker 1: Biden has still won the debt deal, but now there 3 00:00:24,875 --> 00:00:27,475 Speaker 1: is also the chance that not only will Kevin McCarthy 4 00:00:27,595 --> 00:00:31,355 Speaker 1: lose it, but so will Joe Mansion. In page ninety 5 00:00:31,395 --> 00:00:34,755 Speaker 1: five of the agreement, that's ninety five out of ninety nine, 6 00:00:35,115 --> 00:00:41,155 Speaker 1: that putrid, unreliable, self aggrandizing, self inflating, fraudulent, sheep in 7 00:00:41,275 --> 00:00:45,515 Speaker 1: sheep's clothing. Senator Joe Mansion of West Virginia has managed 8 00:00:45,555 --> 00:00:49,475 Speaker 1: to stick the permitting legislation for his favorite project to 9 00:00:49,635 --> 00:00:53,075 Speaker 1: accelerate the end of life on the planet from catastrophic 10 00:00:53,115 --> 00:00:57,795 Speaker 1: climate change, the Good Old Mountain Valley natural Gas pipeline, 11 00:00:58,835 --> 00:01:02,315 Speaker 1: and Senator Tim Caine of Virginia is planning to remove 12 00:01:02,675 --> 00:01:05,795 Speaker 1: the Good Old Mountain Valley pipeline. And from page ninety 13 00:01:05,835 --> 00:01:09,115 Speaker 1: five and from the deal, come hell or high water. 14 00:01:09,755 --> 00:01:12,515 Speaker 1: Senator Kaine has always been opposed to this three hundred 15 00:01:12,595 --> 00:01:16,355 Speaker 1: mile long living monument to environmental disasters, both short term 16 00:01:16,395 --> 00:01:19,475 Speaker 1: and long term, and he makes the unanswerable argument that 17 00:01:19,515 --> 00:01:23,355 Speaker 1: it is quote completely unrelated to the debt ceiling matter. 18 00:01:24,115 --> 00:01:26,835 Speaker 1: And of course it is completely unrelated to it, and 19 00:01:26,915 --> 00:01:29,115 Speaker 1: Kane will file an amendment now to get it. Cut 20 00:01:29,155 --> 00:01:32,195 Speaker 1: the hell out of the bill. Because if President Biden 21 00:01:32,195 --> 00:01:35,555 Speaker 1: would like to piss away the goodwill of having averted 22 00:01:35,595 --> 00:01:37,835 Speaker 1: a default that never should have been in play, but 23 00:01:37,875 --> 00:01:40,755 Speaker 1: Democrats in the House slept through the Wame Duck and 24 00:01:40,875 --> 00:01:43,395 Speaker 1: Democrats in the White House apparently did not know about 25 00:01:43,435 --> 00:01:46,195 Speaker 1: the fourteenth Amendment a couple a couple of weeks ago. 26 00:01:46,275 --> 00:01:48,315 Speaker 1: And if President Biden would like to piss away the 27 00:01:48,355 --> 00:01:51,155 Speaker 1: triumph of his victory over McCarthy, and if President Biden 28 00:01:51,195 --> 00:01:53,555 Speaker 1: would like to piss away the early signs of a 29 00:01:53,595 --> 00:01:57,675 Speaker 1: significant poll bump here Biden forty six forty four in 30 00:01:57,755 --> 00:02:01,835 Speaker 1: the Echelon Insights national poll, Biden forty seven forty three 31 00:02:01,835 --> 00:02:04,875 Speaker 1: in the Clarity National poll just out last night. If 32 00:02:04,875 --> 00:02:08,155 Speaker 1: President Biden would like to piss away all that, the 33 00:02:08,195 --> 00:02:12,915 Speaker 1: way to do it is to umbrella this albatross of 34 00:02:12,955 --> 00:02:18,035 Speaker 1: the Joe Mansion's Integrity Memorial pipeline into the debt deal. 35 00:02:18,875 --> 00:02:20,595 Speaker 1: It doesn't have a damn thing to do with the 36 00:02:20,635 --> 00:02:24,235 Speaker 1: debt deal other than to lubricate Joe Manchin and make 37 00:02:24,275 --> 00:02:27,515 Speaker 1: the Democrats and Biden and Chuck Schumer think ooh, now, 38 00:02:27,635 --> 00:02:30,675 Speaker 1: Manchin will owe us something, except he never thinks that way, 39 00:02:30,835 --> 00:02:33,475 Speaker 1: and he never repays the favor, and his voting record 40 00:02:33,555 --> 00:02:36,715 Speaker 1: actually suggests he may be more worthless than cinema. And 41 00:02:36,755 --> 00:02:42,555 Speaker 1: trust me, I know how worthless cinema is. The Joe 42 00:02:42,595 --> 00:02:47,355 Speaker 1: Mansion burned the Atmosphere Mountain Valley pipeline is the fossil 43 00:02:47,395 --> 00:02:51,035 Speaker 1: fuel world's raised middle finger to the Democrats and the 44 00:02:51,075 --> 00:02:54,515 Speaker 1: green energy universe, and for that matter, to reality. It 45 00:02:54,595 --> 00:02:57,595 Speaker 1: is a reminder that people like Joe Manchin will really 46 00:02:57,675 --> 00:03:01,115 Speaker 1: try to sell the last living humans on the planet 47 00:03:01,715 --> 00:03:07,475 Speaker 1: one more cubic foot of natural gas before they die. 48 00:03:07,675 --> 00:03:09,635 Speaker 1: Mister President, you want to put something in here for 49 00:03:09,675 --> 00:03:12,955 Speaker 1: the fossil fuel industry, how about you right a guarantee 50 00:03:12,955 --> 00:03:16,715 Speaker 1: that you will not nationalize it, that when those parts 51 00:03:16,755 --> 00:03:19,075 Speaker 1: of it that cannot figure out how to convert their 52 00:03:19,115 --> 00:03:22,715 Speaker 1: businesses into ones that sell products that don't destroy life 53 00:03:22,795 --> 00:03:27,195 Speaker 1: on the planet slowly after utter destabilization of society and 54 00:03:27,275 --> 00:03:31,675 Speaker 1: uncontrollable waves of disease and starvation and violence, that maybe 55 00:03:31,675 --> 00:03:36,555 Speaker 1: the government can buy their destructive companies instead, Because God forbid, 56 00:03:37,075 --> 00:03:41,075 Speaker 1: murders like the people who own Joe Mansion don't get 57 00:03:41,115 --> 00:03:45,555 Speaker 1: to keep their profits high enough and I made a 58 00:03:45,635 --> 00:03:48,635 Speaker 1: verb out of umbrella there because it is a bleak 59 00:03:49,155 --> 00:03:53,115 Speaker 1: grammatical shorthand joke from inside my own family. I knew 60 00:03:53,155 --> 00:03:56,875 Speaker 1: it from my grandmother, my mother's mother, who used to say, 61 00:03:56,915 --> 00:03:59,475 Speaker 1: after a series of demands on her that would lead 62 00:03:59,795 --> 00:04:05,235 Speaker 1: to yet one more worse demand. Quote, don't own umbrella 63 00:04:05,355 --> 00:04:13,155 Speaker 1: me or just umbrella umbrella means I suppose I can 64 00:04:13,235 --> 00:04:18,875 Speaker 1: handle you shoving the umbrella up my uh posterior, just 65 00:04:19,235 --> 00:04:23,995 Speaker 1: don't open it. The Schlumbohm and Charboneir families were not 66 00:04:24,075 --> 00:04:27,155 Speaker 1: exactly the epitome of delicacy in the Bronx a century ago, 67 00:04:27,355 --> 00:04:30,355 Speaker 1: but even they cleaned it up to just the one word. 68 00:04:31,075 --> 00:04:36,155 Speaker 1: So umbrella, mister President, I get it you're not going 69 00:04:36,235 --> 00:04:38,715 Speaker 1: to do as much as you have said about climate, 70 00:04:39,035 --> 00:04:41,235 Speaker 1: but the other party is insane and we do not 71 00:04:41,355 --> 00:04:45,275 Speaker 1: have much choice. Just don't umbrella us. Take the Joe 72 00:04:45,395 --> 00:04:49,595 Speaker 1: Mansion gold plated with corruption Mountain Valley pipeline out of 73 00:04:49,635 --> 00:04:52,595 Speaker 1: the debt deal and give it to Senator Mansion and 74 00:04:52,635 --> 00:04:55,835 Speaker 1: tell him to put it. Just give it to him 75 00:04:55,835 --> 00:05:04,555 Speaker 1: and say to him, umbrella, I'm not going to let 76 00:05:04,795 --> 00:05:07,875 Speaker 1: go of the pipeline thing and Mansion, but I am 77 00:05:07,955 --> 00:05:10,835 Speaker 1: going to continue to give Biden props on the win. 78 00:05:11,995 --> 00:05:14,675 Speaker 1: If the pipeline remains, we will have to revisit that 79 00:05:14,915 --> 00:05:17,475 Speaker 1: in the interim. I am also going to give him 80 00:05:17,515 --> 00:05:22,035 Speaker 1: props on the humble brag tightrope. He successfully maneuvered a 81 00:05:22,075 --> 00:05:24,795 Speaker 1: little tough to hear him here as usual with the 82 00:05:24,795 --> 00:05:28,075 Speaker 1: helicopter at the White House. But he is essentially boasting 83 00:05:28,955 --> 00:05:32,915 Speaker 1: that he hasn't boasted, while reminding you that you would 84 00:05:32,955 --> 00:05:36,635 Speaker 1: boast and thus you'd lose. But he would never boast 85 00:05:36,715 --> 00:05:37,515 Speaker 1: about that either. 86 00:05:37,835 --> 00:05:39,115 Speaker 2: I spoke to McDonald. 87 00:05:39,675 --> 00:05:41,555 Speaker 1: I spoke to a whole bunch. 88 00:05:41,315 --> 00:05:43,115 Speaker 3: Of people, and it feels good. 89 00:05:43,195 --> 00:05:46,115 Speaker 2: We'll see when the boat starts, and you are. One 90 00:05:46,115 --> 00:05:49,475 Speaker 2: of the things that I hear some of these guys. 91 00:05:49,275 --> 00:05:52,315 Speaker 4: Saying is why didn't Biden say what a good dealer is? 92 00:05:53,075 --> 00:05:54,435 Speaker 4: Why would Biden be saying. 93 00:05:54,195 --> 00:05:56,995 Speaker 1: What a good dealer before the vote? I think that's 94 00:05:56,995 --> 00:05:59,835 Speaker 1: going to help me get a pass. No, that's why 95 00:05:59,875 --> 00:06:03,035 Speaker 1: you guys don't bargain very well. The Republicans who can't 96 00:06:03,115 --> 00:06:07,115 Speaker 1: bargain either, judging i' McCarthy are of course having one 97 00:06:07,195 --> 00:06:09,915 Speaker 1: more knockdown drag out in the Rules Committee over the 98 00:06:09,955 --> 00:06:13,595 Speaker 1: debt deal and it's so Republican, it's hilarious. You may 99 00:06:13,635 --> 00:06:16,835 Speaker 1: recall that as part of his seventeen different deals with 100 00:06:16,995 --> 00:06:20,875 Speaker 1: seventeen different devils to get the speakership, Kevin McCarthy had 101 00:06:20,955 --> 00:06:24,315 Speaker 1: to put the worst of MAGA like Ralph Norman and 102 00:06:24,315 --> 00:06:27,835 Speaker 1: this nutt Thomas Massey and this moron Chip Roy on 103 00:06:27,915 --> 00:06:31,755 Speaker 1: the Rules Committee. Well, now, Chip Roy insists that not 104 00:06:31,795 --> 00:06:34,715 Speaker 1: only did McCarthy agree to put the maggots on rules, 105 00:06:34,875 --> 00:06:39,675 Speaker 1: he also made a doubles secret handshake agreement that all 106 00:06:39,795 --> 00:06:43,795 Speaker 1: nine Republicans on that panel have to agree before any 107 00:06:43,875 --> 00:06:47,275 Speaker 1: legislation advances from their Rules committee to the full House. 108 00:06:48,155 --> 00:06:52,635 Speaker 1: So while Roy was attacking McCarthy with that, another Republican 109 00:06:52,755 --> 00:06:56,635 Speaker 1: on the Rules Committee, Dusty Johnson, was attacking Roy. Quote, 110 00:06:56,675 --> 00:07:00,355 Speaker 1: I have not heard that before. If those conversations took place, 111 00:07:00,395 --> 00:07:02,955 Speaker 1: the rest of the conference was unaware of them, and 112 00:07:02,995 --> 00:07:06,835 Speaker 1: frankly I doubt them. Dusty is with a kind of 113 00:07:06,875 --> 00:07:10,595 Speaker 1: civility that is startling in a twenty first century Republican. 114 00:07:10,795 --> 00:07:19,355 Speaker 1: Dusty is calling Chip a liar. Incidentally, Congressman Dusty, Congressman Chip, 115 00:07:19,915 --> 00:07:27,555 Speaker 1: what is this zz top? Well, by the way, the 116 00:07:27,595 --> 00:07:32,875 Speaker 1: success in succession of Tom Wombscants has nothing to do 117 00:07:32,955 --> 00:07:36,595 Speaker 1: with one of the great one moment immortals in baseball history, 118 00:07:36,595 --> 00:07:40,235 Speaker 1: Bill Wambscants. Well, you have to have seen this yesterday 119 00:07:40,355 --> 00:07:44,075 Speaker 1: or earlier. An expert at a baby Name's website tweeted 120 00:07:44,115 --> 00:07:47,235 Speaker 1: it last Wednesday, And in fact, the urban legend about 121 00:07:47,275 --> 00:07:49,355 Speaker 1: baseball and the TV series turns out to go back 122 00:07:49,395 --> 00:07:51,355 Speaker 1: at least two years, and it was in the New 123 00:07:51,435 --> 00:07:54,635 Speaker 1: York Times. The idea is that the success in the 124 00:07:55,395 --> 00:07:58,435 Speaker 1: well let's call it a nighttime soap opera of Tom 125 00:07:58,835 --> 00:08:07,555 Speaker 1: Wombscants wambs Gans was forecast in succession by his name 126 00:08:08,115 --> 00:08:10,715 Speaker 1: that everybody should have been able to figure out that 127 00:08:10,915 --> 00:08:14,595 Speaker 1: he would prevail in the succession in succession because he 128 00:08:14,675 --> 00:08:21,235 Speaker 1: more or less shared his name with Bill Wamscantce Wambsgaanss. 129 00:08:22,315 --> 00:08:26,315 Speaker 1: Bill Wamscants, or Bill Wamscants, as he was often known too, 130 00:08:26,755 --> 00:08:29,195 Speaker 1: was the second baseman of the then Cleveland Indians from 131 00:08:29,235 --> 00:08:32,315 Speaker 1: nineteen fourteen through nineteen twenty three. He was a really 132 00:08:32,355 --> 00:08:35,755 Speaker 1: good rangy infielder who was pretty fast and hit two 133 00:08:35,875 --> 00:08:40,195 Speaker 1: fifty nine lifetime, but in a time of sluggers didn't. 134 00:08:40,755 --> 00:08:43,355 Speaker 1: Wamscants was a lot to say back then or fit 135 00:08:43,435 --> 00:08:46,275 Speaker 1: into a box score in nineteen twenty, so Bill answered 136 00:08:46,275 --> 00:08:49,635 Speaker 1: to Wamby or Wamby. But in the fifth inning of 137 00:08:49,715 --> 00:08:52,915 Speaker 1: Game five of the nineteen twenty World Series, he became 138 00:08:53,275 --> 00:08:57,875 Speaker 1: a baseball immortal. The Brooklyn Robbins now the LA Dodgers, 139 00:08:57,915 --> 00:09:00,755 Speaker 1: the National League champions that year, put two men on 140 00:09:00,875 --> 00:09:04,595 Speaker 1: with nobody out. With the runners moving, Brooklyn's Clarence Mitchell 141 00:09:04,755 --> 00:09:07,235 Speaker 1: h had a sharp line drive to Wamscans for one out. 142 00:09:07,595 --> 00:09:10,555 Speaker 1: Then Wiamscans took a couple of strides and stepped on second, 143 00:09:10,595 --> 00:09:13,955 Speaker 1: thereby doubling off the runner on second, Pete Kilduff, who 144 00:09:13,995 --> 00:09:18,195 Speaker 1: was already halfway to third base two out. Wamscons now 145 00:09:18,195 --> 00:09:21,395 Speaker 1: said he looked up to find the Brooklyn runner from first, 146 00:09:21,555 --> 00:09:24,715 Speaker 1: Otto Miller, just a few feet away from him. Frozen 147 00:09:24,915 --> 00:09:28,475 Speaker 1: in horror at what was happening. Bill Wamscins went over 148 00:09:28,555 --> 00:09:32,635 Speaker 1: and tagged him for not just a triple play, but 149 00:09:32,755 --> 00:09:36,475 Speaker 1: an unassisted triple play, the first in World Series history 150 00:09:36,475 --> 00:09:39,235 Speaker 1: and the last. And it's been one hundred and three years, 151 00:09:39,555 --> 00:09:42,315 Speaker 1: and it was only the second or third in all 152 00:09:42,355 --> 00:09:44,795 Speaker 1: of baseball history at that point, depending on how you 153 00:09:44,835 --> 00:09:48,435 Speaker 1: interpret baseball history. Even now, there have only been fifteen 154 00:09:48,555 --> 00:09:52,635 Speaker 1: or sixteen unassisted triple plays. And incidentally, six of them 155 00:09:52,675 --> 00:09:58,075 Speaker 1: were either by or against Cleveland, which is statistically really unlikely. 156 00:09:58,715 --> 00:10:02,555 Speaker 1: And two of them happened on consecutive days in nineteen 157 00:10:02,635 --> 00:10:05,995 Speaker 1: twenty seven, which is even crazier. But the point is 158 00:10:07,235 --> 00:10:12,635 Speaker 1: Wambskantz defeated three rivals, all by himself, all at once. 159 00:10:13,555 --> 00:10:17,715 Speaker 1: Got it just like the Womscants in Succession. Huh ah, 160 00:10:17,875 --> 00:10:21,315 Speaker 1: pretty good. Huh And if you were paying attention, you 161 00:10:21,395 --> 00:10:24,395 Speaker 1: also noticed that in the very first episode of Succession, 162 00:10:24,755 --> 00:10:29,275 Speaker 1: Tom Wombskance played in the Roy family softball game and 163 00:10:29,395 --> 00:10:37,675 Speaker 1: he tagged out a kid at home plate. Good except 164 00:10:38,475 --> 00:10:44,075 Speaker 1: it's a coincidence. Yeah, it's a coincidence. Instead of just saying, 165 00:10:44,115 --> 00:10:48,315 Speaker 1: like everybody else did, it's an obscure baseball reference umbrella. 166 00:10:49,115 --> 00:10:53,355 Speaker 1: Stephan Fatsis of Slate contacted the longtime New York Times 167 00:10:53,395 --> 00:10:56,235 Speaker 1: columnist Frank Rich, who was one of the executive producers 168 00:10:56,235 --> 00:10:59,675 Speaker 1: of the show, about this, and Rich replied, quote, I 169 00:10:59,715 --> 00:11:03,195 Speaker 1: hate to spoil the internet's fun, but it's false. Tom's 170 00:11:03,195 --> 00:11:05,675 Speaker 1: family name was picked before before we had shot a 171 00:11:05,755 --> 00:11:09,955 Speaker 1: first season, let alone mapped out precise story twists that 172 00:11:09,995 --> 00:11:13,555 Speaker 1: would culminate thirty nine episodes later. Not to mention that 173 00:11:13,595 --> 00:11:15,755 Speaker 1: many of the key writers on the show, starting with 174 00:11:15,795 --> 00:11:19,475 Speaker 1: its creator Jesse Armstrong, are British, live in London and 175 00:11:19,515 --> 00:11:24,075 Speaker 1: are devoted to British football, if memory serves, Frank Rich continued, 176 00:11:24,435 --> 00:11:26,795 Speaker 1: we were looking for something off key that would be 177 00:11:26,915 --> 00:11:31,395 Speaker 1: awkward to say and pronounce, befitting a character who arrives 178 00:11:31,715 --> 00:11:37,675 Speaker 1: as an outsider in the Roys world unquote, So sorry 179 00:11:37,795 --> 00:11:43,835 Speaker 1: conspiracy fans. And anyway, if you had a triple play 180 00:11:43,995 --> 00:11:48,875 Speaker 1: accomplishing character in succession named after Bill Lambskantz, you'd really 181 00:11:48,995 --> 00:11:52,395 Speaker 1: also have to have had one named after triple play 182 00:11:52,475 --> 00:11:56,555 Speaker 1: hitting into batter Clarence Mitchell. Because as remarkable as wamscans 183 00:11:56,595 --> 00:12:00,235 Speaker 1: is unassistant triple play was in the nineteen twenty World Series, 184 00:12:00,275 --> 00:12:03,675 Speaker 1: I have always thought as a baseball historian that what 185 00:12:03,755 --> 00:12:07,955 Speaker 1: Clarence Mitchell did it was far more remarkable. Because the 186 00:12:07,995 --> 00:12:10,795 Speaker 1: next time Clarence Mitchell came up in the same game 187 00:12:11,195 --> 00:12:14,555 Speaker 1: in the eighth inning, after having just hit into a 188 00:12:14,635 --> 00:12:21,155 Speaker 1: triple play, Clarence Mitchell promptly then hit into a double play. 189 00:12:21,915 --> 00:12:26,715 Speaker 1: He made five outs with two swings. Maybe they can 190 00:12:26,755 --> 00:12:29,035 Speaker 1: make that the plot line in the sequel, and you 191 00:12:29,115 --> 00:12:36,875 Speaker 1: know there's going to be a sequel. Also of note, today, 192 00:12:36,915 --> 00:12:39,275 Speaker 1: the Russians have put out an arrest warrant for Lindsey 193 00:12:39,315 --> 00:12:42,275 Speaker 1: Graham over what he said about Russians dying in Ukraine 194 00:12:42,275 --> 00:12:45,355 Speaker 1: and money well spent. And ordinarily I'd be conflicted because 195 00:12:45,355 --> 00:12:49,555 Speaker 1: it's Lindsay Umbrella Graham, but more importantly it's the Russians, 196 00:12:50,075 --> 00:12:52,755 Speaker 1: and after the day long bombing of civilian targets in 197 00:12:52,835 --> 00:12:56,835 Speaker 1: Kiev yesterday and the increasing threats of using tactical nukes, 198 00:12:57,315 --> 00:12:59,795 Speaker 1: their terrorism in Ukraine has to stop, and we have 199 00:12:59,875 --> 00:13:03,315 Speaker 1: to stop not just dealing with them, but dealing with 200 00:13:03,395 --> 00:13:08,795 Speaker 1: any other country. It still deals with Russia. Okay, so 201 00:13:08,875 --> 00:13:11,515 Speaker 1: now I'm going to go fire up the wayback machine again. 202 00:13:11,595 --> 00:13:13,075 Speaker 1: That's next. This is countdown. 203 00:13:14,715 --> 00:13:18,635 Speaker 3: This is countdown with Keith Olberman. 204 00:13:22,755 --> 00:13:26,755 Speaker 1: Postscripts to the news, some updates, some snark, some complete 205 00:13:26,875 --> 00:13:31,515 Speaker 1: redefinition of the premise, because this is about as POSTSCRIPTI 206 00:13:31,675 --> 00:13:35,795 Speaker 1: as you can get. But the response was so enthusiastic 207 00:13:35,835 --> 00:13:39,035 Speaker 1: and so surprising to yesterday's concluding segments in which I 208 00:13:39,115 --> 00:13:43,275 Speaker 1: dived into the big plastic banker's box in my closet 209 00:13:43,835 --> 00:13:48,115 Speaker 1: full of ancient, brittle audio cassettes and played stuff that 210 00:13:48,155 --> 00:13:51,875 Speaker 1: had not been heard by anybody else besides me since 211 00:13:52,115 --> 00:13:55,675 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven. Actually some of them were from nineteen 212 00:13:55,715 --> 00:13:59,475 Speaker 1: seventy nine. Anyway, the response has implied that maybe during 213 00:13:59,595 --> 00:14:03,235 Speaker 1: slow news or my semi vacation days, and I mean 214 00:14:03,355 --> 00:14:06,915 Speaker 1: like a couple of the a year or at worse 215 00:14:06,955 --> 00:14:09,715 Speaker 1: a month, I'm not doing this every week. It's worth 216 00:14:09,795 --> 00:14:12,915 Speaker 1: repriising some of this old stuff and some of the 217 00:14:12,955 --> 00:14:16,915 Speaker 1: amazing stories from my radio career which accompanied them. The 218 00:14:16,955 --> 00:14:19,395 Speaker 1: first thing you will hear today is from my stint 219 00:14:19,395 --> 00:14:22,835 Speaker 1: as the backup sportscast here at WNAW Radio in New York. 220 00:14:23,515 --> 00:14:25,875 Speaker 1: This was a legendary place when I got there in 221 00:14:25,955 --> 00:14:29,555 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty, the last of the big New York City 222 00:14:29,555 --> 00:14:34,515 Speaker 1: stations to broadcast from a literal ballroom with giant studios 223 00:14:34,555 --> 00:14:39,235 Speaker 1: two stories tall and drapes and room for studio audiences. 224 00:14:39,875 --> 00:14:42,235 Speaker 1: They had moved out of there by then. That was 225 00:14:42,275 --> 00:14:45,595 Speaker 1: on Fifth Avenue. They played big band music, and their 226 00:14:45,595 --> 00:14:48,955 Speaker 1: disc jockeys were legends who had succeeded other legends. Everybody 227 00:14:48,995 --> 00:14:54,635 Speaker 1: from Gene Rayburn later of Match Game, to Boris Karloff. 228 00:14:55,275 --> 00:14:59,755 Speaker 1: Boris Karloff was at WNAW dish jockey in the nineteen fifties. No, 229 00:15:00,155 --> 00:15:04,475 Speaker 1: Here's Elvis Predator. The newscasters were legends too. If you've 230 00:15:04,515 --> 00:15:08,355 Speaker 1: ever seeing the film of Lee Harvey Oswald being shot, 231 00:15:08,835 --> 00:15:11,675 Speaker 1: the guy in the hat and the overcoat sticking out 232 00:15:11,755 --> 00:15:16,155 Speaker 1: his microphone and trying to interview Oswald as Jack Ruby 233 00:15:16,235 --> 00:15:19,275 Speaker 1: puts his gun out next to the guy, that man 234 00:15:19,315 --> 00:15:21,955 Speaker 1: in the hat with the microphone is Ike Pappus of 235 00:15:22,115 --> 00:15:25,555 Speaker 1: WNAW Radio in New York. That's how big a news 236 00:15:25,555 --> 00:15:30,195 Speaker 1: department they had. And one day WNAW took its boutique 237 00:15:30,235 --> 00:15:32,715 Speaker 1: FM station, which just was a clearer version of its 238 00:15:32,795 --> 00:15:36,235 Speaker 1: AM station, and they turned it into the greatest place 239 00:15:36,235 --> 00:15:39,395 Speaker 1: in the history of rock and roll radio. And when 240 00:15:39,435 --> 00:15:42,635 Speaker 1: I got there in nineteen eighty, WNAW broadcast the play 241 00:15:42,635 --> 00:15:45,035 Speaker 1: by play of the New York Giants, the New York Rangers, 242 00:15:45,075 --> 00:15:48,835 Speaker 1: the New York Knicks, the New York Cosmos. And I 243 00:15:48,955 --> 00:15:52,355 Speaker 1: got to work there because they were an affiliate of 244 00:15:52,395 --> 00:15:56,155 Speaker 1: the radio network run by United Press International UPI Audio 245 00:15:56,275 --> 00:16:01,355 Speaker 1: my first employers in retrospect. Doing the night sports shift 246 00:16:01,395 --> 00:16:05,515 Speaker 1: at UPI was exhausting. There was a sportscas every hour 247 00:16:05,555 --> 00:16:08,995 Speaker 1: between five forty five and ten forty five. Occasionally you 248 00:16:09,035 --> 00:16:11,595 Speaker 1: had to engineer. You had to play all the carts 249 00:16:11,635 --> 00:16:14,675 Speaker 1: and dial all the dials for the newscast. At the 250 00:16:14,675 --> 00:16:17,835 Speaker 1: top of the hour, if there was a breaking sports story, 251 00:16:17,875 --> 00:16:19,835 Speaker 1: you had to try to call somebody to record a 252 00:16:19,875 --> 00:16:22,915 Speaker 1: phone interview with them, or get a local reporter somewhere 253 00:16:22,915 --> 00:16:25,475 Speaker 1: to do an interview or file a report. Plus, if 254 00:16:25,515 --> 00:16:28,275 Speaker 1: some reporter called in from an afternoon game or a 255 00:16:28,355 --> 00:16:31,675 Speaker 1: night game that finished early, you had to handle, edit 256 00:16:31,755 --> 00:16:35,755 Speaker 1: and feed out the tape of player interviews. No digital editing, 257 00:16:35,795 --> 00:16:41,595 Speaker 1: mind you actual physical cutting and spicing. And then there 258 00:16:41,715 --> 00:16:46,155 Speaker 1: was the commentary my side two minutes of sports commentary 259 00:16:46,195 --> 00:16:48,915 Speaker 1: that was sent out to the one thousand stations that 260 00:16:49,035 --> 00:16:52,075 Speaker 1: paid for UPI audio. You had to get it done 261 00:16:52,115 --> 00:16:54,235 Speaker 1: before your shift was over. In between all those other 262 00:16:54,275 --> 00:16:56,315 Speaker 1: sports casts and all those other things you had to do. 263 00:16:56,355 --> 00:16:58,155 Speaker 1: You had to write it. Well, first you had to 264 00:16:58,195 --> 00:16:59,595 Speaker 1: think about it, then you had to write it, Then 265 00:16:59,635 --> 00:17:01,115 Speaker 1: you had to record it. Then you probably had to 266 00:17:01,195 --> 00:17:04,395 Speaker 1: edit it several times together. This was something that had 267 00:17:04,435 --> 00:17:08,195 Speaker 1: been started by the great UPI baseball columnist Milton Richmond, 268 00:17:08,595 --> 00:17:13,715 Speaker 1: whose print column was called, guess what my side. Milt 269 00:17:13,715 --> 00:17:17,835 Speaker 1: would just read his paper copy until about a minute 270 00:17:17,915 --> 00:17:20,715 Speaker 1: fifty five had passed, and then he'd say, I'm Milton 271 00:17:20,795 --> 00:17:23,675 Speaker 1: Richmond and that's my side, whether or not he had 272 00:17:23,715 --> 00:17:27,755 Speaker 1: actually made his point by then. Anyway, Milt soon got 273 00:17:27,795 --> 00:17:30,235 Speaker 1: tired of it, and knowing UPI, they probably paid him 274 00:17:30,235 --> 00:17:33,515 Speaker 1: an extra three dollars a year. But our stations, most 275 00:17:33,555 --> 00:17:37,675 Speaker 1: of whom were among America's smallest, wanted needed a two 276 00:17:37,675 --> 00:17:41,995 Speaker 1: minute sports commentary to run in the mornings. Soon my 277 00:17:42,235 --> 00:17:46,275 Speaker 1: side became the side of whoever was doing the night 278 00:17:46,315 --> 00:17:51,435 Speaker 1: shift at UPI Audio Sports me Jack Russell, Sam Rosen, 279 00:17:51,635 --> 00:17:57,155 Speaker 1: Peter Shack, Noow, Bruce McGowan, Mike Allibaugh, whoever. And it 280 00:17:57,235 --> 00:18:00,315 Speaker 1: was traditional stuff. The Cowboys are the best team in football. 281 00:18:00,995 --> 00:18:03,195 Speaker 1: Sports leagues need to figure out a way to use 282 00:18:03,235 --> 00:18:06,075 Speaker 1: TV replays to get back. I had calls right, And 283 00:18:06,195 --> 00:18:09,195 Speaker 1: of course, how dare cashus Clay try to change his name? 284 00:18:10,275 --> 00:18:13,355 Speaker 1: I did not do that one. I usually did four 285 00:18:13,435 --> 00:18:15,435 Speaker 1: or five of these commentaries a week, and I got 286 00:18:15,515 --> 00:18:18,875 Speaker 1: tired of these fast. So even though I had no 287 00:18:19,115 --> 00:18:22,475 Speaker 1: time to try to make them creative, I tried to 288 00:18:22,475 --> 00:18:25,795 Speaker 1: make them creative. I in fact, started to do wacky ones. 289 00:18:26,235 --> 00:18:29,035 Speaker 1: I would save the tapes of the weird comments that 290 00:18:29,115 --> 00:18:31,715 Speaker 1: our stringer reporters would feed in, and soon I had 291 00:18:31,715 --> 00:18:35,315 Speaker 1: a running series of my sides about how often athletes 292 00:18:35,515 --> 00:18:39,435 Speaker 1: used the verbal crutch you know, in their answers hell 293 00:18:39,515 --> 00:18:41,955 Speaker 1: that got me written up in Sports Illustrated once, back 294 00:18:41,955 --> 00:18:44,075 Speaker 1: when that was a big deal and they paid you 295 00:18:44,195 --> 00:18:46,675 Speaker 1: fifty dollars for it and my rent was four to 296 00:18:46,755 --> 00:18:50,675 Speaker 1: ninety a month. One night I devoted my side to 297 00:18:50,715 --> 00:18:54,435 Speaker 1: a collection of weird things that hockey players said. I've 298 00:18:54,475 --> 00:18:57,515 Speaker 1: mentioned here once, and the tape exists somewhere. I've got 299 00:18:57,515 --> 00:19:00,675 Speaker 1: to find it. That the late legend Bobby Hull once 300 00:19:00,755 --> 00:19:04,555 Speaker 1: answered my nostalgic question by saying, oh, that's in the past. 301 00:19:04,915 --> 00:19:08,475 Speaker 1: Never mind the past, we're here in the future now, 302 00:19:09,355 --> 00:19:13,395 Speaker 1: which still freaks me out. I did one long piece 303 00:19:13,395 --> 00:19:15,715 Speaker 1: about the NHL team they used to have in Quebec City, 304 00:19:15,915 --> 00:19:19,395 Speaker 1: suddenly saying they would make public address announcements only in French, 305 00:19:19,555 --> 00:19:22,795 Speaker 1: no English. So I took seven years of schoolboy French 306 00:19:23,155 --> 00:19:27,035 Speaker 1: and tried to provide helpful translations for English speaking fans 307 00:19:27,355 --> 00:19:31,395 Speaker 1: who got stuck at the Quebec Nordiqe game translations of 308 00:19:31,395 --> 00:19:33,955 Speaker 1: such phrases as do not punch me, mister left wing. 309 00:19:34,075 --> 00:19:36,075 Speaker 1: I am not the fan who threw the miniature Stanley 310 00:19:36,115 --> 00:19:39,315 Speaker 1: cup at you. I'll spare you the schoolboy French ah 311 00:19:39,395 --> 00:19:41,755 Speaker 1: to hell with it. Should have a flafe pas monsieur 312 00:19:41,835 --> 00:19:46,395 Speaker 1: l'alier edwatch since we paal spectator kilansavu lakoup de Stanley miniature. 313 00:19:47,475 --> 00:19:51,435 Speaker 1: And yes, some of the fractured French was deliberate, some 314 00:19:51,555 --> 00:19:55,235 Speaker 1: of it. Anyway, One day when I got into work, 315 00:19:55,275 --> 00:19:57,595 Speaker 1: there was a letter waiting for me in the office 316 00:19:57,675 --> 00:20:00,995 Speaker 1: and the return address was Andy Fisher, Robin Sagan, and 317 00:20:01,075 --> 00:20:05,515 Speaker 1: Tom Morrera of w on WFM. Andy and Robin were 318 00:20:05,635 --> 00:20:09,075 Speaker 1: the newscasters and Tom was the overnight disc jockey, and 319 00:20:09,115 --> 00:20:11,875 Speaker 1: they had heard one of the hockey pieces and they 320 00:20:11,995 --> 00:20:16,955 Speaker 1: enjoyed it so much that on his earliest newscast on WAWFM, 321 00:20:17,315 --> 00:20:19,995 Speaker 1: which I think was at four forty five in the morning, 322 00:20:20,075 --> 00:20:23,075 Speaker 1: and he gave the headlines of the day and the weather, 323 00:20:23,355 --> 00:20:26,595 Speaker 1: and then played the entire two minute piece about the 324 00:20:26,595 --> 00:20:30,235 Speaker 1: hockey players. The letter from them was lovely, and they said, look, 325 00:20:30,235 --> 00:20:31,875 Speaker 1: if you ever want to come around and visit, we're 326 00:20:31,995 --> 00:20:34,555 Speaker 1: just around the corner. On the other hand, Tom leaves 327 00:20:34,595 --> 00:20:37,995 Speaker 1: the office at six am. Well, I took them up 328 00:20:38,035 --> 00:20:40,795 Speaker 1: on it. One night I did my UPI shift, ending 329 00:20:40,795 --> 00:20:43,595 Speaker 1: at eleven, and instead of hopping on the train to 330 00:20:43,715 --> 00:20:46,515 Speaker 1: go to my folks home in the Suburbs, I instead 331 00:20:46,515 --> 00:20:48,755 Speaker 1: had a lot of coffee and I hung around UPI 332 00:20:49,355 --> 00:20:52,475 Speaker 1: knocking off a couple of feature pieces and pre writing 333 00:20:52,515 --> 00:20:55,235 Speaker 1: a couple of more my sides. And then in the 334 00:20:55,275 --> 00:20:57,995 Speaker 1: middle of an April or early May night in the 335 00:20:58,115 --> 00:21:01,275 Speaker 1: Year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty, I walked 336 00:21:01,275 --> 00:21:03,875 Speaker 1: around the corner from UPI's office in the New York 337 00:21:03,955 --> 00:21:07,115 Speaker 1: Daily News build Bilding. You know the building. You saw 338 00:21:07,155 --> 00:21:09,675 Speaker 1: it if you ever saw the first Christopher Reeves Superman movie, 339 00:21:09,675 --> 00:21:12,635 Speaker 1: the one in the Big Planet in the lobby. I 340 00:21:12,675 --> 00:21:15,075 Speaker 1: did this at around three o'clock in the morning. Took 341 00:21:15,115 --> 00:21:17,635 Speaker 1: my life in my hands. They buzzed me in at 342 00:21:17,755 --> 00:21:20,235 Speaker 1: WNAW on Third Avenue, and I met Tom, and I 343 00:21:20,275 --> 00:21:22,915 Speaker 1: met Andy, and I did a commentary for them live 344 00:21:22,995 --> 00:21:26,315 Speaker 1: on WNAWFM, and then just hung out in the newsroom 345 00:21:26,355 --> 00:21:29,835 Speaker 1: with Andy and the AM news guys. And I was 346 00:21:29,875 --> 00:21:32,475 Speaker 1: just sitting there preparing to take the first morning train 347 00:21:32,555 --> 00:21:36,395 Speaker 1: home to my folks, which was I think six forty am. 348 00:21:37,795 --> 00:21:42,315 Speaker 1: It was about ten after five when a tall, extraordinarily 349 00:21:42,435 --> 00:21:45,155 Speaker 1: thin man with a bushy beard and a gleam in 350 00:21:45,195 --> 00:21:48,915 Speaker 1: his eye and a hello shouted in a deep Texas accent, 351 00:21:49,355 --> 00:21:53,115 Speaker 1: walked in and everybody in that newsroom said hi Sam. 352 00:21:54,035 --> 00:21:56,995 Speaker 1: And Sam looked at me funny and ducked into what 353 00:21:57,075 --> 00:22:00,195 Speaker 1: was evidently his office and then came out, walked over 354 00:22:00,195 --> 00:22:02,875 Speaker 1: to me and said you're a Olberman. Huh And I 355 00:22:02,915 --> 00:22:05,195 Speaker 1: said yes. He said, I'm Sam Hall. I'm the new director. 356 00:22:05,275 --> 00:22:07,835 Speaker 1: I want to make some per diem My sportscasters out 357 00:22:07,835 --> 00:22:12,275 Speaker 1: sick today. And I said sure. I mean you know 358 00:22:12,355 --> 00:22:15,195 Speaker 1: that phrase about right place, right time and all that terrific. 359 00:22:15,515 --> 00:22:18,995 Speaker 1: And Sam Hall said can you write fast? And I 360 00:22:19,035 --> 00:22:21,635 Speaker 1: said yeah, actually I can. It's my only skill. And 361 00:22:21,675 --> 00:22:24,235 Speaker 1: he laughed and I laughed, and he said, well, write 362 00:22:24,235 --> 00:22:26,195 Speaker 1: as much as you can. Your first sports cast is 363 00:22:26,195 --> 00:22:30,435 Speaker 1: at five thirty five. You're on in eight minutes. Well 364 00:22:30,475 --> 00:22:33,195 Speaker 1: I froze for a second. I shook his hand. I 365 00:22:33,195 --> 00:22:36,675 Speaker 1: found some wire copy and I started typing. I managed 366 00:22:36,715 --> 00:22:39,275 Speaker 1: somehow to call my folks and get about two minutes 367 00:22:39,275 --> 00:22:40,915 Speaker 1: of a show written and I woke them up and 368 00:22:40,915 --> 00:22:43,195 Speaker 1: I said, I'll be on WAW at five thirty five, 369 00:22:43,555 --> 00:22:46,275 Speaker 1: and then I hung up. I did the rest of 370 00:22:46,315 --> 00:22:48,115 Speaker 1: that shift that morning, and by the end of it, 371 00:22:48,155 --> 00:22:50,795 Speaker 1: Sam Hall had called me into his little office and said, listen, 372 00:22:51,235 --> 00:22:53,475 Speaker 1: my guy, John Kennelly misses a lot of work. His 373 00:22:53,555 --> 00:22:56,755 Speaker 1: wife's not well. Could you be the backup? I mean, 374 00:22:56,795 --> 00:22:58,515 Speaker 1: could you be the kind of backup we could call 375 00:22:58,555 --> 00:23:00,435 Speaker 1: at two am and you could be here by four. 376 00:23:01,235 --> 00:23:02,715 Speaker 1: I mean, I think it would work out to about 377 00:23:02,715 --> 00:23:06,475 Speaker 1: seventy five dollars a day union money. My full time 378 00:23:06,555 --> 00:23:11,155 Speaker 1: job at UPI was about seventy dollars a day. Sam, 379 00:23:11,235 --> 00:23:13,035 Speaker 1: I'll be moving into the city next month. I'll be 380 00:23:13,075 --> 00:23:18,475 Speaker 1: within walking distance, he smiled. Welcome aboard son. The next 381 00:23:18,555 --> 00:23:21,515 Speaker 1: day I went looking for an apartment in the city 382 00:23:22,035 --> 00:23:25,835 Speaker 1: within walking distance. I did not have one. I kind 383 00:23:25,835 --> 00:23:28,875 Speaker 1: of exaggerated. I do not have a tape of that 384 00:23:28,995 --> 00:23:33,515 Speaker 1: first hurried WNAW sportscast, but I have most of the others. 385 00:23:34,035 --> 00:23:37,195 Speaker 1: So here are a few and a few morsels from 386 00:23:37,355 --> 00:23:40,035 Speaker 1: my UPI days that I mentioned. Specifically, stuff I did 387 00:23:40,035 --> 00:23:42,315 Speaker 1: for the network from the nineteen eighty Winter Olympics in 388 00:23:42,395 --> 00:23:47,035 Speaker 1: Lake Placid New York. I'm still cold. The old CBS 389 00:23:47,075 --> 00:23:51,955 Speaker 1: mock history series was called you Were There. This series, 390 00:23:51,995 --> 00:23:55,835 Speaker 1: I think should be called I was there. 391 00:23:56,275 --> 00:23:59,355 Speaker 2: Good Morning. I'm Keith Olberman, Canalio with a goal and 392 00:23:59,435 --> 00:24:01,555 Speaker 2: an assist a Cosmo's out of their slump after a 393 00:24:01,595 --> 00:24:04,075 Speaker 2: three to one win over the Sounders last night at Cosmo's, 394 00:24:04,115 --> 00:24:06,955 Speaker 2: a Giants rather and Cincinnati, Jeff reard And gave up 395 00:24:06,955 --> 00:24:08,795 Speaker 2: a ninth inning homer to Ken Griffey, and the Mets 396 00:24:08,835 --> 00:24:10,475 Speaker 2: lost to the Reds four to three. Mets are at 397 00:24:10,475 --> 00:24:13,315 Speaker 2: Houston tonight and at Yankee Stadium, another one of those 398 00:24:13,435 --> 00:24:17,795 Speaker 2: Yankee Royals pitchers duels Casey fourteen the Yankees three. But 399 00:24:17,875 --> 00:24:19,955 Speaker 2: manager Dick Howser isn't worried about a repeat of the 400 00:24:19,995 --> 00:24:23,035 Speaker 2: past weekend. If the Yanks and Royals meet in the playoffs. 401 00:24:22,555 --> 00:24:23,915 Speaker 5: Series doesn't mean anything to me. 402 00:24:24,115 --> 00:24:26,795 Speaker 2: Now, Howser will have more to say, and we'll answer 403 00:24:26,795 --> 00:24:29,555 Speaker 2: the question. How hot was it at Yankee Stadium yesterday? 404 00:24:29,795 --> 00:24:32,275 Speaker 2: On the Sports reported at about a thirty five And that 405 00:24:32,275 --> 00:24:33,715 Speaker 2: man's name is Keith Olberman. 406 00:24:33,835 --> 00:24:37,075 Speaker 1: Now, how hot was it at Yankee Stadium? Bob Harris got. 407 00:24:36,995 --> 00:24:39,115 Speaker 4: To figure about one hundred and ten to one hundred 408 00:24:39,115 --> 00:24:42,675 Speaker 4: and twelve degrees in the outfield in the noonday sun. 409 00:24:43,275 --> 00:24:46,155 Speaker 1: The news has been brought to you by Alan Carpett. 410 00:24:46,315 --> 00:24:47,515 Speaker 1: I'm Bob Hayden. 411 00:24:47,315 --> 00:24:52,595 Speaker 4: And now wvlendy W's Sports un commentary with John kennerley Man. 412 00:24:52,675 --> 00:24:56,075 Speaker 2: Good Morning, John continues on vacation, I'm Keith Olberman. So 413 00:24:56,315 --> 00:24:59,515 Speaker 2: maybe the Cosmos didn't beat Philadelphia or Detroit last week, 414 00:24:59,555 --> 00:25:01,155 Speaker 2: You'd never have guessed they were in any kind of 415 00:25:01,195 --> 00:25:03,795 Speaker 2: slump the way they beat league leading Seattle last night 416 00:25:03,995 --> 00:25:07,315 Speaker 2: despite one of and twelve degree on field temperatures. The 417 00:25:07,395 --> 00:25:10,195 Speaker 2: Cosmos won three to one at Giant Stadium. Can Ayo 418 00:25:10,315 --> 00:25:12,155 Speaker 2: the goal and an assistant moved back in the first 419 00:25:12,155 --> 00:25:14,595 Speaker 2: place in the scoring race. Next up for the Cosmos 420 00:25:14,595 --> 00:25:17,675 Speaker 2: Wednesday night at Giants Stadium against San Diego. The Mets 421 00:25:17,675 --> 00:25:19,875 Speaker 2: are in Houston right now, resting up for their opener 422 00:25:19,915 --> 00:25:22,835 Speaker 2: with the Astros tonight. John Fasela and Ken Force the 423 00:25:22,915 --> 00:25:25,835 Speaker 2: likely pitchers. You hope a ball game like yesterday's won't 424 00:25:25,875 --> 00:25:27,835 Speaker 2: take too much out of these kids. They storm back 425 00:25:27,915 --> 00:25:30,315 Speaker 2: to storm back to ty Cincinnati when Mazzilli hit his 426 00:25:30,395 --> 00:25:32,915 Speaker 2: thirteenth homer in the eighth, with Flynn on and then 427 00:25:32,995 --> 00:25:35,035 Speaker 2: Jeff reard And gives up a game winning homer with 428 00:25:35,075 --> 00:25:37,875 Speaker 2: two out on the ninth to Ken Griffy. Joe Torrey says, 429 00:25:37,875 --> 00:25:40,075 Speaker 2: if it had to be anybody, he's not mad that 430 00:25:40,115 --> 00:25:40,755 Speaker 2: it was Griffy. 431 00:25:40,995 --> 00:25:42,795 Speaker 3: Things happened. You know, he tried to make a pitch 432 00:25:42,835 --> 00:25:45,075 Speaker 3: and he didn't know it hit the location he wanted. 433 00:25:45,115 --> 00:25:48,635 Speaker 3: And he'll never be embarrassed when you beat the play 434 00:25:48,635 --> 00:25:50,395 Speaker 3: a home run from Ken Griffy. You know, I'm going 435 00:25:50,475 --> 00:25:53,515 Speaker 3: to shorten the All Star Game. And yeah, yeah, I 436 00:25:53,555 --> 00:25:55,355 Speaker 3: felt we were pretty fortunate to be able to tie 437 00:25:55,395 --> 00:25:57,555 Speaker 3: the score. That was you know, they didn't have more runs. 438 00:25:57,595 --> 00:25:59,675 Speaker 3: We had great relief pitching and great pitching when we 439 00:25:59,715 --> 00:26:02,035 Speaker 3: needed it to get out of innings, and you know, 440 00:26:02,075 --> 00:26:03,635 Speaker 3: I thought, once we tied it, we're going to win it. 441 00:26:03,675 --> 00:26:06,875 Speaker 2: But then came Grippy's homer. Toy's club now six and 442 00:26:06,915 --> 00:26:09,035 Speaker 2: a half out. The Pirates are in first after splitting 443 00:26:09,075 --> 00:26:11,275 Speaker 2: a doubleheader with the Dodgers, losing the first four to two, 444 00:26:11,595 --> 00:26:14,475 Speaker 2: winning the nightcap eight to seven. The Expos lost at 445 00:26:14,515 --> 00:26:16,835 Speaker 2: Houston four to three, so the Astros go back into 446 00:26:16,875 --> 00:26:19,075 Speaker 2: first in the West. It was the Cards two sent 447 00:26:19,155 --> 00:26:21,435 Speaker 2: Francisco one the Braves over the Phillies three to two 448 00:26:21,675 --> 00:26:25,395 Speaker 2: at Chicago, topping San Diego six nothing. How hot was 449 00:26:25,395 --> 00:26:28,715 Speaker 2: it at Yankee Stadium yesterday afternoon? It was so hot. 450 00:26:28,715 --> 00:26:30,315 Speaker 2: When Dick Howser went out to the mound to take 451 00:26:30,395 --> 00:26:32,235 Speaker 2: Ron Gidry out in the second inning, he wore his 452 00:26:32,315 --> 00:26:35,115 Speaker 2: bestest suit. It was so hot. After the game, I 453 00:26:35,115 --> 00:26:38,075 Speaker 2: saw the Royals being poured into their team bus. It 454 00:26:38,155 --> 00:26:41,075 Speaker 2: was so hot. But seriously, the Royals were what was 455 00:26:41,115 --> 00:26:43,835 Speaker 2: hot yesterday. They won fourteen to three. As game time 456 00:26:43,875 --> 00:26:47,315 Speaker 2: temperatures hit ninety eight degrees at the stadium. Gidrey shelled 457 00:26:47,355 --> 00:26:50,875 Speaker 2: for seven in less than two winnings. His confidence definitely shaken. 458 00:26:51,315 --> 00:26:53,395 Speaker 2: How about the Yankees confidence that they could beat the 459 00:26:53,475 --> 00:26:56,475 Speaker 2: Royals in the playoffs. Dick Howser still seems pretty sure 460 00:26:56,515 --> 00:26:57,115 Speaker 2: of his club. 461 00:26:57,555 --> 00:26:59,475 Speaker 5: We might have a shade more power, they might hit 462 00:26:59,475 --> 00:27:01,275 Speaker 5: for a little better average, but I think our pitching 463 00:27:01,315 --> 00:27:02,995 Speaker 5: is better and they have more speed. And we'll just 464 00:27:03,035 --> 00:27:05,875 Speaker 5: when we lock horns if we do see it was 465 00:27:05,875 --> 00:27:08,035 Speaker 5: the best club then. But a series doesn't mean anything 466 00:27:08,075 --> 00:27:11,435 Speaker 5: to me. Now. Gedri's gonna pitch against him aginn in 467 00:27:11,515 --> 00:27:13,835 Speaker 5: Kansas City, and we'll see what happens then. 468 00:27:14,155 --> 00:27:16,715 Speaker 2: Also key what happens this week is the Brewers come 469 00:27:16,755 --> 00:27:19,395 Speaker 2: to town for what could be the last important series 470 00:27:19,435 --> 00:27:22,315 Speaker 2: of the Eastern Race four games. Brewers currently trail Yanks 471 00:27:22,315 --> 00:27:25,515 Speaker 2: by eight and a half. Mike Caldwell against Tom Underwood tonight. 472 00:27:25,915 --> 00:27:28,475 Speaker 2: Milwaukee won yesterday seven to six over the White Sox. 473 00:27:28,515 --> 00:27:31,115 Speaker 2: It was Texas seven and Baltimore one twins over the 474 00:27:31,155 --> 00:27:33,635 Speaker 2: Red Sox five to four. Blue Jays beat the Angels 475 00:27:33,635 --> 00:27:36,315 Speaker 2: six three in ten Detroit over Seattle five to two 476 00:27:36,315 --> 00:27:39,795 Speaker 2: in Oakland Stock Cleveland sixty five. That one took fourteen innings. 477 00:27:40,155 --> 00:27:42,515 Speaker 2: Only three Americans had ever won the British Open, three 478 00:27:42,555 --> 00:27:45,155 Speaker 2: times each. They were Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones and Jack 479 00:27:45,235 --> 00:27:48,035 Speaker 2: Nicholas Well. You can add Tom Watson's name to that list. 480 00:27:48,075 --> 00:27:50,715 Speaker 2: Watson by four yesterday at Meerfield to beat Lee Trevino 481 00:27:50,795 --> 00:27:53,795 Speaker 2: for the title. In Jersey. Yesterday, in the weekly light 482 00:27:53,835 --> 00:27:57,395 Speaker 2: Heavyweight title bout, Eddie Mustapha Muhammad no relation to Matthew 483 00:27:57,475 --> 00:28:00,235 Speaker 2: Sad Muhammad knocked out Jerry Martin no relation to Billy 484 00:28:00,275 --> 00:28:02,915 Speaker 2: Martin at two to ten of the tenth round. Mastafa 485 00:28:02,955 --> 00:28:06,075 Speaker 2: maintains the WBA crown in the vision that Sports for 486 00:28:06,155 --> 00:28:11,675 Speaker 2: John Kennelly on Keith Olberman on the Ted Brown Show. 487 00:28:14,395 --> 00:28:17,235 Speaker 2: The Rangers season ended in April. Some say it ended 488 00:28:17,275 --> 00:28:19,835 Speaker 2: last October, but they're the Islander fans. Who cares what 489 00:28:19,875 --> 00:28:23,115 Speaker 2: they say? Anyway, It's been three months since Freddy the fog. 490 00:28:23,195 --> 00:28:25,755 Speaker 2: Shiro has clouded up the Big Apple. But there he 491 00:28:25,875 --> 00:28:27,995 Speaker 2: was at the Garden news conference Tuesday, the one at 492 00:28:27,995 --> 00:28:30,875 Speaker 2: which Craig Patrick got the job as director of Operations, 493 00:28:31,075 --> 00:28:33,275 Speaker 2: the one at which the Ranger management structure took on 494 00:28:33,315 --> 00:28:36,355 Speaker 2: all the clarity of the government of Iran. The subject 495 00:28:36,435 --> 00:28:40,235 Speaker 2: was assistant coach Mike Nikoluk, the methods, circular logic. The 496 00:28:40,355 --> 00:28:43,035 Speaker 2: question to Shiro, what's the story with Nikoluk? Will he 497 00:28:43,115 --> 00:28:44,035 Speaker 2: be back this fall? 498 00:28:44,475 --> 00:28:46,795 Speaker 6: I sent him a cable Graham to Switzerland a couple 499 00:28:46,795 --> 00:28:50,555 Speaker 6: of days ago, saying that I have accepted the fact 500 00:28:50,595 --> 00:28:54,595 Speaker 6: that he wished to quit and stay out of hockey, 501 00:28:55,595 --> 00:28:59,075 Speaker 6: and I haven't heard any further on the subject. 502 00:28:59,115 --> 00:29:02,075 Speaker 2: Then a reporter said, Nikoluk told him he'd never resigned. 503 00:29:02,315 --> 00:29:04,995 Speaker 6: He never said resigned to me, he said quit, But he. 504 00:29:04,955 --> 00:29:06,635 Speaker 2: Told you he was quitting. Did he give you a 505 00:29:06,715 --> 00:29:07,635 Speaker 2: letter of resignation? 506 00:29:07,715 --> 00:29:11,835 Speaker 6: Nobody has a letter of resignation from him. I just 507 00:29:11,915 --> 00:29:13,795 Speaker 6: happen to read the words in the paper one day. 508 00:29:13,915 --> 00:29:16,995 Speaker 2: Yeah, but Fred, you're Freddie Schiro, scourge of newspaper men. 509 00:29:17,075 --> 00:29:18,955 Speaker 2: You've never been one to rely on some words in 510 00:29:18,995 --> 00:29:19,715 Speaker 2: the paper, right. 511 00:29:20,435 --> 00:29:22,555 Speaker 6: I think we'll take a lot of things into consideration, 512 00:29:22,715 --> 00:29:24,235 Speaker 6: not just one write them. 513 00:29:24,635 --> 00:29:26,835 Speaker 2: We had better stop now before damage is done to 514 00:29:26,835 --> 00:29:30,915 Speaker 2: the delicate tissues in our brains. For WAWFM, I'm Keith Oberman. 515 00:29:31,195 --> 00:29:33,155 Speaker 2: And while it is too early in the morning for sports, 516 00:29:33,195 --> 00:29:36,075 Speaker 2: it is definitely too early in the morning for Fred Shiro. 517 00:29:38,795 --> 00:29:41,315 Speaker 2: They went wild in the streets with America's gold medal 518 00:29:41,315 --> 00:29:43,635 Speaker 2: in hockey, shouts of We're number one, the singing of 519 00:29:43,675 --> 00:29:47,355 Speaker 2: the national anthem, Chance of USA USA, and after the 520 00:29:47,395 --> 00:29:49,835 Speaker 2: gold was one, one fan was awfully glad he had 521 00:29:49,875 --> 00:29:52,715 Speaker 2: not followed through on an idea to scalp his tickets. 522 00:29:52,915 --> 00:29:53,675 Speaker 1: I thought about it. 523 00:29:53,755 --> 00:29:56,595 Speaker 2: I thought, if somebody'd offer me two hundred dollars a 524 00:29:56,595 --> 00:29:57,915 Speaker 2: piece for them, I would sell them. 525 00:29:57,915 --> 00:30:00,915 Speaker 4: But I'm glad it didn't. What is your reaction now 526 00:30:00,955 --> 00:30:03,155 Speaker 4: with the wind, Oh my gracious, I wouldn't have missed 527 00:30:03,155 --> 00:30:03,755 Speaker 4: it for the world. 528 00:30:03,915 --> 00:30:05,475 Speaker 2: See this game. You never have to see another game 529 00:30:05,515 --> 00:30:08,075 Speaker 2: in the rest of your life, the biggest born up 530 00:30:08,115 --> 00:30:11,275 Speaker 2: set in twenty years, Steam of destiny. The postgame celebrations 531 00:30:11,275 --> 00:30:13,635 Speaker 2: spilled over from the Olympics Center area to the streets 532 00:30:13,635 --> 00:30:16,395 Speaker 2: of Lake Placid. The thousands of celebrants showing no ill 533 00:30:16,395 --> 00:30:19,795 Speaker 2: effects of having done this twice in three days. Keith Oberman, 534 00:30:19,955 --> 00:30:25,595 Speaker 2: Lake Placid, stunning the packed Olympics Center crowd. The favorite 535 00:30:25,595 --> 00:30:28,955 Speaker 2: American team of time, Babylonia and Randy Gardner, have withdrawn 536 00:30:28,995 --> 00:30:32,315 Speaker 2: from the pairs figure skating competition due to injury. Gardner 537 00:30:32,315 --> 00:30:34,475 Speaker 2: had been receiving treatment for a muscle pull and he's 538 00:30:34,515 --> 00:30:37,315 Speaker 2: growing all day. He fell twice during the warm ups 539 00:30:37,315 --> 00:30:39,555 Speaker 2: before the start of the event, and after testing his 540 00:30:39,635 --> 00:30:43,555 Speaker 2: injury briefly on ice, he and Babylonia skated off. Shortly after, 541 00:30:43,595 --> 00:30:46,275 Speaker 2: a representative of the US team walked across ice to 542 00:30:46,315 --> 00:30:49,555 Speaker 2: the referee to announce the withdrawal. And so the current 543 00:30:49,595 --> 00:30:52,995 Speaker 2: defending world champions are out of the Olympic pairs competition. 544 00:30:53,395 --> 00:30:56,195 Speaker 2: Years of practice and patients coming to naught for Ti 545 00:30:56,275 --> 00:31:00,115 Speaker 2: Babylonia and Randy Gardner Keith Oberman at the Olympics Center. 546 00:31:01,195 --> 00:31:03,595 Speaker 4: Joy turned to sadness in a matter of minutes for 547 00:31:03,595 --> 00:31:06,755 Speaker 4: the United States on Friday. After winning two medals, a 548 00:31:06,875 --> 00:31:09,315 Speaker 4: silver and a gold, and doing surprisingly well in the 549 00:31:09,355 --> 00:31:12,195 Speaker 4: men's two man Bob's led us hopes for a gold 550 00:31:12,235 --> 00:31:15,595 Speaker 4: medal and the pair's figure skating competition were shattered when 551 00:31:15,595 --> 00:31:18,755 Speaker 4: the team of Randy Gardner and tie Babylonia had to withdraw. 552 00:31:19,155 --> 00:31:21,955 Speaker 4: Keith Olberman was at the Olympic Center when the announcement 553 00:31:21,955 --> 00:31:23,235 Speaker 4: of the withdrawal was made. 554 00:31:23,395 --> 00:31:25,635 Speaker 2: First hint came during the warm ups before the pairs 555 00:31:25,675 --> 00:31:29,115 Speaker 2: competition began. Randy Gardner fell twice, and after he and 556 00:31:29,155 --> 00:31:32,315 Speaker 2: ty Babylonia came on ice before their skating turn, Gardner 557 00:31:32,355 --> 00:31:35,115 Speaker 2: determined he could not perform, and the pair withdrew due 558 00:31:35,115 --> 00:31:37,835 Speaker 2: to injury. Gardner had been receiving treatment all day for 559 00:31:37,915 --> 00:31:40,075 Speaker 2: a muscle pull in his groin. The news of the 560 00:31:40,115 --> 00:31:42,715 Speaker 2: withdrawal shock to packed house at the Olympic Center and 561 00:31:42,795 --> 00:31:45,155 Speaker 2: left the Americans without a strong pair of candidates for 562 00:31:45,195 --> 00:31:45,595 Speaker 2: a medal. 563 00:31:45,955 --> 00:31:48,995 Speaker 4: Coach John Nick said there was no way Gardner could skate. 564 00:31:49,155 --> 00:31:51,355 Speaker 1: He missed three things. 565 00:31:53,595 --> 00:31:56,595 Speaker 2: Imagine if you will being transported to another planet. On 566 00:31:56,675 --> 00:31:59,195 Speaker 2: this planet, which is very similar to our own, you 567 00:31:59,235 --> 00:32:00,915 Speaker 2: are not allowed to drive a car, but there is 568 00:32:00,915 --> 00:32:03,795 Speaker 2: nothing within walking distance. No matter where you are on 569 00:32:03,835 --> 00:32:05,875 Speaker 2: this planet. There are are a million things you must 570 00:32:05,875 --> 00:32:09,195 Speaker 2: find out immediately, and there are a million people authorized 571 00:32:09,235 --> 00:32:11,075 Speaker 2: to tell you. Yet when you ask one of them, 572 00:32:11,115 --> 00:32:14,795 Speaker 2: they always say, I don't know. On this strange planet, 573 00:32:14,835 --> 00:32:17,715 Speaker 2: everyone wears heavy and sometimes absurd clothing. But the natives say, 574 00:32:17,715 --> 00:32:20,915 Speaker 2: it's almost like summer. Got the picture. Well, this is 575 00:32:20,955 --> 00:32:23,675 Speaker 2: the culture shock. Hundreds of reporters and thousands of fans 576 00:32:23,675 --> 00:32:26,475 Speaker 2: are going through right now. Welcome to Lake Placid for 577 00:32:26,475 --> 00:32:29,115 Speaker 2: the nineteen eighty Winter Olympics. I speak to you from 578 00:32:29,155 --> 00:32:31,315 Speaker 2: the bleachers next to the skating rink that the Heidens 579 00:32:31,315 --> 00:32:33,155 Speaker 2: and the Muellers will use in a couple of days, 580 00:32:33,315 --> 00:32:35,835 Speaker 2: and I speak of a remarkable event called the Winter Games, 581 00:32:35,875 --> 00:32:39,715 Speaker 2: an experience unto itself that almost defies description. Again, I 582 00:32:39,795 --> 00:32:42,075 Speaker 2: ask you to do a little imagining. See the high 583 00:32:42,075 --> 00:32:44,155 Speaker 2: school in your town, or better still, the town of 584 00:32:44,195 --> 00:32:47,355 Speaker 2: your youth. Imagine it shut down suddenly and changed overnight 585 00:32:47,395 --> 00:32:51,555 Speaker 2: into three floors of sheer madness, as the representatives of newspapers, magazines, 586 00:32:51,555 --> 00:32:54,075 Speaker 2: and radio and television companies from around the world take 587 00:32:54,115 --> 00:32:57,075 Speaker 2: over everything from the gym to the chemistry lab. Some 588 00:32:57,195 --> 00:32:59,635 Speaker 2: strange things happen here. You are standing next to a 589 00:32:59,635 --> 00:33:02,235 Speaker 2: press representative of the Olympic Committee when he receives an 590 00:33:02,275 --> 00:33:05,435 Speaker 2: important note from an assistant, Call your wife at once, 591 00:33:05,475 --> 00:33:07,915 Speaker 2: it reads. The press representative looks at you with a 592 00:33:07,955 --> 00:33:11,955 Speaker 2: dumbfounded stair and says, but I'm not married. Reporters looking 593 00:33:11,995 --> 00:33:14,355 Speaker 2: to see the trial runs on Whiteface Mountain are sent 594 00:33:14,435 --> 00:33:16,315 Speaker 2: halfway up the slope on a ski lift, and then 595 00:33:16,355 --> 00:33:19,075 Speaker 2: they must tumble walk, slide, and shiver halfway down again 596 00:33:19,155 --> 00:33:21,955 Speaker 2: to the finish line. At every turn somebody asks you 597 00:33:21,995 --> 00:33:25,115 Speaker 2: for a pin. A pin, You say, you know somebody's 598 00:33:25,115 --> 00:33:27,595 Speaker 2: official Olympic pin. There was this girl who got on 599 00:33:27,595 --> 00:33:29,675 Speaker 2: one of the press buses where a hat literally covered 600 00:33:29,675 --> 00:33:33,435 Speaker 2: with pins, Team pins, sports pins, sporting good manufacturers pins, 601 00:33:33,475 --> 00:33:36,035 Speaker 2: press pins. The pin appears to be as important to 602 00:33:36,035 --> 00:33:38,475 Speaker 2: the average reporter or fan as the results of the 603 00:33:38,515 --> 00:33:42,275 Speaker 2: women's Giant slalom. Officials charged with letting authorized persons in 604 00:33:42,315 --> 00:33:45,155 Speaker 2: and with keeping unauthorized persons out sometimes miss their duty 605 00:33:45,155 --> 00:33:47,835 Speaker 2: while negotiating the trade of a Polish hockey pin for 606 00:33:47,875 --> 00:33:50,155 Speaker 2: the pin of a German news agency. This is a 607 00:33:50,195 --> 00:33:52,995 Speaker 2: weird plant at this Lake Placid and it's only just started. 608 00:33:53,115 --> 00:33:55,955 Speaker 2: Who knows what pin will turn up next. I'm Keith 609 00:33:55,955 --> 00:33:58,395 Speaker 2: Oberman and from Lake Placid. That's my side. 610 00:34:04,435 --> 00:34:08,035 Speaker 1: So as a reminder, let me close this time with 611 00:34:08,155 --> 00:34:11,795 Speaker 1: where this thing started. As I said before, the great 612 00:34:11,835 --> 00:34:15,795 Speaker 1: thing about podcasts is the metrics. I do not have 613 00:34:15,915 --> 00:34:20,075 Speaker 1: to just believe that the TV ratings are correct, that 614 00:34:20,155 --> 00:34:24,275 Speaker 1: they really are accurate extrapolations from I don't know two 615 00:34:24,315 --> 00:34:26,955 Speaker 1: thousand selective viewers across the country who are supposed to 616 00:34:26,955 --> 00:34:30,595 Speaker 1: represent every possible person composed of every possible demographic, and 617 00:34:30,675 --> 00:34:34,355 Speaker 1: everybody in every one demographic watches the same thing. I 618 00:34:34,435 --> 00:34:37,475 Speaker 1: just go to this website and there it is the 619 00:34:37,515 --> 00:34:40,955 Speaker 1: record of everybody who listened to this, not by name, 620 00:34:41,035 --> 00:34:44,595 Speaker 1: but just how many of them actually downloaded each episode, 621 00:34:45,355 --> 00:34:48,435 Speaker 1: and the growth of this podcast indicates that around half 622 00:34:48,475 --> 00:34:52,675 Speaker 1: of all of today's regular listeners did not hear the 623 00:34:52,715 --> 00:34:55,475 Speaker 1: first edition when we published it at three am Eastern 624 00:34:55,555 --> 00:34:59,795 Speaker 1: daylight time on August one, twenty twenty two, after a 625 00:34:59,795 --> 00:35:02,595 Speaker 1: weekend in which I actually learned how to use the equipment, 626 00:35:03,155 --> 00:35:06,595 Speaker 1: even though the lapt I was using it on crashed 627 00:35:06,675 --> 00:35:12,195 Speaker 1: and burned thirty three hours before posting. So this from 628 00:35:12,355 --> 00:35:16,675 Speaker 1: August first Episode one is a little wacky of a 629 00:35:16,715 --> 00:35:20,195 Speaker 1: way to start, but I think it's still kind of 630 00:35:20,195 --> 00:35:24,315 Speaker 1: on point. I don't have to tell you things are bad. 631 00:35:24,875 --> 00:35:28,315 Speaker 1: Everybody knows things are bad. It's a recession. Everybody goes 632 00:35:28,355 --> 00:35:30,475 Speaker 1: to work, but they're still scared of losing their job. 633 00:35:30,795 --> 00:35:34,195 Speaker 1: The corporations make sure the dollar buys a Nicholsworth. Banks 634 00:35:34,235 --> 00:35:36,835 Speaker 1: are making record profits. Teachers are told to keep a 635 00:35:36,875 --> 00:35:39,915 Speaker 1: gun under the desk. Punks are running wild in Congress, 636 00:35:39,995 --> 00:35:41,955 Speaker 1: and there's nobody anywhere seems to know what to do, 637 00:35:41,995 --> 00:35:45,275 Speaker 1: and there's no end to it. We know the air 638 00:35:45,395 --> 00:35:48,155 Speaker 1: is unfit to breathe and our planet will be unfit 639 00:35:48,235 --> 00:35:51,155 Speaker 1: for life. And we sit watching our TVs while some 640 00:35:51,275 --> 00:35:54,555 Speaker 1: Fox newscaster tells us that today Trump is the real 641 00:35:54,635 --> 00:35:57,275 Speaker 1: victim and minorities are the real problem, as if that's 642 00:35:57,315 --> 00:36:00,435 Speaker 1: the way it's supposed to be. We all know things 643 00:36:00,475 --> 00:36:03,875 Speaker 1: are bad, worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything 644 00:36:03,875 --> 00:36:06,515 Speaker 1: everywhere is going so we don't go out anymore. We 645 00:36:06,595 --> 00:36:09,315 Speaker 1: have the Senate in the House, but slowly the democracy 646 00:36:09,355 --> 00:36:11,755 Speaker 1: we're living and is getting smaller, And all we say 647 00:36:11,795 --> 00:36:14,435 Speaker 1: is please at least leave us alone in our living rooms. 648 00:36:14,555 --> 00:36:17,475 Speaker 1: Let me have my president and my RBG Shrine and 649 00:36:17,555 --> 00:36:20,395 Speaker 1: my January sixth hearings, and I won't say anything. Just 650 00:36:20,555 --> 00:36:23,715 Speaker 1: leave us alone. Well, I'm not going to leave you alone. 651 00:36:23,795 --> 00:36:26,795 Speaker 1: I want you to get mad. I want you to protest. 652 00:36:26,835 --> 00:36:28,715 Speaker 1: I want you to strike. I want you to write 653 00:36:28,715 --> 00:36:30,675 Speaker 1: to your congressman, because you don't need me to tell 654 00:36:30,715 --> 00:36:32,795 Speaker 1: you what to write. You know what to do about 655 00:36:32,835 --> 00:36:35,115 Speaker 1: the recession and the inflation, and the Russians and the 656 00:36:35,195 --> 00:36:38,955 Speaker 1: Nazis in the street. All I know is first you've 657 00:36:38,995 --> 00:36:41,715 Speaker 1: got to get mad. You've got to say I'm a 658 00:36:41,795 --> 00:36:46,915 Speaker 1: human being. God damn it, my life has value. So 659 00:36:48,555 --> 00:36:50,715 Speaker 1: I want you to get up now. I want all 660 00:36:50,715 --> 00:36:52,875 Speaker 1: of you to get up and out of your chairs. 661 00:36:53,195 --> 00:36:55,195 Speaker 1: I want you to get up right now and go 662 00:36:55,235 --> 00:36:57,675 Speaker 1: to the window, open it and stick your head out 663 00:36:57,675 --> 00:37:00,475 Speaker 1: and yell, I'm as mad as hell and I'm not 664 00:37:00,515 --> 00:37:03,355 Speaker 1: gonna take Trump anymore. I want you to get up 665 00:37:03,395 --> 00:37:06,155 Speaker 1: right now, get up, go to your windows, open them, 666 00:37:06,315 --> 00:37:08,755 Speaker 1: and stick your head out and yell, I'm as mad 667 00:37:08,795 --> 00:37:12,035 Speaker 1: as hell and I'm not gonna take Trump anymore. Things 668 00:37:12,035 --> 00:37:15,155 Speaker 1: have got to change. But first you've got to get mad. 669 00:37:15,315 --> 00:37:17,475 Speaker 1: You've got to say I'm as mad as hell, and 670 00:37:17,555 --> 00:37:20,275 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna take Trump anymore. Then we'll figure out 671 00:37:20,315 --> 00:37:22,235 Speaker 1: what to do about the recession and the inflation and 672 00:37:22,315 --> 00:37:25,235 Speaker 1: the oil cartels. But first, get up out of your chairs, 673 00:37:25,475 --> 00:37:27,715 Speaker 1: open your windows, stick your head out, and yell and 674 00:37:27,755 --> 00:37:30,795 Speaker 1: say it. I'm as mad as Helen, I'm not gonna 675 00:37:30,795 --> 00:37:34,595 Speaker 1: take Trump anymore. The bote as hell take Trump anymore. 676 00:37:35,075 --> 00:37:37,075 Speaker 3: I am mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take 677 00:37:37,115 --> 00:37:37,835 Speaker 3: Trump anymore. 678 00:37:38,395 --> 00:37:44,675 Speaker 1: As who sorry, couldn't resist. And for the first time 679 00:37:44,715 --> 00:37:47,235 Speaker 1: in my life, even through the brutal years of Reagan 680 00:37:47,315 --> 00:37:50,795 Speaker 1: and even through the psychotic years of Bush, that famous 681 00:37:50,795 --> 00:37:53,915 Speaker 1: Howard Beal speech from the nineteen seventy six movie Network 682 00:37:53,955 --> 00:37:57,795 Speaker 1: seems to fit this moment, with some revisions. Of course, 683 00:37:57,995 --> 00:38:01,595 Speaker 1: the Beal character as portrayed by Peter Finch, and especially 684 00:38:01,635 --> 00:38:05,195 Speaker 1: that speech, and especially that catchphrase I'm as mad as 685 00:38:05,275 --> 00:38:08,115 Speaker 1: hell and I'm not going to take this anymore, spoke 686 00:38:08,195 --> 00:38:12,715 Speaker 1: to long before it became a cliche. This weird overlap 687 00:38:13,075 --> 00:38:15,955 Speaker 1: between somebody who is so enraged that he is angry 688 00:38:16,035 --> 00:38:19,755 Speaker 1: mad as hell and somebody who may be so insane 689 00:38:20,475 --> 00:38:23,835 Speaker 1: that he is crazy mad as hell. But there's also 690 00:38:23,915 --> 00:38:26,955 Speaker 1: a third subtext to it, which only occasionally gets mentioned 691 00:38:27,595 --> 00:38:30,635 Speaker 1: and only occasionally gets appreciated, And it is why beal 692 00:38:30,835 --> 00:38:35,315 Speaker 1: and mad as hell means something today. It's that line 693 00:38:35,315 --> 00:38:37,595 Speaker 1: towards the start. We all know things are bad. Worse 694 00:38:37,635 --> 00:38:42,355 Speaker 1: than bad, they're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy. 695 00:38:42,395 --> 00:38:45,715 Speaker 1: In short, it's like Howard Beale, representing all of us, 696 00:38:45,835 --> 00:38:49,355 Speaker 1: is going crazy because nobody else is when they should be. 697 00:38:50,315 --> 00:38:53,275 Speaker 1: If in school you had read that one hundred years ago, 698 00:38:53,355 --> 00:38:55,555 Speaker 1: or one hundred and fifty years ago, or whenever a 699 00:38:55,595 --> 00:38:59,315 Speaker 1: president of the United States fraudulently denied he lost the 700 00:38:59,355 --> 00:39:02,075 Speaker 1: election and tried to overturn it in the courts and 701 00:39:02,115 --> 00:39:04,395 Speaker 1: in the Congress, and it didn't work because it was 702 00:39:04,435 --> 00:39:08,395 Speaker 1: one big lie. So he invited gangs of thugs and 703 00:39:08,515 --> 00:39:12,275 Speaker 1: racists and gun suckers and militias to come to the 704 00:39:12,315 --> 00:39:16,635 Speaker 1: Capitol during the most boasted about part of American democracy, 705 00:39:16,795 --> 00:39:20,315 Speaker 1: the peaceful transfer of power, And having invited them, he 706 00:39:20,435 --> 00:39:24,355 Speaker 1: then incited them to try to overthrow the government by violence. 707 00:39:24,555 --> 00:39:27,235 Speaker 1: You would have expected to then have read about the 708 00:39:27,275 --> 00:39:30,715 Speaker 1: police and the military and the laws that stopped him, 709 00:39:30,915 --> 00:39:34,035 Speaker 1: and the arrests and the indictments and the lifetimes in 710 00:39:34,075 --> 00:39:39,675 Speaker 1: prison and the vengeance that followed. Hell, what precipitated the 711 00:39:39,715 --> 00:39:44,275 Speaker 1: Civil War if not eleven states trying to stop the 712 00:39:44,315 --> 00:39:48,315 Speaker 1: peaceful transfer of power because they didn't like who got elected. 713 00:39:49,235 --> 00:39:52,955 Speaker 1: We are supposed to do something about this. When a 714 00:39:53,075 --> 00:39:57,155 Speaker 1: large minority of Americans stood up and said only whites 715 00:39:57,275 --> 00:40:00,475 Speaker 1: are real people. And when they said we will use 716 00:40:00,555 --> 00:40:03,555 Speaker 1: the police to lynch black people. And when they said 717 00:40:03,595 --> 00:40:06,075 Speaker 1: guns settle every and when they said women are here 718 00:40:06,115 --> 00:40:08,155 Speaker 1: only to breed, and when they said we own the 719 00:40:08,195 --> 00:40:10,595 Speaker 1: Supreme Court now, and when they said we will not 720 00:40:10,715 --> 00:40:12,955 Speaker 1: teach history because we don't want children to know there's 721 00:40:12,955 --> 00:40:15,435 Speaker 1: a more righteous way. And when they said this is 722 00:40:15,515 --> 00:40:18,715 Speaker 1: our world, and you the majority. Your votes do not 723 00:40:18,955 --> 00:40:22,355 Speaker 1: count here. Your cities do not count here, Your lives 724 00:40:22,435 --> 00:40:25,355 Speaker 1: do not count here. Your president does not count here. 725 00:40:26,635 --> 00:40:30,675 Speaker 1: When all that happened within thirty nine days, our anger 726 00:40:30,755 --> 00:40:36,515 Speaker 1: and our vengeance democracies anger and vengeance began. It was 727 00:40:36,595 --> 00:40:41,875 Speaker 1: eighteen sixty one. But first you've got to get mad. 728 00:40:42,955 --> 00:40:46,155 Speaker 1: Today they have Trump and Schedule F and a plan 729 00:40:46,235 --> 00:40:52,195 Speaker 1: to impeach Biden for whatever, and they've already turned the 730 00:40:52,195 --> 00:40:57,155 Speaker 1: Supreme Court into the theocratic republican Supreme religious Court and 731 00:40:57,235 --> 00:41:00,235 Speaker 1: they've overturned abortion, and next will be marriage equality. And 732 00:41:00,275 --> 00:41:03,955 Speaker 1: they intend to investigate the January sixth committee members and 733 00:41:04,075 --> 00:41:06,995 Speaker 1: pardon everybody who actually attacked the capital, even though you 734 00:41:07,075 --> 00:41:09,075 Speaker 1: and I grew up presuming you know, if I attack 735 00:41:09,195 --> 00:41:13,875 Speaker 1: the capital during the peaceful transfer of power, I'm going 736 00:41:13,915 --> 00:41:16,395 Speaker 1: to guess they'll give me about five seconds to stop 737 00:41:16,475 --> 00:41:20,035 Speaker 1: before they start shooting at me. And they want to 738 00:41:20,075 --> 00:41:23,955 Speaker 1: put Fauci in prison, and their passing laws prosecuting doctors 739 00:41:24,155 --> 00:41:26,635 Speaker 1: and prosecuting women who leave a state to go to 740 00:41:26,675 --> 00:41:29,875 Speaker 1: another state for an abortion. In other words, they want 741 00:41:29,915 --> 00:41:33,955 Speaker 1: to prosecute women who leave a slave state to go 742 00:41:34,075 --> 00:41:38,075 Speaker 1: to a free state and bring them back to the 743 00:41:38,275 --> 00:41:43,275 Speaker 1: slave state. And they have a Fox News, and another 744 00:41:43,395 --> 00:41:47,675 Speaker 1: worse Fox News, and another worser even than that Fox News. 745 00:41:47,715 --> 00:41:52,315 Speaker 1: And what do we have? We have once a week 746 00:41:52,995 --> 00:41:57,035 Speaker 1: somebody who says we must find a compromise with them. 747 00:41:57,595 --> 00:42:01,475 Speaker 1: We must be bipartisan, we must be democrats and liberals 748 00:42:01,515 --> 00:42:05,755 Speaker 1: who act like Republicans and fascists and Nazis. We have 749 00:42:06,355 --> 00:42:13,555 Speaker 1: Joe Manchin, and for eighteen months, Joe Manchin has obstructed 750 00:42:13,595 --> 00:42:16,995 Speaker 1: all the good Joe Biden has tried to do, and 751 00:42:17,035 --> 00:42:19,635 Speaker 1: prevented all the emergency measures we must have to keep 752 00:42:19,635 --> 00:42:22,875 Speaker 1: the last words by the last humans surviving the climate 753 00:42:22,915 --> 00:42:27,275 Speaker 1: catastrophe on this planet from being as chairman of Excellent Mobile, 754 00:42:27,475 --> 00:42:31,435 Speaker 1: I want to report record profits for the year e 755 00:42:32,395 --> 00:42:38,195 Speaker 1: twenty fifty two. And when the bribe for Joe Manchin, 756 00:42:38,275 --> 00:42:42,995 Speaker 1: the Senator from fossil fuel gulch West Virginia, is finally 757 00:42:43,035 --> 00:42:46,395 Speaker 1: sufficient to his liking and he finally agrees with Chuck 758 00:42:46,435 --> 00:42:49,475 Speaker 1: Schumer on the seven hundred and forty billion dollar Climate 759 00:42:49,515 --> 00:42:52,995 Speaker 1: and Deficit Reduction Bill, what does he get? He gets 760 00:42:53,035 --> 00:42:57,635 Speaker 1: to go on all five network Sunday political television nitwitch 761 00:42:57,635 --> 00:43:04,155 Speaker 1: shows the proverbial full Ginsburg glory, Glory, hallelujah. It's Joe Manchin, 762 00:43:04,675 --> 00:43:11,635 Speaker 1: our lawgiver, the true Democrat. And yet Kirsten Cinema could 763 00:43:11,635 --> 00:43:15,355 Speaker 1: still kill the thing today and Joe Manchin would then 764 00:43:15,635 --> 00:43:19,595 Speaker 1: still look reasonable. By contrast, tomorrow, he'd still be the 765 00:43:19,635 --> 00:43:25,875 Speaker 1: hero who achieved nothing, and of all that cinema stuff 766 00:43:25,915 --> 00:43:30,835 Speaker 1: bothers you. I used to go out with her. We 767 00:43:30,915 --> 00:43:33,995 Speaker 1: all know things are bad. Worse than bad, they're crazy. 768 00:43:34,315 --> 00:43:40,315 Speaker 1: It's like everything everywhere has going crazy, even the fascists 769 00:43:40,315 --> 00:43:43,515 Speaker 1: who hate or fear Trump have something closer to a 770 00:43:43,555 --> 00:43:48,355 Speaker 1: plan than we do. This Town. Author Mark Leibovich quoted 771 00:43:48,395 --> 00:43:52,075 Speaker 1: a former Republican congressman is saying, quote, look, we have 772 00:43:52,195 --> 00:43:57,275 Speaker 1: no plan for this except sitting around hoping he dies, unquote, 773 00:43:57,875 --> 00:44:00,915 Speaker 1: which actually sounds like more of a plan than our plan. 774 00:44:01,475 --> 00:44:08,555 Speaker 1: Our plan make sure Democrats help the craziest Trump supporters 775 00:44:08,595 --> 00:44:12,915 Speaker 1: and election deniers. And it's not Iqanon, it's just q Andon. 776 00:44:13,275 --> 00:44:18,715 Speaker 1: Nutbags get nominated because we're confident we can beat them 777 00:44:18,915 --> 00:44:27,755 Speaker 1: right right, right this weekend, it will be nineteen months 778 00:44:27,955 --> 00:44:32,195 Speaker 1: since the coup. They have plans for more coups. A 779 00:44:32,235 --> 00:44:34,355 Speaker 1: coup in Washington, a coup in every state, a coup 780 00:44:34,395 --> 00:44:37,915 Speaker 1: in every county. Looks like they compromise the Secret Service 781 00:44:37,955 --> 00:44:41,155 Speaker 1: and it's still compromised. Looks like they compromise the inspector 782 00:44:41,235 --> 00:44:45,555 Speaker 1: General at Homeland Security. They've compromised half the cops in 783 00:44:45,595 --> 00:44:49,595 Speaker 1: this country, a little less, a little more. They've compromised, 784 00:44:49,715 --> 00:44:53,075 Speaker 1: as my hero's Bob Elliott Ray Goulding once joked, everything 785 00:44:53,115 --> 00:44:56,635 Speaker 1: except the Visiting Nurse Association. They have built a cult 786 00:44:57,035 --> 00:45:00,035 Speaker 1: around denying the twenty twenty election. And if you haven't 787 00:45:00,035 --> 00:45:03,075 Speaker 1: figured out what's behind that nonsense, by the way, seemingly 788 00:45:03,155 --> 00:45:06,675 Speaker 1: quicksotic and academic at the same time. Here's the little secret. 789 00:45:06,915 --> 00:45:10,155 Speaker 1: The idea about the twenty twenty stuff still being talked 790 00:45:10,155 --> 00:45:14,835 Speaker 1: about is if l. Duche gets elected in twenty twenty 791 00:45:14,835 --> 00:45:17,515 Speaker 1: four and goes back to the White House, he will 792 00:45:17,555 --> 00:45:21,875 Speaker 1: somehow make somebody like I don't know, the Supreme Court 793 00:45:22,515 --> 00:45:26,755 Speaker 1: confirm that, yes, he actually won in twenty twenty, but 794 00:45:26,995 --> 00:45:30,635 Speaker 1: was denied that rightful term in the White House, so 795 00:45:30,755 --> 00:45:34,795 Speaker 1: he will be given a third term in twenty twenty eight, 796 00:45:35,315 --> 00:45:38,635 Speaker 1: or at least allowed to run for it. In short, 797 00:45:39,035 --> 00:45:42,355 Speaker 1: if twenty twenty was stolen from him, he's owed another term. 798 00:45:42,475 --> 00:45:42,635 Speaker 2: Right. 799 00:45:43,115 --> 00:45:46,555 Speaker 1: That's in the Constitution, isn't it. Gee, maybe we could just, 800 00:45:46,675 --> 00:45:51,155 Speaker 1: you know, skip the twenty twenty eight election outright. The 801 00:45:51,235 --> 00:45:54,075 Speaker 1: fascists have all this in the works. And what do 802 00:45:54,195 --> 00:46:01,275 Speaker 1: we have? We have Chuck Todd three weeks ago asking 803 00:46:01,315 --> 00:46:05,795 Speaker 1: a Republican governor, quote, what's best for the country? Do 804 00:46:05,835 --> 00:46:09,075 Speaker 1: you think the country can handle prosecuting a former president? 805 00:46:09,595 --> 00:46:12,475 Speaker 1: And we have less Yer Holts one week ago telling 806 00:46:12,515 --> 00:46:15,715 Speaker 1: the Attorney General of the United States, quote, indictment of 807 00:46:15,755 --> 00:46:19,755 Speaker 1: a former president and perhaps a candidate for president would 808 00:46:19,955 --> 00:46:25,475 Speaker 1: arguably tear the country apart. Is that your concern? They 809 00:46:26,635 --> 00:46:34,435 Speaker 1: have Fox News? We have Fox News only we call 810 00:46:34,475 --> 00:46:40,355 Speaker 1: it NBC. I will do this podcast every weekday, morning, 811 00:46:40,555 --> 00:46:43,835 Speaker 1: no holiday, mondays. Sorry I'm getting old. It will be 812 00:46:43,875 --> 00:46:45,715 Speaker 1: as best as I can do it, the podcast version 813 00:46:45,755 --> 00:46:47,875 Speaker 1: of what the old TV show was. I will explain 814 00:46:47,915 --> 00:46:51,635 Speaker 1: to you later in this first episode what exactly happened 815 00:46:51,755 --> 00:46:55,995 Speaker 1: to the old TV show. And here's a tease. It's 816 00:46:56,075 --> 00:46:59,075 Speaker 1: none of the things you've heard. And I'll have comments 817 00:46:59,195 --> 00:47:01,755 Speaker 1: on the news and comments on the sports. Did you 818 00:47:01,795 --> 00:47:05,715 Speaker 1: know I used to do sports? And the worst persons 819 00:47:05,715 --> 00:47:08,595 Speaker 1: in the world are back? And why Trump gets a 820 00:47:08,675 --> 00:47:11,315 Speaker 1: tax break for burying his wife in the golf course. 821 00:47:11,355 --> 00:47:15,315 Speaker 1: But first, I want to button up this topic about 822 00:47:15,355 --> 00:47:18,355 Speaker 1: getting mad as hell with two quotes and one question. 823 00:47:18,995 --> 00:47:22,395 Speaker 1: Quote number one, it's General William To comes to Sherman, 824 00:47:22,475 --> 00:47:27,035 Speaker 1: and it's meant metaphorically. So don't think I'm talking about bloodshed, 825 00:47:27,315 --> 00:47:31,875 Speaker 1: because you can't do political bloodshed in this country unless 826 00:47:31,875 --> 00:47:36,475 Speaker 1: you're a Republican. This was Sherman the last time Americans 827 00:47:36,515 --> 00:47:40,835 Speaker 1: tried to overthrow American democracy. Quote, war is the remedy 828 00:47:40,915 --> 00:47:45,835 Speaker 1: our enemies have chosen. Other simple remedies were within their choice. 829 00:47:45,875 --> 00:47:49,395 Speaker 1: You know it, and they know it. But they wanted war, 830 00:47:49,755 --> 00:47:52,075 Speaker 1: and I say, let us give them all they want, 831 00:47:52,235 --> 00:47:54,115 Speaker 1: not a word of argument, not a sign of let up, 832 00:47:54,155 --> 00:47:57,555 Speaker 1: no cave in till we are whipped or they are 833 00:47:59,275 --> 00:48:05,555 Speaker 1: end Sherman quote. First, you've got to get mad. What 834 00:48:05,795 --> 00:48:09,755 Speaker 1: greater active war against the United States by someone owing 835 00:48:09,755 --> 00:48:13,835 Speaker 1: allegiance to the United States within the United States could 836 00:48:13,915 --> 00:48:18,075 Speaker 1: there ever be than to send armed militias into the 837 00:48:18,155 --> 00:48:21,595 Speaker 1: United States Capital than to encourage them to attack and 838 00:48:21,875 --> 00:48:25,155 Speaker 1: kill members of Congress, members of the Senate, even the 839 00:48:25,235 --> 00:48:29,395 Speaker 1: Vice President. What greater act of war against the United 840 00:48:29,435 --> 00:48:32,595 Speaker 1: States could there be than to try to prevent by 841 00:48:32,675 --> 00:48:36,835 Speaker 1: violent revolution, the peaceful transfer of power in the United States. 842 00:48:37,875 --> 00:48:41,075 Speaker 1: I have no complaints about the January sixth Committee. I 843 00:48:41,155 --> 00:48:44,235 Speaker 1: do not buy the argument that it's the Liz Cheney Show, 844 00:48:44,595 --> 00:48:47,395 Speaker 1: And so what if it were. Chairman Thompson and the 845 00:48:47,435 --> 00:48:51,755 Speaker 1: other Democrats have been terrific if, as I speculated months ago, 846 00:48:51,835 --> 00:48:55,395 Speaker 1: they are programming to the proverbial audience of one and 847 00:48:55,515 --> 00:49:00,435 Speaker 1: it is named Merrick Garland Dandy. But I don't see 848 00:49:00,475 --> 00:49:04,795 Speaker 1: exactly how they plan to end this. So what if? 849 00:49:05,075 --> 00:49:09,075 Speaker 1: First they realized, you've got to get mad, You've got 850 00:49:09,075 --> 00:49:10,875 Speaker 1: to say I'm as mad as hell and I'm not 851 00:49:10,915 --> 00:49:13,115 Speaker 1: going to take Trump anymore. What if they ended it 852 00:49:13,475 --> 00:49:17,195 Speaker 1: with another quote? What if the January sixth Committee ends 853 00:49:17,235 --> 00:49:21,395 Speaker 1: its final hearing by simply quoting just the start of 854 00:49:21,475 --> 00:49:26,995 Speaker 1: Title eighteen USC Chapter one fifteen, Section two three eight 855 00:49:27,435 --> 00:49:32,835 Speaker 1: one quote. Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies 856 00:49:32,955 --> 00:49:36,315 Speaker 1: war against them, or adheres to their enemies, giving them 857 00:49:36,395 --> 00:49:40,115 Speaker 1: aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is 858 00:49:40,155 --> 00:49:58,235 Speaker 1: guilty of treason the way this began just two hundred 859 00:49:58,275 --> 00:50:02,715 Speaker 1: and thirteen episodes ago on August first of last year. Anyway, 860 00:50:02,715 --> 00:50:04,275 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. I 861 00:50:04,275 --> 00:50:07,795 Speaker 1: suspect we will be back to something resembling the normal 862 00:50:07,875 --> 00:50:13,155 Speaker 1: format tomorrow, or hell, maybe not. Who knows. Who's gonna 863 00:50:13,155 --> 00:50:13,915 Speaker 1: tell me what to do? 864 00:50:13,995 --> 00:50:14,195 Speaker 5: Here? 865 00:50:15,915 --> 00:50:18,355 Speaker 1: Here are the credits. Most of the music arranged, produced 866 00:50:18,395 --> 00:50:20,955 Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray and John Phillip s Chanelle 867 00:50:20,995 --> 00:50:25,035 Speaker 1: the Countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John 868 00:50:25,035 --> 00:50:28,995 Speaker 1: Phillip Shanelle. Guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray. Produced 869 00:50:28,995 --> 00:50:33,955 Speaker 1: by TKO Brothers TKO Brothers or John Phillip Shanel, Brian 870 00:50:34,035 --> 00:50:37,275 Speaker 1: Ray and me. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and 871 00:50:37,355 --> 00:50:40,595 Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports music 872 00:50:40,715 --> 00:50:42,995 Speaker 1: is the Olberman theme from ESPN two, and it was 873 00:50:43,035 --> 00:50:47,195 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis Curtisy of ESPN, Inc. Musical 874 00:50:47,235 --> 00:50:50,435 Speaker 1: comments by Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium organist ever. 875 00:50:50,715 --> 00:50:53,075 Speaker 1: Our announcer was my friend Larry David, and everything else 876 00:50:53,155 --> 00:50:55,635 Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this, 877 00:50:55,675 --> 00:50:58,315 Speaker 1: the eight hundred and seventy fifth day since Donald Trump's 878 00:50:58,315 --> 00:51:01,675 Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the 879 00:51:01,795 --> 00:51:05,075 Speaker 1: United States. Don't forget to keep arresting him. I always 880 00:51:05,115 --> 00:51:08,835 Speaker 1: still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Until then, 881 00:51:08,875 --> 00:51:12,395 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 882 00:51:12,915 --> 00:51:24,355 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 883 00:51:24,635 --> 00:51:29,795 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 884 00:51:30,075 --> 00:51:32,035 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.