1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:24,075 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:24,195 --> 00:00:28,835 Speaker 1: correct question has been lying there, hidden invisible in the 3 00:00:28,955 --> 00:00:34,675 Speaker 1: forest for the trees. Mary Trump finally saw it, and 4 00:00:34,715 --> 00:00:38,955 Speaker 1: she has asked it. Quote, why the hell do they 5 00:00:39,795 --> 00:00:46,115 Speaker 1: keep giving him cognitive tests? That's it, isn't it? I'll 6 00:00:46,115 --> 00:00:48,515 Speaker 1: add a corollary, why the hell do they keep giving 7 00:00:48,595 --> 00:00:55,395 Speaker 1: him cognitive tests? Almost exactly six months apart? He's boasting 8 00:00:55,435 --> 00:00:58,235 Speaker 1: again about having passed one. We believe it was three 9 00:00:58,235 --> 00:01:01,795 Speaker 1: weeks ago Friday, October tenth, that Walter Reid, but who knows, 10 00:01:02,475 --> 00:01:05,795 Speaker 1: during what they first called his annual physical until somebody 11 00:01:05,835 --> 00:01:09,195 Speaker 1: realized he'd already had his annual physical last spring when 12 00:01:09,275 --> 00:01:14,115 Speaker 1: he also boasted about having just taken one April eleventh. 13 00:01:14,235 --> 00:01:19,115 Speaker 1: That's two cognitive tests April eleventh and probably October tenth. 14 00:01:19,275 --> 00:01:23,315 Speaker 1: Those dates are six months apart, one hundred and eighty 15 00:01:23,315 --> 00:01:27,435 Speaker 1: two days. If they are not giving him pre scheduled 16 00:01:27,475 --> 00:01:31,595 Speaker 1: cognitive tests every six months, that's a hell of a coincidence. 17 00:01:33,155 --> 00:01:36,355 Speaker 1: Why the hell do they keep giving him cognitive tests? 18 00:01:37,075 --> 00:01:40,195 Speaker 1: And I'll add a second carollary to Mary Trump's real question, 19 00:01:40,675 --> 00:01:43,955 Speaker 1: why did they give him an MRI this time? Is 20 00:01:43,995 --> 00:01:47,635 Speaker 1: this the first MRI. What was it of I mean, 21 00:01:47,635 --> 00:01:49,715 Speaker 1: it may be irrelevant. I once had an MRI to 22 00:01:49,755 --> 00:01:52,915 Speaker 1: see how my sinuses were draining into the back of 23 00:01:53,035 --> 00:01:57,515 Speaker 1: my throat. You really can get MRIs for almost trivial stuff, 24 00:01:57,675 --> 00:02:01,635 Speaker 1: but you do not get cognitive tests for trivial stuff 25 00:02:01,915 --> 00:02:06,275 Speaker 1: every six months. And we know all this because Trump 26 00:02:06,355 --> 00:02:09,635 Speaker 1: can't stop himself. He keeps talking about these tests. He 27 00:02:09,715 --> 00:02:13,835 Speaker 1: keeps thinking he's he's won some sort of game show 28 00:02:14,195 --> 00:02:21,835 Speaker 1: or scholarship or Nobell cognitive test prize. On board air 29 00:02:21,875 --> 00:02:24,915 Speaker 1: Force one this week he boasted reporters about acing the 30 00:02:25,075 --> 00:02:29,235 Speaker 1: MRI and about passing the cognition test three weeks ago. 31 00:02:30,195 --> 00:02:32,835 Speaker 1: Trump first tried to insist it was an IQ test 32 00:02:32,875 --> 00:02:36,315 Speaker 1: so he could insult representatives of Casio Cortes and Crockett. 33 00:02:36,395 --> 00:02:40,075 Speaker 1: Then he slipped and he admitted it was a cognitive test, 34 00:02:40,235 --> 00:02:44,555 Speaker 1: and then he described the test. This was this past Monday, 35 00:02:44,595 --> 00:02:45,795 Speaker 1: a board air Force one. 36 00:02:46,115 --> 00:02:49,635 Speaker 2: Have her passed. Like the exams that I decided to 37 00:02:49,675 --> 00:02:52,435 Speaker 2: take when I was at Walter Reine, I took that 38 00:02:52,555 --> 00:02:55,995 Speaker 2: was a very hard They really have to do tests, 39 00:02:56,035 --> 00:02:58,555 Speaker 2: I guess in a certain way. But the cognitive tests 40 00:02:59,275 --> 00:03:03,475 Speaker 2: let AOC go against Trump, Let Jasmin go against from 41 00:03:03,515 --> 00:03:05,955 Speaker 2: why do they get a jazz? And the first couple 42 00:03:06,035 --> 00:03:08,675 Speaker 2: of questions, there is a tiger an elephant that you have, 43 00:03:08,875 --> 00:03:11,715 Speaker 2: you know, when you get up to about five or six, 44 00:03:11,795 --> 00:03:13,595 Speaker 2: and then when you get up to ten and twenty 45 00:03:13,595 --> 00:03:17,915 Speaker 2: and twenty five, they couldn't come close to answering any 46 00:03:17,915 --> 00:03:18,875 Speaker 2: of those questions. 47 00:03:19,355 --> 00:03:22,555 Speaker 1: And this why do they keep giving him cognitive tests? 48 00:03:22,595 --> 00:03:26,315 Speaker 1: The audio a little less clear was also from onboard 49 00:03:26,355 --> 00:03:30,075 Speaker 1: Air Force one from April eleventh, twenty twenty five. 50 00:03:30,475 --> 00:03:32,995 Speaker 2: I wanted to be a little different than they took 51 00:03:33,035 --> 00:03:34,235 Speaker 2: a cocnitive tests. 52 00:03:35,475 --> 00:03:38,635 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I want to tell you whether. 53 00:03:38,515 --> 00:03:40,595 Speaker 2: That I got a reanswer, right as I've. 54 00:03:40,395 --> 00:03:43,755 Speaker 1: Done about lord times and I've taken I've taken the 55 00:03:43,795 --> 00:03:44,915 Speaker 1: cognitive tests. 56 00:03:44,635 --> 00:03:45,515 Speaker 2: Any four times. 57 00:03:45,675 --> 00:03:46,035 Speaker 1: I'm done. 58 00:03:47,075 --> 00:03:51,235 Speaker 2: I've got nothing wrong. That's when the American people want. 59 00:03:51,995 --> 00:03:55,355 Speaker 1: That was during his twenty twenty five annual physical, his 60 00:03:55,475 --> 00:04:00,755 Speaker 1: first annual physical. Why the hell do they keep giving 61 00:04:00,835 --> 00:04:04,515 Speaker 1: him cognitive tests? And it's not like these are the 62 00:04:04,755 --> 00:04:08,795 Speaker 1: only two person woman man camera TV. That was now 63 00:04:08,915 --> 00:04:11,355 Speaker 1: five years and three months ago, Like. 64 00:04:11,475 --> 00:04:19,555 Speaker 3: You'll go person, woman, man camera TV. So they say, 65 00:04:19,635 --> 00:04:24,035 Speaker 3: could you repeat that? So I said, yeah, so it's 66 00:04:24,115 --> 00:04:30,795 Speaker 3: person woman, man camera TV. Okay, that's very good. If 67 00:04:30,835 --> 00:04:32,675 Speaker 3: you get it in order, you get extra points. 68 00:04:32,955 --> 00:04:36,315 Speaker 1: He said he had taken that test recently at Walter 69 00:04:36,515 --> 00:04:41,635 Speaker 1: Reed recently in twenty twenty. Sometime after that, his own 70 00:04:41,675 --> 00:04:44,395 Speaker 1: White House physician said that Trump had taken the Montreal 71 00:04:44,635 --> 00:04:49,515 Speaker 1: Cognitive Assessment in twenty eighteen. Why the hell do they 72 00:04:49,595 --> 00:04:54,075 Speaker 1: keep giving him cognitive tests? A cognitive test and he 73 00:04:54,195 --> 00:04:57,955 Speaker 1: has used the word this time A dementia or other 74 00:04:58,155 --> 00:05:04,595 Speaker 1: brain impairment screening test simple triage on October tenth. That's one. 75 00:05:05,355 --> 00:05:08,115 Speaker 1: Then there's the one in April. That's two. He was 76 00:05:08,195 --> 00:05:11,475 Speaker 1: boasting in January of last year about having passed one, 77 00:05:11,755 --> 00:05:16,635 Speaker 1: kept boasting about it through the spring. Only the animals 78 00:05:16,675 --> 00:05:18,915 Speaker 1: they asked him about in that one were different than 79 00:05:18,955 --> 00:05:21,315 Speaker 1: the ones he just mentioned in the one he just took. 80 00:05:22,355 --> 00:05:26,595 Speaker 1: Was that a third test? Last year? Throughout Biden's presidency, 81 00:05:26,675 --> 00:05:29,755 Speaker 1: Trump talked about these tests. In twenty twenty, he repeatedly 82 00:05:29,875 --> 00:05:32,795 Speaker 1: challenged Biden to take one. He said in twenty twenty 83 00:05:32,835 --> 00:05:36,755 Speaker 1: he had recently taken one. That's three or four. We 84 00:05:36,915 --> 00:05:39,915 Speaker 1: know for sure. He took the Montreal Cognitive in twenty eighteen. 85 00:05:40,195 --> 00:05:43,195 Speaker 1: That was definitely at least the fourth, probably the fifth. 86 00:05:43,435 --> 00:05:48,075 Speaker 1: Why the hell do they keep giving him cognitive tests? 87 00:05:50,155 --> 00:05:53,435 Speaker 1: That's two in the last six months, seemingly time to 88 00:05:53,515 --> 00:05:57,395 Speaker 1: be six months apart. That is certainly four in the 89 00:05:57,475 --> 00:06:01,155 Speaker 1: last six years. He has previously said he's taken four 90 00:06:01,235 --> 00:06:05,635 Speaker 1: of these tests, maybe five, he can't remember. It could 91 00:06:05,635 --> 00:06:08,835 Speaker 1: easily be five. In fact, it could easily be six. 92 00:06:09,635 --> 00:06:14,675 Speaker 1: Anybody remember when he disappeared way back when, around oh 93 00:06:15,395 --> 00:06:18,435 Speaker 1: decades a labor day after that three and a half 94 00:06:18,515 --> 00:06:22,115 Speaker 1: hour farewell roast of a cabinet meeting, where was he? 95 00:06:23,395 --> 00:06:26,715 Speaker 1: Did they test him then? Then he disappeared for another 96 00:06:26,795 --> 00:06:29,035 Speaker 1: five days at the end of September. Did they test 97 00:06:29,115 --> 00:06:32,675 Speaker 1: him then? Well, we are deep in the woods again. 98 00:06:32,755 --> 00:06:35,595 Speaker 1: Let us return to the simplicity of the Mary Trump question. 99 00:06:35,995 --> 00:06:39,995 Speaker 1: It is absolutely certain that they keep giving the President 100 00:06:40,115 --> 00:06:43,275 Speaker 1: of the United States tests to see if he can 101 00:06:43,435 --> 00:06:48,035 Speaker 1: pass the minimum standard for cognitive capacity, to pass the 102 00:06:48,195 --> 00:06:53,715 Speaker 1: minimum simplest threshold for not having some form of impairment, 103 00:06:54,155 --> 00:06:59,395 Speaker 1: maybe dementia. It certainly is a reasonable inference to suggest 104 00:06:59,475 --> 00:07:03,115 Speaker 1: that giving them on April eleventh and October tenth suggests 105 00:07:03,155 --> 00:07:09,635 Speaker 1: they are now scheduling for regular tests, and although he 106 00:07:09,715 --> 00:07:11,595 Speaker 1: slipped in his rush to try to explain how much 107 00:07:11,755 --> 00:07:14,875 Speaker 1: smarter he is than Jasmine Crockett or Alexandria or Casio 108 00:07:14,995 --> 00:07:18,595 Speaker 1: Cortes or whichever elected Democratic woman of color is next 109 00:07:18,635 --> 00:07:20,915 Speaker 1: on his shit list, it is clear that at some 110 00:07:21,195 --> 00:07:26,595 Speaker 1: point somebody convinced him, or he convinced himself, that this 111 00:07:26,835 --> 00:07:30,475 Speaker 1: was an IQ test and that he's, to quote his 112 00:07:30,595 --> 00:07:33,715 Speaker 1: own words again, a very stable genius. It says so 113 00:07:33,915 --> 00:07:37,155 Speaker 1: on the test with the picture of the giraffe on it. 114 00:07:39,395 --> 00:07:41,555 Speaker 1: Even though the only word in that description of very 115 00:07:41,595 --> 00:07:46,035 Speaker 1: stable genius that appears to apply is very. We can 116 00:07:46,075 --> 00:07:52,155 Speaker 1: all agree Donald Trump is very There are two little 117 00:07:52,235 --> 00:07:54,235 Speaker 1: side points I'd like to make before we drop this 118 00:07:54,395 --> 00:07:59,155 Speaker 1: for now. I often wonder where he conflated the concept 119 00:07:59,275 --> 00:08:05,155 Speaker 1: of political asylum and mental asylums. He can't shake it. 120 00:08:05,475 --> 00:08:07,795 Speaker 1: He says it every two weeks. He will never be 121 00:08:07,915 --> 00:08:11,755 Speaker 1: convinced that people were here because they were granted asylum 122 00:08:12,475 --> 00:08:18,075 Speaker 1: are therefore from asylums. This can be simple, good old 123 00:08:18,115 --> 00:08:21,555 Speaker 1: fashioned American stupidity. He deduced this when he was a kid, 124 00:08:22,155 --> 00:08:25,115 Speaker 1: the way a kid I knew at age thirteen insisted 125 00:08:25,155 --> 00:08:31,195 Speaker 1: the phrase was for all intensive purposes, and for whatever reason, 126 00:08:31,875 --> 00:08:34,715 Speaker 1: Trump would not and could not shake his mistake about 127 00:08:34,715 --> 00:08:40,075 Speaker 1: the word asylum or this asylum stuff is somehow wedged 128 00:08:40,115 --> 00:08:42,755 Speaker 1: into his mind because it's connected to his own experience 129 00:08:42,835 --> 00:08:47,835 Speaker 1: with psychological exams, which he must have taken as a kid, since, 130 00:08:47,915 --> 00:08:51,315 Speaker 1: as his own father euphemistically put it decades ago, Trump 131 00:08:51,475 --> 00:08:54,195 Speaker 1: was a rough kid who had to be taken out 132 00:08:54,195 --> 00:08:55,915 Speaker 1: of the public schools and sent to the New York 133 00:08:55,995 --> 00:09:00,475 Speaker 1: Military Academy NIMA because well, in my prep school days, 134 00:09:00,475 --> 00:09:02,995 Speaker 1: when our football and hockey and basketball and baseball teams 135 00:09:03,075 --> 00:09:05,875 Speaker 1: used to play against NIMA, all the kids at NeiMa 136 00:09:05,915 --> 00:09:09,795 Speaker 1: were supposedly there because some authority had given Dad a choice. 137 00:09:10,475 --> 00:09:15,035 Speaker 1: It's there or it's the reformatory. I just keep wondering 138 00:09:15,115 --> 00:09:19,715 Speaker 1: if the word asylum is stuck inside Trump because he 139 00:09:19,835 --> 00:09:23,955 Speaker 1: had to face that as a kid. Did the folks 140 00:09:24,035 --> 00:09:29,355 Speaker 1: threaten him with it? The second point is less speculative. 141 00:09:29,715 --> 00:09:33,435 Speaker 1: I hadn't heard this before that clip I played from April. 142 00:09:33,555 --> 00:09:36,155 Speaker 1: The last time he was boasting about the last cognitive 143 00:09:36,235 --> 00:09:39,195 Speaker 1: test he passed. He said that at Walter Reed they 144 00:09:39,235 --> 00:09:41,715 Speaker 1: gave him a thorough physical exam as well, and it 145 00:09:41,835 --> 00:09:46,035 Speaker 1: showed he had a good heart and a very good soul. 146 00:09:49,155 --> 00:09:57,675 Speaker 1: You heard me a good song. Your physical showed that 147 00:09:57,875 --> 00:10:03,395 Speaker 1: your soul is just fine. It's not an irregular soul, 148 00:10:03,835 --> 00:10:07,155 Speaker 1: and your soul is not hyper extended, and you don't 149 00:10:07,235 --> 00:10:15,555 Speaker 1: have Pyrone's soul disease. Why the hell do they keep 150 00:10:15,595 --> 00:10:19,395 Speaker 1: giving him cognitive tests? I think contained in that last 151 00:10:19,555 --> 00:10:47,235 Speaker 1: clip that might be our answer right there. Meanwhile, in 152 00:10:47,355 --> 00:10:51,115 Speaker 1: another endless topic, Trump has said something that sounds like 153 00:10:51,315 --> 00:10:53,675 Speaker 1: he's not going to try to stay in office past 154 00:10:53,755 --> 00:10:57,195 Speaker 1: January twentieth, twenty twenty nine, and since it was preceded 155 00:10:57,275 --> 00:11:00,875 Speaker 1: by only one full minute of lies about how great 156 00:11:00,915 --> 00:11:03,355 Speaker 1: the economy is and how he got peace in the 157 00:11:03,355 --> 00:11:05,755 Speaker 1: Middle East, and how nobody's ever been as popular as 158 00:11:05,795 --> 00:11:08,755 Speaker 1: he is, Why the hell do they keep giving him 159 00:11:08,795 --> 00:11:13,275 Speaker 1: cognitive tests? The nation's most gullible people, the Washington Press Corps, 160 00:11:13,555 --> 00:11:17,675 Speaker 1: seems to have concluded that he's not trying to mislead, dissemble, 161 00:11:17,955 --> 00:11:22,435 Speaker 1: or you know, just lie to them again. The British kid, 162 00:11:22,915 --> 00:11:26,235 Speaker 1: it's always a goddamn British kid, who they supposedly had 163 00:11:26,275 --> 00:11:29,555 Speaker 1: fired as the editor of the playbook newsletter for Politico 164 00:11:29,755 --> 00:11:33,195 Speaker 1: months ago, but he's still there. Yesterday, wrote, So even 165 00:11:33,315 --> 00:11:36,675 Speaker 1: Trump says the Constitution is clear on this point. Can 166 00:11:36,795 --> 00:11:40,635 Speaker 1: we all now put this to bed? No, Sonny, we 167 00:11:40,795 --> 00:11:45,555 Speaker 1: can't because you didn't ask Trump what the word clear means, 168 00:11:45,995 --> 00:11:46,915 Speaker 1: did you? Huh? 169 00:11:47,315 --> 00:11:48,035 Speaker 3: Huh huh. 170 00:11:48,555 --> 00:11:51,515 Speaker 1: Persuading for Johnson says that he told you that there's 171 00:11:51,555 --> 00:11:54,395 Speaker 1: no time to amend the constitution to allow. 172 00:11:54,195 --> 00:11:55,275 Speaker 2: You to serve a third term. 173 00:11:55,795 --> 00:11:57,835 Speaker 1: Is that an accurate representation. 174 00:11:57,355 --> 00:12:00,315 Speaker 2: Of I don't want to even talk about that, because 175 00:12:00,915 --> 00:12:04,075 Speaker 2: you know, the sad thing is I have my highest 176 00:12:04,155 --> 00:12:06,955 Speaker 2: numbers I've ever had, and I would say that if 177 00:12:06,995 --> 00:12:09,675 Speaker 2: you read it, it's pretty clear I'm not allowed to run. 178 00:12:09,915 --> 00:12:11,115 Speaker 2: Stumid I missed him. 179 00:12:11,635 --> 00:12:14,075 Speaker 1: Dear listener, if you would please get out your meme 180 00:12:14,355 --> 00:12:16,995 Speaker 1: of the guy tapping his head to indicate how smart 181 00:12:17,075 --> 00:12:20,715 Speaker 1: he is. Can't be accused of trying to run for 182 00:12:20,715 --> 00:12:23,155 Speaker 1: a third term if you cancel the twenty twenty nine 183 00:12:23,195 --> 00:12:28,075 Speaker 1: election or make some other extra constitutional violence based attempt 184 00:12:28,115 --> 00:12:33,715 Speaker 1: to not leave the White House. Huh? There is still 185 00:12:33,835 --> 00:12:37,835 Speaker 1: something rattling around in that damaged brain of Trump's. Hi 186 00:12:38,275 --> 00:12:42,155 Speaker 1: the hell do they keep giving him cognitive tests that 187 00:12:42,315 --> 00:12:45,635 Speaker 1: assumes there will be some sort of mass uprising by 188 00:12:45,835 --> 00:12:50,555 Speaker 1: others to keep him in power forever, one that he 189 00:12:50,715 --> 00:12:56,075 Speaker 1: may or may need to himself stoke or can happen organically. 190 00:12:57,075 --> 00:12:58,915 Speaker 1: And if you don't believe that, let me ask you 191 00:12:59,555 --> 00:13:05,115 Speaker 1: what was January sixth. Trump has specifically said he didn't 192 00:13:05,155 --> 00:13:07,515 Speaker 1: think he would want to run as vice president and 193 00:13:07,675 --> 00:13:11,715 Speaker 1: let somebody else occupy the presidency ceremonially while he runs 194 00:13:11,795 --> 00:13:15,075 Speaker 1: the country. But again, what part of that is a no? 195 00:13:15,875 --> 00:13:17,435 Speaker 1: I don't think I'd like to do it. Oh I 196 00:13:17,515 --> 00:13:20,515 Speaker 1: did it anyway. The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, 197 00:13:20,595 --> 00:13:23,995 Speaker 1: taking time off from and acting the passive aggressive dissolving 198 00:13:24,155 --> 00:13:26,755 Speaker 1: of Congress and taking even more time off from his 199 00:13:26,835 --> 00:13:30,035 Speaker 1: busy schedule of not knowing anything about the latest news 200 00:13:30,155 --> 00:13:32,915 Speaker 1: or controversy or the rules of the House, he said 201 00:13:32,955 --> 00:13:35,195 Speaker 1: he didn't see a path for Trump to serve a 202 00:13:35,275 --> 00:13:38,555 Speaker 1: third term, quoting, Hey, and I have talked about the 203 00:13:38,635 --> 00:13:44,035 Speaker 1: constrictions of the Constitution. Again, where's the no. On the 204 00:13:44,115 --> 00:13:48,075 Speaker 1: other hand, the only escaped circus elephant in the Senate, 205 00:13:48,235 --> 00:13:51,955 Speaker 1: Tommy Tubberville, said, if Trump wanted to quote, go round 206 00:13:52,075 --> 00:13:56,715 Speaker 1: the constitution quote, don't ever close a book on him. 207 00:13:59,275 --> 00:14:01,515 Speaker 1: And of course, Steve Bannon told the economists that you 208 00:14:01,555 --> 00:14:03,595 Speaker 1: shouldn't listen to Trump that there is a plan in 209 00:14:03,675 --> 00:14:06,595 Speaker 1: place to keep Trump in place in office, and quote 210 00:14:06,835 --> 00:14:09,515 Speaker 1: at the appropriate time, we'll lay out what the plan is. 211 00:14:11,515 --> 00:14:15,035 Speaker 1: It's easy to dismiss morons like Tubberville and mentally damaged 212 00:14:15,115 --> 00:14:18,195 Speaker 1: fascists like Bannon and presume this is all bluster. It 213 00:14:18,315 --> 00:14:22,195 Speaker 1: is not all bluster if it is not obvious that 214 00:14:22,315 --> 00:14:25,075 Speaker 1: while you and I and a vast majority of Americans 215 00:14:25,115 --> 00:14:28,235 Speaker 1: have been raised to believe the Constitution and the laws are, 216 00:14:28,515 --> 00:14:31,515 Speaker 1: if perhaps not, the sacred documents the Republicans like to 217 00:14:31,595 --> 00:14:35,115 Speaker 1: pretend they believe they are. We believe they are there 218 00:14:35,555 --> 00:14:40,355 Speaker 1: to keep chaos and evil in relative check. But Trump 219 00:14:40,435 --> 00:14:44,275 Speaker 1: and the snakes he has enabled and supported see them 220 00:14:44,355 --> 00:14:50,475 Speaker 1: merely as inconvenient impediments. For at least four years, they 221 00:14:50,515 --> 00:14:54,235 Speaker 1: have been building up the phony resume for the revisionists 222 00:14:55,235 --> 00:14:57,715 Speaker 1: drawn out of thin air. View of the twenty second 223 00:14:57,715 --> 00:15:02,595 Speaker 1: Amendment term limits, it's two terms. That's it. Plus you 224 00:15:02,755 --> 00:15:06,075 Speaker 1: can serve out up to two years of somebody else's 225 00:15:06,235 --> 00:15:11,315 Speaker 1: unexpired term and then get elected twice. That's it. Two elections. 226 00:15:11,515 --> 00:15:15,115 Speaker 1: An absolute hard time limit of nine years and one 227 00:15:15,195 --> 00:15:17,435 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty three days, not one hundred and eighty 228 00:15:17,475 --> 00:15:19,795 Speaker 1: two days, because there'd have to be a leap year 229 00:15:20,115 --> 00:15:23,235 Speaker 1: if you took the end of somebody else's unserved term. 230 00:15:25,235 --> 00:15:27,475 Speaker 1: The revisionist version of this, of course, is that this 231 00:15:27,595 --> 00:15:32,595 Speaker 1: only applies to someone being elected to two concective terms. 232 00:15:34,635 --> 00:15:39,555 Speaker 1: This useful bullshit rationalizes that from the twenty second Amendment 233 00:15:39,635 --> 00:15:42,155 Speaker 1: point of view, Trump is right now only in his 234 00:15:42,275 --> 00:15:46,515 Speaker 1: first term. As I've pointed out countless times, this bullshit 235 00:15:46,555 --> 00:15:50,995 Speaker 1: also has the invaluable benefit of keeping Obama or Bill 236 00:15:51,075 --> 00:15:54,675 Speaker 1: Clinton or George Bush, for whatever that's worth, from ever 237 00:15:54,835 --> 00:16:01,635 Speaker 1: running again. Only Trump. It's nonsense, of course. Presidential immunity 238 00:16:01,715 --> 00:16:05,875 Speaker 1: is nonsense. Of course, masked anonymous thug probably recruited from 239 00:16:05,955 --> 00:16:09,035 Speaker 1: right wing militia shooting ministers in the face with tear 240 00:16:09,115 --> 00:16:14,915 Speaker 1: gas while calling themselves ice is also nonsense. Actually, thanks 241 00:16:14,955 --> 00:16:17,675 Speaker 1: to Trump, and thanks to this corrupt decrepit soul is 242 00:16:17,795 --> 00:16:22,195 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, what sixty percent, seventy percent, one hundred percent 243 00:16:22,275 --> 00:16:26,475 Speaker 1: of American public life is now nonsense. Go to the 244 00:16:26,515 --> 00:16:29,795 Speaker 1: Supreme Court with the non consecutive terms fantasy and see 245 00:16:29,795 --> 00:16:34,795 Speaker 1: how quickly sam Alito can turn that into law. Still, 246 00:16:36,475 --> 00:16:39,115 Speaker 1: my gut has always told me that the extra constitutional 247 00:16:39,195 --> 00:16:41,795 Speaker 1: theft that Trump favors and really dreams about the most 248 00:16:41,915 --> 00:16:45,315 Speaker 1: is not some loophole shot into the twenty second Amendment 249 00:16:46,315 --> 00:16:50,715 Speaker 1: by Missus Alito and her flags, nor even a military takeover. 250 00:16:51,195 --> 00:16:54,275 Speaker 1: What he wants is for everybody to just agree with 251 00:16:54,435 --> 00:16:58,795 Speaker 1: him that a he deserves another term because those evil 252 00:16:58,835 --> 00:17:01,395 Speaker 1: Democrats wasted so much of his first term with the 253 00:17:01,475 --> 00:17:08,035 Speaker 1: investigation of the Russia Russia Russia truth about his conspiracies 254 00:17:08,115 --> 00:17:12,235 Speaker 1: with Putin, and that b he deserves another term, maybe 255 00:17:12,275 --> 00:17:14,595 Speaker 1: a fourth one, because the twenty twenty election was quote 256 00:17:14,755 --> 00:17:18,115 Speaker 1: stolen from him, even though he was president at the 257 00:17:18,195 --> 00:17:22,355 Speaker 1: time and all the institutions that supervised the elections and 258 00:17:22,555 --> 00:17:26,435 Speaker 1: investigated his nonsensical charges for the last five years were 259 00:17:26,555 --> 00:17:30,595 Speaker 1: under his control. Either way, Trump does not want to 260 00:17:30,755 --> 00:17:33,595 Speaker 1: have to be elected again in twenty twenty nine because 261 00:17:33,595 --> 00:17:37,715 Speaker 1: another election means another chance to lose an election. He 262 00:17:37,835 --> 00:17:40,995 Speaker 1: wants to remain president because everybody says he's so wonderful 263 00:17:41,115 --> 00:17:45,115 Speaker 1: that there's no need to even have a vote. He 264 00:17:45,155 --> 00:17:48,555 Speaker 1: could lose an election. He could lose a coup attempt. 265 00:17:49,155 --> 00:17:52,315 Speaker 1: Hell son of a bitch, did lose a coup attempt? 266 00:17:52,315 --> 00:17:56,635 Speaker 1: Didn't he a simple acclamation though, in which everybody names 267 00:17:56,755 --> 00:18:02,635 Speaker 1: him homecoming King and scored a perfect score on his 268 00:18:03,515 --> 00:18:12,035 Speaker 1: acuity IQ test and President again, simple acclamation. That's what 269 00:18:12,155 --> 00:18:14,955 Speaker 1: he wants. And if you have to do something with 270 00:18:15,075 --> 00:18:17,555 Speaker 1: that annoying constitution to make that happen, what you do 271 00:18:17,635 --> 00:18:19,635 Speaker 1: is simply find a way to say, of course he 272 00:18:19,755 --> 00:18:22,955 Speaker 1: only gets two terms, and of course he knows he 273 00:18:23,075 --> 00:18:24,835 Speaker 1: can't run for a third one. It says so in 274 00:18:24,915 --> 00:18:28,875 Speaker 1: the Constitution. He just said it on tape. But where 275 00:18:28,915 --> 00:18:31,795 Speaker 1: does it say we can't change how long his second 276 00:18:31,955 --> 00:18:35,235 Speaker 1: term is. Why don't we just amend that other part 277 00:18:35,275 --> 00:18:38,355 Speaker 1: of the Constitution that nobody looks at, Article two, Section one, 278 00:18:38,435 --> 00:18:40,835 Speaker 1: clause one, so that it says a president shall hold 279 00:18:40,875 --> 00:18:42,835 Speaker 1: his office during the term of four years, but this 280 00:18:43,075 --> 00:18:47,435 Speaker 1: president shall hold his office during the term of eight 281 00:18:47,595 --> 00:19:00,235 Speaker 1: years or twelve or eleveny billion. Also of interest here, Oh, 282 00:19:00,435 --> 00:19:04,635 Speaker 1: it's more Brits running American news operations into the ground, 283 00:19:05,835 --> 00:19:09,395 Speaker 1: the one they found to finally complete the destruction of CNN. 284 00:19:09,595 --> 00:19:12,275 Speaker 1: Went to the White House to kiss Trump's ass and 285 00:19:12,395 --> 00:19:15,515 Speaker 1: the ass of every Trump staffer, and before he got 286 00:19:15,555 --> 00:19:18,475 Speaker 1: to his home, there was a tweet from a Trump 287 00:19:18,555 --> 00:19:26,595 Speaker 1: spokesman mocking him for trying to appease Trump. Congratulations Neville Chamberlain. 288 00:19:27,355 --> 00:19:30,875 Speaker 1: But don't worry. CNN is going to be merged into MSNBC, 289 00:19:31,235 --> 00:19:35,675 Speaker 1: and the right wing has its candidate to run MSNBCNN. 290 00:19:36,795 --> 00:19:40,275 Speaker 1: It's a former Miss Arizona now studying for a doctorate 291 00:19:40,515 --> 00:19:48,475 Speaker 1: in Bible studies at Liberty University. Who reads the most 292 00:19:48,555 --> 00:19:52,595 Speaker 1: Bazooka Joe comic strips shall get the doctorate in Bible 293 00:19:52,675 --> 00:19:55,915 Speaker 1: Studies at Liberty. You know who this is. They want 294 00:19:55,995 --> 00:20:03,875 Speaker 1: to run a combined MSNBC CNN Charlie Kirk's widow. Because 295 00:20:06,395 --> 00:20:10,675 Speaker 1: this is hell, isn't it? That's next? This is Countdown. 296 00:20:12,515 --> 00:20:17,435 Speaker 2: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman, who can predict almost anything. 297 00:20:38,435 --> 00:20:42,555 Speaker 1: Still ahead on this all new episode of Countdown. All 298 00:20:42,675 --> 00:20:49,955 Speaker 1: this La Dodgers World Series stuff reminds me to remind 299 00:20:50,035 --> 00:20:52,075 Speaker 1: you that not only did I correctly predict the Kirk 300 00:20:52,155 --> 00:20:55,155 Speaker 1: Gibson home run that won Game one of the nineteen 301 00:20:55,155 --> 00:20:57,355 Speaker 1: eighty eight World Series and then sent them on their 302 00:20:57,395 --> 00:20:59,875 Speaker 1: way to their upset of the Oakland A's to win 303 00:20:59,955 --> 00:21:03,675 Speaker 1: that World series, but I did it as the innings 304 00:21:03,755 --> 00:21:06,635 Speaker 1: started in which he hit it, and I predicted it 305 00:21:06,715 --> 00:21:09,275 Speaker 1: as part of an answer to a question that my 306 00:21:09,395 --> 00:21:13,555 Speaker 1: friend Alexis Denny, who you just heard, asked me, and 307 00:21:13,795 --> 00:21:17,835 Speaker 1: she was a witness to this impossible prediction that was 308 00:21:17,875 --> 00:21:20,675 Speaker 1: not at all serious, the Kirk Gibson home run, and 309 00:21:21,355 --> 00:21:25,875 Speaker 1: I told you so. Next in things I promise not 310 00:21:25,995 --> 00:21:28,715 Speaker 1: to tell first believe it or not, there's still more 311 00:21:28,795 --> 00:21:31,515 Speaker 1: new idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscrants, 312 00:21:31,595 --> 00:21:35,755 Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other 313 00:21:36,755 --> 00:21:44,715 Speaker 1: worst persons in the world at the Bonds worse Steve Bannon. 314 00:21:45,995 --> 00:21:49,675 Speaker 1: Steve Bannon says Zoran Mom, Danny has quote got to 315 00:21:49,755 --> 00:21:53,355 Speaker 1: be sent out of the country, that they have to 316 00:21:53,715 --> 00:21:59,235 Speaker 1: denaturalize him. But think about what would happen if we 317 00:21:59,315 --> 00:22:03,035 Speaker 1: did this instead, to Steve Bannon, think of how much 318 00:22:03,115 --> 00:22:06,635 Speaker 1: affordable housing we could be filled in the space that 319 00:22:06,795 --> 00:22:14,675 Speaker 1: this fat, ugly slob now wastes and occupies. Runner up 320 00:22:14,715 --> 00:22:18,915 Speaker 1: Rich Greenfield, who is a conservative media pest, identifies as 321 00:22:18,955 --> 00:22:25,475 Speaker 1: a critic, as quoted by Max Tenney of Semaphore, this 322 00:22:25,755 --> 00:22:31,115 Speaker 1: is his genius idea. Let's take this a step further. 323 00:22:31,355 --> 00:22:36,835 Speaker 1: Merging NBC Universal with Warner Bros. Discovery would combine NBC, MSNBC, 324 00:22:37,035 --> 00:22:40,995 Speaker 1: and CNN. Under one roof, he writes, We've been thinking 325 00:22:41,035 --> 00:22:45,675 Speaker 1: about how NBC Universal could completely shift the perceived biased 326 00:22:45,795 --> 00:22:51,355 Speaker 1: narrative at NBC, MSN NOW and CNN, similar to what 327 00:22:51,475 --> 00:22:53,835 Speaker 1: Paramount is attempting with its acquisition of the Free Press 328 00:22:53,875 --> 00:22:56,475 Speaker 1: and appointing Barry Weiss as editor in chief of CBS 329 00:22:56,595 --> 00:23:01,515 Speaker 1: News enter Erica Kirk, who leads the nonprofit Turning Point 330 00:23:01,635 --> 00:23:04,995 Speaker 1: USA and is the widow of Charlie Kirk. What if 331 00:23:05,075 --> 00:23:08,395 Speaker 1: Comcast agreed to bring Kirk in as editor in chief 332 00:23:08,435 --> 00:23:12,195 Speaker 1: of the combined news unit upon closing Sure, at first, 333 00:23:12,275 --> 00:23:16,715 Speaker 1: blush it sounds crazy, by the way, sir, at four 334 00:23:16,875 --> 00:23:20,755 Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty second, blush, it sounds crazy. Err 335 00:23:21,515 --> 00:23:25,435 Speaker 1: But Trump loves a deal. F Trump f his deals, 336 00:23:26,315 --> 00:23:29,635 Speaker 1: and Brian Roberts needs to think big and differently. Yes, 337 00:23:30,435 --> 00:23:33,195 Speaker 1: kick Trump in the metaphorical nuts. That would be a 338 00:23:33,275 --> 00:23:38,235 Speaker 1: different thought. The combined NBC, MSNBCCNN could also add a 339 00:23:38,355 --> 00:23:42,835 Speaker 1: conservative ombudsman, as CBS News did with Kenneth R. Weinstein. 340 00:23:43,755 --> 00:23:48,155 Speaker 1: Ombudsman here is used metaphorically. What they have as a snitch, 341 00:23:48,475 --> 00:23:51,675 Speaker 1: what they have as a a collaborator, what they have 342 00:23:51,755 --> 00:23:54,995 Speaker 1: as a political officer inside CBS News, who is there 343 00:23:55,075 --> 00:23:58,715 Speaker 1: to turn in the liberals? Worth noting Comcast made a 344 00:23:58,955 --> 00:24:03,515 Speaker 1: sizable donation to Trump's White House ballroom renovation, which is 345 00:24:03,595 --> 00:24:08,715 Speaker 1: unsurprisingly harfy. NBC and MSNBC staff, Well that's because, mister 346 00:24:08,835 --> 00:24:12,595 Speaker 1: rich Greenfield, it's a bribe. News organization should not be 347 00:24:12,675 --> 00:24:15,515 Speaker 1: anywhere near something like this, especially if it's a bribe 348 00:24:15,555 --> 00:24:19,795 Speaker 1: of a corrupt president leading a corrupt movement full of 349 00:24:19,875 --> 00:24:22,275 Speaker 1: corrupt people who have no soul and are all going 350 00:24:22,355 --> 00:24:27,115 Speaker 1: to hell. Have a nice day, maggot, What a great idea. 351 00:24:27,475 --> 00:24:32,955 Speaker 1: Scowling angry, justifiably angry, mind you widow of an assassinated 352 00:24:33,035 --> 00:24:36,075 Speaker 1: right wing nutjob who all the members of the right 353 00:24:36,155 --> 00:24:39,395 Speaker 1: wing think was Jesus or Trump or Jesus Trump or something. 354 00:24:39,715 --> 00:24:43,475 Speaker 1: Put her in charge of NBC News slash MS now 355 00:24:43,915 --> 00:24:47,755 Speaker 1: slash CNN when she has no news experience and all 356 00:24:47,875 --> 00:24:51,275 Speaker 1: of their combined news organizations are bailing water as it is, 357 00:24:51,835 --> 00:24:55,315 Speaker 1: and incidentally, they're populated by people connected to me. The 358 00:24:55,435 --> 00:24:57,955 Speaker 1: anchor of the NBC Nightly News used to be my 359 00:24:58,075 --> 00:25:04,035 Speaker 1: production assistant. What could go wrong if you are hankering 360 00:25:04,115 --> 00:25:06,235 Speaker 1: for the day is when there were only three TV 361 00:25:06,395 --> 00:25:10,395 Speaker 1: networks doing only half an hour of news a night. Hey, 362 00:25:10,915 --> 00:25:14,395 Speaker 1: we may get back there and damned fast. But this 363 00:25:14,555 --> 00:25:17,195 Speaker 1: is the way they think. The presumption on the right 364 00:25:17,395 --> 00:25:19,395 Speaker 1: is that the left has been making up the news 365 00:25:19,755 --> 00:25:23,035 Speaker 1: because it contains things the right doesn't like. Therefore it 366 00:25:23,155 --> 00:25:26,155 Speaker 1: can't be real. It must be some sort of propaganda. 367 00:25:26,555 --> 00:25:30,115 Speaker 1: They really think this. If they wanted it to be 368 00:25:30,275 --> 00:25:32,795 Speaker 1: sunny and it turns out to be rain, they will 369 00:25:32,955 --> 00:25:36,435 Speaker 1: blame the liberal weather man rather than say, oh it's raining. 370 00:25:38,555 --> 00:25:43,835 Speaker 1: So necessarily, the solution to a combined NBC, MSNBC and 371 00:25:43,995 --> 00:25:46,755 Speaker 1: CNN under one roof would be to put a woman 372 00:25:46,835 --> 00:25:50,075 Speaker 1: with absolutely no experience and nothing but vendettas in charge 373 00:25:50,115 --> 00:25:53,515 Speaker 1: of the operation, because the Barry Weiss thing at CBS 374 00:25:53,635 --> 00:25:57,155 Speaker 1: is already going so well. The point is, as has 375 00:25:57,195 --> 00:26:00,155 Speaker 1: been pointed out here. I read the piece from what 376 00:26:00,355 --> 00:26:04,035 Speaker 1: was her name, Emily le Pato. I may be getting 377 00:26:04,035 --> 00:26:07,635 Speaker 1: that wrong, that all Barry Weiss is going to get 378 00:26:07,635 --> 00:26:10,155 Speaker 1: to do is preside over the end of CBS News 379 00:26:10,195 --> 00:26:12,915 Speaker 1: and the firing of everybody there. And if she has 380 00:26:12,955 --> 00:26:16,475 Speaker 1: a reputation, it will be destroyed. So if you want 381 00:26:16,515 --> 00:26:19,795 Speaker 1: to ruin Erica Kirk's life again, put her in charge 382 00:26:19,835 --> 00:26:29,155 Speaker 1: of NBC, CNN, MSNBC people are too stupid, but our winner, 383 00:26:29,235 --> 00:26:35,955 Speaker 1: speaking of ruining television news, Mark Thompson of CNN once again, 384 00:26:36,035 --> 00:26:39,275 Speaker 1: it's funny that the fascists are on this anti immigrant 385 00:26:39,395 --> 00:26:43,075 Speaker 1: kick when it's clear the most dangerous immigrants to this 386 00:26:43,195 --> 00:26:47,435 Speaker 1: country are pasty white guys from England or countries that 387 00:26:47,595 --> 00:26:53,395 Speaker 1: were English colonies, Australia and the Murdochs South Africa and 388 00:26:53,635 --> 00:26:57,395 Speaker 1: musk and the other guys the UK and people like 389 00:26:57,555 --> 00:27:04,075 Speaker 1: Mark Thompson. More impressively, why do so many submissive, loser 390 00:27:04,675 --> 00:27:08,515 Speaker 1: Trump appeasers from England get put in charge of America 391 00:27:08,715 --> 00:27:12,275 Speaker 1: news organizations and then promptly give in to Trump and 392 00:27:12,395 --> 00:27:18,035 Speaker 1: then immediately get humiliated by Trump. A story from our 393 00:27:18,075 --> 00:27:21,875 Speaker 1: friends at Oliver Darcy's newsletter status. During a trip to 394 00:27:22,035 --> 00:27:26,355 Speaker 1: DC last week, CNN CEO Mark Thompson made a visit 395 00:27:26,795 --> 00:27:29,635 Speaker 1: to the White House, where he promoted the network's new 396 00:27:29,755 --> 00:27:34,235 Speaker 1: streaming service. He wanted to get members of the Trump 397 00:27:34,275 --> 00:27:38,555 Speaker 1: administration up to speed on what the new CNN streaming operation. 398 00:27:38,995 --> 00:27:41,115 Speaker 1: I remember the last guy they put in charge of CNN. 399 00:27:41,435 --> 00:27:43,995 Speaker 1: His big deal was getting rid of the new CNN 400 00:27:44,075 --> 00:27:46,795 Speaker 1: streaming operation. Now we have a whole new approach, which 401 00:27:46,875 --> 00:27:50,035 Speaker 1: is another new CNN streaming operation, which the guy who 402 00:27:50,075 --> 00:27:53,195 Speaker 1: succeeds Mark Thompson can then turn down because that's what 403 00:27:53,355 --> 00:27:56,355 Speaker 1: works in management. What did the last guy do? He 404 00:27:56,675 --> 00:28:01,955 Speaker 1: invented an elixir that gives everyone eternal life, Let's burn 405 00:28:02,035 --> 00:28:04,995 Speaker 1: all of it. What don't we want? Who wants eternal life? 406 00:28:05,115 --> 00:28:10,075 Speaker 1: My policy is what shortened lives? Anyway, Mark Thompson went 407 00:28:10,115 --> 00:28:12,315 Speaker 1: into the White House and tried to sell the Trump 408 00:28:12,435 --> 00:28:18,195 Speaker 1: people on being nicer to CNN, on appearing on CNN more, 409 00:28:18,395 --> 00:28:22,035 Speaker 1: on promising that CNN would be nicer to Trump. After 410 00:28:22,155 --> 00:28:25,035 Speaker 1: every move they've made towards Trump since twenty twenty two, 411 00:28:25,355 --> 00:28:31,035 Speaker 1: when Chris licked my whatever began this process, every move 412 00:28:31,155 --> 00:28:34,155 Speaker 1: CNN has made has destroyed what was left of CNN. 413 00:28:35,515 --> 00:28:38,195 Speaker 1: Let's do more of that. Not only that. I will 414 00:28:38,275 --> 00:28:44,475 Speaker 1: buy CNN eternal life under the Trump administration, and all 415 00:28:44,675 --> 00:28:49,475 Speaker 1: of the MAGA will watch CNN and it's not a trap, 416 00:28:49,715 --> 00:28:53,355 Speaker 1: and it's not stupid, and you're not appeasing the Hitler 417 00:28:53,515 --> 00:28:56,315 Speaker 1: of America. No, you're not doing any of those things, 418 00:28:56,635 --> 00:29:04,235 Speaker 1: Mark Thompson. The tweet from Oliver Darcy's status with This 419 00:29:04,315 --> 00:29:06,955 Speaker 1: scoop about Mark Thompson's visit to the White House was 420 00:29:07,035 --> 00:29:13,835 Speaker 1: retweeted by Stephen Chung, the mincing Trump spokesman, who simply 421 00:29:13,915 --> 00:29:21,155 Speaker 1: retweeted it with the purple devil smile. In other words, 422 00:29:21,755 --> 00:29:25,035 Speaker 1: even Stephen Chung knows that Mark Thompson was brought in 423 00:29:25,595 --> 00:29:29,355 Speaker 1: so that he could obey in advance to Donald Trump, 424 00:29:30,235 --> 00:29:35,475 Speaker 1: and they immediately rewarded him by humiliating Mark Thompson online. 425 00:29:37,515 --> 00:29:40,715 Speaker 1: As George Conway put it, they're laughing at you, and 426 00:29:40,875 --> 00:29:45,475 Speaker 1: they are because Mark Thompson, pasty white guy thrown out 427 00:29:45,515 --> 00:29:51,395 Speaker 1: of England, now the head of CNN promoting the streaming service. 428 00:29:51,475 --> 00:29:58,675 Speaker 1: The last guy killed off is today's worst person. And 429 00:30:14,715 --> 00:30:19,315 Speaker 1: the exact anniversary anniversary number thirty seven of Kirk Gibson's 430 00:30:19,355 --> 00:30:21,435 Speaker 1: famous home run to win Game one of the nineteen 431 00:30:21,515 --> 00:30:25,835 Speaker 1: eighty eight World Series has long since passed. But before 432 00:30:25,915 --> 00:30:28,595 Speaker 1: we get too far away from the idea of Kirk 433 00:30:28,635 --> 00:30:31,635 Speaker 1: Gibson's La Dodgers in the World Series, I wanted to 434 00:30:31,715 --> 00:30:34,995 Speaker 1: tell this story once again. Only a couple of times 435 00:30:35,075 --> 00:30:37,595 Speaker 1: in my life have I been visited by the muse 436 00:30:39,075 --> 00:30:43,835 Speaker 1: of prediction. I once correctly predicted that Bucky Dent of 437 00:30:43,915 --> 00:30:45,875 Speaker 1: the New York Yankees would hit a home run to 438 00:30:45,955 --> 00:30:48,635 Speaker 1: win an American League playoff game between the Yankees and 439 00:30:48,675 --> 00:30:51,435 Speaker 1: the Red Sox in Fenway Park when my friends sitting 440 00:30:51,475 --> 00:30:55,395 Speaker 1: next to me, the Red Sox fan was expressing premature 441 00:30:55,515 --> 00:30:59,155 Speaker 1: jocularity that a Yankee had flied out to center field 442 00:30:59,275 --> 00:31:01,195 Speaker 1: with the tying runs on base and said, oh, thank 443 00:31:01,195 --> 00:31:03,275 Speaker 1: goodness that it's no home run threat. I then spent 444 00:31:03,395 --> 00:31:06,355 Speaker 1: five minutes explaining to him why Dent would necessarily now 445 00:31:06,435 --> 00:31:08,875 Speaker 1: hit a home run to win the game and the pennant, 446 00:31:09,475 --> 00:31:12,555 Speaker 1: which he then did. The other time was the Kirk 447 00:31:12,595 --> 00:31:15,915 Speaker 1: Gibson story in nineteen eighty eight, and this was in 448 00:31:16,075 --> 00:31:19,275 Speaker 1: direct response to a question asked to me by a 449 00:31:19,395 --> 00:31:23,035 Speaker 1: friend of mine then and now named Alexis Denny. So 450 00:31:23,475 --> 00:31:26,595 Speaker 1: just sit back and I say this and tell you 451 00:31:26,755 --> 00:31:31,475 Speaker 1: this story with the full awareness that these two predictions 452 00:31:31,635 --> 00:31:35,915 Speaker 1: of titanically important baseball events must be taken in the 453 00:31:35,955 --> 00:31:38,915 Speaker 1: context of the probability that the number of times I 454 00:31:39,115 --> 00:31:43,275 Speaker 1: had similar ecstatic visions of things that were about to 455 00:31:43,395 --> 00:31:47,635 Speaker 1: happen that did not happen, including say, the New York 456 00:31:47,755 --> 00:31:50,195 Speaker 1: Yankees winning the nineteen sixty eight World Series, when they 457 00:31:50,275 --> 00:31:55,835 Speaker 1: finished I think sixth. The number that did not happen 458 00:31:56,795 --> 00:32:00,475 Speaker 1: is one thousand or more. The number that did happen 459 00:32:01,435 --> 00:32:06,755 Speaker 1: is two. But Kirk Gibson was among them. Half of 460 00:32:06,835 --> 00:32:09,435 Speaker 1: the Dodgers starting lineup that had won the National League 461 00:32:09,435 --> 00:32:12,835 Speaker 1: Pennant was hurt and the other half was not that 462 00:32:12,995 --> 00:32:16,875 Speaker 1: impressive to begin with. National League Most Valuable Player Kirk 463 00:32:16,915 --> 00:32:20,395 Speaker 1: Gibson had nearly destroyed his left hamstring in Game two 464 00:32:20,435 --> 00:32:23,675 Speaker 1: of that playoff series that David Cohne had written about, 465 00:32:24,235 --> 00:32:26,875 Speaker 1: and Gibson had ripped up his right knee in Game seven. 466 00:32:27,035 --> 00:32:29,155 Speaker 1: He was assumed to be out of the World Series, 467 00:32:29,435 --> 00:32:31,315 Speaker 1: but he was still on the Dodger roster, and the 468 00:32:31,395 --> 00:32:34,435 Speaker 1: joke was that was only because the Dodgers literally did 469 00:32:34,515 --> 00:32:37,795 Speaker 1: not have any other healthy players under contract, and their 470 00:32:37,875 --> 00:32:40,675 Speaker 1: only other option was to activate sixty one year old 471 00:32:40,755 --> 00:32:46,235 Speaker 1: manager Tom Lesarda. Anyway, the Dodgers had actually led Game 472 00:32:46,355 --> 00:32:49,355 Speaker 1: one against the powerful Oakland A's to nothing after the 473 00:32:49,395 --> 00:32:52,035 Speaker 1: first inning, but by the ninth they were trailing four 474 00:32:52,075 --> 00:32:55,675 Speaker 1: to three, with literally three of the worst hitters in 475 00:32:55,755 --> 00:32:59,195 Speaker 1: the National League due up, and then the pitcher. I 476 00:32:59,315 --> 00:33:01,795 Speaker 1: was there covering the game for KCBS Channel two in 477 00:33:02,035 --> 00:33:05,995 Speaker 1: LA and my pal Alexis Denny, news and sports producer 478 00:33:06,075 --> 00:33:09,595 Speaker 1: for CBS Network News in Los Angeles, made our way 479 00:33:09,715 --> 00:33:12,915 Speaker 1: together down to the tiny alcove from the press box, 480 00:33:13,275 --> 00:33:16,115 Speaker 1: the alcove between the clubhouses, from which we could see 481 00:33:16,555 --> 00:33:19,075 Speaker 1: just a sliver of the field, pretty much just the 482 00:33:19,195 --> 00:33:23,155 Speaker 1: pitcher and the batter, framed by a hot dog stand 483 00:33:24,635 --> 00:33:27,475 Speaker 1: as the Oakland relief ace. Dennis Eckersley warmed up to 484 00:33:27,515 --> 00:33:29,355 Speaker 1: pitch the bottom of the ninth, and he had given 485 00:33:29,435 --> 00:33:33,555 Speaker 1: up exactly nine hits in his previous eighteen games, in 486 00:33:33,715 --> 00:33:37,195 Speaker 1: fourteen of which he had recorded saves. Alexis asked me, 487 00:33:37,355 --> 00:33:41,355 Speaker 1: simply and appropriately, so what are we going to ask 488 00:33:41,635 --> 00:33:46,355 Speaker 1: Eck after this game is over? And, matter of factly, 489 00:33:46,995 --> 00:33:50,395 Speaker 1: without any emotion, certainly without any sense of predicting anything, 490 00:33:50,435 --> 00:33:54,515 Speaker 1: I said, We're going to ask Eck about this game 491 00:33:54,715 --> 00:33:57,435 Speaker 1: losing home run he's about to give up to Kirk Gibson. 492 00:33:59,635 --> 00:34:03,115 Speaker 1: Alexis looked at me. Funny, I mean, funnier than usual. 493 00:34:03,875 --> 00:34:08,075 Speaker 1: What Gibson's not playing? He's hurt. I looked at her 494 00:34:08,195 --> 00:34:12,235 Speaker 1: with mild annoyance. Oh, come on, you know it has 495 00:34:12,355 --> 00:34:15,715 Speaker 1: to happen. I can only describe my feeling at that 496 00:34:15,835 --> 00:34:18,835 Speaker 1: time as being exactly what had been a decade before, 497 00:34:18,915 --> 00:34:22,035 Speaker 1: at another playoff game in Boston, with the Red Sox 498 00:34:22,155 --> 00:34:24,355 Speaker 1: leading the Yankees to nothing in the top of the seventh, 499 00:34:24,675 --> 00:34:27,395 Speaker 1: with two Yankees on and New York shortstop Bucky Dent 500 00:34:27,515 --> 00:34:29,915 Speaker 1: coming up, and my best friend, the Red Sox fan, 501 00:34:30,075 --> 00:34:33,755 Speaker 1: exhaling when the last batter had popped out and saying, 502 00:34:33,835 --> 00:34:36,275 Speaker 1: thank goodness, Dent is no home run threat. And I 503 00:34:36,355 --> 00:34:39,955 Speaker 1: began to speak in tongues, and what I was saying 504 00:34:40,075 --> 00:34:43,995 Speaker 1: was about how his hubristic remark about Dent would now 505 00:34:44,235 --> 00:34:49,475 Speaker 1: necessarily cause to happen next. What would happen next? A 506 00:34:49,635 --> 00:34:52,955 Speaker 1: three run home run by Bucky Dent, and it would 507 00:34:52,995 --> 00:34:57,715 Speaker 1: be all his fault, and then Dent hit the homer. 508 00:34:59,915 --> 00:35:04,835 Speaker 1: Neither the Dent nor the Gibson home run predictions were 509 00:35:04,915 --> 00:35:08,635 Speaker 1: really predictions. I felt no sense of investment in it. 510 00:35:08,995 --> 00:35:12,275 Speaker 1: I didn't race to put down a bet. I suppose 511 00:35:12,355 --> 00:35:15,475 Speaker 1: that at some other games I had made equally impossible 512 00:35:15,515 --> 00:35:18,995 Speaker 1: announcements of events that did not happen, but I have 513 00:35:19,275 --> 00:35:22,235 Speaker 1: never been given to that, so if I did do it, 514 00:35:22,275 --> 00:35:24,475 Speaker 1: it was only a couple of times. My batting average 515 00:35:24,555 --> 00:35:27,795 Speaker 1: is like four or five hundred on these and anyway, 516 00:35:27,835 --> 00:35:31,235 Speaker 1: these weren't calculations or analyzes on my part. I just 517 00:35:31,315 --> 00:35:34,675 Speaker 1: felt like I was running about five minutes ahead of 518 00:35:34,715 --> 00:35:37,115 Speaker 1: the rest of the world. And these things. Danse home 519 00:35:37,195 --> 00:35:40,675 Speaker 1: run in nineteen seventy eight, Gibson's home run in nineteen 520 00:35:40,715 --> 00:35:47,795 Speaker 1: eighty eight, these things had already happened. AnyWho, Mike Davis 521 00:35:47,835 --> 00:35:51,635 Speaker 1: of the Dodgers walked stole second base with two outs. Gibson, 522 00:35:51,675 --> 00:35:56,875 Speaker 1: to the shock of everybody except me, managed somehow to 523 00:35:57,155 --> 00:36:00,395 Speaker 1: climb up the three steps of the Dodger dugout and 524 00:36:00,675 --> 00:36:03,715 Speaker 1: waddle out to home plate, and then, on a three 525 00:36:03,755 --> 00:36:07,915 Speaker 1: to two pitch, hit the game winning home run. Like 526 00:36:08,075 --> 00:36:12,315 Speaker 1: I said, as Dodger Stadium shook and we prepared to 527 00:36:12,395 --> 00:36:15,195 Speaker 1: go into the clubhouses, Alexis Denny gave me a look 528 00:36:15,235 --> 00:36:18,715 Speaker 1: that I still can't really describe. But thirty five years later, 529 00:36:18,875 --> 00:36:22,755 Speaker 1: I know that since that night she has not been 530 00:36:22,835 --> 00:36:42,035 Speaker 1: fully convinced that I am of this earth. I got 531 00:36:42,075 --> 00:36:45,115 Speaker 1: it right. I've done all the damage I can do here. 532 00:36:45,195 --> 00:36:47,915 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Most of our countdown music was arranged, 533 00:36:47,915 --> 00:36:51,195 Speaker 1: produced and performed by Brian Ray and John Phillips. Schanel 534 00:36:51,315 --> 00:36:53,635 Speaker 1: our musical directors of Countdown, and it was produced by 535 00:36:53,715 --> 00:36:58,035 Speaker 1: Tko Brothers, mister Ray on guitars, bass and drums, mister 536 00:36:58,155 --> 00:37:02,635 Speaker 1: Chanelle on orchestration and keyboards. Our satirical and pithy musical 537 00:37:02,675 --> 00:37:05,275 Speaker 1: comments are by the best baseball stadium Gonnest ever in 538 00:37:05,355 --> 00:37:09,675 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme from 539 00:37:09,915 --> 00:37:13,315 Speaker 1: ESPN two, which was written by Mitch Warren Davis Curtesy 540 00:37:13,355 --> 00:37:16,835 Speaker 1: of ESPN Inc. Some other music was arranged and performed 541 00:37:16,915 --> 00:37:19,675 Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today is 542 00:37:19,715 --> 00:37:24,715 Speaker 1: my friend Alexis Denny Witness. Everything else was, as always 543 00:37:25,275 --> 00:37:28,955 Speaker 1: my fault. That's countdown for today, Day two hundred and 544 00:37:28,995 --> 00:37:34,195 Speaker 1: eighty four of America held hostage again, just seventy nine 545 00:37:34,275 --> 00:37:36,315 Speaker 1: days until the scheduled end of his lame duck and 546 00:37:36,395 --> 00:37:40,515 Speaker 1: lame brained term unless he's removed sooner by Maga and Epstein, 547 00:37:40,755 --> 00:37:44,275 Speaker 1: or that pavement patch on his hand, or the tail 548 00:37:44,355 --> 00:37:48,035 Speaker 1: and hall or his jet made out of poop, or 549 00:37:48,115 --> 00:37:51,995 Speaker 1: the r K he's building, or the next cognitive test. 550 00:37:53,235 --> 00:37:58,155 Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is Monday. Until then, I'm Keith Olderman. 551 00:37:58,275 --> 00:38:03,515 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck Hit, 552 00:38:03,555 --> 00:38:26,835 Speaker 1: the post, hit, the post, oh Hit, the Post. 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