1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,635 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:21,875 --> 00:00:24,995 Speaker 1: is now actually trying to keep his ass out of 3 00:00:25,115 --> 00:00:29,035 Speaker 1: jail for subverting the twenty twenty election by insisting that 4 00:00:29,155 --> 00:00:38,515 Speaker 1: Russia interfered in the twenty sixteen election. You heard me, Russia, Russia, Russia, 5 00:00:38,555 --> 00:00:41,075 Speaker 1: and that your honor is the case for the defense 6 00:00:41,115 --> 00:00:45,795 Speaker 1: of Dementia j Trump. Trump is demanding the Judge Tanya 7 00:00:45,875 --> 00:00:50,995 Speaker 1: Chutkin give his lawyers access to the full classified intelligence 8 00:00:51,035 --> 00:00:55,235 Speaker 1: report proving the twenty sixteen Russian interference. And so what 9 00:00:55,435 --> 00:01:00,075 Speaker 1: if he spent seven uninterrupted years honking and bleating about 10 00:01:00,075 --> 00:01:04,035 Speaker 1: the Russia hoax and denigrating the intelligence communities conclusion that 11 00:01:04,115 --> 00:01:07,555 Speaker 1: Russia in feared in the twenty sixteen election, while insisting 12 00:01:07,595 --> 00:01:10,675 Speaker 1: there was no Russian interference and making it an article 13 00:01:10,675 --> 00:01:13,155 Speaker 1: of faith within the Republican cult that he was cleared 14 00:01:13,155 --> 00:01:15,955 Speaker 1: of any Russian collusion and election subversion. And so what 15 00:01:15,995 --> 00:01:18,955 Speaker 1: if he wasn't cleared of Russian collusion and election subversion 16 00:01:18,995 --> 00:01:22,035 Speaker 1: because there was no Russian collusion an election subversion. Except 17 00:01:22,075 --> 00:01:25,315 Speaker 1: now his defense is there was two Russian collusion an 18 00:01:25,315 --> 00:01:32,235 Speaker 1: election subversion quote, whereas the Special Council's Office falsely alleges 19 00:01:32,595 --> 00:01:36,515 Speaker 1: that President Trump quote eroded public faith in the administration 20 00:01:36,595 --> 00:01:40,075 Speaker 1: of the election, write his lawyers in a late night 21 00:01:40,115 --> 00:01:43,475 Speaker 1: filing demanding more documents for their defense against Jack Smith's 22 00:01:43,555 --> 00:01:48,755 Speaker 1: Washington case. The twenty sixteen election intelligence Community assessment uses 23 00:01:49,275 --> 00:01:53,515 Speaker 1: strikingly similar language to attribute the origins of that erosion 24 00:01:53,595 --> 00:02:00,675 Speaker 1: to foreign influence, that is, foreign efforts to undermine public 25 00:02:00,755 --> 00:02:06,915 Speaker 1: faith in the US democratic process unquote. Please note here 26 00:02:07,475 --> 00:02:11,355 Speaker 1: Trump and his lawyers have used the phrases foreign influence 27 00:02:11,435 --> 00:02:16,355 Speaker 1: and foreign efforts, while the document they seek says Russian 28 00:02:16,475 --> 00:02:22,595 Speaker 1: influence and Russian efforts. This Trumpian argument worthy of Alice 29 00:02:22,715 --> 00:02:25,675 Speaker 1: in Wonderland is that the whole idea that the twenty 30 00:02:25,715 --> 00:02:27,995 Speaker 1: twenty election was stolen or rigged or corrupt was not 31 00:02:28,075 --> 00:02:32,035 Speaker 1: something Trump dreamed up. That it was the natural, organic 32 00:02:32,115 --> 00:02:36,315 Speaker 1: reaction of the American public to the intelligence community assessment 33 00:02:36,835 --> 00:02:45,235 Speaker 1: that foreigners tried to fix the twenty sixteen election. Wait, 34 00:02:45,355 --> 00:02:50,155 Speaker 1: which foreigners again operating on whose behalf? Mister Trump lawyer, Well, 35 00:02:50,195 --> 00:02:57,315 Speaker 1: never mind that right now foreigners moving on the hutzpah 36 00:02:57,475 --> 00:03:00,275 Speaker 1: would be extraordinary. It would be on the level of 37 00:03:00,315 --> 00:03:03,475 Speaker 1: the ultimate courtroom cliche. The guy who murders his parents, 38 00:03:03,515 --> 00:03:05,715 Speaker 1: is throwing himself on the MURRCA the court because he's 39 00:03:05,715 --> 00:03:09,555 Speaker 1: now an orphan. It would be like that, except this 40 00:03:09,755 --> 00:03:13,475 Speaker 1: is how Trump has lived his life. If you can't 41 00:03:13,515 --> 00:03:18,235 Speaker 1: feel shame, you can demand anything. If you can't feel guilt, 42 00:03:18,315 --> 00:03:20,875 Speaker 1: you can do anything. If you can't tell the difference 43 00:03:20,875 --> 00:03:23,915 Speaker 1: between reality and what you want reality to be, you 44 00:03:24,035 --> 00:03:27,515 Speaker 1: can insist the twenty sixteen election Intelligence Community Assessment is 45 00:03:27,555 --> 00:03:30,195 Speaker 1: a slander and an insult and a travesty and a 46 00:03:30,235 --> 00:03:32,515 Speaker 1: travesty of a mockery of a sham, of a mockery 47 00:03:32,515 --> 00:03:35,435 Speaker 1: of two mockeries of a sham, and then demand the 48 00:03:35,475 --> 00:03:39,795 Speaker 1: government produced the unreleased, undeclassified version of that document because 49 00:03:39,835 --> 00:03:46,555 Speaker 1: it's so true that it's Katy your defense Trump's lawyer's 50 00:03:46,635 --> 00:03:49,915 Speaker 1: right to judge Chutkin that the Intelligence Community Assessment the ICA, 51 00:03:50,235 --> 00:03:55,715 Speaker 1: contains quote information relating to a significant escalation of foreign 52 00:03:55,835 --> 00:04:00,275 Speaker 1: influence in the twenty sixteen election, which motivated then president 53 00:04:00,315 --> 00:04:04,395 Speaker 1: Trump and his administration to focus on foreign and cyber 54 00:04:04,475 --> 00:04:09,155 Speaker 1: rich and to be skeptical of claims about the absence 55 00:04:09,195 --> 00:04:14,475 Speaker 1: of foreign influence in the twenty twenty election. We don't 56 00:04:14,515 --> 00:04:18,435 Speaker 1: know what the ICA actually contains, because obviously, if Trump 57 00:04:18,515 --> 00:04:21,915 Speaker 1: is asking the government to give him this classified secret document, 58 00:04:22,195 --> 00:04:26,675 Speaker 1: it means he did not steal this particular classified secret document. 59 00:04:27,395 --> 00:04:33,035 Speaker 1: But what the public unclassified ICA actually says is Russia's 60 00:04:33,115 --> 00:04:36,795 Speaker 1: goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, 61 00:04:37,115 --> 00:04:41,515 Speaker 1: denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. 62 00:04:41,915 --> 00:04:44,915 Speaker 1: We further assess Putin and the Russian government developed a 63 00:04:44,955 --> 00:04:51,435 Speaker 1: clear preference for President elect Trump unquote. I'm guessing Trump's 64 00:04:51,475 --> 00:04:54,515 Speaker 1: lawyers don't plan to use that last part of the 65 00:04:54,915 --> 00:04:59,555 Speaker 1: ICA in his defense, But that's the problem. If they 66 00:04:59,635 --> 00:05:01,955 Speaker 1: use the other parts of it, don't, Jack Smith, then 67 00:05:01,955 --> 00:05:04,395 Speaker 1: his team get to use the Russian parts of it 68 00:05:04,915 --> 00:05:08,675 Speaker 1: to further the impression, the correct impression, that Trump was 69 00:05:08,715 --> 00:05:12,315 Speaker 1: already an immoral, cornered animal who would break any law 70 00:05:12,435 --> 00:05:15,035 Speaker 1: and violate any oath to this country just to get 71 00:05:15,075 --> 00:05:18,675 Speaker 1: what he wanted. I mean, you can see the defense logic. 72 00:05:19,195 --> 00:05:21,635 Speaker 1: Here's a document that says faith in the elections was 73 00:05:21,675 --> 00:05:24,995 Speaker 1: already damaged in twenty sixteen. So the charge that it 74 00:05:25,035 --> 00:05:28,075 Speaker 1: was Trump who damaged faith in the elections in twenty twenty, well, 75 00:05:28,115 --> 00:05:31,235 Speaker 1: that can't be true. But how does it help him 76 00:05:31,435 --> 00:05:35,075 Speaker 1: if we are relitigating the Trump Russia conspiracy. Only it's 77 00:05:35,155 --> 00:05:39,395 Speaker 1: Trump now putting into the court record classified documents that 78 00:05:39,475 --> 00:05:44,475 Speaker 1: prove that there was a Trump Russia conspiracy. If it 79 00:05:44,675 --> 00:05:48,595 Speaker 1: sounds like Trump's lawyers are already at the throwing anything 80 00:05:48,715 --> 00:05:49,635 Speaker 1: at the wall to. 81 00:05:49,715 --> 00:05:55,035 Speaker 2: See if it sticks stage, you know, like Trump did 82 00:05:55,075 --> 00:05:58,235 Speaker 2: with lunch with ketchup on the side the side of 83 00:05:58,275 --> 00:06:02,235 Speaker 2: the wall. If it sounds like they are already well 84 00:06:02,315 --> 00:06:05,875 Speaker 2: past desperation, it is because because while Kyle Cheney of 85 00:06:05,915 --> 00:06:08,395 Speaker 2: Politico and Philip bump Up the Washington Post did such 86 00:06:08,395 --> 00:06:11,915 Speaker 2: a good job exposing this Russia self contradiction story, they 87 00:06:11,955 --> 00:06:16,155 Speaker 2: did not stitch it together with ABC's Fly on the 88 00:06:16,235 --> 00:06:20,835 Speaker 2: Ketchup stained Wall report of what Mike Pence told the 89 00:06:20,875 --> 00:06:24,835 Speaker 2: Special Council in his interview and grand jury testimony, and 90 00:06:24,875 --> 00:06:27,875 Speaker 2: how Pence could not only testify against Trump in the 91 00:06:27,915 --> 00:06:34,395 Speaker 2: subversion case now, but could put Trump away incredibly, Pence's 92 00:06:34,435 --> 00:06:40,515 Speaker 2: testimony could pivot on a misplaced comma in his book, 93 00:06:41,155 --> 00:06:44,475 Speaker 2: I Believe the title was Mother, let me write this book. 94 00:06:45,275 --> 00:06:47,995 Speaker 2: In his book, Pence recounted that he spoke to Trump 95 00:06:48,035 --> 00:06:51,635 Speaker 2: on Christmas Day twenty twenty, when the Pence can block 96 00:06:51,715 --> 00:06:56,275 Speaker 2: the certification plot was already well underway. In his book, 97 00:06:56,315 --> 00:06:59,715 Speaker 2: Pence quotes himself as telling Trump, and the punctuation is essential, 98 00:06:59,955 --> 00:07:04,155 Speaker 2: quote you know, comma, I don't think I have the 99 00:07:04,195 --> 00:07:09,955 Speaker 2: authority to change the outcome unquote. But Pence told Jack 100 00:07:09,995 --> 00:07:13,995 Speaker 2: Smith's investigators that the comma should not have been in 101 00:07:14,035 --> 00:07:17,195 Speaker 2: that sentence at all, And what in fact he said 102 00:07:17,235 --> 00:07:20,715 Speaker 2: to Trump was quote, you know, I don't think I 103 00:07:20,795 --> 00:07:24,915 Speaker 2: have the authority to change the outcome, which suggests that 104 00:07:24,955 --> 00:07:28,275 Speaker 2: Trump had begun to pressure to threaten Pence to violate 105 00:07:28,315 --> 00:07:31,955 Speaker 2: the Constitution at least thirteen days before the January sixth 106 00:07:31,995 --> 00:07:36,035 Speaker 2: coup attempt. And that is damning, not the colloquial you know, 107 00:07:36,875 --> 00:07:41,635 Speaker 2: but you know I can't do that. While this next 108 00:07:41,635 --> 00:07:44,195 Speaker 2: part is far less important to the trial than is 109 00:07:44,235 --> 00:07:47,195 Speaker 2: the one comma, if you think that was a near 110 00:07:47,315 --> 00:07:51,475 Speaker 2: run thing, ABC reports Pence almost went along with Trump's 111 00:07:51,515 --> 00:07:55,835 Speaker 2: backup plan. If Pence would not subvert the electoral College certification, 112 00:07:56,155 --> 00:07:59,155 Speaker 2: he should just skip it and let somebody else do it. 113 00:08:00,195 --> 00:08:05,155 Speaker 2: Looking at you, Chuck Grassley, let me quote ABC. With 114 00:08:05,275 --> 00:08:08,555 Speaker 2: the pressure on Pence mounting, he concluded on Christmas Eve, 115 00:08:09,595 --> 00:08:12,755 Speaker 2: just for a moment, that he would follow Trump's suggestion 116 00:08:12,875 --> 00:08:16,315 Speaker 2: and let someone else preside over the proceedings on January sixth, 117 00:08:16,515 --> 00:08:21,275 Speaker 2: writing in his notes that doing otherwise would be too 118 00:08:21,555 --> 00:08:26,715 Speaker 2: hurtful to my friend. Not feeling like I should attend 119 00:08:26,795 --> 00:08:30,275 Speaker 2: electoral count, Pence wrote in his notes in late December, 120 00:08:30,515 --> 00:08:36,155 Speaker 2: too many questions, too many doubts, too hurtful to my friend. Therefore, 121 00:08:36,595 --> 00:08:41,755 Speaker 2: I'm not going to participate in certification of election. Then, 122 00:08:42,075 --> 00:08:45,995 Speaker 2: sitting across the table from his son, a marine while 123 00:08:46,035 --> 00:08:49,995 Speaker 2: on vacation in Colorado, his son said to him, Dad, 124 00:08:50,475 --> 00:08:54,835 Speaker 2: you took the same oath I took. It was an 125 00:08:54,915 --> 00:08:58,675 Speaker 2: oath to support and defend the Constitution. Pence, recalled to 126 00:08:58,715 --> 00:09:05,595 Speaker 2: Smith's investigators' sources, said, unquote. 127 00:09:03,875 --> 00:09:09,395 Speaker 1: Glory, glory, hallelujah, ah, everything but father and son then 128 00:09:09,635 --> 00:09:12,915 Speaker 1: standing up and joining together in an embrace, while each 129 00:09:12,955 --> 00:09:16,915 Speaker 1: of them started waving giant thirty foot American flags in 130 00:09:16,915 --> 00:09:19,155 Speaker 1: the air, while mother went into the kitchen and baked 131 00:09:19,195 --> 00:09:28,995 Speaker 1: three thousand apple pies. A as I suggested yesterday, You 132 00:09:29,075 --> 00:09:35,475 Speaker 1: and I apparently were raised to recognize treason and fascism 133 00:09:36,155 --> 00:09:39,475 Speaker 1: and the attempt to overthrow the duly elected government of 134 00:09:39,475 --> 00:09:44,315 Speaker 1: the United States, and manipulation when we saw them, to 135 00:09:44,715 --> 00:09:47,475 Speaker 1: say nothing of people who say something never happened, but 136 00:09:47,555 --> 00:09:49,035 Speaker 1: if it did, I can use it for my defense, 137 00:09:49,075 --> 00:09:52,675 Speaker 1: can I? But the alarming reality is that a huge 138 00:09:52,675 --> 00:09:59,355 Speaker 1: and possibly decisive percentage of voters don't, wouldn't, and wouldn't 139 00:09:59,355 --> 00:10:01,515 Speaker 1: do a damn thing about it if they did see it. 140 00:10:03,155 --> 00:10:05,875 Speaker 1: The real problem, of course, is that there is also 141 00:10:05,915 --> 00:10:11,275 Speaker 1: a huge and possibly decisive percentage of political reporters who don't, wouldn't, 142 00:10:11,315 --> 00:10:13,115 Speaker 1: and wouldn't do a damn thing about it if they did. 143 00:10:14,315 --> 00:10:17,275 Speaker 1: Media Matters, you know, the people Elon Musk is trying 144 00:10:17,315 --> 00:10:19,835 Speaker 1: to get arrested for daring to point out his anti 145 00:10:19,835 --> 00:10:22,595 Speaker 1: Semitic social media site and more on Elon and that 146 00:10:22,795 --> 00:10:26,195 Speaker 1: later Media Matters did the math. And here's a shock. 147 00:10:26,235 --> 00:10:31,275 Speaker 1: Remember on Veteran's Day when Trump paraphrased Adolph Hitler and promised, quote, 148 00:10:31,315 --> 00:10:34,875 Speaker 1: we will root out the communists, Marxist fascists, and radical 149 00:10:34,955 --> 00:10:39,075 Speaker 1: left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of 150 00:10:39,075 --> 00:10:44,275 Speaker 1: our country. Remember that little colorful imagery evoking blood running 151 00:10:44,315 --> 00:10:48,315 Speaker 1: in the streets. You remember in twenty sixteen when Hillary 152 00:10:48,315 --> 00:10:53,875 Speaker 1: Clinton called Trump supporters a basket of deplorables, you don't well, 153 00:10:54,595 --> 00:10:57,395 Speaker 1: she said that, and when she said that, people actually 154 00:10:57,475 --> 00:11:00,515 Speaker 1: thought she was over at the top, when in fact, 155 00:11:00,915 --> 00:11:03,395 Speaker 1: only about two percent of Trump supporters are as good 156 00:11:03,435 --> 00:11:07,915 Speaker 1: as deplorable. AnyWho Media Matters has compared the coverage of 157 00:11:07,995 --> 00:11:12,835 Speaker 1: Clinton's deplorable comment by American political media and Trump's vermin 158 00:11:12,995 --> 00:11:16,075 Speaker 1: comment by American political media. And if you think those 159 00:11:16,075 --> 00:11:21,035 Speaker 1: two statements are not comparable, boy oh boy, you are right. ABC, CBS, 160 00:11:21,075 --> 00:11:27,275 Speaker 1: and NBC provided eighteen times more coverage of Clinton's deplorables 161 00:11:28,675 --> 00:11:33,515 Speaker 1: than Trump's vermin. On CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, the 162 00:11:33,555 --> 00:11:36,755 Speaker 1: Clinton coverage was nine times more than the Trump coverage. 163 00:11:36,795 --> 00:11:41,755 Speaker 1: In the five highest circulating US newspapers, Clinton's line got 164 00:11:41,795 --> 00:11:48,195 Speaker 1: twenty nine times the attention that Trump's did. I don't 165 00:11:48,195 --> 00:11:51,115 Speaker 1: know if I've mentioned this before, but American political journalism 166 00:11:51,195 --> 00:11:56,155 Speaker 1: is terrible. Those who can't do teach, those who can't 167 00:11:56,235 --> 00:12:01,995 Speaker 1: teach teach Jim. Those who can't teach Jim, report, those 168 00:12:02,075 --> 00:12:08,115 Speaker 1: who can't report report on politics. Politico has room for 169 00:12:08,235 --> 00:12:11,435 Speaker 1: Kyle Cheney's excellent work, as I already noted, and it 170 00:12:11,475 --> 00:12:15,755 Speaker 1: also has room for Rachel Bade, the repeatedly fired from 171 00:12:15,795 --> 00:12:20,115 Speaker 1: everywhere Ryan Liza and Eugene Daniels, who put together the 172 00:12:20,195 --> 00:12:23,915 Speaker 1: Daily Playbook newsletter. One of them, and none of them 173 00:12:23,955 --> 00:12:26,555 Speaker 1: is proud enough to demand a specific byline. And when 174 00:12:26,595 --> 00:12:29,035 Speaker 1: you hear this crap that will actually make sense to you. 175 00:12:29,595 --> 00:12:33,395 Speaker 1: One of them opened Yesterday's recitation of the utterly amoral 176 00:12:33,715 --> 00:12:37,195 Speaker 1: lack of convictions of the media political industrial complex with 177 00:12:37,355 --> 00:12:43,155 Speaker 1: this quote. A handful of storylines appeared destined to dominate 178 00:12:43,195 --> 00:12:48,035 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four presidential campaign. Donald Trump's myriad legal woes, 179 00:12:48,675 --> 00:12:53,195 Speaker 1: voter doubts about Joe Biden's age, an unsettled economy, a 180 00:12:53,275 --> 00:12:58,715 Speaker 1: vollatile global stage. And then there's the saga of Hunter 181 00:12:58,795 --> 00:13:06,275 Speaker 1: Biden unquote. Notice anything missing in there? Yep, no mention 182 00:13:06,315 --> 00:13:11,115 Speaker 1: of Trump's plan for dictatorship. American political reporters are still 183 00:13:11,155 --> 00:13:18,555 Speaker 1: not taking it seriously. Trump's myriad legal woes sounds like 184 00:13:18,635 --> 00:13:22,675 Speaker 1: he's got too many parking tickets, doesn't it. He tried 185 00:13:22,915 --> 00:13:26,515 Speaker 1: to violently overthrow the government of the United States, and 186 00:13:26,715 --> 00:13:30,715 Speaker 1: if he gains power again, he hopes to terminate the Constitution. 187 00:13:31,075 --> 00:13:37,035 Speaker 1: You great useless idiots. Rachel Bade, Ryan Lizza, and Eugene 188 00:13:37,115 --> 00:13:45,955 Speaker 1: Daniels bet Hunter Biden bet the emails bet Hunter Biden's emails. Happily, 189 00:13:47,355 --> 00:13:51,435 Speaker 1: there was some petard hoisting about Hunter Biden. Yesterday, the 190 00:13:51,515 --> 00:13:57,195 Speaker 1: president's son publicly volunteered to testify before Congressman James I'm 191 00:13:57,235 --> 00:14:01,115 Speaker 1: not too good at this, am I Comer. Comer's henchman 192 00:14:01,195 --> 00:14:04,635 Speaker 1: Chairman Jason Smith of Ways and Means tweets I welcome 193 00:14:04,755 --> 00:14:07,515 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden finally agreeing to testify it it's long overdue 194 00:14:07,515 --> 00:14:09,675 Speaker 1: for him to come clean in front of the American people. 195 00:14:09,755 --> 00:14:14,475 Speaker 1: Only within minutes Smith's deletes that tweet that welcome, because, 196 00:14:14,515 --> 00:14:17,435 Speaker 1: of course, the last thing Jamie Comber wants is Hunter 197 00:14:17,515 --> 00:14:20,115 Speaker 1: Biden testifying in public, because that's when it would be 198 00:14:20,195 --> 00:14:22,995 Speaker 1: unavoidably shown that the only thing Comber has in his 199 00:14:23,075 --> 00:14:29,315 Speaker 1: hand is is well is little. Jamie Comer's Committee to 200 00:14:29,355 --> 00:14:33,315 Speaker 1: Obstruct Justice wants a closed deposition, not a public hearing, 201 00:14:33,755 --> 00:14:36,235 Speaker 1: so it can then leak what it wants to, because 202 00:14:36,235 --> 00:14:38,755 Speaker 1: the Hunter Biden's story is not about the truth, even 203 00:14:38,835 --> 00:14:41,595 Speaker 1: if it did make President Biden look bad, and it's 204 00:14:41,635 --> 00:14:45,075 Speaker 1: about making dumb voters and even dumber reporters like these 205 00:14:45,155 --> 00:14:48,595 Speaker 1: idiots at the Politico Playbook believe that the real truth 206 00:14:48,635 --> 00:14:50,395 Speaker 1: is way wait wait wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, way 207 00:14:50,435 --> 00:14:54,675 Speaker 1: worse and it will be revealed real soon, along with 208 00:14:55,395 --> 00:14:59,075 Speaker 1: Trump's replacement for Obamacare in just two weeks from now 209 00:14:59,795 --> 00:15:08,035 Speaker 1: during Infrastructure Week, Well played, Hunter Biden. One last thing 210 00:15:09,195 --> 00:15:13,275 Speaker 1: part of Liz Cheney's book has leaked out via CNN. 211 00:15:13,915 --> 00:15:16,115 Speaker 1: See she had a reason to not write a Trump 212 00:15:16,195 --> 00:15:19,675 Speaker 1: book in real time she was in Congress. Her job 213 00:15:19,795 --> 00:15:25,115 Speaker 1: was not reporting Maggie Haberman. And in addition to Liz 214 00:15:25,195 --> 00:15:28,435 Speaker 1: Cheney confirming what we all knew, Congress and Mark Green 215 00:15:28,595 --> 00:15:32,595 Speaker 1: called Trump quote orange Jesus. Jim Jordan doesn't give a 216 00:15:32,675 --> 00:15:35,835 Speaker 1: damn about law told her the only thing that matters 217 00:15:35,875 --> 00:15:38,515 Speaker 1: is winning, which is odd since he so seldom has. 218 00:15:39,675 --> 00:15:42,235 Speaker 1: And Cheney quotes Kevin McCarthy two days after the twenty 219 00:15:42,235 --> 00:15:44,835 Speaker 1: twenty elections saying of Trump, quote, he knows it's over. 220 00:15:45,195 --> 00:15:47,675 Speaker 1: He needs to go through all the stages of grief. 221 00:15:49,235 --> 00:15:52,155 Speaker 1: And now Speaker Mike Johnson the Little Worm, was pressuring 222 00:15:52,195 --> 00:15:55,555 Speaker 1: House Republicans to sign the amicus brief to help Trump's 223 00:15:55,595 --> 00:15:59,275 Speaker 1: coup lawsuit, and Johnson told her quote, we just need 224 00:15:59,315 --> 00:16:02,875 Speaker 1: to do this one last thing for Champ. In addition 225 00:16:03,035 --> 00:16:06,675 Speaker 1: to that to be expected confirmation that every American who 226 00:16:06,715 --> 00:16:10,875 Speaker 1: has ever thought, gee, we keep losing the elections. Say 227 00:16:10,995 --> 00:16:14,115 Speaker 1: I've got an idea, let's stop having elections. That every 228 00:16:14,115 --> 00:16:16,595 Speaker 1: one of them is in the Republican leadership at the moment. 229 00:16:16,835 --> 00:16:21,795 Speaker 1: In addition to that, there was this remarkable vignette. We 230 00:16:21,915 --> 00:16:25,475 Speaker 1: don't yet have the exact text from the Cheney book, 231 00:16:25,755 --> 00:16:31,355 Speaker 1: so I'll just read the CNN recap verbatim quote, She 232 00:16:31,515 --> 00:16:35,155 Speaker 1: recounts the moment she first found out that Kevin McCarthy, 233 00:16:35,315 --> 00:16:39,275 Speaker 1: fearing he had lost his ability to fundraise, secretly went 234 00:16:39,355 --> 00:16:42,435 Speaker 1: to visit Trump at marri Lago just three weeks after 235 00:16:42,475 --> 00:16:46,395 Speaker 1: the January sixth attack. At first, Cheney thought the photo 236 00:16:46,435 --> 00:16:50,155 Speaker 1: of the two men smiling and shaking hands was fake, 237 00:16:51,275 --> 00:16:55,155 Speaker 1: but she was incredulous at McCarthy's defense of his visit. 238 00:16:55,595 --> 00:17:01,235 Speaker 1: He claimed Trump's staff summoned him marri A Lago. What 239 00:17:01,395 --> 00:17:06,835 Speaker 1: the hell? Kevin Cheney asked, are really worried? McCarthy said, 240 00:17:07,355 --> 00:17:13,035 Speaker 1: Trump's not eating, so they asked me to come see him. 241 00:17:13,675 --> 00:17:17,795 Speaker 1: What you went to mari A Lago because Trump's not eating. 242 00:17:18,715 --> 00:17:35,275 Speaker 1: Cheney responded, Yeah, he's really depressed. McCarthy said, Trumps not eating. Okay, 243 00:17:35,275 --> 00:17:41,995 Speaker 1: I got three here Trump's not eating because he threw 244 00:17:42,235 --> 00:17:48,995 Speaker 1: all of it against the wall. Trumps not eating. You 245 00:17:49,115 --> 00:18:01,075 Speaker 1: mean he's dead and Trump's not eating, not eating? Who 246 00:18:03,875 --> 00:18:08,435 Speaker 1: all show of interest here? Elon Musk insists Pizzagate is true, 247 00:18:08,955 --> 00:18:13,035 Speaker 1: posts as such on Twitter. So that's it. I'm done 248 00:18:13,275 --> 00:18:16,155 Speaker 1: with Twitter. That's next. This is countdown. 249 00:18:17,715 --> 00:18:31,155 Speaker 3: This is countdown with Keith Alberman. Postscripts to the news, 250 00:18:31,195 --> 00:18:38,075 Speaker 3: some headlines, some updates, some snark, some prediction. Dateline, San Francisco, 251 00:18:38,235 --> 00:18:39,995 Speaker 3: Good luck, Twitter, wherever you are. 252 00:18:40,515 --> 00:18:44,115 Speaker 1: Who knew that? When Elon Musk dubbed himself chief Twitch, 253 00:18:44,435 --> 00:18:47,795 Speaker 1: he meant it literally. After financially rewarding all the hate 254 00:18:47,835 --> 00:18:51,235 Speaker 1: speech and welcoming back Kanye West and Trump and going 255 00:18:51,275 --> 00:18:54,995 Speaker 1: full anti Semite and threatening Ukraine and trying to get 256 00:18:55,035 --> 00:19:00,475 Speaker 1: media matters arrested in Texas, yesterday, Musk endorsed the QAnon 257 00:19:00,715 --> 00:19:04,075 Speaker 1: Pizzagate theory. He shared a meme in which he said, 258 00:19:04,115 --> 00:19:07,755 Speaker 1: they who whoever they are, trafficked children, but that you're 259 00:19:08,075 --> 00:19:12,515 Speaker 1: whoever you are expert debunking pizzagate went to prison for 260 00:19:12,675 --> 00:19:15,915 Speaker 1: child porn. Musk then added a link to an NBC 261 00:19:15,955 --> 00:19:18,715 Speaker 1: News story about the conviction of a former ABC News 262 00:19:18,755 --> 00:19:22,115 Speaker 1: producer named James Meek, who did go to prison for 263 00:19:22,195 --> 00:19:25,395 Speaker 1: child porn and who once did refer to the debunked 264 00:19:25,435 --> 00:19:28,475 Speaker 1: Pizzagate theory, you know, the one that turned out to 265 00:19:28,675 --> 00:19:31,915 Speaker 1: actually be nothing less than an intricate political smear against 266 00:19:31,995 --> 00:19:35,675 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton and Democrats, one so repulsive that it sent 267 00:19:35,755 --> 00:19:39,595 Speaker 1: somebody reminiscent of Musk, a deranged man named Edgar Madison 268 00:19:39,635 --> 00:19:43,155 Speaker 1: Welch into a restaurant in Washington carrying an AR fifteen, 269 00:19:43,475 --> 00:19:45,675 Speaker 1: demanding to be taken to the basement so he could 270 00:19:45,755 --> 00:19:49,275 Speaker 1: free the kids. There were no kids. In fact, there 271 00:19:49,395 --> 00:19:52,755 Speaker 1: was no basement, and there is no Pizzagate, and there 272 00:19:52,875 --> 00:19:57,715 Speaker 1: is no conscience in Elon Musk, because in Musk's damaged brain, 273 00:19:58,355 --> 00:20:02,555 Speaker 1: those events in the life of this guy Meek somehow 274 00:20:02,635 --> 00:20:08,315 Speaker 1: confirmed the Pizzagate theory is the truth. Musk latched onto 275 00:20:08,395 --> 00:20:12,595 Speaker 1: those events in Meek's life, not say Meek's appointment by 276 00:20:12,635 --> 00:20:16,515 Speaker 1: a Republican congressman to become a counter terrorism advisor to 277 00:20:16,635 --> 00:20:19,995 Speaker 1: the Republicans on the US House Committee on Homeland Security. 278 00:20:20,795 --> 00:20:24,675 Speaker 1: In any event, that was the last straw for me 279 00:20:25,435 --> 00:20:29,915 Speaker 1: Musk saying Pizzagate is true. I have been posting on 280 00:20:29,915 --> 00:20:33,475 Speaker 1: Twitter since early twenty ten I've promoted all my work, 281 00:20:33,515 --> 00:20:36,915 Speaker 1: including this series, on there. I've also helped recover and 282 00:20:36,995 --> 00:20:39,955 Speaker 1: save a lot of lost and at risk dogs on Twitter, 283 00:20:39,995 --> 00:20:42,795 Speaker 1: and I'll continue to do that from my account devoted 284 00:20:42,835 --> 00:20:46,275 Speaker 1: to them, which is at tom Jumbo Grumbo. But as 285 00:20:46,355 --> 00:20:49,235 Speaker 1: long as Musk is involved in Twitter, and as long 286 00:20:49,315 --> 00:20:53,555 Speaker 1: as it is now QAnon friendly, I am done posting 287 00:20:53,675 --> 00:20:57,555 Speaker 1: anything else there. There is actual news related to this, 288 00:20:57,715 --> 00:20:59,795 Speaker 1: not my part. I will not be missed. I will 289 00:20:59,795 --> 00:21:02,995 Speaker 1: not have an impact on this. The utility of Twitter 290 00:21:03,115 --> 00:21:05,995 Speaker 1: is so damaged now that even four years ago, every 291 00:21:06,035 --> 00:21:09,795 Speaker 1: political video I posted got thousands of actual plays because 292 00:21:09,835 --> 00:21:13,435 Speaker 1: it was on Twitter. The advantage of the podcast medium 293 00:21:13,555 --> 00:21:16,875 Speaker 1: is that you can now literally trace how every listener 294 00:21:16,915 --> 00:21:19,795 Speaker 1: gets to the site they listened to you from via 295 00:21:19,835 --> 00:21:24,035 Speaker 1: in my case, iHeart directly or Apple podcasts, or off Facebook, 296 00:21:24,155 --> 00:21:27,875 Speaker 1: or via YouTube, or via the video version at YouTube 297 00:21:27,955 --> 00:21:31,395 Speaker 1: or the video promos on Twitter. Well, one day last month, 298 00:21:31,395 --> 00:21:34,235 Speaker 1: we got roughly one hundred and twenty five thousand downloads 299 00:21:34,355 --> 00:21:38,875 Speaker 1: verified video plays included actual listeners who listened and by 300 00:21:38,915 --> 00:21:41,515 Speaker 1: the way, thank you, one hundred and twenty five thousand 301 00:21:41,515 --> 00:21:44,475 Speaker 1: listeners on one day and the number according to the 302 00:21:44,515 --> 00:21:47,595 Speaker 1: pie chart that they show you that reached the podcast 303 00:21:47,635 --> 00:21:53,395 Speaker 1: from Twitter X was twenty two, not twenty two percent. 304 00:21:54,155 --> 00:21:57,435 Speaker 1: Twenty two the number between twenty one and twenty three. 305 00:21:57,675 --> 00:21:59,915 Speaker 1: Twenty two people out of one hundred and twenty five 306 00:22:00,075 --> 00:22:04,915 Speaker 1: thousand got there via Twitter. I'm actually late to this part, Pardy. 307 00:22:05,035 --> 00:22:08,515 Speaker 1: CNN's media guy Oliver Darcy reports that not only are 308 00:22:08,595 --> 00:22:12,915 Speaker 1: advertisers continuing to flee Twitter X, but the flagship accounts, 309 00:22:12,955 --> 00:22:16,515 Speaker 1: the brand awareness accounts, the main Disney account, and the 310 00:22:16,515 --> 00:22:20,035 Speaker 1: main Paramount account, and Lionsgate and Sony and Universal and 311 00:22:20,075 --> 00:22:25,075 Speaker 1: Warner Bros. Discovery. None of them have posted anything anything 312 00:22:25,075 --> 00:22:29,515 Speaker 1: at all on Twitter X in nearly two weeks since 313 00:22:29,555 --> 00:22:35,515 Speaker 1: Elon Musk endorsed the anti Semitic Great Replacement theory. Musk's 314 00:22:35,515 --> 00:22:39,515 Speaker 1: announcement that he has joined the deranged Pizzagate conspiracy lunacy 315 00:22:39,915 --> 00:22:41,755 Speaker 1: is not going to do anything to fix this obviously 316 00:22:41,835 --> 00:22:45,355 Speaker 1: quite the opposite. One of the top psychopaths promoting this filth, 317 00:22:45,395 --> 00:22:49,075 Speaker 1: a woman named Liz Croken, celebrated Musk joining their little 318 00:22:49,115 --> 00:22:52,835 Speaker 1: boor yesterday. She said, quote, he would not be putting 319 00:22:52,875 --> 00:22:58,035 Speaker 1: a laser pointer on Pizzagate if Pizzagate wasn't real unquote 320 00:22:58,755 --> 00:23:02,115 Speaker 1: meet your new Twitter neighbors. I'm not going to tell 321 00:23:02,155 --> 00:23:04,675 Speaker 1: you or any company to get away from Twitter X, 322 00:23:05,195 --> 00:23:07,595 Speaker 1: certainly not while I'm still using it to save dogs, 323 00:23:08,155 --> 00:23:10,355 Speaker 1: although I will note that saving the dogs is more 324 00:23:10,355 --> 00:23:13,755 Speaker 1: important even than my disgust, and it is more important 325 00:23:13,755 --> 00:23:17,315 Speaker 1: than Elon Musk's psychosis. But I would just point out 326 00:23:17,355 --> 00:23:22,035 Speaker 1: that if you post on twitter X, somewhere, somehow, someday, 327 00:23:22,635 --> 00:23:27,595 Speaker 1: your name will appear next to something like Pizzagate, because 328 00:23:27,635 --> 00:23:33,195 Speaker 1: the guy who owns that hell hole now metaphorically owns Pizzagate, 329 00:23:33,875 --> 00:23:38,035 Speaker 1: and he owns whatever you post on his site, and thus, 330 00:23:38,155 --> 00:24:04,955 Speaker 1: in a very real way, he now owns you. Still 331 00:24:04,955 --> 00:24:07,395 Speaker 1: ahead of us on countdown, the creative genius who wrote 332 00:24:07,395 --> 00:24:11,275 Speaker 1: the original This Is Sports Center commercials, the originals, not 333 00:24:11,395 --> 00:24:15,675 Speaker 1: the later clever counterfeits, Hank Pearlman, was over to the 334 00:24:15,755 --> 00:24:18,115 Speaker 1: studios yesterday and we were reminiscing about some of the 335 00:24:18,155 --> 00:24:20,715 Speaker 1: amazing stuff we got away with, like the day we 336 00:24:20,755 --> 00:24:23,595 Speaker 1: had Gordy Howe beat me up, and the day I 337 00:24:23,675 --> 00:24:26,475 Speaker 1: destroyed a guitar in the middle of the ESPN newsroom. 338 00:24:26,515 --> 00:24:28,515 Speaker 1: But Hank and I didn't tell anybody I was going 339 00:24:28,515 --> 00:24:32,235 Speaker 1: to do that, so needless to say, I now need 340 00:24:32,235 --> 00:24:35,635 Speaker 1: to tell you all those stories in an updated version 341 00:24:35,635 --> 00:24:39,355 Speaker 1: of things I promised not to tell next, including audio 342 00:24:39,475 --> 00:24:42,315 Speaker 1: from some of the commercials first time for the daily 343 00:24:42,395 --> 00:24:44,955 Speaker 1: roundup of the mis grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects 344 00:24:44,955 --> 00:24:50,035 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute today's other worse persons in the world. 345 00:24:50,195 --> 00:24:56,915 Speaker 1: Besides Elon Musk, worse anchor Katrina Perry and BBC World 346 00:24:57,035 --> 00:25:00,555 Speaker 1: News America, there Washington based newscast that they run not 347 00:25:00,835 --> 00:25:03,835 Speaker 1: just on their channel worldwide, but also on a large 348 00:25:03,915 --> 00:25:07,955 Speaker 1: number of PBM stations across this country. Miss Perry is Irish. 349 00:25:08,235 --> 00:25:11,275 Speaker 1: She just moved to Washington last year. She's the one 350 00:25:11,395 --> 00:25:14,915 Speaker 1: Trump hit on during a news conference in twenty seventeen. 351 00:25:15,675 --> 00:25:19,315 Speaker 1: Her BBC newscast covered the memorial to former First Lady 352 00:25:19,555 --> 00:25:22,795 Speaker 1: Rosalind Carter, and the anchor, Miss Perry did the standard 353 00:25:22,915 --> 00:25:27,955 Speaker 1: anchor concerned and sad face and whispering the script and stuff. 354 00:25:28,035 --> 00:25:33,995 Speaker 1: And she mispronounced missus Carter's name, called her Roslin, called 355 00:25:33,995 --> 00:25:38,195 Speaker 1: her Roslind three times. How do you not tell your 356 00:25:38,235 --> 00:25:40,915 Speaker 1: anchor that the name she's going to read is not 357 00:25:41,075 --> 00:25:45,955 Speaker 1: pronounced in some common fashion? How when she screws it? 358 00:25:46,035 --> 00:25:48,515 Speaker 1: Up in the teas to the show. Do you not 359 00:25:48,635 --> 00:25:51,875 Speaker 1: then slip her a note so she doesn't do it again? 360 00:25:52,715 --> 00:25:56,875 Speaker 1: Three times? Roslin? And if you are a anchor like 361 00:25:56,955 --> 00:26:00,715 Speaker 1: Katrina Perry whose first name is spelled unusually, how do 362 00:26:00,755 --> 00:26:03,795 Speaker 1: you not make it your special cause in life to 363 00:26:03,955 --> 00:26:10,235 Speaker 1: spell and say other people's first names correctly? Worser Ron 364 00:26:10,275 --> 00:26:14,075 Speaker 1: de Santis? Remember Ron de Santis, no big deal. He 365 00:26:14,155 --> 00:26:17,475 Speaker 1: just may have killed a guy, well, led to a 366 00:26:17,475 --> 00:26:22,555 Speaker 1: guy's death. The online Florida government watchdog, The Florida Bulldog, 367 00:26:23,195 --> 00:26:26,875 Speaker 1: got redacted details from a public information records request about 368 00:26:26,875 --> 00:26:32,155 Speaker 1: how DeSantis's chief elections fraud official collapsed and died outside 369 00:26:32,195 --> 00:26:35,715 Speaker 1: DeSantis's office in September twenty twenty two. The tip they 370 00:26:35,715 --> 00:26:39,395 Speaker 1: had gotten was that Peter Antonacci was so stressed after 371 00:26:39,435 --> 00:26:41,675 Speaker 1: a meeting with DeSantis that he stormed out of the 372 00:26:41,675 --> 00:26:44,795 Speaker 1: meeting and then collapsed in the hallway. Nothing in the 373 00:26:44,835 --> 00:26:48,155 Speaker 1: seventeen pages of previously unknown details about the death of 374 00:26:48,195 --> 00:26:51,235 Speaker 1: the seventy four year old Antonacci confirms that Governor De 375 00:26:51,315 --> 00:26:54,435 Speaker 1: Santis was actually at the meeting, but it does confirm 376 00:26:54,435 --> 00:26:57,035 Speaker 1: his Secretary of State was and the Florida Department of 377 00:26:57,115 --> 00:27:00,435 Speaker 1: Law Enforcement chief was, and the report concludes that after 378 00:27:00,435 --> 00:27:05,235 Speaker 1: Antonacci collapsed, he lay where he fell, either dead or dying, 379 00:27:05,435 --> 00:27:10,235 Speaker 1: outside Ron DeSantis's office. After the twenty twenty election, mister 380 00:27:10,275 --> 00:27:14,195 Speaker 1: Antonacci had praised Florida's handling of it as perfect. Then 381 00:27:14,275 --> 00:27:17,995 Speaker 1: he suddenly changed his mind and said Trump was right 382 00:27:18,035 --> 00:27:22,835 Speaker 1: to complain. Oh, in the emergency defibrillator outside DeSantis's office, 383 00:27:23,235 --> 00:27:26,555 Speaker 1: it didn't work. I don't mean it didn't save the man. 384 00:27:26,915 --> 00:27:29,275 Speaker 1: I mean they could not get it to produce a 385 00:27:29,315 --> 00:27:34,875 Speaker 1: shock of any kind. And our winner the worst, the 386 00:27:34,955 --> 00:27:39,275 Speaker 1: mister Heeney of the Senate, the melted caramel faced fraud 387 00:27:39,515 --> 00:27:43,195 Speaker 1: John Kennedy of Louisiana. Once again, to quote Clarence Darrow, 388 00:27:43,235 --> 00:27:46,875 Speaker 1: there is nothing quite like seeing the fishermen pulled into 389 00:27:46,875 --> 00:27:50,235 Speaker 1: the water by the fish. I'm gonna play all of 390 00:27:50,275 --> 00:27:55,795 Speaker 1: his condescending, stupid, racist question about gun control and gun 391 00:27:55,875 --> 00:27:59,515 Speaker 1: violence to doctor Meghan Rannie of the Yale School of 392 00:27:59,555 --> 00:28:01,675 Speaker 1: Public Health. We're gonna play the whole thing just so 393 00:28:01,715 --> 00:28:06,235 Speaker 1: you can enjoy the completeness of the cell own. When 394 00:28:06,315 --> 00:28:10,315 Speaker 1: doctor Rannie matter of factly answers him again, just remember, 395 00:28:10,715 --> 00:28:15,835 Speaker 1: Senator John Kennedy is from Louisiana. Why do you. 396 00:28:15,915 --> 00:28:27,195 Speaker 4: Think that Chicago has become America's largest outdoor shooting arrange. 397 00:28:28,115 --> 00:28:35,715 Speaker 4: Do you think it's because of Chicago citizens who have 398 00:28:35,795 --> 00:28:41,475 Speaker 4: no criminal record but who have awfully a gun in 399 00:28:41,515 --> 00:28:46,955 Speaker 4: their home for protection or perhaps for hunting, Or do 400 00:28:47,035 --> 00:28:52,435 Speaker 4: you think it's because of a finite group of criminals 401 00:28:52,475 --> 00:28:57,435 Speaker 4: who have rap sheets as long as King Kong's arm. 402 00:28:58,715 --> 00:29:03,475 Speaker 1: So Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri actually have higher firearm death rates. 403 00:29:03,755 --> 00:29:09,595 Speaker 1: Release vation splash, Senator Kennedy is now in the water. 404 00:29:10,235 --> 00:29:13,795 Speaker 1: Senator John Hoist with his own fetard Kennedy, on the 405 00:29:13,795 --> 00:29:16,355 Speaker 1: other hand, that makes doctor Meghan Rannie the winner of 406 00:29:16,395 --> 00:29:20,755 Speaker 1: the award for Verbal Comeback of the Year. Senator Kennedy 407 00:29:20,795 --> 00:29:36,195 Speaker 1: Today's worst person and the to the number one story 408 00:29:36,195 --> 00:29:38,675 Speaker 1: on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things 409 00:29:38,715 --> 00:29:41,315 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell. And as I told you 410 00:29:41,395 --> 00:29:43,675 Speaker 1: before the break, the guy who wrote all the original 411 00:29:43,795 --> 00:29:48,355 Speaker 1: This is Sports Center commercials, Hank Pearlman, visited yesterday and 412 00:29:48,435 --> 00:29:50,755 Speaker 1: that brought back the day that we had the pitcher 413 00:29:50,835 --> 00:29:53,515 Speaker 1: Roger Clemens proved that he still had his fastball by 414 00:29:53,955 --> 00:29:58,675 Speaker 1: throwing ESPN's Jack Edwards out a window. Don't worry it 415 00:29:58,675 --> 00:30:01,435 Speaker 1: it was a dummy and very obviously a dummy. And 416 00:30:01,515 --> 00:30:04,075 Speaker 1: the day we had both George Miken and Gordie Howe 417 00:30:04,195 --> 00:30:07,955 Speaker 1: at em ESPN doing commercials and one of the chief 418 00:30:08,275 --> 00:30:12,995 Speaker 1: ESPN executives said, nobody knows who George Mikeen is. And 419 00:30:13,075 --> 00:30:15,995 Speaker 1: the day I won Amy Vandykin's gold medals from her 420 00:30:16,035 --> 00:30:22,275 Speaker 1: in a card game, and Alexi Lalas day. The nineteen 421 00:30:22,355 --> 00:30:26,035 Speaker 1: ninety four Soccer World Cup did not really do that 422 00:30:26,155 --> 00:30:28,195 Speaker 1: much for American soccer, which as you know, is the 423 00:30:28,235 --> 00:30:31,475 Speaker 1: sport of the future in this country and always will be. 424 00:30:32,395 --> 00:30:34,715 Speaker 1: But it did make a lot of Americans into fans 425 00:30:35,075 --> 00:30:38,555 Speaker 1: of European soccer clubs, especially the British ones. But for 426 00:30:38,595 --> 00:30:42,395 Speaker 1: a while, Alexei Lallis, with his shoulder length, reddish blonde 427 00:30:42,395 --> 00:30:46,595 Speaker 1: hair and billy goat beard and anti establishment vibe was 428 00:30:46,595 --> 00:30:49,475 Speaker 1: on the front burner of American sports and he made 429 00:30:49,555 --> 00:30:52,035 Speaker 1: quite a nice career out of it as a commentator 430 00:30:52,075 --> 00:30:56,195 Speaker 1: on soccer on TV. But back then, naturally, ESPN, launching 431 00:30:56,275 --> 00:31:00,275 Speaker 1: its surrealist fake documentary commercial series, wanted him to be 432 00:31:00,435 --> 00:31:03,475 Speaker 1: in it, and sure enough he came to Bristol and 433 00:31:03,555 --> 00:31:06,795 Speaker 1: Hank Perlman devised bit in which Gary Miller, our anchor, 434 00:31:06,835 --> 00:31:10,195 Speaker 1: who was himself a soccer immortal for his soccer breakdown 435 00:31:10,195 --> 00:31:13,195 Speaker 1: which I played to you, you know, John Luca Palyuka, 436 00:31:13,595 --> 00:31:16,835 Speaker 1: the Mother, et cetera. Gary would be sitting at a 437 00:31:16,915 --> 00:31:20,435 Speaker 1: desk in the Sports Center newsroom, as atop the adjoining desk, 438 00:31:20,635 --> 00:31:26,915 Speaker 1: Alexei Lalas sat cross legged in sunglasses, philosophizing on relaxation 439 00:31:27,035 --> 00:31:31,715 Speaker 1: and finally playing on his guitar Michael Rowe the boat ashore. 440 00:31:32,795 --> 00:31:34,715 Speaker 1: At that point, the commercial turned into one of the 441 00:31:34,715 --> 00:31:39,075 Speaker 1: classic scenes from John Belushi's film Animal House. Another sportscaster 442 00:31:39,315 --> 00:31:42,715 Speaker 1: was to storm into the newsroom, pull the guitar out 443 00:31:42,715 --> 00:31:46,275 Speaker 1: of Alexei Lalas's hands and smash it against a cubicle 444 00:31:46,435 --> 00:31:50,915 Speaker 1: wall and emit a loud, primal grunt as he did so, 445 00:31:51,715 --> 00:31:54,675 Speaker 1: and then hand Lallas back whatever was left of the guitar, 446 00:31:55,155 --> 00:32:00,675 Speaker 1: and like Belushi in the movie, say sorry, well, Hank 447 00:32:00,715 --> 00:32:03,555 Speaker 1: had a sportscaster in mind for that role and guess 448 00:32:03,635 --> 00:32:08,595 Speaker 1: who it was me? So picture that in your mind 449 00:32:08,915 --> 00:32:11,635 Speaker 1: as I play what it sounded like, And then I 450 00:32:11,675 --> 00:32:14,435 Speaker 1: have what I think is a really good backstory to 451 00:32:14,475 --> 00:32:18,715 Speaker 1: the filming of this. This is Sports Center Sports Center commercial, 452 00:32:19,155 --> 00:32:21,795 Speaker 1: and I'm talking to you all afternoon about intention, about 453 00:32:21,835 --> 00:32:30,275 Speaker 1: the darkness. We got to do something about that, Michael. 454 00:32:42,955 --> 00:32:47,115 Speaker 1: For time's sake, the word sorry didn't make it. So 455 00:32:47,235 --> 00:32:50,795 Speaker 1: the backstory and it's out of chronological order. The guitar 456 00:32:50,915 --> 00:32:53,915 Speaker 1: that Alexei Laois was playing was not the one I smashed. 457 00:32:54,355 --> 00:32:56,595 Speaker 1: There was an exact duplicate that had been bought. It 458 00:32:56,635 --> 00:32:59,875 Speaker 1: had been taken apart, it had been sawed, and basically 459 00:32:59,915 --> 00:33:02,515 Speaker 1: it was put back together with scotch tape. It would 460 00:33:02,515 --> 00:33:05,235 Speaker 1: hold together long enough for him to sprung a few 461 00:33:05,395 --> 00:33:08,115 Speaker 1: sour notes on it, and then for me to grab 462 00:33:08,155 --> 00:33:10,915 Speaker 1: it and smash it. They were confident it would not 463 00:33:10,995 --> 00:33:14,275 Speaker 1: fly apart until I hit the cubicle wall with it, 464 00:33:14,315 --> 00:33:17,155 Speaker 1: But they still told me to simply grab it, not 465 00:33:17,475 --> 00:33:20,355 Speaker 1: yanked out of his hands, or I might be left 466 00:33:20,395 --> 00:33:22,835 Speaker 1: holding the neck of the guitar and Alexe holding the 467 00:33:22,835 --> 00:33:27,715 Speaker 1: rest of it. This was especially problematic because we only 468 00:33:27,755 --> 00:33:31,595 Speaker 1: had the one prop guitar. That's right. We made the 469 00:33:31,635 --> 00:33:35,395 Speaker 1: business end of that commercial in one take. This is 470 00:33:35,475 --> 00:33:39,875 Speaker 1: SportsCenter campaign. Not only freaquently achieved something approaching genius levels 471 00:33:39,875 --> 00:33:43,555 Speaker 1: of originality and creativity, but they were all done cheaper 472 00:33:43,595 --> 00:33:48,955 Speaker 1: than local news promos. In Burlington, Vermont in nineteen eighty two, 473 00:33:49,515 --> 00:33:52,875 Speaker 1: we often shot three of these commercials in one day, 474 00:33:53,835 --> 00:33:56,315 Speaker 1: and it wasn't until the second series of ads did 475 00:33:56,355 --> 00:33:58,995 Speaker 1: the sports center anchors who started in one or two 476 00:33:59,195 --> 00:34:03,235 Speaker 1: or three even get credit for a day off. In 477 00:34:03,275 --> 00:34:05,395 Speaker 1: one of them, Charlie Sneiner, he trying to get his 478 00:34:05,475 --> 00:34:08,835 Speaker 1: tape of highlights back from the Harlem Globetrotters who are 479 00:34:08,875 --> 00:34:11,275 Speaker 1: passing it around like a basketball, and he says, can 480 00:34:11,355 --> 00:34:13,715 Speaker 1: he's a little help, And I'm typing away at my 481 00:34:13,755 --> 00:34:16,315 Speaker 1: computer and I say, sure, Charlie, and I don't even 482 00:34:16,355 --> 00:34:18,755 Speaker 1: look at him, let alone stop typing, let alone give 483 00:34:18,915 --> 00:34:22,955 Speaker 1: any help. And that's done because the commercial was shot 484 00:34:23,195 --> 00:34:26,595 Speaker 1: in the area right behind my desk, because nobody was 485 00:34:26,635 --> 00:34:29,515 Speaker 1: working there that day except me, and it was around 486 00:34:29,515 --> 00:34:32,475 Speaker 1: five PM, and I was, in fact sitting at my 487 00:34:32,555 --> 00:34:36,075 Speaker 1: desk writing the eleven PM Sports Center script, and the 488 00:34:36,075 --> 00:34:38,635 Speaker 1: original commercial script did not call for me to even 489 00:34:38,715 --> 00:34:42,675 Speaker 1: be in Charlie's commercial. But on the fly the writer said, hey, Keith, 490 00:34:42,715 --> 00:34:44,915 Speaker 1: can you give us one line? And I said, as 491 00:34:44,955 --> 00:34:47,835 Speaker 1: long as I can keep writing, and they said perfect. 492 00:34:48,675 --> 00:34:52,555 Speaker 1: And by the way, Charlie did the commercial around five 493 00:34:52,555 --> 00:34:55,235 Speaker 1: o'clock or so, and then went and anchored the six 494 00:34:55,395 --> 00:34:59,155 Speaker 1: thirty PM Sports Center. The spot we did where hockey 495 00:34:59,235 --> 00:35:02,075 Speaker 1: legend Gordy Howe beats me up while I am trying 496 00:35:02,115 --> 00:35:05,755 Speaker 1: to read through a script also shot at my also 497 00:35:05,835 --> 00:35:08,155 Speaker 1: on a day I was anchoring the show, and that 498 00:35:08,475 --> 00:35:12,595 Speaker 1: was my real script. Anyway, back to alex A. Lallis 499 00:35:12,595 --> 00:35:16,075 Speaker 1: and the guitar, so we only had the one prop guitar, 500 00:35:16,155 --> 00:35:17,875 Speaker 1: and so we only had the one take, and we 501 00:35:17,875 --> 00:35:21,115 Speaker 1: were shooting it in the actual SportsCenter newsroom of course. 502 00:35:21,595 --> 00:35:24,755 Speaker 1: In fact, they were remodeling the real newsroom to accommodate 503 00:35:24,795 --> 00:35:28,035 Speaker 1: the launch of the new ESPN News network, so this 504 00:35:28,355 --> 00:35:33,475 Speaker 1: was the temporary even more crowded than usual newsroom. So 505 00:35:33,555 --> 00:35:35,635 Speaker 1: the cameraman and the producer and the writer and I 506 00:35:35,715 --> 00:35:38,195 Speaker 1: walked through how they thought it would work best, since 507 00:35:38,195 --> 00:35:40,715 Speaker 1: I would have to weave past people who were really 508 00:35:40,755 --> 00:35:43,475 Speaker 1: doing their jobs and going to other desks and talking 509 00:35:43,475 --> 00:35:46,355 Speaker 1: to people and stuff. They had two cameras in the 510 00:35:46,355 --> 00:35:50,955 Speaker 1: little hallway that constituted the temporary newsroom's northern border, and 511 00:35:50,995 --> 00:35:53,475 Speaker 1: they put a third, smaller camera on the floor where 512 00:35:53,515 --> 00:35:55,955 Speaker 1: they guessed that a piece of the guitar might land 513 00:35:56,395 --> 00:35:59,195 Speaker 1: after I smashed it. See if you can get the 514 00:35:59,235 --> 00:36:01,915 Speaker 1: fret or something to go here. The producer said that 515 00:36:01,915 --> 00:36:04,755 Speaker 1: would make a great shot. I asked him how the 516 00:36:04,795 --> 00:36:07,075 Speaker 1: hell I was supposed to do that since we couldn't 517 00:36:07,115 --> 00:36:09,915 Speaker 1: even practice the smash, and he said, well, honestly, I 518 00:36:09,955 --> 00:36:15,355 Speaker 1: don't know. Telepathy. Maybe that was the other salient part 519 00:36:15,475 --> 00:36:18,235 Speaker 1: of the backstory, since we only had the one take 520 00:36:18,355 --> 00:36:20,435 Speaker 1: and we wouldn't even be doing a dry run because 521 00:36:20,435 --> 00:36:22,875 Speaker 1: they didn't want the guitar to fall apart in my hands. 522 00:36:23,315 --> 00:36:25,795 Speaker 1: I would say less than half the people crowded into 523 00:36:25,915 --> 00:36:29,715 Speaker 1: the temporary newsroom had any idea that when I came 524 00:36:29,795 --> 00:36:33,115 Speaker 1: in I was in the commercial, let alone, that I 525 00:36:33,235 --> 00:36:37,235 Speaker 1: was going to actually and loudly destroy a guitar by 526 00:36:37,315 --> 00:36:41,315 Speaker 1: smashing it against a low cubicle wall. Even if the 527 00:36:41,315 --> 00:36:44,195 Speaker 1: guitar has been pre broken and taped back together, as 528 00:36:44,235 --> 00:36:45,795 Speaker 1: that one was, it is still going to make a 529 00:36:46,075 --> 00:36:50,115 Speaker 1: lot of noise. Wait, I said to my friend Hank, 530 00:36:50,115 --> 00:36:53,035 Speaker 1: who wrote it. You're not warning anybody, are you, your 531 00:36:53,035 --> 00:36:56,755 Speaker 1: little devil? Hank got a gleeful, evil glazed look in 532 00:36:56,795 --> 00:37:00,475 Speaker 1: his eyes. No, isn't that great? So they filmed the 533 00:37:00,475 --> 00:37:03,195 Speaker 1: closeups of Gary, and they filmed the closeups of Alexi, 534 00:37:03,195 --> 00:37:04,635 Speaker 1: and then they set me up to enter from a 535 00:37:04,755 --> 00:37:08,515 Speaker 1: vestibule through two swinging doors with windows in them, which 536 00:37:08,555 --> 00:37:10,915 Speaker 1: was along the periphery of the temporary newsroom. Then a 537 00:37:10,995 --> 00:37:14,075 Speaker 1: right turn and then about no No fifteen twenty feet 538 00:37:14,115 --> 00:37:17,395 Speaker 1: to where Alexei and Gary were still sitting. My target 539 00:37:17,675 --> 00:37:20,715 Speaker 1: for exactly where I should hit the guitar was clearly 540 00:37:20,795 --> 00:37:23,235 Speaker 1: marked on the cubicle wall, and they even put marks 541 00:37:23,275 --> 00:37:26,035 Speaker 1: on the carpet of where a couple of practice walks 542 00:37:26,035 --> 00:37:27,955 Speaker 1: had shown would give me the best chance at a 543 00:37:27,995 --> 00:37:31,955 Speaker 1: solid stance. When I swung the guitar and sent it 544 00:37:32,075 --> 00:37:37,555 Speaker 1: el kabonging to its doom, and nobody ever said quiet 545 00:37:37,835 --> 00:37:41,155 Speaker 1: or roll or here we go. They told people in 546 00:37:41,155 --> 00:37:43,715 Speaker 1: the room that they were just shooting some cover angles 547 00:37:43,755 --> 00:37:46,995 Speaker 1: on Gary and Alexi, and people could say or move 548 00:37:47,315 --> 00:37:50,155 Speaker 1: whatever and wherever they wanted to, just so long they 549 00:37:50,155 --> 00:37:53,715 Speaker 1: didn't get away to the cameras. Then they just tapped 550 00:37:53,715 --> 00:37:56,355 Speaker 1: the desks for Alexa and Gary to start, and the 551 00:37:56,395 --> 00:37:59,235 Speaker 1: producer waved to me, and in I went, trying to 552 00:37:59,355 --> 00:38:01,715 Speaker 1: channel John Blushi when he takes the guitar away from 553 00:38:01,715 --> 00:38:03,595 Speaker 1: Stephen Bishop on the stairs of the Front House and 554 00:38:03,635 --> 00:38:07,395 Speaker 1: Animal House. I furrowed my brow and I tried to 555 00:38:07,435 --> 00:38:11,595 Speaker 1: fake some venom towards Alexei Lalas. I found the emotion 556 00:38:12,275 --> 00:38:14,595 Speaker 1: as I came through the doors. I kept thinking that 557 00:38:14,675 --> 00:38:16,595 Speaker 1: since I had been eight years old, I had heard 558 00:38:16,595 --> 00:38:19,195 Speaker 1: people call soccer the sport of the future. Here and 559 00:38:19,275 --> 00:38:21,435 Speaker 1: I was now thirty seven, and I was damn tired 560 00:38:21,475 --> 00:38:25,755 Speaker 1: of hearing it. Lalas was scrumming on the nearly neutered 561 00:38:25,795 --> 00:38:30,315 Speaker 1: prop guitar. It made a sick sound. I took my strides, 562 00:38:30,395 --> 00:38:32,395 Speaker 1: I hit the marks. I grabbed the guitar by the 563 00:38:32,435 --> 00:38:35,515 Speaker 1: neck with my right hand and simultaneously Alexey let go, 564 00:38:35,795 --> 00:38:38,515 Speaker 1: and then with both hands, I swung the guitar back 565 00:38:38,555 --> 00:38:40,675 Speaker 1: over my head and smashed it right on the mark. 566 00:38:42,275 --> 00:38:58,795 Speaker 1: As you heard Michael Shale. The Sports Center newsroom promptly 567 00:38:58,835 --> 00:39:03,035 Speaker 1: went silent for several seconds. The reaction was identical to 568 00:39:03,075 --> 00:39:06,235 Speaker 1: what it would have been. There's been no commercial being 569 00:39:06,275 --> 00:39:08,835 Speaker 1: made and no cameras present, and I had just walked 570 00:39:08,875 --> 00:39:12,595 Speaker 1: in and destroyed somebody's guitar, which I guess a lot 571 00:39:12,635 --> 00:39:16,315 Speaker 1: of people expect that I might do someday because even 572 00:39:16,315 --> 00:39:18,235 Speaker 1: a lot of the people who were surprised were not 573 00:39:18,595 --> 00:39:23,355 Speaker 1: surprised surprised. Craig Wax, the skinny research guy, can be 574 00:39:23,435 --> 00:39:26,355 Speaker 1: seen in the finished commercial, which is on YouTube for 575 00:39:26,475 --> 00:39:30,955 Speaker 1: a second far left, just staring at me like, yeah, well, 576 00:39:30,955 --> 00:39:33,955 Speaker 1: we always knew Keys would do something like that. After 577 00:39:33,995 --> 00:39:36,075 Speaker 1: I'd destroyed the guitar, and I have to say, I 578 00:39:36,115 --> 00:39:39,515 Speaker 1: did it really well. I kept moving for the plan 579 00:39:40,235 --> 00:39:42,555 Speaker 1: until I walked back through the swinging doors and out 580 00:39:42,555 --> 00:39:46,235 Speaker 1: of shot. The director shouted cut. I walked back in, 581 00:39:46,515 --> 00:39:49,275 Speaker 1: and the crew gave me a round of applause, and 582 00:39:49,355 --> 00:39:51,395 Speaker 1: a couple of them were cheering out of all proportion. 583 00:39:51,475 --> 00:39:53,515 Speaker 1: Even if I had done is good of a job, 584 00:39:53,555 --> 00:39:56,115 Speaker 1: as I thought, Come here, Come here. The cameraman kept saying, 585 00:39:56,155 --> 00:40:00,755 Speaker 1: come here. That extra camera on the floor. They backed 586 00:40:00,755 --> 00:40:03,715 Speaker 1: the videotape up from it, and they showed it to me. 587 00:40:03,995 --> 00:40:08,475 Speaker 1: When I smell the guitar, the fretboard, the actual wood 588 00:40:08,515 --> 00:40:11,435 Speaker 1: and metal piece on the neck, flew off and not 589 00:40:11,555 --> 00:40:14,795 Speaker 1: only landed near the third camera's lens, it hit it 590 00:40:14,835 --> 00:40:18,915 Speaker 1: on the fly and it stuck there. They were as 591 00:40:19,035 --> 00:40:21,835 Speaker 1: happy as if they were engineers imploding a building for 592 00:40:21,875 --> 00:40:24,515 Speaker 1: the first time, and it had fallen exactly as they 593 00:40:24,555 --> 00:40:27,515 Speaker 1: had hoped. Plus they showed me the playback from the 594 00:40:27,595 --> 00:40:30,555 Speaker 1: first camera, and there was an assignment desk editor with 595 00:40:30,595 --> 00:40:33,675 Speaker 1: her back to the action on the phone, completely unaware 596 00:40:33,715 --> 00:40:36,075 Speaker 1: of what was happening or even that they were rolling 597 00:40:36,155 --> 00:40:40,595 Speaker 1: film and videotape, and she literally jumped several inches out 598 00:40:40,595 --> 00:40:44,595 Speaker 1: of her seat of her chair. But to me, the 599 00:40:44,635 --> 00:40:47,715 Speaker 1: best part of this thing is Gary Miller. Even if 600 00:40:47,755 --> 00:40:50,995 Speaker 1: you know a loud noise is coming, it is quite 601 00:40:51,075 --> 00:40:53,755 Speaker 1: the effort to not flinch a little when it happens 602 00:40:53,995 --> 00:40:57,595 Speaker 1: basically right over your shoulder. I mean, ask the little 603 00:40:57,675 --> 00:41:02,235 Speaker 1: kid in the movie north By Northwest where Iva Marie 604 00:41:02,275 --> 00:41:06,395 Speaker 1: Saint shoots Carry Grant and he sticks his fingers in 605 00:41:06,435 --> 00:41:08,875 Speaker 1: his ears because it's take thirty seven and he knows 606 00:41:09,035 --> 00:41:12,595 Speaker 1: the noise is coming. I mean, you're aware of it 607 00:41:12,835 --> 00:41:16,115 Speaker 1: just for the possibility that somebody will screw it up 608 00:41:16,275 --> 00:41:19,355 Speaker 1: like me and debris will fly into the back of 609 00:41:19,395 --> 00:41:22,355 Speaker 1: your head. But if you watch Gary Miller in this 610 00:41:22,435 --> 00:41:25,275 Speaker 1: Sports Center commercial, he doesn't even blink, just a little 611 00:41:25,355 --> 00:41:31,035 Speaker 1: dead pan head jerk. It's perfect. What also amazes me 612 00:41:31,115 --> 00:41:33,075 Speaker 1: is that we got all this done in twenty four 613 00:41:33,115 --> 00:41:36,395 Speaker 1: seconds of running time Alexe goes on about negativity, they 614 00:41:36,435 --> 00:41:38,235 Speaker 1: have to do something about it. He plays enough of 615 00:41:38,275 --> 00:41:40,115 Speaker 1: the song that you recognize it. You got a shot 616 00:41:40,155 --> 00:41:43,555 Speaker 1: at cheerleaders, incongruously in the middle of the background. I 617 00:41:43,595 --> 00:41:46,475 Speaker 1: appear from nowhere, move over there, smash the guitar while 618 00:41:46,555 --> 00:41:49,915 Speaker 1: roaring spectacularly. I give him back the neck of the thing. 619 00:41:50,315 --> 00:41:52,595 Speaker 1: The only thing missing is that shot from the fret 620 00:41:52,635 --> 00:41:54,955 Speaker 1: bar flying into camera three. They explained they didn't have 621 00:41:54,995 --> 00:42:01,355 Speaker 1: the extra two seconds scene. I remember enjoying doing this 622 00:42:01,435 --> 00:42:03,635 Speaker 1: so much that I asked them for the front of 623 00:42:03,675 --> 00:42:06,435 Speaker 1: the body of the guitar, and I had Alexei sign 624 00:42:06,475 --> 00:42:09,395 Speaker 1: it to me on the spot. It hung framed in 625 00:42:09,515 --> 00:42:14,235 Speaker 1: my various offices for about fifteen years. In twenty fourteen, 626 00:42:14,315 --> 00:42:17,675 Speaker 1: I was leaving the recording of Stephen Colbert's final episode 627 00:42:17,675 --> 00:42:19,955 Speaker 1: for Comedy Central. I was one of one hundred guests, 628 00:42:20,395 --> 00:42:22,115 Speaker 1: and I went out onto the street to find a 629 00:42:22,115 --> 00:42:25,115 Speaker 1: cab home and I got one, and in getting into it, 630 00:42:25,155 --> 00:42:28,155 Speaker 1: I nearly ran into Alexei Lalas, who was one of 631 00:42:28,195 --> 00:42:30,955 Speaker 1: the other one hundred guests. I laughed, He laughed, and 632 00:42:30,995 --> 00:42:32,675 Speaker 1: he said, and I don't even have my guitar with me. 633 00:42:34,155 --> 00:42:36,755 Speaker 1: And one last note. I doubt this will be of 634 00:42:36,755 --> 00:42:40,155 Speaker 1: any practical use to you, but I must say, as 635 00:42:40,195 --> 00:42:43,595 Speaker 1: somebody who was accorded this rare privilege, not only of 636 00:42:43,675 --> 00:42:47,475 Speaker 1: doing this, but of doing this with impunity, and doing 637 00:42:47,515 --> 00:42:51,915 Speaker 1: this to applause. If you are trying to HEALTHI event 638 00:42:52,395 --> 00:42:57,235 Speaker 1: any frustrations or anger in your life, smashing a guitar 639 00:42:57,355 --> 00:43:02,835 Speaker 1: against a workplace cubicle wall is exactly as satisfying as 640 00:43:02,875 --> 00:43:18,475 Speaker 1: you would expect it would be. I've done all the 641 00:43:18,515 --> 00:43:20,715 Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown 642 00:43:20,755 --> 00:43:23,715 Speaker 1: has come to you from the Vin Scully Studios at 643 00:43:23,755 --> 00:43:28,315 Speaker 1: the Olberman Broadcasting Empire in New York. Countdown musical directors 644 00:43:28,355 --> 00:43:31,555 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel arranged, produced, and performed 645 00:43:31,595 --> 00:43:34,595 Speaker 1: most of our music. Mister Shanelle handled the orchestration and 646 00:43:34,635 --> 00:43:37,955 Speaker 1: the keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums, 647 00:43:38,355 --> 00:43:42,235 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. The woman at the assignment desk 648 00:43:42,595 --> 00:43:46,235 Speaker 1: jumped probably ten feet out of her seat one hundred 649 00:43:46,235 --> 00:43:48,555 Speaker 1: feet out of her seat. Other music, including some of 650 00:43:48,555 --> 00:43:52,075 Speaker 1: the Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed by the group 651 00:43:52,075 --> 00:43:56,035 Speaker 1: No Horns Allowed. Sports music is courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 652 00:43:56,115 --> 00:43:58,075 Speaker 1: And it was written by Mitch Warren Davis. And it's 653 00:43:58,075 --> 00:44:01,635 Speaker 1: called the Olderman theme from ESPN two. Our satirical and 654 00:44:01,715 --> 00:44:05,075 Speaker 1: pithy musical comments are by Nancy Faust, the best baseball 655 00:44:05,115 --> 00:44:08,315 Speaker 1: stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was to keep the 656 00:44:08,595 --> 00:44:12,275 Speaker 1: ESPN theme going my friend Kenny Maine. Everything else was 657 00:44:12,315 --> 00:44:16,075 Speaker 1: obviously pretty much my fault. That's countdown for this the 658 00:44:16,075 --> 00:44:18,835 Speaker 1: one thousand and fifty eighth day since dementia Jay Trump's 659 00:44:18,875 --> 00:44:22,115 Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government in the 660 00:44:22,195 --> 00:44:26,195 Speaker 1: United States. Convict him now while we still can. The 661 00:44:26,275 --> 00:44:29,515 Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news warrants 662 00:44:29,595 --> 00:44:33,075 Speaker 1: till then, I'm Keith Oldrerimman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, 663 00:44:33,635 --> 00:44:51,555 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Oldremman is a production 664 00:44:51,755 --> 00:44:57,075 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. 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