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Countdown with Keith Olderman is a

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production of iHeartRadio.

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Joe Biden has still won the debt

0:23

deal, but now there is also the chance that not

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only will Kevin McCarthy lose it, but so

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will Joe Mansion. In page

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ninety five of the agreement, that's ninety

0:33

five out of ninety nine, that putrid,

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unreliable, self aggrandizing,

0:38

self inflating, fraudulent, sheep

0:41

in sheep's clothing. Senator Joe

0:43

Mansion of West Virginia has managed

0:45

to stick the permitting legislation for

0:47

his favorite project to accelerate

0:50

the end of life on the planet from catastrophic

0:53

climate change, the Good Old Mountain

0:55

Valley natural Gas pipeline,

0:58

and Senator Tim Caine of Virginia is

1:01

planning to remove the Good Old

1:03

Mountain Valley pipeline. And from page

1:05

ninety five and from the deal,

1:07

come hell or high water. Senator

1:10

Kaine has always been opposed to this three hundred

1:12

mile long living monument to environmental

1:14

disasters, both short term and long term,

1:17

and he makes the unanswerable argument

1:19

that it is quote completely unrelated

1:22

to the debt ceiling matter. And

1:24

of course it is completely unrelated

1:26

to it, and Kane will file an amendment now to

1:28

get it. Cut the hell out of the bill. Because

1:31

if President Biden would like to piss away

1:33

the goodwill of having averted

1:35

a default that never should have been in play,

1:37

but Democrats in the House slept through the Wame

1:40

Duck and Democrats in the White House apparently

1:42

did not know about the fourteenth Amendment

1:44

a couple a couple of weeks ago. And if

1:46

President Biden would like to piss away the triumph

1:48

of his victory over McCarthy, and if President

1:50

Biden would like to piss away the early signs

1:53

of a significant poll bump here

1:55

Biden forty six forty four in the

1:57

Echelon Insights national poll, Biden

2:00

forty seven forty three in the Clarity National

2:03

poll just out last night. If President

2:05

Biden would like to piss away all that,

2:08

the way to do it is to umbrella

2:11

this albatross of the Joe

2:13

Mansion's Integrity Memorial

2:15

pipeline into the debt deal.

2:18

It doesn't have a damn thing to do with the debt

2:20

deal other than to lubricate

2:23

Joe Manchin and make the Democrats and Biden

2:25

and Chuck Schumer think ooh, now, Manchin

2:28

will owe us something, except he never thinks

2:30

that way, and he never repays the favor,

2:32

and his voting record actually suggests he may

2:34

be more worthless than cinema. And

2:36

trust me, I know how

2:38

worthless cinema is. The

2:42

Joe Mansion burned the Atmosphere

2:44

Mountain Valley pipeline is the

2:46

fossil fuel world's raised

2:49

middle finger to the Democrats and the green

2:51

energy universe, and for that matter, to reality.

2:54

It is a reminder that people like Joe

2:56

Manchin will really try to sell

2:58

the last living humans on the planet

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one more cubic foot

3:03

of natural gas before they

3:05

die. Mister President,

3:08

you want to put something in here for the fossil fuel

3:10

industry, how about you right a guarantee

3:12

that you will not nationalize it, that

3:15

when those parts of it that cannot figure

3:17

out how to convert their businesses into

3:20

ones that sell products that don't destroy

3:22

life on the planet slowly after

3:25

utter destabilization of society and uncontrollable

3:27

waves of disease and starvation and violence,

3:31

that maybe the government can buy their destructive

3:33

companies instead, Because God forbid,

3:37

murders like the people who own Joe

3:39

Mansion don't get to keep their

3:41

profits high enough and

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I made a verb out of umbrella there

3:47

because it is a bleak grammatical

3:50

shorthand joke from inside my own

3:52

family. I knew it from my grandmother, my

3:54

mother's mother, who used to say, after

3:57

a series of demands on her that would

3:59

lead to yet one more

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worse demand. Quote, don't

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own umbrella me or just

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umbrella umbrella

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means I suppose

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I can handle you shoving the umbrella up

4:15

my uh posterior,

4:18

just don't open it. The

4:21

Schlumbohm and Charboneir families were

4:23

not exactly the epitome of delicacy in

4:25

the Bronx a century ago, but even they

4:28

cleaned it up to just the one word.

4:31

So umbrella, mister

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President, I get it you're

4:35

not going to do as much as you have said

4:37

about climate, but the other party is

4:40

insane and we do not have much choice.

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Just don't umbrella us. Take

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the Joe Mansion gold plated with corruption

4:47

Mountain Valley pipeline out of the debt

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deal and give it to Senator Mansion

4:52

and tell him to put it. Just

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give it to him and say to him, umbrella,

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I'm not going to let go of the

5:05

pipeline thing and Mansion, but I

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am going to continue to give Biden props

5:10

on the win. If the

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pipeline remains, we will have to revisit

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that in the interim. I am

5:16

also going to give him props on the humble

5:18

brag tightrope. He successfully

5:20

maneuvered a little tough to

5:23

hear him here as usual with the helicopter

5:25

at the White House. But he is essentially

5:27

boasting that he hasn't

5:29

boasted, while reminding

5:31

you that you would boast and

5:34

thus you'd lose. But he would

5:36

never boast about that either.

5:37

I spoke to McDonald.

5:39

I spoke to a whole bunch.

5:41

Of people, and it feels good.

5:43

We'll see when the boat starts, and

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you are. One of the things that I

5:47

hear some of these guys.

5:49

Saying is why didn't Biden say

5:51

what a good dealer is? Why would

5:53

Biden be saying.

5:54

What a good dealer before the vote? I

5:56

think that's going to help me get a pass. No,

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that's why you guys don't bargain very well. The

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Republicans who can't bargain either,

6:04

judging i' McCarthy are

6:06

of course having one more knockdown drag

6:08

out in the Rules Committee over the debt deal

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and it's so Republican, it's hilarious.

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You may recall that as part of his seventeen

6:15

different deals with seventeen different

6:17

devils to get the speakership, Kevin

6:20

McCarthy had to put the worst of MAGA

6:23

like Ralph Norman and this nutt Thomas

6:25

Massey and this moron Chip Roy

6:27

on the Rules Committee. Well, now, Chip

6:30

Roy insists that not only did

6:32

McCarthy agree to put the maggots on rules,

6:34

he also made a doubles

6:37

secret handshake agreement that all

6:39

nine Republicans on that panel have

6:42

to agree before any legislation

6:44

advances from their Rules committee to

6:46

the full House. So while

6:48

Roy was attacking McCarthy with that,

6:51

another Republican on the Rules Committee,

6:53

Dusty Johnson, was attacking

6:55

Roy. Quote, I have not heard that before.

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If those conversations took place, the rest

7:00

of the conference was unaware of them, and

7:02

frankly I doubt them. Dusty

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is with a kind of civility

7:07

that is startling in a twenty first

7:09

century Republican. Dusty is calling

7:12

Chip a liar. Incidentally,

7:15

Congressman Dusty, Congressman

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Chip, what is this zz

7:21

top? Well,

7:26

by the way, the success

7:28

in succession of Tom Wombscants

7:32

has nothing to do with one of the great one

7:34

moment immortals in baseball history,

7:36

Bill Wambscants. Well,

7:38

you have to have seen this yesterday or earlier.

7:41

An expert at a baby Name's website

7:43

tweeted it last Wednesday, And in

7:45

fact, the urban legend about baseball and the

7:47

TV series turns out to go back at least two

7:50

years, and it was in the New York Times.

7:52

The idea is that the success in the

7:55

well let's call it a nighttime soap opera

7:57

of Tom Wombscants wambs

8:01

Gans was forecast

8:04

in succession by his

8:07

name that everybody should have been

8:09

able to figure out that he would

8:11

prevail in the succession in succession

8:13

because he more or less shared his name

8:15

with Bill Wamscantce Wambsgaanss.

8:22

Bill Wamscants, or Bill Wamscants,

8:25

as he was often known too, was the second

8:27

baseman of the then Cleveland Indians from nineteen

8:29

fourteen through nineteen twenty three. He was

8:31

a really good rangy infielder

8:33

who was pretty fast and hit two fifty

8:36

nine lifetime, but in a time of sluggers

8:39

didn't. Wamscants

8:41

was a lot to say back then or fit into

8:43

a box score in nineteen twenty, so Bill

8:45

answered to Wamby or Wamby. But

8:48

in the fifth inning of Game five of the nineteen

8:51

twenty World Series, he became a

8:53

baseball immortal. The Brooklyn

8:55

Robbins now the LA Dodgers, the

8:58

National League champions that year, put

9:00

two men on with nobody out. With

9:02

the runners moving, Brooklyn's Clarence Mitchell

9:04

h had a sharp line drive to Wamscans for one

9:06

out. Then Wiamscans took a couple of

9:09

strides and stepped on second, thereby doubling

9:11

off the runner on second, Pete Kilduff,

9:13

who was already halfway to third base two

9:16

out. Wamscons now said he looked

9:19

up to find the Brooklyn runner from first,

9:21

Otto Miller, just a few feet away from

9:23

him. Frozen in horror at

9:25

what was happening. Bill Wamscins

9:28

went over and tagged him for not

9:30

just a triple play, but

9:32

an unassisted triple play, the

9:34

first in World Series history and the last.

9:37

And it's been one hundred and three years, and

9:39

it was only the second or third

9:41

in all of baseball history at that point, depending

9:44

on how you interpret baseball history. Even

9:46

now, there have only been fifteen

9:48

or sixteen unassisted triple plays.

9:51

And incidentally, six of them were either by

9:53

or against Cleveland, which

9:56

is statistically really unlikely.

9:58

And two of them happened on consecutive

10:01

days in nineteen twenty seven, which is even

10:03

crazier. But the point

10:05

is Wambskantz

10:08

defeated three rivals, all

10:10

by himself, all at once.

10:13

Got it just like the Womscants

10:15

in Succession. Huh

10:17

ah, pretty good. Huh

10:19

And if you were paying attention, you also noticed

10:22

that in the very first episode of Succession,

10:24

Tom Wombskance played in the Roy

10:27

family softball game and

10:29

he tagged out a

10:31

kid at home plate. Good

10:37

except it's a coincidence.

10:40

Yeah, it's a coincidence. Instead

10:43

of just saying, like everybody else did, it's

10:45

an obscure baseball reference umbrella.

10:49

Stephan Fatsis of Slate contacted

10:51

the longtime New York Times columnist Frank

10:54

Rich, who was one of the executive producers of

10:56

the show, about this, and

10:58

Rich replied, quote, I hate to spoil the

11:00

internet's fun, but it's false. Tom's

11:03

family name was picked before before we had

11:05

shot a first season, let alone mapped

11:07

out precise story twists that

11:09

would culminate thirty nine episodes later.

11:12

Not to mention that many of the key writers

11:14

on the show, starting with its creator Jesse Armstrong,

11:17

are British, live in London and

11:19

are devoted to British football, if

11:21

memory serves, Frank Rich continued,

11:24

we were looking for something off key that

11:26

would be awkward to say and pronounce,

11:29

befitting a character who arrives as

11:31

an outsider in the Roys world

11:35

unquote, So sorry

11:37

conspiracy fans. And

11:40

anyway, if you had a

11:42

triple play accomplishing character

11:45

in succession named after Bill Lambskantz,

11:48

you'd really also have to have had one named

11:50

after triple play hitting

11:52

into batter Clarence Mitchell.

11:54

Because as remarkable as wamscans is unassistant

11:57

triple play was in the nineteen

11:59

twenty World Series, I have always thought as

12:01

a baseball historian that what Clarence

12:04

Mitchell did it was far more

12:06

remarkable. Because the next time

12:08

Clarence Mitchell came up in the same game

12:11

in the eighth inning, after having

12:13

just hit into a triple play, Clarence

12:16

Mitchell promptly then hit

12:18

into a double play.

12:21

He made five outs with two swings.

12:26

Maybe they can make that the plot line in the

12:28

sequel, and you know there's going to be a

12:30

sequel. Also

12:36

of note, today, the Russians have put out an arrest

12:38

warrant for Lindsey Graham over what he said

12:40

about Russians dying in Ukraine and money

12:42

well spent. And ordinarily I'd be conflicted

12:45

because it's Lindsay Umbrella Graham, but

12:48

more importantly it's the Russians, and

12:50

after the day long bombing of civilian

12:52

targets in Kiev yesterday and

12:54

the increasing threats of using tactical

12:56

nukes, their terrorism in Ukraine

12:58

has to stop, and we have to stop not just

13:00

dealing with them, but dealing

13:03

with any other country. It still

13:05

deals with Russia.

13:08

Okay, so now I'm going to go fire up the

13:10

wayback machine again. That's next. This

13:12

is countdown.

13:14

This is countdown with Keith Olberman.

13:22

Postscripts to the news, some updates,

13:24

some snark, some complete redefinition

13:27

of the premise, because this is

13:29

about as POSTSCRIPTI as you

13:31

can get. But the response

13:34

was so enthusiastic and so surprising

13:36

to yesterday's concluding segments in which

13:38

I dived into the big plastic

13:41

banker's box in my closet

13:43

full of ancient, brittle audio

13:45

cassettes and played stuff

13:48

that had not been heard by anybody else besides

13:50

me since nineteen

13:52

eighty seven. Actually some

13:54

of them were from nineteen seventy nine. Anyway,

13:57

the response has implied that maybe during slow

14:00

news or my semi vacation days,

14:02

and I mean like a couple of the a

14:05

year or at worse a month,

14:07

I'm not doing this every week. It's

14:09

worth repriising some of this old

14:11

stuff and some of the amazing stories

14:13

from my radio career which accompanied

14:15

them. The first thing you will hear

14:17

today is from my stint as the backup

14:20

sportscast here at WNAW Radio

14:22

in New York. This was a legendary

14:24

place when I got there in nineteen eighty,

14:27

the last of the big New York City

14:29

stations to broadcast from a literal

14:31

ballroom with giant studios

14:34

two stories tall and drapes

14:37

and room for studio audiences.

14:39

They had moved out of there by then. That

14:42

was on Fifth Avenue. They played

14:44

big band music, and their disc jockeys

14:46

were legends who had succeeded other legends.

14:48

Everybody from Gene Rayburn later

14:50

of Match Game, to Boris

14:53

Karloff. Boris Karloff

14:56

was at WNAW dish jockey in the nineteen

14:58

fifties. No, Here's Elvis

15:00

Predator. The newscasters

15:03

were legends too. If you've ever seeing the

15:05

film of Lee Harvey Oswald

15:07

being shot, the guy in the

15:09

hat and the overcoat sticking out his

15:11

microphone and trying to interview Oswald

15:15

as Jack Ruby puts his gun out

15:17

next to the guy, that man in

15:19

the hat with the microphone is Ike Pappus

15:21

of WNAW Radio in New York. That's

15:24

how big a news department they had. And

15:27

one day WNAW took its

15:29

boutique FM station, which just was

15:31

a clearer version of its AM station, and

15:33

they turned it into the greatest

15:35

place in the history of rock and roll radio.

15:39

And when I got there in nineteen eighty, WNAW

15:41

broadcast the play by play of the New York Giants,

15:44

the New York Rangers, the New York Knicks, the

15:46

New York Cosmos. And

15:48

I got to work there because they

15:51

were an affiliate of the radio network run

15:53

by United Press International UPI

15:55

Audio my first employers

15:58

in retrospect. Doing the night

16:00

sports shift at UPI was exhausting.

16:03

There was a sportscas every hour between

16:05

five forty five and ten forty five. Occasionally

16:08

you had to engineer. You had to play all the

16:11

carts and dial all the dials

16:13

for the newscast. At the top of the hour, if

16:16

there was a breaking sports story, you had

16:18

to try to call somebody to record a phone interview

16:20

with them, or get a local reporter somewhere

16:22

to do an interview or file a report. Plus,

16:25

if some reporter called in from an afternoon

16:27

game or a night game that finished early, you

16:30

had to handle, edit and feed

16:32

out the tape of player interviews.

16:34

No digital editing, mind you actual

16:37

physical cutting and spicing.

16:40

And then there was the commentary my

16:43

side two minutes of sports

16:45

commentary that was sent out to the one thousand

16:48

stations that paid for UPI audio.

16:51

You had to get it done before your shift was over. In

16:53

between all those other sports casts and all those other

16:55

things you had to do. You had to write it. Well, first

16:57

you had to think about it, then you had to write it, Then you had

16:59

to record it. Then you probably had to edit it several times

17:02

together. This was something

17:04

that had been started by the great UPI baseball

17:06

columnist Milton Richmond, whose

17:08

print column was called, guess

17:11

what my side.

17:13

Milt would just read his paper

17:15

copy until about a minute fifty

17:18

five had passed, and then he'd say, I'm

17:20

Milton Richmond and that's my side, whether

17:22

or not he had actually made his point by

17:25

then. Anyway, Milt soon

17:27

got tired of it, and knowing UPI, they probably

17:29

paid him an extra three dollars a year. But

17:32

our stations, most of whom were among America's

17:34

smallest, wanted needed

17:37

a two minute sports commentary to run

17:39

in the mornings. Soon

17:41

my side became the side

17:43

of whoever was doing the

17:46

night shift at UPI Audio Sports

17:48

me Jack Russell, Sam

17:51

Rosen, Peter Shack, Noow, Bruce

17:53

McGowan, Mike Allibaugh, whoever.

17:56

And it was traditional stuff. The Cowboys

17:58

are the best team in football. Sports

18:01

leagues need to figure out a way to use TV

18:03

replays to get back. I had calls right, And

18:06

of course, how dare cashus Clay try

18:08

to change his name? I

18:10

did not do that one. I usually

18:12

did four or five of these commentaries a week,

18:14

and I got tired of these fast.

18:17

So even though I had no time to

18:20

try to make them creative, I tried

18:22

to make them creative. I in fact, started

18:24

to do wacky ones. I would

18:26

save the tapes of the weird comments

18:28

that our stringer reporters would feed in, and

18:31

soon I had a running series of my sides

18:33

about how often athletes used the

18:36

verbal crutch you know, in their

18:38

answers hell that got me written

18:40

up in Sports Illustrated once, back when that was

18:42

a big deal and they paid you fifty

18:44

dollars for it and my rent was four

18:46

to ninety a month. One

18:49

night I devoted my side to a collection

18:51

of weird things that hockey players said.

18:54

I've mentioned here once, and the tape exists

18:56

somewhere. I've got to find it. That

18:58

the late legend Bobby Hull once

19:00

answered my nostalgic question by

19:02

saying, oh, that's in the past. Never

19:05

mind the past, we're here in

19:07

the future now, which

19:09

still freaks me out. I

19:12

did one long piece about the NHL team

19:14

they used to have in Quebec City, suddenly saying

19:16

they would make public address announcements only

19:18

in French, no English. So I

19:20

took seven years of schoolboy French and

19:23

tried to provide helpful translations

19:25

for English speaking fans who

19:27

got stuck at the Quebec Nordiqe game

19:30

translations of such phrases as do not

19:32

punch me, mister left wing. I am not the fan

19:34

who threw the miniature Stanley cup at you. I'll

19:37

spare you the schoolboy French ah to hell

19:39

with it. Should have a flafe pas monsieur

19:41

l'alier edwatch since we paal spectator

19:43

kilansavu lakoup de Stanley miniature.

19:47

And yes, some of the fractured French

19:49

was deliberate, some of

19:51

it. Anyway, One

19:53

day when I got into work, there was a letter

19:55

waiting for me in the office and the return

19:58

address was Andy Fisher, Robin Sagan,

20:00

and Tom Morrera of w on WFM.

20:04

Andy and Robin were the newscasters

20:06

and Tom was the overnight disc jockey,

20:08

and they had heard one of the hockey

20:11

pieces and they enjoyed it so much

20:13

that on his earliest newscast on

20:15

WAWFM, which I think was

20:17

at four forty five in the morning,

20:20

and he gave the headlines of

20:22

the day and the weather, and then played

20:24

the entire two minute piece about the hockey

20:26

players. The letter from them

20:29

was lovely, and they said, look, if you ever want to come around

20:31

and visit, we're just around the corner. On

20:33

the other hand, Tom leaves the office at six am.

20:37

Well, I took them up on it. One night

20:39

I did my UPI shift, ending at eleven,

20:41

and instead of hopping on the train to go

20:43

to my folks home in the Suburbs, I

20:46

instead had a lot of coffee and I hung around

20:48

UPI knocking off a couple of

20:50

feature pieces and pre writing

20:52

a couple of more my sides. And

20:54

then in the middle of an April or early

20:57

May night in the Year of Our Lord nineteen

20:59

hundred and eighty, I walked around

21:01

the corner from UPI's office in the New York

21:03

Daily News build Bilding. You

21:06

know the building. You saw it if you ever saw the first Christopher

21:08

Reeves Superman movie, the one in the Big Planet

21:11

in the lobby. I did this at around

21:13

three o'clock in the morning. Took my life in

21:15

my hands. They buzzed me in at WNAW

21:18

on Third Avenue, and I met Tom, and I met Andy,

21:20

and I did a commentary for them live

21:22

on WNAWFM, and then just

21:25

hung out in the newsroom with Andy and the AM

21:28

news guys. And I was just sitting

21:30

there preparing to take the first morning train

21:32

home to my folks, which was I think six

21:35

forty am. It

21:38

was about ten after five when

21:40

a tall, extraordinarily thin

21:42

man with a bushy beard and a gleam

21:45

in his eye and a hello shouted

21:47

in a deep Texas accent, walked

21:49

in and everybody in that newsroom

21:51

said hi Sam. And

21:54

Sam looked at me funny and ducked

21:56

into what was evidently his office and

21:58

then came out, walked over to me and said you're

22:01

a Olberman. Huh And I said yes.

22:03

He said, I'm Sam Hall. I'm the new director. I want

22:05

to make some per diem My sportscasters

22:07

out sick today. And I said

22:10

sure. I mean you know that

22:12

phrase about right place, right time and all that

22:14

terrific. And Sam Hall said can

22:17

you write fast? And I said

22:19

yeah, actually I can. It's my only skill.

22:21

And he laughed and I laughed, and he said, well,

22:23

write as much as you can. Your first sports cast

22:26

is at five thirty five. You're on in eight

22:28

minutes. Well I froze

22:31

for a second. I shook his hand. I

22:33

found some wire copy and I started typing.

22:36

I managed somehow to call my folks

22:38

and get about two minutes of a show written

22:40

and I woke them up and I said, I'll be on WAW at

22:42

five thirty five, and then I hung up. I

22:45

did the rest of that shift that morning, and by

22:47

the end of it, Sam Hall had called me into his little

22:49

office and said, listen, my guy, John

22:51

Kennelly misses a lot of work. His wife's not

22:54

well. Could you be the backup?

22:56

I mean, could you be the kind of backup we could call

22:58

at two am and you could be here by four. I

23:01

mean, I think it would work out to about seventy five dollars

23:03

a day union money. My

23:05

full time job at UPI was about

23:08

seventy dollars a day. Sam,

23:11

I'll be moving into the city next month. I'll be within

23:13

walking distance, he smiled. Welcome

23:16

aboard son. The

23:18

next day I went looking for

23:20

an apartment in the city within

23:22

walking distance. I did not have

23:24

one. I kind of exaggerated. I

23:27

do not have a tape of that first hurried

23:30

WNAW sportscast, but I have most

23:32

of the others. So here are a few

23:35

and a few morsels from my UPI

23:38

days that I mentioned. Specifically, stuff I did for

23:40

the network from the nineteen eighty Winter Olympics

23:42

in Lake Placid New York. I'm

23:44

still cold. The old CBS

23:47

mock history series was called you

23:49

Were There. This series,

23:51

I think should be called I

23:55

was there.

23:56

Good Morning. I'm Keith Olberman, Canalio

23:58

with a goal and an assist a Cosmo's out of their

24:00

slump after a three to one win over the Sounders

24:03

last night at Cosmo's, a Giants rather

24:05

and Cincinnati, Jeff reard And gave up a ninth inning

24:07

homer to Ken Griffey, and the Mets lost to the Reds

24:09

four to three. Mets are at Houston tonight and

24:11

at Yankee Stadium, another one of those Yankee

24:13

Royals pitchers duels Casey fourteen

24:16

the Yankees three. But manager Dick Howser

24:18

isn't worried about a repeat of the past weekend. If

24:20

the Yanks and Royals meet in the playoffs.

24:22

Series doesn't mean anything to me.

24:24

Now, Howser will have more to say, and

24:26

we'll answer the question. How hot was it at

24:28

Yankee Stadium yesterday? On the Sports

24:30

reported at about a thirty five And that man's

24:32

name is Keith Olberman.

24:33

Now, how hot was it at Yankee Stadium?

24:36

Bob Harris got.

24:36

To figure about one hundred and ten to one hundred

24:39

and twelve degrees in the outfield in

24:41

the noonday sun.

24:43

The news has been brought to you by Alan

24:45

Carpett. I'm Bob Hayden.

24:47

And now wvlendy W's Sports un

24:49

commentary with John kennerley Man.

24:52

Good Morning, John continues on vacation, I'm

24:54

Keith Olberman. So maybe the Cosmos

24:57

didn't beat Philadelphia or Detroit last

24:59

week, You'd never have guessed they were in any kind of slump

25:01

the way they beat league leading Seattle last

25:03

night despite one of and twelve degree

25:05

on field temperatures. The Cosmos

25:07

won three to one at Giant Stadium. Can Ayo

25:10

the goal and an assistant moved back in the first place

25:12

in the scoring race. Next up for the Cosmos

25:14

Wednesday night at Giants Stadium against San Diego.

25:17

The Mets are in Houston right now, resting up

25:19

for their opener with the Astros tonight. John

25:21

Fasela and Ken Force the likely pitchers.

25:23

You hope a ball game like yesterday's won't take

25:26

too much out of these kids. They storm back to storm

25:28

back to ty Cincinnati when Mazzilli hit his thirteenth

25:30

homer in the eighth, with Flynn on and then

25:32

Jeff reard And gives up a game winning homer with

25:35

two out on the ninth to Ken Griffy. Joe

25:37

Torrey says, if it had to be anybody, he's

25:39

not mad that it was Griffy.

25:40

Things happened. You know, he tried to make a pitch and he

25:43

didn't know it hit the location he wanted.

25:45

And he'll never be embarrassed when

25:47

you beat the play a home run from

25:49

Ken Griffy. You know, I'm going to shorten the All Star Game.

25:51

And yeah, yeah, I felt

25:53

we were pretty fortunate to be able to tie the score.

25:55

That was you know, they didn't have more runs. We had great

25:58

relief pitching and great pitching when we needed it to

26:00

get out of innings, and you know, I thought,

26:02

once we tied it, we're going to win it.

26:03

But then came Grippy's homer.

26:05

Toy's club now six and a half out. The Pirates

26:07

are in first after splitting a doubleheader with the Dodgers,

26:10

losing the first four to two, winning the nightcap

26:12

eight to seven. The Expos lost at

26:14

Houston four to three, so the Astros go back

26:16

into first in the West. It was the Cards

26:18

two sent Francisco one the Braves over the Phillies

26:20

three to two at Chicago, topping San

26:22

Diego six nothing. How hot

26:25

was it at Yankee Stadium yesterday afternoon?

26:27

It was so hot. When Dick Howser went out to

26:29

the mound to take Ron Gidry out in the second inning, he

26:31

wore his bestest suit. It was

26:33

so hot. After the game, I saw the Royals being

26:36

poured into their team bus. It

26:38

was so hot. But seriously, the

26:40

Royals were what was hot yesterday. They won

26:42

fourteen to three. As game time temperatures hit

26:44

ninety eight degrees at the stadium. Gidrey

26:46

shelled for seven in less than two winnings. His

26:49

confidence definitely shaken. How

26:51

about the Yankees confidence that they could beat the Royals

26:53

in the playoffs. Dick Howser still seems

26:55

pretty sure of his club.

26:57

We might have a shade more power, they might hit for

26:59

a little better average, but I think our pitching is better

27:01

and they have more speed. And we'll just when we lock horns

27:03

if we do see it was the

27:05

best club then. But a series doesn't mean anything

27:08

to me. Now. Gedri's

27:10

gonna pitch against him aginn in Kansas City, and we'll

27:12

see what happens then.

27:14

Also key what happens this week is the Brewers

27:16

come to town for what could be the last

27:18

important series of the Eastern Race four games.

27:20

Brewers currently trail Yanks by eight and a half.

27:23

Mike Caldwell against Tom Underwood tonight.

27:25

Milwaukee won yesterday seven to six over the

27:27

White Sox. It was Texas seven and Baltimore

27:30

one twins over the Red Sox five to four.

27:32

Blue Jays beat the Angels six three in ten

27:34

Detroit over Seattle five to two in Oakland Stock

27:37

Cleveland sixty five. That one took fourteen

27:39

innings. Only three Americans had ever

27:41

won the British Open, three times each. They were

27:43

Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones and Jack Nicholas

27:45

Well. You can add Tom Watson's name to that list.

27:48

Watson by four yesterday at Meerfield to beat

27:50

Lee Trevino for the title. In Jersey.

27:52

Yesterday, in the weekly light Heavyweight

27:54

title bout, Eddie Mustapha Muhammad no

27:56

relation to Matthew Sad Muhammad knocked

27:58

out Jerry Martin no relation to Billy Martin at

28:00

two to ten of the tenth round. Mastafa

28:02

maintains the WBA crown in the vision

28:05

that Sports for John Kennelly on Keith Olberman

28:07

on the Ted Brown Show.

28:14

The Rangers season ended in April. Some

28:16

say it ended last October, but they're the Islander

28:18

fans. Who cares what they say? Anyway,

28:21

It's been three months since Freddy the fog. Shiro

28:23

has clouded up the Big Apple. But there

28:25

he was at the Garden news conference Tuesday, the

28:27

one at which Craig Patrick got the job as director

28:30

of Operations, the one at which the Ranger

28:32

management structure took on all the clarity of the government

28:34

of Iran. The subject was assistant

28:37

coach Mike Nikoluk, the methods, circular

28:39

logic. The question to Shiro, what's

28:41

the story with Nikoluk? Will he be back this

28:43

fall?

28:44

I sent him a cable Graham to Switzerland a

28:46

couple of days ago, saying that I

28:49

have accepted the fact that he wished to quit

28:53

and stay out of hockey, and

28:57

I haven't heard any further on the subject.

28:59

Then a reporter said, Nikoluk told him he'd

29:01

never resigned.

29:02

He never said resigned to me, he said quit, But

29:04

he.

29:04

Told you he was quitting. Did he give you a letter

29:06

of resignation?

29:07

Nobody has a letter of resignation from

29:09

him. I just happen

29:12

to read the words in the paper one day.

29:13

Yeah, but Fred, you're Freddie Schiro, scourge

29:16

of newspaper men. You've never been one to rely

29:18

on some words in the paper, right.

29:20

I think we'll take a lot of things into consideration,

29:22

not just one write them.

29:24

We had better stop now before damage is done

29:26

to the delicate tissues in our brains. For

29:28

WAWFM, I'm Keith Oberman. And

29:31

while it is too early in the morning for sports, it is

29:33

definitely too early in the morning for Fred

29:35

Shiro. They

29:38

went wild in the streets with America's gold

29:41

medal in hockey, shouts of We're number one,

29:43

the singing of the national anthem, Chance of USA

29:45

USA, and after the gold was one,

29:48

one fan was awfully glad he had not followed

29:50

through on an idea to scalp his tickets.

29:52

I thought about it.

29:53

I thought, if somebody'd offer me two

29:55

hundred dollars a piece for them, I would sell them.

29:57

But I'm glad it didn't. What

30:00

is your reaction now with the wind, Oh my gracious,

30:02

I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

30:03

See this game. You never have to see another game in the rest of

30:05

your life, the biggest born

30:07

up set in twenty years, Steam of destiny. The

30:10

postgame celebrations spilled over from the Olympics

30:12

Center area to the streets of Lake Placid. The

30:14

thousands of celebrants showing no ill effects

30:16

of having done this twice in three days. Keith

30:19

Oberman, Lake Placid, stunning

30:23

the packed Olympics Center crowd. The favorite American

30:26

team of time, Babylonia and Randy Gardner,

30:28

have withdrawn from the pairs figure skating competition

30:30

due to injury. Gardner had been receiving

30:33

treatment for a muscle pull and he's growing all

30:35

day. He fell twice during the warm ups

30:37

before the start of the event, and after testing

30:39

his injury briefly on ice, he and Babylonia

30:41

skated off. Shortly after, a representative

30:44

of the US team walked across ice to the referee

30:47

to announce the withdrawal. And so the

30:49

current defending world champions are out

30:51

of the Olympic pairs competition. Years

30:53

of practice and patients coming to naught for

30:56

Ti Babylonia and Randy Gardner Keith

30:58

Oberman at the Olympics Center.

31:01

Joy turned to sadness in a matter of minutes

31:03

for the United States on Friday. After

31:05

winning two medals, a silver and a gold, and

31:07

doing surprisingly well in the men's two man

31:10

Bob's led us hopes for a gold

31:12

medal and the pair's figure skating competition

31:14

were shattered when the team of Randy Gardner

31:16

and tie Babylonia had to withdraw. Keith

31:19

Olberman was at the Olympic Center when the announcement

31:21

of the withdrawal was made.

31:23

First hint came during the warm ups before the pairs

31:25

competition began. Randy Gardner

31:27

fell twice, and after he and ty Babylonia

31:29

came on ice before their skating turn, Gardner

31:32

determined he could not perform, and the pair

31:34

withdrew due to injury. Gardner had been

31:36

receiving treatment all day for a muscle pull in

31:38

his groin. The news of the withdrawal shock

31:40

to packed house at the Olympic Center and left

31:42

the Americans without a strong pair of candidates

31:45

for a medal.

31:45

Coach John Nick said there was no way Gardner

31:48

could skate.

31:49

He missed three things.

31:53

Imagine if you will being transported to another

31:55

planet. On this planet, which is very similar

31:58

to our own, you are not allowed to drive a car,

32:00

but there is nothing within walking distance. No matter

32:02

where you are on this planet. There are

32:04

are a million things you must find out immediately,

32:07

and there are a million people authorized

32:09

to tell you. Yet when you ask one of them, they always

32:11

say, I don't know. On

32:13

this strange planet, everyone wears heavy and sometimes

32:16

absurd clothing. But the natives say, it's almost

32:18

like summer. Got the picture. Well,

32:20

this is the culture shock. Hundreds of reporters

32:22

and thousands of fans are going through right now.

32:25

Welcome to Lake Placid for the nineteen eighty Winter

32:27

Olympics. I speak to you from the bleachers

32:29

next to the skating rink that the Heidens and the Muellers

32:31

will use in a couple of days, and I speak

32:33

of a remarkable event called the Winter Games, an

32:36

experience unto itself that almost defies

32:38

description. Again, I ask you to

32:40

do a little imagining. See the high school

32:42

in your town, or better still, the town of your youth.

32:44

Imagine it shut down suddenly and changed

32:46

overnight into three floors of sheer madness,

32:49

as the representatives of newspapers, magazines,

32:51

and radio and television companies from around the world

32:53

take over everything from the gym to the chemistry

32:56

lab. Some strange things happen

32:58

here. You are standing next to a press representative

33:00

of the Olympic Committee when he receives an important

33:02

note from an assistant, Call your wife

33:05

at once, it reads. The press representative

33:07

looks at you with a dumbfounded stair and says, but

33:09

I'm not married. Reporters

33:11

looking to see the trial runs on Whiteface Mountain

33:13

are sent halfway up the slope on a ski lift,

33:16

and then they must tumble walk, slide, and shiver

33:18

halfway down again to the finish line. At

33:20

every turn somebody asks you for a pin. A

33:23

pin, You say, you know somebody's official

33:25

Olympic pin. There was this girl who got

33:27

on one of the press buses where a hat literally covered

33:29

with pins, Team pins, sports pins,

33:31

sporting good manufacturers pins, press

33:33

pins. The pin appears to be as important

33:35

to the average reporter or fan as the results

33:38

of the women's Giant slalom. Officials

33:40

charged with letting authorized persons in and with

33:42

keeping unauthorized persons out sometimes miss

33:44

their duty while negotiating the trade of a Polish

33:46

hockey pin for the pin of a German news

33:48

agency. This is a weird plant at this

33:51

Lake Placid and it's only just started. Who

33:53

knows what pin will turn up next. I'm

33:55

Keith Oberman and from Lake Placid. That's my

33:57

side.

34:04

So as a reminder, let me close

34:07

this time with where this thing started.

34:10

As I said before, the great thing about

34:12

podcasts is the metrics. I

34:15

do not have to just believe that

34:17

the TV ratings are correct,

34:19

that they really are accurate extrapolations

34:22

from I don't know two thousand selective

34:25

viewers across the country who are supposed to represent

34:27

every possible person composed of every

34:29

possible demographic, and everybody in every one

34:31

demographic watches the same thing.

34:34

I just go to this website and there

34:36

it is the record of everybody

34:38

who listened to this, not by name,

34:41

but just how many of them actually downloaded

34:43

each episode, and the

34:45

growth of this podcast indicates that around

34:48

half of all of today's regular

34:50

listeners did not hear the

34:52

first edition when we published it at three

34:54

am Eastern daylight time on August

34:57

one, twenty twenty two, after

34:59

a weekend in which I actually learned how to use

35:01

the equipment, even though the

35:04

lapt I was using it on crashed

35:06

and burned thirty three

35:08

hours before posting. So

35:11

this from August first Episode

35:13

one is a little wacky

35:16

of a way to start, but I think it's

35:18

still kind of on point.

35:22

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody

35:25

knows things are bad. It's a recession. Everybody

35:28

goes to work, but they're still scared of losing their

35:30

job. The corporations make sure the dollar

35:32

buys a Nicholsworth. Banks are making

35:34

record profits. Teachers are told to keep

35:36

a gun under the desk. Punks are running

35:38

wild in Congress, and there's nobody anywhere

35:41

seems to know what to do, and there's no end to

35:43

it. We know the air

35:45

is unfit to breathe and our planet

35:47

will be unfit for life. And we sit watching

35:49

our TVs while some Fox newscaster

35:52

tells us that today Trump is the real

35:54

victim and minorities are the real problem,

35:56

as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We

35:59

all know things are bad, worse

36:01

than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything

36:03

everywhere is going so we don't go out anymore.

36:06

We have the Senate in the House, but slowly

36:08

the democracy we're living and is getting smaller,

36:10

And all we say is please at least leave

36:13

us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my

36:15

president and my RBG Shrine

36:17

and my January sixth hearings, and I won't

36:19

say anything. Just leave us alone.

36:21

Well, I'm not going to leave you alone. I

36:23

want you to get mad. I want

36:26

you to protest. I want you to strike. I want

36:28

you to write to your congressman, because you don't need me

36:30

to tell you what to write. You know what to

36:32

do about the recession and the inflation, and the

36:34

Russians and the Nazis in the street. All

36:37

I know is first you've got

36:39

to get mad. You've got to say I'm

36:41

a human being. God damn it, my

36:43

life has value.

36:46

So I want

36:48

you to get up now. I want all of you

36:50

to get up and out of your chairs. I

36:53

want you to get up right now and go to

36:55

the window, open it and stick your head

36:57

out and yell, I'm as mad as

36:59

hell and I'm not gonna take Trump anymore.

37:02

I want you to get up right now, get up, go to

37:04

your windows, open them, and stick

37:06

your head out and yell, I'm as mad as

37:08

hell and I'm not gonna take Trump anymore.

37:11

Things have got to change. But first

37:13

you've got to get mad. You've got to say

37:16

I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna

37:18

take Trump anymore. Then we'll figure out

37:20

what to do about the recession and the inflation and the

37:22

oil cartels. But first, get up out

37:24

of your chairs, open your windows, stick

37:26

your head out, and yell and say it. I'm

37:28

as mad as Helen, I'm not gonna take

37:31

Trump anymore. The bote as hell

37:33

take Trump anymore.

37:35

I am mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take

37:37

Trump anymore.

37:38

As who sorry,

37:41

couldn't resist. And

37:43

for the first time in my life, even through the brutal

37:46

years of Reagan and even through the psychotic

37:48

years of Bush, that famous

37:50

Howard Beal speech from the nineteen seventy

37:52

six movie Network seems to fit this

37:55

moment, with some revisions.

37:57

Of course, the Beal character as

37:59

portrayed by Peter Finch, and especially

38:01

that speech, and especially that catchphrase

38:04

I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going

38:06

to take this anymore, spoke to

38:08

long before it became a cliche. This

38:11

weird overlap between

38:13

somebody who is so enraged that he is angry

38:16

mad as hell and somebody who

38:18

may be so insane that

38:20

he is crazy mad as hell.

38:23

But there's also a third subtext to it,

38:25

which only occasionally gets mentioned and

38:27

only occasionally gets appreciated, And it is

38:29

why beal and mad as hell means

38:32

something today. It's

38:34

that line towards the start. We all know things

38:36

are bad. Worse than bad, they're crazy.

38:38

It's like everything everywhere is

38:41

going crazy. In short, it's like Howard

38:43

Beale, representing all of us,

38:45

is going crazy because nobody else

38:48

is when they should be. If

38:50

in school you had read that one hundred

38:52

years ago, or one hundred and fifty years ago, or

38:54

whenever a president of the United States

38:57

fraudulently denied he lost the election

38:59

and tried to overturn it in the courts

39:01

and in the Congress, and it didn't work because

39:04

it was one big lie. So he invited

39:06

gangs of thugs and racists

39:09

and gun suckers and militias

39:11

to come to the Capitol during the most

39:13

boasted about part of American

39:16

democracy, the peaceful transfer

39:18

of power, And having invited them,

39:20

he then incited them to try to

39:22

overthrow the government by violence.

39:24

You would have expected to then have read

39:26

about the police and the military

39:29

and the laws that stopped him, and

39:31

the arrests and the indictments and the

39:33

lifetimes in prison and the vengeance

39:35

that followed. Hell, what

39:38

precipitated the Civil War if

39:41

not eleven states trying

39:43

to stop the peaceful transfer of

39:45

power because they didn't like who got

39:47

elected. We are supposed

39:50

to do something about this. When

39:52

a large minority of Americans

39:55

stood up and said only whites

39:57

are real people. And when they

39:59

said we will use the police to lynch

40:01

black people. And when they said guns

40:03

settle every and when they said women are here

40:06

only to breed, and when they said we own the

40:08

Supreme Court now, and when they said we

40:10

will not teach history because we don't want children

40:12

to know there's a more righteous way. And

40:14

when they said this is our world, and you

40:16

the majority. Your votes do not count

40:19

here. Your cities do not count

40:21

here, Your lives do not count here. Your

40:23

president does not count here. When

40:26

all that happened within thirty nine days,

40:30

our anger and our vengeance democracies

40:32

anger and vengeance began. It

40:36

was eighteen sixty one. But

40:39

first you've got to get mad.

40:42

Today they have Trump and Schedule F

40:45

and a plan to impeach Biden for

40:50

whatever, and they've already turned

40:52

the Supreme Court into the theocratic republican

40:54

Supreme religious Court and

40:57

they've overturned abortion, and next will be marriage

40:59

equality. And they intend to investigate the

41:01

January sixth committee members and pardon

41:04

everybody who actually attacked the capital, even

41:06

though you and I grew up presuming you know, if I attack

41:09

the capital during the peaceful

41:11

transfer of power, I'm

41:13

going to guess they'll give me about five seconds

41:15

to stop before they start shooting

41:18

at me. And they want to put Fauci

41:20

in prison, and their passing laws prosecuting

41:23

doctors and prosecuting women who

41:25

leave a state to go to another state for an

41:27

abortion. In other words, they

41:29

want to prosecute women who leave a slave

41:32

state to go to a free

41:35

state and bring them back

41:37

to the slave state. And

41:40

they have a Fox News, and

41:42

another worse Fox News, and another

41:45

worser even than that Fox News.

41:47

And what do we have? We

41:50

have once a week somebody

41:53

who says we must find a

41:55

compromise with them. We must

41:58

be bipartisan, we must

42:00

be democrats and liberals who act like

42:02

Republicans and fascists and Nazis.

42:05

We have Joe Manchin,

42:08

and for eighteen months, Joe

42:11

Manchin has obstructed

42:13

all the good Joe Biden has tried

42:15

to do, and prevented all the emergency

42:18

measures we must have to keep the last words

42:20

by the last humans surviving the climate

42:22

catastrophe on this planet from being as

42:25

chairman of Excellent Mobile, I want

42:28

to report record profits for

42:30

the year e twenty

42:32

fifty two. And

42:36

when the bribe for Joe Manchin,

42:38

the Senator from fossil fuel

42:40

gulch West Virginia, is finally

42:43

sufficient to his liking and he finally

42:45

agrees with Chuck Schumer on the

42:47

seven hundred and forty billion dollar Climate

42:49

and Deficit Reduction Bill, what does he

42:51

get? He gets to go on all

42:54

five network Sunday political

42:56

television nitwitch shows the

42:58

proverbial full Ginsburg

43:01

glory, Glory, hallelujah. It's Joe

43:03

Manchin, our lawgiver, the

43:06

true Democrat. And

43:08

yet Kirsten

43:10

Cinema could still kill the thing today

43:13

and Joe Manchin would then still

43:16

look reasonable. By contrast,

43:18

tomorrow, he'd still be the hero who

43:21

achieved nothing, and

43:24

of all that cinema stuff bothers you. I

43:27

used to go out with her.

43:30

We all know things are bad. Worse than

43:32

bad, they're crazy. It's like everything

43:35

everywhere has going

43:37

crazy, even the fascists

43:40

who hate or fear Trump have

43:42

something closer to a plan than we do.

43:45

This Town. Author Mark Leibovich

43:48

quoted a former Republican congressman is saying,

43:50

quote, look, we have no plan

43:52

for this except sitting around hoping

43:55

he dies, unquote,

43:57

which actually sounds like more of a plan

44:00

than our plan. Our plan

44:03

make sure Democrats help

44:06

the craziest Trump supporters

44:08

and election deniers. And it's not Iqanon,

44:11

it's just q Andon. Nutbags

44:14

get nominated because we're

44:17

confident we can beat them right

44:20

right, right

44:24

this weekend, it will be nineteen

44:27

months since the coup. They

44:29

have plans for more coups.

44:32

A coup in Washington, a coup in every state, a

44:34

coup in every county. Looks like

44:36

they compromise the Secret Service and it's

44:38

still compromised. Looks like they compromise

44:40

the inspector General at Homeland Security.

44:42

They've compromised half the

44:45

cops in this country, a little less, a

44:47

little more. They've compromised,

44:49

as my hero's Bob Elliott Ray Goulding

44:51

once joked, everything except the Visiting

44:54

Nurse Association. They have built

44:56

a cult around denying the

44:58

twenty twenty election. And if you haven't figured out

45:00

what's behind that nonsense, by the way, seemingly

45:03

quicksotic and academic at the same

45:05

time. Here's the little secret. The idea

45:07

about the twenty twenty stuff still being

45:09

talked about is if l. Duche

45:12

gets elected in twenty twenty four

45:15

and goes back to the White House, he will somehow

45:18

make somebody like I don't know,

45:20

the Supreme Court confirm

45:23

that, yes, he actually won in

45:25

twenty twenty, but was denied

45:28

that rightful term in the White House,

45:30

so he will be given a

45:32

third term in twenty twenty eight,

45:35

or at least allowed to run

45:37

for it. In short, if twenty

45:39

twenty was stolen from him, he's owed another

45:42

term.

45:42

Right.

45:43

That's in the Constitution, isn't it. Gee,

45:45

maybe we could just, you know, skip the twenty twenty

45:47

eight election outright. The

45:51

fascists have all this in the works.

45:53

And what do we have? We

45:56

have Chuck Todd

45:59

three weeks ago asking a Republican

46:02

governor, quote, what's best

46:04

for the country? Do you think the country

46:06

can handle prosecuting a former president?

46:09

And we have less Yer Holts one week

46:11

ago telling the Attorney General of the United

46:13

States, quote, indictment of a former

46:16

president and perhaps a candidate for

46:18

president would arguably tear

46:20

the country apart. Is that

46:23

your concern? They

46:26

have Fox News? We

46:30

have Fox News only

46:33

we call it NBC. I

46:37

will do this podcast every weekday,

46:40

morning, no holiday, mondays. Sorry

46:42

I'm getting old. It will be as best as

46:44

I can do it, the podcast version of what the old TV

46:46

show was. I will explain to you later in

46:48

this first episode what exactly

46:51

happened to the old TV show. And

46:54

here's a tease. It's none of

46:56

the things you've heard. And I'll have

46:58

comments on the news and comments

47:00

on the sports. Did you know I used to do sports?

47:03

And the worst persons in the

47:05

world are back? And why Trump

47:08

gets a tax break for burying his wife

47:10

in the golf course. But first, I

47:13

want to button up this topic about

47:15

getting mad as hell with two quotes

47:17

and one question. Quote number

47:19

one, it's General William To

47:21

comes to Sherman, and it's meant metaphorically.

47:24

So don't think I'm talking about

47:26

bloodshed, because you can't do

47:28

political bloodshed in this country

47:31

unless you're a Republican. This

47:34

was Sherman the last time Americans

47:36

tried to overthrow American democracy.

47:38

Quote, war is the remedy

47:40

our enemies have chosen. Other

47:43

simple remedies were within their choice.

47:45

You know it, and they know it. But

47:48

they wanted war, and I say, let

47:50

us give them all they want, not a word of

47:52

argument, not a sign of let up, no cave in till

47:55

we are whipped or they are

47:59

end Sherman quote.

48:02

First, you've got to get mad. What

48:05

greater active war against the United

48:08

States by someone owing allegiance

48:10

to the United States within

48:12

the United States could there ever be

48:15

than to send armed militias

48:17

into the United States Capital than

48:19

to encourage them to attack and kill

48:22

members of Congress, members of the Senate,

48:24

even the Vice President. What greater

48:27

act of war against the United

48:29

States could there be than to try

48:31

to prevent by violent revolution, the

48:34

peaceful transfer of power in the United

48:36

States. I have no complaints

48:39

about the January sixth Committee. I

48:41

do not buy the argument that it's the Liz

48:43

Cheney Show, And so what if it

48:45

were. Chairman Thompson and the other Democrats

48:48

have been terrific if, as

48:50

I speculated months ago, they are programming

48:52

to the proverbial audience of one and

48:55

it is named Merrick Garland Dandy.

48:59

But I don't see exactly how they plan

49:01

to end this. So

49:04

what if? First they

49:06

realized, you've got to get mad,

49:08

You've got to say I'm as mad as hell and I'm

49:10

not going to take Trump anymore. What if they ended

49:12

it with another quote? What

49:15

if the January sixth Committee ends

49:17

its final hearing by simply quoting

49:19

just the start of Title

49:21

eighteen USC Chapter

49:24

one fifteen, Section two three

49:26

eight one quote.

49:29

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United

49:31

States, levies war against them,

49:34

or adheres to their enemies, giving

49:36

them aid and comfort within the United

49:38

States or elsewhere, is guilty

49:41

of treason the

49:56

way this began just two hundred and thirteen

49:58

episodes ago on August first of

50:01

last year. Anyway, I've done all

50:03

the damage I can do here. I suspect we will be back

50:05

to something resembling the normal

50:07

format tomorrow, or hell,

50:10

maybe not. Who knows. Who's

50:12

gonna tell me what to do?

50:13

Here?

50:15

Here are the credits. Most of the music arranged,

50:17

produced and performed by Brian Ray and John

50:20

Phillip s Chanelle the Countdown musical directors.

50:22

All orchestration and keyboards by John

50:25

Phillip Shanelle. Guitars, bass and drums

50:27

by Brian Ray. Produced by TKO

50:29

Brothers TKO Brothers

50:32

or John Phillip Shanel, Brian Ray

50:34

and me. Other Beethoven selections

50:36

have been arranged and performed by the group No Horns

50:38

Allowed. The sports music is the

50:40

Olberman theme from ESPN two, and it was

50:43

written by Mitch Warren Davis Curtisy

50:45

of ESPN, Inc. Musical comments

50:47

by Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium

50:49

organist ever. Our announcer was my friend Larry

50:52

David, and everything else was pretty much my fault.

50:54

So that's countdown for this, the eight hundred and seventy

50:56

fifth day since Donald Trump's first attempted

50:59

coup against the democratically elected

51:01

government of the United States. Don't forget

51:03

to keep arresting him. I always still can.

51:06

The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Until

51:08

then, I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon,

51:11

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51:20

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