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Countdown with Keith Olderman is a

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production of iHeartRadio.

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Sure, he violated Judge mer Schawan's

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expanded gag order on day one, and

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yes, he once again threatened that if he is

0:28

not elected, the country will cease to exist.

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And yes, he called immigrants animals.

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Yet incredibly, Trump

0:35

has done something worse. He

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has threatened to federalize state

0:40

and local police.

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His persecution of minorities, starting

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with Latinos, moving on to Blacks

0:47

and Middle Easterners, and when he runs out

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of all them Jews, that

0:52

will be conducted at least in part by

0:54

cops, local

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cops, cops,

1:00

you know. To

1:03

make that possible, Trump will have to take

1:05

over the police everywhere.

1:10

Promising death and destruction and

1:12

making a stochastic assassination threat

1:14

against President Biden is one kind

1:16

of thing. This,

1:18

This is pure and immediate

1:22

American dictatorship. Trump

1:25

Grand Rapids, Michigan, surrounded

1:27

by cops at a fascist

1:29

rally.

1:30

Somebody said, how will you get these criminals

1:32

out? I say, the sheriffs,

1:34

the police, the police officers, the police,

1:36

law enforcement.

1:37

In their local communities.

1:39

They know every bad kid,

1:41

They know every bad person. They know

1:44

their first name, their middle name, they know their

1:46

phone numbers, they have their cell phones, they

1:48

have everything about them. They know exactly

1:50

what to do and how to do it. These guys

1:53

know exactly what I'm talking about.

1:55

But we have to let them do their job. And we're

1:57

going to work out a federal immunity for police

1:59

so they're allowed to do their job without losing their

2:01

house and their pension everything

2:05

else when when the

2:07

liberal governors and mayors don't back them.

2:09

The indemnify them thing is not

2:11

new. He promised that last December, and I'll

2:14

circle back to its implications in a moment.

2:16

But one of those implications that

2:18

by indemnifying cops against

2:20

prosecution for strong

2:23

actions, he would be making them personally

2:25

loyal to him. That was only

2:28

an implication, and an unofficial

2:30

implication at that. He has now

2:32

said, federal immunity

2:35

the cops, the cops

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in your town, the cops on

2:40

your street, the cops

2:42

in your family, would

2:44

be federalized and they

2:46

would work for

2:48

Trump. In

2:50

putting it into these terms,

2:53

Trump has shown you as clearly

2:56

as ever before the America

2:58

he intends to sentence

3:01

the rest of us to next January

3:03

twentieth. There are no laws,

3:05

there are no governors. There are no mayors,

3:08

there are no local governments, there

3:11

is no appeal. There

3:13

is only him. He

3:16

has the military. He will use it on

3:18

the streets against protesters. He may

3:20

declare a state of insurrection during his inaugural

3:22

address. Thus the protesters could

3:24

be anybody you

3:27

me, a Democratic Speaker

3:30

of the House, Joe Biden, a

3:33

news reporter. He doesn't like voters,

3:35

he doesn't like judges who

3:38

try to stop him. He

3:40

will usurp the federal

3:42

government and replace it with those personally

3:44

loyal to him. And the first

3:47

show of force will

3:50

be the purge of minorities. And if you belong

3:52

to any minority group, and spoiler alert,

3:55

we all belong to some minority

3:57

group. You may think you are

3:59

here legally. But if your local

4:01

cop, your local Trump

4:03

cop, federalized by Trump,

4:06

indemnified by Trump, beholden

4:08

to Trump. If your local cop says

4:10

no, he thinks he heard

4:13

somewhere that you are here illegally,

4:16

Guess where you are going. You

4:19

are going to Trump Camp.

4:22

A judge is going to

4:25

stop it. A judge Trump

4:27

appointed. A judge

4:29

in a red state, a judge

4:32

Trump didn't appoint in a blue state. Who

4:34

knows that if he crosses Trump, he

4:36

will be the next to go to Trump camp

4:39

and die there fast

4:42

or slow. And

4:46

this nightmare all starts with the cops, because

4:49

Trump's recitation of their omniscience

4:51

is a wild exaggeration, but not a

4:54

total one. And this nation,

4:56

especially its Republicans and its magas,

4:58

and its fascists and its racists and

5:01

its lunatics, is a nation riddled

5:04

with snitches and

5:07

sadists

5:09

and grudge holders and

5:12

people who do not value human life.

5:15

And a lot of them just happened

5:17

to be not all of them, not exclusively,

5:19

it's not one hundred percent, but a lot of them just

5:22

happened to be cops right

5:25

now. And

5:28

then there are also lots of non cop

5:30

people who you would now bet your life

5:32

on being there to defend you if

5:35

they dragged you away and

5:37

said, oh, new rule, your grandmother

5:39

can't prove her immigration here was documented.

5:42

That means you are no longer a citizen.

5:45

Well surprised those people you

5:47

would bet your life on will first worry about

5:49

whether their grandmother can

5:52

prove the same thing, or if that

5:54

cop there knows the unfortunate

5:57

fact about them, or their friend or

5:59

their cousin, or or it

6:04

all arts with the cops. And Trump

6:06

just said he would federalize the cops.

6:09

And again, this is only

6:11

the second time he has said, and said

6:13

it obliquely enough that nearly every

6:15

reporter, every news outlet missed it

6:18

that he would be indemnifying

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all the police everywhere

6:23

in the country. They shoot somebody,

6:25

they cannot be arrested,

6:28

they cannot be sued,

6:31

they cannot be stopped.

6:34

And for this they personally

6:37

have only one man to think Trump

6:41

last December eighteenth, Durhma Hampshire,

6:43

I.

6:44

Am also going to indemnify all

6:46

police offices.

6:47

This is a big thing, and it's a brand new.

6:49

Thing, and I think it's so important. I'm

6:52

going to indemnify, through the federal government,

6:54

all police officers and law enforcement

6:57

officials throughout.

6:58

The United States from being

7:00

destroyed by the radical left

7:02

for taking.

7:03

Strong actions against crime.

7:06

Of all of Trump's threats,

7:08

even the idea of imposing the

7:10

Insurrection Act on January twentieth and bringing

7:13

the military out to arrest Fannie

7:16

Willis and Jack Smith and Gretchen

7:18

Whitmer and Joe Biden and Juan Merschan's

7:21

daughter and whoever else he really doesn't

7:23

like that day, of all

7:25

of his threats. His many mortal

7:28

dangers to representative government in this country,

7:30

the one about the cops is the

7:33

most dangerous because it is

7:35

the one that is the most immediately actionable.

7:39

Give Trump the cops, and

7:42

he will turn every American cop into a lawless

7:44

storm trooper, and every domestic

7:46

police force into a miniature SS.

7:49

And he can do it virtually overnight.

7:56

He can co opt every law officer in

7:58

this country, seven

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hundred thousand of them,

8:06

by the way. They are all armed, and

8:08

in the last year nearly

8:11

all of them have been equipped,

8:13

if they were not already, with military style

8:15

weapons and vehicles and surveillance equipment,

8:20

and make each and every one of them, in essence

8:22

untouchable by law, beholden to

8:24

no one responsibly, ultimately

8:27

only to the person who liberated them

8:29

from all of these annoying

8:31

restraints. Trump and

8:35

federalized so they can raid

8:37

homes in their own communities

8:40

and drag out our neighbors

8:42

and our friends and our relatives off to

8:44

the camps. And when they

8:46

are all in the camps, who's next.

8:52

The election of Donald Trump would

8:54

not be a disaster for democracy

8:56

in this country. It would be a door

8:59

locking all of us except a

9:01

chosen few chosen by Trump

9:04

locking us into a prison cell

9:06

from which there is not only no appeal

9:09

and from which there is not only no escape,

9:11

but from which, the moment we are inside,

9:13

the doors are removed.

9:19

Federalizing and indemnifying

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local police. I'm

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going to indemnify, through

9:26

the federal government, all police

9:29

officers. That was what he said

9:31

in December. What do you think

9:33

that means? Indemnified,

9:36

relieved of legal liability

9:38

for their actions. That

9:41

means that the next Derek Chauvin who

9:43

tortures George Floyd to death on a Minneapolis

9:46

city street with witnesses, that cop

9:48

cannot be arrested, cannot

9:50

be prosecuted, cannot

9:52

be sued, cannot be stopped to

9:55

try to would probably be

9:57

breaking a new Trump law. And

10:01

if there are no longer any means of stopping

10:03

the cops from ha people or beating people

10:06

or killing people, cops will no longer have any

10:08

need to even pretend that

10:10

the people they are harassing or beating

10:12

or killing are actually guilty of anything. They

10:14

are. Then the SS to

10:18

use the fascists term illegals

10:22

trying to escape

10:25

shot while trying to escape the police.

10:30

Where are you going next? After that? Happens

10:32

to your local police review

10:35

board, the one the cops

10:37

just abolished. But

10:40

what about people who are not quote

10:42

illegal, but just happen to

10:44

be named, just to pick a few

10:46

names at random, say Nicholas

10:50

Fuentes or

10:52

Anna Paulina Luna or

10:55

Raphael Cruz or

10:58

mark O Rubio

11:01

or Michelle Tafoya or

11:03

Rachel Campos, Duffy or Ben

11:05

Dominich. Somebody

11:08

with a name like that born

11:10

here. We're

11:13

near here, after

11:15

whom Trump sends his local cops

11:18

and those people Fuente's Luna,

11:20

Cruz, Rubio, Tafoya, Campo s Duffy,

11:23

Dominic any of them. Those

11:25

people run out of fear,

11:28

out of panic, they run and they

11:31

get shot. Who investigates

11:33

that. Let's

11:36

mix in one more degree of horror. What

11:39

if they aren't quote illegal and

11:41

they did not run, but the cops

11:44

Trump's cops say they tried to

11:46

run. Oh,

11:49

we'll look at the body cameras. Now,

11:54

it's unfortunate. We shot mister Olderman,

11:57

but we mistook him for a suspect

11:59

from Honduras who was wanted

12:01

for being

12:06

here illegally. We

12:13

already know wide swaths of

12:15

the nation's seven hundred thousand

12:17

cops in eighteen thousand,

12:20

state and local police forces range

12:22

from wild conservatism to full

12:25

on fascism and white supremacism

12:27

and QAnon and election denialism

12:29

and trump Ism. We already know

12:31

that since nine to eleven, the nation's police forces

12:34

have equipped themselves as if all of

12:36

the world's terrorists are going

12:38

to descend on them personally

12:40

late this afternoon. I

12:44

have previously cited the example of Franklin,

12:46

Indiana, population twenty five

12:48

thousand, where the cops there bought

12:51

themselves an m RAP, a

12:54

mine resistant armored

12:56

vehicle for

13:00

Franklin, Indiana, an

13:03

m RAP, just like a dozen other

13:05

small county police forces bought

13:08

in the last decade, a dozen small county

13:10

police forces, just in

13:13

Indiana.

13:16

Trump's plan here is

13:18

not to get a little loose,

13:20

a little lax on reading suspects

13:23

their miranda rights. It's

13:26

detaining them without charge,

13:30

then detaining the judge who points out that they've

13:32

been detained without charge, then detaining

13:34

the protesters who protest the detention

13:36

of the cop and the suspect and

13:38

the judge and anybody else who complained,

13:42

and then if that doesn't work, having the cops

13:44

shoot them shoot us. This

13:48

remember would be in addition to using

13:51

the National Guard to quell

13:53

peaceful political protests. This would

13:55

be in addition to what Trump staffers would

13:58

not deny or at least considerations

14:00

of invoking the Insurrection Act on January

14:03

twentieth, twenty twenty five. This would be in addition

14:05

to Trump's jovial promise to be a dictator,

14:08

but only on day one. Haha,

14:10

I'm only kidding. No, I'm not, Yes, i am No, I'm

14:12

not. And

14:14

by the way, as if we needed one

14:16

more twist of this nightmare, remember

14:19

who all this is being done for.

14:22

Trump doesn't give a rats

14:25

ass if

14:27

there are people here without documentation and

14:30

whether they are expelled or not. Hell,

14:33

he's employed hundreds building

14:35

his buildings. He has no interest

14:37

in law or order except

14:40

how to evade both of them himself.

14:43

This is all to keep up a steady

14:45

supply of minority people

14:48

to victimize. This

14:51

is his Roman colosseum,

14:53

his slaves fighting lions.

14:57

This is all because he

15:00

long ago recognized his support

15:03

is from Satan lists and

15:05

the mentally ill, and

15:08

those who believe in racial purity

15:10

and the poisoning of the national

15:13

blood and all the other things.

15:16

Trump read in that book of Hitler's

15:18

speeches that he used to keep in a table

15:20

by his bedside thirty five years ago,

15:23

the book Ivanna told us about

15:27

because if you want to know why Hitler's

15:29

plan worked in a place like Germany

15:32

and why it can work here today next

15:35

year, it's because, as

15:37

a memorable edition of the Twilight

15:39

Zone show was titled, sixty

15:42

years ago, people are

15:44

alike all

15:48

over, federalized

15:52

local police indemnified

15:55

federalized local

15:58

Trump police

16:02

stand by for the Trump

16:05

waff. Compared

16:34

to that. Trump's legal stuff

16:36

pales in comparison, of course, but

16:38

it merits mentioned. As noted yesterday, Judge

16:40

Marshan identify

16:42

her he's the judge in the Stormy Daniel's

16:44

hush money election interference Trump trial.

16:47

Judge Marschan did expand the gag

16:50

order in his case to include his own

16:52

daughter, who Trump kept attacking, and

16:54

before the business day had even begun

16:57

yesterday, Trump posted pinned to

16:59

the top of his feed a six and

17:01

a half minute video attack on her

17:04

by fire News by the impeccably

17:07

stupid Brian Killmead, repeating

17:10

the lie that she was

17:12

behind a Twitter feed showing a picture

17:14

of Trump behind bars. Kill Mead starting

17:17

with what he called some dispute

17:20

about the photo, jumping to if

17:23

I'm Trump, I'm concerned about that, and finally

17:25

erasing any margin for error

17:27

by stating by lying,

17:30

by jumping to the conclusion in about

17:32

two seconds flat quote the judge

17:34

has a daughter who feels this way. We

17:38

know Trump was forbidden from

17:41

personally commenting on the families

17:43

of court officials, like the

17:46

judge's daughter and

17:48

other members of the family of the judge.

17:51

Does repeating the comments of others, the lies

17:53

of others, the stochastic

17:56

invitations to attack the members

17:58

of the judges family. Does just

18:00

repeating others doing

18:03

that? Does that count as violating

18:05

the gag order? On the

18:07

social media site, Trump bones Judge.

18:10

Here's an idea. Let's

18:13

find out, cancel

18:15

his bail, prepare

18:18

for an onslaught of legal actions

18:20

to prevent what you're going to do. But let's

18:23

see. Let somebody stand up

18:25

and see. Let's find out what the law

18:27

actually means in this country. Let's

18:30

see if we can drag

18:32

Trump's useless, murderous,

18:36

mass murder fascist

18:38

ass off to Rikers

18:41

Island until further notice

18:44

and until he indemnifies

18:47

the guards there. Once

18:58

again, I am compelled to offer

19:01

comic relief, even if it's

19:03

only for myself. This this is from Trump's

19:05

second stop yesterday, the one after

19:08

the one in which he promised to federalize

19:10

all the cops. This is from Green Bay,

19:12

Wisconsin, and the guy speaking

19:15

before him the warm up act is Glenn

19:18

Grothman, Republican Congressman

19:20

from the Wisconsin eighth Glenn

19:23

is only sixty eight years old, and

19:25

Glenn has only been a lawyer and

19:28

a state and congressional legislator,

19:30

So he's never had a real job in his

19:33

life, and judging

19:35

by what happens to him at the end

19:37

of this clip here, he's never

19:39

going to have a real job in his life.

19:41

Who is the only person who can

19:43

continue to allow us to buy

19:46

gas powered cars? In twenty thirty

19:48

two, Donald John Trump,

19:56

for some reason, one

19:59

of the most powerful pieces of television

20:02

art I have ever seen

20:04

in my life life immediately popped

20:06

into my head after that. It was

20:08

an anti smoking public

20:10

service announcement that aired in nineteen

20:13

eighty six. It begins

20:16

with the letters white on black

20:19

in an otherwise blank screen. You'll

20:23

Wrinner nineteen twenty to

20:26

nineteen eighty five. Ladies and gentlemen,

20:29

the late Yu'll Brinner, I

20:31

really.

20:32

Wanted to make a commercial when I discovered

20:34

that I was that sick and

20:36

my time was so limited. Wanted

20:38

to make that commercial that says simply

20:42

not a time gone. I tell you, don't

20:44

smoke. Whatever

20:47

you do, just don't.

20:48

Smoke Donald John Trump,

20:56

As the late comic genius Bill Hicks

20:58

said about that You'll Brenner spot. But

21:01

it can also apply, I guess to Glenn Grothman

21:04

coughing his way through the atmosphere. He wants

21:06

to make sure Trump keeps poisoning

21:08

anyone. Remember when you Brenner died

21:10

and came out with that commercial after he was dead.

21:13

You remember that, I'm Yil Brenner and

21:16

I'm dead now? This

21:19

guy Shalon? What

21:28

the F's this guy Sellen? Also

21:31

of interest here this ban on religious

21:34

messages on the eggs at the

21:36

White House Easter egg roll, the

21:39

one imposed by Gerald

21:42

Ford and the American egg

21:44

Board of nineteen seventy

21:47

six. Even the Daily

21:50

Caller has now acknowledged

21:52

it got the story wrong. President

21:54

Biden had nothing to do with it, retracted

21:57

the story, apologized for the

21:59

story. You know who did not acknowledge

22:02

he got it wrong, who did not retract?

22:05

Which Republican leader has

22:08

a head that most looks like

22:10

an egg, only

22:12

with less intelligence inside his

22:14

head than in the average egg. Think

22:17

of an egg wearing horn rimmed

22:20

glasses and a

22:22

perpetual look of condescension and

22:25

the habit of getting something this wrong,

22:29

like every week you

22:31

got his identity, yet I'll

22:35

confirm it for you. That's next.

22:38

This is countdown. That's a

22:40

tease. This

22:43

is countdown with Keith Oberman still

23:08

ahead of us on this editionive countdown. How much

23:10

would they have to pay you to

23:13

fall off a cliff? I

23:16

mean a small cliff. Let

23:19

me ratchet up the proposition just a little

23:21

bit. What if it's a small cliff and

23:23

you don't get seriously hurt, although

23:26

you will be sore for a month and

23:28

twenty years later, the whole left side of your body

23:30

will start having painful but not exactly

23:33

crippling problems. Oh

23:35

and you won't know that

23:37

you're going to fall off the small cliff until

23:40

like ten seconds before you

23:42

fall off the small cliff. For

23:45

me, the answer turned out

23:47

to be like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars

23:50

up front, and an addition one hundred and fifty

23:52

grand later, the saga

23:55

of cliff diving, unintentional

23:58

cliff diving in things

24:00

I promised not to tell. Next

24:03

first, still more idiots to talk about

24:06

in this case besides me, the daily

24:08

roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Krueger

24:10

effects specimens who constitute

24:13

two days worst persons in

24:15

the I Fell.

24:16

Off a cliff worsesplat.

24:20

We start with the bronze worse

24:23

speaker, Mike Johnson. It's

24:25

not that creepy look on his face

24:28

that stop me. Lord, I fear

24:30

I'm going to do it again. And

24:33

Lord, I have also mangleth

24:36

the anti porn app

24:39

that look. It's not that, it's

24:42

not the fake piousness. It's

24:44

not the farm he owns where he seemingly

24:46

grows rakes and raises

24:49

them from seedlings to full glorious

24:51

heights and then steps on every

24:54

single last one of them. It's the fact

24:56

that he never wears a

24:58

rhetorical seat belt. There

25:01

is no front windshield. He has

25:03

not gone through as Speaker

25:05

of the House eleven thirty six

25:07

yesterday morning, and he subtweets Sean

25:10

Hannity. This guy follows Sean

25:13

Hannity, even though all the Speakers

25:15

of the House since Newt Gingrich

25:17

who have followed Sean Hannity

25:20

have gone down in flames. Literally

25:22

every one of them except Bayner has

25:25

been fired from the job. In

25:28

any event, he's following Hannity about this fabricated

25:31

story about Biden's trans Day

25:34

proclamation and the phony

25:36

Easter egg no religious

25:38

symbols crisis, the only

25:40

thing the Republicans are worried about. Mike

25:44

Johnson writes, Biden is either

25:46

more than happy to offend millions of Christians,

25:49

or he has no idea what he is signing, which

25:51

is more alarming. One

25:54

hour later, the Daily

25:56

Caller, the Tucker Carlson

25:59

invention, which started this

26:01

invention, this crap by literally

26:04

published a lie that

26:06

Biden had ordered that there be no religious

26:09

symbols on the eggs at

26:11

the White House Easter event, like

26:13

eggs have the slightest

26:16

thing to do with the story of

26:18

the Resurrection of Christ. As

26:21

the Great Bill Hicks once said, could

26:24

you have not come up with something a little bit more creative,

26:26

at least something wondrous, like

26:31

a worm carrying Lincoln

26:33

logs across my sock drawer?

26:36

In any event, the Daily

26:39

Caller was it made up? This story that

26:41

Biden had ordered that there be no religious

26:43

symbols on the eggs at

26:45

the White House Easter egg roll. We're

26:48

on day four of this imbecility, which

26:50

continues The Daily Caller

26:53

an hour after Mike Johnson wrote that

26:55

the Daily Caller retracted

26:57

its story and apologized

26:59

for it. The Daily Caller, to

27:02

my knowledge, has never retracted nor apologized

27:04

for or anything in its existence,

27:06

including that time that Tucker Carlson

27:09

stole my identity and

27:11

pretended to be me in an

27:13

interview in what was probably an actual

27:16

lawbreaking event. The

27:19

Daily Caller retracted

27:21

this story. It said it had no

27:23

idea that the no symbols

27:26

rule for the eggs in the National

27:28

egg roll was established

27:30

in nineteen seventy six during

27:33

Gerald Ford's Easter egg roll

27:36

at the behest of the

27:38

National egg Board. The

27:41

Daily Caller bright bart news

27:43

for dumb people, not well dumber

27:46

people, retracted and apologized.

27:49

Speaker Johnson he has not, and

27:52

that was his third post about

27:55

this non existent story. The

27:57

President has called Mike Johnson thoroughly

28:00

uninformed. And it is the most succinct

28:03

destriction of this nerd

28:05

yet and I say nerd

28:07

as a nerd. This nerd

28:10

embarrasses other nerds. He's

28:12

an eleven year old trying to rule

28:15

over a bunch of fifteen year olds.

28:18

The silver worser Fox

28:20

quote News unquote, which

28:23

also hasn't retracted the story yet. Per

28:25

the website The Intercept, Fox has just

28:27

issued a job posting seeking

28:29

to hire a corporate trust and

28:32

safety behavioral analyst

28:35

responsible for identifying misinformation

28:39

and disinformation throughout

28:41

the entire Fox company misinformation

28:44

and disinformation wait

28:47

for or against against?

28:51

A Fox employee is going to be in charge of rooting

28:54

out stuff that's wrong

28:56

at Fox. Stuff that's incorrect, disinformation,

28:59

misinformation, murdoc, information

29:03

that's unpossible. Does Maria

29:05

Bartiromo know about this? Does Ingram

29:07

know? My god?

29:08

What about Jesse Waters? Won't anybody

29:10

think about the children? Won't anybody think about

29:12

the children like Jesse Waters. Fox

29:16

does not identify a salary for its

29:18

miss in misinformation

29:21

data analyst, but

29:24

it does note one extraordinary job benefit

29:27

of the new job. You do not actually

29:29

have to work in any Fox

29:32

office. But our

29:34

winner the Worst the Worst

29:36

Person's Hall of Famer class of twenty

29:39

twenty two, Tall Sea Gabbard.

29:42

It's been a tough week for Robert F. Kennedy

29:44

Junior. He picked a running mate who turned

29:46

out last year to have suggested at a medical

29:48

conference that you could maybe replace

29:51

in vitro fertilization, which

29:53

she called a lie with two

29:55

hours a day of exposure to sunshine,

29:59

and because she got like a million dollars

30:02

in her divorce settlement from the co founder of

30:04

Google. None of the medical professionals

30:06

then hooted her off the stage, nor

30:09

did they throw rocks at the stage or

30:11

anything anyway. That was

30:13

the new vice president. Then RFK

30:16

Junior posed with Mike Flynn. Yet

30:19

the fascist propaganda media all

30:21

turned on him and they said

30:23

nobody should vote for him. This is the first bipartisan

30:26

agreement on politics in this country in seven.

30:28

Hundred and forty eight years. And

30:30

now Talca Gabbard says,

30:32

Robert F. Kennedy Junior asked her

30:35

to be his vice president. I

30:38

met with Kennedy several times

30:41

and we have become good friends.

30:44

He asked if I would be his rendingmate.

30:47

After your careful consideration, I

30:50

respectfully declined.

30:53

Now there's a reason to suspect this might

30:56

not be true. The

30:58

reason well, Tlsey

31:00

Gabbard issued a statement about

31:02

it, as if anybody had

31:04

asked her. So while

31:07

we are here, not only

31:10

did Tulci Gabbard turn down RFK

31:12

Junior's offer to be his running mate, but

31:15

so did I. And when

31:17

I say I turned down is offered to be his vice

31:19

president. There was no offer from Kennedy

31:22

and I didn't turn it down. On

31:24

the other hand, Robert

31:26

F. Kennedy Junior would not have been coherent long

31:29

enough to have any idea what

31:31

did or didn't happen on this topic?

31:34

Would he? Tulsey?

31:36

He offered to make me vice president

31:40

and to make me missus Junior

31:42

as well. Gabbard two

31:45

days worst person

31:48

and to

32:01

the number one story on the countdown and my favorite

32:03

topic, me and things I promised not

32:05

to tell. And it was this time of year in nineteen

32:08

ninety six when my agent called me at ESPN.

32:11

There's an ad agency in Santa Monica. They just

32:13

called me, would you like to do two commercials for Boston

32:15

Market? I answered, with profound

32:18

indifference, Okay, would you

32:21

like to do two commercials for Boston Market

32:23

for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars? I

32:26

believe my next words were, well, I

32:28

can't do them today, but sure they

32:31

faxed me the scripts. They're actually pretty funny, very

32:33

well done. I think you like them, I believe.

32:36

My next next words were, if I don't

32:38

have to kill anybody in them, call them back

32:40

and say yes and get the money. Since

32:44

the idea was these ads would run on sports

32:46

telecasts, most of them on ESPN. My

32:49

yes got back to management at ESPN

32:51

pretty quickly. You can't do these, one

32:53

of the executives explained, dismissively. We

32:55

don't let anybody do commercials. I

32:58

laughed. Every one of us has

33:00

done the this is Sports Center

33:02

commercials. Some of us have written that

33:04

this is Sports Center commercials. You don't even give

33:07

us days off for making them, let alone

33:09

give us money. This is money I don't have to ask you

33:11

for. The executive shook his

33:13

head. Those aren't commercials. Those are

33:15

promotional announcements. They're in your contract. Nobody

33:18

here does commercials, I

33:20

said. Chris Berman has done

33:23

a beer commercial in three

33:25

out of the last five Super Bowls. My

33:27

commercial is just for food. Well,

33:29

he's Berman, I pointed out. I

33:31

went to high school with him, and

33:34

I was the star of their most popular program,

33:36

a little thing called Sports Center TV. Guiy

33:38

had just named us one of the top ten shows on TV

33:40

shows, not sports shows. Austin

33:43

Seinfeld. Sorry, well,

33:46

now I got a little angry, which

33:48

never happened to me at ESPN, and I

33:50

went to my ace in the hole. My

33:53

contract expires in like ten months,

33:55

and you know I intend to leave, and

33:57

during those ten months, you're going to pay me about two

33:59

hundred and sixty thousand dollars. So Boston

34:02

Market is going to pay me two hundred and fifty thousand

34:04

dollars for two days work

34:06

instead of ten month's work. Plus

34:09

they're going to take me out first class to LA for

34:11

a couple of days, and they're probably

34:13

going to do some radio spots and I'll make another twenty

34:16

five grant. So you're giving me a choice,

34:18

make say, two hundred and seventy

34:22

five thousand dollars in like

34:24

five days for them, or make two hundred and sixty

34:26

thousand dollars here between now and next

34:28

September when I'm planning and leaving. Anyway,

34:30

if you make me choose between those two, which

34:33

do you expect me to choose? The

34:36

executive coughed. We'll get

34:38

back to an hour later. He got back to me

34:40

by phone. Okay, we see your point, But there's

34:42

still two problems. We can't just let everybody

34:44

do commercials. I said, well, you know,

34:47

why don't you just let anybody who went to the

34:49

high school that Berman and I went to do commercials.

34:52

He did not laugh at that. Well,

34:54

how about only your regular weekday sports

34:56

center anchors get to do commercials. There

34:59

was a grunt and a maybe. Then

35:01

we got to the gist of the real problem.

35:05

Here's the real problem. People on

35:07

your show, they'll be resentful.

35:10

And I said, why will they be resentful?

35:12

Because the production assistants are expecting that they're

35:14

going to get their own commercials too. And

35:16

I said, how about this, the

35:19

day I'm out there actually shooting

35:21

the commercial, I will get Boston Market

35:23

to like cater dinner

35:25

for the show staff, even if I have to

35:27

pay for it myself. There was

35:29

a long silence. Would

35:32

management be included in that? And

35:34

can we get all the side dishes too? I

35:37

swear to God so

35:40

off. I flew at the beginning of December,

35:42

during a winter that had gone frigid in October

35:45

in Bristol, Connecticut, and the next thing I knew, I

35:47

was on the beach in Malibu

35:50

at Leo Corrio State Park.

35:53

The crew is complaining because

35:55

it is raining lightly and only about fifty five

35:57

degrees. To me, fresh

36:00

from the hinterlands and having not

36:02

been back to la since I had moved out in nineteen

36:04

ninety too, it's like I'm in Tahiti and

36:07

my agent was right. The scripts were funny and original.

36:09

They were as send up of the old Calvin Kleine

36:12

obsession perfume commercials.

36:14

There are two extremely thin models

36:17

and they are filmed writhing in frustration

36:20

on the beach on the big rock

36:22

outcroppings at Leo Correo State

36:24

Park. She is supposed to say,

36:27

emptiness, How can I fill

36:29

this empty void of emptiness? They

36:31

are in black and white, but I emerge

36:35

from behind a rock or wherever I'm

36:37

in color. They are in black and white,

36:39

and I say when they say, don't know what to do about

36:42

this emptiness, I say eat

36:44

something. I

36:46

then sell the sandwich. Then it cuts to a shot of

36:48

me walking them down the beach with

36:50

my arm over each of their shoulders,

36:53

telling them eating is a good thing, and who's

36:55

wearing cologne or who likes sports

36:58

or other stupid things like that. For

37:02

a quarter of a million dollars, well

37:04

we start at this at eight am, and the producer

37:06

and the director John say to me and the two

37:08

models and the crew, look, this rain is just going

37:10

to get heavier as the day goes on. So

37:12

what we want to do is not take a break for lunch.

37:15

We'll just shoot until like two pm,

37:17

and then you can have lunch, or you can take your lunch

37:19

with you, and you'll all get paid for a full day.

37:22

And everybody agrees. The actress

37:24

agrees, and she swears as

37:26

she agrees. The actress is named Una.

37:28

Una is from Chicago, and it will soon

37:31

prove Una swears

37:33

more than a long shortman. This

37:35

blanking cold can blank my blanking

37:38

blank. To

37:40

be fair, Una and the

37:42

guy are dressed in Calvin Klein rags

37:44

and they are there and they are from there,

37:47

and they are freezing while I am

37:49

wearing a production company brand new suit

37:51

and shoes, and to me it feels

37:53

like it's Tahiti. We

37:55

take a couple of hours where we do all the shots where

37:57

I emerge from behind the rocks, or

37:59

go around the rocks, or over the rocks, or I

38:01

look over the rocks, and the director

38:03

finally says, okay, we got five good options.

38:06

Let's set up for the walk down the beach

38:08

with your arms around each other's shoulders.

38:11

By now it's noon or twelve

38:14

thirty. And as they move the cameras

38:16

and the rain starts to move from a mist

38:18

to like a light rain, two

38:21

prop guys bring out rakes

38:24

and I'm sitting with the crew and I've been asking them questions

38:26

all morning, in between takes about how this is

38:28

all being arranged and made and lit.

38:30

And I say, rakes, what

38:33

do you need rakes for on a commercial? And

38:35

they say you'll see. And then each

38:37

time me and Una and the guy walk down the beach

38:40

and the director says cut, we go back to the starting

38:42

point. Now out come two stage hands

38:44

with rakes and they rake the

38:47

sand on the beach smooth,

38:50

and I say, oh,

38:52

footprints. So

38:55

each time I walk down this damp beach

38:57

with the range just a little harder than it was the

38:59

take before, in my brand new dress

39:01

shoes, what I'm basically doing

39:04

is polling the soles of these brand

39:06

new shoes on damp sand. I mean,

39:08

by the time the director John says we are

39:10

done, these soles of these shoes

39:12

are so shiny I could go ice skating

39:15

in these shoes. And

39:17

John comes over and he says, listen,

39:19

we got another half an hour. Can we go back and

39:21

try a new way for you to appear on the rocks?

39:23

I mean, can you Can you climb rocks

39:25

at all? And I say, yeah, actually,

39:28

I'm surprisingly good at it. You wouldn't think so,

39:30

but I can climb rocks. And he points

39:32

to one rock out cropping on the beach. Maybe

39:34

it's eighteen twenty feet high, and he says,

39:37

try to climb up that and go as high

39:39

as you can. If there's nothing that will support

39:41

you, we'll forget it. And I try, and sure

39:43

enough, I get up near the top and there is a perfect

39:45

little shelf in the rock that I can comfortably

39:48

stand on. And the director points

39:50

the camera up and he says, oh, damn,

39:53

the angle's too tough. I can't swing the camera

39:55

down fast enough for when you say eat

39:57

something, so I refocus on the models.

39:59

It won't work. Is there anything lower

40:02

on the rock where you could stand? Can you come

40:04

down? And

40:06

I said, I think so. I think I can come

40:08

down a little bit. Well, little

40:11

did I know. Sure enough,

40:13

maybe nine ten feet from

40:15

the beach, up in the sky, there

40:18

is another little foothold on this rock outcropping.

40:22

It is not big enough for me to put both

40:24

my feet on it. But I say, if you don't

40:26

mind me holding onto the rock as I say,

40:28

eat something, I can do it from here. And the director

40:31

says, okay, let's try it. And

40:33

I climb down the rock and he's

40:35

moving the camera and I put my left

40:37

foot on this flat part, which is nine

40:39

or ten feet up from the beach, and for a couple

40:41

of seconds everything is fine. I'm good.

40:45

And that's when I feel that my

40:48

left shoe, my brand

40:50

new left shoe, straight

40:52

from the floor, shiine catalog, bright

40:55

and shiny and now having been

40:57

polished by four hours of walking

40:59

up and down on a wet beach, complete with two

41:01

guys there to rake the beach and

41:03

make sure it is as shy as it possibly

41:05

can be. My

41:08

left shoe, slipperier

41:10

than a diamond, is now moving

41:12

of its own accord. I'm

41:16

holding. I'm doing a good

41:18

rock climbing job, but the shoe,

41:20

the shoe is not holding. Hey,

41:23

I say, with some alarm, I'm

41:25

about to fall off. I

41:28

hit the sand no more than five

41:30

seconds later, so that's about

41:33

a sixteen foot drop.

41:35

From my head to the beach, and

41:37

for weeks, for years still

41:39

to this day, it has amazed me more

41:41

than anything else that happened. It has amazed

41:44

me how much went through my mind

41:46

before I crashed. In fact, before

41:48

I actually fell. I

41:51

know, I did a quick height calculation. Yeah,

41:53

fifteen sixteen feet. I recognized

41:55

that the outcropping was so vertical that I

41:57

was unlikely to hit any of the rock on

42:00

the way down. But just

42:02

the same, I remember that the rocks continue

42:04

under the sand. See.

42:07

I took two years of geology, and

42:09

this was going to be a hard landing.

42:13

More amazingly than all that, Though I had

42:15

taken judo as a kid, I

42:17

hated every minute of judo. Nineteen

42:20

sixty five, nineteen sixty six, so

42:23

twenty six and twenty seven years before

42:25

we shot this commercial, I

42:27

was in the studio, the Judo

42:30

studio in White Plains, New York,

42:33

the day of the nineteen sixty five

42:35

Northeast blackout, and

42:37

the only happy memory of the entire judo

42:40

experience I had was one hour instructor

42:42

Bob Durocher locked

42:45

us in the dojo that had been converted

42:47

from a store that had a front door that was set

42:50

in several feet from the street so they

42:52

could put display cases up. And

42:54

now it's pitch black. So he went out and got his Volkswagen

42:57

Carmen Gia drove it up over

42:59

the sidewalk into that set

43:01

in entryway of this converted storefront.

43:04

He put his beams on. He flooded

43:06

the dojo with enough light that we kids

43:08

could change out of our judo stuff and back

43:10

into our regular clothes and wait

43:13

for our parents to come get us. He

43:15

did a great job. I didn't

43:17

like the judo so much, but his blackout

43:21

operations practice was superb.

43:24

So now, with all of this having gone through

43:26

my head in a second, I began to fall,

43:28

and everything else from that year of

43:31

once a week judo classes comes back to

43:33

me. Relax, as you drop, the

43:35

more of your body that hits, the less you'll

43:37

get hurt. Hands protect the head.

43:40

Drop like a sack of sand. I

43:43

did not hit the sand, per se. I kind

43:45

of splattered on my left side swap

43:49

as I rolled over onto my back and

43:51

took a breath and sat up. Of

43:54

all people, Una was the first to

43:56

race over to me. You want some blank

43:58

and tea, I said, no,

44:01

thanks, Let me see if I'm dead. Tried

44:05

to help me to my feet, but I felt some very sharp pain,

44:08

which suggested we should slow down. The

44:10

problem was, though, even if I needed an

44:13

ambulance, there was no way to get one down to where

44:15

we were shooting, As that rock out

44:17

cropping that I had just fallen from suggested,

44:21

I like to call it a cliff every now and again.

44:23

Leo Correo State Park had

44:26

a real cliff in it and a flight

44:28

of stairs, I mean one hundred steps, two hundred

44:30

steps up to the Pacific Coast Highway

44:33

and a park. Sure enough,

44:35

I was able to stand, but I couldn't

44:37

move easily. Everything hurt.

44:39

So the two biggest members of the crew let

44:41

me drape my arms over their shoulders, exactly

44:44

the way I had draped my arms

44:46

over their shoulders of the models during the

44:48

beach shot. I

44:51

stopped for a second. Hey,

44:53

Ona, you sure you don't want

44:55

to Frankin carry me up the stairs,

44:59

she said, with genuine sincerity. Now

45:02

that's blank and funny.

45:05

Seemed to me like it took about a month to get

45:07

up those stairs. I assumed

45:09

there would be an ambulance waiting by this point.

45:11

Instead, there was a park

45:13

ranger. This is a state park.

45:16

I have to see you first, then I have to call the fire

45:18

department. I said, well, this

45:20

pain on my side here, this feels like fire,

45:22

but I don't think it's actually fire. He called

45:24

the fire department. They showed up, They assessed me. They

45:27

called the ambulance. At

45:29

some point, probably when I was being half dragged

45:31

up the steps, something happened

45:34

on the impact side.

45:36

If I now tried to lower my left

45:38

arm from way above my head, I

45:41

got severe shooting, burning

45:43

pain from my left arm pit

45:45

to about my left knee. Cleverly,

45:48

I figured out not to do that.

45:52

Keep your left arm above your head and

45:55

it won't hurt. I

45:57

use the restroom in the ranger station. There was no blood,

46:00

so no kidney damage. I'm

46:02

okay. It does, however,

46:04

hurt, and something could be broken. Now

46:07

I go back outside, my arm above my

46:09

head like I'm signaling for a cab on

46:11

the streets of New York City. And

46:14

the ambulance shows up and the AMTS

46:16

tell me to get on there gurney, and I said, I

46:18

can't. I can't lower my arm

46:21

unless I want excruciating pain. I

46:24

can't move my arm. I

46:27

have to stay in this position. Looking like a

46:29

Flamenco dancer. But

46:32

I said, listen, can you lock the wheels

46:34

on this gurney? And they said, sure we can, of course

46:36

we can. And I said, just lock the wheels and

46:38

I'll just back up onto the

46:40

end of it and I'll fall backwards. And

46:43

it worked, and so with my left

46:46

arm still extended over my head, they loaded me into

46:48

the ambulance. Apparently,

46:50

when I fell from that rock or cliff

46:53

as I call it, it looked like I had

46:55

been shot. Fifty sixty

46:57

people on a commercial crew. The

46:59

shooting day is over. They have missed

47:02

lunch. There is a very nice catered lunch

47:04

sitting there. And they told me later

47:07

that everybody was so disturbed by

47:09

what happened to me that only three people

47:11

even took something to go and

47:14

know. The director was not filming as I

47:16

fell. Sadly, so

47:18

we hit every pothole on Pacific

47:20

Coast Highway on the trip from the beach

47:22

to the hospital. Oh ah,

47:25

ooh, I call my agent

47:27

from my cell phone, she laughed.

47:29

I called ESPN actually to check

47:31

on the catered dinner. Oh what's new? Oh, I fell off

47:33

a cliff shooting the commercial, They laughed,

47:36

and I'm lying there in the emergency room waiting

47:38

for X rays when my cell phone rings again

47:41

and I reach into my left pocket and I had

47:43

the phone halfway to my ear when I realized

47:45

my left side does not hurt anymore

47:48

at all. It does not hurt

47:50

at all. Well,

47:53

that was a quick recovery. I sat

47:55

up. My left side felt fine. In fact,

47:57

it felt great, and a nurse came

47:59

over and suggested I should lie back down again. I

48:01

said, why, somehow I got

48:04

better on the trip from all the potholes and just

48:06

lying here. In fact, I feel great.

48:08

Did you guys remove my left leg while

48:10

I wasn't looking? Did you replace it with the

48:12

left leg that I had when I was twelve? Because I could

48:14

hop back to Connecticut on my left leg right now.

48:17

Just cancel the flight, she

48:20

laughed. She said, no, what I was feeling

48:22

would be the morphine they gave me so they could

48:24

twist me around and take the X rays they needed.

48:26

And I said, please never ever

48:29

give me any more of that ever again.

48:31

Thank you. My Judo

48:34

flashback, as it turned out, had done the job.

48:36

I had broken nothing. The er

48:38

doctor complimented me on my fall,

48:41

and he said I probably had six or eight different

48:43

sprains on my left side.

48:46

It would hurt, but it would keep getting better

48:48

and I'd be able to make my flight home the day after

48:50

next. He was completely right, although

48:53

I now I found twenty five years later

48:55

that it's beginning to hurt like I just

48:57

fell off the cliff. Anyway,

48:59

I went back to the hotel. I ate well, I slept

49:02

well, I managed to walk around with the help of a cane.

49:04

I went back for day two of the commercial shoot.

49:07

This one is in a mansion in Pasadena,

49:10

a room teeming full of UNA's lying

49:12

on the floor. They're photographs through

49:14

chandeliers. They're lazy, rich kids who

49:16

also need to be told to eat something. I

49:20

arrived and walked into applause

49:22

from the crew, and I delivered

49:25

a well rehearsed line. And now

49:27

for my next trick, which is when

49:29

the director John came over and apologized, and

49:31

he said he thought this entry

49:33

into shot for me would be way easier.

49:36

What I had to do is lie on the floor, then

49:38

sit up and deliver the line

49:41

eat something. If you can

49:43

sit up, he said, that is. If you can't,

49:45

we can do something else. Can you sit up? And

49:48

I thought about it and I rubbed my lower back, and I

49:50

said, based on the day so far, yeah, I

49:52

could, but probably only six

49:54

or seven times. And I

49:57

said, while I can sit up, it's

49:59

clear to me one of those bad

50:01

sprains was in the muscles somewhere of my

50:04

lower back. And if I try to

50:06

lay back down, I lose control. I'll

50:08

just crash back to the floor. That actually happened

50:10

getting out of bed this morning. So

50:13

after each take, the

50:15

same two guys who had walked me up the

50:17

stairs after I fell at the beach gently

50:20

held my arms and shoulders and lowered

50:22

me back to lying on

50:24

the floor. We got

50:26

what we needed. I went back to the hotel.

50:29

I had dinner with some friends. The next day.

50:31

I was a little sore, but perfectly fine to get back

50:33

on the plane east, and sure enough, only time

50:36

ever I had a west to east

50:38

tailwind. The flight from lax to Newark

50:40

took three hours and forty eight minutes.

50:42

We traversed the country like a dart

50:45

shot from a gun or an Olderman

50:47

falling from a rock out cropping. Oh,

50:51

by the way, the commercial was an

50:53

immediate success, unlike

50:56

any that Boston Market had ever done

50:58

before. In those days, they were

51:00

packed each night for dinner at every

51:02

location, selling half chicken

51:04

and full meals with potatoes and

51:07

salads, and they were getting an average

51:09

of twelve dollars out of every customer. The rest

51:12

of the day the place was empty. The

51:14

idea behind my commercials. They were

51:16

designed to bring in a lunch crowd a sandwich

51:18

and a soda and a bag of chips for four

51:21

dollars. Soon

51:23

they were swamped at lunchtime. Boston Market

51:25

ordered three more commercials, these

51:28

to be shot in a studio in New York. They offered me

51:30

fifty grand a day. An

51:33

entire new career vista was

51:35

opening in front of me. I was, for

51:37

a week or two in early nineteen ninety

51:39

seven the most successful

51:42

male commercial actor in the country.

51:45

We shot those three spots. I

51:47

interrupted a grunge concert to shout

51:49

eat something at the band, and then

51:51

I got carried off by the crowd in a

51:53

mosh pit. And I interrupted a Romeo

51:56

soap opera surgeon coming on to his nurse

51:58

by rising from the operating table

52:00

to shout eat something. And then we

52:03

did something with ballplayers at stadium

52:05

on Randall's Island. And I remember nothing of that because,

52:07

unlike the first two. They never edited

52:10

the film because that's

52:12

when it happened, their

52:14

equivalent of falling off the cliff. I

52:18

will confess it had not occurred to me. Then

52:20

again, I did not own Boston Market.

52:23

I did not work for their marketing department.

52:25

I did not run the ad agency they employed.

52:29

But none of them anticipated it either. After

52:31

the first few weeks of giddy glee about the

52:33

lunch crowds I had brought them, somebody

52:36

noticed something unfortunate and unexpected.

52:39

Basically, for every four

52:41

dollar lunch they were now selling, they were selling

52:43

one fewer twelve dollars

52:46

dinner. They had not gained any

52:48

new customers. They had just

52:50

managed to get their customers to each spend

52:53

eight dollars less. These

52:56

very well made, very memorable commercials

52:59

worked very very well. And

53:01

the problem with that was each time they

53:03

did work, it costs by Boston Market eight

53:05

dollars. By the end

53:07

of nineteen ninety seven, Boston Market was

53:09

something like nine hundred million dollars

53:12

in debt. It had filed for bankruptcy

53:15

and had been taken over by McDonald's.

53:17

On the other hand, I

53:20

got my money, and in

53:22

the twenty five years plus since Boston

53:24

Market has not once used a celebrity

53:26

endorser to try to sell their food. Oh

53:29

and there was one other positive

53:32

outcome from my header off that cliff

53:35

that December, so many Decembers

53:37

ago. The AD Agency

53:39

actually received the award. I did

53:41

not, so I can't quote the title of it for

53:44

you. I don't know which group

53:46

gave it to us, but the Eat Something

53:48

campaign it actually won an

53:50

award because apparently my

53:52

shouting eat something at Una and

53:55

the others that somehow cuts

53:57

through to some victims of

53:59

some eating disorders. What I

54:01

was told was we got

54:03

an award from a national

54:06

Bolimia association. As

54:21

the years go by, my one regret

54:23

about this, other than the

54:25

slight resistance I get

54:27

when I try to turn my head to the left, my

54:30

one real regret is it's not on

54:32

film. I've done all the damage

54:34

I can do here in this case. Literally, thank

54:37

you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors Brian

54:39

Ray and John Phillip Schanel arranged, produced

54:41

and performed most of our music.

54:44

Mister Ray on guitars, bass and drums.

54:46

Mister Chanale handled orchestration

54:48

and keyboards. It was produced by Tko

54:51

Brothers. Other music, including some of the

54:53

Beethoven compositions were arranged

54:55

and performed by the group No Horns Allowed.

54:57

The sports music is the Olderman theme

55:00

from ESPN two, written by Mitch

55:02

Warren Davis, courtesy of ESPN

55:04

Inc. Our satirical and pithy

55:06

musical comments are by Nancy Fauss.

55:08

The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our

55:11

announcer today was my friend Howard Feineman. Everything

55:13

else was pretty much my fault, including

55:16

falling off that got blank

55:19

rock. So that's countdown

55:21

for this the two hundred and seventeenth day until

55:24

the twenty twenty four presidential election,

55:26

the one and eighty fourth

55:29

day since dementia Jay Trump's first

55:31

attempted coup against the democratically

55:33

elected government of the United States. Use

55:36

the Fourteenth Amendment, use the not

55:38

regularly given elector objection

55:40

option. The Supreme Court hath given us,

55:43

use the Insurrection Act to

55:45

use the justice system, use the mental health

55:48

system in order to stop

55:50

him from doing it again while

55:53

we still can. The

55:56

next scheduled countdown is tomorrow, and

55:58

again that might not happen.

56:00

It might be abridged. That's

56:02

the likelier outcome depending on a

56:04

routine medical procedure. Bulletins

56:07

as the news warrants. Hopefully

56:10

none of them boughtins are about me. Till

56:13

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

56:15

good night, and good luck the

56:27

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56:32

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