HOUSE MAY GIVE TRUMP NEW LAW ENDING CONTEMPT OF COURT - 5.22.25

SEASON 3 EPISODE 128: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump wants – and his Republican Whore House of Representatives could give him, as early as today, more likely tomorrow – a LAW letting him not only ignore the courts and their injunctions or temporary restraining orders - but immunize himself and his minions from even BEING subject to CONTEMPT CITATIONS. The law, cutting the legs off every judge in this country including all of them on the Supreme Court, is sitting deep in the MAGA multi-trillion dollar budget bill, curled up like a snake ready to attack and poison the judiciary. At Trump’s sole discretion.

Any court issuing a T-R-O against Trump or his pack of wolves with titles decimating safety regulations or firing tens of thousands of essential government employees; any court issuing an injunction against Trump kidnapping and renditioning people off the street; any court doing anything Trump doesn’t like could rule whatever IT likes but when it came to the only teeth such orders have – the threat of putting somebody who ignores them, IN jail, FOR contempt, would be GONE.

The gist of this is the Trumpists found another loophole, about a cash bond requirement if you seek to enjoin the government. It’s normally set by the judge at Zero Dollars. This bill would make any such Contempt of Court findings or Injunctions set at zero… unenforceable.

SO ICE has accelerated the renditions, now dismissing old charges that are currently being ajudicated and seizing the defendants at the courtrooms and putting them on flights to South Sudan or Libya or wherever because, if there's no Contempt of Court, who's going to stop them?

ALSO: Kristi Noem having no idea what "Habeas Corpus" is? That was the SMART part. She also doesn't think "suspend" means "enact." Why is Trump investigating Andrew Cuomo? So if he gets elected Mayor of New York they can blackmail him into selling OUT New York. CBS is warned by Senators that its "settlement" with Trump may be a criminal bribe. And the bad news for CNN is, it's become a 24/7 Shopping Channel selling Jake Tapper's crap book. The good news is, they'll be televising George Clooney's live Broadway show about Murrow, "Good Night And Good Luck" so at least there'll be some pretend journalists on the network.

B-Block (40:27) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Musk's "Grok" thinks Kristi Noem was talking about the WNBA. The guy Jeopardy fired as host after a week is now running Ben Shapiro's Propaganda Channel. And karma gets Bill Maher back for praising Trump and dissing Larry David: his "uncancellable" podcast studio? Cancelled.

C-Block (52:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: The arrival of a piece of the fabric roof ripped off Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg last October by Hurricane Milton has inadvertently reminded me why I do this podcast, because it reminded me of the day nearly half a century ago when my dad the architect warned me not to go into an arena with another fabric roof that he (correctly) predicted was about to come off because of bad weather.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump wants,

(00:26):
and his Republican Whorehouse of Representatives could give him as
early as today, more likely tomorrow, a law letting him
not only ignore the courts and their injunctions and their
temporary restraining orders, but immunizing himself and his minions from
even being subject to contempt of court citations. The law

(00:51):
cutting the legs off every judge in this country, including
all of them on the Supreme Court, is sitting deep
in the maga multi trillion dollar budget bill, curled up
like a snake, ready to attack and poison the judiciary
at Trump's sole discretion. Any court issuing a tro against

(01:11):
Trump or his pack of wolves with titles decimating safety
regulations or firing tens of thousands of essential government employees,
Any court issuing an injunction against Trump kidnapping and renditioning
people off our streets. Any court doing anything Trump doesn't like,
could rule whatever it likes, But when it came to

(01:32):
the only teeth, such rulings have the threat of actually
putting somebody who ignores those rulings in jail for contempt,
that threat would be gone. The gist of this is
the Trumpists have found another loophole. Loopholes are Trump's whole life.

(01:55):
He probably thinks he has found a loophole around his
own death. This loophole is based on a provision that's
as if you are suing and trying to get a
restraining order or an injunction against the government, you have
to deposit the amount of money that the restraining order
or injunction could cost or hurt the government a bond.

(02:20):
The judge almost always sets that bond at zero dollars,
but this time bomb in this House bill would make
any injunction where the bond is set at zero dollars unenforceable.
You want a restraining order against Trump renditions, the judge
better set the bond at eleven dy billion dollars ACLU

(02:44):
or Immigration Rights Campaign, and you better have that eleveny
billion dollars. As usual with Trump, it is blackmail, regular blackmail,
or like this, economic blackmail. And it doesn't really matter
if the Senate shoots this down, even if the House
passes it or a court shoots this down, because once

(03:05):
it passes the House, once Trump can say Congress approve this,
he can ignore the rest even if the Senate strikes
the provision from its version of the budget bill, even
if a court says it's unconstitutional, even if the Supreme
Court says it's unconstitutional, all the Republicans have to do
is pass it in the House, and ninety nine percent

(03:26):
of the country will never know that the last line
of our defense against a dictatorship had just been erased.
And the other one percent would applaud because you know
what Trump would do. He would point in his mindless, manipulative,
snake oil salesman's way to the big, beautiful bill and
the will of the people and the action of the House,

(03:49):
and insists that is all the approval he needs. The Senate.
Trump would say, who cares? The judges? Trump would say,
who cares the Supreme Court? Trump would say, of course,
that's what the Supreme Court would do. It's the deep
state protecting itself against the will of the people. It

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would be a law to forbid, in essence contempt charges
against Trump government agents, or Trump whores, or Trump himself
for ignoring the courts. Is it constitutional? They don't care.
They don't care. Now they are preparing for a public
Are you with us or are you against us about

(04:34):
the courts in which they seek vigilante influence, pressure or
violence over the judiciary. Hell, Trump already threw the Conservatives
on the Court, including Roberts and the three justices he
appointed overboard. He doesn't care. The only hope to slow
this down is for it to be exposed before the

(04:54):
House vote and pressure to mount on enough Republicans from
an increasingly horrified Republican voting base, who, however wrong they
are about what the constitutions says, still believes the Constitution
matters more than Trump does. There ain't many of them,
but if they fall by the wayside, it's over. And

(05:16):
on the ground in the courts they hope to neuter
and neutralize, the Trump Gestapo is already behaving as if
it is over. They have escalated the contempt and the
midnight renditions and the new cynical evil forms of the
Stephen Miller ethnic cleansing. They are not only ignoring a
swath of judicial orders on the table right now against

(05:39):
further renditioning flights. Now it's flights to Burma and South
Sudan or even Vietnam. But like Hitler, they have decided
they are not forcing enough victims into their deadly machinery
fast enough. Since Tuesday, ICE has reportedly been going to
immigration courts around this country and trying to get active

(06:00):
immigration cases against people, those pending for lessless than two
years dismissed. Dismissed for humanitarian reasons, for crowded court reasons,
to give these people more time to seek due process.
Know the exact opposite, so that with the old charges

(06:21):
against them dismissed, ICE can now immediately re arrest those
same people and shove them into expedited removal. No more
court hearings for them, no more judges for them. You
show up for your court date in good faith seeking

(06:45):
to become a citizen of this country, legally obeying the law,
only to find out that your case has now been dismissed,
and before you can leave, you are instead detained. The
lawyer you came with cannot see you. The hearing you
were at is not succeeded by a different hearing. All

(07:06):
you get is a seat on a plane headed for
a country literally in the middle of a civil war
like South Sudan or Burma or even Libya, taking people
who thought they were going in and doing the right thing,
and sending them to hell for doing the right thing.
And the best the judges in these cases are doing

(07:28):
is saying that when those flights get there, the flights
the judges ordered could not take off. The flights the
judges ordered could not contain anybody who hadn't had at
least three weeks to fight back legally, that the Trump
administration must not turn over its kidnap victims to local
authorities like they did poor Kilmar Abrago. Garcia was still
in limbo in l Salvador. From Boston. The Federal District

(07:53):
Judge Brian Murphy said he would not order the flights
that went off despite his orders turned around, but that
the American government would have to maintain control possession of
the people on those flights and not hand them over
to the El Salvador dictator, and not hand them over
to the Burmese tyrants, and not hand them over to

(08:16):
whoever is in charge this week in South Sudan, a
judge in Boston thinks he can control what Trump does
to unpopular foreign born Americans in South Sudan, judges haven't
been able to control what Trump does to people in Texas,
Judge Murphy told the court late Tuesday, night that everybody

(08:36):
who ignores his order, from the officials who ordered the
flights in the first place to the officers who actually
piloted the planes could face criminal sanctions. Quoting based on
what I have been told, this seems like it may
be contempt. No kidding. Murphy then came back yesterday and
said the Trump gang had violated the court order. But
he has yet to say anything about what the hell

(08:57):
he's going to do about it. But I would offer
one word of advice to Judge Murphy. Hurry circles back
to that law hidden inside the House of Republican prostitution
budget bill. Right now, this may still be contempt. Judge Murphy,
check back with us next week, when it may be

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unenforceable contempt or one billion dollars contempt, or at best
Trump would be able to claim it is unenforceable contempt
and that he has triumphed over you deep state communists
who are thwarting his mandate to privatize the country that
he claims he got with forty nine point eight percent

(09:40):
of the vote last November. Goddamn it, this is an
extinction level event for the backbone of American justice, the courts,
the law, the oversight, the pre eminence and inviolability of
the Constitution, and since the Republicans in the House are
a lost cause, they are the undead, our best hope
is garlic and holy water. The judges had damn well

(10:04):
bet act and act now, because it is also an
extension level event for them. The Trump propaganda hate machine
is about to make them household names within the week,
no matter what happens to the provision erasing contempt of
court enforcement. And as we have seen, the weakest part
of our guardrails have been judges personally threatened by Trump.

(10:29):
Like all of us, the judges have a choice. Let
themselves become targets and let the law they have devoted
their lives to become as optional and as impotent and
as quaint as the tag on the mattress that says
do not remove this tag. They damn well better put

(10:50):
Trump officials, the higher up the better, in jail, even
if only for a few hours today, while they still can.
In the self absorbed amorl America of the twenty first century.
It's not just that justice depends on jailing Trump's army
of the undead for however long, whenever, and wherever you can.

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But the judges and the Supreme Court justices too have
to realize that maybe something even bigger is at stake
their own asses. Jail them, Jail everybody in the Trump administration.
You can now for contempt of court while there still
is contempt of court, and start with the woman whose

(12:03):
department this all emanates from, this idiotic, plasticized witch, Christy Nome,
the Secretary of Homeland Security, the secretary of making sure
you don't have any security in your home, never mind
your homeland. When I say people like her are unqualified
to hold any public office, including obviously in her case,

(12:26):
dog catcher, I mean it literally, and she's proved it. Everybody,
I think by now has heard her being asked by
Senator Maggie Hassen what habeas corpus is, and Gnome not
just getting it wrong, but revealing the startling breadth of
her own stupidity and her brainwashing and the infectiousness of

(12:49):
Maga disease. Habeas corpus a fundamental right to protect a
citizen against the King or the President, or the Parliament,
or the police, or the Soviet or the chairman. The
fundamental right of ordinary people has been explained to her

(13:10):
tiny malfunctioning little brain as a weapon, not dating back
to the Magna Carta, but as a weapon Trump can
use to disappear those very same ordinary people it was
written to protect. She has it entirely wrong. And this

(13:34):
answer is only, as it turned out, the second most
horrifying one that she gave on the subject of habeas corpus.
This is the warm.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Up the secretary, No, what is habeas corpus? Well, habeas
corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to
be able to remove people from this country. Let's spend
their right. Let me let me stop, and corpus excuse me.
That's that's incorrect, Presidents, corpus excuse Habeas corpus is the

(14:06):
legal principle that requires that the government provide a public
reason for detaining and imprisoning people.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
And as I said, that was the smarter of her responses,
because the next one to New Jersey Senator Andy Kim
indicated that not only does she not know what habeas
corpus means, even after it was just explained to her,
but she doesn't know what the words suspend means when
it is used in the sentence suspend habeas corpus. Listen

(14:37):
to this and tell me this idiot is not undeniably
convinced that the word suspend is a synonym for the
words evoke, invoke, enforce, and utilize. She thinks to suspend

(15:02):
habeas corpus means to you use habeas corpus to enact
habeas corpus. She doesn't think it means no. She thinks
it means yes, habeas corpus.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Can you confirm to us that you understand that any
suspension of habeas corpus requires an act of Congress?

Speaker 2 (15:20):
President Lincoln executed habeas corpus in the past with retroactive
action by Congress. I believe that any president that was
able to do that in the past, it should be
afforded to our current day president.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
How many times has habeas corpus been suspended in our cost.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Once that I know of, four times. I'm not certain if.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Those the instance that you were referring to was one
where the courts subsequently show that Congress is the one
that has the ability. Do you know what section of
the Constitution the suspension clause of habeas corpus does not?
Do you know which article it is in?

Speaker 4 (15:54):
No?

Speaker 1 (15:54):
I do not, sir, Christy, check your plastic surgeon. I
think they're putting the boatox right in your brain. This
was after her education from Senator and the seventh grade
social studies teacher. Christy Nome never had Maggie Hassen. After
Maggie Hassen explained to her what habeas corpus was, and

(16:16):
she still thinks it's something Trump can wield like an
executioner's axe. And she still somehow thinks the word suspend
means employ She doesn't know what that word means. She
doesn't know what habeas corpus is. She doesn't know the
most superficial details of the outline of the Constitution of
the United States of America. If passing a six question

(16:37):
exam that the worst student would ace in the worst
Civics class in the worst high school in this country,
if that were the requirement before we could put anybody
on those human trafficking flights of hers, Gnome would go
zero for six and she would have just won an
all expenses paid trip to South Sudan, and god knows

(16:59):
where she'd get her next botox and lip fattening injections
from in goddamn South Sudan. This is what Trump is
doing instead of stuff we need done, like FEMA to Missouri.
Oh and there is a separate bill besides the killoff

(17:21):
the Judiciary bill that raises the stakes further. After Steven
Miller gets as many people out of this country illegally
and inhumanely, but with each of them leaving behind a
part of a precedent that Miller and Trump can then exploit.
They will build higher the legal wall behind them to
prevent them from getting back in. If you are renditioned

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and somehow come back to this country, they will now
charge you with illegal re entry. If you are found
guilty and sentenced to a year in jail for illegal reentry,
not an unlikely outcome. A new proviso would kick in.
Anybody convicted of illegal re entry who is then also
convicted of any crime punishable a year or more in

(18:05):
prison could be sentenced to life in prison. But all
re entry would be repunishable by a year or more
in prison, and all those sentences of just a year
or more in prison would immediately be turned into life
in prison. It's catch twenty two. How long is your
jail term? One year? Ah, But anybody who sentenced to

(18:28):
jail for one year gets life. So what is now
a one year crime instantly and automatically becomes life in jail.
Like all evil people, they have thought this through. I
suspect Stephen Miller thinks it through and masturbates afterwards. This

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is what Trump is doing and now investigating Andrew Cuomo
as he runs for mayor of New York to see
if he lined to Congress when he testified about COVID
as governor. I don't like Andrew Cuomo ordinarily be very
pleased by this, except it's not for what you think
it's for. There is no mystery in fact as to

(19:12):
why they would be investigating Andrew Cuomo. Trump had foolishly
bet on Eric Adams being re elected as Mayor of
New York, so they dropped the corruption charges against Eric
Adams and instead they hung them over him like the
sort of Damocles, so they don't even have to blackmail
him to get whatever they want from him to do
to sell out the city of New York and the

(19:32):
Democratic supermajority here. But it is evident now Eric Adams
is going to get destroyed in this election running for
office again as an independent if he gets double digits.
That would be a major upset victory for him. If
he only finishes last, it's a moral victory. So that

(19:54):
means they need a new corrupt candidate to back and
then blackmail, and thus they are investigating, not charging, investigating
the new front runner among the democ Kratz Cuomo, because
they already know he won't wait to be told what
to do when they need him to sell out the city,
the state, the country. This is what Trump is doing,

(20:19):
as well as prosecuting a New Jersey congresswoman on phony
charges of assault against the Ice brown shirts, who are
turning out to be soft as church music and as
easily sidelined as baseball pitchers. They just happened to be
prosecuting her via the new interim US attorney for New Jersey,

(20:40):
noted Trump parking lot legal scholar Alina Haba, who just
two months ago revealed her real reason for accepting that job. Quote,
we could turn New Jersey red, and I think New
Jersey is absolutely close to getting there, So hopefully while
I'm there, I can help that cause unquote. This is
a US attorney campaigning by dirtying up a Democratic congresswoman

(21:07):
who did nothing but use her right to inspect a
government facility, and then Haba can run, probably run for
something herself on a campaign of democratic violence against those
nice police and ice storm troopers will apparently sustain bone

(21:29):
damage if you look at them. This is what Trump
is doing, instead of sending FEMA to Missouri, instead of
obeying the courts, instead of with one of our four
living ex presidents now battling cancer, with Congress and Jerry
Connolly dying of cancer yesterday of the esophagus months after
the diagnosis, at least not defunding and destroying cancer research

(21:53):
during the time. The effectiveness of treatment and the survivability
of the diseases have not only never been higher, but
have never been improving and escalating faster than they have
been in the last ten years. God damned Trump and
all of them to hell as soon as possible. Why

(22:18):
you have heard so little of this? There are two
bits of good journalistic news. CBS news chief quit over
the looming settlement with Trump because he sued after CBS
did something that A wasn't in the least bit wrong.
B didn't in the least bit have anything to do
with Trump. And see Trump claims damaged his election chances

(22:40):
in an election he claims he won in a landslide.
More importantly, three American senators are calling the paramount CBS
settlement with Trump what it actually is, a legalized bribe.
Ron Wyden, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders have warned Sherry
Redstone of the reality she seems to have forgotten. As

(23:03):
Oliver Darcy put it in Status that if Paramount settles
Trump's twenty billion dollar lawsuit over a sixty minute segment
to win favor with the Trump administration, it could constitute
criminal bribery, something that I'm That's Oliver Darcy's I'm told

(23:23):
has also been caused for concern among the company's three
co chief executives. Well, I'm concerned that could be my money.
The senator's reminded Paramount that it is illegal to quote
corruptly give anything of value in this case, you know,
billions and billions of dollars in exchange for government of action,

(23:44):
namely federal approval of that CBS paramount pending merger with
Skydance Media. Widen and Sanders and Warren pressed Redstone on
whether the company has quote evaluated the risk of shareholder
derivative litigation from settling the lawsuit and critically again, according
to Oliver Darcy, whether DBS news content has been altered

(24:07):
to gain favor with regulators, among a series of other
probing questions, Quote Paramount appears to be trying to settle
a lawsuit that it has assessed as completely without merit
and moderating the content of its programs in order to
obtain approval of this merger. Under the federal bribery Statute,
it is illegal to corruptly give anything of value to

(24:28):
public officials to influence an official act. Miss Redstone's company
was thinking of postponing sixty minutes the other day because
it had a segment critical of Trump, putting on something
like I don't know motorcycle racing on ice Highlights of
motorcycle racing on ice Highlights of motorcycle racing on ice

(24:51):
from nineteen seventy seven. I'm just speculating here, So sure,
Miss Redstone, settle your Trump lawsuit, bribe lawsuit, bribe suit,
and and humans regained control of the DOJ. Prepare to
go to prison for bribery. Ms Redstone. And of course

(25:15):
this is all happening while all the networks are talking
about the alleged cover up of Biden's relative clarity while
they are actively right now this minute. The second covering
up Trump's increasing lack of clarity yesterday with Sarah Ramaposa,
the President of South Africa, who, unlike Zelensky, didn't have
to try to reason with him. Mister Ramaposo cleared Trump's clock.

(25:41):
But then my old colleague Peter Alexander of NBC News
tried to ask Trump an actual question about actual news stuff.
What are you talking about? You know, you to get
out of here. What does this have to do with
the guitar jet?

Speaker 5 (26:01):
They're giving the United States Air Force a jet, okay,
and it's a great thing. We're talking about a lot
of other things. This NBC trying to get off the
subject of what you just saw. You are a real
you know, you're a terrible reporter, number one. You don't
have what it takes to be reporting. You're not smart enough.
But for you to go into a subject about a

(26:21):
jet that was given to the United States Air Force,
which is a very nice thing. They also gave five
point one trillion dollars worth of investment in addition to
the jet.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Go back, you to go back to.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
Your studio at NBC because Brian Roberts and the people
that run that place, they are to be investigated. They
are so terrible the way you run that deatwork, and
you are a disgrace.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
No more questions from you. Go ahead. Now, look, at
some point somebody in this position, if not Peter Alexander,
somebody has got to say in response to that, I
have enough money, I can get another job. And if
I can't, it's been a great run, I go do
something else. And then they have to respond to Trump
and say, you're a terrible president and your brains are
leaking out your ears, and everybody knows that plane as

(27:08):
a bribe, and everybody knows you lost the twenty twenty election.
By the way, your hair looks like the cheapest wig
on the head of the worst clown in the Ringling Brothers,
Barnum and Effing Bailey's circus. If you get fired, you
get fired. My suggestion would be get fired and somebody
will hire you for twice the money you're making. Peter,

(27:31):
nearly nineteen years ago, I'm sitting on a jet on
the tarmac in La reading about Donald Rumsfeld calling all
of us who criticized Bush or his bushy in Iraq
policies morally or intellectually confused, And I thought, ef you,
old fascist. And I started handwriting a commentary saying EF you,

(27:52):
old fascist, expecting it would get me fired. It would
be the last thing I ever did on television. And
guess what, it did not get me fired. In fact,
it got me like sixty seven mellon dollars. So somebody
in this situation, Peter or anybody else in that White
House Press office who is still an actual reporter, somebody

(28:16):
who gets in that situation where Trump humiliates them, needs
to humiliate him back, needs to stand up to Trump
and say, F you, old fascist. President Ramaposa kind of did.
Trump of course never noticed.

Speaker 5 (28:36):
So why did they give us a plane to the
United States Air Force? That's what that idiot talks about
after viewing a thing with thousands of people are dead.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
I'm sorry, I don't have a plane to give you.

Speaker 5 (28:47):
I wish I did. I would take it if your
country offered the United States Air Force applant, I would.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Take it, okay. But coming back to this issue, which
I really would like us to talk about, and to
talk about it very commonly, Trump never heard it too
busy looking at himself in the mirror to realize that
Ramaposa jokingly offered him a bribe, and then he Trump
seriously accepted it. What another plane? More money from me? Good?

(29:16):
If I get all the money, I'll never die. Oh
how I wish President Ramaposa had said, and your hair
looks like the cheapest wig on the head of the
worst clown in the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey circus.
Trump's mental deterioration continues to accelerate, not only that stuff yesterday,

(29:39):
not only when he said Biden had staged nine cancer
There is no such thing. But he has been flatly
in the last week fixated on on anal issues. On
the ass. This was at an event at the Kennedy

(30:02):
Center for the Performing Arts. And then they rigged the election.
And then I said, you know what I'll do. I'll
run again and I'll shove it up their ass. That
was at an event at the Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts. It was an event about restoring decorum and
lifting up the best of our country at the Kennedy Center.
And according to Trump, the best way to do that

(30:23):
is to tell the audience at the Kennedy Center that
his goal, the sitting president's goal, has been to shove
something up somebody's ass. Parenthetically lost behind Trump's new ass
obsession is this kind of laugh out loud funny new

(30:43):
MAGA approved dehydrated pro American lineup of events at the
Kennedy Center, which includes a stage play version of Missus Doubtfire, which,
unless it's undergone extensive rewriting since the last time I
saw the movie, Missus Doubtfire, is I believe still a
story about a guy who dresses up in drag so

(31:06):
he can get close to children. Wasn't this the exact
thing Trump ran on last year, claiming if it was
not stopped, it would destroy the world before January first,
twenty twenty five, And of course, what is nominally this
country's last surviving news channel continues to ignore almost all

(31:31):
of this so that it can instead on a twenty
four to seven basis, hawk this Jake Thompson. No, it's
Jake Tapper, It's Tapper Thompson. I know it's Jake Tapper
and Alex Thompson. It's actually it's a piece of shit

(31:52):
conspiracy theory and gossip book supposedly about Biden's acuity. His
granddaughter was nice enough to call it silly. They have
this book and they are trying to sell a copy
of it to every person in America, to the point
where I fully expect Jake Tapper to ring my doorbell
at some point and offer me a discount. They are

(32:17):
doing this while Trump is on the verge of complex
visual hallucinations. They are working on the last president. You
are one president behind Jake. Jake, you should get yourself
checked for brain tumors. You have managed to top yourself
or bottom yourself by not merely going on Megan Kelly's

(32:40):
ilsa she Wolf of the SS podcast. But while you
were there, you apologize to Lara Trump for scolding her
for once addressing the Biden acuity topic. You apologize to
Lara Trump should apologize to Hitler while you're at it.
And as to how CNN has prostituted itself for this

(33:02):
cynical book about last years presidential clarity of mind news
when this year's presidential clarity of mind news is that
Trump's brain appears to be missing. As John Stewart appletely
put it, it's not just Tapper whom they found video
of him holding his book up to camera at least
six times on his CNN program, which is now his

(33:25):
CNN Shopping Channel show, exactly the way Bill O'Reilly used
to hold up his stupid books up to camera on
his Fox Shopping Channel show. They didn't just find six
editions of Jake literally telling you to buy the book,
but all the CNN anchors and shows vying to see

(33:47):
who can filate Jake Tapper most frequently and effectively. I
have all kinds of problems with John Stewart, but his
writer's room is still the best we have for manufacturing
perfect analogies. It's Denizen's saw what CNN is doing, what
everybody from Brian Stelter to Andy the k File Guy,
to Aaron Burnett to Pamela Brown are doing to destroy

(34:10):
their own credibility. As Stuart said, it's at the point
where it looked like a girl Scout cookie contest. You know,
whoever sells the most Jake Tapper books gets a free
Shwin bike. This is a good time to mention that
CNN will air George Clooney's stage version of good Night

(34:30):
and good Luck Live from Broadway with Clooney as Edward R.
Murrow CNN will air it on its network on June seventh,
and this will be the first time anyone will attempt
to portray actual journalism on CNN in years. What they

(34:55):
should do is just leave the live feed on from
the Winter Garden Theater after George is done, and just
never come back with anything that's on at the moment.
Just show what's ever live, including the guy cleaning it
up with a broom. Higher ratings. Also of interest here,

(35:16):
good Golly, Bill Maher is back on the Worst Person's list.
Karma is that process by which you do something evil
and stupid, and you do not try to correct it,
and soon enough, out of nowhere, the universe punishes you
for something else you did. Bill Chump was charming. I
didn't get to meet Eva Brown when I was there.

(35:37):
Mar just got himself some big mf ing karma. That's next.
This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Openman still

(36:14):
ahead on this all new edition of Countdown. This sounds
like a really long, convoluted stretch. How a piece from
the fabric roof at the baseball domed Stadium in Saint
Petersburg destroyed by last October's hurricane arriving in the mail
from a friend of mine made me understand why I

(36:35):
do this podcast when it is so much work, and
so much of that work is so painful. Talking about
Trump is like gargling flaming chainsaws. Why do I do this?
It's because my dad once correctly warned me that another

(36:57):
sports arena fabric roof would vanish due to bad weather,
and it was all math and physics, and for him,
all that work was so hard and so painful. A metaphor,
we are all living under a roof that will collapse
and will kill many of us. So somebody has to

(37:18):
sit here and keep pointing and screaming.

Speaker 6 (37:21):
That roof is going to collapse. Does anybody hear no
physics or evacuations. We're getting a new roof next.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
In things I promised not to tell first of believe
it or not, there's still more new idiots to talk about.
The roundup of the miscreants, morons and dunning Krueger effects
specimens who constitute the latest other worst persons in the world,
the Bronze worse Grock. I'm just not convinced we should

(37:56):
call AI artificial intelligence yet. This is of course Musk's
AI bot and asked about that clip I played earlier
of Christy Nome now with eight new action adventure dress
up outfits. Not knowing what Habeas corpus is, or what
part of the Constitution it's in, or what the word

(38:19):
suspend means. Groc was so confused it thought Christy Nome
was talking about the WNBA. The question to Groc from
OGP two three ninety six, does what Christy Nomes does
say in this video make sense? You need artificial intelligence

(38:44):
to answer that question, Groc answers. Without seeing the specific video,
I can't directly assess Christy Nomes's statements. However, if this
relates to the reason Caitlin Clark Angel Reese WNBA incident
on May seventeenth, twenty twenty five, both players and officials
called the foul standard basketball play. Clark said it was

(39:05):
a good take Fowl and Reese agreed it was just
part of the game. The flagrant one ruling suggests unnecessary
but not malicious contact. Some fans see it as an
excessive due to the rivalry, but there's no clear evidence
of intent beyond competition. If nomes comments align with this,
they make sense in context. Can you clarify the videos content.

(39:30):
Number one, it makes more sense than what Christy Nomes says.
Number two. Maybe Trump's idiot Secretary of Education Linda McMahon
is actually right after all. Maybe we should call this
a one. The runner up worser Mike Richards, not Michael Richards,
not Keith Richards. Mike. One of the reasons MAGA disease

(39:55):
spreads and thrives and claims new victims who were at
one point intelligent, reliable, responsible human beings, or at least
pre to be that. One of the reasons that's true
is that it allows the justifiably canceled, awful, hateful people
to resume their careers after they were banished. I mean,

(40:16):
look at the political scumbag Mark no pants Halpron. Jeff
Scarborough just went on Mark Halprin's podcast, meaning we are
this close to Halpron getting his job back on scarborough show,
which is called Morning Vshi anyway, Mike Richards not Jack Scarborough.

(40:38):
Mike Richards is the new president and chief content officer
of The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro's sinking ship. Shapiro had
been showing signs of rare humanity. Recently fired Candace Owens
for anti semitism, wants to fire Peter Navarro into the
ocean via a catapult unquote over tariffs. Way, he finds

(41:01):
out who he hired in Mike Richards. Here come the catapults.
Mike Richards is a former executive producer and host of Jeopardy.
This is the guy who was running the search to
succeed Trebec and was then run out of the Jeopardy
Shop after the office filled with stories that he was

(41:22):
fixing the search so that the search would wind up
choosing Mike Richards himself. Also, there was that small problem
of all the crap he talked on his podcast, like
five years earlier, fat shaming women and calling one model
a quote booth slut and drawing the ire of the
ADL before the ADL itself went sour when somebody said

(41:46):
something about big noses, Mike Richards reportedly said, ixnay on
the o's nay, She's not an ooja unquote. Richards hosted
Jeopardy for about a week then well then cut to
five years later where he's running the daily wire for
a guy who fired somebody for anti semitism. Have a

(42:10):
nice month, and just as we're hitting a new round
of media collapses, like the Daily Wire needing a new
buyer or money because it's running out. What other new
media collapses like The Winner the Worst, Bill.

Speaker 6 (42:24):
Maher, Oh, he's back.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Sometimes you commit a sin or two, like dining with
Trump and falling for his Ted Bundy psychopath charm bullshit
for the second time. And then when your friend Larry
David cuts you into confetti in the New York Times,
railing at Larry rather than just saying three simple words,
I deserved that I deserved. That is the quickest way

(42:54):
out of any controversy. That's not what Bill did. Man.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
Now he's in made these six million Jews.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
Larry offended them.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
I didn't defend them by heavy dinner with trem just
because I'm too stupid to know that. I fell for
this crab in twenty fourteen. The last time he suffed
sod me. Now he soffed something again. I think he
was really very polite and anything. We should sit down
with me.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
You know, we talked in such Neville Chamberlain went to
hell because of this Bill. All right, enough of that
last year. In any event, as I'm pointing out here,
when you do things like this, often you are punished,
not for what you have just done, but for something else.
This is the way the universe works. Last year, Mar

(43:40):
launched a podcast company based on his podcast I'll point
out here's here's my experience with podcasts, and this is
a very successful one. It's still kind of boutique, but
it makes a surprisingly large amount of money. And we're
it's somewhere near seventy five million total verified views and

(44:02):
listens between here and Youtubeube. It's pretty good. We're not
even three years old yet. And I do this in
my suit closet. My producers are my dogs. Anyway. Last year,
he launched a podcast company, the point being don't launch
a podcast company. Do your fing podcast, count your money,

(44:23):
and go home. Leave the podcast companies to the people
that can afford what happens when it doesn't work, or
when you can't find other good podcasters, worry about your
own damn podcast. Anyway, he launched a podcast company based
on his podcast, and he declared, we talk like no

(44:44):
one can cancel us, Bill, and you got that wrong too.
Your company has now been canceled ceased operations last week,
apparently per Semaphore News. Damn shame. After he'd hired poor
old sage Steele to do a podcast and buy away

(45:05):
what the f ever happened to Sage Steal having so
much fun with the self definestration, the weekly self defenestration
of Sage the worst broadcast partner I've ever had in
my life, worse than Chris Myers Steele. And then she's
not on the air. She's just like on YouTube. It's

(45:25):
like everybody's on YouTube. She's not in the Trump administration. Wait,
why am I complaining about this? She's not on the
air and she's not on the Trump administration. All right,
don't tell me. I'm cool with it the way it is. Oh,
she's getting married again. Can you send someone for their wedding?
Just a box of condolences to the groom? I'm so sorry,

(45:50):
you have no idea. I did like six television shows
whe her and I can already predict your life for you. Flee,
please flee. Anyway, she's getting married again, and she's making
the rounds again, reminiscent about the day that she got
hit by a drive at a golf tournament. Good times, anyway,

(46:11):
Podcasting experts say mar Belief briefly, the employer of Sage
Seal probably just ran out of money, so Bango's Club
Random Studios, though apparently Mars podcast will continue somewhere, and
that will allow Bill to humiliate himself to dozens of
people simultaneously, rather than having to do it one at

(46:33):
a time. Bill, there's a lesson here. One never say
your ship Titanic is unsinkable, and two never say your
podcast company is uncancellable. Mar canceled two days, Other Worst

(46:54):
Worst and.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
The world.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
Finally to the number one story on this all new
edition of Countdown and Things I promised not to tell.
This doesn't really qualify for the title, but what the hell,
it's my podcast. I hold in my hand a piece
of what was, until last September October, a piece of
the roof at Trumpicana Field in Saint Petersburg, Florida, the

(47:42):
home of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team, not the
most inviting of indoor sports stadiums, but no longer in use.
A friend of mine, a devoted listener to this podcast,
and I'll keep his name quiet so as not to
mark him with the scarlet letter among those he deals

(48:05):
with in life, was kind enough to purchase for me
during a recent trip there, a piece of what was
the roof. The Tampa Bay Rays, owned by friends of mine,
are very intelligently selling eight x ten pieces of the
roof for fifteen dollars if you would like to have

(48:26):
the chance to hold and keep in your home. What
was a piece of a Major League baseball stadium. I'm
sure the Rays make these available on their website. I
hope they do. But I have to tell you my
surprise when I opened up the package. There was a
clear plastic bag from the place at which this was purchased,
inside the stadium that they're now using. The spring training

(48:47):
home of the New York Yankees is now the regular
season home of the Tampa Bay Rays. And I thought, well,
that's an odd way to package it. That thing there
in the back, that must be the cardboard backing to
make sure the thing isn't get folded in transit. No,
that's the roof. The roof looks like a piece of cardboard.

(49:08):
Looks like a shirt cardboard if you've ever gotten your
shirts back from the dry cleaners. That way. It has
about the thickness and the approximate look of a linen
duster coat that I own and I use as a raincoat.
I thought it was a piece of my duster. That
was the roof at that field, Tropicana Field, until Hurricane
Milton hit on October ninth of last year, and I

(49:32):
was reminded instantly in thinking of that disaster, as I
was when it happened, of my dad. My dad was
an architect who loved the design element and was a
born artist and used to be able to draw, not
just well, but he could produce what looked like the
kind of work that an entire architectural firm would take

(49:53):
months to produce, including if you've ever seen drawings before
the computer era of a new park or a new mall,
and the little stick figures in front of representing the
people anxiously and delightedly going into the mall or the park,
the little tiny hundreds of people. He could draw those
freehand and you'd never know that some team had not

(50:16):
slaved over them. So he was a born artist. I
inherited his ability to block letter so that people are
still surprised by how clean my lettering is. That's all
I got. My architectural career ended lettering. But Dad, because
he was so good at the art, really worked at
the math. He hated the math. He hated the physics

(50:38):
of it. He hated the construction part of architectural construction, which,
by the way, they don't let you just draw the
stick figures and the buildings. You have to go and
do the math calculating whether or not the damn thing
will fall down. So Dad became an expert who hated
doing it, kind of like me with politics. Okay, I

(50:59):
hate this, I better triple check everything, and he did,
and soon his ability to judge whether or not that
building would hold up probably exceeded his artistic capabilities. I
don't think he would like to hear me say that,
but it's true. One day, sometime in the winter of
nineteen seventy seven seventy eight, when I was a junior

(51:21):
in college, my phone rang at my dorm room fourteen
men In Hall at Cornell University, and it was my
dad calling me from Hartford, Connecticut. I can't remember if
this was December or perhaps the beginning of January of
nineteen seventy eight, but it was early in the year,
and Dad said he was staying at a hotel overlooking

(51:43):
the Hartford Civic Center. Hertford Civic Center, the home of
University of Connecticut basketball games and the then New England
Whalers of the World Hockey Association and a couple of
other teams as well, a kind of brand new facility
in which the greatest concepts of American architectural design of
the nineteen seventies were merged. Ugly sports stadiums and malls.

(52:09):
The Hertford Civic Center was in the middle of a mall,
and the center, the actual arena, looked like just another
store in the mall. In any event, we'll leave the
esthetics out of it. Dad was saying he was staying
high up in this hotel and had an overlooking view
on a very very heavy snow winter that year nineteen
seventy seven seventy eight, and was looking just i'dly before

(52:32):
a meeting he had somewhere at some store location that
he was designing in that area. Was looking at the
roof of the Hartford Civic Center and there was a
lot of snow on top of it, because there was
a lot of snow everywhere that winter. In Ithaca, we
had three eleven inch snowstorms in five days, and the
only thing passable by foot was a small divot in

(52:54):
the snow drifts down the center of the main drags
at Cornell University, and if you encountered somebody walking in
the opposite direction, one of you had to go and
stand in the thirty inch snowbank for a moment. In
any event, Dad said, listen, do you ever go to
the Hertford Civic Center? And I said no, I actually
avoided that completely. Do any of the Cornell teams play there?

(53:16):
I said, well, it's possible, but I don't think we're
playing Yukon basketball this year. Good, don't go in there.
The damn thing's going to collapse sooner or later. And
I said, what do you mean, the damn thing's going
to collapse sooner or later. I knew nothing of the
nature of the roof, but the nature of the roof
at the Hertford Civic Center was not unlike this thing there,
this piece of duster thickness. I mean, you couldn't use

(53:41):
it as a as a computer pad, as a mouse pad.
It's not that thick That is the essence of the roof,
along with the superstructure, the metal, the grid work. But
the essence of it, the thing that the wind could
get under or the snow could get on top of,
was one I don't know sixty fourth of an inch
thick and kind of flexible. And Dad said, I don't

(54:04):
think they desire this, right, I had a quick look.
They let me, let me look inside, and I went, boy,
oh boy, I wouldn't come in here again for a
million dollars. And the guy then threw me out of
the building. That was my dad, that's me. Dad said,
there was so much snow on the roof, and it
was probably sufficiently designed to handle a great deal of snow.

(54:24):
He said, thirty six inches forty eight inches of snow.
It could withstand a couple of more serious snowstorms before
it and every other roof in Hartford, Connecticut would collapse.
He said. The problem was they had not done enough
with the grid work. This thing had been poorly designed,
especially if it got really warm and there was rain,
and then it got really cold and the whole thing

(54:46):
turned into a block of ice, which would double or
treble the weight on top of this roof. Sure enough,
I go into my college radio station on January eighteenth,
nineteen seventy eight, and the news is on the wire
that about five six hours after the University of Kinnetic
basketball team beat the University of Massachusetts basketball team in

(55:08):
front of counting staff and employees about forty eight hundred
people inside the Hertford Civic Center. About five hours afterwards,
about four in the morning, the Hartford Civic Center cloth
roof caved in under the weight of the ice that
had built up atop it. And it wasn't just the ice.

(55:29):
It was a design flaw. It was exactly as my
dad had forecast, maybe a month earlier, certainly at least
a week earlier. Whatever you do, don't let any of
Cornell teams go into the Hartford Civic Center. Boy, he
got that right. That was the good one. Because, of course,
the night watchman, the night manager of the Hartford Civic Center,

(55:49):
had cleaned the place out, after the employees there had
cleaned everything up, had locked the door, maybe at two
or three o'clock. And I don't know if I added
this in the years of remembering my dad forecasting this
disaster or not, or if it actually happened, but there
was some story about the last guy out locking the

(56:10):
place at three or four in the morning, driving a
couple of blocks away, stopped at a stoplight, and he
hears a roar, looks in his rear view mirror and
there's the roof of the Hartford Civic Center that he
has just left empty, caving in on itself. That may
be apocryphal, but it could have happened. That's how good
dad's prediction was. If he'd put a time stamp on

(56:31):
it, it was the only way he could have gotten it better.
The other thing, of course, that reminded me of was
the other time my dad made a prediction like that,
which was a true tragedy, and I regret not doing
more about it, and he regretted not doing more about it.
But there was a point at which you can't do
more about it because the people are telling you you're
insane and they're going to arrest you, and you should

(56:52):
stop fear mongering, etc. My dad used to travel all
the time. It was one of the great joys of
his becoming an architect. And as I've told the story before,
he became an architect without going to college. He was
offered a full ride as a high school valedictorian at
the School of Industrial Arts in New York, a full
ride to Cornell five years in the Architecture college, a

(57:14):
full scholarship. Had to turn it down because his father
said to him, well, yeah, you can go do your
drawing crap, but then your younger brother is going to
have to drop out of high school and support us
because my grandfather couldn't support the family, and not because
he had the victimization of the Great Depression. And my
grandfather just did not cooperate with anybody under any circumstances.

(57:38):
I am Saint Francis of the CSI compared to my grandfather,
I digress. My father's joy in architecture was he did
not turn out to design nine hundred story buildings that
were sweeping architectural monuments that would last like the pyramids did.
And they'd say, who was the designer of this palace?

(57:58):
Theodore Sea Olderman designed it. That's his statue over there.
It didn't happen that way, but at one point all
the basking Robs, like four hundred Baskin Robbins in this
country were all his design because he didn't know it
when he went into architecture. But he had a natural
ability to fit your stock architectural design for your chain
store into this oddly shaped place you were able to

(58:20):
rent in the mall in Nacadochis, Texas. So traveling around
to places like Nacadoches, Texas, and to the beach communities
of la which he loved, and to everywhere on earth,
and to Hartford, Connecticut, and to Kansas City, Missouri. Put
him in places like Kansas City, Missouri. And sometime late

(58:43):
in nineteen eighty he would always call. In those pre
internet days and those pre cell phone days, he'd call
to say he'd gotten to the hotel. He'd leave an
itinerary in case we needed to get him. And he
was calling me late in nineteen eighty or early in
nineteen eighty one to tell me that he was changing hotels. Yeah,
I checked into the Higatt Regency and here it's a

(59:03):
death trap. And I said, oh, what's wrong with it? Now?
Does it have a fabric roof? Hahaha? Was I right
about that? Yes? You were. I'm sorry. I don't mean
to mock you. We could have done something more now.
That worked out pretty well all things considered, given that
they wouldn't listen to me, the idiots. Do you see
where I come from? Do you see where my attitude
comes from? Well? He was right, as I am right.

(59:27):
It gets frustrating sometimes to be the only one who's
right in the room, especially when people's lives are endangered.
And that's the whole point. My dad didn't give a
damn whether or not he was right. It was a
certain source of pride to him that a subject that
he hated, he had mastered the arithmetic, the science, the
weightload management in the real meaning of it, not the
sports meaning of it. But he didn't get any joy

(59:50):
over the fact that he was right that the roof
had collapsed. He just said, maybe that's more evidence that
you should listen to me again. Where do you think
that comes from in this podcast? In any event, back
to the phone call from Kansas City. I've checked out.
I'm in the such and such hotel. Now here's the number,
and I wrote it down and I called my mother
and I said, change this on the itinerary. And whether
or not she did, who knows. In any event, he said,

(01:00:14):
you won't believe what they've done here. They've hung a
walkway from another walkway on top of another walkway. And
I was like, you can't be you can't be serious,
and he went, no, I'm serious. I went, no, no, you
can't be serious. In assuming I know what that means,
he said, all right, let me explain it. To you simply,

(01:00:36):
if you hang a walkway from a ceiling at like
this highatt regency, If you hang it from the ceiling,
let's say that requires a support for that hanging walkway
worth one point. If you hang another walkway from the
walkway from the ceiling, so that you have walkway number one,

(01:00:57):
and then below it hanging from walkway number one is
walkway number two. How many points worth of support do
you need? And I said two, No, you need three.
You need one for the original walkway, one for the
new walkway, and another point a third point for the
additional stress that the lower walkway has put on the
top one. You have doubled the stress. You need a three.

(01:01:20):
He said, they barely have one. It's a disaster waiting
to happen, as God is my witness. And he was
an atheist. It's an odd phrase, but he used it
all the time, as God is my witness, that thing
will collapse. And I went to the manager and I
asked to see the structural engineer, and I told him this,
and I gave him my credentials, and I mentioned the

(01:01:40):
Hertford Civic Center, and nobody listened to me. In fact,
they said, maybe you should leave, or maybe we're going
to have to call the authorities. You're beginning to make
a scene and frighten the other guests here, and he
said they should be frightened. The damn and he swore
roof is going to come down someday. The damn walkway
is going to drag the ceiling down. And if it
could be worse, these two ceilings, these two walkways hanging

(01:02:04):
from the sea. One is hanging from the other, and
they're on top of another walkway, So there's another walkway
that is not supported separately. He is supported separately, but
it's sitting below. So when walkway number two pulls down
Walkway number one on the way down to the floor
where they hold all sorts of events and have a
couple of nice lobby bars, it will go through walkway

(01:02:24):
number three. I don't know how many people are going
to get killed. They're going to get killed. So he
sounded like everybody you've ever seen in every science fiction
picture who then claims they came in from the future
and they asked him to leave, and he said, don't worry,
I'm not staying here, and don't send me the bill,
because by the time you send me the bill. You
guys won't be in business anymore. Once again, time elapses.

(01:02:49):
I didn't make any phone calls. Who am I going
to call? I'm a twenty two year old sportscaster in
New York City. I'm not exactly carrying any weight on
subjects like this. My dad has correctly predicted the fabric
roof collapse at the Hartford Civic Center. He now says
that there's a walkway hanging from another walkway, and there
should be a force of three and is only a
force of one. And I don't know what I'm talking about,

(01:03:10):
but maybe you should call him. Here's his phone number.
What am I going to do about this? My great
regret that I didn't make those calls anyway. I walked
into my office at the RKO Radio Network on Saturday,
July eighteenth, nineteen eighty one, and the wires were full
of stories about the disaster in Kansas City. The baseball
strike was in full flower in the middle of July

(01:03:31):
nineteen eighty one, and most of the members of the
Kansas City Royals, or a lot of them at least,
including the pitcher Rich Gale, were serving as celebrity bartenders
at a charity event in the lobby of a Hyatt
Regency in Kansas City on the night of July seventeenth Friday,
July seventeenth, nineteen eighty one, when one of the walkways
began to collapse. It began to pull down the walkway

(01:03:53):
from which it was hung, and then part of the ceiling,
and on the way down it knocked down parts of
other pieces of the superstructure above the lobby. One one
hundred and four teen people were killed. And I remember
to this day the agonized interview with rich Gail, the
Kansas City Royals pitcher, a big guy for the time,

(01:04:14):
about six', six who said that the first thing he
did was try to move these, giant multi ton blocks
of concrete off still living, victims and being an, athlete
figuring that he and a few of his friends could
do it and they could not even budge the. THING
i think it changed his life. UTTERLY i think it
basically ended his career as a viable baseball. Pitcher it

(01:04:38):
certainly caused him, struggles AND i know he succeeded in
staying in the game and becoming a, coach but he
was affected in a. Way you could hear instantaneously in the,
interviews and we covered the story AND i left my
father out of. It but my father had predicted it
down to the fact that there would be people, killed
that there would be such large pieces of debris coming

(01:04:59):
from the ceiling because they had not hung the thing.
Successfully the, designer AS i found out of this, disaster
then became a lecturer on disasters in bad, architecture of
which he was responsible, for instead of going to. Prison
so this all came back to mind that my father Was.

(01:05:22):
Cassandra my father was the guy who arrived, saying the
next person you hear from will be the angel of.
Death maybe you want to get out of, here maybe
you want to fix, this maybe you want to have
another look at your. MATH i, mean there were lots
of disasters that my dad did not, predict like the
time that The City Corps center In New york almost

(01:05:42):
blew over in a wind because they realized at the
last minute that the slanted ten story roof they'd put
on the thing it hit directly by hurricane, forces would
topple the entire top half of the building Onto Midtown,
manhattan and they were just lucky that it hit. Differently
he didn't see that. Coming but of course he wasn't
in the civic The. Hartford he was only in The hartford.

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Place he was only in The Kansas city. Place he
was not in The City Corps. Center but that was
WHAT i was reminded of AS i looked at this.
Piece this was the roof under which for thirty four,
years thirty five, years people. Assembled many TIMES i went
there myself and did ball games from and did coverage,

(01:06:24):
from and my friends who owned The Tampa Bay, rays
and all the players THAT i, knew and all the
announcers THAT i knew who worked, there and all the
visiting announcers all went in under this. Roof and thank
god that when what my father would have, said do
you have any GAMES i planned At Tropicana, field whatever you,
do don't go. There that main a hurricane going to

(01:06:44):
take that effing roof right. Off and then you know,
WHAT i bet it winds up as a souvenir somewhere
in your. Collection that'll probably cut up the. Roof knowing
your friends who owned the, team they'll be smart enough
to take what's left of this fabric roof and sell.
IT i would put the price at like ten. Dollars
knowing your, friends they'll probably charge. Fifteen i've done all

(01:07:17):
the DAMAGE i can do. Here nature and physics do the.
Rest thank you for. Listening and, yes there are, people
particularly from my college, days who remember my dad's prediction
because the one about The Hartford Civic CENTER i had
to share BECAUSE i, asked AND i asked At Cornell Sports,
information do we have any games In hartford this? Year?

(01:07:38):
NO i, said, okay, good because my, dad the, architect
just said the roof's going to come down one.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
Night.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
Unbelievable my dad was not, Psychic he was not the
harbinger of the angel of. Death he just paid real
attention to the things that he hated most and the
work he hated doing the. Most as he used to
say to, me you're good at this. Work hardist on
the things you're not good, at and that's why we
have this. Podcast do you Think i'm happy doing this every? Week?

(01:08:08):
Then do you Think i'm happy doing? This there are
many glories to getting this, done and there are many, positive,
warming life validating and affirming moments in knowing that you appreciate,
This but do you think it's? Enjoyable which do you
think is more enjoyable this podcast or writing up the
histories of The Detroit tigers and The Saint Louis cardinals

(01:08:30):
for their pregame. SHOW i think that question answers itself
enough do the. Math Brian ray And John Phillip, shanelle
the musical, directors Have Countdown arrange produced and performed most
of our. Music Mister chanelle handled orchestration and. Keyboards Mister
ray was on the, guitars bass and. Drums it was
produced BY Tko. Brothers my dad did once say to,

(01:08:53):
me at sort of the height of THE msnbc, experience
WHEN i said that much of the stuff THAT i
STUDIED i hated studying and really was dedicated to, it
only because he told me this year before to pay
special attention to the STUFF i, hated paying special attention
to to do the hard work on the stuff that
was really hard and. Work he teared up and he,

(01:09:15):
SAID i taught you. SOMETHING i, said, YEAH i also
always check the hanging walkways WHENEVER i go into a.
Hotel god help. Us our satirical and pithy musical comments
are by the best baseball stadium organists. Ever Nancy faust
now back doing cameos with The White, sox or as
they are now, known saluting both The pope And chicago's crime.

(01:09:38):
History The leo polls and. Lobes all, right that's a tasteless,
joke but a good. One the sports music is The
ulberman theme FROM espn, two written By Mitch Warren davis
courtesy OF, Espn. Inc other music arranged and performed By
No Horns. Allowed my announcer today was my Friend Larry.

(01:09:58):
David everything was as ever other than. That my fault
not the roof collapse. HERE i, MEAN i swear you
could roll this thing, up AND i don't. THINK i,
mean of all the, things this looks. Like this piece
of the, roof a piece of a, roof is not
what it looks?

Speaker 3 (01:10:16):
Like is?

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
That for a? Tautology that's countdown for, today day one
to twenty three Of america sitting under the roof at
The Higatt regency or The Hartford Civic. Center just forty
days until the scheduled end of his lame duck and
lame brain, term Unless putin removes him, sooner or the
actuarial tables, do or we. Do the next scheduled countdown Is,

(01:10:39):
monday as always bulletins as the news. Warrants remember he
is laying the groundwork now to not leave office. Later
he must be. Stopped we must get out from under
this roof until next. Time I'm keith oulteran good, morning good,
afternoon good, night and good. Luck countdown With Keith olderman

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