October 5, 2023 • 34 mins
SEASON 2 EPISODE 49: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump has already violated Judge Arthur Engoron’s gag order and if Engoron actually WAS contemplating finding him in contempt and putting him in jail for 30 days he should damn well do it and do it NOW – and if he WASN’T, he ought to expand the gag order and specify that if Trump breaks it again, he WILL spend a month behind bars. Yesterday, he posted quote “the judge fraudulently reduced the value of Mar-a-Lago and other assets in order to make their fake case more viable.”During the lunch-break he said of Engoron “he’s a Democrat judge, he has no choice, he’s run by the Democrats” thus accusing the judge both of fraud and of political corruption. The gag order precludes Trump from public comments about “any members of my staff” and it is not twisting logic nor semantics too strongly to note that the judge COUNTS as a member of his own staff.
So step five is the judge imposing the serious sanctions. By statute it would be contempt of court and under New York State Law article 19 section 751 contempt of court is punishable by – I regret to tell you CAPITAL PUNISHMENT does NOT apply under article 19 section 751 – it’s punishable by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both. At the discretion of the judge. And if Judge Engoron really wants to make the argument that he is not a member of his own staff he needs to broaden the gag order immediately. Because you, or I, or Hunter Biden, or Joe Biden, or Jesus Christ fresh off the court would have already amassed a thousand 30-day sentences for the kind of stuff Donald Trump has gotten away with, abusing and degrading and insulting and harassing and threatening and undermining and sabotaging and lying about the judicial system.
Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani's Georgia lawyers have bailed out on him. On the other hand he got the kind of publicity he craves. The New York Times has published 3,109 devastating words OVER Maggie Haberman’s byline and UNDER the headline “Giuliani’s Drinking, Long A Fraught Subject, Has Trump Prosecutors’ Attention.” The Times writes they quote “have shown an interest in the drinking habits of Mr. Giuliani… (they’ve) questioned witnesses about Mr. Giuliani’s alcohol consumption as he was advising Mr. Trump, including on election night… Mr. Smith’s investigators have also asked about Mr. Trump’s level of awareness of his lawyer’s drinking as they worked to overturn the election… The answers to those prompts could complicate any efforts by Mr. Trump’s team to lean on a so-called advice-of-counsel defense… if such guidance came from someone whom Mr. Trump knew to be compromised by alcohol, especially when many others told Mr. Trump definitively that he had lost, his argument could weaken… several people at the White House on election night (the evening when Mr. Giuliani urged Mr. Trump to declare victory despite the results) have said that the former mayor appeared to be drunk, slurring and carrying an odor of alcohol. ‘The Mayor was definitely intoxicated’ Jason Miller”… said.
The Trump/Smith angle is fascinating. Because apparently you can’t use an advice-of-counsel defense if your counsel is so drunk he could be considered at risk for spontaneous combustion.
B-Block (19:21) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The Institute of Economic Affairs has figured out "the future of journalism." It's four Matthews and no women, according to them. Jonathan Turley isn't just flubbing the big stuff; he got Steve Martin's name wrong. And the Trojan horse "news" site "The Messenger" has partnered with an AI company to rank the most reliable news organizations. And you're right: Glenn Beck's "The Blaze" can be trusted. "The New York Times" cannot.
C-Block (25:35) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Saturday will be the 48th anniversary of the first broadcast I ever did that had both sponsors and an audience. It was preceded by the elders of the Cornell University radio station sports department playing a trick on me that would be repeated four years later when I made my network debut. I can laugh now. Then? I had two out-of-body experiences. Happily the 1975 WVBR-FM broadcast still exists, so I've tacked it on to the end of this segment. And yes: I mispronounced my own name.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump
has already violated Judge Arthur Angern's gag order. And if
(00:26):
anger On actually was contemplating finding him in contempt and
putting him in jail for thirty days, he should damn
well do it and do it now. And if he wasn't,
he ought to now expand the gag order and specify
that if Trump breaks it again, he will spend a
month behind bars. This is not complicated. It only takes
four steps. One Monday, the judge warned Trump's lawyers that
(00:50):
if he didn't lay off the attacks, he would impose
a gag order. Two Tuesday, a troll account on Twitter
attacked anger On's court clerk because she once took a
selfie with Senator Chuck Schumer. Somebody showed it to Trump.
He took the photo and lied that the clerk was
Schumer's girlfriend and that she was running the trial. Thus
(01:11):
the case had to be immediately dismissed. Three Within hours
of that, anger On ordered Trump's post to be deleted.
He gagged Trump and forbade him from quote, posting, emailing,
or speaking publicly about any members of my staff and added,
failure to abide by this order will result in serious sanctions.
(01:31):
And four yesterday, Trump posted quote, the judge fraudulently reduced
the value of Mari Lago and other assets in order
to make their fake case more viable. And during the
lunch break, Trump said of anger on he's a Democrat judge.
He has no choice. He's run by the Democrats, thus
(01:52):
accusing the judge both of fraud and of political corruption.
The gag order precludes Trump from public comments about quote
any members of my staff on quote. And it is
not twisting logic nor semantics too strongly to note that
the judge would count as a member of his own staff.
(02:16):
So step five quite clearly is this judge imposing those
serious sanctions. By statutes, they could be contempt of court.
And under New York State law Article nineteen, section seven
fifty one, contempt of court is punishable by I regret
to tell you. Capital punishment does not apply. Under Article nineteen,
section seven fifty one. It's punishable by fine not exceeding
(02:40):
one thousand dollars or imprisonment for not more than thirty days,
or both, at the discretion of the judge. And if
judge Enngarn really wants to make the argument that he
is not a member of his own staff. He would
therefore need to broaden the gag order immediately, because you
or I, or Hunter Biden or Joe Biden or j
(03:04):
Jesus Christ fresh off the cross, would have already amassed
one thousand thirty day sentences for the kind of contemptuous
shit Donald Trump has gotten away with abusing and degrading
and insulting and harassing and threatening and undermining and sabotaging
and lying about our judicial system. And I am the
(03:28):
last person on this planet to give any judicial system
carte blanche over anyone or anything. But it is time
that our judicial system gets off its ass and puts
this narcissistic, delusional, destructive, deranged quasi human behind bars so
he can get busy rotting behind them and then going
(03:51):
directly to Hell. And I would love to see him
convicted for the crimes for which he's been indicted by
Jack Smith in Washington and Florida, and by Fanie Willis
in Georgia, and by Letitia James here in New York.
But frankly, as long as it is lawful, I do
not care if Trump spends the rest of his life
in prison only because he insulted Judge Arthur anger On's
(04:13):
justifiably anonymous courtroom clerk and Judge anger On himself. Any
port in a storm enough break Trump in half. The
law tells you to and leave the metaphorical carcass to
figuratively decompose in the gutter. Lock the bastard up. By
(04:39):
the way, these are two clips from Trump's swirling, murderous,
insane rages outside the courtroom, the first in which he
made the comment about anger On which I quoted earlier,
the second in which he attacks the Attorney General in
the most egregious way yet and by the way, in
(04:59):
the video accompanying these audio clips, Trump is lighted exactly
the way they lighted Norma Desmond in the last scene
of the movie Sunset Boulevard. What He's gonna do?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
He's a Democratic judge choice, he has no choice.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
He's run by the Democrats, and.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
He gets sued by.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
A political animal. Trump did not pick political animal with
his verbal emphasis on the word animal. By accident. Most assuredly,
the Attorney General is not covered by the judges gag order.
He may be a part of his own staff, she
most certainly is not. So Trump will get away with
calling her an animal with the word political added as prefix,
(05:46):
because it reduces the grotesqueness and the racism of him
calling a black woman a quote animal. It reduces it,
It dials it back to a common political cliche. But
in light of the brutality of that and Trump's constant racism,
Judge anger On should expel and that gag order a
second time, and hereafter include Letitia James and her staff too.
(06:12):
Lock him up. By the way, Trump has also now
lied twice about his presence at the New York trial,
and not just by his continuing fabrication that he has
been denied a jury trial. He has been denied a
jury trial because he denied himself professional legal representation. They
(06:35):
literally checked the box saying no jury. Trump literally checked
the box saying I'm not going to pay a lot
for this lawyer. Trump has done something else. He's now
done the murder your parents demand pity because you're an
orphan quick step. He told the media that though he
is not expected to testify for weeks yet, he is
at the trial in New York because he was quote
(06:57):
stuck here as if he had been compelled to attend.
This was a lie, so agreed just that even a
reporter actually noticed and pushed back and said, but you
don't have to be here, And he immediately changed his
story and said he was there quote because I want
to point out to the press how corrupt it is.
And if this real time demonstration of the limitless volume
(07:18):
that the fountain of verbal diarrhea that is Donald Trump's
brain can handle. If that were not enough, he promptly
reportedly left the court to fly back to Florida, even
though he's stuck in New York, compelled forced by the
Democratic judge who's guilty of fraud. Ever, the martyr can't leave,
can't get back to where, can't get back to the
(07:39):
campaign trail, can't where is he? Oh? He left for
Florida happily. In so doing, Trump may have committed contempt
in a second court. He was supposed to sit for
his deposition two days ago in his own suit against
his former fixer Michael Cohen in South Florida, but he
(08:00):
told the judge there a week ago that he had
to postpone the deposition because he was going to spend
at least the first week of the New York fraud
trial in that courtroom. According to Cohen's lawyer's motion to
the Florida court, Trump quote also stated that because of
the trial, he would be unavailable any business day between
October two, twenty twenty three, and the end of his trial. Thus,
(08:25):
there is the gathering and looming evidence that Trump is
in so many courtrooms because of so many lawsuits and
so many criminal indictments, that his court appearances and his
lies about them are now crashing into each other. And
once again a week from Monday, the hearing in Judge
(08:46):
Chutkins courtroom about Jack Smith's request for a gag order,
and the pile of other outside threats and other outside
abuses by Trump, of other outside judges and other outside
prosecutors and other outside key players, it just keeps getting
higher and higher and more and more damning and honest
to God, after listening to eight years of this public
(09:10):
crap from him, and privately listening to forty years of
it as of this December fifteenth, as somebody who met
him that long ago, the thought that we might still
have a chance to save democracy from him is obviously
first on my list of prayers, But second place does
(09:30):
not belong to punishing Trump or avenging ourselves against him.
That's third. The second best thing about all this would
be to see him hamstrung and pinioned by a series
of gag orders, and to know that, metaphorically and literally,
(09:53):
America will finally make Donald Trump shut the f up
speaking of dreams potentially coming true. If you have missed this,
the other guy I was saying was nuts at least
ten years before everybody else noticed, is coming apart at
(10:16):
the seams, in public and fast, and it couldn't happen
to a nicer guy. You will recall Rudy Giuliani. He's
being sued by his most loyal lapdog lawyer Robert Costello,
and Costello's partners for nearly a million and a half
(10:37):
dollars in unpaid legal fees. But you may not have
heard that last week. One of Giuliani's local attorneys in Georgia,
David Wolfe, told the court a week ago today he
is no longer one of Giuliani's local attorneys in Georgia,
and he offered no explanation for that. But wait, there's more.
Tuesday night, Brian Tevis told the Georgia judge he is
(10:58):
also withdrawing from representing Rudy so Giuliani's legal team and
the Fawnie Willis case, is now himself that if anybody
in this country could bring that most cliche of cliches
to brilliant life, it's Rudy Giuliani, a man who is
his own lawyer, has a fool for a client, and
(11:20):
apparently he has a drunk for a client as well.
Yesterday The New York Times published thirty one hundred and
nine devastating words over Maggie Haberman's byline and under the
headline Giuliani's drinking long a fraught subject? Has Trump Prosecutor's attention?
(11:44):
Of those thirty one hundred and nine words, eighteen of
them are drinking, five of them are drunk, and four
of them are problem Yet the real relevance of the
piece is that part about Trump Prosecutors. The Times Rights,
the Jack Smith's Office and its members quote have shown
(12:06):
an interest in the drinking habits of mister Giuliani. They've
questioned witnesses about mister Giuliani's alcohol consumption as he was
advising mister Trump, including on election night. Mister Smith's investigators
have also asked about mister Trump's level of awareness of
his lawyer's drinking as they worked to overturn the election.
(12:29):
The answers to those prompts could complicate any efforts by
mister Trump's team to lean on a so called advice
of council defense if such guidance came from someone whom
mister Trump knew to be compromised by alcohol, especially when
many others told mister Trump definitively that he had lost,
his argument, could weaken Several people at the White House
(12:50):
on election night. The evening when mister Giuliani urged mister
Trump to declare victory despite the results, have said that
the former mayor appeared to be drunk, slurring and carrying
an odor of alcohol. Quote the mayor was definitely intoxicated,
Jason Miller said, whew. The Times was also good enough
(13:13):
to remind us that Giuliani first claimed quote they stole
that election unquote in nineteen eighty nine, when he lost
to David Dinkins, the first time he ran for mayor
of New York City. The Times notes that he started
drinking heavily after he went from the front runner in
the race for the two thousand and eight Republican presidential
nomination to the guy who won exactly one delegate. I'll
(13:35):
note again that Giuliani still believes his demise in that
race was caused by the man who told America that
everything Giuliani said at the time was quote a noun,
a verb and nine to eleven, And of course that
man was Joe Biden. Explains everything there. The Times quotes
a Giuliani bilographer recounting the number of times Giuliani has
(13:59):
been quote literally falling down drunk, and how he would
lapse then into Islamophobia or just lapse into collisions with
walls and other objects. I will let the Times retain
the rest of its own thunder, and I will leave
you the option of whether or not you want to
hear any more of this. But let's put it this way,
(14:21):
if Rudy Giuliani still had a reputation, the Times piece
would have just destroyed it. And again, the real import
of what The Times produced yesterday is not about Giuliani
but about how his drinking may become part of the
prosecution of Donald Trump, because apparently you cannot use an
(14:42):
advice of council defense if your counsel is so drunk
he could be considered at risk for spontaneous combustion. Okay,
I'll put away the buttons with the music attached to them.
(15:02):
Also of interest here, a major new quote news unquote
website has turned to artificial intelligence to assess the reliability
and the honesty of news coverage. And it has determined
that the least reliable stories about Kevin McCarthy, the partisan
clickbait about Kevin McCarthy, were produced by the New York
(15:23):
Times and the BBC ah but the most reliable stories
about McCarthy were produced by the New York Post and Breitbart.
And yes, there is a good chance that this artificial
intelligence is actually just Tucker Carlson stuffed inside a computer costume.
That's next. This is countdown.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
This is countdown with Keith Olberman.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Still ahead on countdown. The anniversary is day after Tomorrow,
Saturday night, eleven, fifteen pm Eastern. The first time I
actually went on radio where there were people listening and
a sponsor you ever wanted to hear the sixteen year
old version of me stand by first time for the
daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects
(16:32):
specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world The
Bronze the Institute of Economic Affairs i EA, which proclaims
itself to be Britain's original free market think tank. Actually
they are misogynistic fascists. They have earned international condemnation after
(16:52):
conducting a live panel called the Future of Journalism, and
the people in it are all British media types or
fringe members of the government, so you will not recognize
the names. But the panel on the future of journalism
were Sir John Whittingdale, Owen, Meredith, Matthew Lesh, Matt Warman,
(17:14):
Matthew Sinclair and David Matthew. As one wag noted, the
future of journalism is for Matthews, but no women. As
another one observed, maybe they'll invent journalism for girls someday.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Future of Journalism myfe the.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Runner up, Jonathan Turley, or as my spell check continually
tries to rename him across all my devices, Jonathan Turkey.
When I have posited here that the one time countdown
regular and constitutional interpreters being blackmailed, it is not just
that he's gone from a liberal leaning umpire with a
pretty fair strike zone to a lunatic that only Fox
(17:54):
News and the House Committee to Obstruct Justice could respect.
It's also little things like this. He's posted a piece
slamming the Palace Coup against Kevin McCarthy byting that a
comedian quote once said chaos in the middle of chaos
isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
He then attributed that quote to Stephen Martin Stephen ste
(18:19):
Ve n Since the observation was actually made by Steve Martin,
one assumes that's who Turley meant. But something is really
wrong with John Turley. Nobody, but nobody has called Steve
Martin Stephen. I don't think even his parents called him Stephen.
Steve Martin's first full name is Stephen with a pH.
(18:42):
But our Winners. The Messenger this weird trojan horse site
that claims to be a cutting edge venue for quote balanced, objective,
nonpartisan journalism, but is in fact just another right wing
propaganda outlet that mixed in the added crime of clickbait.
Most of the media world figured the Messenger out pretty quickly,
(19:02):
but eyebrows were still raised when and It announced that
it had made a deal with an artificial intelligence company
called Seeker. Seeker claims to be able to use AI
to evaluate the reliability and fairness of reporting quote by
applying the same standards of journalism universally accepted by the
responsible free press, its spots, instances of clickbait, title exaggeration,
(19:24):
subjectivity and personal attacks, the absence of a byline, inferior
sourcing and attribution, and whether website ownership information is transparent
and credible. It will generate a list Seeker will of
which news organizations have published quote reliable stories on a
given topic and which ones have published unreliable ones. Okay, so,
(19:47):
Joshua Benton of the Nieman Media Lab decided to give
the Messengers Seeker partnership a spin to see which news
outlets its AI had determined had come in very high
and very low on the Seeker reliability scale on stories
about the ouster of Kevin McCarthy. The very low unreliable
(20:07):
stories they were the ones produced by ABC, BBC, NBC, Bloomberg,
La Times, Politico, Guardian, The Atlantic, Daily, Beast, Time, and
The New York Times. The very high, most reliable stories
they were the ones produced by Zero Hedge by Glenn Becks,
(20:28):
The Blaze by Montana, RightNow dot Com by The Washington Times,
The Daily Mail of londonan network, Breitbart and The New
York Post. What no love for the Daily Stormer, the
New Crapsite, The Messenger, where they've already managed to hire
(20:51):
new right wing robot overlords two days. Worst person in
the world. I was sixteen years old. I was in
(21:13):
my seventh or eighth week at Cornell University, and in
my second week or so of training at the student
owned radio station WVBRFM, and they all played me. They
all had a big joke on Keith's expense. The premise
of that evening of October seventh, nineteen seventy five, was
(21:33):
that I was going to shadow a senior sportscaster named
Gary Davis, and I would sit with him in Studio
B at two twenty seven Lynden Avenue during his sportscast,
and he would give me one, maybe two stories that
I would read so that my first real broadcast would
not be quite so traumatic. It was all a lie.
It was a damned lie. I was standing at the
(21:54):
edges of the newsroom, periodically summoning the courage to look
at the copy, continually and furiously and noisily disgorging itself
from the United Press International teletype, wondering where this Gary
Davis guy was. When somebody I did not know, and
they were all somebody I did not know there that
night came over and asked you Keith, and I nodded
(22:16):
phone for you. Hey, kid, it's Jerry Goldberg. Jerry was
the sports director of the commercial radio station run by
Cornell students. He sounded exactly that laconic. He was one
of the ten seniors on the staff. I was one
of the two freshmen. Listen, he said, find the newscaster
Kathy and get her to give you all the sports
stories from the UPI wire, and start picking which ones
(22:38):
you're going to do at eleven fifteen. Gary Davis will
be there around a quarter to eleven. Now, I know
I told you that Gary was going to do the
sports cast and you were only going to do a
story or two. But that was just because I didn't
want you to get all nervous, so I lied. It
was all a lie, a damned lie. I didn't want
(22:59):
you to get all nervous. I wondered what Jerry Goldberg
thought I would be. Now as the clocks towards ten PM,
and I had about seventy five minutes to get the
wire copy I had not seen from the newscaster I
had not met, turn it into a five minute sportscast
in a manner I did not know, find the studio,
the whereabouts of which I did not know, with the
help of a guy named Gary Davis, whom I would
(23:20):
not recognize when he came in. Oh And although my
voice was pretty deep, and I had been on my
high school's radio station with my mentor, Chris Berman, I
was still only sixteen, and I was the youngest of
the twenty thousand or so students at Cornell University right
that night, and my voice was still periodically breaking, and
(23:40):
it would continue to periodically break through my senior year,
often with disastrous and hilarious consequences. And now I had
been though we did not use that term, then played
it was a lie, a damned lie. I was prepared
to watch, to learn, to make a cameo, even maybe thirty,
maybe forty five seconds of terror reading something this guy
(24:01):
Davis had selected for me. Instead, I was at the
deep end of the pool. This newscast that the sportscast
was part of. Late addition, had listeners and not just commercials.
It had a sponsor. The sponsor was a prominent local
insurance agency, the Robertus Boothroyd Agency. Your protection is their profession.
(24:23):
This was a hybrid, this WVVVR. It was training station
for students, but it was also one of the eight
experimental licenses granted by the FCC in the nineteen thirties.
We were not public radio, We were not non commercial.
We sold, produced, and ran advertising. Before I was done there,
I did the local commercials for the JC Pennett Penny
Department stores. Anyway, I remember little of the rest of
(24:46):
that night. Gary Davis finally showed up, said I'd made
good story selections. Another veteran sportscaster showed up, and they
escorted me into the studio exactly like I'd seen them
escort every prisoner down every final mile in every prison movie.
The room was so quiet that I could literally hear
the second hand moving on the big clock. I think
(25:07):
I had an out of body experience. I think I
could see myself from about the perspective of that big
clock up on the wall. I know for certain that
Gary Davis had encouraged me to place one arm around
the microphone stand and hold the ten small pieces of
canary yellow wire copy with the thumb and forefinger of
both hands, so that when I was finished reading the
(25:28):
first page. Only then did it occur to me that
I had to move my hands, which were frozen with fright,
remove the top page out of that stack of ten pages,
not drop the other ones, and not knock the microphone over.
And while I was thinking of this, a red light
went on and.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Light edition sports.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Ken Griffy has scored the go ahead run on a
sacrifice fly on the top of the ten thing to
give Cincinnati at four.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
To threeweight over Pittsburgh. A Red victory would clinch the
National League.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Pennant Tonight, Pete Rose had a two run homer in
the eighth inning off Pirates starter John Candelaria. Candelaria, a rookie,
had allowed only one hit and struck out fourteen.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Through seven inns.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I mentioned some names that any fan would recognize even now,
Ken Griffy, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, Tom Sever Terry Bradshaw.
But the first non baseball story was about last ditch
efforts to save the World Football League. I did not
write a word of it except my own name at
the beginning and the end, and I was so scared
(26:30):
that when it came to my own name, I mispronounced
it twice.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Rambling in Wittenberg Colleges remain the top small college football
teams in the nation, and the latest NCAA pole that's
late edition sports.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I'm Keith Oberman.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Good Night, Yes Oberman. That's what it said on the paper.
If it had said I'm Keith green Cheese, I would
have said, I'm Keith green Cheese. Now, obviously I still
have this tape, but basically it's sixteen year old Keith
whispers like that for nearly five minutes. The guy in
the next dorm room was good enough to record it
(27:05):
to me or for me. Jeff Holling said, I'm not
gonna subject you to it here, but since I have it,
I will play the whole thing at the end of
this program, literally after the credits. I mean, why not.
What amazes me in retrospect is that nearly four years
and certainly two thousand sportscasts later, on July tenth, nineteen
seventy nine, I fell victim to the exact same trick
(27:28):
again when I got my first full time job at
United Press Internationals Radio Network in nineteen seventy nine, my boss,
Sam Rosen, the one who still does the New York
Rangers hockey games on TV, told me to come in
at five am one morning to watch him do the
morning shift. I sat in the studio as he barked
out the sportscasts at six forty five and seven forty
(27:48):
five and eight forty five, and as soon as he
signed off with Rammo Sports task of the United Press International,
I'm Sam Rosen. He looked at me and said, you
got it. I sure hope you do, because you're doing
the nine forty five. It was all a lie, another
damned lie back at my college ledge station, one of
my former trainees doing the midday news shift, who had
had no idea I had even gotten the job. At
(28:10):
UPI went over to check the wire machine and saw
an advisory from UPI Audio which read, Keith Olderman will
do the nine to forty five AM sports cast today.
She let out a scream, and so that ancient artifact,
that piece of yellow wire copy printed out on the
same machine from which I pulled the stories from my
first sports cast four years before, still exists framed on
(28:33):
my wall. It was yellow when it was new. So
you can't really say it's yellowed with age. I may
have yellowed with age. UPI is basically gone now. WVBR
is still going strong. I mean, I'm proud to say
the Olderman Cornelius Studios in Ithaca, New York, and in
an oddity that I still enjoy. My college debut was
(28:53):
on ten to seven, and my network debut was on
seven to ten. I've done all the damage I can
(29:13):
do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown has come to
you from the Vin Scully Studios at the Olderman Broadcasting
Empire in New York. The music you've heard was, for
the most part arrange produced and performed by Countdown musical
directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schaneale. Brian Ray handled
the guitars, bass and drums. John Phillip Shanelle did the
orchestration and the keyboards, and it was all produced by
(29:35):
Tko Brothers. Other music, including other Beethoven tunes, arranged and
performed by No Horns Allowed. Sports music is courtesy of ESPN, Inc.
And it was written by Mitch Warren Davis. We caught
the Olderman theme from ESPN two. Our satirical and pithy
musical comments are by Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium
organist ever. I announced you today was my friend Richard Lewis,
(29:56):
and everything else was pretty much my fault. So that's
countdown for this, the one thousandth and third day since
Donald Trump's first emptied coup against the democratically elected government
of the United States. Convict him now while we still can.
The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletin says the news
warrants till then, I'm Keith Oberman. Good morning, in the afternoon,
(30:18):
good night, and good luck.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Late edition sports.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Ken Griffey has scored the go ahead run on a
sacrifice fly in the top of the tenth inning to
give Cincinnati at four to three wheel over Pittsburgh. A
red victory would clinch the National League Pennant. Tonight, Pete
Rose hit a two run homer in the eighth inning
off Pirates starter John Candelaria. Candelaria, a rookie, had allowed
only one hit and struck out fourteen through seven innings.
Cincinnati has just added another run in the tenth. The
(30:49):
scoring out stands Cincinnati five, Pittsburgh three. Dick Drego came
on in the eighth inning to get an inning inning
double play to secure the Boston Red Sox their first
American League pennant since nineteen sixty seven. Oakland scored two
runs in the bottom of the eighth, but we're leaving
starter Rick Wise induced Joe Rudy to hit into a
double play with two men on the Red Sox five
(31:11):
Oakland three. The Red Sox go to the World Series.
Joe Morgan of Cincinnati and Tom sever of the New
York Mets have been voted National League Player and Pitcher
of the Year in a poll of National League players
by The Sporting News. It's the third such honor for Siver,
who was Pitcher of the Year in nineteen sixty nine
and nineteen seventy three. He led the league this season
with twenty two victories and with strikeouts with two hundred
(31:33):
and forty three. Morgan, a second baseman, was so honored
for the first time. He batted three twenty seven, with
seventeen home runs, ninety four runs betted.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
In, and sixty seven stolen bases.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Turning to football, Chris Hemitur says the World Football League
will begin a national marketing program in an effort to
boost sagging attendance figures in the ten franchise cities.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Haimitter says, quote, we're going to try something new.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Up until this point, the ultimate responsibility for attendance has
been at the franchise level. The league will now act
as a coordinator unquote. Haimmeitter met yesterday with John Bassett,
the owner of the Memphis Southman, and John Bessaco, owner
of the Philadelphia Bell. Himitter says attendance is quote the
most challenging question in our minds unquote.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Quarterback Joe Gilliam is listed as a doubtful.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Starter for Pittsburgh's game on Sunday against Denver, but Terry
Bradshaw feels he'll be able to quote throw again by then.
Both quarterbacks were injured in Sunday's victory over Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Bradshaw received a.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Deep cut on his right hand, while Gilliam dislocated the
index finger on his throwing hand. Bradshaw worked out for
fifteen minutes today admitted there was a little pain, but
he said he'll be able to hold the ball normally
with a smaller bandage. Gilliam and Bradshaw ranked as the
AFC's number two and three passers behind Cincinnati's Ken Anderson.
Also in football, defensive back Ken Stone of the Washington
(32:49):
Redskins underwent knee surgery today for torn ligaments. The club's
physician says it'll be at least six weeks before the
fourth year pro from Vanderbilt will be able to run again.
On the eve of the new season, the NHL Players
Association and the club owners agreed on a new five
year collective bargaining agreement. The contract gives a team the
right to gain compensation for a player who plays out
(33:10):
his option and signs with another club. The same regulation,
called the Rizzel rule in the NFL, has been the
major stumbling block to a labor settlement in pro football.
Third period goals by Colan Campbell and Still Apps gave
the Pittsburgh Penguins a forty two victory over the Washington
Capitols tonight in the opening game of the National Hockey
League season. Campbell's thirty five foot slap shot snapped a
(33:32):
two to two tie at the five to forty one
mark of the final period, and Apps clinched.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
The trium with its tally with eighty four seconds left.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Rookie goalie Gord Wlaxton went the distance for Pittsburgh to
collect his first NHL victory. The United States is expected
to dominate the track and field program at the Pan
American Games in Mexico City next week, despite a number
of notable absentees.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Among the headliners skipping the event.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Are Olympic Marathon champion Frank Shorter and world record holders
Steve Williams, Rick Wall Huter, Dwight Stones, Dave Roberts, and
Al Fureback. The NCUBA announced today it will send eight
of America's top college golfers to Tokyo later this year
to compete against Japan's best collegiates. Rambling in Wittenberg Colleges
(34:15):
remain the top small college football teams in the nation,
and the latest NCUBA poll that's Late Edition Sports.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I'm Keith Overman.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Goodnight Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio.
For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts.
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump
has already violated Judge Arthur Angern's gag order. And if
(00:26):
anger On actually was contemplating finding him in contempt and
putting him in jail for thirty days, he should damn
well do it and do it now. And if he wasn't,
he ought to now expand the gag order and specify
that if Trump breaks it again, he will spend a
month behind bars. This is not complicated. It only takes
four steps. One Monday, the judge warned Trump's lawyers that
(00:50):
if he didn't lay off the attacks, he would impose
a gag order. Two Tuesday, a troll account on Twitter
attacked anger On's court clerk because she once took a
selfie with Senator Chuck Schumer. Somebody showed it to Trump.
He took the photo and lied that the clerk was
Schumer's girlfriend and that she was running the trial. Thus
(01:11):
the case had to be immediately dismissed. Three Within hours
of that, anger On ordered Trump's post to be deleted.
He gagged Trump and forbade him from quote, posting, emailing,
or speaking publicly about any members of my staff and added,
failure to abide by this order will result in serious sanctions.
(01:31):
And four yesterday, Trump posted quote, the judge fraudulently reduced
the value of Mari Lago and other assets in order
to make their fake case more viable. And during the
lunch break, Trump said of anger on he's a Democrat judge.
He has no choice. He's run by the Democrats, thus
(01:52):
accusing the judge both of fraud and of political corruption.
The gag order precludes Trump from public comments about quote
any members of my staff on quote. And it is
not twisting logic nor semantics too strongly to note that
the judge would count as a member of his own staff.
(02:16):
So step five quite clearly is this judge imposing those
serious sanctions. By statutes, they could be contempt of court.
And under New York State law Article nineteen, section seven
fifty one, contempt of court is punishable by I regret
to tell you. Capital punishment does not apply. Under Article nineteen,
section seven fifty one. It's punishable by fine not exceeding
(02:40):
one thousand dollars or imprisonment for not more than thirty days,
or both, at the discretion of the judge. And if
judge Enngarn really wants to make the argument that he
is not a member of his own staff. He would
therefore need to broaden the gag order immediately, because you
or I, or Hunter Biden or Joe Biden or j
(03:04):
Jesus Christ fresh off the cross, would have already amassed
one thousand thirty day sentences for the kind of contemptuous
shit Donald Trump has gotten away with abusing and degrading
and insulting and harassing and threatening and undermining and sabotaging
and lying about our judicial system. And I am the
(03:28):
last person on this planet to give any judicial system
carte blanche over anyone or anything. But it is time
that our judicial system gets off its ass and puts
this narcissistic, delusional, destructive, deranged quasi human behind bars so
he can get busy rotting behind them and then going
(03:51):
directly to Hell. And I would love to see him
convicted for the crimes for which he's been indicted by
Jack Smith in Washington and Florida, and by Fanie Willis
in Georgia, and by Letitia James here in New York.
But frankly, as long as it is lawful, I do
not care if Trump spends the rest of his life
in prison only because he insulted Judge Arthur anger On's
(04:13):
justifiably anonymous courtroom clerk and Judge anger On himself. Any
port in a storm enough break Trump in half. The
law tells you to and leave the metaphorical carcass to
figuratively decompose in the gutter. Lock the bastard up. By
(04:39):
the way, these are two clips from Trump's swirling, murderous,
insane rages outside the courtroom, the first in which he
made the comment about anger On which I quoted earlier,
the second in which he attacks the Attorney General in
the most egregious way yet and by the way, in
(04:59):
the video accompanying these audio clips, Trump is lighted exactly
the way they lighted Norma Desmond in the last scene
of the movie Sunset Boulevard. What He's gonna do?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
He's a Democratic judge choice, he has no choice.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
He's run by the Democrats, and.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
He gets sued by.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
A political animal. Trump did not pick political animal with
his verbal emphasis on the word animal. By accident. Most assuredly,
the Attorney General is not covered by the judges gag order.
He may be a part of his own staff, she
most certainly is not. So Trump will get away with
calling her an animal with the word political added as prefix,
(05:46):
because it reduces the grotesqueness and the racism of him
calling a black woman a quote animal. It reduces it,
It dials it back to a common political cliche. But
in light of the brutality of that and Trump's constant racism,
Judge anger On should expel and that gag order a
second time, and hereafter include Letitia James and her staff too.
(06:12):
Lock him up. By the way, Trump has also now
lied twice about his presence at the New York trial,
and not just by his continuing fabrication that he has
been denied a jury trial. He has been denied a
jury trial because he denied himself professional legal representation. They
(06:35):
literally checked the box saying no jury. Trump literally checked
the box saying I'm not going to pay a lot
for this lawyer. Trump has done something else. He's now
done the murder your parents demand pity because you're an
orphan quick step. He told the media that though he
is not expected to testify for weeks yet, he is
at the trial in New York because he was quote
(06:57):
stuck here as if he had been compelled to attend.
This was a lie, so agreed just that even a
reporter actually noticed and pushed back and said, but you
don't have to be here, And he immediately changed his
story and said he was there quote because I want
to point out to the press how corrupt it is.
And if this real time demonstration of the limitless volume
(07:18):
that the fountain of verbal diarrhea that is Donald Trump's
brain can handle. If that were not enough, he promptly
reportedly left the court to fly back to Florida, even
though he's stuck in New York, compelled forced by the
Democratic judge who's guilty of fraud. Ever, the martyr can't leave,
can't get back to where, can't get back to the
(07:39):
campaign trail, can't where is he? Oh? He left for
Florida happily. In so doing, Trump may have committed contempt
in a second court. He was supposed to sit for
his deposition two days ago in his own suit against
his former fixer Michael Cohen in South Florida, but he
(08:00):
told the judge there a week ago that he had
to postpone the deposition because he was going to spend
at least the first week of the New York fraud
trial in that courtroom. According to Cohen's lawyer's motion to
the Florida court, Trump quote also stated that because of
the trial, he would be unavailable any business day between
October two, twenty twenty three, and the end of his trial. Thus,
(08:25):
there is the gathering and looming evidence that Trump is
in so many courtrooms because of so many lawsuits and
so many criminal indictments, that his court appearances and his
lies about them are now crashing into each other. And
once again a week from Monday, the hearing in Judge
(08:46):
Chutkins courtroom about Jack Smith's request for a gag order,
and the pile of other outside threats and other outside
abuses by Trump, of other outside judges and other outside
prosecutors and other outside key players, it just keeps getting
higher and higher and more and more damning and honest
to God, after listening to eight years of this public
(09:10):
crap from him, and privately listening to forty years of
it as of this December fifteenth, as somebody who met
him that long ago, the thought that we might still
have a chance to save democracy from him is obviously
first on my list of prayers, But second place does
(09:30):
not belong to punishing Trump or avenging ourselves against him.
That's third. The second best thing about all this would
be to see him hamstrung and pinioned by a series
of gag orders, and to know that, metaphorically and literally,
(09:53):
America will finally make Donald Trump shut the f up
speaking of dreams potentially coming true. If you have missed this,
the other guy I was saying was nuts at least
ten years before everybody else noticed, is coming apart at
(10:16):
the seams, in public and fast, and it couldn't happen
to a nicer guy. You will recall Rudy Giuliani. He's
being sued by his most loyal lapdog lawyer Robert Costello,
and Costello's partners for nearly a million and a half
(10:37):
dollars in unpaid legal fees. But you may not have
heard that last week. One of Giuliani's local attorneys in Georgia,
David Wolfe, told the court a week ago today he
is no longer one of Giuliani's local attorneys in Georgia,
and he offered no explanation for that. But wait, there's more.
Tuesday night, Brian Tevis told the Georgia judge he is
(10:58):
also withdrawing from representing Rudy so Giuliani's legal team and
the Fawnie Willis case, is now himself that if anybody
in this country could bring that most cliche of cliches
to brilliant life, it's Rudy Giuliani, a man who is
his own lawyer, has a fool for a client, and
(11:20):
apparently he has a drunk for a client as well.
Yesterday The New York Times published thirty one hundred and
nine devastating words over Maggie Haberman's byline and under the
headline Giuliani's drinking long a fraught subject? Has Trump Prosecutor's attention?
(11:44):
Of those thirty one hundred and nine words, eighteen of
them are drinking, five of them are drunk, and four
of them are problem Yet the real relevance of the
piece is that part about Trump Prosecutors. The Times Rights,
the Jack Smith's Office and its members quote have shown
(12:06):
an interest in the drinking habits of mister Giuliani. They've
questioned witnesses about mister Giuliani's alcohol consumption as he was
advising mister Trump, including on election night. Mister Smith's investigators
have also asked about mister Trump's level of awareness of
his lawyer's drinking as they worked to overturn the election.
(12:29):
The answers to those prompts could complicate any efforts by
mister Trump's team to lean on a so called advice
of council defense if such guidance came from someone whom
mister Trump knew to be compromised by alcohol, especially when
many others told mister Trump definitively that he had lost,
his argument, could weaken Several people at the White House
(12:50):
on election night. The evening when mister Giuliani urged mister
Trump to declare victory despite the results, have said that
the former mayor appeared to be drunk, slurring and carrying
an odor of alcohol. Quote the mayor was definitely intoxicated,
Jason Miller said, whew. The Times was also good enough
(13:13):
to remind us that Giuliani first claimed quote they stole
that election unquote in nineteen eighty nine, when he lost
to David Dinkins, the first time he ran for mayor
of New York City. The Times notes that he started
drinking heavily after he went from the front runner in
the race for the two thousand and eight Republican presidential
nomination to the guy who won exactly one delegate. I'll
(13:35):
note again that Giuliani still believes his demise in that
race was caused by the man who told America that
everything Giuliani said at the time was quote a noun,
a verb and nine to eleven, And of course that
man was Joe Biden. Explains everything there. The Times quotes
a Giuliani bilographer recounting the number of times Giuliani has
(13:59):
been quote literally falling down drunk, and how he would
lapse then into Islamophobia or just lapse into collisions with
walls and other objects. I will let the Times retain
the rest of its own thunder, and I will leave
you the option of whether or not you want to
hear any more of this. But let's put it this way,
(14:21):
if Rudy Giuliani still had a reputation, the Times piece
would have just destroyed it. And again, the real import
of what The Times produced yesterday is not about Giuliani
but about how his drinking may become part of the
prosecution of Donald Trump, because apparently you cannot use an
(14:42):
advice of council defense if your counsel is so drunk
he could be considered at risk for spontaneous combustion. Okay,
I'll put away the buttons with the music attached to them.
(15:02):
Also of interest here, a major new quote news unquote
website has turned to artificial intelligence to assess the reliability
and the honesty of news coverage. And it has determined
that the least reliable stories about Kevin McCarthy, the partisan
clickbait about Kevin McCarthy, were produced by the New York
(15:23):
Times and the BBC ah but the most reliable stories
about McCarthy were produced by the New York Post and Breitbart.
And yes, there is a good chance that this artificial
intelligence is actually just Tucker Carlson stuffed inside a computer costume.
That's next. This is countdown.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
This is countdown with Keith Olberman.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Still ahead on countdown. The anniversary is day after Tomorrow,
Saturday night, eleven, fifteen pm Eastern. The first time I
actually went on radio where there were people listening and
a sponsor you ever wanted to hear the sixteen year
old version of me stand by first time for the
daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects
(16:32):
specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world The
Bronze the Institute of Economic Affairs i EA, which proclaims
itself to be Britain's original free market think tank. Actually
they are misogynistic fascists. They have earned international condemnation after
(16:52):
conducting a live panel called the Future of Journalism, and
the people in it are all British media types or
fringe members of the government, so you will not recognize
the names. But the panel on the future of journalism
were Sir John Whittingdale, Owen, Meredith, Matthew Lesh, Matt Warman,
(17:14):
Matthew Sinclair and David Matthew. As one wag noted, the
future of journalism is for Matthews, but no women. As
another one observed, maybe they'll invent journalism for girls someday.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Future of Journalism myfe the.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Runner up, Jonathan Turley, or as my spell check continually
tries to rename him across all my devices, Jonathan Turkey.
When I have posited here that the one time countdown
regular and constitutional interpreters being blackmailed, it is not just
that he's gone from a liberal leaning umpire with a
pretty fair strike zone to a lunatic that only Fox
(17:54):
News and the House Committee to Obstruct Justice could respect.
It's also little things like this. He's posted a piece
slamming the Palace Coup against Kevin McCarthy byting that a
comedian quote once said chaos in the middle of chaos
isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
He then attributed that quote to Stephen Martin Stephen ste
(18:19):
Ve n Since the observation was actually made by Steve Martin,
one assumes that's who Turley meant. But something is really
wrong with John Turley. Nobody, but nobody has called Steve
Martin Stephen. I don't think even his parents called him Stephen.
Steve Martin's first full name is Stephen with a pH.
(18:42):
But our Winners. The Messenger this weird trojan horse site
that claims to be a cutting edge venue for quote balanced, objective,
nonpartisan journalism, but is in fact just another right wing
propaganda outlet that mixed in the added crime of clickbait.
Most of the media world figured the Messenger out pretty quickly,
(19:02):
but eyebrows were still raised when and It announced that
it had made a deal with an artificial intelligence company
called Seeker. Seeker claims to be able to use AI
to evaluate the reliability and fairness of reporting quote by
applying the same standards of journalism universally accepted by the
responsible free press, its spots, instances of clickbait, title exaggeration,
(19:24):
subjectivity and personal attacks, the absence of a byline, inferior
sourcing and attribution, and whether website ownership information is transparent
and credible. It will generate a list Seeker will of
which news organizations have published quote reliable stories on a
given topic and which ones have published unreliable ones. Okay, so,
(19:47):
Joshua Benton of the Nieman Media Lab decided to give
the Messengers Seeker partnership a spin to see which news
outlets its AI had determined had come in very high
and very low on the Seeker reliability scale on stories
about the ouster of Kevin McCarthy. The very low unreliable
(20:07):
stories they were the ones produced by ABC, BBC, NBC, Bloomberg,
La Times, Politico, Guardian, The Atlantic, Daily, Beast, Time, and
The New York Times. The very high, most reliable stories
they were the ones produced by Zero Hedge by Glenn Becks,
(20:28):
The Blaze by Montana, RightNow dot Com by The Washington Times,
The Daily Mail of londonan network, Breitbart and The New
York Post. What no love for the Daily Stormer, the
New Crapsite, The Messenger, where they've already managed to hire
(20:51):
new right wing robot overlords two days. Worst person in
the world. I was sixteen years old. I was in
(21:13):
my seventh or eighth week at Cornell University, and in
my second week or so of training at the student
owned radio station WVBRFM, and they all played me. They
all had a big joke on Keith's expense. The premise
of that evening of October seventh, nineteen seventy five, was
(21:33):
that I was going to shadow a senior sportscaster named
Gary Davis, and I would sit with him in Studio
B at two twenty seven Lynden Avenue during his sportscast,
and he would give me one, maybe two stories that
I would read so that my first real broadcast would
not be quite so traumatic. It was all a lie.
It was a damned lie. I was standing at the
(21:54):
edges of the newsroom, periodically summoning the courage to look
at the copy, continually and furiously and noisily disgorging itself
from the United Press International teletype, wondering where this Gary
Davis guy was. When somebody I did not know, and
they were all somebody I did not know there that
night came over and asked you Keith, and I nodded
(22:16):
phone for you. Hey, kid, it's Jerry Goldberg. Jerry was
the sports director of the commercial radio station run by
Cornell students. He sounded exactly that laconic. He was one
of the ten seniors on the staff. I was one
of the two freshmen. Listen, he said, find the newscaster
Kathy and get her to give you all the sports
stories from the UPI wire, and start picking which ones
(22:38):
you're going to do at eleven fifteen. Gary Davis will
be there around a quarter to eleven. Now, I know
I told you that Gary was going to do the
sports cast and you were only going to do a
story or two. But that was just because I didn't
want you to get all nervous, so I lied. It
was all a lie, a damned lie. I didn't want
(22:59):
you to get all nervous. I wondered what Jerry Goldberg
thought I would be. Now as the clocks towards ten PM,
and I had about seventy five minutes to get the
wire copy I had not seen from the newscaster I
had not met, turn it into a five minute sportscast
in a manner I did not know, find the studio,
the whereabouts of which I did not know, with the
help of a guy named Gary Davis, whom I would
(23:20):
not recognize when he came in. Oh And although my
voice was pretty deep, and I had been on my
high school's radio station with my mentor, Chris Berman, I
was still only sixteen, and I was the youngest of
the twenty thousand or so students at Cornell University right
that night, and my voice was still periodically breaking, and
(23:40):
it would continue to periodically break through my senior year,
often with disastrous and hilarious consequences. And now I had
been though we did not use that term, then played
it was a lie, a damned lie. I was prepared
to watch, to learn, to make a cameo, even maybe thirty,
maybe forty five seconds of terror reading something this guy
(24:01):
Davis had selected for me. Instead, I was at the
deep end of the pool. This newscast that the sportscast
was part of. Late addition, had listeners and not just commercials.
It had a sponsor. The sponsor was a prominent local
insurance agency, the Robertus Boothroyd Agency. Your protection is their profession.
(24:23):
This was a hybrid, this WVVVR. It was training station
for students, but it was also one of the eight
experimental licenses granted by the FCC in the nineteen thirties.
We were not public radio, We were not non commercial.
We sold, produced, and ran advertising. Before I was done there,
I did the local commercials for the JC Pennett Penny
Department stores. Anyway, I remember little of the rest of
(24:46):
that night. Gary Davis finally showed up, said I'd made
good story selections. Another veteran sportscaster showed up, and they
escorted me into the studio exactly like I'd seen them
escort every prisoner down every final mile in every prison movie.
The room was so quiet that I could literally hear
the second hand moving on the big clock. I think
(25:07):
I had an out of body experience. I think I
could see myself from about the perspective of that big
clock up on the wall. I know for certain that
Gary Davis had encouraged me to place one arm around
the microphone stand and hold the ten small pieces of
canary yellow wire copy with the thumb and forefinger of
both hands, so that when I was finished reading the
(25:28):
first page. Only then did it occur to me that
I had to move my hands, which were frozen with fright,
remove the top page out of that stack of ten pages,
not drop the other ones, and not knock the microphone over.
And while I was thinking of this, a red light
went on and.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Light edition sports.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Ken Griffy has scored the go ahead run on a
sacrifice fly on the top of the ten thing to
give Cincinnati at four.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
To threeweight over Pittsburgh. A Red victory would clinch the
National League.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Pennant Tonight, Pete Rose had a two run homer in
the eighth inning off Pirates starter John Candelaria. Candelaria, a rookie,
had allowed only one hit and struck out fourteen.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Through seven inns.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I mentioned some names that any fan would recognize even now,
Ken Griffy, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, Tom Sever Terry Bradshaw.
But the first non baseball story was about last ditch
efforts to save the World Football League. I did not
write a word of it except my own name at
the beginning and the end, and I was so scared
(26:30):
that when it came to my own name, I mispronounced
it twice.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Rambling in Wittenberg Colleges remain the top small college football
teams in the nation, and the latest NCAA pole that's
late edition sports.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I'm Keith Oberman.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Good Night, Yes Oberman. That's what it said on the paper.
If it had said I'm Keith green Cheese, I would
have said, I'm Keith green Cheese. Now, obviously I still
have this tape, but basically it's sixteen year old Keith
whispers like that for nearly five minutes. The guy in
the next dorm room was good enough to record it
(27:05):
to me or for me. Jeff Holling said, I'm not
gonna subject you to it here, but since I have it,
I will play the whole thing at the end of
this program, literally after the credits. I mean, why not.
What amazes me in retrospect is that nearly four years
and certainly two thousand sportscasts later, on July tenth, nineteen
seventy nine, I fell victim to the exact same trick
(27:28):
again when I got my first full time job at
United Press Internationals Radio Network in nineteen seventy nine, my boss,
Sam Rosen, the one who still does the New York
Rangers hockey games on TV, told me to come in
at five am one morning to watch him do the
morning shift. I sat in the studio as he barked
out the sportscasts at six forty five and seven forty
(27:48):
five and eight forty five, and as soon as he
signed off with Rammo Sports task of the United Press International,
I'm Sam Rosen. He looked at me and said, you
got it. I sure hope you do, because you're doing
the nine forty five. It was all a lie, another
damned lie back at my college ledge station, one of
my former trainees doing the midday news shift, who had
had no idea I had even gotten the job. At
(28:10):
UPI went over to check the wire machine and saw
an advisory from UPI Audio which read, Keith Olderman will
do the nine to forty five AM sports cast today.
She let out a scream, and so that ancient artifact,
that piece of yellow wire copy printed out on the
same machine from which I pulled the stories from my
first sports cast four years before, still exists framed on
(28:33):
my wall. It was yellow when it was new. So
you can't really say it's yellowed with age. I may
have yellowed with age. UPI is basically gone now. WVBR
is still going strong. I mean, I'm proud to say
the Olderman Cornelius Studios in Ithaca, New York, and in
an oddity that I still enjoy. My college debut was
(28:53):
on ten to seven, and my network debut was on
seven to ten. I've done all the damage I can
(29:13):
do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown has come to
you from the Vin Scully Studios at the Olderman Broadcasting
Empire in New York. The music you've heard was, for
the most part arrange produced and performed by Countdown musical
directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schaneale. Brian Ray handled
the guitars, bass and drums. John Phillip Shanelle did the
orchestration and the keyboards, and it was all produced by
(29:35):
Tko Brothers. Other music, including other Beethoven tunes, arranged and
performed by No Horns Allowed. Sports music is courtesy of ESPN, Inc.
And it was written by Mitch Warren Davis. We caught
the Olderman theme from ESPN two. Our satirical and pithy
musical comments are by Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium
organist ever. I announced you today was my friend Richard Lewis,
(29:56):
and everything else was pretty much my fault. So that's
countdown for this, the one thousandth and third day since
Donald Trump's first emptied coup against the democratically elected government
of the United States. Convict him now while we still can.
The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletin says the news
warrants till then, I'm Keith Oberman. Good morning, in the afternoon,
(30:18):
good night, and good luck.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Late edition sports.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Ken Griffey has scored the go ahead run on a
sacrifice fly in the top of the tenth inning to
give Cincinnati at four to three wheel over Pittsburgh. A
red victory would clinch the National League Pennant. Tonight, Pete
Rose hit a two run homer in the eighth inning
off Pirates starter John Candelaria. Candelaria, a rookie, had allowed
only one hit and struck out fourteen through seven innings.
Cincinnati has just added another run in the tenth. The
(30:49):
scoring out stands Cincinnati five, Pittsburgh three. Dick Drego came
on in the eighth inning to get an inning inning
double play to secure the Boston Red Sox their first
American League pennant since nineteen sixty seven. Oakland scored two
runs in the bottom of the eighth, but we're leaving
starter Rick Wise induced Joe Rudy to hit into a
double play with two men on the Red Sox five
(31:11):
Oakland three. The Red Sox go to the World Series.
Joe Morgan of Cincinnati and Tom sever of the New
York Mets have been voted National League Player and Pitcher
of the Year in a poll of National League players
by The Sporting News. It's the third such honor for Siver,
who was Pitcher of the Year in nineteen sixty nine
and nineteen seventy three. He led the league this season
with twenty two victories and with strikeouts with two hundred
(31:33):
and forty three. Morgan, a second baseman, was so honored
for the first time. He batted three twenty seven, with
seventeen home runs, ninety four runs betted.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
In, and sixty seven stolen bases.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Turning to football, Chris Hemitur says the World Football League
will begin a national marketing program in an effort to
boost sagging attendance figures in the ten franchise cities.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Haimitter says, quote, we're going to try something new.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Up until this point, the ultimate responsibility for attendance has
been at the franchise level. The league will now act
as a coordinator unquote. Haimmeitter met yesterday with John Bassett,
the owner of the Memphis Southman, and John Bessaco, owner
of the Philadelphia Bell. Himitter says attendance is quote the
most challenging question in our minds unquote.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Quarterback Joe Gilliam is listed as a doubtful.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Starter for Pittsburgh's game on Sunday against Denver, but Terry
Bradshaw feels he'll be able to quote throw again by then.
Both quarterbacks were injured in Sunday's victory over Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Bradshaw received a.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Deep cut on his right hand, while Gilliam dislocated the
index finger on his throwing hand. Bradshaw worked out for
fifteen minutes today admitted there was a little pain, but
he said he'll be able to hold the ball normally
with a smaller bandage. Gilliam and Bradshaw ranked as the
AFC's number two and three passers behind Cincinnati's Ken Anderson.
Also in football, defensive back Ken Stone of the Washington
(32:49):
Redskins underwent knee surgery today for torn ligaments. The club's
physician says it'll be at least six weeks before the
fourth year pro from Vanderbilt will be able to run again.
On the eve of the new season, the NHL Players
Association and the club owners agreed on a new five
year collective bargaining agreement. The contract gives a team the
right to gain compensation for a player who plays out
(33:10):
his option and signs with another club. The same regulation,
called the Rizzel rule in the NFL, has been the
major stumbling block to a labor settlement in pro football.
Third period goals by Colan Campbell and Still Apps gave
the Pittsburgh Penguins a forty two victory over the Washington
Capitols tonight in the opening game of the National Hockey
League season. Campbell's thirty five foot slap shot snapped a
(33:32):
two to two tie at the five to forty one
mark of the final period, and Apps clinched.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
The trium with its tally with eighty four seconds left.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Rookie goalie Gord Wlaxton went the distance for Pittsburgh to
collect his first NHL victory. The United States is expected
to dominate the track and field program at the Pan
American Games in Mexico City next week, despite a number
of notable absentees.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Among the headliners skipping the event.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Are Olympic Marathon champion Frank Shorter and world record holders
Steve Williams, Rick Wall Huter, Dwight Stones, Dave Roberts, and
Al Fureback. The NCUBA announced today it will send eight
of America's top college golfers to Tokyo later this year
to compete against Japan's best collegiates. Rambling in Wittenberg Colleges
(34:15):
remain the top small college football teams in the nation,
and the latest NCUBA poll that's Late Edition Sports.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I'm Keith Overman.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Goodnight Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio.
For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts.
Popular Podcasts
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations.
The Nikki Glaser Podcast
Every week comedian and infamous roaster Nikki Glaser provides a fun, fast-paced, and brutally honest look into current pop-culture and her own personal life.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.