Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump's nephew, the one who likes him, says Trump told him in the Overall Office in May twenty twenty that the disabled. Quote these people, the shape they're in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die. This is not merely horrifying on some kind of generic human level. Fred Trump the first was Trump's father, Fred Trump. The
second was Trump's older brother who died young. Fred Trump the third is Trump's nephew, and he has a son, William, who has spent the whole of his twenty five years on this planet fighting illness after illness, and complication after completion. And when the medical fund the family set up for William began to run dry in twenty twenty, Fred the Third called his uncle, the President and asked for help. I don't know Fred Trump quotes Donald Trump as saying,
with a sigh, he doesn't recognize you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida. The him in this sentence Trump wants to die is his own grand nephew. Because all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die. There are lots of words for what Trump is proposing here euthanasia, mercy killing, assisted suicide, quietus for the elderly, senicide or geronticide. The Nazis called
it Oxyon T four. We all have our differing moral north stars, but for most of us, I think there are at least some circumstances in which the idea, regrettable as it is, of helping people in trouble leave this life is valid and justifiable. And then there are monsters like Donald Trump who would make it mandatory, who would give themselves the choice to kill you or your disabled relatives. These people the shape therein all the expenses. Maybe those
kinds of people should just die. Your son doesn't recognize you, maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida. Because the only term that applies to what Trump was thinking about the physically challenged is mass murder. I have asserted here before that what we saw of Trump during COVID suggested this was at the heart of his attitude towards people. A mass murderer, that people just
another commodity. Kill a few, kill a few thousand, kill a million, So what just let them die and move down to Florida. Round them up by the millions in camps before you deport them leaving. Lord knows how many to die in those camps. These people, the shape they're in, all the expenses, Maybe those kinds of people should just die.
Fred Trump the third has published these quotes in excerpts of his book All in the Family, How, fitting Trump as Archie Bunker, only without the brain power and conscience. The excerpts in Time magazine, The New York Times and The Guardian also got hard copies of the book, which
comes out next Tuesday. It is not amazing to me that the sick people of this country, the ones without conscience, the ones like Trump with no real understanding that the people they are not related to or friendly with or don't like, that those people are still people, and the people too lazy or stupid to realize that this is the kind of man they have been supporting. It is not amazing to me that they are supporting this monster Trump for president again, or that they got him elected
president in twenty sixteen. What is amazing to me is that we humanity, the people of this nation and all the other nations, somehow survived Trump. Watching Joe Biden last night, Thank you sir, thank you for helping us survive Trump, and thank you for the great sacrifice that will enable us to survive Trump again, because Trump is a mass murderer. And one side note, quote these people the shape there in all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should
just die. If it ever, for some reas crosses your mind to actually say something like that out loud, think again. Quote might not just hurt you if somebody repeats it, But in fact, somebody worse than you, somebody sicker than you, somebody more murderous than you, might hear that, and wonder if the quote might also be applied to you. By the way, Fred Trump the third has another nightmarish anecdote about his uncle to share in his book decades earlier.
The New York Times put it in the nineteen seventy when the author claims to have heard his uncle use a racial slur after his car had been damaged and he was searching for someone to blame. The quote from the book cleaned up just a little bit, quote N words.
I recall him saying, disgustedly, look what the N words did. Unquote, when you are quoted directly in a book by a close relative who heard you repeatedly use racial epithets, and that's not even close to the worst thing he quotes you as saying, because the rest of it is about letting your own disabled great nephew die or killing untold
numbers of physically and mentally challenged people. When the racial epithets are not the lead story, you're not having a good day, asshole, which continues something that started nearly two weeks ago. All men, at all times in all history, greater or small, good or evil, live their lives, often without detours or disasters. They often live them on top of the world until some unpredictable, unforeseen day comes when the world turns on them. One day they are beloved
or feared, or for other reasons, they have primacy. And then, just as inexplicably as when the hundreds of summer flies seemingly filling that invisible box in front of your eyes outside one day, when they all suddenly and simultaneously decide to move exactly thirteen and a half inches to their left, just like that, your primacy vanishes, no rhyme, no reason, no explanation, your luck or your goodwill or your mastery, or your followers or your Reich ends, I think this
is happening to Trump. One of his own maga gun nuts tried to kill him. He got hit by something, claims it was a bullet, though a bullet would have taken his ear off. No law enforcement or medical authority outside of a substance addled ex doctor has confirmed any of this. Each day, it still lingers in the background,
waiting to explode into an unprecedented scandal. He goes from there to picking a vice president, and the average net favorable score for all VP picks since two thousand both parties is plus nineteen, and this idiot picks another idiot whose net favorable is minus six. Did they vet this idiot advance at all? Did they know he wrote the forward to the book by the guy behind Project twenty twenty five, the thing Trump insists he knows nothing about.
Then after that, Trump's entire campaign, his entire campaign since literally April of twenty nineteen, collapses because his entire campaign was only about calling for Joe Biden to leave the White House and or the campaign trail, not Joe Biden actually leaving the White House and or the campaign trail.
Turns out, Trump's crackstaff had nothing ready in the event it actually happened, least of all any preparation for the moment it dawned on America that Donald J. Dementia Trump is now the exclusive national distributor of crazy old man. Then the first polls with the new candidate hit and Kamala Harris was ahead or tied or damned close for
somebody on day three of their campaign. More on the polls in a moment than after eight years of their racism being enabled by Trump, Republican campaigners actually had to warn senators and congressmen not to make racial references to her nor call her dei. So of course all oh they did was call her dei because they can't help themselves, because it is as if somebody has tampered with the brakes on their mental cars. And guess who the hell
that was. And suddenly Brian kill Mead goes on Fox and tries to attack Harris for skipping net and Yahoo's campaign speech on Capitol Hill yesterday and instead going to a college sorority. Only one of the many things that does not work properly in kill Mead's brain does not work, and at best he kind of MUSHes up the word college with another word he might have been thinking of, which sounded like colored. And half the people watching Fox or watching the tape here kill Mead say something like
colored sorority or color or colored sorority. And while we're arguing about whether or not Trump's top morning TV advocate just used colored about Kamala Harris, everybody forgets the two weeks Trump's favorite foreign fascist, Sebastian Gorka literally and seemingly proudly called Kamala Harris colored. She's a DEI higher right, she's a woman. She's colored. Therefore she's gotta be good. Do you think perhaps he called her college? I think
she's college. Oh and while we're debating Kilmead and ignoring Sorca, guess what others of Trump's friends are bringing us more bertherism. There is this crazy woman named Emerald Robinson, and she started her career started it as the White House corresponded for One America News. Previously, she had starred as Jennifer Lee in the blockbuster film Airline Disaster. Didn't last long. When America fired her, she went to Newsmax. They fired her. She's now on Mike Lindell Lumpy Pillow TV and here
we go berther two electric Boogaloo. Emerald Robinson posts at the time of Kamala Harris's birth, her parents were not US citizens. They were foreign students. Her mother's visa was expired. She's the daughter of non citizens. Harris is not eligible to hold the office of president. Where does it say that, Well, it says that in the Invisible Book Emerald Robinson has
that only she's allowed to read. Obviously, famed actress Emerald Robinson is now working on actually getting fired somehow from Mike Lindell's website, where she is currently senior Chief Fluffiness Correspondent. Citizenship is automatically confirmed on any child born here period. Kamala Harris was born in Oakland. I don't know the last time I looked Oakland was in the United States. So where did Robinson get this idea that there's a
Birtherism thing here. Well, a Republican said it in twenty nineteen quote I heard today that she doesn't meet the requirements. And the Republican who said that about Kamala Harris was Wow, you got it in the first guess Trump, So don't say anything racial about her other than the Dei and
the second wave of birthriism and calling her colored. Oh and his own nephew quoting Trump using the N word and advocating for the forced killing of the disabled to save on the expenses on one more sign that the worm has turned on Trump. Trump accept in speech Republican National Nazi Fascist convention about the North Korean dictator and oh, by the way, mass murderer Kim Jong un, I get along with him. He said he'd like to see me
back too. I think he misses me. If you want to know the truth, it's nice to get along with someone who has a lot of nuclear weapons. Kim Jong Loon has now issued a response. Even if any administration takes office in the US, the political climate, which is confused by the infighting of the two parties, does not change, and accordingly, we do not care about this. Congratulations Trump. You only have about three friends in the world, and
one of them just said he does not care about you. Well, when Kamala Harris beats Trump in November and Trump has to flee the country to avoid dying in prison, here, I guess he's gonna have to cross off North Korea from the list of friendly destinations. The Harris campaign is betting at least a dozen candidates for vice president. Wait, somebody vets CA candidates for vice president? Does Trump know about this? Hit the road JD. We're going vetting quote.
Multiple sources tell CBS News that the list of candidates include several governors Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Andy Basher of Kentucky, Tim Waltz of Minnesota, JB. Pritzker of Illinois, and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan. Members of the Biden administration, including Commerce Secretary Genia Rimundo and Transportation Secretary Pete Pootage Edge, are also being considered, along with Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, among others. I got an out
of the box idea about the others? What about for Vice president? Joe Biden? Man? Would that throw a monkey wrench into the political pundit machine? The Times wouldn't be able to publish for a freaking month? Only a dozen candidates? All right? Debates Fox is playing its part to letting Trump run away. Scared from debating her, Fox has now offered a debate on September seventeenth. Once again, this would allow Trump to back out of a debate he has
already committed to and blame the other participant. Now, the correct response from the Harris campaign to this offer from Fox is we will be at the ABC facility as planned at Texas Southern University on September twelfth. And as to anything else, there is no reply, make no reference, no thanks, no, she's busy measuring the drapes. Nothing, no reply. Leave Trump hanging. Keep him talking. He has hit a talking slump. Keep him talking. Let's also assess some of
the newer polls. Nothing as cleanly all Harris as yesterday, but all our good and one set of interior numbers is great from the CNN poll comparing with Biden's numbers against Trump either in an April or June poll. And
these are the same respondents. So this is the same people who said X in April or June are saying why now Kamala Harris has an eleven point improvement from Biden among young voters, and a sixteen point improvement among black voters, and a five point improvement among female voters. That is the sort of thing you will see first before you see the overall numbers. In the larger polls changed.
On the other hand, you may recall that three weeks ago CNN put out what was considered even on the Trump side to be something of an outlier, something showing Trump ahead of Biden by six. Their overall number now again on day three of the Harris campaign is Trump forty nine, Harris six. That is the lead cut in half in three days. The Yugov poll for the Economist National Trump forty four, Harris forty one, Kennedy five, West one, Stein one, so putin getting what seven percent there? Active vote.
I know what you're thinking, I've never heard of active vote before. What a coincidence. I've never heard of active vote before. National ge Trump fifty point five, Harris forty nine point five National among independents, Active vote Harris fifty four, Trump forty six among independents r MG. RMG is a breakaway poll from Rasmussen Polling. And as you know, Rasmussen Polling is created by the two idiots who thought up ESPN and then sold it for a bag of magic beans.
This is the breakaway. Apparently there's some sort of fissure at Rasmussen make up the numbers polling company. The New Scott Rasmussen poll is Trump forty four, Harris forty three, Kennedy six. I don't think it's a liberal leaning poll. It's just a guess. Now they have another number where they throw in leaners, leaping leaners for you, Stan Freiberg fans Trump forty eight Harris forty six. Still one of those is a one point lead for Trump. The other
is a two point lead for Trump. On the breakaway right wing pole, the Big Village Pole, Trump forty four, Harris forty three. Last one had Trump over Biden by four and one state pole in Pennsylvania North Star Opinion for the American Greatness North Star Opinion Pennsylvania Trump forty seven, Harris forty five. And the interesting thing about this poll is obviously Pennsylvania was getting away from the Democrats, so
a two point margin is a good start. However, the American Greatness is a rabid Trump centric organization and they only have their lunatic in charge of Pennsylvania by two points. And I close with the MOE. Just of the day from doctor Joscelyn J. Fitzgerald, a euro gynecologist from Pittsburgh,
on what he has been so far. And there will be others but so far, the only non dei, non birth attack on Vice President Harris in this brand new campaign, the attack that says she cannot be president because she's not invested in America's future because she has never had children, says doctor Fitzgerald. No US president has ever given birth. So explain to me why suddenly we think that's necessary. Hey, Harris campaign, are you vetting doctor Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald for
vice president? Because I think that might be a nice pick. A programming note. I will try to do a Friday edition tomorrow, but if you will recall Tuesday's news, I am getting my tattoo of my late seventeen year old rescue pup Meney today. I suspect that will make a long enough and full enough day if there is anything urgent or frankly, there's just something I can you know, get a row of stamps and mail in. There will be a brief episode Friday. If not, try to struggle
on without me in the interim. Also of interest here today, honest to god, if you think Trump is screwed up. After Biden pulled out, The New York Times is now running half a dozen pieces a day criticizing Biden and how he dropped out, and how the Democrats handled it and the Times blank surprise that, to quote the headline in one of these pieces, the most ruthless political operator in the country is a woman. Oh my god, there's a powerful woman. That's it. We're shutting the Times down forever.
Our Times world is at an end. Who could have thought something so horrible could have happened in this the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety six Christ, that's next. This is countdown, George Crolin. Pleasure to have you here. Thank you. This is the best news show ever. I told that to one of your producers, and I want you to know that I've seen them all and it's just for especially the first thirty five minutes. Thank
you sir. It's just unparalleled. I got bad news between you and I. We got six minutes to completely still that in my rapt Yeah, that's good. I cheated. That was from October two thousand and seven. My late hero, George Carlin doing the introduction. I saw him at Carnegie Hall when I was fourteen years old, sat around laughing, wondering when the adults were going to come in and throw me out. When I was forty eight years old. He sat next to me and told me mine was
the best newscast of all time. Just saw the documentary on him again, not an extraordinary man, so ahead of us on this edition of Countdown, partly in honor of George.
That's what made me think of running that both the New Yorker and a great baseball fan that he was the story of how one of the most infamous baseball people of all time, the most hated in New York history, used to also distort words in a way that would have driven George, who was as good with the language as was H. L. Mankin, would have driven him nuts. How hated was the guy I'm going to tell you about. The old joke was, you're in a boat with Hitler,
Mussolini and this guy. You have a gun, you have two bullets. What do you do? The answer, shoot this guy, throw Hitler and Mussolini overboard. Then shoot this guy again to make sure he's coming up in things I promised not to tell first. There are still more new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's wors persons in the world keat George used to call me Keith
like my granddad's did. They're all from the same neighborhood, Keith. Let me tell you the bronze Newsmax, which is a propaganda network, and boy are they unhappy. Ed Henry and Mark Halprin. I'll just read what the head of media Matters tweeted the two people Newsmax brings on this afternoon to insist that the GOP and Megamedia are not running a sexist campaign against Kamala Harris are Ed Henry and
Mark Halprin. And there is a picture of the two of them around some host guy in the middle, and Henry has got that faint I'll kill you smile and Halprin looks like but it looks like this is a mugshot of some sort, which is possible. Ed Henry fired by CNN, then he went to Fox. Fox fired him after harrisman and rape charges and been sued for rape. Mark Halprin fired by NBC at HBO after harassment and improper touching while he was still at ABC, and also
for not wearing pants. Mark Alprin and Ed Henry talking about how nobody's running a sexist campaign against Kamala Harris. Of course not well to be fair ed. Henry and Mark Halprin would be the experts on misogyny. My god, you couldn't have gotten O'Reilly on there. Dig up Roger Ales and put him out there. He's probably still trying to fondle somebody even though he's dead. What's that? Who's that's been bothering you? The skeleton of Roger Ales? Runner
up The New York Times. The New York Times right now is the third best political paper in New York, behind Newsday and the Daily News. And I think it has a chance to sync to fourth place behind the New York Post. And I'm only counting those in English. The Times caught the car with Joe Biden because he would not do an interview with them. They made up a whole construction about how that proves he was not
cognitively read. It was about the Times. The Times is ultimately, although there are excellent reporters doing great work, The New York Times as an institution under this editor con and after the latest Sealzburger, who's the publisher? The New York Times is about the New York Times. The best thing in the New York Times was wordle until they whirdled everybody into the ground. Now the best thing about the New York Times is canceling the subscription because it's so
so very satisfying. They caught the car with Biden stepping aside that has not stopped them. Can't stop, won't stop. A Brett Stevens op ed Democrats deserved a contest, not a coronation. Brett Stevens, who is a conservative, apparently was in a coma during the Republican National Convention, in which they did everything but declare that Trump had changed his name to King Jesus H. Christ. A coronation, a coronation of Kamala Harris has to come in and try to
win an election starting in late July. Oh, what an unfair thing to Republicans. But wait, there's more in the Times. Jessica Bennett. Now the article wasn't bad. It's about Nancy Pelosi. The headline once again is where the Times really? They should empty the building, make sure everybody's safe, preserve a few artifacts, and then implode the Times headquarters. Jessica Bennett's story about Nancy Pelosi was fine. The headline was from
nineteen forty six. The most ruthless political operator in the country is a woman. What there are women politicians? What are you gonna tell me?
Next?
Women have the vote, Women are allowed to walk around not wearing high heels. Does Ed Henry know about this? What about Mark Alprin? The most ruthless political operator in the country is a woman? Oh no, repeal all the amendments. My god. Next you'll be telling me there's a person of color running for president. The most ruthless political operator in the country is a woman. Then wait, there's more.
Brent Staples, Biden should have treated Harris as a future president. Okay, I I'd like to point out that it was Joe Biden who in fact selected Kamala Harris to be the vice president of the United States provided that they were elected, and just more recently, in case mister Staples did not know about this happening Sunday, when Joe Biden finally saw the light and said, yes, I have to get out of the race. I can't win this. The person he
immediately endorsed, and I mean immediately endorsed. His endorsement came before anybody else who was hoping this would happen, would endorse her. The immediate endorsement was of Kamala Harris. However, Brent Staples is not satisfied. He wants to speak to the presidential manager. Biden should have treated Harris as a future president. He's doing that now. He's doing it right now, and you're complaining he's not doing it. He's not doing it fast enough, he's not doing it twenty four hours
a day. And this COVID thing shouldn't have stopped him from being out there on the campaign trail saying that Kamala Harris is the most ruthless photical operator in the country. Is a woman, but it's not Kamala Harris. See Times. I can write your headlines for you. There's one more thing out of the Brent Staples op ed. Let me just quote this paragraph, which is where mister Staples went
really wrong. Apart from the premise and the fact that The Times should just shudder its op ed section, all it is doing is killing subscriptions and credibility with every passing hour. Brent Staples actually wrote this, in the words of my Times colleague Astead Herndon, Well you're done now, mister Herndon is the least knowledgeable writer in politics. And you know how many people that covers. I mean, Chris Silizziz somewhere has just burst into tears that I have
suggested there's somebody worse than him. Wait, there's more from The Times, Thomas Edsall, who at least has the excuse that he's a Republican and therefore he's not supposed to be able to put two thoughts together. Donald Trump and JD. Vance are cobbling together a core constituency that includes millions of voters who are both culturally conservative and financially hard press.
Trump's selection of Vance reflects his determination to focus on incorporating middle and lower income, predominantly, but not exclusively, white men and women who often did not graduate from college, into the base of the Republican Where does he aff to the part about JD. Vance having sex with a couch? I don't see that in here, mister Edsall, Is there a reason you left that out? You said cobbling together culturally conservative and financially hard pressed. Why you got the
hard pressed part right? JD hard pressed himself into the couch. His selection of Vance reflects his determination to vote he liked his beard. Did you vet him? Yeah, he trimmed his beard today. Okay, he's in now. These were all op eds driving the New York Times into the ground, to the point where the people who own the name New York Herald Tribune are going ge. Do you think we could start up again? I mean, we've been out of business for what is it now, fifty eight years?
I bet we could probably outsell them, at least in the city. Look at this crap I have. My entire staff has been dead for forty years. They could write better than these guys. There's a news article by a man named Charles Homans, a political news article, and it's not bad. But once again, the headline has been written by fourth graders to be read by third graders. How Democrats learned to love the smoke filled room again? Sub headline, It's because it's because they want to win. Oh my god,
the Times is just broken. The story of the century. The Democrats want to win the presidency. Oh no, stop the presses, don't make I don't bother with a word' email email people about this Charles Holman's article breaking the
news that the Democrats want to win the election. My god, and still somehow somebody is worse that Ed Henry and Mark Halprin and everybody writing the headlines at the Times, and the editor and the publisher, and these nitwitz in the op ed pages, and the people who stick these unbelievable headlines on these otherwise okay articles, and how they are now in third place in the city of New York.
Somebody worse than that. Yes it's Russell Brand. I don't know for some of you younger folks if you know that he was once a comedian sometime I think in the nineteenth century. He's now been banned from like all of Great Britain for a series of alleged attacks on women in the studios at the BBC and other place in England before his own shows. And of course, as always with people who get caught, he says, I'll go consoled.
The biggest problem with Russell Brand is he's not He's not bright, but he's been taught the words that you use to make yourself sound bright. He's an autodidact, which means he actually doesn't know anything, or more importantly, many of the words he's used he's never trying to pronounce before or heard other people use in context, he wrote,
and I'll spare you my impression of him. If Kamala Harris is to be the new pick in the bait and switch find the lady cup and ball trick that we are being offered in lieu of democracy, we already know she's a socially inept and empty instrument of intransigent institutional power. He has a list of words he likes to try to work into things like this, solely offering cutaneous and jenet novelty to a famished pack of secularist devotees so bewildered that melatonin and an X chromosome could
represent to them some kind of pyrrhic victory. Melatonin, melatonin, Russell Brand wrote, Melatonin. The word is melanin. Melanin is what he's talking about, which is the pigmentation in skin is from the chemical melanin. Melatonin is what you take at night when you can't sleep, like on the occasion when you keep thinking about all those girls you assaulted. Russell, what's my profession? Den I have been.
Taught words as one might attempt to philosophically educate a minor bird, and my air is so dirty. I need some Shambalic immediately brand two days, worst person Underworld of Planets of the Earth, Gov No.
Sear the number one story on the countdown and my favorite topic, Me and things I promised not to tell. And this story is secondhand, but I'm pretty sure Gil Stratton told it to me. And Gil was gold. If you've ever seen the movie Stalog seventeen, and if you have it, you should like right now. Gil played William Holden's right hand man, Cookie, and Gil narrates the film too. And he was in the Wild One with Marlon Brando,
and he co starred on Broadway with Judy Garland. And Gil was a baseball umpire and Gil was the number one TV sportscaster in LA from nineteen fifty four to about nineteen seventy five. And he stayed on the air so long that eventually he worked with me and then for me, and he never complained about that once. Loved the business, loved doing it, and he knew everything that had ever happened in Los Angeles. In a city that almost deliberately erases its past as quickly as possible, Gil
was one of those living history books. And I always tell this one story of his whenever a sports owner or commissioner says his team or league lost money. After some research, it turns out the year of the story has to have been nineteen sixty four. From the details in the anecdote, we know the Dodgers had won the World Series the year before, but had not been in the Pennant race in the year in question, so that
had to be nineteen sixty eight or earlier. Because one of the three men in the story, the Dodgers vice president Fresco Thompson, passed away on November thirtieth, nineteen sixty eight. So the nineteen sixty four season, which it has to be, ends at Dodger Stadium fifty eight years ago this week, late on the afternoon of Sunday, October fourth. The Dodgers have just won, but it's not enough to save them
from a losing season. Eighty and eighty two, just under fourteen thousand people have paid to get in, which means two million, two hundred and twenty eight thousand, and seven hundred and fifty one souls have dropped some cash into the till of the infamous Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley. That was a lot of fans in nineteen sixty four. The
stench of Walter O'Malley reeks through history. He is still the villain in sports in New York City, where he moved the Brooklyn Dodgers out, something from which the borough of Brooklyn has never recovered, even though the historical record is pretty clear that the Dodgers did have an attendance problem in Brooklyn, and the City of New York did not think it was worth it to merely sell O'Malley the land he thought was ideal for a sports stadium.
O'Malley was right about the land. The land is now where they put the Barclays Center, an arena at Public Spence.
O'Malley wanted to pay for his building himself. Anyway, back to nineteen sixty four, a sixth place Dodger season has just ended, and either that day or the next day or the day after that, fifty eight years ago this week, one of the three men who basically run the franchise, vice president and general manager, Buzzy Bavasi, leans in through the doorway of Walter O'Malley's office in Dodger Stadium, where the man who got rich for closing on mortgages during
the depression, including the mortgage on the Dodgers. That's how he became the owner. He is, as usual, sitting behind his desk, thumbing through accountant's ledgers, smoking a large cigar and using a long plastic holder. See it the winter meetings. Boss O'Malley never looks up from his financial books. At least we had a decent fiscal year. I mean, with kofax heard and all. Now O'Malley looks up and he growls, why do you main dacent fiscal year? We lost two
million dollars. Walter O'Malley does not now have to tell Buzzy Babasei to leave his office, because Buzzy Babasei feels as if he has just been shot. We lost two million dollars, he thinks to himself, we lost two million dollars. Two million dollars. The hallway of the executive offices of the Dodgers on the Loge level of Dodger Stadium swirls
around him. Two million. Just four years earlier, when Baseball had sold the rights to put an expansion franchise in that same city, Los Angeles, to Gene Autry, the price had been two million, one hundred thousand dollars. Two million was literally the price of a Major League Baseball franchise in the early sixties. Buzzy Bavasi staggered down the hallway. The sweat poured from every part of his body. His
vision blurred, and he found it difficult to breathe. He almost fell into the open doorway of the third man who ran the Dodgers, the other senior vice president, Fresco Thompson. Buzzo said, with considerable alarm, you okay, Buzzy Vesei barely croaked the word no, but the rest of the sentence he fairly shouted. O'Malley just told me we lost two million dollars this year. Fresco Thompson laughed, And now Vivasi's terror turned to anger. What the hell are you laughing
at two million? We lost two million? Don't you know what this means. We'll have to fire everybody. We'll have to trade kofax. At least we have to trade morey wills, which toured two million, and we lost two million. And now the worst suddenly occurs to Buzzy Vesi. Jesus Fresco, He's gonna fire one of as Isity Ravesi had not noticed Fresco's Thompson's laughter, growing you Italian idiot, BAVESI Only Fresco Thompson did not say, Italian, how long you been
working for this guy? O'Malley. Vesey spit out the answer nineteen fifty Thompson and calmly replied, Ah, yeah, nearly as long as I have, and you still haven't figured him out. Buzzy Bavasi was lost. The franchise was teetering on bankruptcy in front of their eyes, but Thompson was focused, for some reason, on how long they had each known Walter O'Malley. They were all about to get fired by Walter O'Malley Fresco. Thompson stood up and put his arm around his still
shaken colleague. When O'Malley says we lost two million this year, buzz What that greedy bastard means is last year, when we won the World Series, we made a profit of six million dollars. This year, when we finished in sixth place, we only made a profit of four million dollars. So in his mind, that means this year we lost two million.
We didn't lose two million, we made four million. So the next time you hear the owner of a sports franchise or the commissioner of a sports league tell you it or he has quote lost unquote eleventy billion dollars. Just remember this is almost always Walter O'Malley math, and it only means that's how much lower this year's phenomenal profits are compared to last year's phenomenal profits. Push Mussolini overboard, push Hitler overboard, and shoot O'Malley twice. I've done all
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was mister Ray's idea. Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. Their name was their idea. The sports music is the Ulderman theme from ESPN two written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. And the name ESPN two was ESPN's idea. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium organist ever.
As I noted earlier, I cheated today. My announcer was my late friend and hero, George Carlin, and everything else was pretty much my fault. That's countdown for this the one hundred and fourth day until the twenty twenty four presidential election, and the two hundred and ninety fifth day since convicted felon Donald Trump's first attempt to whop against the democratically elected government of the United States. Use the
September eighteenth sentencing hearing, Use the mental health system. You've got it, President Biden. Use presidential immunity to stop him from doing it again while we still can governor well you still can, mister President, and Republicans, please stop shooting at Trump. The next scheduled downtown he is as mentioned Tuesday, gotta go get that tattoo of me. Nay, I will try to do a quick one tomorrow. We'll see bulletins as always as the news requires till the next one,
whenever the hell that is. I'm Keith Oldrimman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olriman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.