TRUMP STARTS DROOLING DURING CAMPAIGN SPEECH - 9.25.24

He dribbles on himself and says, forced to be out. You'll hear it. Sounds like forced. That's the drool. He wipes it away with his left forefinger between out and because stand by for the Republican candidate for dementia in chief, drooling on himself. Want to be but they were forced to be out because in this country. But they were forced to be out because in this country. But they were forced to be out because you know how old

he is, He's two hundred and six. Trump was sweating like a Steve Adore during the last half hour of the last debate, repeatedly having to as the baseball guys say, go to his mouth to wipe the perspiration off his upper lip. And now live from Savannah, it's dribble cup night. Did you see that on the news last night? Even on cable? If that had happened to President Biden two months ago, they would have played that on a loop for well, the show would not yet be over, would

it on CNN? Back and to the left back, and to the left, left back, and to the let right. There there's the Drowoel in point of fact, seeing and described this Jewel speech as Trump focuses on economy at stop in battleground Georgia, and then somehow Trump's hallucinations got worse. We will not leave until we win. What happens if they win. That's what they do is they fight wars. As somebody told me the other day, they beat Hitler, they beat Napoleon. That's what they do.

Good God, wherever Trump's mind has gone to, it has caused him to reveal he has no sense of world history, even things that happened during his lifetime, no more sense of it than the director Roger Debris in the mel Brooks movie The Producers. I never knew the Third Reich meant Germany. I mean the play is drenched with historical

goodies like that. I appreciate that. Every two weeks or so, I take up some of your increasingly valuable time and I say, look, his brain is so loosely attached to reality, it is going to have to fall out soon. But

maybe it's not. Maybe he has kind of lucid stretches where he's just evil, and then these really crazy stretches where he's evil and stupid and drooling, and he not only thinks Jimmy Kimmel hosts the Tonight Show, but that it's time for Jimmy to go and it's time to bring back Well, it's time to say he Johnny, I went on this show, right, And he goes to Tonight's show, which is dying. They're all dying with is Johnny Carson? Bring back Johnny it made you appreciate, right, uncle Seth.

I know Johnny Carson used to take a lot of time off towards the end of his Tonight show. But that's not what this absence is. What this absence is is he's dead. That's what this absence is since two thousand and five. Johnny isn't here. Johnny is here, Johnny isn't here. I mean, we haven't even gotten to the substantial things yet, like this stalker language he used towards women in a speech two nights ago, about how he'll be their protector and they'll never have to worry again

and they'll never think about abortions. And I'm listening to Trump and I'm thinking, is he quoting Sean Diddy Combs or was Sean Didty Combs quoting him? And we still haven't even gotten to the ma madness of the immigrants story. He's still on the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio and his plans to send them back to Venezuela because he

apparently legitimately thinks that's where Haiti is. Haiti is in Venezuela in the Trump world, where he just found out that the Russians beat Napoleon in one century and helped us beat Hitler in the other Haiti, or as JV. Vance calls it, Haitia. And No, Trump did not actually call for tattooing all immigrants from Haitia and others places with serial numbers, like you know, the Nazi death caps.

He didn't do that, not because he'd never do something like that, but because he already thinks they have serial numbers. I mean, this was the exact quote. We're getting the criminals out, and we're going to do that fast, and we know who they are, and the local police know their names, and they know their serial numbers, they know

everything about them unquote. If this guy's just finding out about Napoleon losing at Borodino in eighteen twelve, I'm thinking it's a fair assumption that he doesn't know that they don't have serial numbers right now, just like he doesn't know that you don't have to produce an ID card to buy a sandwich at the grocery store. And when he does find out that they don't have serial numbers, he will go the Holocaust route with them, or maybe

go right to barcodes. The good news here is a group called Haitian Bridge Alliance in Springfield, Ohio has filed suit in Clark County Municipal Court demanding that the local district attorney filed criminal charges against Trump Advance for lying about the Haitian immigrants, for lying about their legal status here, for lying about their positive impact on that city. And this is not God bless them, just a somebody do something thing quote like those who falsely shout fire in

a crowded theater. Trump and Vance do not color within the lines of the First Amendment. They commit criminal acts. Your god damned right they do. This complaint demands prosecutions for seven specific charges covering five specific criminal offenses in the city and state codes, disrupting public services, making false alarms,

aggravated menacing complicity, and telecommunications harassment. It is a brilliant and necessary action, and every group threatened by Trump and his monkey wearing eyeliner Vance should file similar motions in every jurisdiction in this country into which Trump has drooled his drool of regret and his venom of remorse. For Vance in particular, this is going to create an impossible situation if he and Trump lose, which I presume Vance has not for one moment actually contemplated. He took office

already hated by nearly half his constituents. He has induced so many bomb threats now in Springfield, Ohio, I am surprised his phone has not been seized by the police. Now imagine him the subject of a series of forced prosecutions by pro Haitian groups around the state of Ohio. I'm the character witness for the Haitian group. Who are you?

I'm the Republican mayor of Springfield, Ohio. It is Vance, of course, who continues to insist that the Haitians legally in Ohio are not there legally, and even worse, to say that their legal status is in fact fluid, that

it can be withdrawn at his and Trump's instruction. The pandora's box this opens is astonishing, because, if allowed to happen, it could be a gateway to the revocation of citizenship for people who were born here but whose parents were not born here, you know, like Milania Trump, or you could deport any naturalized citizen, you know, like Elon musk. Okay, let me think this for a moment. I'm beginning to sense that maybe under responsible control, this idea could be

you know, revoked citizenship there could be really useful. So, sir, you were born here and your father was born here, but his father was born in Germany. And what does it say here your mother was born in Scotland. What part America is Scotland? Sir? I'm afraid, sir. Under the new naturalization process, you are now considered an anchor baby. And looking at you, I can see the emphasis here is on baby, and your citizenship is revoked. Mister Trump,

here's your ticket back to Venezuela. You want to go to the change the rules in the middle of the game game, Let's play that game. Let's play that goddamn game. Let's find out where your grandparents are from, where was your mother born? You're out just for like thirty three people in this country, starting with Trump and Musk and Milanna, rather astonishingly between the drooling and the more commonplace world history. You should never, never ever admit you didn't know until recently,

like who beat Hitler and Napoleon. Trump has also made what I think is the first overt threat to im and political critics. He's still going kind of sideways on this, but it's there. They were very brave. The Supreme court very brave, and they take a lot of hits because of it. It should be illegal what happens.

law abiding America. The backup scenario for when the corrupt Supreme Theocratic Court urinated on the Constitution to give Trump just enough immunity to delay his trials until after the election. The backup plan for that event will be engaged in the next twenty four to thirty six hours. Not only will much of Special Counsel Jacksmith's evidence against Trump in the elections subversion case be revealed publicly, but it will

be revealed supersized over the weekend. Smith advised the judge that his opening brief would in fact be an opening not so brief, and rather than the customary thirty five forty fifty pages, it might be two hundred. Looks like the actual number of pages will be one hundred and

eighty pages. Please no wagering Trump's attorneys this month's Trump's attorneys immediately filed a motion to suppress or delay or refuse or hold their breath, and as usual, Chuck and not only denied them, she denied them, then slapped them and told them you'll get nothing, and you'll like it. She writes in her ruling, allowing a brief from the government is not quote, contrary to law, procedure and cut as defendant claims, it is simply how litigation works. Unquote.

She left out the two additional words, you assholes, because well we all know she meant them, so why did she have to bother and write them down. The filing deadline for Jacksmith is tomorrow, so it could be filed today, They, for custom probably will wait till tomorrow, whichever it will go into the court. Listener dot Com documents Harvester, and then stand well back because all hell's going to break loose.

Remember this will be the amended Smith filing against Trump for you know, trying to encourage others to break every law we have and violently overthrow the government elect of this nation. Minus all those things that Smith believes the Supreme Court intends to let Trump get away with via its phony boloney immunity ruling. Well, I have you a couple of poll numbers Bullfinch poll with some amazing states. This is after the Mark Robinson scandal. North Carolina Harris

by two. They also have her Georgia by two, and in Florida they have Trump by one one and Senator Rick Scott by two. These are registered voters, though likely voters would probably be a little looser. Poll close September twenty three. Nationally, Quinnipiac tied at forty eight. A month ago, Quinnipiac was Harris by one, so no change. Nationally CNN Harris forty eight, Trump forty seven. Nationally IPSOS for Reuters Harris fifty Trump forty four, and again the variations are

all based on one thing. Those last three numbers are likely voters are you a likely voter. Yes, I don't think you are. Okay, then I'm not on your poll. You bet you're not inside the seat pulling a bunch of favorability numbers. In January, Harris was underwater by twenty points. She is now underwater by just four Trump was under by nineteen points in January. He is now underwater by

twelve vance. Who, when only one quarter of this nation knew who the hell he was in June was underwater by seven points, is now known by three quarters of the country and is now underwater by twelve points. Gurgle, gurgle alone in the CNN poll Tim Walls apparently we like Tim Walls thirty six to thirty two. It appears Trump is being hacked again. Jud Legum met Popular Information says somebody named Robert sent his organization Trump campaign info

on the fifteenth. He's not publishing it. This isn't the Post or the Times or the others who tend to turn the gravity on and off journalistically whenever they feel like it. Jud had chops. I'm not sure I agree with him, but at least he went into detail about why he has done what he has done, and he has explained what the others have not. He has characterized what the leaks talk about. I'll quote him. I believe that in some circumstances, the publication of leaked materials can

be justified. The Pentagon papers, for example, were obtained illegally by Daniel Elsberg, but the public interest in revealing the truth about the Vietnam War outweighed those concerns. The internal Trump campaign documents obtained by Popular Information may be embarrassing or problematic to members of the Trump campaign. Some of the documents have news value, but the stolen materials do not provide the public with any fundamental new insight about

Trump or his campaign. So on balance, the relevant factors argue against publication. What I suspect will happen will be that eventually Robert or whoever is behind this, Iranians, Mike Pence, people who like their presidential candidates to know about Hitler and Napoleon and Russia Battle of Borodino, whoever is responsible, sometime just before the election, will find a news organization or a semi news organization that will print stuff right

before the election. So all of this hemming and hawing and deep anguished sometimes analysis by people like Judleagan will go to Naught because they'll send the stuff to Okay magazine and they'll publish it. I'm in favor of that, if only to even up the score for twenty sixteen and then we pass a law or something. Does it look like there's anything in these newest leagues about any of the latest quartet of amazing examples of every fascist

accusation is actually a confession stories my god. The Guardian reports that Kevin Roberts literally the tour of Project twenty twenty five. While the Republicans are insisting immigrants are eating

your pets. Kevin Roberts is revealed to allegedly have done a Christynome before Christynome was uncool, kill the dog the neighbor's dog with a shovel for barking, quoting he told university colleagues about two decades ago that he had killed a neighborhood dog with a shovel because it was barking and disturbing his family, According to former colleagues who spoke

to The Guardian. Quote My recollection of his account was that he was discussing in the hallway with various members of the faculty, including me, that a neighbor's dog had been barking pretty relentlessly and was, you know, keeping the baby and probably the parents awake, and that he kind of lost it then took a shovel and killed the dog. End of problem, said Kenneth Hammond, who was the chair

of the university's history department at the time. Two other people, a professor and her spouse, recall hearing a similar account directly from Roberts at a dinner at his home. Three other professors also said they heard the account at that time from the colleagues, who said they had heard it

directly from Roberts. None recall Roberts, who worked at that university as an assistant professor from two thousand and three to two thousand and five, ever saying that the dog he allegedly said he killed was actively threatening him or his family. In a statement to The Guardian, Roberts denied ever killing a dog with a shovel. End quote. You guys at the Guardian ask him if he ever killed a dog without a shovel. Did he then say? No?

Comment one quote here where is it again? Keeping the parents awake, and that he kind of lost it and took a shovel. And killed the democracy. No dog not democracy, as to would be Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno. No, it's not misogyny, a agism that made him claim that women should not be one issue abortion voters, especially those over fifty, implying that women over fifty would never need an abortion,

so why would they care. I mean, there is misogyny in agism, but mostly this is just Bernie Moreno is a moron, another knit wit, the kind who does not know that women over fifty have daughters who might want the right to control their own bodies, or even if they don't have daughters, they might just want, you know, lawful rights for other citizens. Vote Republican, elect another moron to the Senate. Look, you can't spell moron without Moreno.

There it is mor e no. The Texas Observer reports that the human Donut Trump henchman Jason Miller had his email appear in the same data breach that contributed to Mark Robinson's Week from Hell. It's the same email Miller was connected to in court documents. The Texas Observer says New York fascist congressant Anthony Desposito, one of his party's moderates,

wins the double play award. The New York Times reports the ex New York City cop and by the way, everybody who is not an ex New York City cop appears to be an ex New York City staffer for Mayor Eric Adams. They're dropping like flies. Desposito hired his fiance's daughter as a part time paid employee in his congressional district office right after he assumed that job. Then last April, that's April twenty twenty three, he hired somebody else as another part time paid employee in the same

office his mistress. Surprisingly enough, this is not only a violation of ethics rules, but it's also of how dumb is this mook rules because it led to the fiance finding out about the mistress. And if you think Congress and Desposito is pathetic, the fiance then took him back. And lastly, this bulletin comic relief. There's the new British

Prime Minister, Secure Starmer. I like him, but at his first Labor Party conference as Prime Minister, he proved that Trump isn't the only one who needs significant remedial prompter work. I am very good at teaching the reading of teleprompters. I can get him up to speed with like three or four half an hour sessions. Just fly me to London. I'll get right to work. The line at the party conference was I call again for immediate cease fire in Gaza,

the return learn of the hostages. Only he didn't say hostages. I call again from immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the return of the sausages. A hostital It sounds better with an English accent, but yeah, you heard it. He still said return of the sausages, return of the sausages, hostages, the hostage sausages. Let's everybody break.

And he's also the co founder of Semaphore News, and honestly, he should never be allowed to work again in the sausage making business of news in his life. On this talk of sausages and I'm drooling. That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead of us, on this all new edition of Countdown. Next. In Things I promised not to tell, they were the second most important hockey team in Ithaca, New York. They had ex

Cornell's standouts on them. They played teams like the Montreal Canadians, old Timers, the Asian pro They used to fill or nearly fill Cornell's famous rink. They had Cornell Hall of Famer Bill Duffy on their team, and the greatest name in hockey history played for them, Winger Murray Death, though he was beginning to change the pronunciation to death. Good call.

And then they did something to me, to my radio station, to my sports department, to my aspirations that caused me, at the age of nineteen, to go on the air and flat out lie and say they had gone out of business. The Saga of the Ithaca Stars rest in peace, and all new things I promised not to tell. First, there are still more new idiots to talk about the daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days worst persons in the world,

the Brons the worst. Abby Phillip, CNN's ten PM anchor, I bet you didn't know that, the CNN anchor doing the absolute best impressions of both Maggie Haberman and Chuck

Todd and occasionally Chris Solisi. After parroting the Trump fascist talking point that Kamala Harris has somehow been in charge of the southern border and the Republican complaint that she hasn't gone to the southern border and done a performative political photo op just like all the Republicans do, and all the nitwits at CNN can just barely process because it does fit into one of the very few story templates they can begin to understand, and it involves sane washing.

After all of that, Abby Phillip is now complaining that Vice President Harris is going to the border. First, Philip said, there was polling that said Trump would be better on the issue unquote, because shoving immigrants and their supporters into concentration camps where guess what, genius some of them are going to die is much better than the compromise that Harris supported and Biden arranged and Trump vetoed for campaign reasons.

Philip after that, nit wittedly added that Harris is quote hoping to change the narrative that she's soft on immigration. One of the things about this moment, I mean, the Harris campaign has just been trying to float above it all, to float above the immigration arguments, float above some of the nitty gritty details on some of this policy. But

this shows that they realize they have to do something. Well, if anybody in this country's going to know about floating above it all, it would be a CNN anchor, especially the lowest rated host in cable news primetime. Thursday, barely half of Laurence O'Donnell's audience, one quarter of Greg got fields audience. My god, how could you show up to work the next day?

last place floating a bubbado. The runner up worser Mike Lindell, the guy who has smoked too many pillows, his latest attempt to offset his eleventy billion dollar debt that has been driven up insisting Trump didn't lose the election he lost. Glendell is now selling pillows at steep discounts. Your costs fourteen dollars and eighty eight cents teen eighty eight. Fourteen eighty eight, What an odd price. Lots of people sell things that say fourteen dollars in ninety eight cents or

fourteen dollars in ninety nine cents, but eighty eight cents. Well, you know what fourteen eighty eight means, right, fourteen eighty eight. On the white supremacist far right, the murderers, fourteen eighty eight is one of the more common signals from one of the scumbags to another of the scumberg bags, meaning Hey, I'm a fellow scumbag. Let's go knife somebody. Why fourteen

eighty eight the price of the Lindell pillow. Fourteen means the fourteen words as in quote, we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children. Knowing how dumb these people are. I did check. It is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. Yeah, fourteen words, they got it right. Eighty eight. Well, those are the numbers closest to the letters HH. As in quote Kyle Hitler unquote, Mike Lindell says that this is

all ridiculous and it's Jessica coincidence. What would he know about white supremacists? But our Winner? How in the world has Mike Lindell avoided accidentally killing himself all this time? Is that the greatest streak in human history? I mean, he makes Keith Richards look like some sort of stay at home get to bed at six thirty pm diletton who only drinks tea. But Our Winner. Ben Smith, editor

and co founder of Semaphore Media. Now, I said I didn't have much more to say about Olivia Newzy and that she lived with me, but I did want to mention some other things, mostly throwaways about her, even good jokes about her. But I only saw this the other day. What Ben Smith wrote about this is the most amazingly tone deaf thing. Don't have anything to do with me. It's the most amazingly toned deaf thing I've read about her, or even about RFK Junior, or maybe about anything in

the history of news reporting. I'll get to it in a second. First, the actual Newsy news UZI updates. This is from CNN's Brian Stelter. Are other outlets reviewing the work of Olivia Newsy in the wake of her relationship with Kennedy Junior, They aren't saying. Bloomberg is not commenting on questions surrounding Newsy, who recently hosted the series Working Capital at the outlet, where she interviewed prominent political leaders separately.

AMC Networks, which had commissioned a satirical drama that Newsy was set to executive produce, is remaining mum on her involvement in the project as an aside, And this would be true of anybody, not just that it's her. I'm just sort of liberated to talk about her now. How could a satirical drama that Newsy was set to executive produce possibly rival for sheer quality, the satirical drama that Newsy has just lived for the last week, and featuring such and such as Keith Overman at the end of

the credits. All right back to Ben Smith at Semaphore, I had hoped to avoid writing about last week's big media scandal. We were scooped to Max's eternal regret that's their media guy by Oliver Darcy's excellent new newsletter status after we ignored a Wednesday evening email from one Anderson Jones. Jones, an anonymous sender with an Iowa IP address who has since gone dark, had a news tip New York Magazines. Olivia Newsy had disclosed to Box she'd had a romantic

relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Firstly, congrats on trying to boast your way out of how you were scooped. Right back to what Ben Smith wrote. But now that we are in the full fury of American media prurience and self righteousness, I'm going to risk my neck on a slightly contrarian view. Reporters have all sorts of compromising relationships with sources. Huh. The most compromising of all, and the most common, is a reporter's fealty to someone who

gives them information. That's the real coin of this realm. Huh, sex barely rates? Come on, you won't hear many American journalists reckon with this. Some British journalists, naturally, have been texting us to ask, oh texts, what the fuss is about? If you're not sleeping with someone in a position of power, how are you even a journalist? The advice writer Heather have Roleski texted me Saturday that the world would be much more exciting with more newsies around, but alas, the

world is inhabited by anonymously mailing moralists instead. When you're in London, check out, Heather have Roleski. You can find your phone number written on the wall somewhere. I suppose, I mean, would you actually write that? Never mind? Are

you're a woman reporter? You're a woman, you're a reporter, you're somehow you have no gender at all, you have no sexual organs at all, And you would write the world would be much more exciting with more newsies around, But a last, the world is inhabited by anonymously emailing moralists instead, leading the guy to write, how are you even a journalist, if you're not sleeping with someone in a position of power, my god, advice and she's an

advice writer. Dear Heather, the President of the United States wants to sleep with me. He'll give me a scoop and a button. Should I do it? My yes, you ought to, Dearie, Oh my god. Back to ben Smith. Many of Newsy's critics were furious at her over a July fourth story about members of Joe Biden's inner circle who felt he was too old to run for president. How these critics ask now, could she have done that story fairly if she had add an emotional attachment to

a fringe candidate. And this is where two values of journalism part ways. The obvious defense of that story is that it was true, something few Democrats now contest, though the few that do continue to loudly fill up our email inboxes and Twitter mentions. Okay, if you got bribed to write a story, or you offered to write a story in exchange for something from the person who benefited

from the story, you're not a journalist anymore. This is just occurring to Bensmith, who was a media columnist for a national newspaper until he started this piece of shit Semaphore. But we're also in the business of trust as well as truth. Who's this we ben, You're not in the business. That's not what we do. I mean you have to draw the line somewhere, and that line is taking off your pants in front of us source and for those purposes, the appearance of conflict it is in fact bad enough.

It undermines reasonable people's trust, and there's no real defense for that. And so before I have to hand over my editor's badge, I should mention he's almost saved it now has any I should mention, don't worry, he won't.

I should mention that Our policy here at Semaphore is that if you're having a romantic relationship with a subject of your coverage, for the love of God, tell your editor that's right there on the wall under Employees must wash hands, especially if you're having a romantic relationship with the subject of your coverage. In other words, it's fine to f the F and Robert F. Kennedy Junior literally or merely via electronic and digital. The word used was digital.

I'm just not going to touch that as it were. It's fine to do that, but if you haven't told your editor about it. If you need to screw somebody to get this, we can give you a bonus or at least a condom. For the love of God, tell your editor well, well, Ben Smith, congrats on destroying any possible credibility Semaphore might ever achieve. I mean now, I have to wonder who they ft to get the rights to use that typeface on their letters and their website.

I wonder who fed them to bury that story that you will never see in Semaphore. You're done, Ben, Fold, fold the organization. If you own stock in this, if they sell stock, I have no idea sell the stock. This is madness to defend the idea that reporters, and not only that, but to insist that reporters constantly do this madness. You will be surprised to find out that when he co founded seven four I mentioned this, he was with the National paper Guests, which one Ben was

with the New York Times. Now understand why everything's gone to hell in a handbasket in the New York Times. Either everybody there is sleeping with somebody in the Trump campaign, or everybody there isn't sleeping with somebody in the Trump campaign, or everybody in there was sleeping with somebody in the Trump campaign, and they reported it to their editor, who said, well, you can't do that anymore, and now they're all frustrated.

Now to eleven this, I will have three postscripts. One, I will say one thing I realized today about my relationship with Olivia. I only realized it when I found myself writing it online. The phrase by Felicia from the movie Fridays. I've used it in sportscasts and newscast I've used it on this podcast. Olivia taught me that phrase. Man, let's break into the New York Post's feed and put that out there. And then this from the Twitter account

at what forty six has done the Biden accomplishments. This is so funny. I think she would laugh at it. Quote. The more I learn about Olivia Newsy, the more I think that maybe her animosity towards Joe Biden was because he didn't want to date her. Oh oh my god, do I feel seen. But best of all, that New York Post gossip story Monday about my extremely peripheral role

in this saga, this satirical series. I bought the actual physical newspaper of the New York Post yesterday, just on a hunch, thinking I wonder how this looks in the print. First time in like ten years I spent any money on the New York Post, and there in the latest roundup of the Newsy News was a small but glowing red box with white letters on it and their gossip logo page six on one half of the glowing red box, and then on the other side it read in big

bold letters quote. She also dated Alberman. It's the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life. If you heard minutes of unending laughter wafting out over the land reaching the Pacific around one fifteen pm Eastern until about one point thirty Eastern, that was me outside a store that actually still sells newspapers on Second Avenue in New York.

She also dated Alberman White on red Not only is it now my background on my Twitter page, Not only am I getting it framed, I'm thinking of getting it as a tattoo and on my memorial marker whenever the time comes. Anyway, Back to the point, been sleeping with my sources. That's ridiculous. Why do you think I got into this business? Smith? Two days? Worst person then the world I mentioned recently that one of the things I

wanted to do. In fact, my original career goal in broadcasting was to become play by play announcer of the New York Yankees. The second one, and the one that I actually tried to work on for a while, was to become play by play announcer of the New York Rangers hockey team. My high school, Hackley, had a hockey team and a radio station, not that anybody listened to us,

and we had a sports director. His name was Chris Berman, and he did the basketball games, and one day put out an ad for somebody to do the hockey games. And the requirement was do you own your own cassette tape recorder? And I've played you the tapes of what I sounded like like long before my voice even began to change. The play by play wasn't bad for a

thirteen year old kid. And I have to say the next year, nineteen seventy three, when the Pittsburgh Penguins job opened for play by play radio guy, I had the nuts to actually send them a tape and say, look, I know my voice is a little high, but think of the novelty aspect. So I always wanted to do hockey play by play, and then I went to Cornell, which might as well have had a professional hockey franchise,

And that's still true. Lina Rink is one of the great sporting event locales in the world, certainly in college hockey. And it always sold out, and the team was competitive and number one in the IVY League and a national championship contender. And the rights to the games were owned by Cornell and immediately, of course dispersed to the two radio stations Cornell University, Inc. Owned, so we never got

close to doing play by play of Cornell hockey. I once asked my friend who was the general manager of those stations, Don Martin, who I've talked about here before as one of the most import people I ever met in broadcasting. I asked him, could we do the JV Games? Could we do the women's games? No, because you'll get advertising for it. I know you'll do a good job. You'll be taking bread out of the food of my announcers. And I was like, yeah, but I'm asking for like

one slice of bread. You're gonna go far, but not

in Ithaca. So anyway, one day a fellow named Al Goldstein who had come to us I believe, from Berkeley, California, and was twenty eight years old and long past college days or college radio days, moved to Ithaca, New York to try to become a radio sportscaster, newscaster, radio salesman, and had heard had done research on this and had determined that WVBR, the student owned professional radio station at Cornell University, was the best training ground for radio in

the country. Al was known as Weird Al and before a Yankovic, and he was a delightful guy. And he used all the southern or northern California lingo that none of us understood, happening in Gnarley and all these other things long before they became famous things. I was like, what did I'll just say I'm not sure, but whatever. He works hard. So he did sports cast, and he did newscast, and he became a salesman because we sold

advertising on the radio station. And one day he came to me he said, you know, Ko, I've been talking to h a lot of my clients out there, and they I just mentioned the Ethaica stars and their eyes light up, like why aren't they on the radio? I mean, like I know it's not Cornell hockey man, but they Cornell Hockey gets four thousand people, Ethica Stars get eighteen hundred years. There's a lot of people people want to hear.

Why don't we do the games? I'd get it sponsored immediately, and I went say that part again, and he went through it again, and I said, why don't we? So we all knew the president of the Ethica Stars. It was, I believe a car salesman. His name was Bob Toddy called him up and said, how much for the rights

to broadcast your games? Would do it on an experimental basis and he went first ones free and I said, I think my colleagues here will agree to that, and sure enough we scheduled a broadcast of the Ithaca Stars versus somebody. The Ethica Stars would be made up of Cornell graduates who did not make it in professional hockey, or had played professional hockey and lived in the area

came back to Ithaca. In other words, if you were a Cornell Hockey star in nineteen seventy two and did not make a career of it, you could become an Ehaica Stars star in nineteen seventy eight, which is when we are in the history of semi pro hockey in this country. And they did. They drew two thousand a game at line of rink. They almost often when it would be a team like the Montreal Former Canadians, they would fill the place out people like their hockey and

Ethica New York. The ice is already there, the rank is fent. So we put Al out on this and I was like, we'll try it, and I'll do the games, and the program director, Glen Cornelius, he'll be the he'll be my color man, and we'll have somebody host in between periods, and we'll have a reporter and we'll you know, maybe we'll get some wireless. But Al came back in twenty four hours and said sold it out. I was like, but I figured out how many availabilities we'd have and

how many spots, and we have a waiting list. We've already taken in like twenty thousand dollars for this. I went, are you out of your mind? He goes, no, man, let's go ahead to don't tell Toddy, this will be demanding money. But I bet if we do, you know, we could do ten games before the end of their season.

I was like, let's go. So we now begin to promote this thing on WVBR coming up on Saturday night, and Glenn Cornelius and I go to a Corneill hockey practice and we do a practice broadcast of a game, and We're like, this isn't bad, and I'm thinking, maybe I could still become a hockey play by play man and my voice is changing. Maybe I can send the tape to the Pittsburgh Penguins again. So now this is mony day or Tuesday, and then the broadcast is coming

up on Saturday. And we went wall to wall every commercial break on WVBR, every newscast, every sports cast, every disc jockey show, even the public affairs broadcasts. In the breaks, it was don't forget to listen to the other guitars They're premiering on WVBR with Keith Olduman and Glenn Cornelias, and we had five announcers, and we literally rented wireless mikes, and we had this whole thing. We had a scoreboard show planned in a studio. It was just it was

it was network level excess. On Friday afternoon, I walked into the radio station and Al Goldstein was sitting at the desk in the newsroom that I usually used in my chair in front of my typewriter went ashen and Al had what would have been politely referred to as ruddy complexion, and he was white as a sheet. And I said, what's wrong? He goes, what's go inside? Man, It's goingside. And we went into a studio and he went, they canceled the game. I went, what our game? Our

game tomorrow night? It's canceled. I said, what do you mean it's canceled the Apparently there's a they forgot they forgot to rent the rink. So what do you mean they forgot to rent the rink? They think the Stars have been in business for twenty years. Suddenly he forgets to rent the rink. Yeah, there's a JV women's hockey practice and they won't interrupt it. They won't change it. There's no game Saturday. Man. I can't remember the rest

of that day. I do know from having gone and listen to the tape that at some point I decided that there was a very simple solution to this that more than likely my old friend Don Martin from WHCUA enough Mythica had prevailed upon Bob Toddy, the general manager of the Ethica Stars, to not have any game that would be broadcast on WVBR and the mention, by the way, when we called Bob Toddy and did the nineteen seventy eight equivalent of WTF on his backside, he said, I've

also rethought the whole idea. We're not going to do any more games on radio. So we haven't done any goddamn games on radio because you just forgot to rent the rink. What kind of business are you in? Do you sell cars that don't have wheels? I hung up on them. I was just the same then when I was twenty years old. In fact, I was still nineteen. I'm very proud of that. In any event, we solved this one pretty clearly. I went on the air that night and I said, we have breaking news from the

world of semi pro hockey. It's sad news, particularly in light of the fact that we were intending to bring you the Ithaca Stars game tomorrow night here on WVBRS. You may have heard in the three thousand advertisements we do for today, we have bad news. The Ithaca Stars have gone bankrupt. Don't mess with the nineteen year old olderman. Thank you very much. As a PostScript. By the way, I wasn't lying about the Ethica Stars, I was just premature.

The Stars did not go out of business during that nineteen seventy eight seventy nine season, but after the nineteen seventy nine eighty season audios don't f with the Jesus I've done all the damage I can do here ask the ethic of Stars. Thanks for listening. We're now back to five episodes a week, posting nightly just after midnight Eastern. Once again, there is a Monday Countdown. Please forward this to a non listener who should fix that and start listening.

The credits Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel, the musical directors of Countdown, have arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. Mister Shanelle handled out orchestration and keyboards, and mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. It was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and fifthy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust.

The sports music is the Lberman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. On my announcer today is my friend Kenny Maine, who never played for the Ethic of Stars, although he was a quarterback in college. Everything else was, as always, pretty

much my fault. That's countdown for today, five weeks and six days until the twenty twenty four presidential election, the three hundred and fifty ninth day since convicted felon drooling Jay Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. Use the election, use the metal health system, use presidential immunity if we have to, to keep him from doing it again while we still can.

The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news requires. Until then, I'm Keith Olderman. Good Morning, good afternoon, good night. Once again the can Keith hit the post challenge? Good Luck?