Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio quote. It will be very unfair in the future when they don't have Trump to fight for them unquote. That quote might be the biggest headline Trump has made this year, and it's sailed right past the American news media almost in its entirety yesterday. What the hell did he mean by that? And more importantly, why did he suddenly acknowledge there is an end? Maybe soon? Do I get my
choice of dates? The president is still unwell, and the president is still unhinged, and the media is still not talking about it. But in a bizarre twist, now Trump himself may be talking about it. It would have been so ordinary from anybodybody else that nearly everybody else missed it in the second and third sentences of an otherwise ordinary, self obsessed social media post yesterday morning, here it comes. Let me read the quote again with a little more context.
The fake spin is so bad for Republicans that it is hard to believe that we win. It will be very unfair in the future when they don't have Trump to fight for them unquote. When they don't have Trump to fight for them. This may actually be Trump's first admission of his life that he is not immortal, eternal, and in charge forever. It certainly is the first time he's admitted it to his base. And do not underestimate the ability of his base to convince themselves of the
impossible they ascribed to QAnon. Half of them thought JFK and JFK Junior weren't really dead, aren't really dead, or we're dead. But they got better when they don't have Trump to fight for them. By Felicia, the phrase he used it about Republicans will shock his cult to its court, will be very unfair in the future when they don't have Trump to fight for them. Who is he telling
to prepare for that future? Because the wanton disregard for the Constitution and the laws that protect America from people like them has seemingly snapped completely off the likes of Christy Nome and Tom Holman and JV. Vance and harm Meat Dylan and heg Seth and all the others who have apparently forgotten the laws of well law. And think of Stephen Miller, broken, unstable, terroristic, fueled by revenge fantasies,
hoping for bloodshed, paranoid. Then that was before this weekend, when he got way worse and seemed to be trying to convince the craziest in his group to take action violent vigilante action right now, stochastic terror is the definition. It was as if somebody had just told him for the time that one day soon they won't have Trump to kick it around for them anymore. Quoting Trump, it will be very unfair in the future when they don't have Trump to fight for them. Huh, Moron Miller in
a moment. But first to the fat tub of goo in the White House, after being mia for five days, no live public viewing of him, just one video that, according to White House time stamps, took more than two hours to produce, even though it only required him to try to speak for a minute and ten. He emerged with what was even for him such an utterly bizarre and especially vulnerable admission. He was out of you for
five days. Five from that bizarre please clap speech in front of the generals at Quantico on Tuesday, the Pete Hegseth International Day of Military Haircare Symposium and product sampling, he was out of sight through yesterday morning, when he managed to stagger out of the White House blast a series of non sequiturs of the press pool then go to another military celebration for which we have the money, even in the middle of his shutdown of the government,
and make almost no sense whatsoever. Even for him, nobody asked, how have you been? Where have you been? What are they treating you for? What did that post about the future mean? Because, again, as in the week he went mia at the beginning last month, nobody had a clue what would take a man with compulsive talking disease and an ego so large it has its own zip code from appearing in front of crowds and cameras for five
days voluntarily. It is absolutely plausible that it is just exhaustion and old age finally catching up to him, catching up to him and pinning him to the ground. To be precise, he is seventy nine with no record of having ever gotten a nutrition diet or any exercise or good food or good night's sleep or an actual medical exam, as opposed to paying a doctor to issue something about his immortality this and his greatest life ever that or
there's something else in play? What's that disease called where you seem comparatively functional on day one and then by
day four you sound like your battery charger broke. And then you have to rest all day and not be seen or recorded live by any outsider on day five, or on day six, or on day seven, or on day eight or on day nine, and then on day ten you can stand up again and present not normality, but what the artists call very similitude, where your sentences are the same length as a normal person's and the same cadence as a normal person's, and your head movements
are the same as a normal person's. But what you're saying makes very little sense at all. What's that disease called? I'm not being snied here, I'm literally asking, what's that disease called? Where you can power through for three or four days, provided it's almost total seclusion for the next five days. Veris similitude? Trump, when he got to the Naval Academy yesterday kind of sounded like he was speaking human. I hope you're sitting down.
Please remember I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before he blew up the World Trade Center, and I said, you gotta watch Osama bin Laden, and the fake news would never let me get away with that savement unless there's true. But I said one year before Tipete Hegseth, I said one year before Wispy. In the book I wrote, whatever.
The hell the title, I can't tell you, but I can tell you there's a page and they're devoted to the fact that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden and I didn't like it, and you gotta take care of him.
Ironically, the part about him and bin Laden is not the crazy part. He actually mentioned bin Laden in a book in two thousand that he can't remember the title of as some passing and probably not real threat. It's the other stuff in there, And I don't really know. I can't really count how many different years he just conflated there. He's got twenty twenty four in there, exactly one year ago, and he's got exactly one year before
nine to eleven, which will be two thousand. And he told Pete Heggsith about bin Laden twenty five years ago, and he made up the part about doing anything to bin Laden that's supposedly in his book. And then there's twenty sixteen and the rigged election of twenty sixteen. Oh no, that was twenty twenty All right. I didn't play the part about the election for you yet.
I was president in twenty sixteen, and then they rigged the election on me, and.
Then we caught him.
Didn't the way we caught him, but you know, we had to run it again.
I'd rented again, and I got two fifty, and I got the World Cup and I got the Olympics.
Can you believe all of it? And oh yes, here's the part of the disease where before that, what year is it? What year was it? Where am I? Who am I? Here's the part of the disease where you talk unsupervised to the press and you start revealing that your dreams or rumors you read online, or what Stephen Miller told you while he was frothing at the mouth, or just your trade dreams have now replaced reality completely in your mind. And Portland, which is not on fire,
is on fire. And Judge Karen Immergut, who you appointed, is not only somebody else's fault, but she is a man.
I appointed the judge and he goes like that, So I wasn't served. Well, obviously I don't know the judge, but if he made that kind of a decision, s Portland is burning to the ground. You have had, you tell your interrectionist. All you have to do is look at that, Look at the television. Turn on your television. Breaking newspapers be burning to the ground. The governor, the man, the politicians, a petrifice for their lives. Yeaha be gut ought.
To be a change of the There's your problem right there. See there, it is right there. The cleverer of Trump's enablers might say, of course he didn't appoint judge Immergut. He appointed some guy named Immergut. And here's this woman judge whose fault is that not? Trumpies. Still the second most alarming event of the last week of our second game of Where's Waldo? Trump? Second only two? It will be very unfair in the future when they don't have
Trump to fight for them. Is this business of the Friday video about the Middle East and Hamas and Israel. At Friday at four thirty five pm Eastern, carol Ian Levitt tweets a photo quote behind the scenes as Trump responds to Hemmes's acceptance of his peace plan. There's a camera on a tripod, and behind it there's a teleprompter and here's a pro tip by the way, spend the two dollars and put the teleprompe to write in front of the camera, or put the teleprompter in the camera lens.
Put these together. That's how it's done. And it doesn't make the reader look shifty eyed, shiftier eyed, and anyway. In these pictures that Levitt put out, Trump is recording a video at six point fifty four Eastern Friday. That'd
be two hours and nineteen minutes later. The rapid response forty seven account, a title not apparently meant ironically or sarcastically, tweets out a seventy second long video of Trump's stumbling through something about a deal being close seventy seconds a minute ten now of a minute ten video Trump could have realistically done with generous rest periods, anything from fifty to one hundred and fifty takes in that time, even if there were technical problems, even if there was editing
in there, that isn't a parent on the video, even if it had to be stitched together by somebody with AI. Even if I'm way off and half of that two hours or a nineteen minute presidential gap is editing, phone calls, actual presidential stuff. The camera is in there at four thirty five PM, and Levitt is the source and her post refer to her talking to him, so he didn't take a nap. Something is very wrong in Trump Land with Trump and whatever it could be, from old age
to serious illness. It presents in such a way that he's fine, you know, fine for him for two three days in a row at a fairly grueling schedule, and then they have to go and hide him somewhere where nobody is allowed to see him live for four or five days. What in the hell is wrong with Trump's health? Quote it will be very unfair in the future when they don't have Trump to fight for them. Unquote. You bet your ass to twist a White House phrase. Steven
Miller should self institutionalize again. If you were Steven Miller and they told you recently, hey, if you want to go in and kiss Trump's asked, do it now. He's not going to be here much longer, literally or figuratively.
They told you that you might melt down like Stephen Miller did on Saturday when those pesky pillars of democracy called judges again thwarted Reichs Marshall Miller first when the sentence was passed on the transitioning woman who called nine one one asking police to please stop them because their fantasy about killing Justice Kavanaugh was out of control and they were two near Kavanaugh's house basically turning themselves in,
and the sentence she got was eight years. Miller responded, quote, it was a man, and the only just punishment for attempting to assassinate a justice is the sentence of death. A He used just and justice in the same sentence, which is the sign of somebody writing while I impaired two, I'll refer you back to the scoreboard theory of one's self hatred to explain why Steven Miller is so obsessed with gender identity and gender fluidity. But let me add
ICE's claim. Member Ice is still occasionally believed in MAGA circles that it had been boxed in by protesters in Illinois. Time to bring in the nukes. Miller's quote, this is domestic terrorism and seditious. It's erection. Then came the ruling against Trump on using the troops in Oregon, and at one fifty nine Steve Reno and Craig Cray, the issue before us now is very simple and clear. There is a large and growing movement of left wing terrorism in
this country. It is well organized and funded, and it is shielded by far left Democrat judges, prosecutors, and attorneys general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to.
Dismantle terrorism and terror networks.
I'm not crying, you're crying.
I'm not crying. Then came the big one at nine twenty six Saturday night, after he had had seven hours to cool down over Portland legal insurrection. The president is the commander in chief of the armed force, is not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ice officers facing relentless terrorists assaultant threats to life. There are more local enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and
badgers in the FBI nationwide. This is an organized terror jack.
On the federal government's officers, of the deployment of troops and of necessity defender personnel.
Our lawyers are government public corner. The Republicans held mommy, mommy, mommy, Mommy hates me. The terrorism, of course, is by Trump himself, with little irrelevancies of men like Stephen Miller who are willing to do anything, and I mean anything, to glom onto some of Trump's power. Again, if even Trump is failing and beginning to acknowledge it, Stephen Miller is in way too deep to get out. He really should take advantage of the favorable conditions and check himself in somewhere.
I've never heard of people who tried to overthrow our form of government being prosecuted after they had voluntarily institutionalized themselves. But Miller, of course, is more than just a creep who looks like a flaccid penis that gained the ability to speak sort of remember who these people are. September fourth, quote from the Washington Examiner. A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from accessing the sensitive information of millions of
South Carolina voters. Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday, stemming from a loss suit challenging whether the South Carolina Election Commission can give voters data to the Department of Justice. Harmei Dylon, the flatulent, lapsitting scumbag, former personal attorney to Tulsey Gabbard, now Assistant Attorney General, then wrote on Twitter x this Justice Department's civil rights will not stand for a state court judge's hasty nullification
of our federal voting laws. I will allow nothing to stand in the way of our mandate to maintain clean voter rolls. One citizen, one vote, and then an emoji that shows her face all screwed up like in real life. So what happens yesterday? I'll quote a Twitter post liberal South Carolina judge Diane Goudstein. Why that's Diane Goodstein's name. Diane Goodstein's home is burning to the ground after an explosion.
South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating as arson and refer attack as Judge Goudstein had been receiving multiple threats. Her husband, a former state senator, is in the hospital. It will be very unfair in the future when they don't have Trump to fight for them, say Trump administration, flunkies, he's talking about you. A couple other notes, Why did ABC reverse on Kimmel's sudden awareness of the threat and all of the goodness inside of Bobb? I maybe maybe not.
The Independent reporter Marisa Cabis has a more practical explanation. Scoop Slash Update Disney saw more than one point seven million total paid streaming cancelations during the period September seventeenth to twenty third. A Disney source confirms to me the total includes Disney plus Kulu and ESPN. Why I've heard of them? On Trump and the seventeen trillion he says has come in from tariffs, a surprise a White House spokesman as has essentially called Trump a liar. Congressman Robert
Garcia says he wants to see the seventeen trillion. Why is the government shut down if there's seventeen trillion? Quote, if this keeps going, we're going to have to investigate where the hell thos seventeen trillion are? Garcia added minus two points from mixing on your corrections there to that, the White House spokesman basically, well, I'll just read it. This is astonishingly stupid, even for a Democrat. White House
spokesman Cush Decide told The Independent. Instead of calling on the federal government to somehow appropriate trillions in investment commitments by private companies to make and hire in America, blah blah blah blah blah. So you're saying here that when Trump said that seventeen trillion dollars being taken in seventeen trillion dollars in money he's gotten from other countries because of the tariffs. That's not what it is. It's just
trillions in investment commitments by private company. Anyone has nothing to do with the government. Did you just say Trump was a liar spokesperson? Cush cushy job, Cush de Si and another self foot shooting and rake stepping by Maga russ vote tweets. Nearly eight billion in green new scam funding to fuel the left climate agenda being canceled. More
info to come from at Energy. The projects are in the following states Ca, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Huhhhi, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, will Raglan at cap Action then notes quote I count six House Republicans in toss up or lean seats that have a project that fought canceled in their district Ciscomani Arizona six, Evans, Colorado eight, Ladadeo, California twenty two, Kim
twenty two, forty in California and Calvert, California forty one, and Lawler, New York seventeen. Oh, poor Lawler's s out of luck. Bye, and one more thank you to Howard Lutnick, who really should be called nut Lick for this one, and the Murdoch International idiot Miranda Divine. They did a podcast. I'll just read the New York Post version of this. When asked by Divine whether Epstein, oh would that be
jeff Epstein? When Jeffrey Epstein's rich and powerful associates, including the likes of Prince Andrew and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, always the first two names I think of when I think of Epstein. Trop When asked how they could hang around with him and not see what you saw or did they see it and ignore it, Lutnick responded, they participated. People who hung around with Epstein participated. To continue Lutnick, they get a massage. That's what his mo O was,
get a massage. Get a massage. And what happened in that massage room, Lutnick says, I assume was on video. The Commerce secretary went on, this guy was the greatest blackmailer ever, blackmailed people. That's how he had money. End quote. Wait, wait, let's see, I'm trying to put this all together. Howard Lutnick. You're saying that people who hung around with Epstein. Epstein would then get them into the massage room and then videotape them and then use a videotape of them getting
a massage to blackmail them. Who was it again, used to hang out with Epstein? What was that one guy's name? Damn? I just can't remember. Well, so that'd interest here. So somebody is banging on your city hall office front door, demanding to use the bathroom. And she says she's from Ice, but a she says she's from Ice, And when does Ice say it's from Ice? And she's not wearing a mask? And when does Ice not wear masks? I mean, I'm suspicious. I'm not letting her in unless unless you count botox
as a mask. The Christine nome I Gotta Go Poopy story. That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead on this ediative countdown. It is the exact fiftieth anniversary of the day I was assimilated into Who the Borg. Yes, the day I became part of America's greatest contribution to thought and culture in this world for profit broadcasting. Yes, October seventh, nineteen seventy five, when I became part of the team responsible for the stuff
that's just there between the commercials. My first broadcast, Hey, it had an audience, it had a sponsor, and my goodness, the sponsor was an insurance company. It was a twenty minute newscast, of which I did those five minutes, the harrowing saga of the night I got there, and the trick they pulled on me in things I promised not to tell next first, believe it or not, there's still
more new idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscreants, morons, undonn Kruger VCS specimens who constitute today's other worst persons in the world. The runner up worse I gotta tie first. This Ian Miles Chong guy online posts all the fascist crap. The one of the Musk Echo Chamber guys posts all the pro white crap. Ian Miles is also unintentionally giving us a live, real time insight into how the process works.
In the process known as I didn't think the Leopards would eat my face quote Don Lemon, he writes says white people are innately violent and do not know anything apart from violence. Weird. How come you rarely see whites chimping out over a dollar's worth of ketchup at fast food restaurants? Why do most people prefer to have white
neighbors instead of blacks? As an aside, he's capitalized white and not capitalized blacks until it is too late and Maga turns on him, and he suddenly realizes that Ian Miles Chong will never understand whose faces Maga leopards eat. They eat the faces of people of color. Ian is Malaysian. I don't care. I don't think you care. I had to look this up and look at a bunch of photos to see whether or not my very unpracticed I was wrong on this. But Ian, the Magas don't like
people of color, and that would be you. They would not think of you as as white capital w oh my god, capital W white, small b black. They don't like.
You.
Doesn't matter what you write, doesn't matter how long you try. Eventually they will turn on you sooner or later later at best. At best, they throw the people of color away or forget they exist. Ask Herman Kine, I always say, ask Herman Kine how that worked out for him? When you say quote why do most people prefer to have white neighbors instead of blacks. And you make nauseating monkey analogies about quote chimping unquote, you're just reminding the dumber
mag is. Hey wait, this guy in the avatar here, Chong. What kind of Italian name is Chong? He ain't from Staten Island. The rest of the tie the US mint they're creating a Trump coin, a Trump semiquinsennial coin, designed to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. And by the way, the odds are still only about forty and one hundred that we get there. I think there is some confusion here. It appears this is a commemorative coin like you see on late night TV where you see
Trump selling or whatever. It'll be minted at a value of one dollar and presumably sold as a collectible for how much will they grift on this? It's worth a dollar, so they'll charge nine ninety nine forty nine ninety nine, four hundred and ninety nine ninety nine. But three things were overlooking. Never mind the grift about which we should celebrate. First, the coin is valued at one dollar. Trump's own apparatics at the US Treasury have placed a value on him
of one dollar. Secondly, who the hell designed this thing? On one side, the commemoration of his many accomplishments is him getting shot. I don't know if anybody who will ever hear this likes Trump, but if they did, wouldn't they want to celebrate something? I mean, I know his crowd is ultra violent and animated by bloodlust and the aforementioned mistaken belief that he is immortal. But honestly, that's what you celebrate. And here's a picture of the great
President accidentally cheating death. But the real winners on the other side of the coin, the other side of the coin, that picture of him, the portrait, the profile, the side view. It's so bad. And I know they have less to work with every day, obviously, it's so bad. I thought at first it was one of those An Telnay's caricatures of him from the Washington Post before Bezos took the
post fascist. As somebody who's always been on the on the stout side myself, this reminder, never let them show you in portrait, especially if you have the worst combover in world history, and you have jowls and you have all those chins. My god, one dollar Trump coin. How did they price that ten cents of chin? It looks
like an Antellnay's cartoon. The runner's up worser Department of Homeland Security chief Christy Nome, bravely continuing in her post despite her midlife crisis, and her ahem, assistant assistant and boy toy, Corey Lewandowski. They both say their ISIS operation will be at the super Bowl in February. Because bad Bunny.
Because when I think about undocumented immigrants in this country, especially the low percentage of them who are actually more dangerous than the average Republican or the average US born American or the average Trump. When I think of those actually dangerous ones, the first thing I think of, that bastard is going to the super Bowl, and he's going to spend the average price on a super Bowl ticket next February, which will be twelve thousand dollars a ticket.
That's where we'll find them. We'll find millions of them. In fact, I think there'll be a gang banger section at the stadium in in Santa Clarice Clara, California. They're going to Santa Clara. Oh, look it's MS thirteen. They bought their own suite. You know what this is is ice at the super Bowl. You know what this is about. This is so Lewandowski a Nome can get in for free, for free. I mean Trump hasn't paid for a ticket to a ball game. So it's like nineteen sixty six.
But the winner, why it's generally Simo Christy Nome. Again, you heard about this video. DHS Secretary Gnome was barred from entering the doors slammed shut on her and those inside City Hall and broad View, Illinois screamed at her during the ice raids of Chicago Land when she tried to get into City Hall and Broadview, Illinois because her excuse was she can wintin you on the time background.
Actually can't.
Thank you. It's interesting, that's why Governor Prisker says this co operation to keeping people, saying it was.
So whyouldn't they let you in? What's been going on here? What's been going on here?
Sexual?
We're having to go out and do some operations to pick up some guys with criminal convictions on them, and the city police wouldn't even let us use a restroom. Now, obviously pro tip number one, you do not let ice. I'm sorry, isis in just because they say they have to use the bathroom? They're always lying, first of all. Secondly, that's a really bad excuse. Thirdly, how do you know
their ice? I'm suspicious to begin with because ice iceis always refuses to identify itself and they're always wearing masks. And here's this middle aged woman not wearing a mask. I mean, is the botox gonna melt under?
It?
Is that the problem? No mask? Says she's Ice? Oh, she can't be Ice. Then this middle aged woman shows up in the middle of an ice raid, says she's from Ice and wants to use your bathroom. Bar the door wall, the door up. Besides which I don't get nomes raged being denied the use of a bathroom. Why didn't she just do what she always does and go shit on the American public? Christy, I have to change Colorie ninth Briton now Gnome two Day's other worst poofer.
In the world.
October seventh, nineteen seventy five. Where were you and what were you doing on October seventh, nineteen seventy five. The only reason I can answer that question is because there's a tape. It's fifty years ago, fifty years ago, fifty years ago, and somehow I'm still here. The number one story on the countdown and things I promised not to tell only I told this already, and I told it on October seventh, nineteen seventy five, so now you get to listen to it again. I was sixteen years old.
I was in 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 expence. The premise of that evening of October seventh, nineteen seventy five, was 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 Linden Am 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 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 machine, 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 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 newscast you're Kathy, and get her to give you all the sports stories from the UPI wire and start picking which ones 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 danned lie. I didn't
want you to get all nervous. I wondered what Jerry Goldberg thought I would be now as the clock swept 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 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 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 Davis had selected for me. Instead, I was at the deep end of the pool. This newscast, that the sportscast was part of late edition 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.
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 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 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 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 one, and not knocked the microphone over.
And while I was thinking of this, a red light went on and.
Late edition sports Ken Griffy has scored the go ahead run on a sacrifice fly in the top of the tenth inning to give Cincinnati at fourty three wad over Pittsburgh. A red victory would clinch the National League. Pennant Tonight, Pete Rose had a two run homer in the eighth inning off pirate starter John Candelaria. Candelaria, a rookie, had allowed only one hit and struck out fourteen through seven innings.
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 that when it came to my own name, I mispronounced it twice.
Rambling in Wittenberg Colleges remain the top small college football teams in the nation, and the latest fan caa pole that's late edition Sports. I'm Keith Oberman.
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 to me or for me. Jeff Holling said, I'm not going to 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 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 five and eight forty five, and as soon as he signed off with rum a sports task of United Press International, I'm Sam Rosan. 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 station, one of my former trainees doing the midday news shift, who had had no idea I had even gotten the job at UPI went over to check the wire machine and saw an advisory from UPI Audio which read, Keith Olderman will do the nine 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 my wall. It was yellow and 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 Olberman Cornelius Studios in Ithaca, New York, and in an oddity that I still enjoy My college debut was on ten to seven and my network debut was on seven to ten.
Late edition Sports Ken Griffy has scored the go ahead run on a sacrifice fly in the top of the tenth inning to give Cincinnati at four to three lead 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
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 drego were leaving starter Rick Waht induced Joe Rudy to hit into a double play with two men on the Red Sox five 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 up National League players by The Sporting News. It's the third such honor receiver, 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 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 batted in, and sixty seven stolen bases. 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. Himitter says, quote, we're going to try something new. Up until this point, the ultimate responsibility for attendance has been at the franchise level. The league will now act
as a coordinator unquote. Himitter met yesterday with John Bassett, the owner of the Memphis South, and John Bessaco, owner of the Philadelphia Bell Haimitter says attendance is quote the most challenging question in our minds unquote. Quarterback Joe Gilliam is listed as a doubtful starter for Pittsburgh's game on Sunday against Denver, but Terry Bradshaw feels he'll be able to float throw again by then. Both quarterbacks were injured
in Sunday's victory over Cleveland. Bradshaw received a 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 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 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 labour 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 two to two tie at the five to forty one mark of the final period, and Apps clinched the trium with its tally. With eighty four seconds left. Rookie goalie Gord Laxton 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. Among the headliners skipping the event, our Olympic Marathon champion Frank Shorter and world record holders Steve Williams, Rick Waal Huter,
Dwight Stones, Dave Roberts, and Al Fureback. The NCAA 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 remain the top small college football teams in the nation and the latest NCAA poll that's Late Edition Sports. I'm Keith Overman, good night.
I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Most of our Countdown music was arranged, produced, and performed by Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel, our musical directors of Countdown, and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Mister Ray was on guitars, bass and drums. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Our satirical and fithy musical comments
are by the best baseball stadium organists ever. Nancy Faust the Old Woman theme from ESPN two written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Is the sports music. I was going to do a sports segment today, but it would have boiled down to baseball has completely screwed up the playoffs. The greatest comeback in divisional history. Cleveland came back over two months to erase a fifteen game lead by Detroit, and they were rewarded by having to beat Detroit again two out of three and the only
one once. So sorry, not good enough. The greatest comeback of all time. And because you'll lost one game too many in as playoff system, you're gone. That was the whole sports section, So there it is again anyway. Any who, other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns allowed in My announcer today is my friend Nancy Faust, who also did the announcing and the organ Everything else was,
as always my fault. That's countdown for today, Day two hundred and sixty of America held hostage just two hundred and three days until the scheduled end of his lame duck and lame brain term unless he is moved sooner by MAGA and Jeffrey Epstein, or the pavement on his hand or a stuck escalator or a psychopathy test or tile and all, or that judge guy he doesn't like, who's actually a girl, Or if he says once again, someday soon you won't have Trump to kick around anymore,
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