IS JACK SMITH ASKING TO HAVE TRUMP DETAINED OR GAGGED? 9.7.23

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Merry Christmas! Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Is Jack Smith trying to get the judge and the election subversion trial to detain Trump or fine Trump or start Trump's trial early or issue a gag order against Trump? Don't be distracted. Keep your third eye clear. It's not Hunter Biden indicted. It's not Mike Hocka be threatening bullets instead of ballots. It's not even E. Jean Carroll extending her winning streak versus Trump to four and oh. Those are all fun in their way. But the headline at the moment is a behind-the-scenes courtroom drama under seal, but which seems to be based on the half-second of light shining on it, the way a midnight thunderstorm illuminates everything, and then just as quickly plunges it all back into darkness, which seems to be an attempt by Smith to get Judge Tonya Chutkin to punish Donald Trump for shooting off his big bazoo in speeches and on social media. And that's all we know about it. Smith has made a filing with Judge Chutkin's court in which he alleges Trump has, quote, made daily extrajudicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury pool. That's almost literally it. The whole motion is just 345 words, and that includes the underlined title at the top, and Jack Smith's name and job description at the bottom. It's 366 words if you include the names of his aides, Thomas Windom, and Molly Gaston, and the address of their office. That's it. Whatever this is about, Smith's office filed opposition to a motion to vacate by Trump's lawyers, and Trump's lawyers demanded three weeks before the court ruled, and 14 days before they, Trump's lawyers had to respond to anything under seal, and Smith testily answers, quote, such a requirement would grind litigation in this case to a halt, which is particularly infeasible given the pressing matters before the court, including the defendant's daily extrajudicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury pool in this case, as described in the government's motion. C-E-C-F number 47-3, unquote. E-C-F number 47-3 is sealed. We cannot see it yet. And so it is left to the imagination, and the easy part is to imagine which daily extrajudicial statements Smith is reminding Judge Chutkin about, because they began in the overnight hours of Sunday and Monday, August 14, not 72 hours after Judge Chutkin warned Trump's lawyers, quote, I caution you and your client to take special care in your public statements about this case, and Trump said he understood, and at 1233 Eastern Daylight time, Trump stopped understanding, and posted, quote, how dare low-life prosecutor deranged Jack Smith break into my former Twitter account without informing me and indeed trying to completely hide this atrocity from me, unquote. Because the heavens did not immediately strike somebody dead, or whatever it is, Trump expects will happen when he issues his bleeding, which would embarrass a fourth grade bully. Just 41 minutes later, Trump attacked the bench, referring to a, quote, by highly partisan Judge Tanya Chutkin. She obviously wants me behind bars, unquote. Trump started it as the midnight suet that is his skin, liquefied itself, and dripped onto the keypad of his phone, and he basically has not stopped since. You or I obviously would have jailed him by now, because these are the kinds of threats that perhaps even hard asses, like Jack Smith and Tanya Chutkin, and I say that fan boyishly, do not fully appreciate. They're not just insults, and they're not just designed to, to again, quote, Smith's one second glimpse of his sealed motion, prejudice the jury pool in this case. They are also standard Trump's stochastic calls to terrorism by others, acting on his behalf, but giving him what the CIA at its worst used to call plausible deniability. These are not too complexly coded messages to Trump's stormtroopers to go attack Jack Smith, or attack Tanya Chutkin, or attack any Democrat, or attack any Trump critic. They are threats, and the judge should treat them as such. So is that what she's considering doing? Is that what Jack Smith has asked her to do under seal? Treat him as the lethal threat he represents, and revoke his bail, slam his ass in jail where it belongs, the bail, the terms of which he has obviously violated, or find him, or institute a full gag order on him, or is it that other option? The day Chutkin instructed Trump's latest collection of unqualified ambulance chasers to shut the F up. She promised a novel response if he did not. quoting her again from August 11th. The more a party makes inflammatory statements about this case, which could taint the jury pool, the greater the urgency will be that we proceed to trial quickly. There's the same reference, the jury pool, and tainting it. Whatever is going on, we will know something next week. I think CNN is reporting Chutkin has ordered both sides to file additional briefs on whether or not the original Smith brief, which presumably is about, or at least touches on, the defendant's daily extrajudicial statements should be posted on the public record. Trump's team is to answer that question by Monday, and the special counsel must answer by next Wednesday. Something else about Jack Smith and Trump that has gotten steam roller by the Atlanta deliberations and the other headlines and everything else, and all it is is evidence that the Jack Smith grand jury is still hearing evidence against Trump and his co-conspirators and still hearing evidence about how he raised all that the election was stolen money and how much fraud he committed while raising it and what he did with it after he raised it. Except Smith has gone granular on us on this front. CNN again reporting quote, questions asked of two recent witnesses indicate Smith is focusing on how money raised off baseless claims of voter fraud was used to fund attempts to breach voting equipment in several states won by Joe Biden. Unquote. CNN got the invoices that apparently intrigued Smith that show Sydney more cracked than crack and Powell hired forensic computer firms that eventually got inside voting equipment in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania states which you may just remember were all one by Joe Biden. CNN is not detailing how the little thought electron jumped from Jack Smith's investigation of Trump fundraising scams to Sydney Powell's electronic breaking and entering, but there it is. There could be a fifth set of federal indictments or folded into the election subversion trial in Washington, a second case in which Donald Trump is re-indicted. Thank you, Nancy Faust. Sorry. Couldn't resist nor evidently can Trump resist. Hugh Hewitt, the man who grew up so poor that his family could only afford the two syllables with which to try to build a first and last name out of, asks Trump if he will testify at his own trial. Oh, yes, he says, absolutely. And a mighty roar goes up from everybody in the special counsel's office. Quote, I'll look forward to testifying at trial, I'll testify, and cheers that go through the halls, shea funny willess. Now again, pump the brakes. Trump said this. And that mean he's going to do this. Call it the infrastructure week rule. But wait, there's more. Poor Hugh Hewitt asks him another question. If Smith and Willis and Alvin Bragg said, we're willing to drop all the charges, but you have to leave the presidential race. Quote, I have no interest. You know me well enough. No interest, absolutely no interest. I think they'd make that deal right now, which means he has interest. And I don't know about them making that deal right now. Crew just sued. And the 14th Amendment is now so mainstream. I heard about it right in the middle of the repeating headlines on the New York all news radio station W I N S right between the real field temperature of 96 and traffic on the FDR and whatever dumb thing mayor Adams just said. Why even the Associated Press reported about the 14th Amendment. This is a friendly suit. Crew suing the Secretary of State of Colorado on behalf of six Republican and unaffiliated voters, including a conservative Denver Post columnist and former Trump voter and separately a former Republican state legislative leader. And they ask the Trump be disqualified from the ballot there. The Secretary of State Jenna Griswald replies, quote, this case will provide guidance to election officials on Trump's eligibility as a candidate for office. You bet it will. Colorado is the venue because it allows ballot challenges to go straight to court. And it can be wrapped up before the primaries hit next January. And because and this is fascinating eight years ago, a naturalized American citizen who was born in Guiana sued over this issue of presidential eligibility. He claimed the requirement that every candidate be born in the US was unfair and he wanted to be on the presidential ballot. He lost his lawsuit. And when it was appealed to a federal appeals court, the judge there upheld the defeat because there are constitutional eligibility requirements to be president and they should be enforced. And the judge who said that was Neil Gorsuch. Right row. Calling Leonard Leo, we need a replacement for Neil Gorsuch immediately. What's Jason Whitlock doing? Now, the other headlines of Trump and the terrible horrible no good, very bad day. He has as good as lost his second defamation suit to E. Jean Carroll. Okay, which one of your geniuses keeps scheduling Trump to face E. Jean Carroll? She's four and all against him for Christ's sake. The judge here ruled that Trump is liable for defamatory statements he made about her when she originally went public about the rape in 2019. But trial will now deal only with how much more if anything. Trump owes her on top of the five million. He already owes her from the other defamation suit. Meanwhile, in a different New York courtroom, another New York judge threw out Trump's bid to delay the corporate fraud civil lawsuit filed by New York State Attorney General Tish James. And he kicked Trump in the ass as he did it. Trump's arguments in this case are quote, completely without merit. In the Fanny Willis prosecution in Georgia, prosecutors told the judge they anticipate a four-month trial, a four-month trial, or as we call it here in New York, half a met's season. Also, the Ken Cheesebro and Sydney Powell bids to get their trials severed from the others. Well, it's going to stay cheese and cracking. They will get the expedited trials they wanted, starting late next month, and they will be together, and the judge will decide shortly if the other 17 defendants, Trump included, will start on that date or later. It is just possible, just possible that Powell and Cheesebro lost. Because according to prosecutors, each of them cited seven cases as precedents, except none of the seven cases were recode charges, and in all seven of the cases, the defendants did not get their trials separated from the others, which seems like an excellent strategy if you're trying to lose. Now back to Marilago and the stolen classified documents case, not a shock, unless you are still shocked by Trump being so done in Kruger that he should change his name to Donald J. Dunning Kruger, Trump. Remember the ex-Trump attorney, Evan Corcoran? The one that prosecutors got a judge to force to testify against him because he had made audio memos of every meeting with Trump? ABC News has seen transcripts of some of those memos, and in one, Corcoran memorialized that in May of 2022, May, he warned Trump face-to-face that if Trump did not comply with the New Justice Department's subpoena to return all them classified docs, the FBI might wind up searching the joint. Then, on another Corcoran memo, another attorney warned Corcoran that if he pushed Trump to comply, quote, he's just going to go ballistic. Like that's news or something. Corcoran's memos show that Trump was by that time May of last year, trying to dictate where the lawyers and the feds could and could not look for the documents. They also showed that every time Corcoran tried to talk about reality, Trump complained he was the victim and he was being targeted and he was the usual martyrdom stuff, et cetera, et cetera. But there is one glorious detail. Corcoran and Trump are in Trump's office and per ABC, they are, quote, in front of a Norman Rockwell-style painting depicting Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, and Trump playing poker, unquote. There is nothing on the Corcoran recordings of how many dozen aces Trump had up his sleeve in the painting or how he managed to assert that he was entitled to keep them there. And also from Mar-a-Lago, I mean, this was obvious by August 22nd and some news outlets were still pretending yesterday it was breaking news, but yesterday the mouthpiece that Trump had supplied for his IT guy at Mar-a-Lago, you sealed Tiberis, Stanley Woodward, who is now you seals ex attorney, Stanley Woodward made it official. Tiberis cut a deal with prosecutors and he will testify against the others like maybe Trump, like Trump co-defendant Carlos, the boss wants the server-deleted deal of error and he will not be charged and best of all, Tiberis's name is you seal. Thank you, Nancy Faust, and one last headline. If there is anything worse than the guy Sean Connery references in the Untouchables, the guy who brings a knife to a gun fight, there is the other guy who brings a knife to a gun fight and then boasts about how much trouble the guy with the gun is in. And lastly, of course, there's the guy who brings the knife to an atomic war. And that guy is Mike Huckabee. Before I play you this clip, I always flash back to Mike Huckabee's extraordinary cowardice. Chris Matthews and I were actually sent to Columbia South Carolina. First we went to California for the first debate, but in May of 2007 we went to Columbia South Carolina to anchor live MSNBC coverage of the second Republican debate. And we're doing the pregame show and they bring Huckabee out for a quick interview and Matthews rises to greet him, but Huck has only got eyes for me and he's staring in shock that I am there. He is frozen. He's got no idea what to do. He's just standing there and he starts staring daggers at me and finally I said, don't don't worry governor. I've got this segment off. You don't have to make a scene. He later told conservative writers that he had refused to do the segment if I was on, which might have been true, but was kind of irrelevant since I wasn't. Huckabee after he blew out of the presidential race, he actually was a candidate for president used to be on Fox, then he used to be on ABC radio, then he was on cumulus. Now he's on the Trinity Broadcasting Network and see if this crap from his latest show Huckabee sounds at all familiar. Do you know how political opponents to those in power are dealt with in third world dictatorships, banana republics and communist regimes? Well, it's simple. People in power use their police agencies to arrest their opponents for made up crimes in an attempt to discredit them, bankrupt them, imprison them, exiled in, are all of the above. So wait, Mike Huckabee is being critical of Trump and the republicans. Oh, he's not. Even though Trump's entire campaign in 2016 was lock her up and while president Trump repeatedly tried to get Hillary Clinton prosecuted and James called me prosecuted and his campaign this time around has been about how he's going to prosecute everybody who's ever crossed him and we're this close to him threatening to prosecute the other owners from the United States football league who dared to send out teams to try to defeat his sainted team, the New Jersey generals of 1983 and 84. We rejoin, Mike Huckabee, threatening people will be killed if Trump is not reelected already in progress. Here's the problem. If these tactics end up working to keep Trump from winning or even running in 2024, it is going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets. As always, Republicans introduced something evil, then they attempt the evil, then they bluntly, surprisingly failed to pull off the evil because they talk a great game, but they can neither govern nor strong arm. And then they whine and claim they are the victims of something the Democrats just invented when the Democrats do a legal and morally justifiable version of the illegal Republican thing. Also, as I always like to throw in for the edification of Republicans and fascists and red stateers and other losers who only understand stuff like this. Who is it again? Who has all the tanks? Also of interest here, yeah, I still have the throat infection. Got a little worse actually. I've got a worse person next. I've got Rand Paul talking about that quote vacant look where quote, you're sort of basically unconscious with your eyes open. And startlingly, no, he's not looking at his own reflection. That's next this discount down. 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It's 48 years since I was warned if you want to enjoy radio or TV or movies or any kind of media, do not start working in them. Sadly, I ignored that. The day that I ignored it, coming up in things I promised not to tell, plus a singing surprise for you if you stay all the way through the end. Plus, okay, my ENT says I can give you the daily roundup of the miscreants morons and Dunning Krueger FX specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. The bronze Anderson Cooper talking about not being able to enjoy broadcasting ever again. The world's longest running unsuccessful marketing experiment is still making hay off the death of his mother and his brother. Book three on this topic is coming. Got him another profile in the New York Times. He now has more profiles in the New York Times than he has viewers. But if that's the way you want to live your life, have fun. The latest Times fluff piece didn't question him once about denigrating his own audience, saying on air they were, quote, staying in your silo, an only listening to people you agree with. But it did give him the chance to really show how little he understands what he does for a living. The Times fluffer asked him about Chris Lickt. Quote, I don't know what Chris Lickt's analysis was. I don't have much confidence that I actually know what he was thinking. Well, welcome to the club. I try to worry about stuff I actually have my hands on. For me, it's the show that I work on. That is my priority and I do whatever I can to do that to make that as good as I can. My sense from Chris was there was not a lot we needed to hash out because I'm not an opinion host. I'm talking to people from different sides and trying to be straight down the middle and represent things fairly and accurately. Upshot of this is Anderson Cooper thinks he's not an opinion host and he's trying to be straight down the middle. And no, the guy did not ask him how that would jive with attacking his own audience and ending his career the way he did. They're on our up little Jimmy O'Keefe and I think I first put him on this list in 2009 and 14 years later, you know it is kind of nice to know that the only thing I got wrong about him was how much of a bozo he was and he is. And you're thinking, yeah, I know this story. I know about this. He bankrupted his little deceptive editing outfit project Veritas by spending all project Veritas' money on helicopters that he could take to musicals that he would pay for so he could star in them. But wait, there's more. The Washington Post got hold of an internal audit on where all the money went at project Kiss My Ass. And I cannot paraphrase this paragraph any better than Will Summer wrote it. So I'm just going to quote him verbatim. In September 2021, according to the report, Hurricane Ida floodwaters threatened to destroy the project Veritas office in Maranac, New York, the staff scrambled to save equipment and their own lives. One elderly employee was briefly pulled underwater and had to be rescued by colleagues. But O'Keefe had already left the scene asking employees to prioritize his own evacuation so he could make it to Virginia for a performance of the musical Oklahoma in which he had the lead role according to staffers cited by the audit. Oh, Oklahoma where the floodwaters nearly drowned the staffer. But our winner, Rand Paul. Now look, if Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell were both on fire and the hydraulic laws of nature were overwhelming me, I'd hold it in. But Rand Paul's statement about Mitch McConnell's recent freezes. It's just amazing and maybe not for the obvious reason. Rand Paul, who was a board-certified ophthalmologist only because he created his own board to rival the real board and he had his own board certify him. Rand Paul is not convinced by McConnell's doctorous explanation that his recent episodes of vapor lock were caused by dehydration. When you get dehydrated, Rand Paul says you don't have moments when your eyes look in the distance with a vacant look and you're sort of basically unconscious with your eyes open. So you and I need to start a go fund me to buy Senator Rand Paul a mirror. Moments when your eyes look in the distance, those are the only moments Rand Paul has. Vacant look Rand Paul owns the vacant look. Sort of basically unconscious with your eyes open. My God. Sort of basically unconscious with your eyes open is the Rand Paul brand. Rand, dead eye dick is not the compliment you may think it is Paul. Two days. Let's see if I can do this. Worst person in the world. 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Whether you love rewatching your all-time favorites or you get more excited for the new movies, we've got you covered. We're going to get into all of it. Best and worst scenes, movie wardrobe, Christmas decor, and you know, those moments that didn't quite make sense. And of course, we'll discuss the most important question of all. Will the couple make it? Each episode will also have some fun industry insider tidbits from the industry insider herself. Carrie, that's me. So let's do Hallmark together this year because we know you're watching too. Sit back, relax, get your Hallmark fun, and listen to the Hallmark junkies podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Very Christmas. I'm Emilea. For as long as I can remember, I've been looking for love. For a while, I was looking in all the wrong places. I try to figure out why I settled for that type of love. And surprise, surprise, I trace the chill of crumbs back to my childhood. 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Earlier this month the film director Peter Jackson was on a podcast put out by the Hollywood reporter magazine and he said his greatest regret about making the Lord of the Rings trilogy was that he could never actually go see the films. It is such a regret Peter Jackson said he had looked into getting hypnotherapy to make him forget the work he did on the films and even to forget the films themselves just so he could go see them like the 99.99% of the world that did not direct the Hobbit flicks. quoting Jackson from the awards chatter podcast. It was such a loss for me not to be able to experience them like everyone else was. That I actually did seriously consider going to a hypnotherapy guy and to hypnotize me to make me forget about the films and forget about the work I'd done over the last six to seven years so I could sit and enjoy them. Just put your head down here on the taper racing machine. We'll hit the dagous button and you'll be fine Pete. I mean you won't remember anything since the year 2015 but away we go. It didn't happen apparently Jackson chickened out so no hypnotherapist caused him to forget making the Lord of the Rings but one I guess made me remember a piece of advice that somebody should have given Peter Jackson before he made the Lord of the Rings trilogy. 47 years ago this week I arrived at Cornell University as a 16 year old freshman. We all got there on Sunday August 24th. My folks stayed I think one night and before they left my dad helped me to find the college radio station WVBR which turned out not to really be a college radio station per se. It wasn't even on the campus we were driving around for quite a while until we found it. Early in the afternoon of Monday August 25th 1975 this is the anniversary the address was 227 Lyndon Avenue, Ithaca, New York. I walked into this sprawling always a little cold but nicely converted old gas station and parking garage and the first person I saw was a young not too tall woman who asked me if she could help me and I said hi I'm a freshman I'd like to become a sportscaster and she actually said sounds like you already are hi I'm Roberta Heyber I'm the training director but we don't really start training until about four weeks from now you'll see the flyers and the announcements it should be the last Monday and September I think we'll be able to find a place for you she gave me a quick tour of WVBR and then ushered me the hell out I checked for those flyers every day and finally there they were Monday September 22nd at open house for would be disc jockey's news people sportscasters engineers 8 pm WVBR FM studios I got there a little early and there were already 50 people in the station lounge there were still a few open spots on the floor the place kept filling out they cut it off and started asking people to come back for a second open house the next night when it got to be about a hundred of us sitting there and when it was so crowded in the lounge that I could no longer see the posters on the wall celebrating two of the most hotly promoted young rock stars of the day Bruce Springsteen and Loudon Wayne Wright III anyway we finally got started that woman who had greeted me Roberta started the inevitable passing around of the sign-up sheet and then she said something that somebody should have told Peter Jackson before he made those movies she said more or less this may sound like a joke but it's not we always give this warning on the first night of training if you ever want to listen to the radio again and just enjoy it here's the door leave now several people laughed no I'm serious even if you just start training and then leave it'll still be too late for you to ever just enjoy radio again and the further you get into it the more things you have to cross off your list it's it's not that I can't listen to the radio anymore I can hear every accent I can hear everybody with a mushy s I can hear the dead air I can hear the bad segways from record to record well that's bad enough I'm in radio but this is my senior year and and I can't just listen to music anymore I used to be the music director now I judge every song I hear with this be good on wvbr I can hear singers mispronounce words I can hear notes that aren't perfect if you want to enjoy radio or music here's the door leave now not so many people laughed this time and she continued it even begins to affect watching TV and movies because radio gives you an idea of how TV and movies work as well there's an old saying if you like sausage never go see how they make sausage even if you like watching them make it though you'll still always think I wonder if they're making it correctly what's the recipe here so if you want to enjoy radio or music or television or life ever again leave now the guy sitting next to me left I did not I wanted to see how they made the sausage the inability to just sit back and flip the radio on and not pay attention to it was a fair trade off I had already been doing that in high school we had a high school radio station it wasn't much but I used to then listen to other radio stations the real ones and go that guy has a really really bad New York accent wvbr turned out to be the best training ground in the country in my senior year we literally had a 29 year old guy from San Francisco named Al who wanted to become a sportscaster and a radio commercial salesman and he moved to Ithaca New York just to train at wvbr I love dithika New York but I would never move from San Francisco to Ithaca New York that effect that you will hear every mistake and reduce every joy to something technical that actually began to wear off after 20 years or so I can put the radio on now and once out of every I don't know three or four hundred times I won't hear the mistake or the civil and s or the news reporter coming on and his volume in the studio is too low and he sounds like this there are still some periodic flashbacks to do other things that happened early in my career there one day my clock radio alarm went off at exactly the right moment that deeply asleep I still heard the newscaster introduce my pre taped morning sportscast now sports here's Keith older man I sat up in bed immediately I reached for some non-existent script and began to shout indecipherable nonsense well you know that I still do it anyway they they didn't make me go through the full training program back in 1975 I made it onto the air about 10 days later a year later I was the sports director which was great except all 10 of those senior sportscasters who were there had graduated and the day I got back to Ithaca in August 1976 the program director said until you find some more sportscasters you have to do all the sportscasts and while I pretended that that would have been terrible I figured eventually I'd probably want to take a day off from the radio station and I don't know maybe go to a class or go for a meal or something so I put up signs and all the freshmen dorms offering a quick training program and sure enough I got six or seven guys who wanted to be sportscasters and the first thing I said to them was listen if you ever want to enjoy radio again forget this because you'll always be thinking about how they make the sausage I mean I don't even enjoy sports as much as I used to well they all got cleared to go on the air one of them wound up as the general manager of the radio station and you know what all that got me the job is the head of training for the entire station the next year I did that for two years and probably got 50 or 60 people into the station on the air or whatever including one particular engineer a techie named Ruby he would never answer without anything else who later invented the iPod for Steve Jobs and I told them all the same thing if you want to enjoy listening to radio get out while you can before we teach you how to do it sausage does not look that good ever again and years later when WVBR FM hit kind of hard times Ruby John Rubinstein bought them a new transmitter tower and I paid for most of the new studio and I named it after my dad and one of my colleagues there Glenn Cornelius I'm only sorry about one thing which is that I did not get to Warren Peter Jackson about how if he wanted to enjoy anything ever again he should have gotten out on day one too I've done all the damage I can do here thank you for listening countdown has come to you from our studios high atop the sports capsule building in New York around the corner from my various doctors here are the credits most of the music was arranged produced and performed by Brian Ray and John Philip Chanel they are the countdown musical directors all orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Chanel guitars bass and drums by Brian Ray produced by TKO Brothers other Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by the group no horns allowed the sports music is the overman theme from ESPN 2 and it was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc and I promise yes we will again someday have a sports section musical comments by Nancy Faust the best baseball stadium organist ever who accompanies me in my many singing efforts or should those be attempts our announcer today was my friend John Dean and everything else was pretty much my fault that's countdown for this the 975th day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States convict him twice in one day while we still can yeah I'm upping the ante the next scheduled countdown is tomorrow bulletin says the news warrants and as my throat infection permits till then I'm Keith Olderman good morning gonna afternoon good night good luck and since you have been good enough to hear me out and to stick this out to the end I'm gonna 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