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Keith Olbermann
Olbermann is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump has started World War 3 and Trump has no idea how to stop World War Three. And if you are trying to understand how Trump could be in a fugue state about his own World War three, NBC has reported that each morning they show him a video of the most successful strikes, the most successful bombing runs in Iran from the previous day. Two minutes, which one source described each daily video as a series of clips of, quote, stuff blowing up. His own personal edition of SportsCenter from Way Downtown. Bang. Or if you like, the other guy gone. This is all he sees because this is all he understands. That's not two minutes of people dying, that's two minutes of stuff blowing up. And he's mentally ill and he is a sadist. And on top of that he is physically deteriorating. Stuff blowing up is all Trump understands and it's all he thinks war is. Of course we're winning. He has never seen any video of Iran blowing any of our stuff up. So Trump comes out of this wondering why all the newscasts aren't just showing him blowing stuff up in Iran. The rest of it doesn't even confused him. It just doesn't exist to him. There aren't other people there. Hell, there aren't other people on earth, only him from way downtown. Bang. So when the new polling comes out, Associated Press NORC and it says 59% of Americans now think his military action in Iran is excessive and 45% are extremely concerned or very concerned they won't be able to afford gas in the next few months. Half again, as many as after Trump's election. He can't process that. He doesn't even try. But look at all the stuff we blow up. We won it. It blew up Trump has started World War 3 and has no idea to how to stop World War 3 and has no idea why we are not all seeing the same edition of World War 3 center that he is. And Trump is losing World War Three conflagration in the Middle East. Trump insisting Iran is dead, and yet Iran has struck Tel Aviv. Putin has sent the Russian oil tanker the Culloden to Cuba just to remind us he can. A Russian warship escorting it as far as the English Channel. Trump has now given Iran de facto control of the worldwide price of a barrel of oil. Iran now controls 30% of worldwide fertilizer distribution. Because of Trump's war. The Philippines declares an emergency, an energy emergency, and Slovenia institutes energy rationing. 13 gallons of gas per car per day. United Airlines here just raised airfares 20% because of oil. Trump insists peace could be imminent, yet sends thousands more troops to Iran. He mumbles about a peace proposal. It may be last year's peace proposal and he has forgotten. Trump insists Iran has agreed to never again have a nuclear weapon. And then he says, we wiped out all their leaders, so we don't know who to talk to. But he's talking to the right people. Ukraine is still striking inside Russia, and Russia, of course, still striking inside Ukraine. The Secretary of NATO suddenly swerves from skepticism to toadying for Trump. And the Europeans are fearing blackmail or bribery of him. A Pakistani army field marshal is now involved because the Pakistanis nominated Trump for that God damned Nobel Peace Prize. And now this field marshal thinks he can be the mediator for Trump's war with Iran. The war which is apparently being conducted in part so crooks can make half a billion dollars at a time in insider trades or bets about oil prices. And of course, the ultimate insanity now, the point of Trump's World War three has become to reopen the Strait of Hormuz after the Strait of Hormuz was closed by Trump's World War Three. Literally more than 20 nations in two hemispheres involved. Literally. It's World War Three. What World War Three had to have. Nukes. Give it time. Oh, and the Wall Street Journal has gone all Dr. Strange Love on us, by the way. Quote, the Trump administration finds itself in a larger war than it expected, facing a profoundly hard decision. Trump must put boots on the ground to open the Strait of Hormuz and demonstrate the unquestionable supremacy of American power. If he fails, his legacy will be one of American collapse. Sure, thousands of American troops to invade Iran. And by the way, the part people like the lunatics at The Wall Street Journal editorial board always leave out American troops to die in Iran in a multi year, maybe multi decade invasion and occupation of an entire nation where the dictatorship chants death to America. And after we did nothing for the resistance, guess what? The resistance also chants death to America. Invade and occupy the Strait of Hormuz and Kharg island and, and Tehran. Tehran, a city of 10 million people. And we have to do this or we face, quote, American collapse. It is madness. It is unadulterated, unrelieved, unconscionable madness. And it is all because Trump needed to distract from the Epstein files and distract from his destruction of the American economy and distract from his obsession with tariffs, a tool of the 19th century. And to distract from his racism and to distract from his amazingly consistent bad judgment in personnel. Ask Christy no and her $20 whore, Corey Lewandowski. World War Three now on the verge of escalating to sending thousands of American troops there to try to recreate in Iran George W. Bush's failure in Iraq. Only on a scale 10 times as large. Because Trump cannot face the fact that he has failed. He has failed at everything. He has failed at every point, he has failed at every time. The only thing Donald Trump has not yet failed at is failing. Let me circle back to these so called peace talks. This may in fact be the first time we can draw a straight line between Trump's mounting instability and the deaths of American troops, to say nothing of the deaths of other soldiers of other nations and of course of civilians by the thousands. There is constant talk now of a 15 point American peace plan or ceasefire plan or plan for a plan. And the problem is the American peace plan from 2025 was also 15 points. And in many accountings of this, they seem to be the same 15 points. We have to face this. There is every possibility that Trump has conflated the two, that Trump doesn't know. It's not 2025 anymore. Then there was his insistence that they sent him a present of some kind, that the Iranians had sent him a present. Maybe it's the present of an excursion or incursion or a mutilization of something or asylum. At the asylum near the malfunction at the junction, they're gonna make a deal. They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually. They gave us a present and the present arrived today. It was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money. I'm not gonna tell you what that present is, but it was very significant prize. To quote Ralphie's father from a Christmas Story. It's a major award. A major award. And I won it. My guess would be the Iranians have given Trump the Nobel Pizza Prize. Unfortunately, while Trump is drifting in and out of consciousness, and you can tell he's drifting in and out of consciousness, look at how his cabinet members are treating him. Sure, sure, chief, whatever you say. You're the best of all time, as long as you don't start another one of your two hour monologues. While Trump is seeing things, some of which might even be there, Iran actually has a ceasefire plan. And all the US has to do is close all American bases in the Gulf, pay reparations for the missile barrage on Iran, pay for all transit through the Strait of Hormuz, lift all sanctions on Iran, and let Iran resume its missile building programs. And as insane as those demands are, they are likelier to happen than Trump's are. He has dug us a hole so deep that Israel's Channel 12 reports that the actual American priority at the moment is to try to get a ceasefire for a month, to try to reach something, to try to reach some agreement. I think we need to reach some agreement on what our ceasefire proposal really is, because as the Iranian military leadership insightfully said, the US is negotiating with itself. Periodically, Trump does bob up from under the surface of whatever embalming fluid he's swimming around in, and you can tell he's already looking for a scapegoat. It is late in the episode of the Apprentice in his mind. Rubio. Wow, we haven't seen Rubio in days. Wit cough. Too easy. Nobody takes Witkoff seriously. Anyway, Gnome. That's it. Oh, no, I already fired Gnome. Hagseth. Oh, yeah, Hegseth. And Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up and you said, let's do it, because you can't let them have a nuclear weapon. Trump has done this enough times by now that you can see the pattern. We're at the start. The blame first requires giving the victim to be credit for something. Oh, you thought this up first, Pete. You were the first to say it. You were the one who had this idea first. You were the first to realize. Fill in the blank. Then when he has decided, when he has satisfied himself that he has established that this wasn't really his plan but yours. When he believes the public believes it's yours. When the beautiful gold with gold highlights rug has been carefully placed and he has convinced you to stand on it. When this is your war or your ice surge or your Department of Justice. Jeff Sessions. Then comes part two. The rug, the beautiful gold on gold rug is pulled out from under you, Pete. Hey, Mario. Ever thought of yourself as Secretary of State and Defense? I cannot predict at what point Trump will fire Hegseth. He likes Hagseth on TV because like Chance the gardener from Peter Sellers being there, Trump can still process tv. He just can't process the real world. But if it's not Hagseth, he's going to have to fire somebody soon. And it has to be somebody the public recognizes, because even the rubes hate this war, hate what it's done to the economy, hate what it's done to the cost of filling up their pickups, to say nothing of the price of the fuel with which to light a lawn full of burning crosses. They see it, which means somebody's gonna get it. There was an irony this week to insights about Trump, particularly on this topic, especially on how he makes sure the buck may stop somewhere, but it's not gonna stop anywhere near him. And the insight came at one of these ludicrous sideshow Trump events. Not a big truck demonstration, this time on the White House lawn. Not the destruction of the reputation of a bunch of Olympic hockey players at a dim to understand, not knocking down the White House and putting up a McDonald's, but at Graceland. Graceland. This WTF moment at the home of Elvis Presley. The insight from one employee there, one employee of the My God, Elvis Presley died when I was 18 years old and we're still talking about him Association. I think that's the group's name that, that runs Graceland. This insight from the second of the two Graceland employees you will hear here is better than that of any other political commentator this week, including me. And obviously far more succinct about Elvis and karate and Bruce Lee and Trump, Trump, for whom every set of stairs may be his last, who is still speculating about the outcome of a fight, a fight against Elvis, presumably. Before Elvis died, Elvis had two 8th degree black belts in karate. One was in kento. And that's what this. Was he really good or was it just. Actually, he was really good. He started practicing. Could I have taken him in a fight? I don't know. You might. I think he would have been respectful enough to let you win.
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Keith Olbermann
I think he would have been respectful enough to let you win. Yes. If you expand the practical meaning and use of that word respectful in there to include other words like I think he would have been tired enough to let you win, or I think he would have been just not willing to put up with hearing you whine and martyr yourself again enough to let you win. There it is. That's where we are. That's why Trump got to start World War 3 and why he is losing it. You're tired, I'm tired. We can do other things. The people around him are living this and some of them went into this thinking, well no, Trump can't actually be like this. And they are discovering now that they are in hell and the door with which they used to get into hell has disappeared. I think he would have been respectful enough to let you in. That's how his cabinet is treating him. That's how most of his cult is treating him. That's how large swats I think decreasing numbers of swaths of America is treating him. Between a kind of vestigial respect for what the office used to be and the simple exhaustion of fighting this bullshit every hour of every day his cabinet has devolved into let's let him do what he wants. Just praise him and keep him quiet. When the building collapses on him, maybe we'll get lucky and we won't be next to him when it does. A good plan. If you're Susie Wiles or J.D. vance or Marco Rubio. If you say somebody, everybody in Iran, not so much or somebody, everybody in America. Because the problem is the building that is about to collapse is the United States of America. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that they did not show him a high highlight clip of the Democrat crushing the Republican in the Florida State House race for the district that includes Mar? A Lago. The representative elect is Emily Gregory. Her full time work is in mental health. She's got the right district. Trump presumably voted against her. We know he voted by mail and Melania voted by mail and Barron voted by mail. And the Republicans handed the Democrats another campaign theme about mail in voting. Another campaign theme they won't use. They presumably have enough video of Cory Booker and his book tour. Just as they will not use the imbecility of the new head of Homeland Security, Marqune Mullen. John Wayne Mullen. John Wayne Gacy Mullen. Nepo Plumber sworn in and talking immediately about the TSA working without paychecks, which is because Trump would not agree to what the Republicans in the Senate and the House did agree. A bipartisan pay TSA standalone bill. Mark Wayne is confused as usual. They're working with for free because of political politics. That's all I need to know. I hate them. Political politics. We need more, less Political, political politics from the Ministry of Propaganda. Oh, it's not going well. Oliver Darcy's status newsletter reports that the CBS Evening News, with no journalism, is on track for its lowest rated first quarter of this century. The next data point will be the worst ratings since they went to color TV in total viewers. And in the young viewers demographic. Its audience is now down to half the size of NBC Nightly News with Olderman's old production assistant because, yes, everything is about me. And while Good Morning America went up 9% in total viewers and 6% among the youngins and today was up 15% in total viewers, that's an Olympic bump. The CBS morning show now known as I Don't Think Bari Weiss Knows how to Turn a Television Set on is down 13% in total audience from last year. The demo audience for CBS mornings is down 28%. It is at an average of 268,000 at any given point in the morning. For historical context, the last week I did Countdown on MSNBC in a different world where broadcast television was still fairly vibrant and it usually doubled what was going on in cable in a different decade. In 2011, the new CBS rating in the demo, 268,000. In 2011, the last week of Countdown averaged in the demo, 375,000. Maybe they should just get that two minute clip they showed Trump every morning of stuff blowing up and running on a loop. Oh God, why did I say that out loud? Also of interest here, Kash Patel's girlfriend, his federally funded girlfriend bashes some critics and claims they are connected to foreign agents. Who did she bash? Tucker Carlson, General Flynn, Joe Kent and Candace Owens. Worst persons in the world. Next. This is Countdown. Most people think their insurance will cover them when disaster strikes. The truth? Many are wrong. You pay premiums and assume you're protected until the fine print hits. Exclusions, limits, loopholes. 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this is Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Still ahead on this all new edition of countdown, I don't know if you saw this, but a year before, what will be the latest sports labor cataclysm, the disastrous locking out of the baseball players by the baseball owners and cancellation of the season of 2027. The head of the baseball union had to quit over a little scandal in the office. An alleged affair with a sister in law, was it who was working for him anyway? That flashed me back to my earliest days when I covered no less than two titanic sports strikes in my first three years as a reporter, including the NFL players strike 1982, which the players actually won. There is a colorful story of a drunken evening with the heads of the NFL players union. But most importantly, there is also the story of how the players proposals of 1982 were rejected by the owners as communism. Yet today those are the same proposals the owners are making to the players and which may result in the cancellation of the baseball season of 2027. Cause they're, they're too favorable to management. Coming up in things I promise not to tell in the interim, we always have more new idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscreants, morons and dunning Kruger effect specimens who constitute today's other worst persons in the world. And we dedicate this episode to Senator Cory book tour. Also to Kash Patel's girlfriend, singer Alexis Wilkins, who is essentially underwritten by our government. Your tax dollars in action. Am I right? On social media, she has now insisted no, she is not, not a Mossad honey pot. She is not Kash Patel's Mossad controller. That that rumor was the product of a campaign organized by people tied to real foreign agents operating an organization called Catholics for Catholics. People named Tucker Carlson, she says. General Michael Flynn, she says. Joe Kent, she says, and Candace Owens. I think we can agree that none of them belong in the worst persons segment per se. Because if you've got Kash Patel's girlfriend dirtying up Tucker Carlson, Michael Flynn, Joe Kent and Candace Owens, we are all winners. So the bronze, worse, the Blaze and Jo Hanneman after its success accusing an ex DC policewoman of being the 1-6-PIPE bomber, then saying maybe not, then wait, give us a moment, then retracting the whole story, then praying the woman didn't sue the hell out of them The Blaze is back with yet another story about who the January 6th RNCDNC Pipe Bomb Planter is or isn't. I'll just read the. Read the tweet about the man they actually arrested for the crime. And this is the tweet from this guy, Joe Hanneman of the blaze. Brian Cole Jr. Is no physical match for the hoodie clad pipe bomb suspect, a Blaze News analysis finds. Watch for part three of our series. This was accompanied by a series of literally stick figures. Stick figures. Straight lines drawn on top of silhouettes of the security video and of this guy they arrested. Stick figures, you know, like, like stick figures. I'd also like to call your attention to the phrase a Blaze News analysis. The Blaze is Glenn Beck's website and Glenn is many things. Paranoid, brain damaged from decades of drugs and really, really baseline dim. But most of all, he is stubborn. He is stubborn in a way exceeded maybe only by Trump. Glenn Beck, the personification of Lonesome Rhodes from the classic film Face in the Crowd, will go to his grave absolutely convinced, among other things, that the mural murals in the lobby of 30 Rock, most of which feature people harvesting wheat, are actually some kind of activation signals for a communist uprising in this country. Only after all the brain damage. He pronounced the word wheat like the word weed. And he once did half of a show to tell of the murals. And as he did this, he said what sounded like, look, there's weed over there and there's weed over there and there's more weed over there. And I said, oh my God, let's get down to the lobby. Apparently there's weed everywhere. So. So he's gonna prove the January 6th pipe bomber was. I don't know. I don't know. Greta Van Susteren. I don't know who he's got in mind. I really don't. It's not Greta Van Sustenance, by the way, the runner up, worser CNN and Scott Jennings. You know Jennings, the former Mitch McConnell staffer and Trump bully who appears on the CNN primetime show CNN blows up 45 years of its hard fought journalistic respect with Abby Phillip. Scott Jennings is the jackass who mugs to the camera while others talk, just stares at the camera and makes scrunchy faces exactly like Kermit the Frog. He's the guy who threatened the careers of people who did not genuflect after the indefensible murder of Charlie Kirk. I then suggested his. His career, Jennings career would be the next to end. And I phrased it poorly. Could have sounded like I was threatening him. So I immediately deleted the post, apologized for it, and posted a clearer version. And he immediately responded to that. Kind of smart thing. I think it was on my part. He immediately decided to try to martyr himself with MAGA by. By actually telling the FBI I had threatened to kill him. That's Scott Jennings. Well, on top of everything else, apparently, he's faking all of it. Miles Taylor, the former Trump staffer, Anonymous from the first go round, who, to be fair, also participates in this same CNN shit show, the CNN shit show with Abby Phillip writes, quote, you know who's a perfect metaphor for the gop? Scott Jennings, a pundit who mocks Trump with us during the commercial breaks, but fawns over Trump when the camera is rolling. Brave enough to speak out in the green room. MAGA is furious, demanding Jennings sue Taylor to prove it's a lie. So far, no suit, no demand for a retraction, not even a reply. And oddly, Jennings also has not called the FBI, insisting Miles tail threatened to kill him. For context, I did a PBS show once with Maggie Haberman and the eternal Republican strategist and campaign runner Ed Rollins and Judd Apatow as the host, and I suggested that Trump was nuts. Literally, not figuratively. This was before almost anybody else had suggested that the root cause here was psychological disturbance. We taped the program at Bloomberg. Mics were removed, and Ed Rollins, who had scoffed at my assertion and at all of my criticism of Trump, said, you and I have always had our policy differences, but I have to tell you, Keith, you are right. Trump is nuts. This was on February 13, 2017. So essentially the most important part of this, what Miles Taylor is saying, is true. Most of the people pimping for Trump out there are lying. On top of everything else, they're lying. There are a few true believers. You can tell them because they're the really stupid ones. Like our winner, the congresswoman Lauren Boebert. Parenthesis R onlyfans, end parentheses. You're hands on Representative Colorado. There are self owns and then there are self monopolies, I guess. Boebert with a video of herself attached to it in which she is so overly made up that it exceeded dating app proportions and looked more like she was applying to play Kristi Noem in the road tour of I ran DHS till they caught me. She writes, you can't make this stuff up. ICE agents show up at airports and suddenly TSA wait times in Minneapolis drop to less than five minutes. Called it pro Never write. You can't make this stuff up. When you are in fact making this stuff up. Whatever use ICE may have been at the airports. And once again, why did MAGA think Democrats would be angry that the ICE terrorists would be unmasked and in a confined space where we could see them and they really couldn't do anything besides drink coffee and show off how out of shape they are and they couldn't shoot unarmed protesters. Whatever use ICE may have been at the airports, pointing they were not at Minneapolis St. Paul International. Not at all. There were no ICE deployed to Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport. Lauren Boebert just made it up. Suddenly TSA wait times in Minneapolis dropped the last five minutes called it, but even caught making it up and she got community noted, Boebert refused to correct herself or even delete the tweet. She just held on harder, grasped the nettle, so to speak, decided to finish the job. Called out by fittingly Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar for making it up, Boebert then wrote I never said ICE was at Minneapolis St. Paul and then added a series of slanders for which Congresswoman Omar should sue the pants off Lauren Boebert. Like you had to sue to do that. Lauren, Try to get your high school equivalency certificate before you become a great great grandmother, would you? And get a grip on yourself. Boebert Today's Other Worst person and no world. Most people think their insurance will cover them when disaster strikes. The truth? Many are wrong. You pay premiums and assume you're protected until the fine print hits exclusions, limits, loopholes. Suddenly that coverage isn't coverage at all. My policy advocate reviews your policies, home, auto, life and breaks them down in plain English. They show what's really covered and what isn't. It costs just 27 cents a day, less than a cup of coffee. 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Keith Olbermann
I thought I could see it through the swinging kitchen door of the Il Vagab restaurant on East 62nd street in New York. What I thought I saw seemed to be an extraordinarily large man standing over one of the large kitchen sinks, holding one of the kitchen's big flexible rubber water hoses and drinking from was an unusual enough sight, but there was also a complication. That extraordinarily large man was one of my dinner guests and his name was Gene Upshaw, the just retired offensive guard of the Oakland Raiders and president of the National Football League Players association. Gene was 6 foot 5, 260 pounds, but he seemed much larger than that. If he wanted to drink out of one of the giant kitchen hoses, I wasn't gonna stop him. Nor was anybody in the kitchen, nor was everybody combined on East 62nd street, nor was anybody in the city on that Saturday night so long ago. Two nights later, Gene and the executive director of the National Football League Players Association, Ed Garvey and its outside counsel, Chip Yablonski, would officially take their union out on the last successful strike in pro football and introduce to the entire world of sports what was then, and I literally mean then. That evening on cnn, just before our trip to the restaurant whose kitchen hose Gene was now drinking out of, would then introduce to sports what was then described by a nationally prominent sports writer live on TV as communism. Executive director Garvey had proposed a deal with the owners that would be based on giving the players a percentage of gross income, $0.55 out of every dollar taken in by football. It would be given to the players, and within a structure allowing for individual players to negotiate individual contracts, the players would basically figure out how the rest of their 50 would be divvied up. Among them, the owners would keep 45% and divvy it up any way they wanted to. Today, this is the basis of the contract offers made by the sports owners to the players Union. But in 1982, on September 18, 1982, live on CNN, with me as host. This was called communism by the Atlanta Journal Constitution sportswriter Furman Bisher, whom I had been reading since I was a kid. Bisher was one of the guests in a special show which I anchored from New York with Garvey and Upshaw in the studio with me. Bisher went further. He called Garvey a communist. And I apologized. And Garvey said, I've been called worse today. This was why we were all out to dinner at Il Vagabondo, an Italian restaurant so Italian that there was a bocce ball court in the middle of the main dining room. Our CNN executive sports producer, Rick Davis, had said that if I could talk Garvey and Upshaw into going on our show on a Saturday, I could take them out to dinner. He added, no, and I mean at a nice restaurant. Garvey had already turned into a great source and a great friend with whom I would stay in touch for 35 years. The day before, he had matter of factly told me and only me, a sports reporter from an obscure TV cable network called cnn, that when the union's executive council met the following Monday that there was only one option on its table a strike. This was a huge scoop. Later, Garvey would tell me that the union had made a deal with Ted Turner, who happened to own my network. If the union could get the National Labor Relations Board to rule that the owners had forced that strike, the union would be entitled to break all its contracts with the National Football League and sign a new deal where the players and Ted Turner would co own all of professional football in this country. Would you like to do play by play? Ed said. It didn't happen, obviously, but that also was a great scoop. And they tried it out in miniature. They played two glorified pickup games, one at the LA Coliseum, one at RFK Stadium in Washington under the Greatest Sports League acronym of all time, All Star Season. Yep, ass. It was also Ed Garvey, a month later, in the middle of a press blackout imposed by the National Labor Relations Board mediator, who sneaked into my hotel room outside of Baltimore and gave me an exclusive interview. Anyway, Garvey arrived just after a housekeeper had knocked on my room door and, without waiting for an answer, had entered. That housekeeper saw the following scene, me in a suit sitting on a chair, the CNN cameraman sitting at a table with his big bulky camera and tripod, and the videotape deck operator, who happened to be a woman lounging atop my still unmade bed watching her favorite soap opera on tv. The housekeeper took one look, literally shouted Lordy. And she backed out of the room, nearly knocking down Ed Garvey in the process. Later in the strike, the mediator quit the talks one night. Then the owner's guy also walked out, leaving Ed Garvey and the players by themselves. I sat Garvey down for another interview, and I asked him, will the absence of the media and the league's negotiator make any tangible difference in the negotiations? And Garvey laughed without interruption for 90 seconds. Gene Upshaw, who, in telling this story I have left in the kitchen drinking from the hose all this time, and it's actually almost how long he did drink from the hose that night. He was just as good a friend and a source, whip smart and often too honest for his own good. Five years later, when he had succeeded Garvey as executive director and the players again went on strike against the NFL, I had a tip that the strike was collapsing because the owners had brought in scab players and they kept playing games anyway, I called a lawyer I knew in the union and he was hemming and hawing when I heard him say, wait, Gene wants to talk to you. All Gene Upshaw did was off the record confirm that the strike had indeed collapsed, and he expected lots of union players to cross the picket lines the next morning. I said, I can use this. He said, you've always been honest with me. The least I can do is be honest with you. Matter of fact, you can say high placed union sources told you, ah, screw it. You can quote me, Keith, but wait till after midnight my time. I gotta call these guys. Unfortunately, this meant that when I interviewed the now Los Angeles Raiders team union rep live on TV a few hours later in Los Angeles, and I asked him if the strike was in its final hours, he said, no. And I said, yeah, it kinda is. And it was the head of his union who had told me so. Anyway, that night at Il Vagabondo, Upshaw and Garvey and Chip yablonski told me 20 stories I would have killed to use that night, but they were all off the record. I think I can mention a couple of them now, since it's Chex Watch. Forty years later, at one bargaining session, one of the league's lawyers, Vince Lombardi Jr. Was arguing with one of the player bargainers, linebacker Stan White of the Detroit Lions, who was also a lawyer. The players were asking for something that is still a bone of contention between the two sides. Full access to their own team medical personal records. Vince Lombardi Jr looked at white and said, what are you gonna do with them even if we gave them to you? You guys are too stupid. Them. At that point, White, who might have been a lawyer but was also still a linebacker, leaped over the bargaining table and tried to get his hands around Lombardi's throat. There were also a few hours of shared insults about top NFL announcers and executives and players, and a good deal of wine. At this dinner, and periodically, when there were no more breadsticks at the table or antipasto at the table or water at the table, Gene Upshaw would simply get up and go into the kitchen and get it himself. When the evening was over, my diary notes that we had spent for four men, four large men of whom I was the smallest, with wine with a generous tip at a top New York restaurant on CNN's dime, the staggering figure of $155 still translates only to about 470 bucks today. It was a lot of money then. CNN was paying me $26,000 a year. Anyway, we all walked out into a lovely New York September Saturday night. Darby, Upshaw, and Yablonski were all staying in a hotel not from where we had eaten and not far from where I lived. So I walked them back, and Upshaw had one more immortal memory left to create. It happened that he was on the COVID of that week's edition of Newsweek magazine, and as we passed one of the old ubiquitous Manhattan newsstands, which were just tiny shacks on nearly every of the city, Gene leaned down and into the little window through which the newsstand operator peered out, and he said politely but firmly, have you got a copy of the one with me on the COVID I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Someday, sports owners will realize that their best friends in labor negotiations are the players. They're the ones with the really good ideas. I know it doesn't seem that way because they're the ones whose contracts and salaries you read about. But just remember, the owners are only paying the players like, well, whatever they pay a guy. If it's $500 million, it's because an owner has calculated he's gonna make 500 million off the guy's work without lifting a finger. Anywho, enough marks Our musical directors of Countdown are John Philip Chenale on keyboards and handling orchestration, and Brian Ray on guitars, bass and drums. Their work is produced by TKO Brothers. Nancy Foust, the best baseball stadium organist ever, is responsible for the satirical and pithy musical comments. The sports music is from the old ullerman show on ESPN2. The theme was written by Mitch Warren Davis. It appears courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed by the group no Horns Allowed and my announcer today was my friend Stevie Van Zant. This program was produced by ted. Everything else was, as always, my fault. So that's Countdown for today, day 431 of America held hostage again just 1,032 days until the scheduled end of his lame duck and lame brained term unless he is removed sooner by Epstein and Aran and the ghost of Elvis Presley in a fight. Thank you. Thank you very much. The next scheduled countdown is Monday. Bulletins as the news merits. 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