TRUMP SUDDENLY SPECULATING ABOUT A FUTURE WITHOUT HIM - 10.6.25

Summary

Podcast Summary: "TRUMP SUDDENLY SPECULATING ABOUT A FUTURE WITHOUT HIM"

Podcast: Countdown with Keith Olbermann
Host: Keith Olbermann (iHeartPodcasts)
Air Date: October 6, 2025
Episode Theme:
An incisive analysis of newly emergent rhetoric from Donald Trump, in which Trump surprisingly speculates about a political future without himself; examination of the significance of this admission for his followers and the GOP, the mental and physical state of Trump; scathing commentary on key Trump associates and ongoing right-wing political dynamics; plus Olbermann’s trademark satirical segments and reflections on his own media career.

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Overview of Main Theme

Keith Olbermann opens this episode highlighting an unusual and almost-overlooked admission by Donald Trump—his suggestion that there may soon be a future when "they don't have Trump to fight for them." Olbermann frames this as a pivotal moment that could signal awareness, at least to some degree, of Trump's own political or mortal limits. The episode blends Olbermann's signature political analysis with his biting humor, addressing Trump’s physical and cognitive condition, right-wing agitators (especially Stephen Miller), and takes a broad, critical look at the current far-right landscape.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Trump’s Startling Statement: Facing a Future Without Himself

• Trump's social media post (01:05):

  “It will be very unfair in the future when they don't have Trump to fight for them.”

• Olbermann sees this as an “[...] actual 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.” (02:09)

• He emphasizes how Trump’s followers have an extraordinary capacity for denial and magical thinking, but that this phrase may shake even them:

  “Do not underestimate the ability of his base to convince themselves of the impossible.” (02:20)

• Key Question: Who inside GOP or Trump’s inner circle is being told to prepare for this eventual absence?

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2. Trump’s Recent Public Absences and Possible Health Decline

• Olbermann details Trump’s being missing-in-action for five days, noted as “unusual for a man with compulsive talking disease and an ego so large it has its own zip code” (04:03–04:20)
• He speculates on possible explanations: exhaustion, age (Trump is 79), poor nutrition, lack of exercise, or something more serious.

  “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.” (04:25)

• He wonders aloud about what "disease" could cause sporadic functionality:

  “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?” (05:28)

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3. Trump’s Rambling and Factually Incoherent Statements

• Olbermann plays various clips, showing Trump making confused and inaccurate statements:

  • On Bin Laden:

    “Please remember I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before he blew up the World Trade Center. [...]” (07:29 - Trump)

  • On His Own Presidency/Timeline:

    “I was president in 2016, and then they rigged the election on me. And then we caught him, didn’t we? We caught him, but, you know, we had to run it again. I ran it again and I got 250 and I got the World cup and I got the Olympics. Can you believe all of it?” (08:46 - Trump)

• Olbermann criticizes the blending of years and false claims as a sign of mental confusion or decline.

• On calling the female Judge Karen Immergut a man and making wild claims about violence in Portland:

  “Portland is burning to the ground [...] That judge ought to be ashamed of.” (09:42 - Trump)

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4. The “Stochastic Terror” of Stephen Miller and the MAGA Sphere

• Olbermann reviews Stephen Miller’s (Trump advisor) increasingly inflammatory rhetoric, displaying fury over legal setbacks, and calling for hardline actions:

  “The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.” (Miller, cited by Olbermann at ~13:50)

• Olbermann depicts these statements as the manifestations of a movement that is “paranoid,” “fueled by revenge fantasies,” and “hoping for bloodshed” (03:43).
• He further notes that Miller and others are “willing to do anything, and I mean anything, to glom onto some of Trump’s power again.” (16:56)

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5. Right-Wing Legal and Media Landscape

• Harmeet Dhillon (Assistant Attorney General):

  • Dhillon’s reactionary statements on X/Twitter about voter rolls and federal overreach.

• Incidents of Stochastic Violence:

  • Referenced threats and attacks on Judge Goodstein’s home following legal action against the Trump administration accessing voter data.
  • Concerns about the connection between rhetoric and real-world threats.

• Misinformation about Tariff Revenue:

  • Olbermann mocks Trump’s claim of having brought in $17 trillion from tariffs, referencing White House responses and fact-checks. (17:45)

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6. Satirical Segments: "Worst Persons in the World"

• Targets for the day include:
  • Ian Miles Chong: for racist remarks and misguided support of MAGA (26:18)

    “Ian, the Magas don’t like people of color. And, and. And that would be you.”

  • US Mint: for creating a $1 Trump commemorative coin, derided for its design.
  • Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski/Ice at the Super Bowl:

    “When I think of those actually dangerous ones, the first thing I think of, that bastard is going to the Super Bowl. [...] 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.” (29:35)

  • A viral story: Noem allegedly barred from using the restroom at a city hall ICE raid; Olbermann riffs on the credibility of the “I’m from ICE, need the bathroom” excuse (33:41)

7. Olbermann’s 50th Broadcasting Anniversary Anecdote

• Shares a personal milestone: October 7, 1975, the date of his first radio broadcast as a 16-year-old at Cornell University’s WVBR-FM.
• Describes being “played” by older station members and being forced on air for a full sportscast—“It was all a lie, a damned lie.” (37:00)
• Reflects on those early, nerve-wracking moments, and the trick being repeated at UPI several years later (42:00).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Trump’s Startling Admission:

  “It will be very unfair in the future when they don't have Trump to fight for them.” (01:05, quoting Trump)

• Olbermann, on the significance:

  “This may actually be Trump’s first admission of his life that he is not immortal, eternal and in charge forever. [...]” (02:09)

• Olbermann, on speculation about Trump’s health:

  “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? Verisimilitude.” (05:28)

• On Stephen Miller:

  “[...] broken, unstable, terroristic, fueled by revenge fantasies, hoping for bloodshed, paranoid. And that was before this weekend when he got way worse.” (03:43)

• On the $1 Trump Coin:

  “Trump’s own apparatchiks at the US Treasury have placed a value on him of $1. [...] How did they price that? 10 cents a chin?” (27:20)

• On Kristi Noem’s bathroom incident:

  “I don’t get Gnome’s rage at being denied the use of a bathroom. Why didn’t she just do what she always does and go shit on the American public?” (34:28)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 01:05 – 03:00: Analysis of Trump’s “future without Trump” remarks, their implications.
• 04:00 – 06:30: Examination of Trump’s public absence; speculation on his physical and mental state.
• 07:29 – 10:14: Playback and analysis of Trump’s recent public ramblings and conflation of events.
• 12:50 – 16:56: The dangerous rhetoric and actions of Stephen Miller and other MAGA enablers.
• 24:57 – 34:28: “Worst Persons in the World,” featuring criticism of the US Mint’s Trump coin, Ian Miles Chong, and Kristi Noem’s bathroom story.
• 36:42 – 45:11: Olbermann’s 50th on-air anniversary story—his beginnings in radio, early career anecdotes.

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Tone & Language

Olbermann’s tone throughout the episode is sharp, biting, and satirical, laden with trademark sarcasm and turns of phrase. He is ruthlessly critical of Trump and his sphere but interweaves dark humor and personal storytelling to balance the intensity of the political critique.

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Summary

This episode is a searing dissection of an unusual moment in Trump’s rhetoric and what it may portend for his base and the Republican movement. Olbermann’s central assertion is that Trump, potentially tired and declining, may be softening his own mythos of invincibility—a profound shock to his cult of followers. The episode then skillfully expands to cover the increasingly shrill and violent notes from prominent MAGA surrogates, turns the satirical guns on right-wing media and policy figures, and closes with both sardonic bite and personal reflection on Olbermann’s long media career. Packed with memorable lines and trenchant humor, the episode is essential listening for those seeking to understand the evolving language—and possible limits—of Trump and MAGA politics.

Transcript

[Keith Olbermann]

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[Keith Olbermann]

Countdown with Keith Olbermann is a production of iHeartRadio. 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 sailed right past the American news media almost in its entirety yesterday. What in 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 would have been so ordinary from anybody 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 ascribe to Kunan. Half of them thought JFK and JFK Jr weren't really dead aren't really dead or were dead, but they got better when they don't have Trump to fight for them. Well then bye 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 and has seemingly snapped completely off the likes of Kristi Noem and Tom Homan and JV Vance and Harmeet Dillon and Hegseth 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. And 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 first 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. Maha More on 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 timestamps, took more than two hours to produce, even though it only required him to try to speak for a minute and 10. He emerged with what was even for him, such an utterly bizarre and especially vulnerable admission. He was out of view 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 Hair Care 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 at 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 of 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 79, with no record of having ever gotten a nutritious 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 verisimilitude, 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 snide 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? Verisimilitude. Trump, when he got to the Naval Academy yesterday, kinda sounded like he was speaking human. I hope you're sitting down.

[Donald Trump]

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 statement unless it was true. But I said one year before to Pete Hegseth, I said one year before Whispy in the book I wrote, whatever the hell the title, I can't tell you. But I can tell you there's a page in there devoted to the fact that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden and I didn't like it and you got to take care of him.

[Keith Olbermann]

Ironically, the part about him and bin Laden is not the crazy part. He actually mentioned bin Laden in a book in 2000 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 20, 24 in there exactly one year ago, and he's got exactly one year before 9 11, which would be 2000. And he told Pete Hegseth about bin Laden 25 years ago. And he made up the part about doing anything to bin Laden that's supposedly in his book. And there's 2016 and the rigged election of 2016. Oh, no, that was 2020. All right. I didn't play the part about the election for you yet.

[Donald Trump]

I was president in 2016, and then they rigged the election on me. And then we caught him, didn't we? We caught him, but, you know, we had to run it again. I ran it again and I got 250 and I got the World cup and I got the Olympics. Can you believe all of it?

[Keith Olbermann]

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 dre 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.

[Donald Trump]

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, Portland is burning to the ground. You have agitators, insurrectionists. All you have to do is look at the television, turn on your television, read your newspapers. It's burning to the ground. The governor, the mayor, the politicians are petrified for their lives. And you have a judge like that. He ought to be. That judge ought to be ashamed of.

[Keith Olbermann]

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 Trumpy's still the second most alarming event of the last week of our second game of Where's Waldo Trump? Second only to 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 4:35pm Eastern. Caroline Levitt tweets a photo behind the scenes as Trump responds to Hamas 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 $2 and put the teleprompter right 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 6:54 Eastern Friday. That'd be two hours and 19 minutes later. The Rapid Response 47 account, a title not apparently meant ironically or sarcastically, tweets out a 70 second long video of Trump stumbling through something about a deal being closed. 70 seconds, a minute 10 now of a minute 10 video Trump could have realistically done with generous rest periods, anything from 50 to 150 takes in that time. Even if there were technical problems, even if there was editing in there that isn't apparent 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 2 hour 19 minute presidential gap is editing phone calls, actual presidential stuff. The camera is in there at 4:35pm and Levitt is the source and her posts 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, Stephen Miller should self institutionalize again. If you were Stephen Miller and they told you recently, hey, if you want to go in and kiss Trump's ass, 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 Reich Marshall Miller first when the sentence was passed on the transitioning woman who called 911 asking police to please stop them because their fantasy about killing Justice Kavanaugh was out of control and they were too 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 a sentence of death. A he used just and justice in the same sentence, which is the sign of somebody writing while impaired. 2. I'll refer you back to the scoreboard theory of one's self hatred to explain why Stephen Miller is so obsessed with gender identity and gender fluidity. But let me add ice's claim. Remember, 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 insurrection. Then came the ruling against Trump on using the troops in Oregon. And at 159Steve Irino went cray 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 9:26 Saturday night after he'd had seven hours to cool down over Portland legal insurrection. The President is the commander in chief of the armed forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. There are more local enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide. This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers. And the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel. Our lawyers are going public. Order. 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. Sorta remember who these people are. September 4th, I'll 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 lawsuit challenging whether the South Carolina Election Commission can give voters data to the Department of Justice. Harmony Dhillon, the flatulent, lap sitting scumbag, former personal attorney to Tulsi 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 your face all screwed up like in real life. So what happens yesterday? I'll quote a Twitter post Liberal South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein. 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 Goodstein 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. Couple other notes why did ABC reverse on Kimmel sudden awareness of the threat and all of the goodness inside of Bob Iger? Maybe not. The Independent reporter Marisa Cabas has a more practical explanation. Scoop slash update Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancellations during the period September 17th 23rd, a Disney source confirms. To me the total includes Disney Plus, Hulu and ESPN. Why? I've heard of them. On Trump and the 17 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 17 trillion. Why is the government shut down if there's 17 trillion? Quote, if this keeps going, we're going to have to investigate where the hell those 17 trillion are, Garcia added. Minus two points for 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 Kush Desai 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 $17 trillion being taken in $17 trillion in money he's gotten from other countries because of the tariffs, that' what it is. It's just trillions in investment commitments by private companies so it has nothing to do with the government. Did you just say Trump was a liar? Spokesperson Kush Cushy job Kush Desai in another self foot shooting and rake stepping by Maga, Russ Vogt tweets nearly 8 billion in green new scam funding to fuel the left's climate agenda being canceled. More info to come fromrgy. The projects are in the following states ca Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Washington Will Ragland at Cap Action then notes quote I count six House Republicans in toss up or lean seats that have a project that Vaught canceled in their district. Siskamani, Arizona 6 Evans, Colorado 8 Valadeo, California 22 Kim 2240 in California and Calvert, California 41 and Lawler, New York 17 oh, poor Lawlor's s out of luck. Bye. And one more thank you to Howard Lutnick, who really should be called Nutlich for this one, and the Murdoch International idiot Miranda Devine. 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 Trump. 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. Wait a minute. People who hung around with Epstein participated? To continue Lutnick they get a massage. That's what his M.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 blade. 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. Also of 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 merit wear masks. I mean, I'm suspicious. I'm not letting her in unless. Unless you count Botox as a mask. The Kristi Gnome I gotta go. Poopy story. That's next. This is Countdown.

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This is Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Still ahead on this edition of Countdown, it is the exact 50th anniversary of the day I was assimilated into 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 7, 1975 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 20 minute newscast of which I did the last 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 that talk about the roundup of the miscreants, morons, undone Kruger effect specimens who constitute today's other worst persons in the World the runner up. Worse, I got a tie first. This Ian Miles Chong guy online posts all the fascist crap. One of 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. 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 it. 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 eye was wrong on this. But Ian, the Magas don't like people of color. And, and. And that would be you. They. They would not think of you as. As white. Capital W. 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 Cain. I always say, ask Herman Cain how that worked out for him. When you say, why do most people prefer to have white neighbors instead of blacks? And you make nauseating monkey analogies about chimping, you're just reminding the dumber maggots. 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 semi quincenial coin designed to celebrate the 250th anniversary. And by the way, the odds are still only about 40 and 100 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 or you see Trump selling or whatever. It'll be minted at a value of $1 and presumably sold as a collectible. For how much will they grift on this? It's worth a dollar, so they'll charge $9.99. 49.99, 499.99. But three things we're overlooking. Never mind the grift about which we should celebrate. First, the coin is valued at $1. Trump's own apparatchiks at the US treasury have placed a value on him of $1. 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 ultraviolent 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 winner is 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 Ann 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 never let them show you in portrait. Especially if you have the worst comb over in world history and you have jowls and you have all those chins. My God, a $1 Trump coin. How did they price that? 10 cents a chin? It looks like an Antelnays cartoon. The runner's up worser. Department of Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem, 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 gonna spend the average price on a Super bowl ticket next February, which will be $12,000 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 Claria, California. They're going to Santa Clara. Oh, look, it's ms.13. 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 and Gnome can get in for free. For free. I mean, Trump hasn't paid for a ticket to a ball game since like 1966. But the winner, why, it's Generalissimo Christie Noem again. You heard about this video? DHS Secretary Noem was barred from entering. The doors slammed shut on her. And those inside City hall in Broadview, Illinois screamed at her during the ICE raids of Chicagoland when she tried to get into City hall in Broadview, Illinois, because her excuse was she wanted to use the bathroom. Thank you.

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[Keith Olbermann]

Now that's what Governor Pritzker says is cooperation and keeping people safe.

[Donald Trump]

So why wouldn't they let you in?

[Keith Olbermann]

What's been going on here? What's been going on here? Secretary? We were coming 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 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 they're ice? I'm suspicious to begin with because ice, ISIS 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, no, no mask says she's ice. Well, she can't be ICE then, can she? 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 Gnome's rage at 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 Cory's diapers now. Gnome, today's other worst poofer in the world.

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October 7, 1975 where were you and what were you doing on October 7, 1975? The only reason I can answer that question is because there's a tape. It's 50 years ago. 50 years ago, 50 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 7, 1975. So now you get to listen to it again. I was 16 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 WVBR fm, and they all played me. They all had a big joke on Keith's expense. The premise of that evening of October 7, 1975, was that I was going to shadow a senior sportscaster named Gary Davis, and I would sit with him in Studio B at 227 Linden Avenue 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 10 seniors on the staff. I was one of the two freshmen. Listen, he said, find the newscaster 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 11:15. Gary Davis will be there around quarter to 11. Now, I know I told you that Gary was going to do the sportscast and you were only going to do a story or two, but that was just because I didn't want you to get all nerv. So I lied. It was all a lie, a damned 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 10pm and I had about 75 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 16 and I was the youngest of the 20,000 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 30, maybe 45 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 Robert S. Boothroyd Agency. Your protection is their profession. This was a hybrid, this wvbr. It was training station for students, but it was also one of the eight experimental licenses granted by the FCC in the 1930s. 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 Pennant 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 10 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 10 pages, not drop the other ones and not knock the microphone over. And while I was thinking of this, a red light went on and Late.

[Sports Announcer]

Edition Sports Ken Griffey has scored the go ahead run on a sacrifice fly in the top of the 10th inning to give Cincinnati a 4 to 3 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 Pirate starter John Candelaria. Candelaria, a rookie, had allowed only one hit and struck out 14 through seven innings.

[Keith Olbermann]

I mentioned some names that any fan would recognize even now. Ken Griffey, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, Tom Seaver, 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.

[Sports Announcer]

Rambling and Wittenberg Colleges remain the top small college football teams in the nation in the latest NCAA poll. That's Late Edition Sports. I'm Keith Olbermann. Good night.

[Keith Olbermann]

Yes, Olbermann, 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 16 year old Keith whispers like that for nearly five minutes and the guy in the next dorm room was good enough to record it to me or for me. Jeff Holling said, I'm not gonna 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 2,000 sportscasts later, on July 10, 1979, I fell victim to the exact same trick again. When I got my first full time job At United Press International's radio network in 1979, my boss, Sam Rosen, the one who still does the New York Rangers hockey games on TV, told me to come in at 5am one morning to watch him do the morning shift. I sat in the studio as he barked out the sportscast at 6:45 and 7:45 and 8:45. And as soon as he signed off with on the sports desk of United Press International, I'm Sam Rosen. He looked at me and said, you got it. I sure hope you do because you're doing the 9:45. 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 Ulberman will do the 9:45am sportscast 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 sportscast four years before, still exists framed on my wall. It was yellow when 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 and I'm proud to say the Olderman Cornelius Studios in Ithaca, New York. And in an oddity that I still enjoy, my college debut was on 107 and my network debut was on 7 10.

[Sports Announcer]

Late Edition Sports Ken Griffey has scored the go ahead run on a sacrifice fly in the top of the 10th inning to give Cincinnati a 43 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 to starter John Candelaria. Candelaria, a rookie, had allowed only one hit and struck out 14 through seven innings. Cincinnati has just added another run in the 10th. The score now stands Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 3. Dick Drago 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 1967. Oakland scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth, but Drago, relieving starter Rick Wise, induced Joe Rudy to hit into a double play with two men on the Red Sox 5 Oakland 3 the Red Sox go to the World Series. Joe Morgan of Cincinnati and Tom Seaver of the New York Mets have been voted National League player and Pitcher of the Year in a poll of National League players by the Sporting News. It's the third such honor for Seaver, who was Pitcher of the year in 1969 and 1973. He led the league this season with 22 victories and with strikeouts with 243. Morgan, a second baseman was so honored for the first time, he batted.327 with 17 home runs, 94 runs batted in and 67 stolen bases. Turning to football, Chris Hemmiter says the World Football League will begin a national marketing program in an effort to boost sagging attendance figures in the 10 franchise cities. Hemmeter 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. Hammiter met yesterday with John Bassett, the owner of the Memphis Southman, and John Basacco, owner of the Philadelphia Belt. Hemmiter says attendance is the most challenging question in our minds. 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 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 15 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 are 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 Roselle Rule in the NFL, has been the major stumbling block to a labor settlement in pro football. Third period goals by Colin Campbell and Syl Apps gave the Pittsburgh Penguins A 42 victory over the Washington Capitals tonight in the opening game of the National Hockey League season. Campbell's 35 foot slap shot snapped a 2 to 2 tie at the 5:41 mark of the final period and Apps clinched the triumph with his with his tally with 84 seconds left, rookie goalie Gord Whack and 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 are Olympic marathon champion Frank Shorter and World record holders Steve Williams, Rick Walhutter, Dwight Stones, Dave Roberts and al Feuerbach. The NCAA announced today it will send 8 of Americans as top college golfers to Tokyo later this year to compete against Japan's best collegiates. Rambling and Wittenberg colleges remain the top small college football teams in the nation in the latest NCAA poll. That's LATE EDITION Sports. I'm Keith Olbermann.

[Keith Olbermann]

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 Philip Chenale, our musical directors of Countdown, and it was produced by TKO Brothers. Mr. Ray was on guitars, bass and drums. Mr. Chenale handled orchestration and keyboards. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Foust. The old rimman theme from ESPN2, 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 boil down to baseball has completely screwed up the playoffs, the greatest comeback in divisional history. Cleveland came back over two months to erase a 15 game lead by Detroit and they were rewarded by having to beat Detroit again two out of three. And they only won once. So sorry, not good enough. The greatest comeback of all time. And because you lost one game too many in a BS playoff system, you're gone. That was the whole sports section. So there it is again. Anyway, anywho, other music arranged and performed by the group no Horns Allowed. And my announcer today was my friend Nancy Foust, who also did the announcer and the organ. Everything else was, as always, my fault. Let's Countdown for today, day 260 of America held hostage just 1,203 days until the scheduled end of his lame duck and lame brain term. Unless he is removed sooner by MAGA and Jeffrey Epstein or the pavement on his hand or a stuck escalator or the Psychopathy test or Tylenol or that judge guy he doesn't like who's actually a girl. Or if he says once again that someday soon you won't have Trump to kick around anymore or whatever the quote was. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. Until then, I'm Keith Olbermann. Good morning, good afternoon, good night and good luck. Foreign with Keith Ulberman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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