1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,675 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:23,355 --> 00:00:28,595 Speaker 1: is full of shit. The jury also heard a smoking 3 00:00:28,595 --> 00:00:31,595 Speaker 1: gun yesterday, Trump going over the hush money details on 4 00:00:31,715 --> 00:00:34,595 Speaker 1: tape with Michael Cohen. I'll play the tape in a minute, 5 00:00:34,595 --> 00:00:38,955 Speaker 1: but to me, the headline is Trump is full of shit. 6 00:00:40,435 --> 00:00:45,515 Speaker 1: He has now lied that he can't testify because of 7 00:00:45,555 --> 00:00:53,875 Speaker 1: the gag order. He is full of shit. Well, I'm 8 00:00:53,875 --> 00:00:56,555 Speaker 1: not allowed to testify. I'm under a gag order. I 9 00:00:56,635 --> 00:00:59,915 Speaker 1: guess I can't even testify it now we're gonna be 10 00:00:59,915 --> 00:01:02,875 Speaker 1: appealing the gag order. I'd love to answer that question. 11 00:01:02,955 --> 00:01:05,875 Speaker 1: It's a very easy question these he has questioned so far. 12 00:01:06,675 --> 00:01:10,115 Speaker 1: But I'm not allowed to testify. So I'm not allowed 13 00:01:10,155 --> 00:01:14,835 Speaker 1: to testify because of an unconstitutional gag order. For appealing 14 00:01:14,915 --> 00:01:17,835 Speaker 1: the geg order, and let's see what happens, Thank you 15 00:01:17,955 --> 00:01:21,835 Speaker 1: very much. He's full of shit. He is backing out 16 00:01:21,875 --> 00:01:25,115 Speaker 1: of testifying and is always blaming somebody else, and as 17 00:01:25,195 --> 00:01:30,875 Speaker 1: usual that somebody or something else is imaginary. He is 18 00:01:30,915 --> 00:01:34,795 Speaker 1: backing out of testifying because apparently only when they played 19 00:01:34,835 --> 00:01:37,675 Speaker 1: it did he remember that Michael Cohen had made a 20 00:01:37,755 --> 00:01:40,595 Speaker 1: tape of the two of them discussing the twenty sixteen 21 00:01:40,715 --> 00:01:45,075 Speaker 1: hush money payment to not Stormy Daniels, but rather Karen McDougall. 22 00:01:45,195 --> 00:01:47,835 Speaker 1: So it's a smoking gun. And it's not even the 23 00:01:47,875 --> 00:01:52,515 Speaker 1: smoking gun from the Daniels case. There are multiple smoking guns. 24 00:01:52,795 --> 00:01:57,675 Speaker 1: The jury just heard smoking gun number one A it's 25 00:01:57,675 --> 00:02:02,475 Speaker 1: not even a new a one smoking gun. CNN got 26 00:02:02,515 --> 00:02:04,275 Speaker 1: this tape and everybody played it in the summer of 27 00:02:04,275 --> 00:02:08,275 Speaker 1: twothous eighteen, and on it, Cohen is heard telling Trump, 28 00:02:08,275 --> 00:02:11,675 Speaker 1: referring to the National Inquirer catch and kill guy David Pecker, 29 00:02:11,995 --> 00:02:14,195 Speaker 1: I need to open up a company for the transfer 30 00:02:14,275 --> 00:02:17,395 Speaker 1: of all that info regarding our friend David, And Cohen 31 00:02:17,435 --> 00:02:21,755 Speaker 1: references Alan Weiselberg and financing, and Trump interrupts, what financing, 32 00:02:21,835 --> 00:02:24,955 Speaker 1: and then they talk about cash and it sounds something 33 00:02:25,955 --> 00:02:29,475 Speaker 1: like this. So I'm all over that, and I spoke 34 00:02:29,515 --> 00:02:31,875 Speaker 1: to Alan about it. When it comes time for the financing, 35 00:02:32,075 --> 00:02:38,195 Speaker 1: which will be listening, you'll have to pay yourself. Hold no, no, no, no, 36 00:02:38,395 --> 00:02:42,595 Speaker 1: I got no hard to come back after the jury 37 00:02:42,675 --> 00:02:47,555 Speaker 1: has heard that. But one thing you do not do 38 00:02:48,155 --> 00:02:49,915 Speaker 1: if you are trying to come back from that after 39 00:02:49,915 --> 00:02:52,115 Speaker 1: the jury has heard that. One thing you do not 40 00:02:52,275 --> 00:02:56,595 Speaker 1: do is testify because they will ask you about that. 41 00:02:57,635 --> 00:03:02,835 Speaker 1: Hence Trump's lie about the gag order meaning he can't testify. 42 00:03:03,915 --> 00:03:06,915 Speaker 1: I wonder how Jnathan Turley will make that lie seem 43 00:03:07,075 --> 00:03:09,995 Speaker 1: true and how big a font they'll have to set 44 00:03:09,995 --> 00:03:12,595 Speaker 1: the printer to so that Trump can walk out of 45 00:03:12,635 --> 00:03:15,835 Speaker 1: court today with a phone book sized stack of printouts. 46 00:03:16,675 --> 00:03:21,275 Speaker 1: Well print out in a fitting metaphor on the subject 47 00:03:21,275 --> 00:03:24,515 Speaker 1: of not testifying and then lying about it. Trump's pants 48 00:03:24,635 --> 00:03:28,955 Speaker 1: are so on fire that his post court photo op 49 00:03:29,075 --> 00:03:33,755 Speaker 1: last night was at a downtown New York fire department station. 50 00:03:35,515 --> 00:03:38,155 Speaker 1: The other news yesterday Gag Order hearing number two, and 51 00:03:38,235 --> 00:03:41,875 Speaker 1: his attorneys actually asked the judge to look at articles 52 00:03:42,035 --> 00:03:44,875 Speaker 1: before they post them to see if they violate the 53 00:03:44,915 --> 00:03:48,555 Speaker 1: gag order, which was another stunt. Obviously, the judge said 54 00:03:48,675 --> 00:03:52,515 Speaker 1: no when in doubt, steer clear. It has been noted 55 00:03:52,555 --> 00:03:55,075 Speaker 1: in several quarters that we may be burying the lead 56 00:03:55,155 --> 00:03:58,275 Speaker 1: about the gag order rulings by Justice Mayr Sean and 57 00:03:58,435 --> 00:04:02,915 Speaker 1: especially the threat of jail time. Trump has been quiet. 58 00:04:03,275 --> 00:04:06,955 Speaker 1: Trump has been too quiet, but his lawyers tried to 59 00:04:06,995 --> 00:04:09,595 Speaker 1: rebut the gag order by saying he has to be 60 00:04:09,595 --> 00:04:16,715 Speaker 1: able to defend himself. From comments by others like Biden. Listen, Pal, 61 00:04:16,835 --> 00:04:21,275 Speaker 1: I've tried that. Just turn the comments off. Also, if 62 00:04:21,315 --> 00:04:23,995 Speaker 1: he's going to try to defend himself from mean tweets, 63 00:04:24,035 --> 00:04:26,195 Speaker 1: Trump is going to spend the rest of his life 64 00:04:26,595 --> 00:04:29,635 Speaker 1: answering just those that were sent between three forty seven 65 00:04:29,675 --> 00:04:34,355 Speaker 1: pm and three point fifty seven pm yesterday. Say that's 66 00:04:34,395 --> 00:04:38,475 Speaker 1: not a bad idea. At the risk of exceeding my 67 00:04:38,715 --> 00:04:43,515 Speaker 1: cussword limit for one podcast, the back and forth between 68 00:04:43,555 --> 00:04:47,795 Speaker 1: Trump's attorneys and the prosecution and the judge about the 69 00:04:47,835 --> 00:04:51,435 Speaker 1: gag order led to the following term used on Twitter 70 00:04:51,595 --> 00:04:54,555 Speaker 1: x on April twenty third by Michael Cohen, entering the 71 00:04:54,635 --> 00:05:00,555 Speaker 1: official Trump trial record quote, Oh von schittz in pants, 72 00:05:00,995 --> 00:05:04,595 Speaker 1: keep whining, crying and violating the gag order. You Petchel 73 00:05:04,875 --> 00:05:15,395 Speaker 1: defendant v O N s h I t z I 74 00:05:16,035 --> 00:05:25,275 Speaker 1: N p A and could you spell it? Yes, v 75 00:05:25,435 --> 00:05:38,635 Speaker 1: O and s h I t z I A p 76 00:05:39,195 --> 00:05:43,395 Speaker 1: A and G I'm sorry. I'm gonna have to get 77 00:05:43,395 --> 00:05:45,555 Speaker 1: a piece of paper and a pencil and write all 78 00:05:45,595 --> 00:05:51,515 Speaker 1: this down. That's a very old joke from a British 79 00:05:51,635 --> 00:05:56,715 Speaker 1: radio series called The goon Show. There were two laughs 80 00:05:56,755 --> 00:06:00,515 Speaker 1: in court during the afternoon break, drowsy j Trump posted, 81 00:06:00,995 --> 00:06:03,835 Speaker 1: contrary to the fake news media, I don't fall asleep 82 00:06:03,915 --> 00:06:07,835 Speaker 1: during the crooked which hunt, especially not today. I simply 83 00:06:07,915 --> 00:06:13,475 Speaker 1: close my beautiful blue eyes, sometimes listen intensely and take 84 00:06:13,555 --> 00:06:18,635 Speaker 1: it all in two five pm, three forty three pm, 85 00:06:19,035 --> 00:06:24,515 Speaker 1: just securities. Adam Klassfeld reports he fell asleep again, and lastly, 86 00:06:25,515 --> 00:06:28,755 Speaker 1: for Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, the first 87 00:06:28,795 --> 00:06:35,275 Speaker 1: time I have ever empathized with the defendant quote. Trump 88 00:06:35,395 --> 00:06:42,675 Speaker 1: left the courtroom squinting strangely at Lawrence O'Donnell, the MSNBC host, 89 00:06:43,075 --> 00:06:50,355 Speaker 1: as he did today. For once, we are all Trump 90 00:07:00,155 --> 00:07:03,435 Speaker 1: thought Bubble, I thought he was dead. We are in 91 00:07:03,515 --> 00:07:06,475 Speaker 1: such an unprecedented place in this country's history that if 92 00:07:06,475 --> 00:07:09,475 Speaker 1: Trump were to now pick Christy Nome as his running 93 00:07:09,555 --> 00:07:13,075 Speaker 1: mate anyway and announced that they were going to campaign 94 00:07:13,155 --> 00:07:16,955 Speaker 1: on a platform of puppy killing, the cult would do it. 95 00:07:17,875 --> 00:07:20,755 Speaker 1: He's not likely to try this. But then, did you 96 00:07:20,835 --> 00:07:23,995 Speaker 1: really think that Nome's response to her self defenestration would 97 00:07:24,035 --> 00:07:27,355 Speaker 1: be to double down and claim the dog she murdered 98 00:07:27,435 --> 00:07:30,235 Speaker 1: was far more evil than she had let on and 99 00:07:30,435 --> 00:07:36,515 Speaker 1: was in fact a threat to her children? Seriously? By 100 00:07:36,555 --> 00:07:39,235 Speaker 1: next week noame will be claiming that Cricket had clamped 101 00:07:39,275 --> 00:07:41,995 Speaker 1: her vicious jaws around her daughter's neck, or that she 102 00:07:42,155 --> 00:07:47,555 Speaker 1: was holding Nome's children hostage. And by the way, Nome 103 00:07:47,755 --> 00:07:50,515 Speaker 1: may have no other choice than to double down and 104 00:07:50,555 --> 00:07:53,555 Speaker 1: claim she is the real victim. Year because there is 105 00:07:53,595 --> 00:07:56,875 Speaker 1: emerging evidence that the story of Christy Nome luring the 106 00:07:56,955 --> 00:07:59,355 Speaker 1: dog into a gravel pit and shooting it in the 107 00:07:59,395 --> 00:08:03,275 Speaker 1: face because it was randomly attacking other animals and posed 108 00:08:03,315 --> 00:08:08,955 Speaker 1: a threat of some kind, that might be a cover story. 109 00:08:09,995 --> 00:08:12,675 Speaker 1: It has been little noticed, but the leader of the 110 00:08:12,715 --> 00:08:16,755 Speaker 1: Democratic minority in the South Dakota State Senate said that 111 00:08:16,915 --> 00:08:21,195 Speaker 1: Nome's unfathomable decision to write about shooting the dog was 112 00:08:21,235 --> 00:08:25,875 Speaker 1: not some mistake, nor some expression of stupidity, nor even madness. 113 00:08:26,355 --> 00:08:31,075 Speaker 1: According to the Associated Press, which interviewed him, Senator Reynald 114 00:08:31,275 --> 00:08:35,435 Speaker 1: Nessaba quote said the story has circulated for years among 115 00:08:35,515 --> 00:08:39,675 Speaker 1: lawmakers that Nome killed a dog in a quote fit 116 00:08:39,915 --> 00:08:44,675 Speaker 1: of anger, and that there were witnesses. He speculated that 117 00:08:44,715 --> 00:08:47,035 Speaker 1: it was coming out now because Nome is being vetted 118 00:08:47,075 --> 00:08:50,675 Speaker 1: as a candidate for vice president. Again quoting the minority 119 00:08:50,755 --> 00:08:54,315 Speaker 1: leader directly, she knew that this was a political vulnerability, 120 00:08:54,355 --> 00:08:57,035 Speaker 1: and she needed to put it out there before it 121 00:08:57,075 --> 00:09:00,075 Speaker 1: came up in some other venue. Why else would she 122 00:09:00,235 --> 00:09:05,635 Speaker 1: write about it. Nessaba's implication is clear. The true story 123 00:09:05,755 --> 00:09:12,275 Speaker 1: of the death of Cricket, somehow is worse. In the 124 00:09:12,315 --> 00:09:15,475 Speaker 1: book version. All efforts to train this dog failed. Even 125 00:09:15,595 --> 00:09:19,435 Speaker 1: an electronic collar. The dog quote ruined a bird hunt. 126 00:09:19,955 --> 00:09:23,115 Speaker 1: The dog then escaped from Nome's truck and killed some 127 00:09:23,315 --> 00:09:28,035 Speaker 1: chickens at somebody else's house like quote a trained assassin. 128 00:09:29,275 --> 00:09:31,955 Speaker 1: As Nome tried to get Cricket away from quote the 129 00:09:32,035 --> 00:09:36,075 Speaker 1: scene of the crime, the fourteen month old puppy then 130 00:09:36,235 --> 00:09:41,315 Speaker 1: quote whipped around to bite me. Nooam decided Cricket was untrainable, 131 00:09:41,555 --> 00:09:44,795 Speaker 1: dangerous to anyone she came in contact with, less than worthless. 132 00:09:45,155 --> 00:09:49,315 Speaker 1: I hated that dog unquote. And then she killed Cricket, 133 00:09:49,595 --> 00:09:53,035 Speaker 1: and she killed a goat she also didn't like. Then 134 00:09:53,195 --> 00:09:58,915 Speaker 1: she realized that a construction crew had watched both murders. 135 00:10:01,755 --> 00:10:05,475 Speaker 1: Whatever really happened. Noam wrote that it had startled those 136 00:10:05,475 --> 00:10:10,795 Speaker 1: workers so much that they had stopped working. Whatever really happened, 137 00:10:11,115 --> 00:10:14,195 Speaker 1: Gnome could not stop complimenting herself in the book for 138 00:10:14,235 --> 00:10:17,755 Speaker 1: her toughness, for her willingness to do what was quote difficult, 139 00:10:18,195 --> 00:10:25,715 Speaker 1: messy and ugly. Difficult, messy and ugly an apt description 140 00:10:26,715 --> 00:10:31,635 Speaker 1: of Christinome. The excerpt from the book was found by 141 00:10:31,675 --> 00:10:35,515 Speaker 1: the newspaper The Guardian a week ago. As America's hatred 142 00:10:36,115 --> 00:10:40,955 Speaker 1: washed over Christinome. She laid low until Wednesday. That's when 143 00:10:40,955 --> 00:10:43,995 Speaker 1: she went on with Sean Hannity and resumed trying to 144 00:10:44,075 --> 00:10:47,635 Speaker 1: get people to buy the book and of course buy 145 00:10:47,715 --> 00:10:52,195 Speaker 1: her story. But it appears that buying the book was 146 00:10:52,235 --> 00:10:57,035 Speaker 1: more important. But her story has now changed. Cricket was 147 00:10:57,075 --> 00:11:01,395 Speaker 1: no puppy. She was a working dog and fourteen months old, 148 00:11:02,675 --> 00:11:07,515 Speaker 1: and that cricket was untrained. While that wasn't Christine Holmes's fault, quote, 149 00:11:07,675 --> 00:11:10,595 Speaker 1: it was a dog that was extremely dangerous. It had 150 00:11:10,635 --> 00:11:14,675 Speaker 1: come to us from a family who found her way 151 00:11:14,755 --> 00:11:19,555 Speaker 1: too aggressive. We were her second chance. The day she 152 00:11:19,715 --> 00:11:28,915 Speaker 1: was put down was a day that she massacred live stock, livestock, 153 00:11:30,515 --> 00:11:37,435 Speaker 1: chickens massacred. But of course killing animals is just a 154 00:11:37,555 --> 00:11:41,595 Speaker 1: first step, and then you're Ted Bundy, aren't you, governor? 155 00:11:42,475 --> 00:11:45,995 Speaker 1: Quote livestock that were part of our neighbors. She attacked 156 00:11:46,035 --> 00:11:49,235 Speaker 1: me and it was a hard decision that was Wednesday night, 157 00:11:49,715 --> 00:11:53,115 Speaker 1: my Thursday afternoon on social media, Nome thought she saw 158 00:11:53,155 --> 00:11:56,995 Speaker 1: an out. I had a choice between the safety of 159 00:11:57,155 --> 00:12:00,235 Speaker 1: my children and an animal who had a history of 160 00:12:00,275 --> 00:12:10,315 Speaker 1: attacking people and killing live stock. Ah chose my kids. Okay, 161 00:12:10,315 --> 00:12:12,195 Speaker 1: when I said that, by next week, she'll be claiming 162 00:12:12,235 --> 00:12:15,715 Speaker 1: cricket had clamped her vicious jaws around her daughter's neck, 163 00:12:15,795 --> 00:12:19,355 Speaker 1: or that she was holding nomes kids hostages. That was 164 00:12:19,435 --> 00:12:22,915 Speaker 1: wrong and unfair. Gnome is still scheduled to be on 165 00:12:22,955 --> 00:12:25,635 Speaker 1: Face the Nation on Sunday. By then, she'll be claiming 166 00:12:25,635 --> 00:12:29,315 Speaker 1: cricket had bitten the kids or holding them hostage. This 167 00:12:29,355 --> 00:12:31,435 Speaker 1: woman still thinks she is going to get away with this. 168 00:12:32,795 --> 00:12:37,635 Speaker 1: Three postscripts. One, George Conway notes that at least today 169 00:12:38,555 --> 00:12:41,675 Speaker 1: there is a Humane Society shelter that is literally a 170 00:12:41,715 --> 00:12:47,635 Speaker 1: half an hour drive from the Nome farm. Two. I 171 00:12:47,755 --> 00:12:51,835 Speaker 1: don't know what the other version that the minority leader 172 00:12:52,075 --> 00:12:54,555 Speaker 1: hinted at might be. We know she killed a dog 173 00:12:54,595 --> 00:12:57,435 Speaker 1: and a goat on the same day, within minutes of 174 00:12:57,475 --> 00:13:00,635 Speaker 1: each other. I do note with horror that in the 175 00:13:00,635 --> 00:13:04,315 Speaker 1: book Gnome really details the timeline she kills cricket, she 176 00:13:04,355 --> 00:13:07,355 Speaker 1: kills the goat. The construction workers see it. Then her 177 00:13:07,435 --> 00:13:12,915 Speaker 1: daughter gets home and asks, where's Cricket? Why such specificity 178 00:13:13,315 --> 00:13:17,635 Speaker 1: in the timeline. Maybe the version in the book has changed, 179 00:13:17,635 --> 00:13:21,395 Speaker 1: not in what happened to Cricket, but changed in the 180 00:13:21,435 --> 00:13:26,555 Speaker 1: area of the witnesses. Maybe her daughter had already gotten 181 00:13:26,555 --> 00:13:29,995 Speaker 1: home from school, or maybe this was not the first 182 00:13:30,035 --> 00:13:35,315 Speaker 1: animal Gnome had murdered. And point number three, I don't 183 00:13:35,355 --> 00:13:41,675 Speaker 1: know how many fascist commentators have actually defended Nome. If 184 00:13:41,715 --> 00:13:43,795 Speaker 1: Trump picked her, it would be one hundred percent. But 185 00:13:43,915 --> 00:13:48,995 Speaker 1: right now that psycho Michael Knowles has most of them 186 00:13:49,035 --> 00:13:52,275 Speaker 1: have ignored it, or did a what about it with 187 00:13:52,395 --> 00:13:56,595 Speaker 1: President Biden's dog commander biting the Secret Service guys, or 188 00:13:56,635 --> 00:14:00,675 Speaker 1: did the sure this is bad? But uh uh kamala 189 00:14:00,715 --> 00:14:06,035 Speaker 1: harris am I right? But the greatest excuse, the greatest 190 00:14:06,155 --> 00:14:09,555 Speaker 1: example of let me just throw this at the wall, 191 00:14:09,635 --> 00:14:12,355 Speaker 1: maybe it'll stick. The greatest example of that I have 192 00:14:12,515 --> 00:14:19,075 Speaker 1: ever heard is from Kim Gilfoyle, who posits that the 193 00:14:19,075 --> 00:14:26,955 Speaker 1: only possible explanation for this is the story is true, 194 00:14:27,235 --> 00:14:30,595 Speaker 1: but it wasn't supposed to be in the book, and 195 00:14:30,715 --> 00:14:34,475 Speaker 1: somebody wishing to harm Christy Nome slipped it into the 196 00:14:34,515 --> 00:14:36,795 Speaker 1: book and Gnome didn't know. 197 00:14:37,155 --> 00:14:39,315 Speaker 2: I just can't imagine that because there's a forever home 198 00:14:39,395 --> 00:14:42,555 Speaker 2: for all animals. I don't know what happened. Maybe somebody 199 00:14:42,555 --> 00:14:44,515 Speaker 2: slipped that in and she didn't see it. I don't know, 200 00:14:44,635 --> 00:14:46,155 Speaker 2: but it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. 201 00:14:46,235 --> 00:14:47,435 Speaker 2: So that's a tough one to take. 202 00:14:47,595 --> 00:14:53,915 Speaker 1: Oh my god, I mean, it's creative. It's the first 203 00:14:53,915 --> 00:14:57,835 Speaker 1: time I've ever heard Kimberly Gilfoyle be creative, and I've 204 00:14:57,875 --> 00:15:02,835 Speaker 1: known her for nearly twenty years. One would assume, though, 205 00:15:03,275 --> 00:15:05,595 Speaker 1: that if it were possibly true true, that would require 206 00:15:05,635 --> 00:15:09,235 Speaker 1: that the story of the murder of Cricket not be true, 207 00:15:09,555 --> 00:15:13,075 Speaker 1: and that Noame would deny that she shot Cricket. But 208 00:15:13,115 --> 00:15:15,795 Speaker 1: that's not the excuse Gilfoyle has come up with. Gilfoyle 209 00:15:15,915 --> 00:15:18,075 Speaker 1: is not doubting that Noame, who is a friend of hers. 210 00:15:18,115 --> 00:15:20,955 Speaker 1: By the way, she's not doubting that Noam murdered the dog. 211 00:15:21,075 --> 00:15:24,875 Speaker 1: She just thinks somebody who knew sneaked the story into 212 00:15:24,915 --> 00:15:31,835 Speaker 1: the book without Nome checking the true story. Maybe it 213 00:15:31,875 --> 00:15:34,195 Speaker 1: was one of the construction worker witnesses who sneaked it 214 00:15:34,235 --> 00:15:37,075 Speaker 1: into the book. Maybe it was Nome's daughter getting Riven 215 00:15:41,355 --> 00:15:44,235 Speaker 1: slipped it into the book. Now that is a Christi 216 00:15:44,355 --> 00:15:51,555 Speaker 1: nome apologist. I'm telling you by Sunday, Christy Noam will 217 00:15:51,555 --> 00:15:54,275 Speaker 1: be insisting that cricket had bitten the kids or was 218 00:15:54,355 --> 00:16:03,235 Speaker 1: holding them hostage. Also of interest here, a survey in 219 00:16:03,355 --> 00:16:06,435 Speaker 1: late March, so like five and a half, six weeks 220 00:16:06,475 --> 00:16:09,235 Speaker 1: ago at the latest, indicated that among issues mattering the 221 00:16:09,235 --> 00:16:13,275 Speaker 1: most to America's college students, the Palestine, Gaza Israel conflict 222 00:16:13,315 --> 00:16:17,715 Speaker 1: came in at two percent. Let's say that's gone up 223 00:16:17,795 --> 00:16:22,875 Speaker 1: fivefold since then ten percent. So why are the protests 224 00:16:22,875 --> 00:16:27,835 Speaker 1: being covered wall to wall? Because they're easy television and 225 00:16:27,875 --> 00:16:30,955 Speaker 1: they make Biden look bad, and they hide the reality 226 00:16:31,195 --> 00:16:34,795 Speaker 1: that America's college protesters don't seem to realize that the 227 00:16:34,915 --> 00:16:40,595 Speaker 1: existential threat to Palestine, to Gaza, to Israel, to peace 228 00:16:40,635 --> 00:16:43,235 Speaker 1: in the Middle East, and to themselves and to the 229 00:16:43,315 --> 00:16:46,435 Speaker 1: right to protest on campus are off. The thing they 230 00:16:46,475 --> 00:16:52,035 Speaker 1: should be protesting first would be Trump's fascism. That's next. 231 00:16:52,195 --> 00:17:02,675 Speaker 1: This is countdown. President yesterday insisted the right to protest 232 00:17:02,795 --> 00:17:06,075 Speaker 1: is not also a right to chaos. He also insisted, no, 233 00:17:06,195 --> 00:17:11,195 Speaker 1: he will not send the National Guard in anywhere. Morons. Now, 234 00:17:11,355 --> 00:17:14,915 Speaker 1: Joe Biden did not say morons. I've thrown that in. 235 00:17:15,035 --> 00:17:19,115 Speaker 1: I'm saying it for him because the coverage of the 236 00:17:19,155 --> 00:17:23,675 Speaker 1: pro Palestinian and anti pro Palestinian, and pro Israel and 237 00:17:23,755 --> 00:17:30,355 Speaker 1: anti pro Israel protests is both hysterical and lousy, and 238 00:17:30,435 --> 00:17:34,555 Speaker 1: the protests themselves are well this question, where is this 239 00:17:34,715 --> 00:17:38,075 Speaker 1: kind of enthusiasm and urgency on college campuses about the 240 00:17:38,115 --> 00:17:42,835 Speaker 1: existential threat to democracy in this country? Where are the 241 00:17:42,915 --> 00:17:48,715 Speaker 1: takeovers protesting Trump and his plan to you know, end 242 00:17:48,875 --> 00:17:55,835 Speaker 1: all women's health rights, to send minority groups to concentration camps, 243 00:17:56,275 --> 00:18:01,275 Speaker 1: to not admit refugees, refugees from Gaza, and to reinstitute 244 00:18:01,275 --> 00:18:04,675 Speaker 1: his Muslim ban, among ten thousand other things that direct 245 00:18:04,795 --> 00:18:08,115 Speaker 1: the effect those who are protesting right now. Where is that? 246 00:18:08,275 --> 00:18:12,035 Speaker 1: All I am hearing, even from smart friends of mine 247 00:18:12,795 --> 00:18:16,155 Speaker 1: is comparisons to the student protests of the late nineteen sixties. 248 00:18:16,195 --> 00:18:20,115 Speaker 1: And guess what I was there. Not in college, obviously, 249 00:18:20,715 --> 00:18:23,275 Speaker 1: but we had them in high school and middle school. 250 00:18:23,755 --> 00:18:26,995 Speaker 1: And in the spring of nineteen seventy they canceled my 251 00:18:27,195 --> 00:18:30,955 Speaker 1: seventh grade classes for a week and they did teach 252 00:18:31,035 --> 00:18:35,035 Speaker 1: ins from nine in the morning till three in the afternoon, 253 00:18:35,515 --> 00:18:37,795 Speaker 1: five days in a row because the issues were a 254 00:18:37,835 --> 00:18:42,715 Speaker 1: little closer to home, like systemic racism and the assassination 255 00:18:42,755 --> 00:18:45,275 Speaker 1: of Martin Luther King and the Kennedys, and oh, by 256 00:18:45,315 --> 00:18:49,075 Speaker 1: the way, by the government forcing teenagers against their will 257 00:18:49,155 --> 00:18:51,635 Speaker 1: to kill other people or be killed by other people 258 00:18:51,675 --> 00:18:54,915 Speaker 1: in Southeast Asia, something that confronted nearly all of us 259 00:18:54,955 --> 00:19:00,555 Speaker 1: in that school potentially. At least yesterday, the Associated Press 260 00:19:00,635 --> 00:19:03,555 Speaker 1: breathlessly issued the news that quote, at least two thousand 261 00:19:03,555 --> 00:19:07,115 Speaker 1: people have been arrested at pro Palestinian protests on US 262 00:19:07,235 --> 00:19:13,035 Speaker 1: campuses since April eighteenth. Ap tally shows I'm not advocating 263 00:19:13,035 --> 00:19:16,475 Speaker 1: for arresting protesters, although that's part of the protesting deal, 264 00:19:17,995 --> 00:19:23,115 Speaker 1: and I'm not defending protesting or getting arrested. I'm agnostic 265 00:19:23,155 --> 00:19:26,835 Speaker 1: about this. I'm just offering a little perspective. Two thousands 266 00:19:26,835 --> 00:19:29,715 Speaker 1: since April eighteenth is a little under one thousand a week, 267 00:19:29,955 --> 00:19:33,355 Speaker 1: more or less unlikely to continue at that rate, but 268 00:19:33,635 --> 00:19:38,675 Speaker 1: just for perspective. For FBI statistics for the last decade 269 00:19:38,795 --> 00:19:42,835 Speaker 1: or so, there have been a little under one thousand 270 00:19:42,955 --> 00:19:51,515 Speaker 1: arrests per week for forgery and counterfeiting. These protests are 271 00:19:51,515 --> 00:19:59,515 Speaker 1: being covered because protests are easy television news streaming news stuff. 272 00:19:59,555 --> 00:20:05,075 Speaker 1: The protesters can shoot themselves. It's easy point and click. 273 00:20:05,195 --> 00:20:09,635 Speaker 1: We used to say the stories rarely fail to produce 274 00:20:09,955 --> 00:20:14,435 Speaker 1: a story, and conflict and violence and fires and explosions. 275 00:20:15,115 --> 00:20:17,755 Speaker 1: So if you actually send a reporter or a crew 276 00:20:17,755 --> 00:20:21,195 Speaker 1: and you get nothing, well, that doesn't happen with a 277 00:20:21,235 --> 00:20:24,435 Speaker 1: student protest. You get something you can lead with or 278 00:20:24,515 --> 00:20:28,315 Speaker 1: put on your front page or a live stream. And 279 00:20:28,395 --> 00:20:31,155 Speaker 1: they are depending on your audience's point of view, they're 280 00:20:31,195 --> 00:20:35,395 Speaker 1: either those selfish, slovenly college students or those brave, principled 281 00:20:35,435 --> 00:20:38,395 Speaker 1: college students. And if you're Fox News, you can blame 282 00:20:38,435 --> 00:20:41,915 Speaker 1: all this on Biden and lead with something other than 283 00:20:41,955 --> 00:20:47,355 Speaker 1: Trump on trial or Trump lying or Trump farting. So 284 00:20:47,475 --> 00:20:50,715 Speaker 1: the last point about the students, I don't know. The 285 00:20:50,755 --> 00:20:53,755 Speaker 1: City of New York is often a dubious source, but 286 00:20:53,875 --> 00:20:56,235 Speaker 1: this is the kind of statistic that can be easily 287 00:20:56,275 --> 00:20:58,915 Speaker 1: rechecked later. Sounds like it would be a difficult one 288 00:20:58,955 --> 00:21:01,155 Speaker 1: to lie about. City of New York yesterday says it 289 00:21:01,235 --> 00:21:04,195 Speaker 1: arrested two hundred and eighty two people at Columbia and 290 00:21:04,275 --> 00:21:09,235 Speaker 1: CC and why, and forty seven percent of them were 291 00:21:09,235 --> 00:21:15,915 Speaker 1: not affiliated with either school. In the sixties, the protests 292 00:21:15,955 --> 00:21:20,355 Speaker 1: were literally life and death But do you know about 293 00:21:20,355 --> 00:21:24,915 Speaker 1: the protest movements at major universities in the seventies, Probably not, 294 00:21:25,995 --> 00:21:29,315 Speaker 1: because they were about what these protests of today are 295 00:21:29,395 --> 00:21:34,115 Speaker 1: nominally about, divestment, get Cornell out of South Africa. Not 296 00:21:34,235 --> 00:21:38,995 Speaker 1: one violent incident in I think five six years of 297 00:21:39,155 --> 00:21:44,555 Speaker 1: constant protest and debate and negotiation. And this was just 298 00:21:44,635 --> 00:21:47,395 Speaker 1: six and seven and eight years after black students had 299 00:21:47,395 --> 00:21:51,955 Speaker 1: to defend themselves at Cornell with guns long guns against 300 00:21:52,115 --> 00:21:56,595 Speaker 1: racist frat brothers. And guess what the end of it? 301 00:21:56,635 --> 00:22:02,715 Speaker 1: Without violence, Cornell divested from South Africa. As I said earlier, 302 00:22:02,755 --> 00:22:05,435 Speaker 1: I'm largely agnostic about the issues being protested here, and 303 00:22:05,435 --> 00:22:09,155 Speaker 1: I defend the student's right to protest. And sorry, this 304 00:22:09,235 --> 00:22:12,835 Speaker 1: is not nineteen sixty nine. This is also not Black 305 00:22:12,915 --> 00:22:16,635 Speaker 1: Lives Matter, and the coverage of this is being used 306 00:22:16,635 --> 00:22:19,675 Speaker 1: to convince right wingers and undecided voters that the cities 307 00:22:19,715 --> 00:22:26,435 Speaker 1: are burning right now. The trajectory of what these protests 308 00:22:26,475 --> 00:22:31,275 Speaker 1: will produce is a Trump presidency in which what most 309 00:22:31,315 --> 00:22:35,595 Speaker 1: of the protesters want us involvement in the Middle East war. 310 00:22:35,635 --> 00:22:42,235 Speaker 1: That will be increased support for Palestine, Palestinians, Gaza refugees 311 00:22:42,275 --> 00:22:46,595 Speaker 1: that will be cut off humanitarian aid. No more humanitarian aid. 312 00:22:47,155 --> 00:22:50,035 Speaker 1: And by the way, the next protesters on college campuses, 313 00:22:50,235 --> 00:22:56,675 Speaker 1: they will be immediately arrested or worse. Listen, I think 314 00:22:56,715 --> 00:23:00,755 Speaker 1: about burning it all down roughly every second or third day. 315 00:23:00,875 --> 00:23:06,315 Speaker 1: In fact, I have since nineteen seventy five or so. 316 00:23:06,715 --> 00:23:13,835 Speaker 1: I get it. Problem is Trump gets it too, and 317 00:23:13,915 --> 00:23:32,715 Speaker 1: these protests are playing into Trump's hands. To the number 318 00:23:32,755 --> 00:23:35,355 Speaker 1: one story on the Countdown, and it's Fridays with Thurber, 319 00:23:35,435 --> 00:23:39,075 Speaker 1: And only occasionally did the great American humorist bend towards 320 00:23:39,915 --> 00:23:45,035 Speaker 1: the supernatural. Lots of Thurber's characters, like his fictionalized version 321 00:23:45,035 --> 00:23:48,515 Speaker 1: of his own mother, claimed to get messages from beyond 322 00:23:48,555 --> 00:23:52,115 Speaker 1: the grave and stuff like that, but rarely did Thurber 323 00:23:52,195 --> 00:23:56,115 Speaker 1: ever go a cult in the first person. This is 324 00:23:56,195 --> 00:23:58,995 Speaker 1: not true in one of my all time favorites of 325 00:23:59,035 --> 00:24:03,235 Speaker 1: his stories, The Black Magic of Barney Holler, in which 326 00:24:03,235 --> 00:24:05,995 Speaker 1: a slight accent turned it to something that is just 327 00:24:06,355 --> 00:24:10,075 Speaker 1: right up against the line of being actually a little 328 00:24:10,115 --> 00:24:15,835 Speaker 1: scary but still hilarious. The Black Magic of Barney Haller 329 00:24:16,435 --> 00:24:20,715 Speaker 1: by James Thurber. It was one of those hot days 330 00:24:20,755 --> 00:24:24,275 Speaker 1: on which the earth is uninhabitable, even as early as 331 00:24:24,315 --> 00:24:26,795 Speaker 1: ten o'clock in the morning. Even on the hill where 332 00:24:26,835 --> 00:24:30,635 Speaker 1: I live under the dark maples. The long porch was hot, 333 00:24:30,915 --> 00:24:34,275 Speaker 1: and the wicker chair I sat in complained hotly. My 334 00:24:34,395 --> 00:24:37,075 Speaker 1: coffee was beginning to wear off, and with it the 335 00:24:37,075 --> 00:24:40,555 Speaker 1: momentary illusion it gives that things are right and life 336 00:24:40,635 --> 00:24:45,315 Speaker 1: is good. There were sultry mutterings of thunder. I had 337 00:24:45,315 --> 00:24:47,355 Speaker 1: a quick feeling that if I looked up from my book, 338 00:24:47,915 --> 00:24:54,355 Speaker 1: I would see Barney Holler. I looked up, and there he was, 339 00:24:55,075 --> 00:24:59,035 Speaker 1: coming along the road, lightning playing about his shoulders, thunder 340 00:24:59,155 --> 00:25:05,355 Speaker 1: following him like a dog. Barney is, or was, my 341 00:25:05,595 --> 00:25:10,435 Speaker 1: hired man. He is strong and amiable, sweaty and dependable, 342 00:25:10,795 --> 00:25:16,795 Speaker 1: slowly and heavily confident. But he is also eerie. He 343 00:25:17,995 --> 00:25:22,635 Speaker 1: traffics with the devil. His ears twitch when he talks, 344 00:25:22,715 --> 00:25:25,515 Speaker 1: but it isn't so much that as the things he says. 345 00:25:26,795 --> 00:25:29,155 Speaker 1: Once in late June, when all of a moment, sabers 346 00:25:29,155 --> 00:25:32,875 Speaker 1: began to flash brightly in the heavens and bowling balls rumbled, 347 00:25:33,315 --> 00:25:36,315 Speaker 1: I took refuge in the barn. I always have a 348 00:25:36,355 --> 00:25:38,155 Speaker 1: feeling that I am going to be struck by lightning 349 00:25:38,395 --> 00:25:40,995 Speaker 1: and either riven like an old apple tree, or left 350 00:25:40,995 --> 00:25:43,235 Speaker 1: with a foot that aches in rainy weather, and a 351 00:25:43,235 --> 00:25:48,715 Speaker 1: habit of painting. These things happen. Barney came in not 352 00:25:48,835 --> 00:25:51,915 Speaker 1: to escape the storm to which he is or pretends 353 00:25:51,995 --> 00:25:56,915 Speaker 1: to be indifferent, but to put the sigh the way. Suddenly, 354 00:25:56,955 --> 00:25:58,875 Speaker 1: he said the first of those things that made me, 355 00:25:59,115 --> 00:26:03,035 Speaker 1: when I was with him, faintly creepy. He pointed at 356 00:26:03,035 --> 00:26:06,555 Speaker 1: the house. He says, seid his boat come down to rock? 357 00:26:06,835 --> 00:26:10,635 Speaker 1: He said, it is phenomena like that of which I 358 00:26:10,635 --> 00:26:15,395 Speaker 1: stand in constant dread, boats coming down rocks, people being teleported, 359 00:26:15,555 --> 00:26:18,435 Speaker 1: statues dripping blood, old regrets, and dreams in the form 360 00:26:18,475 --> 00:26:23,475 Speaker 1: of Luna moths fluttering against the windows at midnight. Of course, 361 00:26:23,515 --> 00:26:27,035 Speaker 1: I finally figured out what Barney meant, or what I 362 00:26:27,155 --> 00:26:30,875 Speaker 1: comforted myself with believing he meant something about a bolt 363 00:26:31,195 --> 00:26:36,075 Speaker 1: coming down the lightning rod on the house, a commonplace 364 00:26:36,155 --> 00:26:39,875 Speaker 1: and utterly natural thing. I should have dismissed it, but 365 00:26:39,955 --> 00:26:43,555 Speaker 1: it had its effect on me. Here was a stolid man, 366 00:26:43,955 --> 00:26:47,435 Speaker 1: smelling of hay and leather, who talked like somebody out 367 00:26:47,435 --> 00:26:51,235 Speaker 1: of Charles Fort's books, or like a traveler back from 368 00:26:51,355 --> 00:26:56,075 Speaker 1: oz and all the time the lightning was zigging and 369 00:26:56,195 --> 00:27:00,355 Speaker 1: zagging around him on this hot morning. When I saw 370 00:27:00,395 --> 00:27:03,795 Speaker 1: Barney coming along with his faithful storm trudging behind him, 371 00:27:03,955 --> 00:27:06,835 Speaker 1: I went back frowningly to my copy of Swan's Way. 372 00:27:07,595 --> 00:27:10,395 Speaker 1: I hope that Barney, seeing me absorbed in a book, 373 00:27:10,435 --> 00:27:15,275 Speaker 1: would pass by without saying anything. I read. I myself 374 00:27:15,315 --> 00:27:18,115 Speaker 1: seemed actually to have become the subject of my book, 375 00:27:18,475 --> 00:27:22,795 Speaker 1: A church a quartet, the rivalry between Francis the First 376 00:27:22,835 --> 00:27:26,155 Speaker 1: and Charles the Fifth. I could feel Barney standing looking 377 00:27:26,155 --> 00:27:29,795 Speaker 1: at me, but I didn't look at him this morning. 378 00:27:29,835 --> 00:27:33,915 Speaker 1: By and by, said Barney, I go hunt grocers and davoudes. 379 00:27:35,395 --> 00:27:40,915 Speaker 1: That's fine, I said, and turned a page and pretended 380 00:27:40,915 --> 00:27:44,675 Speaker 1: to be engrossed in what I was reading. Barney walked on. 381 00:27:45,475 --> 00:27:47,795 Speaker 1: He had wanted to talk some more, but he walked on. 382 00:27:49,035 --> 00:27:51,795 Speaker 1: After a paragraph or two his words began to come 383 00:27:51,835 --> 00:27:55,435 Speaker 1: between me and the words in the book. Bime by, 384 00:27:56,195 --> 00:28:02,155 Speaker 1: I go hunt grotches in davods. If you are susceptible 385 00:28:02,275 --> 00:28:06,075 Speaker 1: such things, it is not difficult to visualize grotches. They 386 00:28:06,115 --> 00:28:09,475 Speaker 1: fluttered into my mind, ugly little creatures about the size 387 00:28:09,475 --> 00:28:13,315 Speaker 1: of whipperwills, only covered with blood and honey, and the 388 00:28:13,395 --> 00:28:20,355 Speaker 1: scrapings of church bells. Grotches who and what I wondered, 389 00:28:20,675 --> 00:28:24,155 Speaker 1: really was this thing in the form of a hired 390 00:28:24,235 --> 00:28:29,075 Speaker 1: man that kept anointing me ominously in passing with Abra cadabra. 391 00:28:31,755 --> 00:28:34,795 Speaker 1: Barney didn't go toward the woods at once. He weeded 392 00:28:34,835 --> 00:28:37,875 Speaker 1: the corn, He picked apple boughs off the lawn. He 393 00:28:37,995 --> 00:28:40,995 Speaker 1: knocked a yellowjacket's nest down out of a plum tree. 394 00:28:41,675 --> 00:28:43,915 Speaker 1: It was raining now, but he didn't seem to notice it. 395 00:28:44,395 --> 00:28:46,155 Speaker 1: He kept looking at me out of the corner of 396 00:28:46,195 --> 00:28:47,635 Speaker 1: his eye, and I kept looking at him out of 397 00:28:47,635 --> 00:28:50,835 Speaker 1: the corner of my eye. Vod dime, is it beneeze? 398 00:28:51,315 --> 00:28:54,115 Speaker 1: He called to me. Finally, I put down my book 399 00:28:54,155 --> 00:28:58,275 Speaker 1: and sauntered out to him. When you go for those grotches, 400 00:28:58,635 --> 00:29:02,395 Speaker 1: I said, firmly, I'll go with you. I was sure 401 00:29:02,395 --> 00:29:05,115 Speaker 1: he wouldn't want me to go. I was right protested 402 00:29:05,115 --> 00:29:08,555 Speaker 1: that he could get the grotches himself. I'll go with you, 403 00:29:09,115 --> 00:29:13,515 Speaker 1: I said, stubbornly. We stood looking at each other, and then, abruptly, 404 00:29:13,675 --> 00:29:17,555 Speaker 1: just to give him something to ponder over, I quoted, 405 00:29:18,995 --> 00:29:22,235 Speaker 1: I'm going out to clean the pasture spring. I'll only 406 00:29:22,275 --> 00:29:25,155 Speaker 1: stop to take the leaves away and wait to watch 407 00:29:25,195 --> 00:29:28,635 Speaker 1: the water clear. I may i shan't be gone long 408 00:29:28,875 --> 00:29:35,715 Speaker 1: you come too. It wasn't, I realized, very good Abrica dabra, 409 00:29:35,835 --> 00:29:40,035 Speaker 1: but it served. Barney looked at me in a puzzled way. Yes, 410 00:29:41,155 --> 00:29:45,315 Speaker 1: he said, vaguely, it's five minutes of twelve, I said, 411 00:29:45,315 --> 00:29:48,755 Speaker 1: remembering he had asked. Then we go, he said, And 412 00:29:48,875 --> 00:29:51,195 Speaker 1: we trudged through the rain over to the orchard fence 413 00:29:51,235 --> 00:29:54,155 Speaker 1: and climbed that, and opened a gate and went out 414 00:29:54,155 --> 00:29:56,995 Speaker 1: into the meadow that slopes up to the woods. I 415 00:29:57,035 --> 00:29:59,955 Speaker 1: had a prefiguring of Barney at some proper spot deep 416 00:29:59,995 --> 00:30:04,195 Speaker 1: in the woods, prancing around like a goat, casting off 417 00:30:04,235 --> 00:30:08,915 Speaker 1: his fall nature, shedding his hired man's garments, dropping his 418 00:30:09,035 --> 00:30:16,835 Speaker 1: teutonic accent, repeating diabolical phrases, conjuring up grotches. It was 419 00:30:16,835 --> 00:30:20,315 Speaker 1: a great slash of lightning and along bumping of thunder. 420 00:30:20,355 --> 00:30:22,675 Speaker 1: As we reached the edge of the woods, I turned 421 00:30:22,875 --> 00:30:27,275 Speaker 1: and fled, glancing over my shoulder, I saw Barney standing 422 00:30:27,275 --> 00:30:32,675 Speaker 1: and staring after me. It turned out, on the face 423 00:30:32,715 --> 00:30:35,115 Speaker 1: of it to be as simple as the boat that 424 00:30:35,235 --> 00:30:41,475 Speaker 1: came down the rock. Grotches were crotches, crotched saplings, which 425 00:30:41,515 --> 00:30:44,235 Speaker 1: he cut down to use as supports under the peach boughs, 426 00:30:44,555 --> 00:30:46,915 Speaker 1: because in bearing time they become so heavy with fruit 427 00:30:46,915 --> 00:30:50,035 Speaker 1: that there was danger of the branches snapping off. I 428 00:30:50,075 --> 00:30:53,715 Speaker 1: saw Barney later putting the crotches in place. We didn't 429 00:30:53,715 --> 00:30:56,395 Speaker 1: have much to say to each other. I can see 430 00:30:56,435 --> 00:31:03,155 Speaker 1: now that he was beginning to suspect me too. About 431 00:31:03,195 --> 00:31:06,075 Speaker 1: six o'clock next evening, I was alone in the house 432 00:31:06,115 --> 00:31:09,835 Speaker 1: and sleeping upstairs. Barney rapped on the door of the 433 00:31:09,875 --> 00:31:13,235 Speaker 1: front porch. I knew it was Barney because he called 434 00:31:13,315 --> 00:31:17,035 Speaker 1: to me. I woke up slowly. It was dark for 435 00:31:17,115 --> 00:31:21,795 Speaker 1: six o'clock. I heard rumblings and soft flickerings. Barney was 436 00:31:21,835 --> 00:31:24,795 Speaker 1: standing at the front door with his storm at heel. 437 00:31:26,315 --> 00:31:28,875 Speaker 1: I had the conviction that it wasn't storming anywhere except 438 00:31:28,875 --> 00:31:31,955 Speaker 1: around my house. There couldn't, without the intervention of the 439 00:31:31,995 --> 00:31:34,675 Speaker 1: Devil or one of his agents, be so many lightning 440 00:31:34,715 --> 00:31:41,235 Speaker 1: storms in one neighborhood. I had been dreaming of Prost 441 00:31:41,555 --> 00:31:45,155 Speaker 1: and the church at Cambre, and meadowlands dipped in tea, 442 00:31:45,275 --> 00:31:48,355 Speaker 1: and the rivalry between Francis the First and Charles the fifth. 443 00:31:48,515 --> 00:31:51,755 Speaker 1: My head whirled and I didn't get up. Barney kept 444 00:31:51,795 --> 00:31:55,675 Speaker 1: on rapping. He called out again. There was a flash 445 00:31:55,795 --> 00:31:58,995 Speaker 1: followed by a sharp splitting sound. Now I leaped up 446 00:31:59,795 --> 00:32:02,235 Speaker 1: this time, I thought he is here to get me. 447 00:32:03,315 --> 00:32:07,555 Speaker 1: I had a notion that he was standing at the door, barefooted, 448 00:32:07,795 --> 00:32:10,075 Speaker 1: with a wreath of grape leaves around his head and 449 00:32:10,155 --> 00:32:13,715 Speaker 1: a wild animal's skin slung over his shoulder. I didn't 450 00:32:13,715 --> 00:32:19,275 Speaker 1: want to go down, but I did. He was as usual, solid, amiable, 451 00:32:19,515 --> 00:32:22,315 Speaker 1: dressed like a hired man. I went out onto the 452 00:32:22,315 --> 00:32:25,275 Speaker 1: porch and looked at the improbable storm now on in 453 00:32:25,355 --> 00:32:27,915 Speaker 1: all of its fury. This is getting pretty bad, I 454 00:32:27,955 --> 00:32:33,755 Speaker 1: said meaningly. Barney looked at the rein placidly well. I said, irritably, 455 00:32:33,835 --> 00:32:37,795 Speaker 1: what's up? Barney turned his little squinty blue eyes on me. 456 00:32:39,035 --> 00:32:42,475 Speaker 1: We go to the gaddock now and become warbs, he said, 457 00:32:44,395 --> 00:32:48,235 Speaker 1: the hell we do? I thought to myself quickly. I 458 00:32:48,435 --> 00:32:52,635 Speaker 1: was uneasy. I was you might even say terrified, but 459 00:32:52,715 --> 00:32:55,075 Speaker 1: I determined not to show it. If he began to 460 00:32:55,155 --> 00:32:58,955 Speaker 1: chant incantations or to make obscene signs, or if he 461 00:32:58,995 --> 00:33:01,875 Speaker 1: attempted to sling me over his shoulder, I resolved to 462 00:33:01,915 --> 00:33:04,195 Speaker 1: plunge right out into that storm, lightning it all, and 463 00:33:04,275 --> 00:33:07,235 Speaker 1: run to the nearest house. I didn't know what they 464 00:33:07,275 --> 00:33:09,315 Speaker 1: would think at the nearest house when I burst in 465 00:33:09,395 --> 00:33:11,875 Speaker 1: upon them, or what I would tell them. But I 466 00:33:11,955 --> 00:33:16,035 Speaker 1: didn't intend to accompany this amiable looking fiend to any 467 00:33:16,195 --> 00:33:22,475 Speaker 1: garrick and become a warb. I tried to persuade myself 468 00:33:22,475 --> 00:33:25,195 Speaker 1: that there was some simple explanation that warbs would turn 469 00:33:25,275 --> 00:33:27,715 Speaker 1: out to be as innocuous as boats on rocks and 470 00:33:27,755 --> 00:33:32,035 Speaker 1: grotches in divoods. But the conviction gripped me in the 471 00:33:32,235 --> 00:33:36,115 Speaker 1: growling of the thunder that here, at last was the 472 00:33:36,235 --> 00:33:41,475 Speaker 1: moment when Barney Holler or whoever he was, had chosen 473 00:33:41,555 --> 00:33:45,315 Speaker 1: to get me. I walked toward the steps that led 474 00:33:45,355 --> 00:33:49,995 Speaker 1: to the lawn and turned and faced him grimly. Listen, 475 00:33:50,395 --> 00:33:52,595 Speaker 1: I barked. Suddenly, Did you know that even when it 476 00:33:52,675 --> 00:33:56,275 Speaker 1: isn't brillig I can produce slye toes? Did you happen 477 00:33:56,315 --> 00:34:00,155 Speaker 1: to know that the Momrath never lived that could outgrab me? Yeah? 478 00:34:00,155 --> 00:34:02,555 Speaker 1: And furthermore, I can become anything I want to. Even 479 00:34:02,555 --> 00:34:05,195 Speaker 1: if I were a warb, I wouldn't have to keep 480 00:34:05,195 --> 00:34:07,195 Speaker 1: on being one if I didn't want to. I can 481 00:34:07,235 --> 00:34:10,155 Speaker 1: become a playing card at will too. Once I was 482 00:34:10,235 --> 00:34:12,035 Speaker 1: the jack of clubs, only I forgot to say, my 483 00:34:12,075 --> 00:34:17,315 Speaker 1: glasses off, and some guy recognized me. I. Barney was 484 00:34:17,395 --> 00:34:21,195 Speaker 1: backing slowly away toward the petunia box at one end 485 00:34:21,195 --> 00:34:24,835 Speaker 1: of the porch. His little blue eyes were wide. He 486 00:34:25,035 --> 00:34:28,195 Speaker 1: saw that I had him. I think I go now, 487 00:34:28,475 --> 00:34:31,755 Speaker 1: he said, and he walked out into the rain. The 488 00:34:31,835 --> 00:34:36,435 Speaker 1: rain followed him down the road. I have a new 489 00:34:36,555 --> 00:34:39,635 Speaker 1: hired man now. Barney never came back to work for 490 00:34:39,675 --> 00:34:42,915 Speaker 1: me after that day. Of course, I figured out finally 491 00:34:43,275 --> 00:34:45,595 Speaker 1: what he meant about the garrick and the wharves. He 492 00:34:45,635 --> 00:34:47,755 Speaker 1: had simply got horribly mixed up in trying to tell 493 00:34:47,835 --> 00:34:50,195 Speaker 1: me that he was going up to the garret and 494 00:34:50,315 --> 00:34:56,275 Speaker 1: clear out the wasps, of which I have thousands. The 495 00:34:56,395 --> 00:35:00,075 Speaker 1: new hired man is afraid of them. Barney could have 496 00:35:00,155 --> 00:35:02,435 Speaker 1: scooped them up in his hands and thrown them out 497 00:35:02,475 --> 00:35:07,555 Speaker 1: a window without getting stung. I am sure he trafficked 498 00:35:07,555 --> 00:35:11,235 Speaker 1: with the devil, but I am sorry I let him go. 499 00:35:24,555 --> 00:35:26,355 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 500 00:35:26,395 --> 00:35:29,155 Speaker 1: you for listening. Countown musical directors Brian Ray and John 501 00:35:29,155 --> 00:35:33,075 Speaker 1: Phillip Schaneil arranged, produced and performed most of our music. 502 00:35:33,595 --> 00:35:35,955 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, the bass, and the drums, 503 00:35:35,955 --> 00:35:38,595 Speaker 1: mister Shanelle, I had a little orchestration and keyboards, and 504 00:35:38,635 --> 00:35:41,795 Speaker 1: the whole thing was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, 505 00:35:41,835 --> 00:35:44,755 Speaker 1: including some of the Beethoven compositions, arranged and performed by 506 00:35:44,795 --> 00:35:48,155 Speaker 1: No Horns Allowed. The sports music is the Olderman theme 507 00:35:48,195 --> 00:35:51,395 Speaker 1: from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of 508 00:35:51,635 --> 00:35:55,075 Speaker 1: ESPN Inc. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by 509 00:35:55,155 --> 00:35:58,755 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever. Everything else 510 00:35:58,835 --> 00:36:01,595 Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. That's countdown for this the 511 00:36:01,635 --> 00:36:04,475 Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty seventh day until the two thousand 512 00:36:04,475 --> 00:36:07,635 Speaker 1: and two twenty four presidential election, and the two and 513 00:36:07,675 --> 00:36:12,115 Speaker 1: fourteenth day since Defendant J. Trump's first attempted coup against 514 00:36:12,115 --> 00:36:16,155 Speaker 1: the democratically elected government of the United States. Use the 515 00:36:16,355 --> 00:36:18,595 Speaker 1: justice system, use the mental health system, use the not 516 00:36:18,715 --> 00:36:23,235 Speaker 1: regularly given elector objection option, use the Donald the Walrus 517 00:36:23,355 --> 00:36:27,555 Speaker 1: no sleepies bit to stop him from doing it again 518 00:36:28,115 --> 00:36:34,235 Speaker 1: while we still can. The next scheduled countdown is Tuesday. 519 00:36:34,475 --> 00:36:37,155 Speaker 1: Bolton says, the news warrants till then. I'm Keith Ulreman, 520 00:36:37,395 --> 00:37:00,515 Speaker 1: good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown 521 00:37:00,555 --> 00:37:04,275 Speaker 1: with Keith Oulderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 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