1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:23,395 --> 00:00:28,035 Speaker 1: This was an assassination attempt. This was meant to be 3 00:00:28,115 --> 00:00:31,195 Speaker 1: the execution of as prominent a political figure as there 4 00:00:31,315 --> 00:00:34,035 Speaker 1: is in this country, eleven days before this country goes 5 00:00:34,115 --> 00:00:38,635 Speaker 1: to the polls. This was a political crime perpetrated by 6 00:00:38,675 --> 00:00:41,995 Speaker 1: an individual differentiated from the rest of the rising fascist 7 00:00:42,035 --> 00:00:45,595 Speaker 1: far right only by his behavior and only so far. 8 00:00:46,595 --> 00:00:49,675 Speaker 1: This was an act of domestic terrorism designed to kill 9 00:00:49,795 --> 00:00:52,435 Speaker 1: the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United 10 00:00:52,475 --> 00:00:55,875 Speaker 1: States of America and thus to derange the succession to 11 00:00:55,955 --> 00:01:00,835 Speaker 1: the presidency. This was an extension of the January six 12 00:01:01,035 --> 00:01:04,835 Speaker 1: coup attempt, down to the shouting of the same mindless, 13 00:01:05,035 --> 00:01:09,835 Speaker 1: murderous wars Nancy threat. This was intended to be the 14 00:01:09,875 --> 00:01:12,955 Speaker 1: full expression of the new mantra of a political party 15 00:01:12,995 --> 00:01:18,075 Speaker 1: gone insane, transformed from mere avarice and lack of empathy 16 00:01:18,235 --> 00:01:24,715 Speaker 1: into violence, brutality, authoritarianism, and fascism as acceptable political behavior. 17 00:01:25,515 --> 00:01:30,875 Speaker 1: This assassination attempt was, by all accounts, intended to result 18 00:01:30,955 --> 00:01:33,795 Speaker 1: in the torture of the husband of the third most 19 00:01:33,875 --> 00:01:37,675 Speaker 1: powerful elected official in this country, and presumably his death, 20 00:01:37,915 --> 00:01:41,115 Speaker 1: and then the death of that third most powerful official. 21 00:01:41,955 --> 00:01:47,595 Speaker 1: This is America at its worst when one political entity 22 00:01:47,635 --> 00:01:53,195 Speaker 1: employs stochastic terrorism as a recruiting tool, as a campaign pledge, 23 00:01:53,275 --> 00:01:56,315 Speaker 1: and as an attempt to alter the government by bloodshed. 24 00:01:56,995 --> 00:02:00,515 Speaker 1: And none of this, none of this is being said 25 00:02:01,075 --> 00:02:04,675 Speaker 1: by our democratic leaders, and none of this is being 26 00:02:04,675 --> 00:02:08,035 Speaker 1: being said by our newspapers, and none of this is 27 00:02:08,075 --> 00:02:11,555 Speaker 1: being said by our television networks. And god damn it, 28 00:02:11,715 --> 00:02:16,475 Speaker 1: I want it said now. I want the New York 29 00:02:16,515 --> 00:02:19,955 Speaker 1: Times to call this what it was, an assassination attempt. 30 00:02:20,635 --> 00:02:24,275 Speaker 1: I want meet the press and face the nation, and 31 00:02:24,355 --> 00:02:29,035 Speaker 1: this week to demand of every Republican henceforth the assassin 32 00:02:29,155 --> 00:02:32,955 Speaker 1: spoke the words of Maga. Do you repudiate Maga or 33 00:02:32,995 --> 00:02:36,875 Speaker 1: do you stand with the assailant and Maga. I want 34 00:02:37,275 --> 00:02:42,275 Speaker 1: Liz Cheney to point at Kevin McCarthy and carry gauze, 35 00:02:42,275 --> 00:02:45,435 Speaker 1: filter Lake and all the others who have taken over 36 00:02:45,475 --> 00:02:47,835 Speaker 1: what had been her party, and I want her to 37 00:02:47,915 --> 00:02:53,475 Speaker 1: accuse them of stochastic terrorism. And I want Vice President 38 00:02:53,555 --> 00:02:57,115 Speaker 1: Harris to say that David de Pappi wielded the hammer, 39 00:02:57,155 --> 00:02:59,555 Speaker 1: but Donald Trump might just as well have handed it 40 00:02:59,635 --> 00:03:03,075 Speaker 1: to him. And I want President Biden to stand before 41 00:03:03,115 --> 00:03:06,475 Speaker 1: the cameras of this name in prime time and state 42 00:03:06,515 --> 00:03:09,595 Speaker 1: what is obvious to all who are not lying, that 43 00:03:09,715 --> 00:03:13,915 Speaker 1: the attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi was an attack on 44 00:03:13,995 --> 00:03:17,435 Speaker 1: the government of the United States of America. And it 45 00:03:17,515 --> 00:03:21,555 Speaker 1: was inspired by Kevin McCarthy, and it was inspired by 46 00:03:21,915 --> 00:03:25,955 Speaker 1: Lauren Bobert. That it was inspired by Marjorie Taylor Green, 47 00:03:26,235 --> 00:03:29,515 Speaker 1: and it was inspired by Tucker Carlson. And it was 48 00:03:29,555 --> 00:03:34,515 Speaker 1: inspired by Roger Stone, and it was inspired by Michael Flynn, 49 00:03:34,755 --> 00:03:38,915 Speaker 1: and it was inspired by the Republican Party. And I 50 00:03:38,995 --> 00:03:41,555 Speaker 1: want Biden to list so many other names that it 51 00:03:41,635 --> 00:03:45,235 Speaker 1: becomes excruciating to listen to, and so that he shakes 52 00:03:45,315 --> 00:03:49,435 Speaker 1: with rage when he gets to the inescapable and inescapably 53 00:03:49,555 --> 00:03:55,355 Speaker 1: true conclusion that this carnage, this blasphemy, this maga terrorism 54 00:03:55,435 --> 00:04:03,875 Speaker 1: was inspired by Donald Trump. And it stops here. And 55 00:04:03,955 --> 00:04:07,195 Speaker 1: I want every prominent Democrat, from Chuck Schumer to Barack 56 00:04:07,235 --> 00:04:10,915 Speaker 1: Obama to pick a Republican or a Democrat or a 57 00:04:10,955 --> 00:04:15,315 Speaker 1: commentator who has stayed silent or minimized what happened, or 58 00:04:15,395 --> 00:04:19,715 Speaker 1: painted it as lawlessness, or said it proved that today 59 00:04:19,835 --> 00:04:22,795 Speaker 1: crime could happen to anyone anywhere. And I want them 60 00:04:22,835 --> 00:04:25,915 Speaker 1: each to pick one of those Republicans or Democrats and 61 00:04:25,995 --> 00:04:30,155 Speaker 1: metaphorically destroy them for their lives and their cowardice and 62 00:04:30,195 --> 00:04:35,235 Speaker 1: their political hordem I want a Democrat to get in 63 00:04:35,275 --> 00:04:38,315 Speaker 1: front of a microphone at a camera every day between 64 00:04:38,315 --> 00:04:42,635 Speaker 1: now and the midterms and ask Kevin McCarthy why the 65 00:04:42,755 --> 00:04:47,155 Speaker 1: presumptive Speaker of the House said nothing nothing about the 66 00:04:47,195 --> 00:04:50,475 Speaker 1: attempted assassination of the current Speaker of the House. I 67 00:04:50,635 --> 00:04:54,875 Speaker 1: want a Democrat to stand before giant printouts of the 68 00:04:54,995 --> 00:04:59,155 Speaker 1: terrorists social media posts with all the links to Mike Lindell, 69 00:04:59,275 --> 00:05:02,315 Speaker 1: and I want that Democrat to call Mike Lindelle a 70 00:05:02,435 --> 00:05:05,875 Speaker 1: fomentor of violence and terror is him and to ask 71 00:05:06,235 --> 00:05:10,715 Speaker 1: which foreign country is helping Mike Lindell undermine the peace 72 00:05:10,795 --> 00:05:15,715 Speaker 1: and future of this nation. I want a Democrat to 73 00:05:15,875 --> 00:05:19,555 Speaker 1: go to David axel Rod and ask him to explain 74 00:05:19,595 --> 00:05:23,235 Speaker 1: how he dared to write horrendous attacks like this are 75 00:05:23,275 --> 00:05:28,075 Speaker 1: the bitter fruit of an environment in which we demonize 76 00:05:28,235 --> 00:05:33,355 Speaker 1: each other and justify anything. As if any Liberal would 77 00:05:33,395 --> 00:05:37,035 Speaker 1: crack the list of the worst one perpetrators of political 78 00:05:37,115 --> 00:05:41,995 Speaker 1: violence of the last decade. I want a Democrat to 79 00:05:42,115 --> 00:05:45,355 Speaker 1: go to Steve Scalise and ask him how many times 80 00:05:45,355 --> 00:05:47,395 Speaker 1: he reminded us that he had been shot by a 81 00:05:47,475 --> 00:05:51,715 Speaker 1: deranged liberal, but when a deranged conservative attacked, he suddenly 82 00:05:51,755 --> 00:05:55,075 Speaker 1: would not mention politics and would say only violence has 83 00:05:55,155 --> 00:05:58,115 Speaker 1: no place in this country, as if Paul Pelosi had 84 00:05:58,155 --> 00:06:02,875 Speaker 1: been swiped with a pen knife. I want d n 85 00:06:02,915 --> 00:06:05,995 Speaker 1: C chair Jamie Harrison to go to r n C 86 00:06:06,235 --> 00:06:09,395 Speaker 1: chair Rona Romney McDaniel and to ask her how she 87 00:06:09,515 --> 00:06:13,275 Speaker 1: had the nerve to tweet generically about the attack and 88 00:06:13,355 --> 00:06:16,595 Speaker 1: then an hour later step on a stage at Canton, 89 00:06:16,675 --> 00:06:28,155 Speaker 1: Ohio and still attack Nancy Pelosi. And I want MSNBC 90 00:06:28,395 --> 00:06:32,475 Speaker 1: to put a camera crew to stalk Jesse Waters from Fox, 91 00:06:32,475 --> 00:06:35,915 Speaker 1: whose career began when it was his camera crew following 92 00:06:35,915 --> 00:06:39,315 Speaker 1: and harassing and stalking women, reporters and civilians. And I 93 00:06:39,355 --> 00:06:42,075 Speaker 1: want them outside his house twenty four hours a day, 94 00:06:42,195 --> 00:06:45,075 Speaker 1: waiting for him in just the same way, and demanding 95 00:06:45,155 --> 00:06:47,995 Speaker 1: he explained what he meant when he said there was 96 00:06:48,075 --> 00:06:51,915 Speaker 1: no reason to treat this assailant differently than any other 97 00:06:52,075 --> 00:06:57,795 Speaker 1: assailant anywhere in this country. Want this alleged perpetrator to 98 00:06:57,915 --> 00:07:00,915 Speaker 1: be treated the exact same way if he had treated 99 00:07:01,675 --> 00:07:03,395 Speaker 1: if he had attacked anybody else, because a lot of 100 00:07:03,435 --> 00:07:06,475 Speaker 1: people get hit with hammers. And I want the privilege 101 00:07:06,555 --> 00:07:12,195 Speaker 1: of calling Governor Glenn Uncan of Virginia a scumbag. He 102 00:07:12,355 --> 00:07:16,755 Speaker 1: just could not stop, this soft focus fascist, just could 103 00:07:16,795 --> 00:07:21,035 Speaker 1: not stop himself for one hour. He could not stop 104 00:07:21,115 --> 00:07:24,835 Speaker 1: for one speech. He could not stop in front of 105 00:07:24,875 --> 00:07:29,995 Speaker 1: a crowd of people whose souls, as Americans, are already lost. 106 00:07:30,355 --> 00:07:34,915 Speaker 1: He could not not make a wise crack, a joke, 107 00:07:35,235 --> 00:07:39,995 Speaker 1: a dismissive insult about the assassination attack. The voters are good, 108 00:07:40,035 --> 00:07:42,635 Speaker 1: ready to stand up again, and said we have had 109 00:07:42,875 --> 00:07:48,595 Speaker 1: enough enough of Abigail's fanburger, enough of Joe Biden, and 110 00:07:48,795 --> 00:07:51,715 Speaker 1: uh listen, I want to stop for a minute. And 111 00:07:51,715 --> 00:07:55,195 Speaker 1: and uh listen speaking Polo Us, his husband uh had 112 00:07:55,195 --> 00:07:57,035 Speaker 1: a break in last night in their house and he 113 00:07:57,075 --> 00:07:59,995 Speaker 1: was assaulted. There's no room for violence anywhere. But we're 114 00:07:59,995 --> 00:08:02,075 Speaker 1: gonna send her back to be with him in California. 115 00:08:02,115 --> 00:08:03,955 Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna go do. That's what we're gonna 116 00:08:03,995 --> 00:08:07,835 Speaker 1: go do. And given a chance on news Max to soften, 117 00:08:08,115 --> 00:08:13,555 Speaker 1: to retract, to try again, Glenn young kin scumbag instead 118 00:08:13,675 --> 00:08:18,035 Speaker 1: spelled out what is already obvious as the Republican party line. 119 00:08:18,635 --> 00:08:22,555 Speaker 1: This wasn't a Republican attacking Nancy Pelosi only to find 120 00:08:22,555 --> 00:08:25,275 Speaker 1: her not home and deciding to tie up her husband 121 00:08:25,315 --> 00:08:28,235 Speaker 1: and wait until she got home. This was a lawless 122 00:08:28,395 --> 00:08:32,915 Speaker 1: criminal in a lawless city, and it was the liberals fault, 123 00:08:33,355 --> 00:08:35,515 Speaker 1: and it was a break in and it just happened 124 00:08:35,555 --> 00:08:38,635 Speaker 1: to be over there at the Pelosi house. Listen, there 125 00:08:38,715 --> 00:08:40,955 Speaker 1: is no room for this in America, and we have 126 00:08:41,075 --> 00:08:43,875 Speaker 1: to stop this, and this lawlessness has has gotten out 127 00:08:43,915 --> 00:08:47,355 Speaker 1: of control. And I do, I do, sincerely hope that 128 00:08:48,035 --> 00:08:51,835 Speaker 1: figure Pelosi's husband recovers fully and quickly. And that is 129 00:08:51,875 --> 00:08:55,795 Speaker 1: as far as any Republican has gone, as far as 130 00:08:55,875 --> 00:08:58,675 Speaker 1: any one of these filth has been willing to go 131 00:09:00,155 --> 00:09:06,715 Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers over this totally coincidental attack. Many of them, 132 00:09:06,755 --> 00:09:09,555 Speaker 1: perhaps most of them, don't even believe it was. That 133 00:09:10,635 --> 00:09:14,355 Speaker 1: the chickens have come home to roost, said the fascist 134 00:09:14,475 --> 00:09:18,595 Speaker 1: sheriff of Los Angeles County, Alex Villanueva. All of this 135 00:09:18,715 --> 00:09:23,995 Speaker 1: falls upon the progressive movement that they don't prosecute anymore. 136 00:09:25,195 --> 00:09:29,235 Speaker 1: Just wondering, wrote news Max host Greg Kelly. If Nancy 137 00:09:29,275 --> 00:09:33,475 Speaker 1: Pelosi tried to stage her own mini January six, complete 138 00:09:33,475 --> 00:09:37,195 Speaker 1: with leaving the doors and windows open for quote insurrectionists 139 00:09:37,715 --> 00:09:42,395 Speaker 1: like this to Peppe Fellow, a Southerner on Twitter questioned 140 00:09:42,955 --> 00:09:46,555 Speaker 1: if the whole event was staged, just like Nancy staged 141 00:09:46,675 --> 00:09:50,155 Speaker 1: everything about January six. That was then retweeted by one 142 00:09:50,355 --> 00:09:54,835 Speaker 1: Mary Williams Benefield, the Republican candidate for the eighty first 143 00:09:54,835 --> 00:09:58,155 Speaker 1: district seat in the Georgia House, who added, maybe their 144 00:09:58,275 --> 00:10:02,595 Speaker 1: daughter has a film crew shooting on this too. I 145 00:10:02,635 --> 00:10:06,715 Speaker 1: want Democrats to put spot lights on these fiends and 146 00:10:06,795 --> 00:10:10,035 Speaker 1: all the others every day between now and the election. 147 00:10:10,235 --> 00:10:12,435 Speaker 1: I want the election to be a referendum on the 148 00:10:12,435 --> 00:10:15,835 Speaker 1: attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi. I want the words of 149 00:10:15,915 --> 00:10:19,555 Speaker 1: Trump and the words of de Pape correlated and cross 150 00:10:19,635 --> 00:10:23,795 Speaker 1: index and broadcast on loud speakers on trucks in every 151 00:10:23,795 --> 00:10:27,875 Speaker 1: city in this country. I want our liberal leaders to 152 00:10:28,195 --> 00:10:36,275 Speaker 1: do something, and I want to have the conversation about 153 00:10:36,315 --> 00:10:42,275 Speaker 1: the President's emergency powers, the small ones like sending troops 154 00:10:42,315 --> 00:10:45,355 Speaker 1: to guard the voting booths a week from Tuesday, and 155 00:10:45,435 --> 00:10:48,795 Speaker 1: even the big ones. I want to have the conversation 156 00:10:49,355 --> 00:10:53,435 Speaker 1: about perhaps taking the steps that the fascists hint at 157 00:10:53,555 --> 00:10:58,275 Speaker 1: using every hour in every one of their speeches, because 158 00:10:59,555 --> 00:11:02,995 Speaker 1: if we are going to see a national emergency, big 159 00:11:03,235 --> 00:11:09,355 Speaker 1: or small, declared, I want that declared by a sane 160 00:11:09,555 --> 00:11:14,715 Speaker 1: president defending freedom and not a madman trying to end it. 161 00:11:16,115 --> 00:11:21,675 Speaker 1: Because right now, at this moment, this nation is under attack. 162 00:11:22,795 --> 00:11:26,755 Speaker 1: The former president threatened reporters and publishers who refused to 163 00:11:26,795 --> 00:11:31,755 Speaker 1: reveal sources with rape. Members of a paramilitary group showed 164 00:11:31,795 --> 00:11:35,515 Speaker 1: up at penn State and beat and maced students who 165 00:11:35,555 --> 00:11:40,715 Speaker 1: were protesting the platform they were inexplicably given. Armed vigilantes 166 00:11:41,115 --> 00:11:45,755 Speaker 1: stalked ballot drop boxes in Arizona. The adviser to a 167 00:11:45,875 --> 00:11:51,595 Speaker 1: candidate for governor Pennsylvania declared the candidates opponent isn't really Jewish. 168 00:11:51,875 --> 00:11:56,435 Speaker 1: A billionaire entertainer boot liquor of the former president repeatedly 169 00:11:56,475 --> 00:12:00,475 Speaker 1: attacked that faith and spewed every anti Semitic trope known 170 00:12:00,515 --> 00:12:05,795 Speaker 1: to man. The reactionary power crazed billionaire adviser to Vladimir 171 00:12:05,835 --> 00:12:10,235 Speaker 1: Putin bought Twitter, and now a lunatic spouting madness that 172 00:12:10,275 --> 00:12:13,475 Speaker 1: matches almost word for word the campaign rhetoric of a 173 00:12:13,595 --> 00:12:16,475 Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green broke into the home of the Speaker 174 00:12:16,475 --> 00:12:18,755 Speaker 1: of the House, with the intention of murdering her and 175 00:12:18,835 --> 00:12:24,075 Speaker 1: her husband at all. This has happened just since last Saturday. 176 00:12:25,635 --> 00:12:31,955 Speaker 1: Our country is in danger. We are besieged on all 177 00:12:32,115 --> 00:12:38,475 Speaker 1: sides by heavily armed and heavily financed authoritarians who want 178 00:12:38,995 --> 00:12:44,595 Speaker 1: power not until the next election, but forever. Who have poisoned, 179 00:12:44,595 --> 00:12:48,235 Speaker 1: beyond recovery the minds of millions, and who intend to 180 00:12:48,315 --> 00:12:52,435 Speaker 1: poison the minds of millions more. Who hate liberty while 181 00:12:52,475 --> 00:12:56,755 Speaker 1: they are dressed as patriots, who despise the Constitution while 182 00:12:56,835 --> 00:13:01,075 Speaker 1: fetishizing the founding fathers, who abhor what America stands for 183 00:13:01,235 --> 00:13:05,795 Speaker 1: while they wave and desecrate our flag. Who will stop 184 00:13:05,835 --> 00:13:09,955 Speaker 1: at nothing, while they boast that they will stop at nothing. 185 00:13:12,115 --> 00:13:18,075 Speaker 1: That was a terrorist attack. That was an assassination attempt. 186 00:13:18,875 --> 00:13:25,995 Speaker 1: That was Donald Trump by proxy. This is life and death. 187 00:13:27,195 --> 00:13:30,475 Speaker 1: Friday morning, it was life and death for Paul and 188 00:13:30,635 --> 00:13:35,555 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi. Tomorrow it will be life and death for 189 00:13:35,715 --> 00:13:55,395 Speaker 1: the United States of America. This is an unscheduled weekend 190 00:13:55,555 --> 00:13:58,715 Speaker 1: edition of this podcast, so forgive me. The rest of 191 00:13:58,755 --> 00:14:01,675 Speaker 1: this countdown will not be fresh content. If you don't 192 00:14:01,675 --> 00:14:03,835 Speaker 1: want to listen, I will not hold it against you. 193 00:14:04,675 --> 00:14:07,755 Speaker 1: Friday's commentary though, about the fact that none of the 194 00:14:07,755 --> 00:14:11,475 Speaker 1: Trumpists who instigated January six have yet been indicted, let 195 00:14:11,515 --> 00:14:15,715 Speaker 1: alone convicted, seems more pertinent even than it was before 196 00:14:15,795 --> 00:14:20,235 Speaker 1: the Pelosi attack. I'll replay that next, and then close 197 00:14:20,315 --> 00:14:23,395 Speaker 1: with the usual weekend edition of Thurber. That's next. This 198 00:14:23,555 --> 00:14:50,435 Speaker 1: is countdown ninety months in jail for the insurrectionist who, 199 00:14:50,435 --> 00:14:54,075 Speaker 1: through Officer Michael phanone to the mob on January six, 200 00:14:54,315 --> 00:14:58,035 Speaker 1: and the House committee investigating that day seeking testimony from 201 00:14:58,075 --> 00:15:01,115 Speaker 1: at least six Secret Service agents and officials, with the 202 00:15:01,195 --> 00:15:05,195 Speaker 1: clear implication that the erasure of all their tech from 203 00:15:05,195 --> 00:15:08,555 Speaker 1: that day was no accident, and their inaction when warned 204 00:15:08,595 --> 00:15:12,155 Speaker 1: of threats against Pence and Pelosi and Schumer and democracy, 205 00:15:12,435 --> 00:15:16,435 Speaker 1: that in action was no accident either, And a week 206 00:15:16,435 --> 00:15:18,435 Speaker 1: and a half from now it will likely be a 207 00:15:18,515 --> 00:15:20,955 Speaker 1: Lane Duck committee. And we are two years from the 208 00:15:20,995 --> 00:15:23,715 Speaker 1: election in which Trump and trump is um were defeated 209 00:15:23,755 --> 00:15:28,035 Speaker 1: and repudiated even by a stricken democracy. And to this day, 210 00:15:28,195 --> 00:15:32,875 Speaker 1: not one god damned insurrectionist politician, not one god damned 211 00:15:32,955 --> 00:15:37,395 Speaker 1: stochastic terrorists, not one god damned Trump is in jail 212 00:15:37,915 --> 00:15:41,355 Speaker 1: or even under indictment, and all we have is excuses 213 00:15:41,715 --> 00:15:45,195 Speaker 1: and delays, when any other country in the world would 214 00:15:45,235 --> 00:15:49,835 Speaker 1: have locked all these bastards up and then sorted out 215 00:15:49,875 --> 00:15:56,355 Speaker 1: the legalities later. Let me begin by saying the worst 216 00:15:56,595 --> 00:16:01,955 Speaker 1: thing imaginable. We need to act not as if democracy 217 00:16:01,995 --> 00:16:05,035 Speaker 1: is in jeopardy in the mid terms. We need to 218 00:16:05,155 --> 00:16:09,795 Speaker 1: act as if it is already lost. We need to 219 00:16:09,955 --> 00:16:13,555 Speaker 1: act as if our job is not to defend democracy, 220 00:16:13,635 --> 00:16:17,155 Speaker 1: but to regain it. We need to act as if 221 00:16:17,235 --> 00:16:22,075 Speaker 1: without us, night will descend over this country all night forever. 222 00:16:22,875 --> 00:16:26,315 Speaker 1: For you, soon for your children, who will never even 223 00:16:26,395 --> 00:16:29,875 Speaker 1: read about democracy because it won't exist, and they will 224 00:16:29,915 --> 00:16:34,355 Speaker 1: have closed all the libraries. We need to act as 225 00:16:34,395 --> 00:16:38,035 Speaker 1: if darkness over this country means there is no country 226 00:16:38,275 --> 00:16:42,555 Speaker 1: to lead the world against the burgeoning climate disaster, and 227 00:16:42,595 --> 00:16:46,035 Speaker 1: therefore human life on this planet will be unsustainable and 228 00:16:46,155 --> 00:16:50,755 Speaker 1: society will collapse in cataclysmic horror and bloodshed in a 229 00:16:50,795 --> 00:16:53,675 Speaker 1: few short decades or less, and it will not be 230 00:16:53,875 --> 00:16:59,075 Speaker 1: just suicide, but slow and horrible suicide for your kids 231 00:16:59,475 --> 00:17:03,995 Speaker 1: and this planet. We need to act this way because 232 00:17:03,995 --> 00:17:08,355 Speaker 1: for all, in tents and purposes, democracy is lost, and 233 00:17:08,435 --> 00:17:11,755 Speaker 1: for all intents and purposes, our job is to regain it, 234 00:17:12,115 --> 00:17:14,835 Speaker 1: and for all intents and purposes, without us, night will 235 00:17:14,915 --> 00:17:17,755 Speaker 1: descend over this country, and for all intents and purposes, 236 00:17:17,875 --> 00:17:20,195 Speaker 1: there will be no country to lead in the climate 237 00:17:20,195 --> 00:17:23,475 Speaker 1: disaster and the slow and horrible suicide that is about 238 00:17:23,555 --> 00:17:30,355 Speaker 1: to begin. And we need to act our way ourselves, 239 00:17:30,355 --> 00:17:33,635 Speaker 1: because the two institutions upon which even the most cynical 240 00:17:33,675 --> 00:17:36,475 Speaker 1: of us believe we could rely, at least in some 241 00:17:36,995 --> 00:17:41,635 Speaker 1: small degree to defend the democracy on our behalf, have 242 00:17:41,795 --> 00:17:45,795 Speaker 1: abandoned the fight so that they can instead defend their 243 00:17:45,835 --> 00:17:51,115 Speaker 1: careers and their profits. Those two institutions would be one 244 00:17:51,355 --> 00:17:55,195 Speaker 1: the political and judicial infrastructure of this country, and to 245 00:17:56,035 --> 00:18:00,315 Speaker 1: the news media of this country. They have all seen 246 00:18:00,435 --> 00:18:03,355 Speaker 1: the future as I have just described it, and as 247 00:18:03,395 --> 00:18:06,235 Speaker 1: you know in your heart to be true. They have 248 00:18:06,395 --> 00:18:10,155 Speaker 1: all seen that future. And in the one institution they 249 00:18:10,195 --> 00:18:13,275 Speaker 1: have seen this gathering storm and said how do I 250 00:18:13,315 --> 00:18:17,035 Speaker 1: get reelected in this environment? And in the other institution 251 00:18:17,075 --> 00:18:19,715 Speaker 1: they have seen the gathering storm and said, how do 252 00:18:19,795 --> 00:18:22,555 Speaker 1: we protect the profits of our news organization if this 253 00:18:22,635 --> 00:18:28,635 Speaker 1: country goes wholly or just mostly fascist. History has placed 254 00:18:28,675 --> 00:18:33,955 Speaker 1: today's small l liberal politicians and today's small minded news 255 00:18:33,995 --> 00:18:37,875 Speaker 1: executives and reporters in as perilous at time ever for 256 00:18:37,955 --> 00:18:41,355 Speaker 1: the future of freedom and the future of humanity, and 257 00:18:41,395 --> 00:18:46,595 Speaker 1: they have responded with cowardice and selfishness and looking for 258 00:18:46,675 --> 00:18:52,875 Speaker 1: ways to become accessories. Fear is everywhere, and not fear 259 00:18:52,955 --> 00:18:55,075 Speaker 1: for the future of our nation and our freedoms and 260 00:18:55,075 --> 00:19:00,355 Speaker 1: our neighbors. Fear for themselves, fear for their offices, fear 261 00:19:00,395 --> 00:19:03,795 Speaker 1: for their wallets, fear for their ratings, fear for their 262 00:19:03,875 --> 00:19:08,675 Speaker 1: climb up the corporate ladder. We have a week and 263 00:19:08,715 --> 00:19:12,995 Speaker 1: a half left to beat these idiots, not the fascists. 264 00:19:13,515 --> 00:19:18,155 Speaker 1: The fascists are amoral, murderous bastards, but they are not idiots. 265 00:19:18,875 --> 00:19:22,995 Speaker 1: By idiots, I mean beat the allegedly liberal politicians and 266 00:19:23,115 --> 00:19:27,195 Speaker 1: the anything but liberal media into action and not appeasement 267 00:19:27,635 --> 00:19:34,275 Speaker 1: and into rage and not compromise. Quote. If you look 268 00:19:34,275 --> 00:19:36,115 Speaker 1: at some of the people that we've been hiring on 269 00:19:36,155 --> 00:19:40,315 Speaker 1: a contributor basis, said the co president of CBS quote 270 00:19:40,355 --> 00:19:42,875 Speaker 1: news unquote, if you look at some of the people 271 00:19:42,915 --> 00:19:45,755 Speaker 1: that we've been hiring on a contributor basis, being able 272 00:19:45,835 --> 00:19:48,635 Speaker 1: to make sure that we are getting access to both 273 00:19:48,675 --> 00:19:51,875 Speaker 1: sides of the aisle is a priority because we know 274 00:19:52,435 --> 00:19:55,155 Speaker 1: the Republicans are going to take over most likely in 275 00:19:55,195 --> 00:19:58,875 Speaker 1: the midterms. The man who said that is name near 276 00:19:58,955 --> 00:20:02,275 Speaker 1: As ken Lani. He not only said this to his 277 00:20:02,355 --> 00:20:06,115 Speaker 1: staff at CBS News, but he said it understanding that 278 00:20:06,115 --> 00:20:10,395 Speaker 1: those people were, yes, all reporters and GOLLI gosh, maybe 279 00:20:10,395 --> 00:20:13,035 Speaker 1: one of them would record what he was saying and 280 00:20:13,155 --> 00:20:18,275 Speaker 1: give that recording to the Washington Post perhaps or somebody. 281 00:20:18,515 --> 00:20:20,835 Speaker 1: A lot of the people that we're bringing in are 282 00:20:20,875 --> 00:20:24,835 Speaker 1: helping us in terms of access to that side of 283 00:20:24,875 --> 00:20:30,795 Speaker 1: the equation. Not only has this Naraj Kimlanni not been 284 00:20:30,835 --> 00:20:35,595 Speaker 1: fired by CBS News, but the sleez bag he hired first, 285 00:20:35,755 --> 00:20:39,315 Speaker 1: the former chief of staff to Crazy Trump, Mick Mulvaney, 286 00:20:39,395 --> 00:20:42,955 Speaker 1: has also not been fired. Mick Mulvaney one of the 287 00:20:42,995 --> 00:20:48,075 Speaker 1: principles in Trump's blackmailing of President Zelenski of Ukraine. Mick Mulvaney, 288 00:20:48,235 --> 00:20:54,395 Speaker 1: CBS News, Washington, Ukrainian Blood on my Hands hired so 289 00:20:54,515 --> 00:20:59,675 Speaker 1: CBS can get Republicans to go on face the nation 290 00:21:00,435 --> 00:21:07,435 Speaker 1: and theoretically Republicans will watch CBS access to Republicans to 291 00:21:07,555 --> 00:21:11,955 Speaker 1: come on to CBS News shows which Republicans will never 292 00:21:12,435 --> 00:21:18,395 Speaker 1: ever watch. Near As Canlani is doing this because, as 293 00:21:18,395 --> 00:21:20,755 Speaker 1: he put it, quote we know the Republicans are going 294 00:21:20,795 --> 00:21:23,075 Speaker 1: to take over, most likely in the midterms, and having 295 00:21:23,235 --> 00:21:26,195 Speaker 1: slime like Mick Mulvaney on the staff of CBS News 296 00:21:26,355 --> 00:21:30,675 Speaker 1: gives CBS at its parent company some cover for whenever 297 00:21:30,795 --> 00:21:34,635 Speaker 1: Crazy Trump or the next Crazy Trump comes in with 298 00:21:34,675 --> 00:21:38,715 Speaker 1: new laws restricting what places like CBS News can and 299 00:21:38,795 --> 00:21:42,635 Speaker 1: cannot report. Near Ashken, Lonnie can point to Mick mulvaney 300 00:21:42,795 --> 00:21:45,635 Speaker 1: CBS News Washington and say, but but some of your 301 00:21:45,715 --> 00:21:49,875 Speaker 1: people work here, and maybe, just maybe Crazy Trump or 302 00:21:49,915 --> 00:21:53,075 Speaker 1: the next Crazy Trump will say, Okay, you can stay 303 00:21:53,115 --> 00:21:56,755 Speaker 1: in business and make your money, and your investors will 304 00:21:56,795 --> 00:22:00,195 Speaker 1: be happy, and all will be well for CBS and 305 00:22:00,235 --> 00:22:02,275 Speaker 1: the stockholders. And so what if the rest of the 306 00:22:02,275 --> 00:22:04,915 Speaker 1: country has turned into Russia? All that money will you 307 00:22:05,035 --> 00:22:08,515 Speaker 1: buy your way out of the nightmare? For a while 308 00:22:11,355 --> 00:22:15,995 Speaker 1: back in April, The New York Times did an extensive 309 00:22:16,075 --> 00:22:18,515 Speaker 1: take out on what it described in the headline as 310 00:22:18,595 --> 00:22:25,035 Speaker 1: quote Trump allies continue legal drive to erase his loss, 311 00:22:25,275 --> 00:22:31,155 Speaker 1: stoking election doubts. The word allies is in their allies, 312 00:22:31,235 --> 00:22:34,275 Speaker 1: as in the Allies one World War Two. The word 313 00:22:34,515 --> 00:22:36,715 Speaker 1: legal is in there, which implies that what is being 314 00:22:36,755 --> 00:22:41,635 Speaker 1: done is legal. The word erase is in there, as 315 00:22:41,675 --> 00:22:45,675 Speaker 1: if we were talking about backspacing over a typo or 316 00:22:45,795 --> 00:22:51,915 Speaker 1: properly washing clean a blackboard. Trump allies continue legal drive 317 00:22:52,235 --> 00:22:56,915 Speaker 1: to erase his loss, stoking election doubts. You know a 318 00:22:56,995 --> 00:22:59,355 Speaker 1: word that was not in that New York Times headline, 319 00:22:59,955 --> 00:23:03,675 Speaker 1: coup was not in that headline. Another word, insurrection is 320 00:23:03,715 --> 00:23:06,195 Speaker 1: not in there. There is an apt phrase that also 321 00:23:06,275 --> 00:23:09,315 Speaker 1: is not in their attempt to overthrow the duly elected 322 00:23:09,355 --> 00:23:12,955 Speaker 1: government of the United goddamned States. None of that is 323 00:23:12,955 --> 00:23:15,515 Speaker 1: in the headline, and next to none of it was 324 00:23:15,555 --> 00:23:19,435 Speaker 1: in the article. It's just, oh, you know, allies doing 325 00:23:19,755 --> 00:23:24,795 Speaker 1: legal erasing by the New York Times by Maggie Haberman. 326 00:23:25,155 --> 00:23:30,435 Speaker 1: Of course, because the New York Times is so afraid 327 00:23:30,515 --> 00:23:34,435 Speaker 1: that it might take a side here. No, that's not right, exactly. 328 00:23:34,595 --> 00:23:36,595 Speaker 1: The New York Times is so afraid that it might 329 00:23:36,635 --> 00:23:41,715 Speaker 1: take the wrong side here that even it will hedge 330 00:23:41,835 --> 00:23:45,395 Speaker 1: its bets on occasion, in the face of the looming 331 00:23:45,595 --> 00:23:50,675 Speaker 1: shadow of fascism, and it will passively cooperate with fabricating 332 00:23:50,755 --> 00:23:54,235 Speaker 1: some illegal excuse that sounds like it's a law to 333 00:23:54,475 --> 00:23:59,435 Speaker 1: erase an election. Instead of saying the same fascist who 334 00:23:59,515 --> 00:24:02,595 Speaker 1: try to overthrow the government. On January six, are still 335 00:24:02,635 --> 00:24:05,995 Speaker 1: at it. And here are forty five constitutional experts who 336 00:24:05,995 --> 00:24:08,715 Speaker 1: explained why the correct response for this is for the 337 00:24:08,755 --> 00:24:12,315 Speaker 1: president to send in the military and detain these treasonous 338 00:24:12,395 --> 00:24:20,835 Speaker 1: seditionists in a naval brig The Times, the Post, CBS, CNN, 339 00:24:21,395 --> 00:24:25,435 Speaker 1: have I mentioned CNN and Chris licked all of them 340 00:24:25,435 --> 00:24:30,315 Speaker 1: all media, They all still don't know how to cover 341 00:24:30,435 --> 00:24:32,795 Speaker 1: a political story that does not fit into one of 342 00:24:32,835 --> 00:24:37,595 Speaker 1: maybe two dozen templates. There's never been a political party 343 00:24:37,635 --> 00:24:42,115 Speaker 1: that tried to overthrow democracy. Therefore there can never be 344 00:24:42,195 --> 00:24:46,635 Speaker 1: a political party that tries to overthrow democracy. The Papers 345 00:24:46,835 --> 00:24:49,835 Speaker 1: editor quit in two thousand nineteen. He was the one 346 00:24:49,875 --> 00:24:52,675 Speaker 1: who insisted there was nothing unique about the current moment, 347 00:24:52,915 --> 00:24:57,675 Speaker 1: that crazy Trump was just quote someone who says inflammatory 348 00:24:57,795 --> 00:25:02,675 Speaker 1: statements like a one time governor of Louisiana named Edwin Edwards, 349 00:25:04,035 --> 00:25:11,715 Speaker 1: fear everywhere the wrong kind. And then there are the politicians. 350 00:25:13,595 --> 00:25:15,275 Speaker 1: Let me throw this in here because it is the 351 00:25:15,355 --> 00:25:19,155 Speaker 1: ultimate current example of self interest married to fear. Somebody 352 00:25:19,195 --> 00:25:21,755 Speaker 1: at The Economist wrote in the spring, you know it 353 00:25:21,755 --> 00:25:24,195 Speaker 1: would be a great idea with the red wave facing 354 00:25:24,195 --> 00:25:30,475 Speaker 1: Democrats in the midterms g Elliott Morris rights quote would 355 00:25:30,475 --> 00:25:34,195 Speaker 1: be conservative and moderate Democrats in red states should shun 356 00:25:34,235 --> 00:25:41,675 Speaker 1: the Democratic label and run instead as independence. Oh sneaky. 357 00:25:42,395 --> 00:25:45,435 Speaker 1: Maybe three of them could stand on each other's shoulders 358 00:25:45,435 --> 00:25:48,595 Speaker 1: and wear a trench coat and insist they're not three Democrats, 359 00:25:48,675 --> 00:25:57,475 Speaker 1: They're just one giant independent. Quoting g Elliott again, This 360 00:25:57,715 --> 00:26:01,235 Speaker 1: both saves them from being automatically cast aside by rural 361 00:26:01,275 --> 00:26:05,235 Speaker 1: Republican voters and allows them to adopt some more servative 362 00:26:05,315 --> 00:26:12,235 Speaker 1: social positions. I mentioned many times my heroes were the 363 00:26:12,275 --> 00:26:16,155 Speaker 1: comedians Bob Elliott and Ray Golding. Bob Elliott the father 364 00:26:16,275 --> 00:26:19,555 Speaker 1: of Chris Elliott, whose work you may know. There was 365 00:26:19,595 --> 00:26:23,955 Speaker 1: a Bob and Ray sketch which I no by heart 366 00:26:24,755 --> 00:26:27,915 Speaker 1: about the head of the National Ketchup Institute played by 367 00:26:27,995 --> 00:26:31,355 Speaker 1: Ray Goulding explaining to the interviewer played by Bob Elliot 368 00:26:31,395 --> 00:26:35,715 Speaker 1: about how his plans for National Ketchup Week would double sales. 369 00:26:36,275 --> 00:26:38,515 Speaker 1: We will be branching out to new areas, new flavors, 370 00:26:38,555 --> 00:26:44,475 Speaker 1: new meals for Ketchup. Bob answers evenly new meals for ketchup. 371 00:26:45,235 --> 00:26:48,635 Speaker 1: Ray resumes not catchup as you civilians know it now, 372 00:26:48,835 --> 00:26:52,435 Speaker 1: but catchup in which tomato has been replaced by chocolate flavoring. 373 00:26:52,595 --> 00:26:57,035 Speaker 1: This opens the entire dessert topping field to the ketchup conglomerates. 374 00:26:58,595 --> 00:27:01,995 Speaker 1: Bob Elliott takes a long pause and says, so you're 375 00:27:02,035 --> 00:27:07,355 Speaker 1: holding National Ketchup Week to promote the sales of chocolate sauce. 376 00:27:08,715 --> 00:27:12,715 Speaker 1: Now it is Ray who pauses. Gosh, when you put 377 00:27:12,715 --> 00:27:16,235 Speaker 1: it that way, it sounds pretty stupid, and it's it's 378 00:27:16,275 --> 00:27:19,035 Speaker 1: my idea. I better get back to the office before 379 00:27:19,075 --> 00:27:23,315 Speaker 1: all hell breaks out. Excuse me. Democrats in Red States 380 00:27:23,315 --> 00:27:26,715 Speaker 1: pretending they're not Democrats and instead running as independents because 381 00:27:27,075 --> 00:27:29,515 Speaker 1: their Republican opponents would never figure that out in a 382 00:27:29,555 --> 00:27:33,195 Speaker 1: million years. It's genius. It's genius, I tells you, because 383 00:27:33,235 --> 00:27:36,395 Speaker 1: Texans would never figure out, say that the independent who 384 00:27:36,435 --> 00:27:40,515 Speaker 1: was running for governor Mr b Ato O'Rourke was actually 385 00:27:40,515 --> 00:27:43,595 Speaker 1: a Democrat. They never figure that out and turn it 386 00:27:43,595 --> 00:27:46,995 Speaker 1: into another smear on o a n with which to 387 00:27:47,075 --> 00:27:51,795 Speaker 1: further terrify the already cowering Democrats into submission National Ketchup 388 00:27:51,795 --> 00:27:56,275 Speaker 1: Week to sell chocolate sauce and independent not Democrats. Fear 389 00:27:56,715 --> 00:28:03,475 Speaker 1: fear fear, how even at this late hour can Democrats 390 00:28:03,515 --> 00:28:06,475 Speaker 1: and liberals not see the obviousness of the path in 391 00:28:06,515 --> 00:28:08,715 Speaker 1: front of them. The party in the White House always 392 00:28:08,715 --> 00:28:11,795 Speaker 1: gets crushed in the mid terms. The economy is good, 393 00:28:11,835 --> 00:28:15,955 Speaker 1: but inflation and the media make it seem disastrous. The 394 00:28:16,075 --> 00:28:19,755 Speaker 1: sense of inevitability is like Lincoln in eighteen sixty four 395 00:28:20,635 --> 00:28:24,555 Speaker 1: before they took Atlanta. There seems to be nothing left 396 00:28:24,595 --> 00:28:29,195 Speaker 1: to lose in the mid terms, so act that way. 397 00:28:29,795 --> 00:28:32,915 Speaker 1: You can't figure out how to stave off midterm disasters 398 00:28:32,915 --> 00:28:36,395 Speaker 1: against Republicans who have gerrymandered the nation and honed a 399 00:28:36,435 --> 00:28:39,875 Speaker 1: propaganda machine that now offers a channel of diet hate, 400 00:28:39,995 --> 00:28:42,795 Speaker 1: a channel of regular hate, and a channel of extra 401 00:28:42,915 --> 00:28:46,235 Speaker 1: strength hate. How about running on this wild idea. The 402 00:28:46,315 --> 00:28:51,315 Speaker 1: Republicans tried to violently overthrow the government of this country 403 00:28:51,395 --> 00:28:54,635 Speaker 1: last year, and having been thwarted, they are trying to 404 00:28:54,715 --> 00:28:59,075 Speaker 1: quote decertify an election and remove a president, even though 405 00:28:59,115 --> 00:29:02,075 Speaker 1: the Constitution says nobody can do that. And all, by 406 00:29:02,115 --> 00:29:05,555 Speaker 1: the way, each Republican candidate is a fast gist or 407 00:29:05,675 --> 00:29:10,515 Speaker 1: a racist, or a vigilante, or a Nazi or herschel 408 00:29:10,795 --> 00:29:14,395 Speaker 1: walker or the best of them is none of these things. 409 00:29:14,395 --> 00:29:20,595 Speaker 1: But they tolerate fascists racists, vigilantees, Nazis and herschel walkers 410 00:29:20,635 --> 00:29:24,395 Speaker 1: in their party. You can't run as the anti fascism 411 00:29:24,475 --> 00:29:29,555 Speaker 1: party even now, the anti coup party, the anti Nazi party. 412 00:29:29,915 --> 00:29:32,635 Speaker 1: The if you vote Republican will be the last election 413 00:29:32,675 --> 00:29:36,235 Speaker 1: we ever have party with Democracy about to go up 414 00:29:36,275 --> 00:29:41,435 Speaker 1: and smoke with Republican Congressman promising to prosecute the members 415 00:29:41,515 --> 00:29:46,435 Speaker 1: of the committee that looked into the last coup. If 416 00:29:46,475 --> 00:29:49,515 Speaker 1: Democracy is holding, it's going out of business sale. You 417 00:29:49,595 --> 00:29:54,555 Speaker 1: can't risk getting your skirts dirty here like Lincoln risk 418 00:29:54,635 --> 00:29:57,715 Speaker 1: getting his skirts dirty every day of his presidency. You 419 00:29:57,835 --> 00:30:01,675 Speaker 1: can't stash crazy Trump and Eastman and Mike freaking Lindel 420 00:30:01,715 --> 00:30:04,755 Speaker 1: in an army stockade and accused them of sedition and 421 00:30:05,235 --> 00:30:08,235 Speaker 1: fomenting violence, which, by the way, they have, or at 422 00:30:08,315 --> 00:30:10,315 Speaker 1: least threaten them with an army stock Kate, I mean 423 00:30:10,435 --> 00:30:14,875 Speaker 1: before just giving up and letting their minions take the 424 00:30:14,915 --> 00:30:18,715 Speaker 1: house in a week and a half and paving the 425 00:30:18,755 --> 00:30:21,635 Speaker 1: way for Crazy Trump's return. You don't want to try 426 00:30:21,875 --> 00:30:29,435 Speaker 1: something aggressive. Maybe you can't run on. We stopped Trump 427 00:30:29,475 --> 00:30:32,595 Speaker 1: from ending democracy, We stopped Trump from making himself dictator 428 00:30:32,635 --> 00:30:35,195 Speaker 1: for life, and we stopped Trump from letting putent annex 429 00:30:35,355 --> 00:30:38,835 Speaker 1: Ukraine where the Democrats and we kill fascists. You can't 430 00:30:38,955 --> 00:30:45,835 Speaker 1: run on that. You're not even gonna try. Fear fear, fear. 431 00:30:49,075 --> 00:30:51,595 Speaker 1: We have nothing to fear but fear itself. But unfortunately, 432 00:30:51,635 --> 00:30:54,515 Speaker 1: to paraphrase not FDR but my late friend William Hurt 433 00:30:54,515 --> 00:30:57,715 Speaker 1: in the movie Body Heat, sometimes the fear comes down 434 00:30:57,755 --> 00:31:00,635 Speaker 1: so heavy I feel like I should wear a hat. 435 00:31:03,915 --> 00:31:07,515 Speaker 1: So you and I have to do it ourselves. Light 436 00:31:07,555 --> 00:31:11,115 Speaker 1: a fire, I'll do. The Democrats in the last week 437 00:31:11,155 --> 00:31:15,315 Speaker 1: and a half, will replace the ones who survive. And 438 00:31:15,475 --> 00:31:18,795 Speaker 1: god damn it, if he's not ready to indict Donald 439 00:31:18,835 --> 00:31:22,195 Speaker 1: Trump by the first of next year, I'm starting with 440 00:31:22,275 --> 00:31:28,395 Speaker 1: Merrick Garland. Put Trump in jail, or go to jail yourself, Garland, 441 00:31:29,955 --> 00:31:35,955 Speaker 1: and light a fire under the liberal media or replace 442 00:31:36,075 --> 00:31:39,955 Speaker 1: them too. And by the way, that's why I'm saying 443 00:31:39,995 --> 00:31:44,515 Speaker 1: this now and you are listening to it. We'll do 444 00:31:44,595 --> 00:31:50,235 Speaker 1: it ourselves. We have to just remember, be careful out there. 445 00:31:51,355 --> 00:32:05,915 Speaker 1: Everybody wear a hat again. That mon terry aired first 446 00:32:05,995 --> 00:32:09,555 Speaker 1: in Friday's edition of Countdown. I'll be back in a 447 00:32:09,635 --> 00:32:13,715 Speaker 1: moment with James Thurber's The Dog That Bit People, something 448 00:32:13,795 --> 00:32:31,675 Speaker 1: of a much needed lighter note to the number one 449 00:32:31,755 --> 00:32:34,315 Speaker 1: story on the Countdown and Friday's with Thurber. And it's 450 00:32:34,315 --> 00:32:37,235 Speaker 1: amazing to me in retrospect how I read all of 451 00:32:37,315 --> 00:32:43,755 Speaker 1: his wonderful, realistic, not goopy writing about dogs and enjoyed 452 00:32:43,795 --> 00:32:49,755 Speaker 1: it thoroughly years before I was ever adopted by a dog. Now, 453 00:32:50,555 --> 00:32:54,715 Speaker 1: reading his dog stories and anecdotes, it's like reading about 454 00:32:54,755 --> 00:32:59,635 Speaker 1: a bunch of friends, even that one surly friend for 455 00:32:59,835 --> 00:33:06,195 Speaker 1: whom we must continuously make excuses The dog that bit 456 00:33:06,355 --> 00:33:13,195 Speaker 1: people by James Thurber. Probably no one man should have 457 00:33:13,395 --> 00:33:16,315 Speaker 1: as many dogs in this life as I have had, 458 00:33:16,355 --> 00:33:19,875 Speaker 1: but there was more pleasure than distress in them for me, 459 00:33:20,075 --> 00:33:25,035 Speaker 1: except in the case of an airedale named Mugs. He 460 00:33:25,155 --> 00:33:27,875 Speaker 1: gave me more trouble than all the other fifty four 461 00:33:28,035 --> 00:33:32,955 Speaker 1: or five put together. Although my moment of keenest embarrassment 462 00:33:33,475 --> 00:33:36,235 Speaker 1: was the time a Scotch Terrier named Genie, who had 463 00:33:36,315 --> 00:33:38,835 Speaker 1: just had six puppies in the clothes closet of a 464 00:33:38,915 --> 00:33:42,595 Speaker 1: fourth floor apartment in New York, had the unexpected seventh 465 00:33:42,635 --> 00:33:45,955 Speaker 1: and last at the corner of Eleventh Street and Fifth 466 00:33:45,995 --> 00:33:50,235 Speaker 1: Avenue during a walk she had insisted on taking. Then 467 00:33:50,395 --> 00:33:53,435 Speaker 1: two there was the prize winning French poodle, a giant, 468 00:33:53,515 --> 00:33:57,035 Speaker 1: big black poodle, none of your little, untroublesome white miniatures, 469 00:33:57,235 --> 00:34:00,115 Speaker 1: who got sick riding in the rumble seat of a 470 00:34:00,235 --> 00:34:03,435 Speaker 1: car with me on her way to the Greenwich dog Show. 471 00:34:03,715 --> 00:34:06,835 Speaker 1: She had a red rubber bib tucked around her throat end. 472 00:34:06,875 --> 00:34:09,555 Speaker 1: Since a rain storm came up when we were halfway 473 00:34:09,595 --> 00:34:13,475 Speaker 1: through the Bronx, I had to hold over her a 474 00:34:13,635 --> 00:34:19,035 Speaker 1: small green umbrella, really more of a parasol. The rain 475 00:34:19,155 --> 00:34:21,675 Speaker 1: beat down fearfully, and suddenly the driver of the car 476 00:34:21,755 --> 00:34:24,915 Speaker 1: drove into a big garage filled with mechanics. It happened 477 00:34:24,955 --> 00:34:27,515 Speaker 1: so quickly that I forgot to put the umbrella down, 478 00:34:28,275 --> 00:34:32,915 Speaker 1: and I will always remember with sickening distress the look 479 00:34:32,955 --> 00:34:36,715 Speaker 1: of incredulity mixed with hatred that came over the face 480 00:34:36,755 --> 00:34:39,875 Speaker 1: of the particular hardened garage man that came over to 481 00:34:39,915 --> 00:34:41,915 Speaker 1: see what we wanted when he took a look at 482 00:34:41,955 --> 00:34:46,315 Speaker 1: me and the poodle. All garage men and people of 483 00:34:46,355 --> 00:34:52,755 Speaker 1: that intolerant stripe hate poodles with their curious haircuts, especially 484 00:34:52,795 --> 00:34:54,835 Speaker 1: the pom poms that you've got to leave on their 485 00:34:54,915 --> 00:34:57,675 Speaker 1: hips if you expect the dogs to win a prize. 486 00:34:59,275 --> 00:35:03,275 Speaker 1: But the airedale as I have said, was the worst 487 00:35:03,355 --> 00:35:05,675 Speaker 1: of all my dogs. He really he wasn't my dog. 488 00:35:05,755 --> 00:35:08,315 Speaker 1: Matter of fact, I came home from a vacation one 489 00:35:08,315 --> 00:35:10,955 Speaker 1: summery to find that my brother Roy had bought him 490 00:35:10,955 --> 00:35:15,515 Speaker 1: while I was away. The big, burly, choleric dog. He 491 00:35:15,635 --> 00:35:18,995 Speaker 1: always acted as if he thought I wasn't one of 492 00:35:18,995 --> 00:35:22,635 Speaker 1: the family. There was a slight advantage in being one 493 00:35:22,675 --> 00:35:24,675 Speaker 1: of the family, for he didn't bite the family as 494 00:35:24,715 --> 00:35:28,035 Speaker 1: often as a bit strangers. Still, in the years that 495 00:35:28,115 --> 00:35:31,715 Speaker 1: we had him, he bit everybody but Mother, and he 496 00:35:31,835 --> 00:35:35,915 Speaker 1: made a pass at her once but missed. It was 497 00:35:35,995 --> 00:35:39,115 Speaker 1: during the month when we suddenly had mice, and Mugs 498 00:35:39,155 --> 00:35:42,835 Speaker 1: refused to do anything about them. Nobody ever had mice 499 00:35:42,915 --> 00:35:45,195 Speaker 1: exactly like the mice we had that month. They acted 500 00:35:45,195 --> 00:35:51,075 Speaker 1: like pet mice, almost like mice somebody had trained. They 501 00:35:51,075 --> 00:35:53,555 Speaker 1: were so friendly that one night, when Mother entertained at 502 00:35:53,555 --> 00:35:56,995 Speaker 1: dinner the Free Relias, a club she and my father 503 00:35:57,035 --> 00:35:59,435 Speaker 1: had belonged to for twenty years, she put down a 504 00:35:59,475 --> 00:36:01,515 Speaker 1: lot of little dishes with food in them on the 505 00:36:01,555 --> 00:36:04,915 Speaker 1: pantry floor so that the mice would be satisfied with 506 00:36:04,995 --> 00:36:08,755 Speaker 1: that and would not come into the dining room. Muggs 507 00:36:09,595 --> 00:36:12,155 Speaker 1: stayed out in the pantry with the mice lying on 508 00:36:12,195 --> 00:36:16,035 Speaker 1: the floor, growling to himself, not at the mice, but 509 00:36:16,115 --> 00:36:17,995 Speaker 1: about all the people in the next room that he 510 00:36:18,035 --> 00:36:22,315 Speaker 1: would have liked to get at. Mother slipped out into 511 00:36:22,315 --> 00:36:25,395 Speaker 1: the pantry, wants to see how everything was going. Everything 512 00:36:25,475 --> 00:36:28,715 Speaker 1: was going fine. It made her so mad to see 513 00:36:28,795 --> 00:36:32,355 Speaker 1: Mugs lying there oblivious of the mice. They came running 514 00:36:32,435 --> 00:36:36,995 Speaker 1: up to her that she slapped him, and he slashed 515 00:36:37,035 --> 00:36:40,195 Speaker 1: at her, but didn't make it. He was sorry immediately. 516 00:36:40,555 --> 00:36:44,315 Speaker 1: Mother said. He was always sorry, she said after he 517 00:36:44,395 --> 00:36:46,835 Speaker 1: bit someone. But we could not understand how she figured 518 00:36:46,875 --> 00:36:51,555 Speaker 1: this out. He didn't act sorry. Mother used to send 519 00:36:51,555 --> 00:36:53,955 Speaker 1: a box of candy every Christmas to the people the 520 00:36:53,995 --> 00:36:58,915 Speaker 1: airedale bit. The list finally contained forty or more names. 521 00:36:59,795 --> 00:37:01,955 Speaker 1: Nobody could understand why we did not get rid of 522 00:37:01,955 --> 00:37:04,235 Speaker 1: the dog. I didn't understand it very well myself, but 523 00:37:04,315 --> 00:37:07,835 Speaker 1: we did and get rid of him. I think that 524 00:37:07,995 --> 00:37:11,635 Speaker 1: one or two people tried to poison Mugs. He acted 525 00:37:11,835 --> 00:37:16,435 Speaker 1: poisoned once in a while. An old Major Moberly fired 526 00:37:16,475 --> 00:37:19,435 Speaker 1: at him once with his service revolver near the Seneca 527 00:37:19,475 --> 00:37:23,355 Speaker 1: Hotel and He's Broad Street. But Muggs lived to almost 528 00:37:23,395 --> 00:37:25,795 Speaker 1: eleven years old, and even when he could hardly get around, 529 00:37:25,955 --> 00:37:28,915 Speaker 1: he bit a congressman who had called to see my 530 00:37:29,035 --> 00:37:33,515 Speaker 1: father on business. My mother had never liked the congressman, 531 00:37:34,595 --> 00:37:37,555 Speaker 1: she said, the signs of his Horrorscope showed he couldn't 532 00:37:37,595 --> 00:37:40,715 Speaker 1: be trusted. He was saturned with the moon and virgo. 533 00:37:41,675 --> 00:37:44,155 Speaker 1: But she sent him a box of candy that Christmas. Anyway, 534 00:37:44,635 --> 00:37:48,115 Speaker 1: he sent it right back, probably because he suspected it 535 00:37:48,155 --> 00:37:52,475 Speaker 1: was trick candy. Mother persuaded herself that it was all 536 00:37:52,515 --> 00:37:54,315 Speaker 1: for the best that the dog had bitten him, even 537 00:37:54,355 --> 00:37:57,275 Speaker 1: though father lost an important business association because of it. 538 00:37:57,715 --> 00:38:00,955 Speaker 1: I wouldn't be associated with such a man, Mother said. 539 00:38:01,355 --> 00:38:05,315 Speaker 1: Muggs could read him like a book. We used to 540 00:38:05,355 --> 00:38:08,635 Speaker 1: take turns feeding Mugs to be on his good side, 541 00:38:08,715 --> 00:38:11,315 Speaker 1: but that didn't always work. He was never in a 542 00:38:11,395 --> 00:38:14,995 Speaker 1: very good humor even after a meal. Nobody knew exactly 543 00:38:15,035 --> 00:38:17,875 Speaker 1: what was the matter with him, but whatever it was, 544 00:38:17,915 --> 00:38:22,755 Speaker 1: it made him irascible, especially in the mornings. Roy my brother, 545 00:38:23,195 --> 00:38:26,235 Speaker 1: never felt very well in the morning either, especially before breakfast, 546 00:38:26,275 --> 00:38:29,275 Speaker 1: and once when he came downstairs and found that Muggs 547 00:38:29,355 --> 00:38:33,275 Speaker 1: had moodily chewed up the morning paper, he hit him 548 00:38:33,275 --> 00:38:36,555 Speaker 1: in the face with a grapefruit, and then jumped up 549 00:38:36,555 --> 00:38:40,475 Speaker 1: on the dining room table, scattering dishes and silverware and 550 00:38:40,595 --> 00:38:45,115 Speaker 1: spilling the coffee mugs. First free leap carried him all 551 00:38:45,155 --> 00:38:48,235 Speaker 1: the way across the table and into a brass fire 552 00:38:48,275 --> 00:38:50,835 Speaker 1: screen in front of the gas grate. But he was 553 00:38:50,875 --> 00:38:52,395 Speaker 1: back on his feet in a moment, and in the 554 00:38:52,475 --> 00:38:54,555 Speaker 1: end he got roy and gave him a pretty vicious 555 00:38:54,555 --> 00:38:57,595 Speaker 1: bite in the leg. Then he was all over it. 556 00:38:57,915 --> 00:39:00,075 Speaker 1: He never bid anyone more than once at a time. 557 00:39:01,195 --> 00:39:04,395 Speaker 1: Mother always mentioned that as an argument in his favor. 558 00:39:04,755 --> 00:39:07,035 Speaker 1: She said he had a quick temper, but that he 559 00:39:07,075 --> 00:39:11,675 Speaker 1: didn't hold a grudge. She was forever defending him. I 560 00:39:11,715 --> 00:39:15,475 Speaker 1: think she liked him because he wasn't well. He's not strong, 561 00:39:16,435 --> 00:39:21,355 Speaker 1: she would say, pityingly, But that was inaccurate. He may 562 00:39:21,435 --> 00:39:26,315 Speaker 1: not have been well, but he was terribly strong. One 563 00:39:26,355 --> 00:39:29,275 Speaker 1: time my mother went to the Chittenden Hotel to call 564 00:39:29,355 --> 00:39:32,835 Speaker 1: on a woman mental healer who was lecturing in Columbus 565 00:39:32,875 --> 00:39:37,075 Speaker 1: on the subject of harmonious vibrations. She wanted to find 566 00:39:37,115 --> 00:39:40,315 Speaker 1: out if it was possible to get harmonious vibrations into 567 00:39:40,315 --> 00:39:45,555 Speaker 1: a dog. He's a large, tan colored air dale. Mother explained. 568 00:39:46,195 --> 00:39:48,555 Speaker 1: The woman said that she had never treated a dog, 569 00:39:48,875 --> 00:39:51,675 Speaker 1: but she advised my mother to hold the thought that 570 00:39:51,795 --> 00:39:56,115 Speaker 1: he did not bite and would not bite. Mother was 571 00:39:56,155 --> 00:39:58,515 Speaker 1: holding the thought the very next morning when Muggs got 572 00:39:58,515 --> 00:40:01,555 Speaker 1: the ice man, but she blamed that slip up on 573 00:40:01,635 --> 00:40:04,195 Speaker 1: the ice man. If you didn't think he would bite you, 574 00:40:04,395 --> 00:40:07,995 Speaker 1: he hadn't, Mother told him. He stomped out of the 575 00:40:08,035 --> 00:40:13,355 Speaker 1: house in a terrible jangle of vibrations. One morning, when 576 00:40:13,435 --> 00:40:16,355 Speaker 1: Mugs bit me slightly more or less in passing, I 577 00:40:16,395 --> 00:40:19,755 Speaker 1: reached down and grabbed his short, stumpy tail and hoisted 578 00:40:19,835 --> 00:40:24,195 Speaker 1: him into the air. It was a foolhardy thing to do, 579 00:40:24,355 --> 00:40:26,555 Speaker 1: and the last time I saw my mother, about six 580 00:40:26,595 --> 00:40:29,155 Speaker 1: months ago, she said she didn't know what possessed me. 581 00:40:30,435 --> 00:40:33,635 Speaker 1: I don't either, except that I was pretty mad. As 582 00:40:33,715 --> 00:40:35,835 Speaker 1: long as I held the dog off the floor by 583 00:40:35,915 --> 00:40:38,155 Speaker 1: his tail, he couldn't get at me. But he twisted 584 00:40:38,195 --> 00:40:41,515 Speaker 1: and jerked so snarling all the time that I realized 585 00:40:42,155 --> 00:40:45,435 Speaker 1: I couldn't hold him that way very long, and I 586 00:40:45,515 --> 00:40:47,795 Speaker 1: carried him into the kitchen and flung him onto the 587 00:40:47,835 --> 00:40:49,795 Speaker 1: floor and shut the door on him just as he 588 00:40:50,075 --> 00:40:55,595 Speaker 1: crashed against it. But I forgot about the backstairs. Muggs 589 00:40:55,595 --> 00:40:58,755 Speaker 1: went up the backstairs and down the front stairs and 590 00:40:58,835 --> 00:41:02,115 Speaker 1: had me cornered in the living room. I managed to 591 00:41:02,155 --> 00:41:04,595 Speaker 1: get up onto the mantelpiece above the fireplace, but it 592 00:41:04,795 --> 00:41:08,875 Speaker 1: gave way and came down with a tremendous crash, throwing 593 00:41:08,915 --> 00:41:13,115 Speaker 1: a large marble clock, several vases, and myself heavily to 594 00:41:13,195 --> 00:41:17,755 Speaker 1: the floor. Muggs was so alarmed by the racket that 595 00:41:17,755 --> 00:41:20,755 Speaker 1: when I picked myself up, he had disappeared. We couldn't 596 00:41:20,795 --> 00:41:24,915 Speaker 1: find him anywhere, although we whistled and shouted until old 597 00:41:25,035 --> 00:41:29,555 Speaker 1: Mrs Debtwiler called after dinner that night. Muggs had bitten 598 00:41:29,595 --> 00:41:31,875 Speaker 1: her once in the leg, and she came into the 599 00:41:31,915 --> 00:41:34,435 Speaker 1: living room only after we assured her that Muggs had 600 00:41:34,515 --> 00:41:38,955 Speaker 1: run away. She had just seated herself when with great 601 00:41:39,075 --> 00:41:43,915 Speaker 1: growling and scratching of claws, Muggs emerged from under a 602 00:41:43,995 --> 00:41:47,475 Speaker 1: davenport where he had been quietly hiding all the time 603 00:41:48,315 --> 00:41:52,995 Speaker 1: and bit her again. Mother examined the bite and put 604 00:41:53,075 --> 00:41:55,235 Speaker 1: arnica on it and told Mrs debt Wylder that it 605 00:41:55,275 --> 00:41:58,875 Speaker 1: was only a bruise. He just bumped you, she said. 606 00:41:59,875 --> 00:42:02,955 Speaker 1: But Mrs debt Wilder left our house in a nasty 607 00:42:03,035 --> 00:42:07,315 Speaker 1: state of mind. Lots of people reported our Airdale to 608 00:42:07,395 --> 00:42:10,075 Speaker 1: the police, but my father held a municipal office at 609 00:42:10,075 --> 00:42:12,275 Speaker 1: the time and was on friendly terms with the police. 610 00:42:12,915 --> 00:42:15,835 Speaker 1: Even so, the cops had been out a couple of times, 611 00:42:16,275 --> 00:42:20,195 Speaker 1: once when Muggs bit Mrs rufus Stirred Event and again 612 00:42:20,235 --> 00:42:23,955 Speaker 1: when he bit Lieutenant Governor Malloy. But Mother told him 613 00:42:23,955 --> 00:42:25,915 Speaker 1: it hadn't been Muggs's fault, but the fault of the 614 00:42:25,955 --> 00:42:29,995 Speaker 1: people who were bitten. When he starts for them, they scream, 615 00:42:30,155 --> 00:42:34,835 Speaker 1: she explained, and that excites him. The cops suggested that 616 00:42:34,875 --> 00:42:36,995 Speaker 1: it might be a good idea to tie the dog up, 617 00:42:37,035 --> 00:42:39,835 Speaker 1: but Mother said that it mortified him to be tied 618 00:42:39,915 --> 00:42:42,395 Speaker 1: up and that he wouldn't eat when he was tied up. 619 00:42:43,875 --> 00:42:46,835 Speaker 1: Mugs at his meals was an unusual site because of 620 00:42:46,835 --> 00:42:49,595 Speaker 1: the fact that if you reach towards the floor, he 621 00:42:49,635 --> 00:42:53,875 Speaker 1: would bite you. We usually put his food plate on 622 00:42:53,915 --> 00:42:56,675 Speaker 1: top of an old kitchen table with a bench alongside 623 00:42:56,675 --> 00:42:59,595 Speaker 1: the table. Muggs would stand on the bench and eat. 624 00:43:00,675 --> 00:43:04,115 Speaker 1: I remember that my mother's uncle, Horatio, who boasted that 625 00:43:04,155 --> 00:43:09,235 Speaker 1: he was the third man up Missionary Ridge, was flutteringly 626 00:43:09,395 --> 00:43:11,675 Speaker 1: indignant when he found out that we fed the dog 627 00:43:11,755 --> 00:43:14,555 Speaker 1: on a table because we were afraid to put his 628 00:43:14,675 --> 00:43:17,435 Speaker 1: plate on the floor. He said he wasn't afraid of 629 00:43:17,475 --> 00:43:19,515 Speaker 1: any dog that ever lived, and that he would put 630 00:43:19,515 --> 00:43:21,235 Speaker 1: the dog's plate on the floor if we would give 631 00:43:21,235 --> 00:43:24,675 Speaker 1: it to him. Roy said that if Uncle Horatio had 632 00:43:24,715 --> 00:43:27,395 Speaker 1: fed Muggs on the ground just before the battle, he 633 00:43:27,395 --> 00:43:31,275 Speaker 1: would have been the first man up missionary ridge. Uncle 634 00:43:31,315 --> 00:43:37,395 Speaker 1: Horatio was furious, Ray, amen, rag amen, now, he shouted, 635 00:43:37,755 --> 00:43:43,035 Speaker 1: I'll feed them murmur on the floor. Roy was all 636 00:43:43,075 --> 00:43:45,195 Speaker 1: for giving him a chance. But my father wouldn't hear 637 00:43:45,235 --> 00:43:47,475 Speaker 1: of it. He said that Muggs had already been fed. 638 00:43:47,875 --> 00:43:53,475 Speaker 1: I'll feed him again, bald Uncle Horatio. We had quite 639 00:43:53,475 --> 00:43:58,395 Speaker 1: a time quieting him. In his last year. Muggs used 640 00:43:58,395 --> 00:44:02,115 Speaker 1: to spend practically all his time outdoors. He didn't like 641 00:44:02,195 --> 00:44:03,955 Speaker 1: to stay in the house for some reason or other. 642 00:44:04,115 --> 00:44:08,115 Speaker 1: Perhaps it too many unpleasant memories for him. Anyway, it 643 00:44:08,155 --> 00:44:09,835 Speaker 1: was hard to get him to come in, and as 644 00:44:09,875 --> 00:44:12,355 Speaker 1: a result, the garbage man, the iceman, and the laundry 645 00:44:12,355 --> 00:44:15,915 Speaker 1: man would not come near our house. We had to 646 00:44:15,915 --> 00:44:18,795 Speaker 1: haul the garbage down to the corner, take the laundry 647 00:44:18,795 --> 00:44:20,715 Speaker 1: out and bring it back and meet the ice man 648 00:44:20,835 --> 00:44:24,355 Speaker 1: a block from home. After this had gone on for 649 00:44:24,475 --> 00:44:27,475 Speaker 1: some time, we hit on an ingenious arrangement for getting 650 00:44:27,475 --> 00:44:29,835 Speaker 1: the dog in the house so that we could lock 651 00:44:29,915 --> 00:44:33,195 Speaker 1: him up while the gas meter was read, and so on. 652 00:44:34,155 --> 00:44:42,435 Speaker 1: Mugs was afraid of only one thing, and electrical storm 653 00:44:42,475 --> 00:44:46,915 Speaker 1: thunder and lightning frightened him out of his senses. I 654 00:44:46,955 --> 00:44:49,675 Speaker 1: think he thought a storm had broken the day the 655 00:44:49,675 --> 00:44:53,355 Speaker 1: mantelpiece spell. He would rush into the house and hide 656 00:44:53,395 --> 00:44:56,475 Speaker 1: under a bed or in a clothes closet. So we 657 00:44:56,635 --> 00:44:59,635 Speaker 1: fixed up a thunder machine out of a long, narrow 658 00:44:59,715 --> 00:45:02,355 Speaker 1: piece of sheet iron with a wooden handle on one end. 659 00:45:03,115 --> 00:45:05,875 Speaker 1: Mother would shake this big seriously when she wanted to 660 00:45:05,875 --> 00:45:08,875 Speaker 1: get Mugs into the house. It made an excellent imitation 661 00:45:08,915 --> 00:45:11,755 Speaker 1: of thunder. But I suppose it was the most roundabout 662 00:45:11,795 --> 00:45:15,595 Speaker 1: system for running a household that was ever devised. It 663 00:45:15,675 --> 00:45:19,235 Speaker 1: took a lot out of mother. A few months before 664 00:45:19,355 --> 00:45:24,315 Speaker 1: Muggs died, he got to seeing things. He would rise 665 00:45:24,835 --> 00:45:30,355 Speaker 1: slowly from the floor, growling low and stalk, stiff legged 666 00:45:30,875 --> 00:45:37,195 Speaker 1: and menacing toward nothing at all. Sometimes the thing would 667 00:45:37,195 --> 00:45:40,115 Speaker 1: be just a little to the right or left of 668 00:45:40,155 --> 00:45:45,195 Speaker 1: a visitor. Once a fuller brush salesman got hysterics. Muggs 669 00:45:45,235 --> 00:45:48,635 Speaker 1: came wandering into the room like Hamlet, following his father's ghost. 670 00:45:48,875 --> 00:45:51,315 Speaker 1: His eyes were fixed on a spot just to the 671 00:45:51,395 --> 00:45:54,955 Speaker 1: left of the fuller brushman, who stood it until Muggs 672 00:45:54,995 --> 00:45:59,835 Speaker 1: was about three slow creeping paces from him. Then he shouted, 673 00:46:00,995 --> 00:46:04,475 Speaker 1: Muggs wavered on passed him into the hallway, grumbling to himself, 674 00:46:04,475 --> 00:46:07,235 Speaker 1: but a fuller man went on shouting. I think Mother 675 00:46:07,275 --> 00:46:09,595 Speaker 1: had to throw a pan of cold water on him 676 00:46:09,595 --> 00:46:12,315 Speaker 1: before he stopped. That was the way she used to 677 00:46:12,315 --> 00:46:16,475 Speaker 1: stop us boys when we got into fights. Mugs died 678 00:46:16,595 --> 00:46:19,955 Speaker 1: quite suddenly one night. Mother wanted to bury him in 679 00:46:19,995 --> 00:46:22,595 Speaker 1: the family lot under a marble stone with some such 680 00:46:22,635 --> 00:46:26,035 Speaker 1: inscription as flights of angels sing thee to thy rest, 681 00:46:26,595 --> 00:46:30,435 Speaker 1: but we persuaded her it was against the law. In 682 00:46:30,475 --> 00:46:32,675 Speaker 1: the end we just put up a smooth board above 683 00:46:32,715 --> 00:46:36,395 Speaker 1: his grave along a lonely road. On the board I 684 00:46:36,435 --> 00:46:42,715 Speaker 1: wrote with an indelible pencil, kab Khanum. Mother was quite 685 00:46:42,755 --> 00:46:46,715 Speaker 1: pleased with the simple, classic dignity of the old Latin 686 00:46:46,755 --> 00:47:07,835 Speaker 1: epitaph The Dog that Bit People by James Thurber. I've 687 00:47:07,875 --> 00:47:09,675 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Thank you 688 00:47:09,715 --> 00:47:12,275 Speaker 1: for listening this far. If you can can help me out, 689 00:47:12,355 --> 00:47:14,795 Speaker 1: please do so. Spread the word about this tell somebody 690 00:47:14,795 --> 00:47:18,395 Speaker 1: about this podcast, get them to subscribe, or just listen 691 00:47:18,835 --> 00:47:21,235 Speaker 1: here the credits. Most of the music, including our theme 692 00:47:21,275 --> 00:47:24,515 Speaker 1: you Hear Now from Beethoven's Ninth was arranged, produced, and 693 00:47:24,555 --> 00:47:27,195 Speaker 1: performed by Brian Ray and John Philip Chanelle. They are 694 00:47:27,235 --> 00:47:31,475 Speaker 1: the Countdown musical directors. John Philip Chanelle provided all orchestration 695 00:47:31,555 --> 00:47:34,835 Speaker 1: and keyboards. 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