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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This

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Speaker 1: is a Countdown bulletin update. In a late night appearance

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Speaker 1: in Arizona alongside Tucker Carlson, the former President of the

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Speaker 1: United States, Donald Trump, the candidate in next Tuesday's election

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Speaker 1: for the Republican Party against Kamala Harris, the sitting Vice President,

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Speaker 1: in essence, threatened to kill former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, the

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Speaker 1: daughter of the former Vice President of the United States,

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Speaker 1: Dick Cheney.

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Speaker 2: And I don't blame him for sticking with his daughter,

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Speaker 2: but his daughter is a very dumb individual, very dumb.

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Speaker 1: She's a radical warhawk.

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Speaker 2: Let's put her with a rifle, standing there with nine

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Speaker 2: barrel shooting at her. Okay, let's see how she feels

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Speaker 2: about it, you know, when the guns are trained in

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Speaker 2: her face.

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Speaker 1: As we record, there has been no further explanation from

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Speaker 1: Trump for his threat. There is no other way to

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Speaker 1: interpret it than as a threat to the life of

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Speaker 1: Liz Cheney. It is noteworthy that, even in the immediate

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Speaker 1: moments after this statement was made by the former president,

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Speaker 1: that there was no Republican who had the moral, courage, clarity,

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Speaker 1: nor humanity to say this is where I draw the line.

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Speaker 1: This is where I must repudiate this crazed would be dictator.

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Speaker 1: Nor perhaps more disturbingly, was any Republican there to say,

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Speaker 1: my God, the next time he says something like this

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Speaker 1: about a Republican who has disagreed with him, it will

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Speaker 1: be me. We now follow with the rest of the

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Speaker 1: Friday Countdown podcast, as previously recorded before the late night

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Speaker 1: event in Arizona in which President Trump threatened Liz Cheney

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Speaker 1: with a firing squad.

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Speaker 2: She's a radical warhawk. Let's put her with a rifle,

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Speaker 2: standing there with nine barrel shooting at her. Okay, let's

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Speaker 2: see how she feels about it. You know, when the

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Speaker 2: guns are trained in her face.

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Speaker 1: I think there can no longer be any doubt that

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Speaker 1: as the last weekend of the campaign hits, the Trump

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Speaker 1: internal polls are telling his handlers that he is losing,

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Speaker 1: and losing by enough that, however close the popular vote

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Speaker 1: might turn out to be, he will lose handily and

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Speaker 1: decisively in the electoral College, and his only chance now

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Speaker 1: is to foment another insurrection, whether by violence or via

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Speaker 1: the machinations of that little shit eating Weasels. Speaker of

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Speaker 1: the House Mike Johnson Axios. It's Mike Allen reporting this.

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Speaker 1: Possibly the most gullible and easily led man in the

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Speaker 1: history of American journalism, and I include Bill Hemmer and

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Speaker 1: everybody else who's ever worked at Fox News. Mike Allen,

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Speaker 1: possibly the most gulliblelan in journalism or whatever he's actually in.

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Speaker 1: Presented this as a scoop. I quote a new internal

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Speaker 1: memo by Tony Fabrizio, chief polster for all three of

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Speaker 1: Trump's presidential campaigns, tells the former president he's in a

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Speaker 1: radically better position than he was right before the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty election. Mike, this is not a scoop, It's a

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Speaker 1: press release. Why it matters. The memo reflects the exuberance

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Speaker 1: that Trump staffers and allies exude in interviews and behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes conversations. The optimistic framing could make it even

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Speaker 1: more difficult for Trump followers to accept a law as legitimate.

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Speaker 1: Mike has just hit the lead there at that end

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Speaker 1: of that sentence and hasn't even noticed. Might make it

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Speaker 1: even more difficult for Trump followers to accept a loss

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Speaker 1: as legitimate. But back to his scoop. The memo addressed

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Speaker 1: to capital letters only Team Trump has the subject line

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Speaker 1: President Trump is on the verge to some degree. It

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Speaker 1: is terrifying, and not just for the fact that this

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Speaker 1: guy Allen has founded two of the larger news organizations

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Speaker 1: and two of the newer successful news organizations in this

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Speaker 1: country in the last fifteen years. It's terrifying because it

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Speaker 1: sounds like they have internal data that suggests they're winning,

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Speaker 1: and then we discovered what actually happened here. Quote Fabrizio

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Speaker 1: draws on Real Clear Politics polling averages to argue that

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Speaker 1: Trump's position nationally and in every single battleground state is

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Speaker 1: significantly better today than it was for years ago. I

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Speaker 1: point this out not to stoke over confidence or complacency,

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Speaker 1: but to illustrate just how close this election is and

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Speaker 1: that victory is within our reach. The upholster ads they

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Speaker 1: needed to plant this somewhere, and somebody said plants, like

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Speaker 1: in ferns plants. Oh, of course, Mike Allen. Let me

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Speaker 1: explain real clear politics for a moment. Real clear politics

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Speaker 1: is the Rasmussen made up numbers. And remember the Rasmussen organizations.

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Speaker 1: There's now two different sets of Rasmussen polls. The Rasmussins

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Speaker 1: are the people who invented ESPN and then sold it

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Speaker 1: for like eighty seven dollars. That's where they started. Somebody

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Speaker 1: who got fired as a local sportscaster in Hartford, Connecticut

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Speaker 1: in the polling business, except they don't do real polls.

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Speaker 1: They just produce numbers that Republicans like. So real clear politics,

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Speaker 1: the real Clear Politics average is the Rasmussen made up

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Speaker 1: poll plus some disreputable ones. As I have been saying

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Speaker 1: for a month, October would be devoted to various organizations

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Speaker 1: you have never heard from or heard of before, issuing

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Speaker 1: polls showing Trump leading by ten, Trump leading by seventeen

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Speaker 1: in Michigan, Trump leading in Wisconsin, Trump ahead uncatchably in Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 1: maybe in some state, Trump leading four million, three hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty seven two hundred and sixty one votes to nothing,

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Speaker 1: things like that. So the Rasmussen numbers are the more

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Speaker 1: reliable ones, and the real Clear Politics result is there

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Speaker 1: solely to make Republican voters think they are winning and

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Speaker 1: to set up another Trump insurrection, to stoke the idea

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Speaker 1: if it were not stoked enough by this psychopath. Every

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Speaker 1: time he opens his orange blow up sex doll mouth,

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Speaker 1: as we saw in the shots of him from Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: in the Orange vest. And I'm sorry for the imagery,

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Speaker 1: but the imagery is way worse than me talking about

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Speaker 1: the imagery. It's worse than every time he opens his

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Speaker 1: mouth and that stuff comes out. Because here it is

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Speaker 1: in print, it must be true. It's real clear politics.

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Speaker 1: We know that's good because it says real clear. Trump

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Speaker 1: has been questioning the vote in Pennsylvania for a week now.

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Speaker 1: Has been threatening legal action, has been threatening to get

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Speaker 1: been insisting that there have been ballot stolen and there

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Speaker 1: were ballots stolen by Republicans. Has been insisting it's all

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Speaker 1: fixed in Pennsylvania. It's already happening. And there's only one

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Speaker 1: possible explanation for that. He knows, or somebody knows, looking

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Speaker 1: at you, Tony Fabrizio, that the internals, particularly in Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 1: enough to cost him that pivotal Keystone state. And here's

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Speaker 1: the evidence of it from Politico, which still occasionally occasionally

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Speaker 1: by the GOP. Trump is lagging Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania

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Speaker 1: early voting with a critical and once reliable Republican constituency,

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Speaker 1: seniors in Pennsylvania, where voters over the age of sixty five,

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Speaker 1: Holy crap, that would be me, have cast nearly half

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Speaker 1: of the early ballots. Registered Democrats account for about fifty

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Speaker 1: eight percent of votes cast by seniors, compared to thirty

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Speaker 1: five percent for Republicans. That's despite both parties having roughly

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Speaker 1: well to use a phrase, real clear, you do tend

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Speaker 1: to think in terms of if I get this done now,

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Speaker 1: in advance, Oh my god, I get a two week advantage.

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Speaker 1: My vote will still count even if I'm dead, or

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Speaker 1: if I die on election morning. It's not morbid. It's

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Speaker 1: not prophesying your own death. It's not doubting you're gonna

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Speaker 1: make it. It's just you know, planning, Like while you're

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Speaker 1: all today. Remember what the idea here is and why

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Speaker 1: Trump has been continually talking about Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is the key,

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Speaker 1: but not because Trump is going to win in Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: Because all that, from what I can tell, the internal

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Speaker 1: that they are going to win, That all of their

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Speaker 1: trends in Pennsylvania are positive, that they have been positive

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Speaker 1: in every category except nazis that they might win the

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Speaker 1: by a total of four hundred thousand votes. We'll take it, because,

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Speaker 1: of course, what the result would be in the electoral

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Speaker 1: college is the same as if you won each of

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Speaker 1: those swing states by ten million votes. Remember the Trump

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Speaker 1: idea here. If there is no electoral path to victory,

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Speaker 1: you force a contingent election. And again just to go

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Speaker 1: majority being presented, and the electoral decision is made by

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Speaker 1: the House of Representatives. One vote per state, and obviously

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Speaker 1: that would be like at the conventions. There's one vote

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Speaker 1: the Electoral college, in terms of the House of Representatives,

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Speaker 1: But you can't accomplish that, as we heard earlier this

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Speaker 1: that simply by holding up the Pennsylvania delegation. That's where

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Speaker 1: on the margin of victory for Kamala Harris, you'd either

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Speaker 1: an alternate vote of electors in there, no matter what

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Speaker 1: the outcome is, if Trump indeed loses Pennsylvania, you somehow

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Speaker 1: get a second set of electors. The twenty twenty Eastman plan,

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Speaker 1: the alternate electors. You just have been planning it and

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Speaker 1: and lining it up with the judges four years in advance,

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Speaker 1: four years of groundwork to this point. The idea that

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Speaker 1: that's the idea. Keep selling the idea that he is

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Speaker 1: winning and has had it stolen from him, and take

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Speaker 1: your chances with violence or with Mike Johnson and the

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Speaker 1: little secret that they have going for them. It is

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Speaker 1: either a coup by murder, which again can be responded

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Speaker 1: you just have to ask yourself, if you're a president

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Speaker 1: the election, what do you do? My advice to President

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Speaker 1: Biden would be, Hey, the other idea works well here too.

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Speaker 1: Mike Johnson tries to steal the election, get the tanks

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Speaker 1: did at Tiananmen Square. No stop, anybody see Mike Johnson

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Speaker 1: around here anywhere? Well, check the pavement. He may be

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Speaker 1: down there somewhere. Crazily enough, all of what I am

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Speaker 1: that they are well ahead and having the stolen from them.

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Speaker 1: It would match what otherwise would look like the Trump

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Speaker 1: Still ahead on this ediative countdown. If this is the

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Speaker 1: zero zero zero zero zero zero dollars and ninety eight

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Speaker 1: cents I made up the last part. That is much more.

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Speaker 1: According to the International Monetary Fund, then there is money

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Speaker 1: in the entire world's gross domestic product, which is allegedly,

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Speaker 1: according to the IMF, the impossible missions Force, one hundred

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Speaker 1: and ten trillion dollars. As in a sign, how come

435
00:30:50,995 --> 00:30:53,275
Speaker 1: every time we refer to and they do it on

436
00:30:53,315 --> 00:30:57,835
Speaker 1: the business channels hourly, the International Monetary Fund, the IMF,

437
00:30:57,995 --> 00:31:00,635
Speaker 1: how come nobody ever says, what about Peter Graves and

438
00:31:00,675 --> 00:31:03,555
Speaker 1: the impossible Mission Force. If you decide to accept this,

439
00:31:03,875 --> 00:31:10,315
Speaker 1: Greg Morris will explode. The fine has reached these gargantuan levels,

440
00:31:10,355 --> 00:31:15,235
Speaker 1: according to the BBC, quoting Tasks the Soviet News Agency,

441
00:31:15,235 --> 00:31:20,235
Speaker 1: which is somehow still in business. It's because it rapidly

442
00:31:20,275 --> 00:31:24,915
Speaker 1: increases all the time, because it doubles every day, and

443
00:31:25,035 --> 00:31:27,355
Speaker 1: it's been doubling every day since the year twenty twenty.

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00:31:27,875 --> 00:31:32,315
Speaker 1: According to Task, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Preskoff admitted that

445
00:31:32,395 --> 00:31:36,435
Speaker 1: he cannot even pronounce this number. Well, of course, if

446
00:31:36,435 --> 00:31:38,955
Speaker 1: that's the definition of a lot, there's an awful lot

447
00:31:38,995 --> 00:31:42,195
Speaker 1: of things that Dmitri Preskoff and the Russian government can't pronounce.

448
00:31:42,875 --> 00:31:48,835
Speaker 1: Google management should pay attention. So it's more money than

449
00:31:48,835 --> 00:31:53,115
Speaker 1: there is in the entire world. Two undecillion rubles. Now.

450
00:31:53,315 --> 00:31:57,115
Speaker 1: The bad news for Russia is, of course, that's how

451
00:31:57,195 --> 00:32:02,795
Speaker 1: much Trump owes it too. Runner up worser Elon Musk.

452
00:32:03,355 --> 00:32:06,875
Speaker 1: If you haven't noticed this, Elon Musk has gone full Nazi.

453
00:32:07,715 --> 00:32:10,875
Speaker 1: There's a neo Nazi account called im yes you are

454
00:32:11,075 --> 00:32:14,675
Speaker 1: No that wrote we live in a society of double

455
00:32:14,715 --> 00:32:20,275
Speaker 1: standards and posted wiki entries for black pride and white pride,

456
00:32:20,315 --> 00:32:22,875
Speaker 1: indicating that black pride is a good thing and white

457
00:32:22,955 --> 00:32:30,595
Speaker 1: pride is you know. Musk answered this to his whatever

458
00:32:30,675 --> 00:32:32,955
Speaker 1: two hundred million followers what was the number in the

459
00:32:32,995 --> 00:32:40,075
Speaker 1: Russian case, to undecillion replies. Is the Anti Defamation League

460
00:32:40,155 --> 00:32:45,675
Speaker 1: still pushing this too? Hello, anti Semitism. You can take

461
00:32:45,755 --> 00:32:50,235
Speaker 1: the South African drugged up intellectual thief out of the

462
00:32:50,275 --> 00:32:55,195
Speaker 1: apartheid state, but you can't take the apartheid state out

463
00:32:55,235 --> 00:32:59,915
Speaker 1: of the South African drugged up intellectual thief. The good news, though,

464
00:33:00,035 --> 00:33:04,955
Speaker 1: is Musk has bought a compound in Texas or his

465
00:33:05,075 --> 00:33:08,555
Speaker 1: various women and children, so he's going the full David

466
00:33:08,635 --> 00:33:14,235
Speaker 1: Koresh evidently. So get those tanks ready, everybody. I'm telling

467
00:33:14,275 --> 00:33:17,035
Speaker 1: you this is just a piece of advice from an

468
00:33:17,035 --> 00:33:20,795
Speaker 1: old man. Put him out of business. I'm not saying

469
00:33:20,835 --> 00:33:25,235
Speaker 1: harm him. I'm just saying remove him from our society

470
00:33:25,315 --> 00:33:28,635
Speaker 1: as quickly as we can. Or one day he's going

471
00:33:28,715 --> 00:33:31,955
Speaker 1: to press a button somewhere and all of his self

472
00:33:32,075 --> 00:33:37,475
Speaker 1: driving cars will attack us. Actually, what harm would that

473
00:33:37,555 --> 00:33:39,955
Speaker 1: do if he pressed a button for all the self

474
00:33:40,115 --> 00:33:45,435
Speaker 1: driving cars to do anything? They just stall out or explode.

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00:33:46,075 --> 00:33:49,675
Speaker 1: The winner, though, the worst, speaking of Elon Musk speaking

476
00:33:49,675 --> 00:33:56,715
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump, speaking of Russia. Tucker Carlson, he went

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Speaker 1: on a podcast called Christianities. I believe this is a

478
00:34:00,795 --> 00:34:05,155
Speaker 1: combination of the term christian and inanity, although they don't

479
00:34:05,195 --> 00:34:09,395
Speaker 1: realize that perhaps the subject was good versus evil. There

480
00:34:09,475 --> 00:34:13,795
Speaker 1: is a conservative writer named Rod Dreyer who says, yeah,

481
00:34:13,795 --> 00:34:18,235
Speaker 1: this is all true. Carlson told this story a year ago. That,

482
00:34:18,275 --> 00:34:20,475
Speaker 1: of course, is about the time that Carlson began to

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Speaker 1: fully lose his mind. And also those pains began and

484
00:34:24,235 --> 00:34:27,075
Speaker 1: the mark started showing up on his body. You think

485
00:34:27,115 --> 00:34:29,435
Speaker 1: I'm kidding about that. Let me just read you some

486
00:34:29,555 --> 00:34:31,595
Speaker 1: of this. After all this, he said he had an

487
00:34:31,795 --> 00:34:36,195
Speaker 1: urge to read the Bible. Asked about good versus evil

488
00:34:36,195 --> 00:34:38,595
Speaker 1: and the manifestations of evil in society by the host,

489
00:34:38,675 --> 00:34:43,515
Speaker 1: mister religious psychopath of the day, I had a direct

490
00:34:43,595 --> 00:34:48,115
Speaker 1: experience with it, Tucker Carlson says, in the milieu of journalism,

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Speaker 1: He's asked, who says milieu. There was a guy wearing

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Speaker 1: a monocle when he said this in the milieu of journalism. No,

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00:34:58,475 --> 00:35:01,835
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson answers, in my bed at night, and I

494
00:35:01,875 --> 00:35:05,155
Speaker 1: got attacked while I was asleep with my wife and

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00:35:05,235 --> 00:35:11,675
Speaker 1: four dogs and mauled physically mauled. I'm just gonna as

496
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Speaker 1: a as a side step aside here and just ask

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Speaker 1: if you woke up mauled in your bed at night

498
00:35:19,995 --> 00:35:25,035
Speaker 1: by evidently some sort of outside force, that's your first conclusion,

499
00:35:25,115 --> 00:35:30,035
Speaker 1: it was by some sort of spiritual evil, and your

500
00:35:30,075 --> 00:35:32,035
Speaker 1: wife and your four dogs are there. I mean, I

501
00:35:32,115 --> 00:35:36,955
Speaker 1: have four dogs and occasionally I'm joined by well, wife

502
00:35:37,075 --> 00:35:41,235
Speaker 1: is too strong a term. I'm occasionally joined and and

503
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Speaker 1: if I woke up mauled, I would suspect one of them,

504
00:35:45,795 --> 00:35:47,875
Speaker 1: some of the past, some of the exes, I would

505
00:35:47,875 --> 00:35:50,315
Speaker 1: suspect them first. Some of the dogs, I would suspect

506
00:35:50,315 --> 00:35:54,075
Speaker 1: them first too. I mean little Kit, who I love

507
00:35:54,115 --> 00:35:58,475
Speaker 1: and and and as you know, changing the format of

508
00:35:58,475 --> 00:36:03,075
Speaker 1: this podcast for little Kid likes to throw hands. Little

509
00:36:03,155 --> 00:36:05,315
Speaker 1: kid comes over and gives me kisses and then punches

510
00:36:05,355 --> 00:36:08,035
Speaker 1: me in the face. And he's pretty good at it too.

511
00:36:08,155 --> 00:36:10,755
Speaker 1: He's got a good left and right. So I'm just saying,

512
00:36:10,795 --> 00:36:13,835
Speaker 1: if you wound up whoever you are, if you wound

513
00:36:13,915 --> 00:36:17,275
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night where you got

514
00:36:17,475 --> 00:36:21,515
Speaker 1: mauled with scratches all over your body, particularly if you're

515
00:36:21,555 --> 00:36:26,995
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson. I'm suspecting the wife. So anyway, the host

516
00:36:27,075 --> 00:36:30,795
Speaker 1: asks in a spiritual attack by a demon, and his

517
00:36:30,955 --> 00:36:34,155
Speaker 1: monocle pops out as he asked that question. Yeah, Tucker

518
00:36:34,195 --> 00:36:38,715
Speaker 1: Carlson says, by a demon or by something unseen that

519
00:36:38,875 --> 00:36:44,675
Speaker 1: left claw marks on my sides. The guy says, so

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00:36:44,715 --> 00:36:48,035
Speaker 1: it left physical marks, and the monocle pops back in.

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00:36:49,075 --> 00:36:51,755
Speaker 1: Carlson says, oh, oh they're still there. Yeah, yeah, a

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00:36:51,835 --> 00:36:55,995
Speaker 1: year and a half ago. All right, So you got

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Speaker 1: cut up by your wife, probably maybe in her sleep,

524
00:37:01,955 --> 00:37:04,555
Speaker 1: just as a manifestation of her frustration all these years

525
00:37:04,795 --> 00:37:07,155
Speaker 1: to being married to one of the biggest assholes in

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Speaker 1: human history, or by one of the dogs, because dogs

527
00:37:11,155 --> 00:37:14,955
Speaker 1: know good people versus bad people. And I'm honestly surprised

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00:37:15,075 --> 00:37:16,955
Speaker 1: he's got four dogs and they haven't killed him and

529
00:37:16,995 --> 00:37:20,355
Speaker 1: eaten him yet. Every once in a while, my dogs

530
00:37:20,395 --> 00:37:22,235
Speaker 1: look at me and go, well, we think you're a

531
00:37:22,275 --> 00:37:27,915
Speaker 1: good guy. But we have had meetings about this, and

532
00:37:27,955 --> 00:37:31,995
Speaker 1: there's still physical marks. Tucker Carlson is still he has

533
00:37:32,035 --> 00:37:35,515
Speaker 1: got physical marks that were inflicted a year and a

534
00:37:35,555 --> 00:37:39,635
Speaker 1: half ago, and he hasn't like like seen and bought

535
00:37:39,675 --> 00:37:42,675
Speaker 1: some back teen and put it on there some neosporin,

536
00:37:43,555 --> 00:37:46,355
Speaker 1: a couple of band aids. I mean, I worked in

537
00:37:46,395 --> 00:37:49,155
Speaker 1: the same place with Tucker Carlson for nearly three years,

538
00:37:49,555 --> 00:37:54,515
Speaker 1: and he is legitimately that great gap between what you

539
00:37:54,635 --> 00:37:57,195
Speaker 1: think your IQ is and what it really is. His

540
00:37:57,355 --> 00:38:00,235
Speaker 1: might be as large as Trump's. He believes his IQ

541
00:38:00,435 --> 00:38:03,275
Speaker 1: is up around two hundred, it's actually closer to two.

542
00:38:04,715 --> 00:38:10,515
Speaker 1: There is no more self satisfied, self convinced, never doubting

543
00:38:10,675 --> 00:38:13,035
Speaker 1: person in the history of the world. Go back and

544
00:38:13,115 --> 00:38:15,835
Speaker 1: look at the interview with John Stewart, who I also

545
00:38:15,875 --> 00:38:18,555
Speaker 1: do not support. Go back and look at John stewart

546
00:38:18,595 --> 00:38:23,835
Speaker 1: interview on CNN's Crossfire years ago where John Stewart canceled

547
00:38:23,875 --> 00:38:27,595
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson and the show Crossfire by saying what damage

548
00:38:27,595 --> 00:38:30,435
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson was doing to society? And it's not until

549
00:38:30,475 --> 00:38:33,915
Speaker 1: the very last moment after John Stewart has left a

550
00:38:33,955 --> 00:38:36,915
Speaker 1: series of marks on Tucker Carlson's side, So until the

551
00:38:37,075 --> 00:38:41,075
Speaker 1: last moment that Carlson realizes he's being cut up and

552
00:38:41,195 --> 00:38:48,355
Speaker 1: left for roadkill and start, I'm not joking the early

553
00:38:48,475 --> 00:38:55,955
Speaker 1: version of the psychonic laugh. That's him, Tucker Carlson. Maybe

554
00:38:56,035 --> 00:38:58,555
Speaker 1: John Stewart left these marks in the middle of the night,

555
00:38:59,755 --> 00:39:01,635
Speaker 1: although he would have filmed it and run it and

556
00:39:01,675 --> 00:39:05,715
Speaker 1: then said I'm really good. Okay, back to the conversation

557
00:39:06,195 --> 00:39:10,715
Speaker 1: on Christianity. Oh they're still there. Yeah, yeah, year and

558
00:39:10,755 --> 00:39:15,515
Speaker 1: a half ago. The interlocutor says, was your wife terrified?

559
00:39:15,555 --> 00:39:20,955
Speaker 1: I know you were. I wasn't. I was totally confused,

560
00:39:22,195 --> 00:39:25,035
Speaker 1: like that's an uncommon feeling. I woke up and I

561
00:39:25,075 --> 00:39:27,315
Speaker 1: couldn't breathe, and I thought I was going to suffocate,

562
00:39:27,595 --> 00:39:30,475
Speaker 1: and I walked around outside and then I walked in

563
00:39:30,515 --> 00:39:33,155
Speaker 1: and my wife and dogs had not woken up, and

564
00:39:33,235 --> 00:39:36,555
Speaker 1: they're very light sleepers. And then I had these terrible

565
00:39:36,595 --> 00:39:39,875
Speaker 1: pains on my rib cage and on my shoulder, and

566
00:39:39,915 --> 00:39:42,875
Speaker 1: I was just in my boxer shorts, and I went

567
00:39:42,915 --> 00:39:44,875
Speaker 1: and flipped on the light in the bathroom and I

568
00:39:44,915 --> 00:39:48,875
Speaker 1: had four claw marks on either side, underneath my arms

569
00:39:49,115 --> 00:39:52,915
Speaker 1: and on my left shoulder and they're bleeding. Well, this

570
00:39:53,035 --> 00:39:59,195
Speaker 1: alarm's monocle. Boy, Wait, they were bleeding. Carlson says, they

571
00:39:59,235 --> 00:40:03,355
Speaker 1: were bleeding. Yeah, no actual claw marks. And I sleep

572
00:40:03,395 --> 00:40:07,315
Speaker 1: on my side, so I wasn't clawing myself. Again. I'm

573
00:40:07,315 --> 00:40:09,475
Speaker 1: going to step aside from the quote to ask this question.

574
00:40:10,835 --> 00:40:17,355
Speaker 1: You wake up suddenly apparently not feeling anything, no pain,

575
00:40:17,435 --> 00:40:21,155
Speaker 1: no attack, no presence of any other force living, dead

576
00:40:21,395 --> 00:40:25,595
Speaker 1: or trump in the room. You feel nothing, and suddenly

577
00:40:25,595 --> 00:40:27,995
Speaker 1: you wake up and you're bleeding from claw marks on

578
00:40:28,035 --> 00:40:31,915
Speaker 1: the sides. And your first thought is to say, have

579
00:40:32,035 --> 00:40:36,395
Speaker 1: I been clawing myself? Because of course everybody sleeps like that,

580
00:40:38,155 --> 00:40:44,755
Speaker 1: dragging somehow, razors, sharp fingernails, or I don't know, gardening

581
00:40:44,795 --> 00:40:48,395
Speaker 1: tools against your rip cage while you sleep, because that's

582
00:40:48,395 --> 00:40:50,835
Speaker 1: perfectly normal. And actually, the more I think about it,

583
00:40:51,195 --> 00:40:53,915
Speaker 1: I think maybe I heard something like that with Tucker Carlson,

584
00:40:54,275 --> 00:40:56,355
Speaker 1: that he keeps gardening tools in bed with him and

585
00:40:56,395 --> 00:41:00,875
Speaker 1: claws himself every night. I don't have long nails and

586
00:41:00,955 --> 00:41:03,675
Speaker 1: they didn't fit my hands anyway. Well, there it is.

587
00:41:03,675 --> 00:41:07,955
Speaker 1: That must be the reference to the gardening tools. So

588
00:41:07,995 --> 00:41:10,395
Speaker 1: he's saying the claw marks the first thing he did.

589
00:41:10,515 --> 00:41:13,075
Speaker 1: The first thing he did was check to see if

590
00:41:13,115 --> 00:41:17,715
Speaker 1: he had done this to himself in an unconscious attempt

591
00:41:17,915 --> 00:41:25,435
Speaker 1: to literally kill himself painfully. If this lasts for more

592
00:41:25,475 --> 00:41:30,675
Speaker 1: than three hours, see your physician. But yeah, Tucker Carlson concludes,

593
00:41:31,715 --> 00:41:44,635
Speaker 1: that happened. Tucker, you think that was demons. No, that

594
00:41:44,755 --> 00:41:50,675
Speaker 1: was that was me, Tucker Carlson, Today's worst president in

595
00:41:50,715 --> 00:42:05,155
Speaker 1: the world. Sit back and relax, if relas is the

596
00:42:05,235 --> 00:42:09,515
Speaker 1: right word for it, for the greatest man in the

597
00:42:09,555 --> 00:42:15,875
Speaker 1: world by James Thurber. Looking back on it now from

598
00:42:15,955 --> 00:42:18,995
Speaker 1: the vantage point of nineteen forty, one can only marvel

599
00:42:19,035 --> 00:42:21,635
Speaker 1: that it had not happened. Long before it did. The

600
00:42:21,755 --> 00:42:25,195
Speaker 1: United States of America had been ever since Kitty Hawk

601
00:42:26,115 --> 00:42:30,235
Speaker 1: blindly constructing the elaborate petard by which, sooner or later

602
00:42:30,715 --> 00:42:35,595
Speaker 1: it must be hoist. It was inevitable that someday there

603
00:42:35,635 --> 00:42:38,555
Speaker 1: would come, roaring out of the skies a national hero

604
00:42:38,635 --> 00:42:43,035
Speaker 1: of insufficient intelligence, background and character, successfully to endure the

605
00:42:43,075 --> 00:42:46,915
Speaker 1: mounting orgies of glory prepared for aviators who stayed up

606
00:42:46,915 --> 00:42:51,755
Speaker 1: for a long time or flew a great distance. Both

607
00:42:51,795 --> 00:42:56,115
Speaker 1: Lindbergh and Byrd, fortunately for national decorum and international amity,

608
00:42:56,515 --> 00:43:00,755
Speaker 1: had been gentlemen, So had our other famous aviators. They

609
00:43:00,795 --> 00:43:04,795
Speaker 1: wore their laurels, gracefully, withstood the awful weather of publicity,

610
00:43:04,795 --> 00:43:09,195
Speaker 1: married excellent women, usually fine family, and quietly retired to

611
00:43:09,275 --> 00:43:12,995
Speaker 1: private life and the enjoyment of their varying fortunes. No

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00:43:13,435 --> 00:43:17,835
Speaker 1: untoward incidents on a worldwide scale, marred the perfection of

613
00:43:17,875 --> 00:43:22,235
Speaker 1: their conduct on the perilous heights of fame. The exception

614
00:43:22,435 --> 00:43:27,675
Speaker 1: to the rule was, however, bound to occur, and it

615
00:43:27,795 --> 00:43:33,235
Speaker 1: did in July nineteen thirty seven, when Jack Pal Smirch

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00:43:33,835 --> 00:43:38,075
Speaker 1: erstwhile mechanics helper in a small garage in Westfield, Iowa,

617
00:43:38,475 --> 00:43:44,075
Speaker 1: flew a second hand, single motored Breasthaven Dragonfly three monoplane

618
00:43:44,195 --> 00:43:51,515
Speaker 1: all the way around the world without stopping. Never before

619
00:43:51,515 --> 00:43:53,595
Speaker 1: in the history of aviation had such a flight as

620
00:43:53,635 --> 00:43:57,195
Speaker 1: Smirches even been dreamed of. No one had even taken

621
00:43:57,355 --> 00:44:01,475
Speaker 1: seriously the weird floating auxiliary gas tanks invention of the

622
00:44:01,515 --> 00:44:05,435
Speaker 1: mad New Hampshire professor of astronomy, doctor Charles U was Gresham,

623
00:44:05,755 --> 00:44:10,155
Speaker 1: upon which Smirch placed full reliance. When the garage worker,

624
00:44:10,435 --> 00:44:14,955
Speaker 1: a slightly built, surly unprepossessing young man of twenty two,

625
00:44:15,275 --> 00:44:18,555
Speaker 1: appeared at Roosevelt Field early in July nineteen thirty seven,

626
00:44:19,155 --> 00:44:23,755
Speaker 1: slowly chewing a great quid of scrap tobacco, and announced

627
00:44:24,355 --> 00:44:28,875
Speaker 1: nobody ain't seen no flying yet. The newspapers touched briefly

628
00:44:28,955 --> 00:44:33,435
Speaker 1: and satirically upon his projected twenty five thousand mile flight

629
00:44:34,275 --> 00:44:38,715
Speaker 1: aeronautical and automotive experts dismissed the idea, curtly implying that

630
00:44:38,755 --> 00:44:42,755
Speaker 1: it was a hoax, the publicity stunt. The rusty, battered

631
00:44:43,075 --> 00:44:50,395
Speaker 1: second hand plane wouldn't go, the Gresham auxiliary tanks wouldn't work.

632
00:44:51,355 --> 00:44:58,035
Speaker 1: It was simply a cheap joke smirch. However, after calling

633
00:44:58,035 --> 00:45:00,515
Speaker 1: on a girl in Brooklyn who worked in the flap

634
00:45:00,595 --> 00:45:03,875
Speaker 1: folding department of a large paper box factory, a girl

635
00:45:04,115 --> 00:45:08,355
Speaker 1: whom he laid you're described as his sweet Petuti climbed

636
00:45:08,435 --> 00:45:13,035
Speaker 1: nonchalantly into his ridiculous plane at dawn the memorable seventh

637
00:45:13,035 --> 00:45:16,955
Speaker 1: of July nineteen thirty seven, spit a curve of tobacco

638
00:45:17,075 --> 00:45:20,075
Speaker 1: juice into the still air, and took off, carrying with

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00:45:20,155 --> 00:45:24,475
Speaker 1: him only a gallon of bootleg gin and six pounds

640
00:45:24,555 --> 00:45:30,035
Speaker 1: of salami. When the garage boy thundered out over the ocean,

641
00:45:30,035 --> 00:45:32,875
Speaker 1: the papers were forced to record in all seriousness that

642
00:45:32,955 --> 00:45:37,435
Speaker 1: a mad, unknown young man his name was variously misspelled,

643
00:45:37,835 --> 00:45:41,395
Speaker 1: had actually set out upon a preposterous attempt to span

644
00:45:41,555 --> 00:45:45,155
Speaker 1: the world in a rickety one engine contraption, trusting to

645
00:45:45,195 --> 00:45:49,755
Speaker 1: the long distance refueling device of a crazy schoolmaster. When

646
00:45:49,875 --> 00:45:53,715
Speaker 1: nine days later, without having stopped once the tiny plane

647
00:45:53,755 --> 00:45:57,555
Speaker 1: appeared above San Francisco Bay, headed for New York, spluttering

648
00:45:57,595 --> 00:46:01,115
Speaker 1: and choking, to be sure, but still magnificently and miraculously

649
00:46:01,115 --> 00:46:04,835
Speaker 1: aloft the headlines, which long since had crowded everything something

650
00:46:04,915 --> 00:46:07,475
Speaker 1: else off the front page. Even the shooting of the

651
00:46:07,475 --> 00:46:12,475
Speaker 1: governor of Illinois by the Valetti Gang swelled to unprecedented size,

652
00:46:12,795 --> 00:46:15,395
Speaker 1: and the news stories began to run to twenty five

653
00:46:15,675 --> 00:46:22,995
Speaker 1: and thirty columns. It was noticeable, however, that the accounts

654
00:46:23,155 --> 00:46:27,275
Speaker 1: of the epoch making flight touched rather lightly upon the

655
00:46:27,315 --> 00:46:32,115
Speaker 1: aviator himself. This was not because the facts about the

656
00:46:32,195 --> 00:46:35,915
Speaker 1: hero as a man were too meager, but because they

657
00:46:35,955 --> 00:46:40,475
Speaker 1: were too complete. Reporters who had been rushed out to

658
00:46:40,595 --> 00:46:43,755
Speaker 1: Iowa when Smirch's plane was first sighted over the little

659
00:46:43,795 --> 00:46:46,875
Speaker 1: French coast town of Serlee Lemaire to dig up the

660
00:46:46,915 --> 00:46:50,435
Speaker 1: story of the great man's life had promptly discovered that

661
00:46:50,555 --> 00:46:53,955
Speaker 1: the story of his life could not be printed. His mother,

662
00:46:54,355 --> 00:46:57,235
Speaker 1: a sullen short order cook and a shack restaurant on

663
00:46:57,275 --> 00:47:00,395
Speaker 1: the edge of a tourist's camping ground near Westfield, met

664
00:47:00,435 --> 00:47:03,315
Speaker 1: all inquiries as to her son with an angry and

665
00:47:03,355 --> 00:47:07,555
Speaker 1: the hell with him he drowns. His father appeared to

666
00:47:07,555 --> 00:47:11,915
Speaker 1: be in jail somewhere for stealing spotlights and lap robes

667
00:47:11,995 --> 00:47:16,395
Speaker 1: from tourists automobiles. His young brother, a weak minded lad,

668
00:47:16,875 --> 00:47:19,955
Speaker 1: had but recently escaped from the Preston, Iowa Reformatory, and

669
00:47:20,075 --> 00:47:22,875
Speaker 1: was already wanted in several Western towns for the theft

670
00:47:22,915 --> 00:47:27,795
Speaker 1: of money order blanks from post offices. These alarming discoveries

671
00:47:27,995 --> 00:47:30,915
Speaker 1: were still piling up at the very time that pal Smirch,

672
00:47:31,235 --> 00:47:35,355
Speaker 1: the greatest hero of the twentieth century, blear eyed, dead

673
00:47:35,395 --> 00:47:39,475
Speaker 1: for sleep, half starved, was piloting his crazy junk heap

674
00:47:39,555 --> 00:47:41,955
Speaker 1: high above the region in which the lamentable story of

675
00:47:41,955 --> 00:47:44,995
Speaker 1: his private life was being unearthed, headed for New York

676
00:47:45,195 --> 00:47:48,035
Speaker 1: and a greater glory than any man of his time

677
00:47:48,115 --> 00:47:55,315
Speaker 1: had ever known. The necessity for printing some account in

678
00:47:55,355 --> 00:47:58,435
Speaker 1: the papers of the young man's career and personality had

679
00:47:58,515 --> 00:48:02,035
Speaker 1: led to a remarkable predicament. It was, of course, impossible

680
00:48:02,075 --> 00:48:06,035
Speaker 1: to reveal the facts, for a tremendous popular feeling in

681
00:48:06,115 --> 00:48:08,475
Speaker 1: favor of the young hero had sprung up like a

682
00:48:08,515 --> 00:48:11,435
Speaker 1: grass fire when he was halfway across Europe. On his

683
00:48:11,475 --> 00:48:15,275
Speaker 1: flight around the globe. He was therefore described as a modest,

684
00:48:15,355 --> 00:48:21,275
Speaker 1: chap taciturn blonde, popular with his friends, popular with girls.

685
00:48:22,035 --> 00:48:25,475
Speaker 1: The only available snapshot of Smirch, taken at the wheel

686
00:48:25,515 --> 00:48:28,315
Speaker 1: of a phony automobile in a cheap photo studio at

687
00:48:28,315 --> 00:48:31,235
Speaker 1: an amusement park, was touched up so that the little

688
00:48:31,315 --> 00:48:37,115
Speaker 1: vulgarian looked quite handsome. His twisted leer was smoothed into

689
00:48:37,115 --> 00:48:40,875
Speaker 1: a pleasant smile. The truth was in this way kept

690
00:48:40,875 --> 00:48:44,635
Speaker 1: from the youth's ecstatic compatriots. They did not dream that

691
00:48:44,675 --> 00:48:48,875
Speaker 1: the Smirch family was despised and feared by its neighbors

692
00:48:48,875 --> 00:48:51,915
Speaker 1: in the obscure Iowa town, nor that the hero himself,

693
00:48:52,475 --> 00:48:56,195
Speaker 1: because of numerous unsavory exploits, had come to be regarded

694
00:48:56,195 --> 00:49:01,875
Speaker 1: in Westfield as a nuisance and a menace. Pal's Smirch had,

695
00:49:01,915 --> 00:49:05,715
Speaker 1: the reporters discovered, once knife the principle of high school,

696
00:49:06,355 --> 00:49:09,275
Speaker 1: not mortally, to be sure, but he had knifed him,

697
00:49:09,355 --> 00:49:13,155
Speaker 1: and on another occasion, surprised in the act of an

698
00:49:13,195 --> 00:49:16,475
Speaker 1: stealing altar cloth from a church, he had bashed the

699
00:49:16,555 --> 00:49:19,475
Speaker 1: sexton over the head with a pot of Easter lilies.

700
00:49:20,475 --> 00:49:23,715
Speaker 1: For each of these offenses he had served a sentence

701
00:49:23,755 --> 00:49:28,795
Speaker 1: in the reformatory. Inwardly, the authorities, both in New York

702
00:49:28,835 --> 00:49:33,635
Speaker 1: and in Washington, prayed that an understanding providence might, however awful,

703
00:49:33,835 --> 00:49:38,315
Speaker 1: such a thing seemed, bring disaster to the rusty, battered

704
00:49:38,315 --> 00:49:41,675
Speaker 1: plane and its illustrious pilot, whose unheard of flight had

705
00:49:41,715 --> 00:49:46,755
Speaker 1: aroused the civilized world to hosannas of hysterical praise. The

706
00:49:46,835 --> 00:49:50,315
Speaker 1: authorities were convinced that the character of the renowned aviator

707
00:49:50,435 --> 00:49:53,435
Speaker 1: was such that the limelight of adulation was bound to

708
00:49:53,515 --> 00:49:58,075
Speaker 1: reveal him to all the world as a congenital hooligan,

709
00:49:58,515 --> 00:50:03,075
Speaker 1: mentally and morally unequipped to cope with his own prodigious fame.

710
00:50:04,795 --> 00:50:07,235
Speaker 1: Trust said the Secretary of State at one of the

711
00:50:07,275 --> 00:50:11,075
Speaker 1: many secret cabinet meetings called to consider the national dilemma.

712
00:50:11,595 --> 00:50:17,235
Speaker 1: I trust that his mother's prayer will be answered, by

713
00:50:17,275 --> 00:50:20,195
Speaker 1: which he referred to missus Emma's Smirch's wish that her

714
00:50:20,235 --> 00:50:24,555
Speaker 1: son might be drowned. It was, however, too late for

715
00:50:24,595 --> 00:50:27,595
Speaker 1: that Smirch had leaped the Atlantic and then the Pacific

716
00:50:27,595 --> 00:50:30,555
Speaker 1: as if they were mill ponds. At three minutes after

717
00:50:30,595 --> 00:50:33,875
Speaker 1: two o'clock on the afternoon of July seventeenth, nineteen thirty seven,

718
00:50:34,075 --> 00:50:37,915
Speaker 1: the garage boy brought his idiotic plane into Roosevelt Field

719
00:50:37,915 --> 00:50:42,955
Speaker 1: for a perfect three point landing. It had, of course

720
00:50:43,395 --> 00:50:45,955
Speaker 1: been out of the question to arrange a modest little

721
00:50:46,035 --> 00:50:49,035
Speaker 1: reception for the greatest flier in the history of the world.

722
00:50:49,275 --> 00:50:52,195
Speaker 1: He was received at Roosevelt Field with such elaborate and

723
00:50:52,235 --> 00:50:57,955
Speaker 1: pretentious ceremonies as rocked the world. Fortunately, however, the warren

724
00:50:58,075 --> 00:51:02,155
Speaker 1: and spent hero promptly swooned, had to be removed bodily

725
00:51:02,195 --> 00:51:04,435
Speaker 1: from his plane, and was spirited from the field with

726
00:51:04,435 --> 00:51:07,595
Speaker 1: a having opened his mouth once. Thus he did not

727
00:51:07,755 --> 00:51:12,155
Speaker 1: jeopardize the dignity of his first reception, a reception illumined

728
00:51:12,715 --> 00:51:15,555
Speaker 1: by the presence of the Secretaries of War and the Navy,

729
00:51:15,795 --> 00:51:19,155
Speaker 1: Mayor Michael J. Moriarty of New York, the Premier of Canada,

730
00:51:19,355 --> 00:51:22,875
Speaker 1: Governors Fanamine Groves, mcpheey and Critchfield, and a brilliant array

731
00:51:22,875 --> 00:51:27,715
Speaker 1: of European diplomats. Smirch did not, in fact come too

732
00:51:27,795 --> 00:51:30,595
Speaker 1: in time to take part in the gigantic hullabaloo arranged

733
00:51:30,595 --> 00:51:33,235
Speaker 1: at City Hall for the next day. He was rushed

734
00:51:33,235 --> 00:51:37,675
Speaker 1: to a secluded nursing home and confined in bed. It

735
00:51:37,715 --> 00:51:39,875
Speaker 1: was nine days before he was able to get up,

736
00:51:40,155 --> 00:51:44,155
Speaker 1: or to be more exact, before he was permitted to

737
00:51:44,275 --> 00:51:47,955
Speaker 1: get up. Meanwhile, the greatest minds in the country in

738
00:51:48,035 --> 00:51:52,315
Speaker 1: solemn assembly, had arranged a secret conference of city, state

739
00:51:52,355 --> 00:51:55,795
Speaker 1: and government officials, which Smirch was to attend for the

740
00:51:55,835 --> 00:52:01,635
Speaker 1: purpose of being instructed in the ethics and behavior of heroism.

741
00:52:03,275 --> 00:52:05,675
Speaker 1: On the day that the little mechanic was finally allowed

742
00:52:05,675 --> 00:52:07,475
Speaker 1: to get up in dress, and for the first time

743
00:52:07,515 --> 00:52:09,795
Speaker 1: in two weeks, took a great chew of tomacco, he

744
00:52:09,955 --> 00:52:13,355
Speaker 1: was permitted to receive the newspaper men this by way

745
00:52:13,395 --> 00:52:17,835
Speaker 1: of testing him out. Smirch did not wait for questions.

746
00:52:18,115 --> 00:52:23,155
Speaker 1: Use guys, he said, and the Times Man winced. Use

747
00:52:23,235 --> 00:52:26,075
Speaker 1: guys can tell a cock eyed world that I put

748
00:52:26,075 --> 00:52:29,595
Speaker 1: it over on Lindbergh. See yeah, man, an assaid, I'm

749
00:52:29,595 --> 00:52:35,355
Speaker 1: two frogs. The two frogs was a reference to a

750
00:52:35,355 --> 00:52:38,955
Speaker 1: pair of gallant French flyers who, in attempting to flight

751
00:52:39,035 --> 00:52:41,915
Speaker 1: only halfway round the world, had two weeks before unhappily

752
00:52:41,955 --> 00:52:45,875
Speaker 1: been lost at sea. The Times Man was bold enough

753
00:52:45,875 --> 00:52:48,355
Speaker 1: at this point to sketch out for Smirch the accepted

754
00:52:48,595 --> 00:52:52,195
Speaker 1: formula for interviews in cases of this kind. He explained

755
00:52:52,235 --> 00:52:56,435
Speaker 1: that there should be no arrogant statements belittling the achievements

756
00:52:56,435 --> 00:53:00,555
Speaker 1: of other heroes, particularly heroes of foreign nations. A the

757
00:53:00,635 --> 00:53:04,515
Speaker 1: hell with that, said Smirch. I did it. See I

758
00:53:04,795 --> 00:53:08,755
Speaker 1: did it, and I'm talking about it, and he did

759
00:53:08,795 --> 00:53:12,755
Speaker 1: talk about it. None of this extraordinary interview was, of

760
00:53:12,755 --> 00:53:17,275
Speaker 1: course printed. On the contrary, the newspapers, already under the

761
00:53:17,315 --> 00:53:20,315
Speaker 1: discipline direction of a secret directorate created for the occasion

762
00:53:20,555 --> 00:53:23,675
Speaker 1: and composed of statesmen and editors, gave out to a

763
00:53:23,715 --> 00:53:27,355
Speaker 1: panting and restless world that Jackie, as he had been

764
00:53:27,435 --> 00:53:31,115
Speaker 1: arbitrarily nicknamed, would consent to say only that he was

765
00:53:31,595 --> 00:53:34,595
Speaker 1: very happy, and that anyone could have done what he did.

766
00:53:35,515 --> 00:53:39,755
Speaker 1: My achievement has been I fear slightly exaggerated. The times

767
00:53:39,795 --> 00:53:43,835
Speaker 1: Man's article had him protest with a modest smile. These

768
00:53:43,875 --> 00:53:47,715
Speaker 1: newspaper stories were kept from the hero, a restriction which

769
00:53:47,755 --> 00:53:51,235
Speaker 1: did not serve to abate the rising malevolence of his temper.

770
00:53:52,475 --> 00:53:57,555
Speaker 1: The situation was indeed extremely grave for Palell's Smirch was,

771
00:53:58,395 --> 00:54:02,715
Speaker 1: as he kept insisting, raring to go. He could not

772
00:54:02,875 --> 00:54:05,875
Speaker 1: much longer be kept from a nation clamor to lionize him.

773
00:54:06,195 --> 00:54:09,035
Speaker 1: It was the most desperate crisis the United States of

774
00:54:09,035 --> 00:54:15,035
Speaker 1: America had faced since the sinking of the Lusitania. On

775
00:54:15,115 --> 00:54:18,275
Speaker 1: the afternoon of the twenty seventh of July, Smirch was

776
00:54:18,315 --> 00:54:21,715
Speaker 1: spirited away to a conference room in which were gathered mayors, governors,

777
00:54:21,715 --> 00:54:26,675
Speaker 1: government officials, behaviorist, psychologists, and editors. He gave them each

778
00:54:26,715 --> 00:54:32,315
Speaker 1: a limp moist paw, and a brief, unlovely grin hi,

779
00:54:33,155 --> 00:54:36,475
Speaker 1: he said. When Smirch was seated, the Mayor of New

780
00:54:36,555 --> 00:54:39,995
Speaker 1: York arose and, with obvious pessimism, attempted to explain what

781
00:54:40,075 --> 00:54:43,155
Speaker 1: he must say and how he must act when presented

782
00:54:43,195 --> 00:54:46,355
Speaker 1: to the world, ending his talk with a high tribute

783
00:54:46,355 --> 00:54:49,675
Speaker 1: to the hero's courage and integrity. The mayor was followed

784
00:54:49,675 --> 00:54:52,475
Speaker 1: by Governor Fannmen of New York, who, after a touching

785
00:54:52,555 --> 00:54:57,435
Speaker 1: declaration of faith, introduced Cameron Spottiswood, second Secretary of the

786
00:54:57,475 --> 00:55:01,395
Speaker 1: American Embassy in Paris, the gentlemen selected to coach Smirch

787
00:55:01,955 --> 00:55:06,235
Speaker 1: in the amenities of public ceremonies. Sitting in a chair

788
00:55:06,395 --> 00:55:09,155
Speaker 1: with a soiled yellow tie in his hand and his

789
00:55:09,195 --> 00:55:13,635
Speaker 1: shirt open at the throat, unshaved, smoking a rolled cigarette,

790
00:55:14,155 --> 00:55:17,475
Speaker 1: Jack Smirch listened with a leer on his lips. I

791
00:55:17,795 --> 00:55:21,955
Speaker 1: get you, I get you, He cut in nastily. You

792
00:55:21,995 --> 00:55:24,755
Speaker 1: want me to act like a softie? Huh? You want

793
00:55:24,795 --> 00:55:28,675
Speaker 1: me to act like that memny mumty baby face lind

794
00:55:28,715 --> 00:55:33,115
Speaker 1: big huh, Well nuts to that. See. Everyone took in

795
00:55:33,195 --> 00:55:37,195
Speaker 1: his breath sharply. It was a sigh and a hiss.

796
00:55:38,075 --> 00:55:42,675
Speaker 1: Mister Lindbergh began. A United States Senator purple with rage,

797
00:55:42,875 --> 00:55:47,035
Speaker 1: and mister bird Smirch, who was paring his nails with

798
00:55:47,115 --> 00:55:50,875
Speaker 1: a jackknife, cut in again. Boyd, he exclaimed, Oh, for

799
00:55:50,995 --> 00:55:54,755
Speaker 1: God's sake, that big Somebody shut off the blasphemies with

800
00:55:54,795 --> 00:55:58,115
Speaker 1: a sharp word. A newcomer had entered the word the room.

801
00:55:58,675 --> 00:56:01,115
Speaker 1: Everyone stood up, except Smirch, who was still busy with

802
00:56:01,155 --> 00:56:04,275
Speaker 1: his nails, and he did not even glance up. Mister

803
00:56:04,355 --> 00:56:07,915
Speaker 1: smur said someone sternly. The President of the United States.

804
00:56:09,115 --> 00:56:10,955
Speaker 1: It had been thought that the presence of the Chief

805
00:56:10,955 --> 00:56:13,955
Speaker 1: Executive might have a chastening effect on the young hero,

806
00:56:14,395 --> 00:56:17,315
Speaker 1: and the former had been, thanks to the remarkable cooperation

807
00:56:17,395 --> 00:56:20,715
Speaker 1: of the press, secretly brought to the obscure conference room.

808
00:56:22,075 --> 00:56:31,715
Speaker 1: A great painful silence fell. Smirch looked up, waved a

809
00:56:31,715 --> 00:56:35,715
Speaker 1: hand at the President. How are you coming? He asked,

810
00:56:36,635 --> 00:56:45,435
Speaker 1: and began rolling a fresh cigarette. The silence deepened. Someone

811
00:56:45,595 --> 00:56:51,155
Speaker 1: coughed in a strained way. Jesus hod ain't it, said smirch.

812
00:56:52,795 --> 00:56:56,755
Speaker 1: He loosened two more shirt buttons, revealing a hairy chest

813
00:56:56,795 --> 00:57:01,515
Speaker 1: and the tattooed word sadie enclosed in a stenciled heart.

814
00:57:02,795 --> 00:57:05,995
Speaker 1: The great and important men in the room, faced by

815
00:57:06,035 --> 00:57:10,555
Speaker 1: the most serious crisis in American history, exchanged worried frowns.

816
00:57:11,435 --> 00:57:15,315
Speaker 1: Nobody seemed to know how to proceed. Come on, come on,

817
00:57:15,795 --> 00:57:18,795
Speaker 1: said smirch. Let's get the hell out of here. When

818
00:57:18,835 --> 00:57:21,515
Speaker 1: do I start cutting in on the parties? Huh? And

819
00:57:21,595 --> 00:57:26,515
Speaker 1: when is there gonna be this in it? He rubbed

820
00:57:26,515 --> 00:57:31,435
Speaker 1: a thumb and forefinger together meaningly. Money, exclaimed a state

821
00:57:31,555 --> 00:57:37,235
Speaker 1: senator shocked Pale. Yeah, money, said pal, flipping his cigarette

822
00:57:37,235 --> 00:57:40,835
Speaker 1: out of the window. And big money. He began rolling

823
00:57:40,835 --> 00:57:46,035
Speaker 1: a fresh cigarette. Big money, he repeated. Frowning over the

824
00:57:46,115 --> 00:57:49,675
Speaker 1: rice paper. He tilted back in his chair and leered

825
00:57:49,715 --> 00:57:53,515
Speaker 1: at each gentleman separately, the leer of an animal that

826
00:57:53,715 --> 00:57:57,195
Speaker 1: knows its power, the leer of a leopard loose in

827
00:57:57,275 --> 00:58:01,795
Speaker 1: a bird and dog shop. Ah, for God's sake, let's

828
00:58:01,795 --> 00:58:05,315
Speaker 1: get someplace where it's cool, he said, I've been cooped

829
00:58:05,395 --> 00:58:09,555
Speaker 1: up plenty for three weeks. Smirch stood up and walked

830
00:58:09,595 --> 00:58:12,715
Speaker 1: over to an open window, where he stood staring down

831
00:58:12,755 --> 00:58:17,475
Speaker 1: into the street nine floors below. The faint shouting of

832
00:58:17,515 --> 00:58:20,795
Speaker 1: newsboys floated up to him. He made out his name,

833
00:58:21,155 --> 00:58:26,355
Speaker 1: hot Dog, he cried, grinning ecstatic. He leaned out over

834
00:58:26,435 --> 00:58:31,435
Speaker 1: the sill. You tell him, babies, he shouted down, Hot

835
00:58:31,515 --> 00:58:35,635
Speaker 1: Diggity Dog, and the tense little knot of men standing

836
00:58:35,675 --> 00:58:40,115
Speaker 1: behind him a quick, mad impulse flared up. An unspoken

837
00:58:40,195 --> 00:58:43,955
Speaker 1: word of appeal of command seemed to ring through the room,

838
00:58:44,275 --> 00:58:48,435
Speaker 1: yet it was deadly silent. Charles K. L Brand, secretary

839
00:58:48,475 --> 00:58:50,235
Speaker 1: to the Mayor of New York City, happened to be

840
00:58:50,235 --> 00:58:53,995
Speaker 1: standing nearest Smirch. He looked inquiringly at the President of

841
00:58:53,995 --> 00:58:59,755
Speaker 1: the United States. The President pale grim, nodded shortly. Brand,

842
00:59:00,035 --> 00:59:03,635
Speaker 1: a tall, powerfully built man wants to tackle at Rutgers University,

843
00:59:03,955 --> 00:59:07,315
Speaker 1: stepped forward, seized the greatest man in the world by

844
00:59:07,315 --> 00:59:09,355
Speaker 1: his left shoulder and the seat of his pants, and

845
00:59:09,475 --> 00:59:13,075
Speaker 1: pushed him out the window. My god, he's fallen out

846
00:59:13,075 --> 00:59:15,955
Speaker 1: the window, cried a quick witted editor. Get me out

847
00:59:15,955 --> 00:59:18,555
Speaker 1: of here. Cried the president. Several men sprang to his side,

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Speaker 1: He outlined a story which all the papers were to

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Speaker 1: he skillfully set the stage for the gigantic task that

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Speaker 1: as you know, the most elaborate, the finest columnist, and

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Speaker 1: The monument in Arlington Cemetery, with its clean white shaft

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Speaker 1: the nation. Even the inhabitants of the small, bewildered town

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Speaker 1: Department of Justice sought to that. One of them was

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Speaker 1: missus Emma Smirch bowed her head over to Hamburger steaks

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Speaker 1: sizzling on her grill. Bowed her head and turned away

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Speaker 1: so that the secret serviceman could not see the twisted,

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Speaker 1: that story is about Trump. I mean, it's right down

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Speaker 1: to the horrific look on Trump's mom's face. I've done

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Speaker 1: all the damage here. Thank you for listening. Brian Ray

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Speaker 1: and John Phillip Shaneil the musical directors have Countdown, arranged, produced,

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Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration

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Speaker 1: It was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy

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Speaker 1: musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever,

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Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme from

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Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc.

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Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed.

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Speaker 1: My announcer today was my friend Larry David. Everything else

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Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault, including Tucker Carlson's scratches. I

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Speaker 1: feel like playing the Looney Tunes theme whenever I talk

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Speaker 1: about Tucker Carlson. That's countdown for today. Four days until

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four presidential election, the one three hundred

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Speaker 1: and ninety sixth day since convicted felon dissociative fugue j

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Speaker 1: Trump got away with his first attempted coup against the

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Speaker 1: democratically elected government of the United States. Use the election,

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Speaker 1: use the mental health system, use presidential immunity to keep

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Speaker 1: him from doing it again while we still have a

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Speaker 1: chance to do so. The next scheduled countdown is Monday.

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Speaker 1: Have fun spending the weekend, holding your breath, bulletins as

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Speaker 1: the news requires. Till then, I'm Keith Alremman. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith

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