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Speaker 1: and Stop Me. Another plot to evade the twenty second
Speaker 1: Amendment and enable Trump to seek a third term has
Speaker 1: floated up to the surface of the MAGA Latrine. The
Speaker 1: constitutional term limit on presidents, this one goes, is in
Speaker 1: fact unconstitutional because no other federal office is term limited.
Speaker 1: I'll go into depth about this in a moment. But Americans,
Speaker 1: especially displaced Americans in other countries and people here who
Speaker 1: are not really paying attention but think they know the Constitution,
Speaker 1: are not taking any of this seriously. But the twenty
Speaker 1: second Amendment, said an expatriate to me the other day.
Speaker 1: I sighed, I said, Trump will try. He has to.
Speaker 1: He cannot leave office. He will be prosecuted if he
Speaker 1: leaves office. He will be jailed by somebody. If he
Speaker 1: leaves office, he will die in prison if he leaves office,
Speaker 1: Trump twenty twenty eight. The methodology ultimately will be I'm
Speaker 1: doing it, try and stop me, just like everything else.
Speaker 1: And I might add he is still talking about it
Speaker 1: Trump on Sunday. So many people want me to do it.
Speaker 1: I have never had requests so strong as that. But
Speaker 1: it's something that to the best of mine knowledge, you're
Speaker 1: not allowed to do. But there are many people selling
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty eight hat. But this is not something
Speaker 1: I'm looking to do. I'm looking to have four great years.
Speaker 1: It's best of my knowledge, not allowed, not something I'm
Speaker 1: looking to do. The unspoken conclusion of all that is,
Speaker 1: of course, But if you all really want me to, okay,
Speaker 1: I guess I'll make the sacrifice. I'll come off the
Speaker 1: golf course two or three times a week, but I'm
Speaker 1: not going to come up with the plot. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to make it happen. You're going to have to
Speaker 1: do it. And then I'll pretend I don't want to,
Speaker 1: but I'll let you convince me, just to show how
Speaker 1: easy this is, how easy this evil is. You do
Speaker 1: not have to be a constitutional scholar to come up
Speaker 1: with a way for Trump, reluctantly, of course, to evade
Speaker 1: the Constitution. I mean it's not just that you don't
Speaker 1: have to be a constitutional scholar. You don't have to
Speaker 1: have a fourth grade degree to come up with something.
Speaker 1: Give the proverbial monkeys enough time and enough typewriters, and
Speaker 1: they will come up with an idea. No one better
Speaker 1: fits that analogy than Greg Kelly of Newsmax, a bonehead
Speaker 1: so dense that he makes Jesse Waters of Fox look like, well,
Speaker 1: there's so many choices. Greg Kelly makes Jesse Waters of
Speaker 1: Fox look like he's not Jesse Waters.
Speaker 2: That twenty second amendment about not being able to run
Speaker 2: for a third term just might be unconstitutional. Nobody else
Speaker 2: has term limits in the federal government. The Court, the
Speaker 2: Supreme Court. You're there for a lightetime. If you want it,
Speaker 2: you can stay as long as you like. How about
Speaker 2: the United States Senate? Those guys run for reelection. There
Speaker 2: is absolutely no term limits whatsoever. It's a big deal
Speaker 2: to change the constitution, but they did it. However, it
Speaker 2: just might be unconstitutional itself.
Speaker 3: President Trump, it should be looked at.
Speaker 2: This is a way the deep State keeps the presidency
Speaker 2: under their thumb.
Speaker 3: Only two terms.
Speaker 2: Nobody else in federal government other than the vice president,
Speaker 2: I guess is no. I don't know if it applies
Speaker 2: to the vice president anyway. President Trump is not running
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty eight. But this looks to me and
Speaker 2: some other constitutional well some constitutional heavyweights.
Speaker 3: I'm not one. There's something to be done here, and
Speaker 3: it should be explored.
Speaker 1: So there it is a guy coming off is kind
Speaker 1: of rambling moron, just throwing it out there like it
Speaker 1: just occurred to him, rather than somebody handed this to
Speaker 1: him and said, read it in that stupid way of yours.
Speaker 1: Make it seem like it's your idea, the way Trump
Speaker 1: does it. Oh, I'm not trying to seek a third term,
Speaker 1: but everybody else wants me to, So I guess I'm
Speaker 1: going to have to. I don't really know the law.
Speaker 1: We'll just add ask other people as if he has
Speaker 1: had less than four hundred committees working on this in
Speaker 1: secret since the first election, since the first election. There
Speaker 1: it is the newest Trump third term plot. Trump can
Speaker 1: run for a third term because the Constitution is unconstitutional.
Speaker 1: And what phrase could better sum up this last decade
Speaker 1: in terms of the rules and the regulations and the
Speaker 1: laws and the impermeable boundaries and the guardrails. What could
Speaker 1: better sum that up than the concept just expressed by
Speaker 1: Greg Kelly that the constitution is unconstitutional in the olden times,
Speaker 1: say something like that on TV, even on TV like Newsmax,
Speaker 1: say the Constitution is unconstitutional and you would have been
Speaker 1: fired before the show was over. Say it now and
Speaker 1: instead of getting fired, some trump Ist will instead, I
Speaker 1: don't know, start a signal chat or something about your
Speaker 1: newest outline for their biggest scam ever and their most
Speaker 1: evil scam ever. There's one other new and frightening development
Speaker 1: on the eternal Trump plot front. It pertains to the
Speaker 1: arrest of Judge Dougan and the ominous follow up from
Speaker 1: Deucy the Younger of Fox to the White House Press
Speaker 1: Secretary MS Caroline Liar. Deucey asked, would you ever arrest
Speaker 1: a federal judge or even a Supreme Court justice? And
Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt Liar answered, I'd refer you to the DOJ
Speaker 1: for individuals they are looking at, but then concluded, anyone
Speaker 1: who is breaking the law or obstructing federal law enforcement
Speaker 1: officials is putting themselves at risk of being prosecuted. Absolutely so.
Speaker 1: Ultimately that means if Trump does go along with one
Speaker 1: of these many plots to stay on past twenty twenty
Speaker 1: eight and again, whether he's successful or ruinous, or half
Speaker 1: the country is underwater, it doesn't matter. This is not
Speaker 1: about us. This is about him keeping his sad ass
Speaker 1: out of prison. If he tries something and say it
Speaker 1: gets just for the sake of process. As far as
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court and they rule against him, he will
Speaker 1: arrest them. She just said it, because they will simply
Speaker 1: put it in terms of obstructing federal law enforcement officials
Speaker 1: and denying the unique executive authority of the executive which
Speaker 1: is how they have read the Constitution, even though the
Speaker 1: founding fathers, many of whom then became president, did not
Speaker 1: view it that way, viewed it exactly the opposite way.
Speaker 1: But clearly they were right when they wrote what they wrote,
Speaker 1: but wrong in how they applied it. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go back to the beginning. Remember the five main rules
Speaker 1: of Trump's various plots to get around the Constitution and
Speaker 1: not leave office alive. And then I'll go through the
Speaker 1: already extant three plots I haven't mentioned yet.
Speaker 4: Rule one.
Speaker 1: He will try this, he has to. He might be stopped,
Speaker 1: let's hope, so he might die in office another convenient
Speaker 1: exit route. But he will try this. If he is
Speaker 1: alive in the year twenty twenty nine, he will try
Speaker 1: to stay in office, and he may have begun that
Speaker 1: in the election of twenty twenty eight. Main Rule number two,
Speaker 1: he will try multiple routes again. I see at least
Speaker 1: four of them. Now I mentioned the Constitution is unconstitutional
Speaker 1: because there aren't term limits for everybody one that has
Speaker 1: just been invented. Three, he will use surrogates to keep
Speaker 1: his hands clean. The goal to this, of all else,
Speaker 1: other than staying in office, is to make sure that
Speaker 1: as few people as possible really think he's behind this
Speaker 1: plot to erase the Constitution. It must be others. He
Speaker 1: must be responding to the will of the people, even
Speaker 1: if he's the one who has purchased the will of
Speaker 1: those people. But he did say in a slip that
Speaker 1: I bet he never makes again. He did say that
Speaker 1: he knew that there were methods that would allow him
Speaker 1: to stay in office past two terms that others are
Speaker 1: quote studying. This was a major, major accidental confession, and
Speaker 1: again I would not expect him to do it again,
Speaker 1: no matter how crazy he is, and he's lots of crazy.
Speaker 1: Mainline rule number four. His only involvement in this, at
Speaker 1: least publicly, at least superficially, will be to thank everyone
Speaker 1: for making this day necessary and that lawmakers. In other words,
Speaker 1: his Republican prostitutes will change things if he's done enough
Speaker 1: good while in office, meaning if He's made them enough
Speaker 1: money and gotten them enough power. Why is he doing
Speaker 1: this money and power? Why are they supporting him? Power
Speaker 1: and money? Are there any other possibilities? Well, there's power,
Speaker 1: money and money. Power the fifth main rule to consider here.
Speaker 1: If nothing else works, he will ultimately turn to a
Speaker 1: fake emergency to stay in office. I have been questioned
Speaker 1: if he would do a fake emergency to stop the
Speaker 1: midterms if it was clear he's going to lose and
Speaker 1: potentially be impeached and potentially be convicted in the Senate,
Speaker 1: if the midterms by this time next year looks so
Speaker 1: bad that they might lose the Senate and actually get
Speaker 1: past the threshold to convict him, Well, would he stop
Speaker 1: the election? Would he go to that degree? Well, he
Speaker 1: would have to admit to losing in advance, which he
Speaker 1: would never do, and he would essentially be putting himself
Speaker 1: at maximum risk for others, for the congressman who would
Speaker 1: not be elected in that scenario. And he never does
Speaker 1: that because nobody else actually exists in his mind. But
Speaker 1: the fake emergency is there, as it was ready to
Speaker 1: go in the dear Departed days of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: On January sixth, for him and him alone. If you
Speaker 1: remember that he is the only person in the world
Speaker 1: down at the base of his feral brain. Down there,
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the reptile spine, there is Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: and the rest of us are just at our best
Speaker 1: extras in his movie. Most of us are just cardboard
Speaker 1: cutouts furniture that can be moved around on rollers. Now
Speaker 1: to the methods. I mentioned that one from Greg Kelly,
Speaker 1: you can't term limited president if nobody else term limited.
Speaker 1: The oldest of the four methods has now been formalized
Speaker 1: and the Bigs, the Trump whore from Tennessee who sits
Speaker 1: in Congress, actually introduced a constitutional amendment to twist the
Speaker 1: meaning of the twenty second Amendment into not a two
Speaker 1: term limit, but a two consecutive term limit. This is
Speaker 1: the oldest of the arguments. They have been putting this
Speaker 1: one out since early twenty twenty three. The Biggs Amendment
Speaker 1: reads The proposed amendment specifies that no person shall be
Speaker 1: elected to the office of the President one more than
Speaker 1: three times two for any additional term after being elected
Speaker 1: to two consecutive terms, or three more than twice after
Speaker 1: having served as president for more than two years of
Speaker 1: a term, to which some other person was elected president.
Speaker 1: For example, if a president died after serving for one
Speaker 1: year and the vice president became president for the remaining
Speaker 1: three years of the term, that person may subsequently be
Speaker 1: elected president no more than two times. In other words,
Speaker 1: this would be an amendment that allows Trump to run
Speaker 1: for a third term, but not Obama or even Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1: Of course, the idea of doing this by a new
Speaker 1: amendment to supersede the twenty second Amendment's term limitation is
Speaker 1: just them playing nice. Somebody somewhere has a sentimental feeling
Speaker 1: for Hamilton and Jefferson and John Adams and everybody else,
Speaker 1: the founding fathers. Again, as I said the other day,
Speaker 1: it was a surprise to me when Trump recognized the
Speaker 1: name John Adams when he was questioned about John Adams.
Speaker 1: And we are a country of laws and not men.
Speaker 1: He knew John Adams because he knew there was a
Speaker 1: picture of him somewhere on the wall. The headline in
Speaker 1: the magazine The American Conservative read Trump twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 1: and the sub had read the second Amendment is an
Speaker 1: arbitrary restraint on presidents who serve non consecutive terms and
Speaker 1: on democracy itself. This is from nearly two years ago,
Speaker 1: the Republicans started quote joking and quote tweaking the Libs
Speaker 1: and quote triggering the left with variations on this idea
Speaker 1: ever since. Trump mused in twenty eighteen that he was
Speaker 1: owed an additional term, a third term, because during his
Speaker 1: first term he had been unfairly preoccupied with defending his
Speaker 1: you know, criminal acts intended to overthrow the democracy. Then
Speaker 1: there was that jokey animation of a Trump twenty twenty
Speaker 1: campaign sign followed by a Trump twenty twenty four campaign sign,
Speaker 1: followed by a Trump twenty twenty eight campaign sign followed
Speaker 1: by a Trump twenty thirty two campaign sign, and on
Speaker 1: and on and on until it would have been a
Speaker 1: one one hundred and two year old Trump running in
Speaker 1: the year twenty forty eight, and nobody was wondering if
Speaker 1: he'd be dead by then and running from a coffin,
Speaker 1: because all they were doing was trying to own the Libs.
Speaker 1: Except that's not what they're doing. He is going to try.
Speaker 1: Let me quote the author of that article in The
Speaker 1: American Conservative. His name is, I swear to Jesus, his
Speaker 1: name is Peter tung It ton gu E tte tungue
Speaker 1: It tung It on Trump Trump by tung It the quote,
Speaker 1: Trump's re emergence as the Republican nominee in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four is a triumph of democracy. Not only did Trump
Speaker 1: secure the nomination following his defeat in twenty twenty a
Speaker 1: rather incredible feat in and of itself, but did so
Speaker 1: in spite of every obstacle the mainstream media, the Republican establishment,
Speaker 1: and the law fair apparatus have put in his way. Well,
Speaker 1: you can look at it that way, or you can
Speaker 1: point out that the leading opponents to his candidacy inside
Speaker 1: the Republican Party were Ron DeSantis an idiot, and Nicky Haley,
Speaker 1: an even bigger idiot. Continuing from mister tung Its tonguing
Speaker 1: of Trump, Trump, however, makes an even more forceful ethical
Speaker 1: argument against the twenty second Amendment and for its repeal.
Speaker 1: If a man who once was president returns after a
Speaker 1: series of years to stand again for the office and
Speaker 1: proved so popular as to earn a second non consecutive term,
Speaker 1: as Trump seems bound to when they wrote this, to
Speaker 1: deny him the right to run for a second consecutive
Speaker 1: term cuts against basic fair play. Unquote ah, the familiar
Speaker 1: no fair constitutional argument. I think that was Alexander Hamill
Speaker 1: to new thought that one up, or maybe it was
Speaker 1: George Hamilton. Quote. If by twenty twenty eight, voters feel
Speaker 1: Trump has done a poor job, they can pick another candidate.
Speaker 1: But if they feel he has delivered on his promises,
Speaker 1: why should they be denied the freedom to choose him
Speaker 1: once more? You see where this is going. Trump overcame obstacles,
Speaker 1: or if you prefer, Trump overcame mediocrity, and he weaponized
Speaker 1: stupidity and hatred on his own behalf. Therefore the constitution
Speaker 1: doesn't apply to him, especially them pesky term limits. In
Speaker 1: that twenty second Amendment, Republican primary voters chose him, writes
Speaker 1: The American Conservative, because they damn well felt like it,
Speaker 1: and they count. If you want to choose Obama or
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, you can't because write something fast, write something
Speaker 1: why they can't the twenty second Amendment two full terms
Speaker 1: or one and a half if you're serving out another
Speaker 1: president's term quote sounds reasonable enough, especially in light of
Speaker 1: FDR's hold on the office. Yet those who supported the
Speaker 1: amendment more than seventy years ago could not have foreseen
Speaker 1: the prospect of a one term president who lost the office,
Speaker 1: but who later regained it in a subsequent election. The
Speaker 1: author then immediately turns to that time that that exact
Speaker 1: thing happened Grover Cleveland all the way back in eighteen
Speaker 1: ninety two. No one could have ever seen this happening,
Speaker 1: except I'm going to mention that it already had happened
Speaker 1: when they passed this amendment. The author leaves out that's
Speaker 1: mister Tungue it that while he may see this as
Speaker 1: something from prehistory Grover Cleveland, that is, when dinosaurs still
Speaker 1: had the vote or something. The twenty second Amendment is
Speaker 1: surprisingly modern, and yet it reaches back into our past
Speaker 1: so far that when it was introduced was by a
Speaker 1: Michigan congressman named Earl Mitchner and Earl Mitchener. When he
Speaker 1: was sixteen years old and preparing to go to University
Speaker 1: of Michigan law school, Grover Cleveland was elected President of
Speaker 1: the United States. The guy who wrote the twenty second
Speaker 1: Amendment was already an adult or a near adult during
Speaker 1: Grover Cleveland's non consecutive terms, so in Congressman Mitchener's lifetime,
Speaker 1: he had not only seen Cleveland re elected after four
Speaker 1: years in the wilderness as an ex president, regaining the
Speaker 1: office four years later. But he'd also seen former President
Speaker 1: Theodore Roosevelt one and three quarters terms try for a
Speaker 1: third non consecutive term in nineteen twelve, And he'd seen
Speaker 1: the Republican bid to draft the former President Calvin Coolidge
Speaker 1: to run for a third non consecutive term instead of
Speaker 1: President Hoover in nineteen thirty two. And he had seen
Speaker 1: the former President who Hoover try for a nomination for
Speaker 1: a second non consecutive term in nineteen thirty six and
Speaker 1: again in nineteen forty oh And he Mischner, the author
Speaker 1: of the twenty second Amendment, had seen Franklin Roosevelt run
Speaker 1: for a third term and get it, and run for
Speaker 1: a fourth term and then get it. And he had
Speaker 1: seen William Jennings Bryan get the Democratic nomination in eighteen
Speaker 1: ninety six and nineteen hundred and, having not had enough,
Speaker 1: run for it again in nineteen oh eight and began
Speaker 1: to try for a fourth time at it in nineteen twelve. Mitchner,
Speaker 1: the congressman behind presidential term limits, only saw all of
Speaker 1: that unfold in one lifetime. But nobody, according to mister Tungatt,
Speaker 1: could have seen Trump serving two non consecutive terms, nobody
Speaker 1: except the guy who wrote the rule against three terms
Speaker 1: if you're non consecutive or any other kind of president.
Speaker 1: Once again, if they do this wrong, it would not apply.
Speaker 1: Just to suddenly Barack Obama, who will be sixty seven
Speaker 1: in the year twenty twenty eight, and Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton,
Speaker 1: who is still and would presumably still be two months
Speaker 1: younger than Trump, they would be eligible to run for
Speaker 1: their own third terms. Not so fast. What the trumpists
Speaker 1: are setting up in this scenario is a Supreme Court
Speaker 1: ruling that only presidents who've served two non consecutive terms
Speaker 1: can seek a third, as if that made any possible difference.
Speaker 1: Lisa Needham at the site Public Notice connects the final
Speaker 1: dots here in case you think this is just some
Speaker 1: guy named tung It with the kind of life you
Speaker 1: must have had if your name was tung It, expressing
Speaker 1: the frustrations of his impossible existence by writing this bullshit,
Speaker 1: it's not. He wrote it in The American Conservative, which,
Speaker 1: as Lisa Needam notes, is a quote partner en quote
Speaker 1: of Project twenty twenty five. So that's plot one. Plot
Speaker 1: two from Joel A. Ready of the Cornerstone Law firm
Speaker 1: and his site, which also features pieces on security deposit
Speaker 1: laws in Pennsylvania and courtroom movies to watch. This spring
Speaker 1: thinks you don't have to have an amendment or any
Speaker 1: alteration of the twenty second Amendment because quote the twenty
Speaker 1: second Amendment doesn't say what you think it says. This
Speaker 1: piece offers not only ways to ignore the twenty second Amendment,
Speaker 1: like the it doesn't say you can't serve a third
Speaker 1: term and only says you can't be elected to a
Speaker 1: third term, but it provides additional workarounds like electing an
Speaker 1: entirely different Republican ticket in twenty twenty eight and making
Speaker 1: Trump Speaker of the House and then getting the new
Speaker 1: electees to both resign immediately, which would make Speaker of
Speaker 1: the House Trump president without violating the constitution. Plot three.
Speaker 1: And the purists here will say this is actually just
Speaker 1: plot two. A. I like to think of it as
Speaker 1: a third, separate plot because it's important to remember that
Speaker 1: as stupid as all this sounds, this is deadly serious.
Speaker 1: This is the end of democracy, in its embryonic stage,
Speaker 1: in its fetal heartbeat stage, in its personhood stage. One
Speaker 1: of these infants in the womb will come out like
Speaker 1: Rosemary's Baby. Plot number three, the one minute presidency of JD. Vance. JD.
Speaker 1: Vance runs with some clown as his vice president, somebody
Speaker 1: who pays enough money. I mean, pick them, you're your
Speaker 1: choice here. My favorite would be Mike Lindell. The ticket
Speaker 1: Advance and Lindell gets elected and the Republicans retain the
Speaker 1: Senate and the House in twenty twenty eight, and the
Speaker 1: vance inaugural address on January twenty, twenty twenty nine consists
Speaker 1: of my fellow Americans. Vice President Lindell has resigned. I
Speaker 1: hereby advice the House and Senate, I am nominating as
Speaker 1: the new Vice president, Donald J. Trump. The Senate and
Speaker 1: the House convene same day, maybe because this wasn't planned
Speaker 1: in advance, and they each approved Trump as vice president. Whereupon,
Speaker 1: the moment that's sign sealed and delivered, Vance resigns as president.
Speaker 1: Trump accedes to the presidency having never been elected. And
Speaker 1: of course we could never actually have this happen in
Speaker 1: real life. We could never have a president who wasn't
Speaker 1: at least elected vice president. Oh right, Gerald Ford, Now
Speaker 1: there is a problem with this one. The last sentence
Speaker 1: of the twelfth Amendment is about the Electoral College, and
Speaker 1: the twelfth last sentence reads, quote, no person constitutionally ineligible
Speaker 1: to the office of president shall be eligible to that
Speaker 1: of Vice President of the United States. Well, they are
Speaker 1: already looking at that in the phony Bologne argument from
Speaker 1: the fascists. Here is that phrase constitutionally ineligible. The word constitutionally.
Speaker 1: They say that covers only the presidential eligibility terms in
Speaker 1: the Constitution, not the logical ones. And those terms are
Speaker 1: natural born citizen at least thirty five years old, resident
Speaker 1: for at least fourteen years. And what's even better from
Speaker 1: their perspective is they are quoting an NYU law professor
Speaker 1: who pointed all this out that the terms ineligible constitutionally
Speaker 1: ineligible only mean those three things citizenship, age, residency. The
Speaker 1: guy who pointed this out did so in the year
Speaker 1: two thousand and three because he was trying to get
Speaker 1: a former president to run for vice president, and that
Speaker 1: former president he wanted to be the vice president was
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton. The fourth one I've mentioned, the new one
Speaker 1: up is down, left is right, fiction is truth, The
Speaker 1: Constitution is itself unconstitutional. I'm sorry I've enjoyed parts of this.
Speaker 1: There is something to be said in unraveling how they
Speaker 1: have packaged this, how they have gotten around America to
Speaker 1: create new America. They have not been stopped. This has
Speaker 1: been going since twenty fifteen, with varying degrees of success.
Speaker 1: But this is the ultimate test, and they are bound
Speaker 1: to try it, in Trump's case, to literally die trying
Speaker 1: if need be. I will again quote Tim Snyder, and
Speaker 1: I have been quoting him so long that he he
Speaker 1: used to be at Yale and now he's at the
Speaker 1: University of Toronto because he got out while the getting
Speaker 1: out was good. Quote Triump is the classic dictatorial position.
Speaker 1: He needs to die in bed holding all executive power
Speaker 1: to stay out of prison. This means that he will
Speaker 1: do whatever he can to gain power, and once in power,
Speaker 1: will do all that he can to never let it go.
Speaker 1: This is a basic incentive structure which underlies everything else.
Speaker 1: It is entirely inconsistent with democracy. So if somebody tells
Speaker 1: you the fascists are joking about Trump in twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 1: or if somebody tells you, or if you believe the
Speaker 1: twenty second Amendment flat out precludes this, what are you
Speaker 1: all talking about? Just remember the only one on the right,
Speaker 1: the only one of the undead pretending to not be
Speaker 1: doing this right now, pretending to not be trying to
Speaker 1: get Trump a third term, or we don't even know
Speaker 1: what their reasons would be for further terms thereafter. The
Speaker 1: only one pretending to not be doing this, the only
Speaker 1: one pretending not to be in on the plot, the
Speaker 1: greatest crime in American history. The only one pretending not
Speaker 1: to be involved is Trump itself, and Trump itself denying
Speaker 1: this is an essential ingredient to the plot. Trump here
Speaker 1: is Julius Caesar refusing the crown, or Richard the Third
Speaker 1: refusing office. And remember what Tim Snyder says, and remember
Speaker 1: what I say, and God help you, remember what Greg
Speaker 1: Kelly says, and remember this above all else. The Trump
Speaker 1: political baseline mantra is the Hitler political baseline. Mantra is
Speaker 1: the Mao political baseline. Mantra is the pole Pot political
Speaker 1: baseline mantra quote, I'm going to do it, Try and
Speaker 1: stop me. The bad news among Thursday's headlines is Trump's nosferatu.
Speaker 1: Stephen Miller is still trying to ignore and bypass the courts.
Speaker 1: The good news is Miller is clearly too scared to
Speaker 1: just go ahead and do it. He's trying to create bullshit,
Speaker 1: legit sounding reasons to allow him to bypass the courts
Speaker 1: and yet not go to prison for contempt. As a result,
Speaker 1: the government has now invoked the state secrets privilege in
Speaker 1: the Kilmar Abrego Garcia abduction case. It clearly it is crap,
Speaker 1: but they've been voked it anyway, and Judge Zennis has
Speaker 1: only given them until Monday to file twenty five pages
Speaker 1: or less on what the f they think they are doing,
Speaker 1: and only until a week from tomorrow to prepare for
Speaker 1: an in person hearing about what the f they are doing. Clearly,
Speaker 1: since the most they've actually been able to dig up
Speaker 1: on this wrongly renditioned man that their own DOJ admitted
Speaker 1: was wrongly renditioned, so they fired the guy who admitted
Speaker 1: he was wrongly renditioned was the possibility that he was
Speaker 1: a driver for undocumented workers going from one state to another.
Speaker 1: There is no chance there are any state secrets involved
Speaker 1: in this case, and the point of this is the
Speaker 1: point of all Trump's court cases, to stall, to fill
Speaker 1: up the calendar with hearing after hearing and then appeal
Speaker 1: after appeal so they can run out the clock. Presumably
Speaker 1: both on the orders to return Abrego Garcia and all
Speaker 1: the possible contempt charges piling up against Stephen Miller and
Speaker 1: the leaders at Ice and hopefully that witch Christy Nome
Speaker 1: now with eight new action dress up outfits. As usual,
Speaker 1: when faced with the six foot thick walls of the
Speaker 1: actual remaining laws and actual remaining American principles, Trump and
Speaker 1: his minion and especially this Eichmann level nerd monster Miller,
Speaker 1: are simply stepping on the gas and headed right for
Speaker 1: the walls. They have not only installed these new hurdles
Speaker 1: in the Abrego Garcia case, but they are now kidnapping
Speaker 1: and renditioning immigrants to Libya at least they want to
Speaker 1: to a hellhole of a prison in a country in
Speaker 1: a state of full on civil war. They are basically
Speaker 1: sending people who, if nothing else, have a right to
Speaker 1: do process into a dangerous prison inside a dangerous country
Speaker 1: where there is every chance they can get killed inside
Speaker 1: the prison or outside the prison. They also apparently wanted
Speaker 1: to send other people they have kidnapped off our streets
Speaker 1: to Ukraine. This while the memo is out confirming reporting
Speaker 1: that America's intelligence agencies, now run by trumpists, had concluded
Speaker 1: that the entire excuse for all of this from kilmar
Speaker 1: Garcia through the Libya airliners is crap that there is
Speaker 1: no basis for President Scrooge McDuck to invoke the Alien
Speaker 1: Enemies Act because of the Venezuelan based gang trend Aragua,
Speaker 1: which must really piss Trump off because he had just
Speaker 1: managed to somehow learn to say the Intel community's conclusion,
Speaker 1: the Venezuelan govern does not control that gang, and the
Speaker 1: country's dictator Maduro also does not control that gang. Thus,
Speaker 1: any gang members here are not part of some kind
Speaker 1: of invasion, and thus they are not subject to the
Speaker 1: Alien Enemies Act. Thus, if the laws and the courts
Speaker 1: still have any purpose or influence here, Trump has to
Speaker 1: bring them all back and either let them go or
Speaker 1: give them the same hearings they would have gotten under
Speaker 1: Biden and every preceding president. This also raises the stakes
Speaker 1: for Miller and increases the chances that Judge Zennis or
Speaker 1: Judge Boseburg in the other case, may actually take the
Speaker 1: step of putting one of these bastards behind bars, at
Speaker 1: least briefly, for their continuing and now escalating contempt of court.
Speaker 1: Before the memo confirming all this was declassified and released.
Speaker 1: The New York Times reported the conclusions in the memo
Speaker 1: in March, and Trump's response, naturally, was to threaten prosecution,
Speaker 1: not of Stephen Miller, nor of Tom Homan, nor of
Speaker 1: Christy Nome, but of those who leaked it and those
Speaker 1: who printed it. Miller, Holman, Gnome, and of course Trump
Speaker 1: are Unamerican bastards, and if we do not stop them now,
Speaker 1: we will soon be deprived of the ability to do so.
Speaker 1: The only alien enemies here right now are the members
Speaker 1: and supporters of this rogue and immoral Trump dictatorship. Naturally,
Speaker 1: the Trump response to the whole thing, promote Stephen Miller
Speaker 1: to National Security Advisor, hasn't happened yet expected to within months,
Speaker 1: just as the response in trump Land to his asinine
Speaker 1: idea of an Anschluss in Canada and something akin to
Speaker 1: Mussolini invading Ethiopia in Greenland is for Trump to have
Speaker 1: the brain dead Director of National subpar Intelligence, Tulsey skunk
Speaker 1: Streak Gabbard, issued what is called a collection emphasis message
Speaker 1: to the chiefs of the various intel services to ramp
Speaker 1: up spying on Greenland, among other things. This will cue
Speaker 1: a search of both Greenland and Denmark for people there
Speaker 1: who want Trump to invade Greenland and annex it should
Speaker 1: be a pretty long search producing a pretty short list.
Speaker 1: But at underscores, we may wake up one morning to
Speaker 1: find out that overnight Trump has invaded Greenland and given
Speaker 1: the knee jerk reaction of so many in this country
Speaker 1: who view the world as a video game. I don't
Speaker 1: know what happens after that, besides a lot of the
Speaker 1: same blood and guts, flag waving and accusations of disloyalty
Speaker 1: that followed Bush attacking Iraq, and once again, like Iraq,
Speaker 1: this invasion would be in the interests of private industry.
Speaker 1: And no, we didn't go into Iraq for oil. We
Speaker 1: went into Iraq so we could have a war in Iraq,
Speaker 1: so we could use in Iraq all the weapons made
Speaker 1: by the Halliburtons of this country and employ all the
Speaker 1: Eric Prince mercenaries. Now we would be deploying to Greenland,
Speaker 1: maybe Denmark in order to get elon Musk his rare earths.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump does not know what rare earths are. He
Speaker 1: barely knows where Earth is. This is the same Musk
Speaker 1: for whom Trump is now pressuring countries facing tariffs to
Speaker 1: adopt Starlink, per the Washington Post, to bribe their way
Speaker 1: out of tariffs that way. This is the same Musk
Speaker 1: who reportedly just told a Milken conference that he expects
Speaker 1: a SpaceX mission to get to Mars next year and
Speaker 1: maybe a manned mission to Mars by twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Cynics would say it is safe to assume Musk is
Speaker 1: high as a kite all the time, and he may
Speaker 1: be high as a kite and be the somewhat perturbed
Speaker 1: victim of that reported botched penile implant. But even if
Speaker 1: neither is true, that is exactly the way Elon Musk acts.
Speaker 1: In any event, this is not the first time. It
Speaker 1: is of special note that Musk keeps making these Mars predictions,
Speaker 1: and so far there is not one indication he's taken
Speaker 1: even the preliminary steps to make any of them come true.
Speaker 1: He made the next year prediction in March. He made
Speaker 1: it in December twenty twenty when he said the unmanned
Speaker 1: mission would occur within six years. In fact, quote, if
Speaker 1: we get lucky, maybe four. He made the prediction in
Speaker 1: September twenty sixteen, adding the competing people on Mars quote
Speaker 1: might kind of be in the ten year range. He
Speaker 1: also predicted a million humans on Mars by twenty fifty,
Speaker 1: and I'll just note for perspective, twenty fifty is now
Speaker 1: only as far ahead as two thousand is behind, and
Speaker 1: that nowhere did he predict that those million humans on
Speaker 1: Mars by twenty fifty would still be alive. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: Trump's next location for renditioning immigrants. So crazy Musk has
Speaker 1: already blown through his first prediction. If we're lucky, that
Speaker 1: would have been December twenty twenty four. As it is,
Speaker 1: he sent nothing to Mars. The fastest possible trip from
Speaker 1: here to Mars is seven months in length. More likely
Speaker 1: it's eight nine, ten months. Give him the benefit of
Speaker 1: the doubt. Here. The unmanned mission he's talking about must
Speaker 1: take off by next year, by next May, to get
Speaker 1: there by twenty twenty six, a year from now. It
Speaker 1: has to take off right now. Musk can't launch a
Speaker 1: cyber truck that your average American can't peel apart with
Speaker 1: their bare hands. But yeah, let's attack Greenland so this
Speaker 1: guy can get some rare earths. And if we're lucky,
Speaker 1: Trump will think we are going to Greenland to rescue
Speaker 1: the seventies band Rare Earth, and that they'll perform. I
Speaker 1: just want to celebrate and their cover of get Ready
Speaker 1: at the White House while he and Musk dance, or
Speaker 1: more correctly, while he and Musk make those spasmodic, embarrassing
Speaker 1: body movements. That is as close as either one of
Speaker 1: them will ever get to dancing. Meanwhile, Generalissimo Donaldo Trumpo
Speaker 1: is still nuts. There is a kind of brilliance in
Speaker 1: the SoundBite I am about to play for you asked
Speaker 1: about his blasphemous image in which he depicted himself as pope.
Speaker 1: He posted that image himself, he goes in a matter
Speaker 1: of seconds from A Catholics can't take a joke to B.
Speaker 1: There's no problem here with Catholics. It's fake news. To C,
Speaker 1: I didn't do it. To D, maybe it was AI.
Speaker 1: To E, I know nothing about this. To F, I
Speaker 1: just saw it for the first time. To G even
Speaker 1: though I know nothing about it and I had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with it, and I just saw it. I
Speaker 1: know Millenia liked it. This is magnificent in a way,
Speaker 1: completely insane, but magnificent.
Speaker 4: Catholics, we're not so happy about the image of you
Speaker 4: looking like the Pope.
Speaker 5: Oh, I see.
Speaker 6: You mean they can't take a joke. You don't mean
Speaker 6: the Catholics, you mean the fake news media, not.
Speaker 3: The Catholics loved it.
Speaker 1: I had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 6: Somebody made up a picture of me dressed like the
Speaker 6: Pope and put it out on the internet. That's not
Speaker 6: me that did it. I have no idea where it
Speaker 6: came from. Maybe it was Ai, but I know nothing
Speaker 6: about it. I just saw it last evening. Actually, my
Speaker 6: wife thought it was cute. She said, isn't that nice?
Speaker 1: It makes your head spin. Of course Trump's head is
Speaker 1: already spinning like an exorcist. And Trump confirmed he met
Speaker 1: with the insurrectionist Henry Tarrio with that metro sexual beard,
Speaker 1: and he told Tario to thank the January sixth insurrectionists.
Speaker 1: And then there is the insanity of him wanting to
Speaker 1: reopen Alcatraz, closed in nineteen sixty three because it was
Speaker 1: no longer viable, which followed by six hours Channel twenty
Speaker 1: six the PBS station in Miami playing the movie Escape
Speaker 1: from Alcatraz, and all of a sudden, Trump believes what
Speaker 1: he sees on PBS. Are there any films about Just
Speaker 1: to pick a topic, at random presidential suicide. Oh right,
Speaker 1: the Salvador Allende documentary. Hey, Channel twenty six, can you
Speaker 1: run the Salvador Allende documentary? And he wants one hundred
Speaker 1: percent tariffs on foreign made films and at least technically
Speaker 1: all films are foreign made, and John Voight gave him
Speaker 1: that terrify idea, and Trump doesn't realize. John Voight's career
Speaker 1: peaked when he played Milo Minderbinder in Catch twenty two
Speaker 1: in nineteen frickin seventy. The process is always the same.
Speaker 1: Tell Trump he's great, Tell Trump a lie he wants
Speaker 1: people to believe, and he will then do whatever you
Speaker 1: suggest next. Gee, mister president, I'm John Voight. You're great.
Speaker 1: Ever seen the Salvador Allende documentary? And of course the
Speaker 1: likeliest outcome to all of that will be no American
Speaker 1: made films get booked in any other country in the world,
Speaker 1: and prices here go up like egg prices went up,
Speaker 1: though he lied and said they went down. And then
Speaker 1: there was the part about rationing the dolls so your
Speaker 1: child only gets three and his military parade and the
Speaker 1: cancer causing wind mills in his mind.
Speaker 5: Hey, wait a minute, oh, Nancy, like the gas that
Speaker 5: costs two dollars, like eighty three percent of eggs, never
Speaker 5: ending or beginning.
Speaker 1: Like a tariff on your legs, like a prison on
Speaker 1: an island that was closed in sixty three, Like a
Speaker 1: ninety dollars sir, charge on any movie you might see,
Speaker 1: like rationing the doll so your child only gets three
Speaker 1: mill tarily parading, but it's really just forummy, like the
Speaker 1: bullshit that you find in the windmills of Trump's mine. Buh,
Speaker 1: thank you, Nancy Faust. I have to confess I'm not
Speaker 1: exactly sure how I turned into Bernie Sanders while singing that,
Speaker 1: but there you have it. By the way, Nancy Faust
Speaker 1: is returning this Sunday as the organist at the Chicago
Speaker 1: White Sox game, the job she performed brilliantly for the
Speaker 1: White Sox for forty one years. Bravo. And incidentally, Nancy
Speaker 1: Faust immediately becomes the best player on the White Sox.
Speaker 1: Also of interest, here, a Minnesota woman calls a five
Speaker 1: year old the N word, and the lunatic right rallies
Speaker 1: to defend the woman and raises a million dollars for her.
Speaker 1: I don't know what we can do with all these people,
Speaker 1: except maybe sequester them in Wyoming or somewhere for their
Speaker 1: own safety. Also, I've seen a ghost. That's next. This
Speaker 1: is Countdown, the the the.
Speaker 5: The do Do.
Speaker 1: Do Do Do Doom. Let's go take two.
Speaker 3: This is Countdown with Keith Oberman, my crazy friend.
Speaker 1: Still ahead. On this edition of Countdown. I saw ghost,
Speaker 1: I mean really a ghost. Not only that, but I
Speaker 1: recognized him immediately, and I knew why he was there
Speaker 1: with me. And there was our old commercial radio station
Speaker 1: run by Cornhill students in Anthaca, New York. And I
Speaker 1: knew why he was there. He wanted me to save
Speaker 1: the station. And on top of everything else, the ghost
Speaker 1: was laughing at me things I promised not to tell
Speaker 1: about ghosts. Next first, believe it or not, there's still
Speaker 1: more new idiots talk about the roundup of the mis grants, morons,
Speaker 1: undunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute the latest other worst
Speaker 1: persons in the world, the bronze worst Shiloh Hendrix on
Speaker 1: a playground in Minnesota. This white garbage saw a five
Speaker 1: year old black child trying to steal from her bag.
Speaker 1: Is not a good thing. I am not endorsing anybody
Speaker 1: stealing from anybody's bag. But Shiloh Hendrix did what anybody
Speaker 1: would do in this situation, anybody who's a racist scumbag
Speaker 1: who shares a name with a battle started and lost
Speaker 1: by the racist Confederate trader during the Civil War. She
Speaker 1: called the five year old boy the N word. When
Speaker 1: a Somali American man confronted Shiloh Hendrix, she called him
Speaker 1: the N word. Two there's video. It went viral, and
Speaker 1: the obvious then happened. Right wing groups raised seven hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for her. The goal is a million. How
Speaker 1: because as the almost equally clownish Timpool you know, Beanie baby,
Speaker 1: the I'm bald and I'm not proud of it guy,
Speaker 1: how he put it quote, she's making money. This sends
Speaker 1: a message to other white people stop taking racial abuse.
Speaker 1: White guilt is largely over because in the world of
Speaker 1: Tim Poole, who is also white garbage, it's the racist
Speaker 1: woman named Shiloh from Minnesota who's the real victim here
Speaker 1: because she's so oppressed because she's white. Of course, she
Speaker 1: blurted out the N word because in her mind, she's
Speaker 1: tired of all these N words who are oppressing her
Speaker 1: by denying her the right to call them the N word.
Speaker 1: I'm going to quote from the ken Burn Civil War documentary. Now,
Speaker 1: Shiloh is a Hebrew word meaning peace. I wonder if
Speaker 1: anybody's told Shiloh Hendrix that fact, and if so, what
Speaker 1: she called them or what she calls Hebrews. The answer
Speaker 1: to the latter question may be provided by our runner up,
Speaker 1: Laura Lumer. Shiloh might use the phrase blood and soil
Speaker 1: to them Hebrews, as did this Trump whisper and school
Speaker 1: shooting denier, the one who has all that plastic melting
Speaker 1: on her face. Lumer. Lumer best described as it is
Speaker 1: writing about Shri Thanadar, the Indian American congressman from Michigan, who,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned the other day, has introduced the seven
Speaker 1: articles of impeachment against Trump. It's not enough for Lumer
Speaker 1: and the others to lash out against the impeachment. They
Speaker 1: have to attack the congressman and particularly his ethnicity, and
Speaker 1: to pretend that their attack, their racism, is actually somebody else's.
Speaker 1: And they're just giving these unnamed others a platform like
Speaker 1: Trump talking about a third term. I don't want this,
Speaker 1: they want it. This is Lumer quote. They are embarrassed
Speaker 1: by Shri Thanadar, So maybe he'll get a primary. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, if he's such a heavy immigrant community,
Speaker 1: it'd be nice to have an American there, like a
Speaker 1: real blood and soil American. But if we can't get
Speaker 1: a real, true blood soil American to represent that district,
Speaker 1: and it has to be an immigrant, there's got to
Speaker 1: be at least a patriotic, pro Maga pro Trump, patriot
Speaker 1: immigrant who lives in that country. There's a terrible hypocrisy
Speaker 1: here on top of all the hate and the stupidity.
Speaker 1: Laura Lumer identifies as Jewish, and she dropped two blood
Speaker 1: and soil references in that quote. Blood and soil, of course,
Speaker 1: is not just a Nazi rallying cry. It was one
Speaker 1: of the first Nazi rallying cries from the twenties to
Speaker 1: evoke pure blood and arians and all those things. Lumer
Speaker 1: thinks Thanador is not all those things the Nazis and
Speaker 1: most of today's Trumpers actually believe Lumer is not. But
Speaker 1: she hasn't found that out about her quote, friends yet,
Speaker 1: because she thinks the current twenties are somehow different from
Speaker 1: the previous twenties. Oh boy, is she in't for a surprise,
Speaker 1: but the winner the worst. How do you top these
Speaker 1: racists stupidity? Christopher lan Deputy Secretary of State, the guy
Speaker 1: who theoretically is dumber than Marco Rubio. Apparently even others
Speaker 1: in the Trump Government of the Undead realize that the
Speaker 1: Deputy Secretary of State, Christopher Landau is a moron. He
Speaker 1: tweeted this alongside a photo of a thermostat. As Deputy
Speaker 1: Secretary of State, the number two official in our state department,
Speaker 1: You'd think I'd at least be free to set the
Speaker 1: temperature in my own office, where I spend some twelve
Speaker 1: hours a day. Well, you'd be wrong. The thermostat is
Speaker 1: encased in a locked container so that I have to
Speaker 1: call someone if it's too hot or cold. Seems like
Speaker 1: I should be trusted with this awesome responsibility, but I'll
Speaker 1: guess I'll have to work my way up to that level.
Speaker 1: Ps He adds. I asked the state official photographer who
Speaker 1: is in my office for another event to take this picture,
Speaker 1: because I'm also not allowed to bring a cell phone
Speaker 1: or camera into my own home office. If you want
Speaker 1: to blame somebody for the lack of trust, for the
Speaker 1: need to lock up the thermostat. Well, you've got to
Speaker 1: keep the thermostat locked, because otherwise Elon Musk will steal
Speaker 1: it and try to build a rocket out of it
Speaker 1: or attach it to his car and charge you twelve
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for it. If you want to blame somebody
Speaker 1: about the cell phone and the camera, Christopher, go talk
Speaker 1: to Mike Waltz, Pete the keg heg Seth, get him
Speaker 1: on a signal chat and ask them about this, or
Speaker 1: Rubio your boss. But it's interesting because Landou is a
Speaker 1: fascinating case. It may be just about him. It's possible
Speaker 1: that in the other offices they don't lock up the thermostats,
Speaker 1: lock up your thermostats. Landau's in town. He clerked for
Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas and Scalia, but he went to Harvard, which,
Speaker 1: as you know, his boss Trump is trying to put
Speaker 1: out of business. So every day he should go into
Speaker 1: that office of his and check not his thermostat, but
Speaker 1: should check whether his bosses hate him that day or
Speaker 1: love him that day. They must issue a calendar or
Speaker 1: something along with instructions on who gets to touch the
Speaker 1: Holy thermist out of Antioch and who, like Chris Landau,
Speaker 1: does not Christopher, he runs with scissors Landau two days
Speaker 1: other worse Porthidden. Go to the number one story on
Speaker 1: the countdown and my favorite topic me and I once
Speaker 1: saw a ghost. I have never talked about this before,
Speaker 1: not publicly anyway, but I once saw a ghost. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't one of these vague things where you're not
Speaker 1: sure what you're seeing or who you're seeing. I know
Speaker 1: exactly who the ghost was. I will get to this story,
Speaker 1: but first, the setup requires a cassette tape I found
Speaker 1: that dates from February nineteen seventy seven. And the damnedest
Speaker 1: thing about this cassette tape is, if you were familiar
Speaker 1: at all with cassette tapes, they used to have little
Speaker 1: pinholes at the top, little pieces of plastic that you
Speaker 1: were supposed to break out or break off or punch
Speaker 1: through after you were done recording on the tape so
Speaker 1: you could not accidentally record over the tape. And when
Speaker 1: I found this cassette the other day, these little things
Speaker 1: that you had to make not intact anymore, were still intact.
Speaker 1: So this tape has survived not only intact since nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy seven, but it has not been accidentally erased even
Speaker 1: though I left it eligible to be accidentally erased every
Speaker 1: day since February nineteen seventy seven, and it contains, among
Speaker 1: other things, the voice of the ghost. The setup here
Speaker 1: is The radio station involved is called WINR in Binghamton,
Speaker 1: New York. The man you will hear calling himself Tom
Speaker 1: Daniels is actually named Glenn Cornelius. He called himself Tom
Speaker 1: Daniels because that's what the jingle package said, and they
Speaker 1: had a variety of Tom Daniels's over the years at
Speaker 1: WINR in Binghamton. He was our friend Glenn who worked
Speaker 1: at WVBR, the Cornell radio station. I have mentioned m
Speaker 1: teen thousand times on this podcast. He was going to
Speaker 1: be the program director and tried to become the general
Speaker 1: manager of the station. And he was my original frenemy
Speaker 1: best friends. Helped me out in a thousand different situations
Speaker 1: as I did he and we once had a fist
Speaker 1: fight over a girl. He won the girl, and of
Speaker 1: course that turned out to be the best thing he
Speaker 1: ever did for me, but that's another story for another time.
Speaker 1: As they say so, Glenn is portraying Tom Daniels, and
Speaker 1: one weekend in the winter of nineteen seventy seven. He
Speaker 1: brought his friends me, Peter shack now and Pat Lyons
Speaker 1: that's now Patrick J. Lyons, executive Foreign Desk editor of
Speaker 1: The New York Times. He brought the three of us
Speaker 1: down there with him to see a real radio station,
Speaker 1: and he put Peter and I on the air, Peter
Speaker 1: doing a newscast and me doing the sportscast. The only
Speaker 1: part of this before I play this tape that requires
Speaker 1: a setup is the explanation of the vitamin B twelve joke.
Speaker 1: Peter used to introduce me on the newscast at WVBR,
Speaker 1: and he used to ask me a trivia question every Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and got so frustrated in my always getting the answers
Speaker 1: to his trivia questions that he changed the trivia question
Speaker 1: from a sports trivia question to a question, the answer
Speaker 1: to which was vitamin B twelve. And I didn't get it,
Speaker 1: and it became a running joke inside the studios of
Speaker 1: WVBR for quite a while. That's the setup. And then
Speaker 1: there is the additional detail that Glenn Cornelius portraying Tom
Speaker 1: Daniels on this next tape was the ghost I.
Speaker 4: Saw sixteen minutes after one o'clock in the morning, on
Speaker 4: a Sunday, which is now February twentieth, nineteen hundred and
Speaker 4: seventy seven. My name is Tom Daniels, and I have
Speaker 4: a question for you. If I was as old as
Speaker 4: Joe Namath's football number, how old would I be?
Speaker 3: Well, of course I would be twelve.
Speaker 4: And on that note, we'll have the sports.
Speaker 3: Here's Wyon r Sports.
Speaker 7: The Oaklona's have sol relief pitcher Paul Lindblad to the
Speaker 7: Texas Rangers, despite Baseball Commissioner Bowie kwans edict that no
Speaker 7: such players sales be made without his approval. Oakland owner
Speaker 7: Charlie Finley, who likes to le jingle very much never
Speaker 7: one of Kewan's best friends, says he'll ignore hwes ruly
Speaker 7: and may just sell ace pitcher.
Speaker 1: Vital Blue too.
Speaker 7: Montreal expos on the sports scoreboard. Last night in the NBA,
Speaker 7: the New York Nets came from behind to beat the
Speaker 7: New York Knicks eighty six eighty five. It was Cleveland
Speaker 7: ninety two Phoenix eighty eight, twenty three points and eighteen
Speaker 7: rebounds for Jim Jones. Mac Calvin, signed as a free
Speaker 7: agent the other day by Denver, led the Nuggets to
Speaker 7: a one thirty three one twenty four win over Portland.
Speaker 7: Some other scores Washington one oz five, Detroit ninety five,
Speaker 7: Buffalo one o three, Seattle one hundred and Kansas City
Speaker 7: one fifteen Houston one oh nine.
Speaker 3: In college hoop action.
Speaker 7: Anthony Roberts Pty in sixty six points as Oral Roberts
Speaker 7: beat North Carolina A and T won ten to sixty four,
Speaker 7: which Aitaw State ruined. Marquette coach Al McGuire's last home game,
Speaker 7: beating the Warriors seventy five to sixty four. And some
Speaker 7: other scores Kentucky ninety, LSU seventy six, Oregon toppling UCLA
Speaker 7: sixty six six AS fifty five rather and it was
Speaker 7: Michigan eighty nine Minnesota seventy on the ice. Last night
Speaker 7: in the NHL, Rene ro Bear scored a late goal
Speaker 7: lead Buffalo over Detroit two to one. The New York
Speaker 7: Islanders smashed the Rangers by the score of five two.
Speaker 7: Yvon Cornwaia scored two goals, including number four hundred, as
Speaker 7: Montreal beat.
Speaker 1: Philly five to two.
Speaker 7: Rookie Bernie Federko he has a funny name, scored his
Speaker 7: second hat trick in only two weeks of play as
Speaker 7: Saint Louis toppled Washington Will four to one, and Derek Sanderson,
Speaker 7: back in the NHL with Vancouver, had a goal and
Speaker 7: an assist tonight as the Canucks beat at Lanta five
Speaker 7: to oneis Pittsburgh in Toronto six to sixth tie in
Speaker 7: Minnesota Beach Chicago six to two, and that's wyn r
Speaker 7: sports great sister.
Speaker 1: So I will come back to that cassette from February
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven later on to give you a few
Speaker 1: more laughs. But now to the little story about how
Speaker 1: I saw a ghost and it was Glenn. As I said, frenemies,
Speaker 1: I think the last conversation we actually had sometime in
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties was about the fact that I graduated
Speaker 1: on time, beating odds of probably five million to one,
Speaker 1: and he did not graduate on time. That was probably
Speaker 1: an even bet. But nevertheless, at the actual graduation ceremony
Speaker 1: at Cornell with me and my cap and gown drinking
Speaker 1: champagne at ten o'clock in the morning with all the
Speaker 1: other graduates and just happy to get out by hook
Speaker 1: or by crook, Glenn looked up towards me and had
Speaker 1: the forlorn look of sadness that I can't quite describe,
Speaker 1: and I may have given him a popular three thousand
Speaker 1: year old Anglo Saxon gesture involving fingers. Later on, in
Speaker 1: what I think was the last conversation we ever had,
Speaker 1: he said he deserved that, and I said, yes, you did.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, I shouldn't have done it. And
Speaker 1: he said, no, you probably shouldn't have. And that was it.
Speaker 1: That would have been somewhere in the eighties. Early in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, Glenn, who was then thirty nine years old,
Speaker 1: died suddenly while he was giving a lecture about radio
Speaker 1: at Katz Radio in New York. He had a hidden
Speaker 1: heart defect that could not have been identified, certainly not then,
Speaker 1: except in the autopsy. It killed him before he hit
Speaker 1: the floor. And so the rest of us, Pat and
Speaker 1: Peter and all the rest of us from that era
Speaker 1: at Cornell at WVBR reunited recreating a film. And as always,
Speaker 1: when you get to recreate a film, it is not
Speaker 1: the one you want. It is, in fact the one
Speaker 1: you want the least. And it was the big Chill.
Speaker 1: And so we said goodbye to Glenn. And I don't
Speaker 1: think a month has passed, maybe not a week has
Speaker 1: passed without my thinking of him. And then there was
Speaker 1: the time I saw him after he died. In nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety seven, Dan Patrick and I wrote a book about
Speaker 1: sports Center called Surprisingly Enough, This is Sports Center, and
Speaker 1: simultaneous with its publication, accidentally with its publication, I was
Speaker 1: invited to come back to Cornell for the first time
Speaker 1: in fifteen years to give the graduation party, the annual
Speaker 1: graduation party speech at the graduation dinner of the Cornell
Speaker 1: Daily Sun newspaper, which I had worked for for one
Speaker 1: day in nineteen seventy five before. They said, we have
Speaker 1: to choose between us or the radio station that you
Speaker 1: also want to work for, and I said, well that
Speaker 1: that's damn stupid, especially since the Cornell station. The radio
Speaker 1: station is just kind of a slight walk up the hill,
Speaker 1: but the one to the Cornell Daily Sun newspaper is
Speaker 1: then down a twenty minute hill and then back up
Speaker 1: a twenty minute hill. I'm going into radio in any event.
Speaker 1: They asked me to come up and give a speech,
Speaker 1: and I arrived by car. I said, send a car
Speaker 1: for me, and I brought my stuff with me and
Speaker 1: got into the Cornell Hotel and checked in and had
Speaker 1: some time before my speech that night, and I went
Speaker 1: over to WVDR, where I had not been to see anybody,
Speaker 1: not since Glenn's death, in fact, not since nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 1: It had been fifteen years since i'd been there. Now
Speaker 1: I had this book, I had just done the Boston
Speaker 1: Market commercial, which made me a lot of money, and
Speaker 1: I was and I think it was already out. Then
Speaker 1: I was going to leave ESPN to go somewhere else
Speaker 1: with even more money, and I was beginning to run
Speaker 1: into tax problems. And that sounds dull and conceded, but
Speaker 1: there's a elevance to the story. So I get it
Speaker 1: to the radio station at WVBR to twenty seven Linden Avenue.
Speaker 1: It had not been cleaned since my last appearance there
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty two, and probably had not in fact
Speaker 1: been cleaned since my first appearance there in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1: And I buzzed my way in and the first person
Speaker 1: I saw was a man named Phil Shapiro, who was
Speaker 1: a salesman who had come to WVBR in about nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty seven and never left. He managed to make a living,
Speaker 1: just barely a living, selling time on a nominally college
Speaker 1: radio station that had advertising. I won't go into the
Speaker 1: explanation as to why we had advertising. But Phil Shapiro
Speaker 1: stopped and stared at me, and he said, what are
Speaker 1: you doing here? He also did the folk show every
Speaker 1: Sunday night, the Folk Music Live Festival, show Bound for
Speaker 1: Glory from the law school at Cornell, and he had
Speaker 1: one of those voices, and he did a lot of
Speaker 1: commercials and he just had enough money to get by.
Speaker 1: And he said, what are you doing here? And I said,
Speaker 1: I used to work here?
Speaker 3: Remember?
Speaker 1: He said, no, of course, of course, of course we
Speaker 1: remember you. What are you doing here now? I said, well,
Speaker 1: I'm up here to give the speech to the Daily
Speaker 1: Sun people. And you know that's of course I'm going
Speaker 1: to come over here now. I walked around campus for
Speaker 1: about five minutes and here I am, just like the
Speaker 1: old days. He goes, no, why are you here today?
Speaker 1: And I said, I'm not getting your point. He said,
Speaker 1: we are holding a Board of director's emergency meeting in
Speaker 1: one hour, and we're going to shut the radio station
Speaker 1: down for the summer. And I said, what, You can't
Speaker 1: shut the radio station down for the summer. It'll never
Speaker 1: go back on the air, He said, I know, I said, well,
Speaker 1: what happened. Well, now we go to the explanation as
Speaker 1: to what happened. They ran out of money, but they
Speaker 1: didn't run out of money. The place was still making
Speaker 1: advertising money enough to make a profit every year, although
Speaker 1: we couldn't keep the profit because of the hybrid nature
Speaker 1: of the radio. You don't care about this part. They
Speaker 1: had borrowed so much money in the eighties for various
Speaker 1: capital projects that the the debt was killing the radio
Speaker 1: station and the only solution they could come up with
Speaker 1: was to take the radio station off the air for
Speaker 1: the summer and then bring it back in the fall
Speaker 1: when the students came back and there were more listeners
Speaker 1: and therefore more profits to make, or some profits to make,
Speaker 1: and they had a chance of paying off the debt.
Speaker 1: And we all knew that if the radio station went
Speaker 1: off the air, it would never go back on the air.
Speaker 1: They would sell the license to somebody else, carve up
Speaker 1: the money, take some sort of AM carrier, current radio signal,
Speaker 1: and reduce this factory of broadcasters that everybody that you
Speaker 1: could think of, whoever went to Cornell and went into broadcasting,
Speaker 1: went through. They're going to take it off the air,
Speaker 1: the place that I owed my entire career to, and
Speaker 1: I sat down and listened to Phil, and he said,
Speaker 1: let me get the general manager. And they brought out
Speaker 1: this fella from the class of ninety eight, and we
Speaker 1: sat down in the business office. And the business office
Speaker 1: was really just big enough for four large desks, and
Speaker 1: the promotion director had a desk, and I believe the
Speaker 1: music director may have had a desk, and the program
Speaker 1: director had a desk over in the other corner. The
Speaker 1: fourth corner was saved for the copying machine. That's how
Speaker 1: small a business office it was. That far corner, essentially
Speaker 1: the upper left hand corner of this office had been
Speaker 1: Glenn's desk, and every time, for probably two years, even
Speaker 1: before he was program director of the radio station, when
Speaker 1: I would go into this office, I would see Glenn
Speaker 1: on the phone with his feed up talking to a
Speaker 1: music rep from Los Angeles, trying to get free radio
Speaker 1: players of various kinds and performances or records or least
Speaker 1: or tickets to concerts or something, and ultimately to get
Speaker 1: himself a career in the business, which I admired him for.
Speaker 1: He was really good at it and it worked, but
Speaker 1: I could see him then, and it occurred to me
Speaker 1: as I sat down, to my surprise, that I could
Speaker 1: see him now, not if I look directly at the
Speaker 1: corner of what was his desk, but only if I
Speaker 1: maintained my eye contact with the general manager of the
Speaker 1: radio station and with Phil Shapiro, who was basically explaining
Speaker 1: to me the two of them were that the radio
Speaker 1: station was going to go out of business shortly like
Speaker 1: forty five minutes from now, and I just happened to
Speaker 1: wander in for the first time in literally fifteen years,
Speaker 1: on the day they were going to vote to take
Speaker 1: the radio station off the air. So that was Phil
Speaker 1: Shapiro's question, what are you doing here today? I said,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Now I begin to understand what I
Speaker 1: was doing there, because when I did not look into
Speaker 1: the corner that had Glenn's desk in it, I could
Speaker 1: see him quite clearly, with his feet up on the
Speaker 1: phone and now hanging the phone up, and now putting
Speaker 1: his feet down, and just sort of sitting back in
Speaker 1: the chair with his hands behind his head, rocking back
Speaker 1: and forth in that chair and smiling and smiling more
Speaker 1: and more broadly at me. And he was there and
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever told anybody about this, but
Speaker 1: I could see him. If I snapped over and tried
Speaker 1: to catch him, he wasn't there. If I looked at
Speaker 1: the general manager and at Phil Shapiro, he was there.
Speaker 1: And they began to explain to me the whole history
Speaker 1: of the ten or fifteen year decline of the finances
Speaker 1: of a WVBR, which apparently was the last radio station
Speaker 1: in this country to try to go top forty for
Speaker 1: some reason in the mid nineteen eighties. And that's where
Speaker 1: the financial problem, which was not truly a financial problem.
Speaker 1: If they could get rid of the debt, they'd be
Speaker 1: making money. I mean, it sounds academic, and for my
Speaker 1: financial cuman, which is almost nothing, it is kind of academic.
Speaker 1: But literally, if they could just wipe out this debt,
Speaker 1: but there was no way to wipe out the debt,
Speaker 1: they could never get out from under it. And that
Speaker 1: was what the meeting was about. And the votes were
Speaker 1: there to shut the radio station down and there would
Speaker 1: be no chance it could ever resume. It had to
Speaker 1: stay on the air during the summer, for if no
Speaker 1: other reason, in the summer was when the real training
Speaker 1: was done. The people who aspired to be professionals in radio,
Speaker 1: stayed in Ithaca, New York for the summer and were
Speaker 1: on the air five, six days a week as disc jockeys,
Speaker 1: as newscasters, as sportscasters, as salesmen, as running a radio
Speaker 1: station for three months in a small town. I did
Speaker 1: it for one summer, and it doubled my ability in
Speaker 1: three months. And so everything I had owed to WVBR,
Speaker 1: and I knew it, and the ghost in the corner
Speaker 1: knew it too. And now I'm waiting for the punchline
Speaker 1: to this how much money they have and how much
Speaker 1: money they owe, and what the debt service is, and
Speaker 1: how much money there is standing between them and the
Speaker 1: apocalypse of shutting down for the summer. And I'm waiting
Speaker 1: to hear half a million dollars, seven hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, even three hundred thousand dollars something enormous. Remember
Speaker 1: at ESPN doing Sports Center, I never made three hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, not in the nineties, and I was the
Speaker 1: highest paid guy doing SportsCenter. They didn't even offer me
Speaker 1: half a million dollars to stay in nineteen ninety seven. There,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to pay anybody to do SportsCenter for
Speaker 1: that much money. So I'm listening, and the only thing
Speaker 1: that occurred to me was, well, maybe maybe I can
Speaker 1: throw some money at it and we can delay this
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. Maybe, because what had happened was
Speaker 1: because of the book, which made me some money, and
Speaker 1: that commercial when I fell off the cliff, the Boston
Speaker 1: Market commercial which I've made, had made me some money. Two,
Speaker 1: my tax guy had told me that I had to
Speaker 1: find a charitable donation to make to a nonprofit of
Speaker 1: some sort. And WVBR qualified as a nonprofit because of
Speaker 1: this byzantine tax structure and legal status granted by it
Speaker 1: the FCC to it in nineteen thirty nine. It had
Speaker 1: those properties. But what good would it be if they
Speaker 1: needed ten million dollars I had to give away, according
Speaker 1: to my accountant, about fifty thousand dollars, or just give
Speaker 1: it to the irs. So he said, be on the lookout.
Speaker 1: You have about a month to make up your mind.
Speaker 1: And I listened to this nightmare. I listened to Glenn's
Speaker 1: radio station about to go off the air, and Peter's
Speaker 1: radio station, and Pats radio station, and my radio station
Speaker 1: going off the air because among other things. I hadn't
Speaker 1: paid any attention to it for fifteen years. And Joyce
Speaker 1: Brothers worked at that radio station, not with me, she
Speaker 1: was some years before. And I listened to this, and
Speaker 1: in the corner of my eye, in the corner of
Speaker 1: the office, I could see Glenn, and I what could
Speaker 1: not understand about this? It made absolute perfect sense to
Speaker 1: me that Glenn Cornelius's ghost would be in the corner
Speaker 1: of the business office at WVBR, and my first appearance
Speaker 1: there in fifteen years, when I happened somehow to have
Speaker 1: been driven there in one hour shy of the moment
Speaker 1: that they were going to take the radio station off
Speaker 1: the air. That I happened to be there that day,
Speaker 1: I could understand why Glenn's ghost would be standing there,
Speaker 1: or sitting there in the corner, staring at me. What
Speaker 1: I could not understand was why he had a smile
Speaker 1: on his face. This did not seem to make any sense.
Speaker 1: That was the part that disturbed me, Not that I
Speaker 1: could see him even though he had been dead for
Speaker 1: more than a year. Not that part. It was that
Speaker 1: he was smiling at me. That's when I cut to
Speaker 1: the chain with Phil Shapiro and the general manager of
Speaker 1: the radio station. I said, how much do you need
Speaker 1: and I'm waiting for the answer three hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: nine thousand foot and the guy goes, well, I haven't
Speaker 1: checked it today, and I'm thinking, oh my god, it
Speaker 1: goes up every day. Oh my god, why is Glenn
Speaker 1: laughing at this? It can't possibly be something I can
Speaker 1: help with. It'll be a drop in the bucket even
Speaker 1: if I had to, he said, But I think the
Speaker 1: last time I looked earlier in the week, it was
Speaker 1: forty nine, nine hundred and eighty three dollars and twenty
Speaker 1: seven cents. Now I saw Glenn's ghost burst into laughter silently.
Speaker 1: Of course I burst into laughter full volume. I said,
Speaker 1: say that again, hewa forty nine thousand and nine and
Speaker 1: twenty seven cents. And I said, Okay, you're not shutting
Speaker 1: down the radio state on my watch? Can you keep
Speaker 1: it open until tomorrow morning? Without any help? Well, I suppose,
Speaker 1: I said, okay, Because here's the deal. My accountant wants
Speaker 1: me to give away fifty thousand dollars in the next month.
Speaker 1: And I happen to be here an hour before the
Speaker 1: meeting at which you're going to shut down because you
Speaker 1: don't have fifty thousand dollars. So here's what I propose
Speaker 1: to do. In addition to the fact that I had
Speaker 1: to pay for the limo to take me up here
Speaker 1: from New York, and I thought it was going to
Speaker 1: be one check for the trip up and one check
Speaker 1: for the trip back. In fact, they demanded the round
Speaker 1: trip in advance, so when I got out of the
Speaker 1: car an hour ago, I had to give them a
Speaker 1: round trip fee on one check. I still have one
Speaker 1: of my corporate checks back in the hotel, so I
Speaker 1: have a check, a blank check, and I have a
Speaker 1: need to give away fifty thousand dollars, which is slightly
Speaker 1: more than you need by about thirteen bucks. So here's
Speaker 1: what I want. I want you to rename that studio
Speaker 1: over there where you do most of the music programming from.
Speaker 1: I need you to rename that after Glenn and I
Speaker 1: want to party tomorrow with Cake, and I want balloons,
Speaker 1: and I want this announcement to run just once. You're
Speaker 1: listening to WVBRFM ninety three point five Ithica, New York,
Speaker 1: an Olderman broadcasting Empire station. You don't have to run
Speaker 1: it once. And they went, what and Phil Shapiro went
Speaker 1: white as a sheet. I said, I'm giving you the
Speaker 1: money you need. How's that? Can you stay open until
Speaker 1: tomorrow without it? Because I have it back in my
Speaker 1: room and I really don't want to go over there
Speaker 1: and come back again today. I'll come back tomorrow. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not criticizing anybody. None of you are the ones
Speaker 1: who are responsible for turning this into a top forty
Speaker 1: radio station in nineteen eighty five. That wasn't your fault.
Speaker 1: It's nineteen ninety six. Those people are long gone from
Speaker 1: this radio station. I said, okay, can you can you
Speaker 1: just not shut down my station, Glenn's radio station? Can
Speaker 1: you just stay on the air and stay in business
Speaker 1: till tomorrow morning? And Phil Shapiro, who I thought, was
Speaker 1: going to faint, and I'm thinking, oh great, now there'll
Speaker 1: be two ghosts in this room, Phil, and I think
Speaker 1: we can handle it. What do you think? And the
Speaker 1: general manager just looked at me, like, oh, thank god,
Speaker 1: how did you come here today? I went, I looked
Speaker 1: over in the corner of the room and there was
Speaker 1: no ghost anymore. And I said, someday I'll explain it
Speaker 1: to you. The radio station survived. They managed to keep
Speaker 1: it open till the next day, and then we had
Speaker 1: a party, and then they put up a plaque that
Speaker 1: called at the Glenn Cornelius Memorial Studio. And then they
Speaker 1: got into other problems that really were not their fault,
Speaker 1: where we had to build them a new studio in
Speaker 1: about two thousand and ten or so, and it has
Speaker 1: a little bit more money circulating through my life. So
Speaker 1: I helped them out there too, and now they operate
Speaker 1: from a much nicer multi media facility called the Olderman
Speaker 1: Cornelius Studios, which I claim are named after Glenn and
Speaker 1: after my father, because my father put in such effort
Speaker 1: to getting me into that place in the first time,
Speaker 1: and into Cornell in the first place. But obviously it
Speaker 1: also the other Olderman in the equation is me, but
Speaker 1: it's Olderman Cornelius rather than Cornelius Olderman, because as I
Speaker 1: think Glenn would have agreed with me, the damnedest part
Speaker 1: of this would have been if somebody someday had thought
Speaker 1: there was actually somebody named Cornelius Olderman, so we wouldn't
Speaker 1: have that, neither he nor I, And so it is
Speaker 1: now today the Olderman Cornelius Studios. But I saw him
Speaker 1: laughing his ass off. Something put me in that studio
Speaker 1: an hour before they were going to go out of
Speaker 1: business after not being there for fifteen years, nor worrying
Speaker 1: about their financial status. Something put me in that studio
Speaker 1: having to give away fifty thousand dollars for tax purposes
Speaker 1: when they needed just slightly less than that. I'm happy
Speaker 1: to say that they spent the additional thirteen dollars on
Speaker 1: the cake. I saw him, didn't hear them, didn't ask
Speaker 1: him questions, didn't say anything. I saw him. And then
Speaker 1: the other day I found this cassette.
Speaker 4: All right, that's what I like to see. A record
Speaker 4: that's hop skipping and jumping.
Speaker 3: There, Paull the young dues. Let's listen to this, folks.
Speaker 3: You are a wait, that wasn't your cue. Hold it.
Speaker 3: We're not quite ready yet. Time out one. Two?
Speaker 4: Okay, wait, don't go yet. Well that's three and a
Speaker 4: half minutes before two o'clock. We're w I at our Binghamton.
Speaker 4: My name is Tom Daniels, and we're going off the
Speaker 4: air in a very little while.
Speaker 3: I'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Morning and maybe at ten o'clock, and I'll be here
Speaker 4: through four Dandy down Morgan at four o'clock.
Speaker 3: And now this message are well.
Speaker 4: The world may never recover from this. I certainly won't
Speaker 4: ever recover from this. But Al Stewart's gonna come and
Speaker 4: he's gonna sing a.
Speaker 3: Song, and this is entertaining. It's a nice song to
Speaker 3: go to bit too.
Speaker 4: It's all about you're the cats mine? Yes, all right,
Speaker 4: Hurricane list enough, Hurricane you're not listening. I'm gonna have
Speaker 4: to take a sisive action here. A hurricane doesn't watch out.
Speaker 4: I told you you weren't nice. Well, the views and
Speaker 4: opinions expressed by this activity do not particularly reflect the
Speaker 4: opinions or the views of anyone, most especially Chief or
Speaker 4: Peter or Bat or anybody else like that. Thirteen before
Speaker 4: one o'clock at WI n R. That was a little
Speaker 4: bit of Hurricane Smith. Luckily not a whole lot, though
Speaker 4: eagles are here.
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Speaker 1: as ever, my fault. So that's countdown for today, Day
Speaker 1: one hundred and nine of America held hostage. Just one
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