1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,795 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Chut 2 00:00:21,835 --> 00:00:25,795 Speaker 1: Chin hits the gas, Judge Enderon hits the roof. Judge 3 00:00:25,875 --> 00:00:28,795 Speaker 1: Cannon does not hit the pause button. But let me 4 00:00:28,835 --> 00:00:31,035 Speaker 1: start at the US Court of Appeals for the District 5 00:00:31,035 --> 00:00:34,435 Speaker 1: of Columbia where dementia j Trump's lawyers last night filed 6 00:00:34,675 --> 00:00:39,235 Speaker 1: a thirty five page document, one or two paragraphs of 7 00:00:39,275 --> 00:00:43,435 Speaker 1: which asks that the court bar Judge Tanya Chutkin from 8 00:00:43,435 --> 00:00:46,595 Speaker 1: reinstating the gag order against Trump, the rest of which 9 00:00:47,235 --> 00:00:50,075 Speaker 1: is about how wonderful Trump is and how much he 10 00:00:50,195 --> 00:00:52,635 Speaker 1: leads in the primary polls. And it sounds like the 11 00:00:52,675 --> 00:00:55,315 Speaker 1: dialogue they gave rieda Moreno in the last scene of 12 00:00:55,355 --> 00:01:00,235 Speaker 1: the Jack Nicholson movie Cardinal Knowledge. Fourth paragraph of page 13 00:01:00,315 --> 00:01:05,715 Speaker 1: one of the introduction quote, President Trump's uniquely powerful voice 14 00:01:05,755 --> 00:01:09,075 Speaker 1: has been a fixture of American political discourse for eight 15 00:01:09,195 --> 00:01:15,195 Speaker 1: years and central to the American fabric for decades. Now 16 00:01:15,275 --> 00:01:20,715 Speaker 1: true like Carl Arms or herpes. Page eleven, item four quote, 17 00:01:21,115 --> 00:01:25,275 Speaker 1: the gag order violates the rights of tens of millions 18 00:01:25,275 --> 00:01:30,755 Speaker 1: of Americans to receive President Trump's speech. A restriction on 19 00:01:30,875 --> 00:01:36,155 Speaker 1: President Trump's speech inflicts a reciprocal injury on the rights 20 00:01:36,155 --> 00:01:40,875 Speaker 1: of over one hundred million Americans who listened to him 21 00:01:41,715 --> 00:01:45,195 Speaker 1: about how big and strong he is and is better, 22 00:01:45,355 --> 00:01:49,435 Speaker 1: more beautiful, more powerful, more perfect, more strong, more masculine, 23 00:01:49,515 --> 00:01:53,915 Speaker 1: more extraordinary, more virile, domineering, more irresistible, and more up 24 00:01:54,235 --> 00:01:59,035 Speaker 1: in the air. I added a little something to that 25 00:01:59,115 --> 00:02:04,275 Speaker 1: at the end. Now, as to the actual election subversion trial, 26 00:02:04,315 --> 00:02:07,315 Speaker 1: where sense that any of the many delaying tactics of 27 00:02:07,395 --> 00:02:10,635 Speaker 1: dementia Jay's legal team, or their big motion to dismiss 28 00:02:10,675 --> 00:02:14,955 Speaker 1: the whole case because it's unfair to charge a criminal 29 00:02:15,035 --> 00:02:19,515 Speaker 1: with crimes your honor, that any of that was going 30 00:02:19,555 --> 00:02:22,715 Speaker 1: to get them anything other than more billable hours that 31 00:02:22,795 --> 00:02:26,555 Speaker 1: Trump will someday stiff them on. That has vanished with 32 00:02:26,635 --> 00:02:29,035 Speaker 1: the issuance of what in every other trial would be 33 00:02:29,155 --> 00:02:32,275 Speaker 1: just another procedural memo, But what in this one is 34 00:02:32,315 --> 00:02:36,835 Speaker 1: a metaphorical backhand slap across Trump's pouchy face quote. The 35 00:02:36,875 --> 00:02:40,275 Speaker 1: court will use a written questionnaire in advance of in 36 00:02:40,395 --> 00:02:44,915 Speaker 1: person jury selection. Judge Chuckkin announces prosecution and defense should 37 00:02:44,915 --> 00:02:47,515 Speaker 1: negotiate what's in that. They should submit it to her 38 00:02:47,555 --> 00:02:51,955 Speaker 1: on January ninth, that's sixty eight days from now, before 39 00:02:51,995 --> 00:02:55,035 Speaker 1: you subtract the holidays, and if the lawyers can't agree 40 00:02:55,035 --> 00:02:57,355 Speaker 1: on the wording of the questionnaire, they need to tell 41 00:02:57,395 --> 00:03:01,475 Speaker 1: her what's in dispute. Then quote, after review and approval 42 00:03:01,515 --> 00:03:04,595 Speaker 1: by the court, the questionnaire will be distributed to prospective 43 00:03:04,755 --> 00:03:09,755 Speaker 1: jurors summoned to complete it at the courthouse on February nine, 44 00:03:09,915 --> 00:03:14,035 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, unquote, and that's ninety nine days from 45 00:03:14,075 --> 00:03:17,635 Speaker 1: now before subtracting the holidays. And all that means is 46 00:03:17,715 --> 00:03:21,115 Speaker 1: she intends to start this trial on the announced date, 47 00:03:21,315 --> 00:03:25,475 Speaker 1: March fourth, and that's one hundred and twenty three days 48 00:03:25,475 --> 00:03:28,715 Speaker 1: from now. Judge Chutkin went on to warn both sides 49 00:03:28,755 --> 00:03:32,275 Speaker 1: that they can research potential jurors, but if they dox 50 00:03:32,395 --> 00:03:34,195 Speaker 1: any of them, she will come down on them like 51 00:03:34,235 --> 00:03:36,155 Speaker 1: a ton of bricks. And she ain't looking at Jack 52 00:03:36,195 --> 00:03:39,795 Speaker 1: Smith when she says that quote, no party may provide 53 00:03:39,875 --> 00:03:46,275 Speaker 1: jurors identifying information to any other entity parenthesis, eg. The 54 00:03:46,395 --> 00:03:53,075 Speaker 1: defendant's campaign unquote. That shot across Trump's bow is delicious. 55 00:03:53,555 --> 00:03:55,995 Speaker 1: But the import of the Chutkin ruling is that it 56 00:03:56,155 --> 00:04:01,155 Speaker 1: underscores Jack Smith's message to Trump's concierge. Judge in Florida, 57 00:04:01,235 --> 00:04:05,715 Speaker 1: Eileen Cannon. You will recall that on Whennesday, Canon made 58 00:04:05,795 --> 00:04:09,475 Speaker 1: all the kinds of noises for ten judges make before 59 00:04:09,475 --> 00:04:12,475 Speaker 1: they are going to do something inappropriate or biased or 60 00:04:12,515 --> 00:04:16,875 Speaker 1: reeking of corruption, the same kind of dilatory time wasters 61 00:04:16,875 --> 00:04:20,475 Speaker 1: that Chutkin just swatted away in Washington without even bothering 62 00:04:20,515 --> 00:04:25,035 Speaker 1: to acknowledge them. Canon accepted tenderly and did everything but 63 00:04:25,195 --> 00:04:28,635 Speaker 1: swaddled them in baby clothes. I'm having a hard time 64 00:04:28,715 --> 00:04:32,315 Speaker 1: seeing how this work can be accomplished in this compressed 65 00:04:32,355 --> 00:04:36,115 Speaker 1: period of time, she said, while metaphorically beaming at the 66 00:04:36,155 --> 00:04:40,275 Speaker 1: man who lifted her from among six thousand assistant US 67 00:04:40,275 --> 00:04:44,675 Speaker 1: attorneys to a judgeship she was totally unprepared for. She 68 00:04:44,795 --> 00:04:50,275 Speaker 1: spoke to the prosecutor then as if he were misguided, misled, miseducated. 69 00:04:50,915 --> 00:04:53,915 Speaker 1: I'm not seeing in your position a level of understanding 70 00:04:53,995 --> 00:04:57,275 Speaker 1: to these realities. And she hinted that as soon as 71 00:04:57,555 --> 00:05:02,115 Speaker 1: the next day, yesterday, she might be making reasonable adjustments 72 00:05:02,635 --> 00:05:06,795 Speaker 1: to the Florida Documents case trial schedule that could slide 73 00:05:06,835 --> 00:05:10,435 Speaker 1: the start of that trial from May fourteenth until after 74 00:05:10,475 --> 00:05:13,675 Speaker 1: the primaries, or after the convention or after the election. 75 00:05:14,275 --> 00:05:16,955 Speaker 1: And then she sat back as if waiting overnight would 76 00:05:16,955 --> 00:05:20,635 Speaker 1: reduce the obviousness of her dual role as Trump's judge 77 00:05:21,035 --> 00:05:25,475 Speaker 1: and one of Trump's lawyers. And then overnight came and went, 78 00:05:25,515 --> 00:05:30,075 Speaker 1: and the sun rose and set, and Judge Cannon ruled nothing. 79 00:05:31,275 --> 00:05:34,475 Speaker 1: And that was because Jack Smith's team filed a brief 80 00:05:34,555 --> 00:05:37,595 Speaker 1: overnight Wednesday that explained to Judge Cannon that it was 81 00:05:37,635 --> 00:05:40,275 Speaker 1: obvious she had missed the fact that Trump and his 82 00:05:40,315 --> 00:05:43,755 Speaker 1: attorneys had pulled the rug out from under her, and 83 00:05:43,795 --> 00:05:46,555 Speaker 1: that it was obvious to everybody in the world except 84 00:05:46,595 --> 00:05:49,715 Speaker 1: her that they were all playing her like the proverbial 85 00:05:49,795 --> 00:05:54,835 Speaker 1: two dollar ban Joe. Here, she was ready to postpone, 86 00:05:54,915 --> 00:05:58,915 Speaker 1: delay or otherwise scring out the Florida trial on the 87 00:05:58,995 --> 00:06:01,995 Speaker 1: excuse that he had so much prep for the Florida 88 00:06:02,035 --> 00:06:03,995 Speaker 1: trial that it would crash into the schedule for the 89 00:06:04,075 --> 00:06:07,475 Speaker 1: Washington True. But Trump had already filed not just a 90 00:06:07,475 --> 00:06:11,155 Speaker 1: motion to dismiss the Washington trial, but was filing another 91 00:06:11,235 --> 00:06:15,075 Speaker 1: motion to delay the Washington trial indefinitely until they get 92 00:06:15,115 --> 00:06:18,555 Speaker 1: every court except Judge Wapner's to rule on this thing 93 00:06:18,595 --> 00:06:23,475 Speaker 1: they made up called presidential immunity. In short, Cannon was 94 00:06:23,515 --> 00:06:27,675 Speaker 1: about to delay her trial so Trump could concentrate on 95 00:06:27,755 --> 00:06:31,675 Speaker 1: the Washington trial while Trump was busy demanding that they 96 00:06:31,755 --> 00:06:36,435 Speaker 1: delay the Washington trial too. Quote. As the government argued 97 00:06:36,475 --> 00:06:38,755 Speaker 1: to the court Wednesday, the trial date in the District 98 00:06:38,755 --> 00:06:41,795 Speaker 1: of Columbia case should not be a determinative factor in 99 00:06:41,835 --> 00:06:45,235 Speaker 1: the court's decision whether to modify the dates in this matter. 100 00:06:45,835 --> 00:06:50,475 Speaker 1: Defendant Trump's actions and by the way, how nice is 101 00:06:50,475 --> 00:06:55,795 Speaker 1: it to hear or say the phrase defendant Trump. Defendant 102 00:06:55,835 --> 00:06:59,155 Speaker 1: Trump's actions in the hours following the hearing in the 103 00:06:59,195 --> 00:07:03,475 Speaker 1: case illustrate the point and confirm his overriding interest in 104 00:07:03,555 --> 00:07:09,035 Speaker 1: delaying both at any cost. Smith and jay Brat's filing 105 00:07:09,115 --> 00:07:12,235 Speaker 1: then closes with what seems like an unfortunate typo, but 106 00:07:12,315 --> 00:07:15,755 Speaker 1: which really reads more like a Freudian slip, warning Eileen 107 00:07:15,835 --> 00:07:18,755 Speaker 1: Cannon what a fool she is making of herself. Quote, 108 00:07:19,195 --> 00:07:23,995 Speaker 1: this court should allow itself to be manipulated in this fashion. 109 00:07:24,915 --> 00:07:29,475 Speaker 1: Of course, they meant should not allow. But if you 110 00:07:29,595 --> 00:07:34,075 Speaker 1: read it as written, and that's about you, you should 111 00:07:34,155 --> 00:07:37,955 Speaker 1: allow yourself to be manipulated in this fashion. I think 112 00:07:37,995 --> 00:07:43,155 Speaker 1: it would make your cheeks burn. Wait, I am allowing 113 00:07:43,195 --> 00:07:48,075 Speaker 1: myself to be manipulated. Regardless Cannon's response to that filing 114 00:07:48,235 --> 00:07:52,635 Speaker 1: was nothing, nothing that we know of. Anyway, I would 115 00:07:52,715 --> 00:07:54,955 Speaker 1: still not hold out much hope that she will do 116 00:07:54,995 --> 00:07:58,195 Speaker 1: the right thing. She's still on the case, even though 117 00:07:58,235 --> 00:08:01,515 Speaker 1: if there is an in person hearing a week from Monday, 118 00:08:02,195 --> 00:08:05,555 Speaker 1: Trump's attorneys really should bring in a cake celebrating the 119 00:08:05,595 --> 00:08:12,755 Speaker 1: third anniversary of her appointment by the defendant. Still, corruption 120 00:08:12,875 --> 00:08:16,515 Speaker 1: delayed could always turn out to be corruption denied. Where 121 00:08:16,555 --> 00:08:21,835 Speaker 1: there's hope of honesty, there's life or something, or as 122 00:08:21,915 --> 00:08:25,835 Speaker 1: the judicial website above, the law dot com perfectly headlined 123 00:08:25,995 --> 00:08:30,195 Speaker 1: its story on this farse, Trump demands delay in Florida 124 00:08:30,235 --> 00:08:33,835 Speaker 1: case to accommodate delay in DC case, to accommodate delay 125 00:08:33,915 --> 00:08:40,115 Speaker 1: in dot dot dot before getting to the frakkha here 126 00:08:40,115 --> 00:08:43,555 Speaker 1: in New York, in which, for once, Trump himself is 127 00:08:43,595 --> 00:08:49,515 Speaker 1: actually an innocent bystander. One more note about Aileen Cannon. 128 00:08:49,835 --> 00:08:52,915 Speaker 1: If you saw it and it was everywhere and you 129 00:08:53,035 --> 00:08:56,235 Speaker 1: don't know that, the purported Trump's social media post about 130 00:08:56,275 --> 00:08:59,555 Speaker 1: Canon was a fake, it was a fake. It had 131 00:08:59,675 --> 00:09:02,275 Speaker 1: him saying that she was the best judge since King David, 132 00:09:02,555 --> 00:09:05,075 Speaker 1: and she gets the next Supreme Court opening, And given 133 00:09:05,115 --> 00:09:08,595 Speaker 1: the bottomless pit of Trumpian corruption, it sounds utterly plausible. 134 00:09:09,195 --> 00:09:13,435 Speaker 1: But there was a series of tells. First, content, whoever 135 00:09:13,475 --> 00:09:16,315 Speaker 1: wrote it refers to quote looney Jack Smith, and he 136 00:09:16,355 --> 00:09:22,275 Speaker 1: has never called him looney. It's too endearing. Secondly, how 137 00:09:22,355 --> 00:09:25,355 Speaker 1: in the hell would Trump, who kept not a Bible 138 00:09:25,475 --> 00:09:28,875 Speaker 1: by his bed, but rather a copy of Hitler's favorite speeches, 139 00:09:29,275 --> 00:09:31,795 Speaker 1: how in the hell would he know who King David was? 140 00:09:33,155 --> 00:09:35,755 Speaker 1: Then there are the technical tells. Is it on his 141 00:09:35,795 --> 00:09:38,475 Speaker 1: social media site? And if it isn't, which it wasn't, 142 00:09:38,795 --> 00:09:41,795 Speaker 1: how come every time you see the screen shot it's 143 00:09:41,875 --> 00:09:45,955 Speaker 1: exactly the same one with the same font. Wouldn't more 144 00:09:46,035 --> 00:09:49,195 Speaker 1: than one person have screenshotted something that would be that 145 00:09:49,355 --> 00:09:52,075 Speaker 1: stupid even for Trump. I mean, there are literally dozens 146 00:09:52,115 --> 00:09:56,435 Speaker 1: of reporters with burner accounts on Trump's site waiting for 147 00:09:56,635 --> 00:09:59,515 Speaker 1: things like that, who get alerts for things like that, 148 00:09:59,715 --> 00:10:03,635 Speaker 1: and only one of them got the screenshot. You're going 149 00:10:03,675 --> 00:10:06,235 Speaker 1: to bite on the fake one ones, only bite on 150 00:10:06,315 --> 00:10:13,755 Speaker 1: the good fake ones. Also, everything including the word adjudicated, 151 00:10:14,395 --> 00:10:19,995 Speaker 1: was spelled correctly. Now to New York it looked like 152 00:10:20,035 --> 00:10:22,915 Speaker 1: the civil fraud trial of Trump and Junior and Moron 153 00:10:23,035 --> 00:10:25,715 Speaker 1: Junior and Girl Junior was going to be highlighted by 154 00:10:25,795 --> 00:10:30,555 Speaker 1: Junior's admission that sure he signed all those fraudulent financial statements, 155 00:10:30,715 --> 00:10:33,915 Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean he's responsible for what's in those 156 00:10:33,955 --> 00:10:38,075 Speaker 1: fraudulent financial statements. Or if not that, then it was 157 00:10:38,115 --> 00:10:41,835 Speaker 1: going to be highlighted by Moron Junior, who yesterday testified 158 00:10:41,875 --> 00:10:44,275 Speaker 1: under oath that he never heard of the company's statement 159 00:10:44,275 --> 00:10:48,035 Speaker 1: of financial condition until recently. And then they showed him 160 00:10:48,035 --> 00:10:52,755 Speaker 1: an email where employees were told that he was working 161 00:10:52,795 --> 00:10:57,315 Speaker 1: on the company statement of financial condition. But then something 162 00:10:57,395 --> 00:11:01,395 Speaker 1: happened that caused Judge Arthur and Gern to literally pound 163 00:11:01,515 --> 00:11:04,235 Speaker 1: on the bench and shout, if there is any further 164 00:11:04,315 --> 00:11:08,235 Speaker 1: reference to anyone on my staff, I would consider expanding 165 00:11:08,275 --> 00:11:14,075 Speaker 1: the gag order to include the attorney's unquote more amazing still, 166 00:11:14,875 --> 00:11:18,915 Speaker 1: what caused that had nothing to do with any of 167 00:11:18,955 --> 00:11:22,955 Speaker 1: the Trumps, but instead it was about their attorney, Chris Kiss. 168 00:11:23,795 --> 00:11:26,275 Speaker 1: He complained to the bench about the court clerk, you know, 169 00:11:26,355 --> 00:11:29,995 Speaker 1: the one Trump doxed, and in that paroxysm of paranoia, 170 00:11:30,595 --> 00:11:35,795 Speaker 1: he claimed she was Chuck Schumer's girlfriend and now she 171 00:11:35,995 --> 00:11:39,595 Speaker 1: was passing notes to the judge and Kiss complained about it. 172 00:11:39,875 --> 00:11:43,795 Speaker 1: That's right. The judge shouted confidential communications for my record, 173 00:11:43,915 --> 00:11:46,675 Speaker 1: absolute right to it. You don't have any right to 174 00:11:46,715 --> 00:11:50,795 Speaker 1: see it. While it would be joyful to think that 175 00:11:50,835 --> 00:11:54,875 Speaker 1: Trump has actually only hired lawyers like Alena Habba and 176 00:11:54,955 --> 00:11:57,995 Speaker 1: the other one, the one who vanished the lawyer slash 177 00:11:58,155 --> 00:12:03,595 Speaker 1: spokesmodel Christina Something, whatever happened to her, it would be 178 00:12:03,635 --> 00:12:06,755 Speaker 1: joyful to think that he'd only hired lawyers who are 179 00:12:06,795 --> 00:12:11,395 Speaker 1: even worse at legal stuff than he is. Courtroom observers 180 00:12:11,475 --> 00:12:14,755 Speaker 1: believe that this one, mister Kiss, may have actually pulled 181 00:12:14,755 --> 00:12:18,875 Speaker 1: off a brilliant bit of performance art and actually taken 182 00:12:18,915 --> 00:12:22,075 Speaker 1: one for the team. This theory states that instead of 183 00:12:22,075 --> 00:12:25,635 Speaker 1: writing about how Eric Trump seemingly perjured himself about the 184 00:12:25,635 --> 00:12:28,795 Speaker 1: Trump statement of financial condition and the fact that it 185 00:12:28,835 --> 00:12:32,235 Speaker 1: sure looks like Eric only began to develop amnesia about 186 00:12:32,435 --> 00:12:37,035 Speaker 1: company financials in twenty twenty as the Attorney General's investigation began, 187 00:12:37,555 --> 00:12:40,795 Speaker 1: Instead of that, everybody is writing about the clerk and 188 00:12:40,835 --> 00:12:44,755 Speaker 1: the gag order again and the judge yelling, And as 189 00:12:44,795 --> 00:12:47,835 Speaker 1: a bonus, when they are writing about those things, they 190 00:12:47,875 --> 00:12:52,755 Speaker 1: also aren't mentioning dementia. Jay. Supporting this theory is the 191 00:12:52,755 --> 00:12:56,715 Speaker 1: startling realization that there could actually have been an entire 192 00:12:56,915 --> 00:13:00,515 Speaker 1: day in a courtroom somewhere in the world in which 193 00:13:00,755 --> 00:13:05,115 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's name did not come up at all. But 194 00:13:06,155 --> 00:13:09,315 Speaker 1: he can never leave well enough alone, nor can he 195 00:13:09,435 --> 00:13:13,075 Speaker 1: leave bad enough alone. For that matter, Deventia Jay attacked 196 00:13:13,075 --> 00:13:15,875 Speaker 1: Engern online again at midday, and then he did something 197 00:13:15,875 --> 00:13:20,235 Speaker 1: even weirder. Quote our corrupt attorney general sits on her 198 00:13:20,435 --> 00:13:26,755 Speaker 1: ass in court all day watching the Trump family unquote. So, 199 00:13:28,075 --> 00:13:32,035 Speaker 1: Defendant Trump, how long have you been obsessed by Letitia 200 00:13:32,155 --> 00:13:38,435 Speaker 1: James's backside? There is one more Trump trial. Note it 201 00:13:38,475 --> 00:13:41,395 Speaker 1: was light day, only five of them in progress. At 202 00:13:41,435 --> 00:13:45,995 Speaker 1: the fourteenth Amendment disqualification hearing in Colorado, Trump's team called 203 00:13:46,115 --> 00:13:50,835 Speaker 1: as witnesses. He just announced his retirement. Representative ken Buck, 204 00:13:51,475 --> 00:13:55,715 Speaker 1: the woman who organized the January sixth rally and the 205 00:13:55,835 --> 00:14:02,075 Speaker 1: chief of staff to Congressman bat Guano Paul Gozar. Ken 206 00:14:02,115 --> 00:14:04,915 Speaker 1: Bucks stumbled all over the so called Republican EVA it's 207 00:14:04,915 --> 00:14:07,995 Speaker 1: about the insurrection, saying the January sixth Committee left out 208 00:14:08,115 --> 00:14:10,955 Speaker 1: Jim Jordan's side of the story, which immediately reminded the 209 00:14:10,995 --> 00:14:14,475 Speaker 1: court that Jim Jordan ignored first an invitation to testify 210 00:14:14,555 --> 00:14:17,435 Speaker 1: to the committee and then a subpoena from the committee. 211 00:14:17,715 --> 00:14:23,235 Speaker 1: Jim Jordan, remember Jim Jordan. But the part about that 212 00:14:23,235 --> 00:14:25,635 Speaker 1: that knocked me out was the part that again supports 213 00:14:25,635 --> 00:14:29,475 Speaker 1: by conviction that whatever Trump's brain problem is, it is 214 00:14:29,515 --> 00:14:36,755 Speaker 1: getting worse and rapidly so. Ken Buck testified on Trump's 215 00:14:36,795 --> 00:14:42,355 Speaker 1: behalf in court at about nine am local time yesterday, 216 00:14:42,555 --> 00:14:47,115 Speaker 1: not twelve hours earlier. Trump had written, quote, good news 217 00:14:47,235 --> 00:14:51,355 Speaker 1: for the country. Congressman ken Buck of Colorado, a weak 218 00:14:51,475 --> 00:14:55,195 Speaker 1: and ineffective super rhino, if ever there was one, announced 219 00:14:55,195 --> 00:14:56,915 Speaker 1: today that he won't be running again, which is a 220 00:14:56,915 --> 00:15:01,835 Speaker 1: great thing for the Republican Party. Bad news for ken Buck. 221 00:15:02,755 --> 00:15:07,035 Speaker 1: That's the same Trump who's version you defended under oath, 222 00:15:07,795 --> 00:15:11,035 Speaker 1: Worst news for Trump now. Ken Buck also knows that 223 00:15:11,155 --> 00:15:13,635 Speaker 1: if you are loyal to Trump, you can rest assured 224 00:15:13,955 --> 00:15:16,435 Speaker 1: that you can rely on him for the rest of 225 00:15:16,475 --> 00:15:21,275 Speaker 1: your life. He will never forget to not give a 226 00:15:21,355 --> 00:15:27,915 Speaker 1: damn who you are or what you did for him. 227 00:15:28,035 --> 00:15:30,755 Speaker 1: A little closer to home, this is year twenty five 228 00:15:31,635 --> 00:15:34,035 Speaker 1: of the part of my career I've spent covering politics, 229 00:15:34,035 --> 00:15:37,275 Speaker 1: and rarely do headlines surprise me anymore. But to be fair, 230 00:15:37,755 --> 00:15:39,955 Speaker 1: a hat tip to the writers of this part of 231 00:15:39,995 --> 00:15:44,915 Speaker 1: our current timeline. Quote us investigating whether New York Mayor 232 00:15:45,075 --> 00:15:49,955 Speaker 1: Eric Adams received illegal donations from Turkey. A raid at 233 00:15:49,955 --> 00:15:52,355 Speaker 1: the home of his chief fundraiser was part of an 234 00:15:52,395 --> 00:15:57,315 Speaker 1: inquiring into whether foreign money was funneled into his mayoral campaign. 235 00:15:57,595 --> 00:16:04,115 Speaker 1: A search warrant shows. I wonder how he's gonna claim 236 00:16:04,195 --> 00:16:08,435 Speaker 1: this was all God's doing. Anybody who has lived in 237 00:16:08,475 --> 00:16:11,515 Speaker 1: this city for longer than twenty two minutes knows that 238 00:16:11,555 --> 00:16:13,955 Speaker 1: when the mayor leaves for Washington to try to get 239 00:16:13,995 --> 00:16:16,955 Speaker 1: money for something, and when he gets there he suddenly 240 00:16:16,955 --> 00:16:19,835 Speaker 1: cancels the meetings and heads right back to New York, 241 00:16:20,035 --> 00:16:24,195 Speaker 1: that something good is in the microwave. And then it 242 00:16:24,235 --> 00:16:27,115 Speaker 1: came the news yesterday that the FBI had rated the 243 00:16:27,155 --> 00:16:30,275 Speaker 1: top donation wrangler of his campaign, the woman who doubles 244 00:16:30,275 --> 00:16:33,555 Speaker 1: as one of his key agenda operatives, always pushing the 245 00:16:33,595 --> 00:16:37,915 Speaker 1: mayor wants this, and the mayor wants that. Finally out 246 00:16:37,915 --> 00:16:42,315 Speaker 1: comes the warrant and the backstory noveled even for this city, 247 00:16:42,555 --> 00:16:46,675 Speaker 1: and it's Madame Tussaud's collection of corrupt mayors. There is 248 00:16:46,755 --> 00:16:50,555 Speaker 1: a Brooklyn construction company involved. It has ties to Turkey. 249 00:16:50,875 --> 00:16:54,595 Speaker 1: There is Bay Atlantic University in Washington, which has six 250 00:16:54,715 --> 00:16:58,315 Speaker 1: hundred students, but no Wikipedia page, but it's owned by 251 00:16:58,315 --> 00:17:01,835 Speaker 1: people in Turkey, and it has ties to Mayor Adams. 252 00:17:02,315 --> 00:17:05,675 Speaker 1: Then there's the mayor himself who's boasted six or seven 253 00:17:05,715 --> 00:17:10,755 Speaker 1: times to Turkey. There are donors who are in the 254 00:17:10,795 --> 00:17:13,075 Speaker 1: Ledger books but don't seem to actually exist or at 255 00:17:13,115 --> 00:17:16,475 Speaker 1: least to have donated. And there are allegedly kickbacks to 256 00:17:16,595 --> 00:17:19,555 Speaker 1: the construction company and to Turkey. And I will just 257 00:17:19,675 --> 00:17:22,915 Speaker 1: state for the record, and mister chairman, don't blame me. 258 00:17:23,435 --> 00:17:31,035 Speaker 1: I voted for the garbage commissioner. Lady. Back to Washington, 259 00:17:31,315 --> 00:17:34,995 Speaker 1: drooping Johnson watch day nine, the new fifth string Speaker 260 00:17:35,155 --> 00:17:38,515 Speaker 1: passed his support Israel, don't support Ukraine. Don't you dare 261 00:17:38,595 --> 00:17:41,755 Speaker 1: let the IRS investigate rich Republican tax e vators bill. 262 00:17:42,075 --> 00:17:44,995 Speaker 1: He even got twelve Democratic votes for it. It will 263 00:17:44,995 --> 00:17:46,755 Speaker 1: go to the Senate where there's not a chance in 264 00:17:46,795 --> 00:17:49,835 Speaker 1: hell of it passing, and Ukraine will be put back 265 00:17:49,835 --> 00:17:52,515 Speaker 1: in and the defunding of the IRS that will expand 266 00:17:52,555 --> 00:17:55,595 Speaker 1: the deficit will be taken back out. But that's not 267 00:17:55,675 --> 00:18:00,035 Speaker 1: the point. The point is that once again this Johnson's 268 00:18:00,475 --> 00:18:06,555 Speaker 1: weird ejaculations. What dictionary definition of ejaculation is something said 269 00:18:06,635 --> 00:18:14,475 Speaker 1: quickly and suddenly, what what this guy says about? He's 270 00:18:14,475 --> 00:18:17,955 Speaker 1: not playing politics with aid to Israel. This bothers me. 271 00:18:19,235 --> 00:18:22,715 Speaker 1: It bothers me because it's clear that Mike Johnson does 272 00:18:22,755 --> 00:18:26,635 Speaker 1: not realize that we all can see him. 273 00:18:26,835 --> 00:18:29,155 Speaker 2: And now, as Israel begins the next phase of its war, 274 00:18:29,795 --> 00:18:32,115 Speaker 2: it's been kind of disturbing to us. I've heard Democrats 275 00:18:32,675 --> 00:18:35,315 Speaker 2: suggest that there needs to be a ceasefire. Israel doesn't 276 00:18:35,355 --> 00:18:38,515 Speaker 2: need a ceasefire, needs its allies to cease with the 277 00:18:38,555 --> 00:18:41,555 Speaker 2: politics and deliver support now. And that's what we're doing. 278 00:18:41,915 --> 00:18:43,835 Speaker 2: House Republicans plan to do that. We're going to do 279 00:18:43,875 --> 00:18:46,275 Speaker 2: it in short order, and it provides Israeli aid it 280 00:18:46,315 --> 00:18:49,675 Speaker 2: needs to defend itself, free its hostages, and eradicate Hamas, 281 00:18:50,075 --> 00:18:52,715 Speaker 2: which is a mission that must be accomplished. All of this, 282 00:18:52,955 --> 00:18:57,075 Speaker 2: all of this while we also work to ensure responsible 283 00:18:57,115 --> 00:18:59,755 Speaker 2: spending and reduce the size of the federal government to 284 00:18:59,835 --> 00:19:02,355 Speaker 2: pay for that commitment to our friend in Allie, we 285 00:19:02,395 --> 00:19:05,475 Speaker 2: cannot waste any time getting Israel the AI needs. We're 286 00:19:05,515 --> 00:19:06,075 Speaker 2: going to work on. 287 00:19:06,035 --> 00:19:10,835 Speaker 1: That right, no politics and no delay. Other than the 288 00:19:10,875 --> 00:19:14,115 Speaker 1: part about Ukraine, which I guess is kind of relevant 289 00:19:14,555 --> 00:19:18,435 Speaker 1: because they're both wars. Oh, and the part about the Irs, 290 00:19:18,475 --> 00:19:21,675 Speaker 1: which has got nothing to do with Israel. It's pure 291 00:19:22,035 --> 00:19:26,235 Speaker 1: it's pure politics. Three year old child could see that. 292 00:19:26,795 --> 00:19:29,595 Speaker 1: Any one of my dogs could see that there is 293 00:19:29,635 --> 00:19:36,235 Speaker 1: the terrifying prospect that Mike Johnson might not be this stupid. 294 00:19:36,435 --> 00:19:43,595 Speaker 1: He might actually believe he's getting away with it. And lastly, 295 00:19:43,635 --> 00:19:48,235 Speaker 1: speaking of Johnson's, there's Lauren Bobert. She and Marjorie Taylor 296 00:19:48,275 --> 00:19:52,035 Speaker 1: Green and Chip Roy in a three way war of words. 297 00:19:53,395 --> 00:19:55,715 Speaker 1: It began with a post by Roy explaining why he 298 00:19:55,795 --> 00:19:57,795 Speaker 1: moved to stop the vote to cent your representative to 299 00:19:57,875 --> 00:20:02,715 Speaker 1: Leeb then Barney Rubble. Marjorie Taylor Green sub tweeted him, 300 00:20:02,915 --> 00:20:04,595 Speaker 1: you voted to kick me out of the freedom call, 301 00:20:04,955 --> 00:20:08,235 Speaker 1: but kept seeingn wanna be ken Buck and vaping groping 302 00:20:08,315 --> 00:20:15,875 Speaker 1: Lauren Bobert. All right, vaping groping Lauren Bobert. Sure. Roy 303 00:20:15,955 --> 00:20:18,995 Speaker 1: replied to that, tell her to go chase so called 304 00:20:19,075 --> 00:20:22,035 Speaker 1: Jewish space lasers if she wants to spend time on 305 00:20:22,075 --> 00:20:26,235 Speaker 1: that sort of thing. And Green then responded, oh, shut up, 306 00:20:26,275 --> 00:20:30,235 Speaker 1: Colonel Sanders, and predicted that this would all end with 307 00:20:30,355 --> 00:20:35,675 Speaker 1: him reciting quote powdered Wig soliloquies as Americans are marched 308 00:20:35,675 --> 00:20:39,075 Speaker 1: to the firing squads, and no, that's where they lost. Man. 309 00:20:39,075 --> 00:20:43,075 Speaker 1: I don't get that reference either. Curiously silent through all this, though, 310 00:20:43,515 --> 00:20:49,075 Speaker 1: was vaping groping Lauren Bobert. Sources say she's simply sitting 311 00:20:49,075 --> 00:20:52,875 Speaker 1: there quietly trying to get a grip on the situation. 312 00:20:58,315 --> 00:21:02,115 Speaker 1: I maybe better last part up. Also of interest here, Oops, 313 00:21:02,155 --> 00:21:04,835 Speaker 1: turns out there are more skeletons in the closet of 314 00:21:04,875 --> 00:21:08,955 Speaker 1: Dean Phillips, the Gelato king and Minnesota congressman who is 315 00:21:09,035 --> 00:21:12,635 Speaker 1: challenging Biden in the primaries. But it's just a coincidence 316 00:21:12,635 --> 00:21:18,395 Speaker 1: that Harlan Crowe has contributed to Dean's campaign. When Harlan 317 00:21:18,515 --> 00:21:23,435 Speaker 1: crow might not be your biggest problem. You've got some 318 00:21:24,075 --> 00:21:31,195 Speaker 1: closet that's next. This is countdown. This is countdown, with 319 00:21:31,355 --> 00:21:57,035 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman still ahead on countdown. In the dear dead 320 00:21:57,155 --> 00:22:01,835 Speaker 1: days of the early nineteen seventies, when innocence in naivete 321 00:22:01,915 --> 00:22:04,995 Speaker 1: consumed us all, my dad and I were flying to 322 00:22:04,995 --> 00:22:08,675 Speaker 1: Boston for some reason, and for some reason there was 323 00:22:08,715 --> 00:22:12,475 Speaker 1: a passenger who'd pissed us off another passenger in the 324 00:22:12,795 --> 00:22:16,075 Speaker 1: line to get the tickets maybe, and he sat near 325 00:22:16,195 --> 00:22:18,795 Speaker 1: us in the waiting room. So as we sat there 326 00:22:18,835 --> 00:22:21,235 Speaker 1: in the waiting room at LaGuardia, my dad and I 327 00:22:21,315 --> 00:22:25,195 Speaker 1: began to, on a totally ad hoc, unplanned basis, try 328 00:22:25,235 --> 00:22:27,635 Speaker 1: to scare the crap out of the guy because he 329 00:22:27,675 --> 00:22:31,635 Speaker 1: had annoyed us. I didn't think they allowed that on planes, 330 00:22:32,155 --> 00:22:35,075 Speaker 1: I began. My dad winked at me. I didn't think 331 00:22:35,075 --> 00:22:38,635 Speaker 1: they allowed anything like that on commercial flights. He nodded 332 00:22:38,675 --> 00:22:41,835 Speaker 1: me to keep going. Well, I said, I didn't think 333 00:22:41,875 --> 00:22:44,715 Speaker 1: you could put explosives on any plane in this country. 334 00:22:45,795 --> 00:22:49,675 Speaker 1: The guy sitting near us looked alarmed and then quickly 335 00:22:49,675 --> 00:22:53,795 Speaker 1: moved away. Mission accomplished. I do not believe that by 336 00:22:53,795 --> 00:22:55,915 Speaker 1: that point in my life I had read The Lady 337 00:22:55,995 --> 00:22:58,555 Speaker 1: on one four to two by James Thurbert. But I 338 00:22:58,635 --> 00:23:01,995 Speaker 1: might have, and it might have inspired that impromptu and 339 00:23:02,195 --> 00:23:06,395 Speaker 1: really evil, practical joke at that airport. You'll hear why 340 00:23:06,475 --> 00:23:09,355 Speaker 1: next in Fridays with Thurber and The Lady on one 341 00:23:09,395 --> 00:23:11,875 Speaker 1: four to two. First time for the daily round up 342 00:23:11,875 --> 00:23:14,435 Speaker 1: of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens 343 00:23:14,595 --> 00:23:19,955 Speaker 1: who constitute two days worse persons in the world worse. 344 00:23:20,195 --> 00:23:24,995 Speaker 1: Congressman Dean Phillips the Harlan crow funded quote Democrat unquote 345 00:23:25,115 --> 00:23:28,435 Speaker 1: who is challenging President Biden in the primaries because he 346 00:23:28,475 --> 00:23:31,315 Speaker 1: thinks Biden is too old. And remember the polling, It 347 00:23:31,315 --> 00:23:34,395 Speaker 1: does not matter if anybody thinks Biden is too old. 348 00:23:34,715 --> 00:23:38,155 Speaker 1: It only matters if everybody thinks Trump is too old. 349 00:23:39,155 --> 00:23:43,275 Speaker 1: Any who Daily Beast reports he's so rich Dean Phillips 350 00:23:43,395 --> 00:23:47,275 Speaker 1: is that he's the Talente Gelato guy, that he has 351 00:23:47,315 --> 00:23:51,195 Speaker 1: his own secret holding company and he buys real estate 352 00:23:51,275 --> 00:23:54,195 Speaker 1: through it in order to lower his tax liability. So 353 00:23:54,355 --> 00:23:57,075 Speaker 1: his purchase of his one and a half million dollar 354 00:23:57,195 --> 00:24:00,435 Speaker 1: town home in DC, it was bought not by Dean 355 00:24:00,475 --> 00:24:06,995 Speaker 1: Phillips nor by his wife, but by Anna dellc, which 356 00:24:07,035 --> 00:24:10,115 Speaker 1: is legal except for one problem. He is a member 357 00:24:10,155 --> 00:24:12,995 Speaker 1: of Congress after all, and his financial transactions are supposed 358 00:24:13,035 --> 00:24:15,995 Speaker 1: to be transparent, except there's no record of this one 359 00:24:16,515 --> 00:24:21,795 Speaker 1: or of him owning the LLC in question. Oops. Maybe 360 00:24:21,835 --> 00:24:26,235 Speaker 1: Harlan crow Ow worser a Fox News tie between two 361 00:24:26,235 --> 00:24:30,555 Speaker 1: of the true scumbags on that channel, Little Jesse Waters, 362 00:24:30,915 --> 00:24:34,715 Speaker 1: who broke in his bill O'Reilly's henchman and procureur and stalker, 363 00:24:35,195 --> 00:24:37,915 Speaker 1: and who went on Fox instead of Arab Americans who 364 00:24:37,915 --> 00:24:40,915 Speaker 1: are for some reason against all or just part of 365 00:24:40,955 --> 00:24:43,955 Speaker 1: the tragedy in the Middle East. Quote, we've had it 366 00:24:43,995 --> 00:24:46,315 Speaker 1: with them. And so if you're an Arab American in 367 00:24:46,315 --> 00:24:48,915 Speaker 1: this country, no, no, no, someone is going to get 368 00:24:48,955 --> 00:24:52,995 Speaker 1: punched in the face unquote. Apparently that someone turns out 369 00:24:52,995 --> 00:24:55,555 Speaker 1: to be at least metaphorically Waters, who was not on 370 00:24:55,755 --> 00:24:59,075 Speaker 1: either of his shows yesterday. Rumor is he's been suspended. 371 00:24:59,555 --> 00:25:01,835 Speaker 1: Then there's Mark Levin of Fox, whose voice is so 372 00:25:01,995 --> 00:25:06,995 Speaker 1: bad he sounds like somebody scramping aluminum signing with barbecue tong's. 373 00:25:07,795 --> 00:25:09,475 Speaker 1: His voice is so bad he will never get a 374 00:25:09,475 --> 00:25:12,315 Speaker 1: weeknight show on Fox, but he is on on the weekends. 375 00:25:12,715 --> 00:25:15,275 Speaker 1: And he was nice enough recently to call Jake Tapper 376 00:25:15,275 --> 00:25:19,315 Speaker 1: of CNN a quote self hating Jew. And now he 377 00:25:19,355 --> 00:25:23,035 Speaker 1: says Wolf Flitzer's quote parents weren't victims in one way 378 00:25:23,155 --> 00:25:25,955 Speaker 1: or another around the Holocaust. And you can see where 379 00:25:25,995 --> 00:25:29,915 Speaker 1: this guy is going. Wolf Flitzer's parents fled Poland after 380 00:25:29,995 --> 00:25:33,675 Speaker 1: all four of his grandparents were killed during the Holocaust, murdered. 381 00:25:34,155 --> 00:25:37,755 Speaker 1: His maternal grandparents were murdered at Auschwitz. This is not 382 00:25:37,915 --> 00:25:41,035 Speaker 1: enough for Levin, And you could call Levin self hating 383 00:25:41,075 --> 00:25:42,875 Speaker 1: but he didn't have time for that. He's too busy 384 00:25:42,915 --> 00:25:48,555 Speaker 1: hating everybody else. A truly sick and disgusting creature. But 385 00:25:48,675 --> 00:25:53,515 Speaker 1: our winners Hockey's Anaheim Ducks Saturday, and I think you've 386 00:25:53,515 --> 00:25:56,235 Speaker 1: probably heard about this. The former Pittsburgh Penguin player Adam 387 00:25:56,315 --> 00:26:00,715 Speaker 1: Johnson died during a professional hockey game in England when 388 00:26:00,715 --> 00:26:04,395 Speaker 1: his neck was devastatingly cut by the skate of another player. 389 00:26:04,915 --> 00:26:09,075 Speaker 1: That league immediately mandated that all players in it wear 390 00:26:09,195 --> 00:26:12,075 Speaker 1: neck guards. The National Hockey League seems to be moving 391 00:26:12,115 --> 00:26:16,195 Speaker 1: towards that too. Many players around the league immediately voluntarily 392 00:26:16,235 --> 00:26:20,395 Speaker 1: began to wear them, at least in practices, But in Anaheim, 393 00:26:20,755 --> 00:26:24,795 Speaker 1: the Ducks social media team yesterday posted a slow motion 394 00:26:24,995 --> 00:26:29,515 Speaker 1: video of Anaheim goon Radco Goudis with a legal mid 395 00:26:29,595 --> 00:26:32,635 Speaker 1: ice hip check of Arizona's Clayton Keller, with the caption 396 00:26:32,915 --> 00:26:38,355 Speaker 1: beware the Butcher. After Goudas hit Keller, both players crumpled 397 00:26:38,355 --> 00:26:42,755 Speaker 1: to the ice, and first Goudas's left skate just missed 398 00:26:42,835 --> 00:26:46,355 Speaker 1: hitting Keller's unprotected neck, maybe by a foot, and then 399 00:26:46,435 --> 00:26:50,115 Speaker 1: Goudas's right skate literally bumped up against the side of 400 00:26:50,195 --> 00:26:53,635 Speaker 1: Keller's head, his helmet, missing his neck again by just 401 00:26:53,635 --> 00:26:58,635 Speaker 1: a couple of inches. Beware the Butcher and the anaheim 402 00:26:58,715 --> 00:27:02,395 Speaker 1: Ducks decided to celebrate that play and use the term butcher. 403 00:27:02,715 --> 00:27:06,195 Speaker 1: While police in England are still investigatating exactly how a 404 00:27:06,355 --> 00:27:10,995 Speaker 1: skate to the neck killed Adam Johnson on Ice six 405 00:27:11,115 --> 00:27:17,075 Speaker 1: days ago. The anaheim Ducks, as they say, read the 406 00:27:17,115 --> 00:27:33,795 Speaker 1: effing room today's worst persons in the world to the 407 00:27:33,875 --> 00:27:36,755 Speaker 1: number one story on the Countdown, and it is Fridays 408 00:27:36,755 --> 00:27:38,595 Speaker 1: with Thurber. And thus the number one story on the 409 00:27:38,635 --> 00:27:43,115 Speaker 1: Countdown is Fridays with James Thurber. Many of the great writers, 410 00:27:43,355 --> 00:27:47,275 Speaker 1: great stories, the short stories, the fables, have great meaning 411 00:27:47,435 --> 00:27:49,875 Speaker 1: or symbolism, and some of them are just great fun. 412 00:27:50,395 --> 00:27:52,835 Speaker 1: Let me give you one of the latter from the 413 00:27:52,875 --> 00:27:57,715 Speaker 1: Thurber Carnival. It will explain itself fairly quickly. The Lady 414 00:27:58,075 --> 00:28:03,555 Speaker 1: on one four to two by James Thurber. The train 415 00:28:04,035 --> 00:28:06,275 Speaker 1: was twenty mins and it's late, we found out when 416 00:28:06,315 --> 00:28:08,475 Speaker 1: we bought our tickets. So we sat down on a 417 00:28:08,515 --> 00:28:11,795 Speaker 1: bench in the little waiting room of the Cornwall Bridge station. 418 00:28:12,555 --> 00:28:16,195 Speaker 1: It was too hot outside in the sun. This Midsummer 419 00:28:16,235 --> 00:28:19,035 Speaker 1: Saturday had got off to a sulky start. And now 420 00:28:19,395 --> 00:28:23,275 Speaker 1: at three in the afternoon, it sat sticky and restive 421 00:28:23,795 --> 00:28:29,155 Speaker 1: in our laps. There were several others besides Sylvia and myself, 422 00:28:29,195 --> 00:28:32,195 Speaker 1: waiting for the train to get in from Pittsfield. An 423 00:28:32,235 --> 00:28:35,755 Speaker 1: older woman who fanned herself with a daily news, a 424 00:28:35,795 --> 00:28:38,795 Speaker 1: young lady in her twenties reading a book, A slender, 425 00:28:39,075 --> 00:28:44,195 Speaker 1: tanned man sucking dreamily on the stem of an unlighted pipe. 426 00:28:44,235 --> 00:28:46,635 Speaker 1: In the center of the room, leaning against a high 427 00:28:46,715 --> 00:28:50,315 Speaker 1: iron radiator, A small girl stared at each of us 428 00:28:50,315 --> 00:28:54,075 Speaker 1: in turn, her mouth open as if she had never 429 00:28:54,115 --> 00:28:58,995 Speaker 1: seen people before. The place had the familiar pleasant smell 430 00:28:59,035 --> 00:29:03,195 Speaker 1: of railroad stations in the country, something compounded of wood 431 00:29:03,235 --> 00:29:06,755 Speaker 1: and leather and smoke. In the cramped space behind the 432 00:29:06,795 --> 00:29:11,195 Speaker 1: ticket window, a telegraph instrument clicked intermittently, and once or 433 00:29:11,195 --> 00:29:14,595 Speaker 1: twice a phone rang, and the station master answered it briefly. 434 00:29:15,275 --> 00:29:18,355 Speaker 1: I couldn't hear what he said. I was glad on 435 00:29:18,395 --> 00:29:20,115 Speaker 1: such a day that we were going only as far 436 00:29:20,155 --> 00:29:23,835 Speaker 1: as Gaylordsville. The third stopped down the line twenty two 437 00:29:23,915 --> 00:29:27,275 Speaker 1: minutes away. The station master had told us that our 438 00:29:27,275 --> 00:29:30,475 Speaker 1: tickets were the first tickets to Gaylordsville he had ever sold. 439 00:29:31,555 --> 00:29:34,955 Speaker 1: I was idly pondering this small distinction. When a train 440 00:29:34,995 --> 00:29:38,475 Speaker 1: whistle blew in the distance. We all got to our feet, 441 00:29:38,875 --> 00:29:41,035 Speaker 1: but the station master came out of his cubby hole 442 00:29:41,075 --> 00:29:43,195 Speaker 1: and told us it was not our train, but the 443 00:29:43,235 --> 00:29:47,515 Speaker 1: twelve forty five from New York northbound. Presently, the train 444 00:29:47,595 --> 00:29:50,915 Speaker 1: thundered in like a hurricane and sighed ponderously to a stop. 445 00:29:51,555 --> 00:29:54,155 Speaker 1: The station master went out into the platform and came back. 446 00:29:54,195 --> 00:29:57,355 Speaker 1: After a minute or two, the train got heavily underway 447 00:29:57,395 --> 00:30:01,675 Speaker 1: again for Canaan. I was opening a pack of cigarettes 448 00:30:01,675 --> 00:30:04,435 Speaker 1: when I heard the station master talking on the phone again. 449 00:30:05,195 --> 00:30:10,235 Speaker 1: This time his words came out clearly. He kept repeating 450 00:30:10,635 --> 00:30:16,595 Speaker 1: one sentence. He was saying, Conductor Reagan on one four 451 00:30:16,595 --> 00:30:20,675 Speaker 1: to two. As the lady the office was talking about. 452 00:30:22,235 --> 00:30:23,795 Speaker 1: The person on the other end of the line did 453 00:30:23,795 --> 00:30:25,835 Speaker 1: not appear to get the meaning of the sentence. The 454 00:30:25,875 --> 00:30:30,275 Speaker 1: station master repeated it and hung up. For some reason. 455 00:30:30,635 --> 00:30:35,355 Speaker 1: I figured that he did not understand it either. Sylvia's 456 00:30:35,395 --> 00:30:38,235 Speaker 1: eyes had the lost reflective look they wear when she's 457 00:30:38,275 --> 00:30:41,195 Speaker 1: trying to remember in what box she packed. The Christmas 458 00:30:41,195 --> 00:30:45,035 Speaker 1: tree ornaments. The expressions on the faces of the older woman, 459 00:30:45,115 --> 00:30:47,355 Speaker 1: the young lady, and the man with the pipe had 460 00:30:47,395 --> 00:30:52,555 Speaker 1: not changed. The little staring girl had gone away. Our 461 00:30:52,635 --> 00:30:54,555 Speaker 1: train was not due for another five minutes, and I 462 00:30:54,555 --> 00:30:57,475 Speaker 1: sat back and began trying to reconstruct the lady on 463 00:30:57,475 --> 00:31:02,235 Speaker 1: one four to two the lady conductor Reagan had the 464 00:31:02,355 --> 00:31:06,595 Speaker 1: lady the office was asking about. I moved nearer to 465 00:31:06,675 --> 00:31:12,035 Speaker 1: Sylvia and whispered, seeing if the trains are numbered in 466 00:31:12,115 --> 00:31:15,875 Speaker 1: your timetable. She got the timetable out of her handbag 467 00:31:15,915 --> 00:31:19,995 Speaker 1: and looked at it. One forty two, she said, is 468 00:31:20,035 --> 00:31:23,675 Speaker 1: the twelve forty five from New York. This was the 469 00:31:23,675 --> 00:31:25,875 Speaker 1: train that had gone by a few minutes before the 470 00:31:25,955 --> 00:31:29,475 Speaker 1: woman was taken sick, said Sylvia. They're probably arranging to 471 00:31:29,515 --> 00:31:33,115 Speaker 1: have a doctor or her family meet her. The older 472 00:31:33,155 --> 00:31:35,555 Speaker 1: woman looked around at her briefly. The young woman who 473 00:31:35,595 --> 00:31:38,035 Speaker 1: had been chewing gum stopped chewing. The man with the 474 00:31:38,075 --> 00:31:42,875 Speaker 1: pipe seemed oblivious. I lighted a cigarette and sat thinking. 475 00:31:43,635 --> 00:31:46,635 Speaker 1: The woman on one four to two, I said to 476 00:31:46,675 --> 00:31:51,675 Speaker 1: Sylvia flatly, might be almost anything, but she is definitely 477 00:31:51,915 --> 00:31:56,515 Speaker 1: not sick. The only person who did not stare at 478 00:31:56,555 --> 00:31:59,515 Speaker 1: me was the man with the pipe. Sylvia gave me 479 00:31:59,555 --> 00:32:03,795 Speaker 1: her temperature, taking look across between anxiety and vexation. Just 480 00:32:03,875 --> 00:32:07,035 Speaker 1: then our train whistled and we all stood up. I 481 00:32:07,115 --> 00:32:09,435 Speaker 1: picked up our two bags, and Sylvia took the sack 482 00:32:09,475 --> 00:32:11,675 Speaker 1: of string beans we had picked up for the connels. 483 00:32:13,235 --> 00:32:16,235 Speaker 1: When the train came clanking in, I said in Sylvia's ear, 484 00:32:17,235 --> 00:32:22,915 Speaker 1: he'll sit near us. You watch hoo. Who will she said, 485 00:32:23,955 --> 00:32:27,995 Speaker 1: the stranger? I told her, the man with the pipe. 486 00:32:28,355 --> 00:32:31,915 Speaker 1: Sylvia laughed, He's not a stranger, she said, he works 487 00:32:31,915 --> 00:32:35,435 Speaker 1: for the breeds. I was certainly that he did not 488 00:32:35,875 --> 00:32:39,075 Speaker 1: work for the breeds. Women like to place people. Every 489 00:32:39,115 --> 00:32:43,435 Speaker 1: stranger reminds him of somebody. The man with the pipe 490 00:32:43,475 --> 00:32:46,515 Speaker 1: was sitting three seats in front of us, across the aisle. 491 00:32:46,515 --> 00:32:49,635 Speaker 1: When we got settled, I indicated him with a nod 492 00:32:49,715 --> 00:32:52,835 Speaker 1: of my head. Sylvia took a book out of the 493 00:32:52,835 --> 00:32:55,315 Speaker 1: top of her overnight bag and opened it. What's the 494 00:32:55,355 --> 00:32:59,875 Speaker 1: matter with you, she demanded. I looked around before replying. 495 00:33:00,795 --> 00:33:03,315 Speaker 1: A sleepy man and woman sat across from us. Two 496 00:33:03,635 --> 00:33:05,795 Speaker 1: middle aged women and the seat in front of us 497 00:33:05,835 --> 00:33:09,475 Speaker 1: were discussing the severe griping pain one of them had 498 00:33:09,635 --> 00:33:16,235 Speaker 1: experienced as a result of inflamed diverticulitis. A slim, dark 499 00:33:16,475 --> 00:33:19,755 Speaker 1: eyed young woman sat in the seat behind us. She 500 00:33:20,035 --> 00:33:24,435 Speaker 1: was alone. The trouble with women, I began, is that 501 00:33:24,435 --> 00:33:28,435 Speaker 1: they explain everything by illness. I have a theory that 502 00:33:28,515 --> 00:33:31,035 Speaker 1: we could be celebrating the twelfth of May, or even 503 00:33:31,075 --> 00:33:34,715 Speaker 1: the sixteenth of April as Independence Day if missus Jefferson 504 00:33:35,075 --> 00:33:37,715 Speaker 1: hadn't got the idea. Her husband had a fever and 505 00:33:37,795 --> 00:33:42,155 Speaker 1: put him to bed. Sylvia found her place in the book. 506 00:33:42,275 --> 00:33:47,195 Speaker 1: We've been all through that before. She said, why couldn't 507 00:33:47,195 --> 00:33:51,955 Speaker 1: the woman on one be sick? That was easy, I 508 00:33:52,035 --> 00:33:55,795 Speaker 1: told her. Conductor Reagan, I said, got off the train 509 00:33:55,995 --> 00:33:59,915 Speaker 1: at Cornwall Bridge and spoke to the station master. I've 510 00:34:00,035 --> 00:34:03,555 Speaker 1: got the woman the Office was asking about, he said. 511 00:34:04,995 --> 00:34:08,995 Speaker 1: Cut in, he said, lady. I gave the little laugh 512 00:34:09,075 --> 00:34:14,155 Speaker 1: that annoys her. All conductors say, lady, I explained, Now, 513 00:34:14,195 --> 00:34:16,755 Speaker 1: if a woman had got sick on the train, Reagan 514 00:34:16,795 --> 00:34:19,595 Speaker 1: would have said, a woman got sick on my train. 515 00:34:19,715 --> 00:34:23,635 Speaker 1: Tell the office. What must have happened is that Reagan 516 00:34:23,715 --> 00:34:27,675 Speaker 1: found somewhere between Kent and Cornwall Bridge a woman the 517 00:34:27,795 --> 00:34:32,875 Speaker 1: office had been looking for. Sylvia did not close her book, 518 00:34:32,915 --> 00:34:36,395 Speaker 1: but she looked up. Maybe she got sick before she 519 00:34:36,475 --> 00:34:40,115 Speaker 1: got on the train, and the office was worried, said Sylvia. 520 00:34:41,155 --> 00:34:44,355 Speaker 1: She was not giving the problem close attention. If the 521 00:34:44,475 --> 00:34:48,555 Speaker 1: office knew she got on the train, I said patiently, 522 00:34:48,835 --> 00:34:52,155 Speaker 1: they wouldn't have asked Reagan to let them know if 523 00:34:52,155 --> 00:34:56,315 Speaker 1: he found her. They would have told him about her 524 00:34:56,675 --> 00:35:01,835 Speaker 1: when she got on. Sylvia resumed her reading. Let's stay 525 00:35:01,835 --> 00:35:04,995 Speaker 1: out of it, she said, it isn't any of our business. 526 00:35:05,955 --> 00:35:09,675 Speaker 1: I hunted for my chicklets but couldn't find them. It 527 00:35:09,795 --> 00:35:17,275 Speaker 1: might be everybody's business, I said, every patriots I know. 528 00:35:17,715 --> 00:35:21,475 Speaker 1: I know, said Sylvia, you think she's a spy, Well, 529 00:35:21,555 --> 00:35:27,275 Speaker 1: I think she's sick. I ignored that every conductor on 530 00:35:27,315 --> 00:35:29,755 Speaker 1: the line has been asked to look out for her. 531 00:35:29,915 --> 00:35:34,195 Speaker 1: I said, Reagan found her. She won't be met by 532 00:35:34,195 --> 00:35:40,755 Speaker 1: her family. She'll be met by the FBI or the OPA, 533 00:35:41,075 --> 00:35:45,195 Speaker 1: said Sylvia. Alfred Hitchcock. Things don't happen on the New York, 534 00:35:45,195 --> 00:35:49,755 Speaker 1: New Haven and Hartford Railroad. I saw the conductor coming 535 00:35:49,755 --> 00:35:51,675 Speaker 1: from the other end of the couch. I'm going to 536 00:35:51,715 --> 00:35:54,475 Speaker 1: tell the conductor, I said that Reagan on one four 537 00:35:54,475 --> 00:35:57,115 Speaker 1: to two has got the woman. No you're not, said Sylvia. 538 00:35:57,235 --> 00:35:59,075 Speaker 1: You're not going to get us in mixed up in this. 539 00:35:59,315 --> 00:36:05,275 Speaker 1: He probably knows anyway. The conductor, short, stocky, soon overhaired 540 00:36:05,315 --> 00:36:08,435 Speaker 1: and silent, took up our tickets. He looked like a 541 00:36:08,675 --> 00:36:13,915 Speaker 1: kindly Icky's Sylvia, who had stiffened, relaxed when I let 542 00:36:13,995 --> 00:36:16,235 Speaker 1: him go by without a word about the woman on 543 00:36:16,235 --> 00:36:19,435 Speaker 1: one four to two. He looks exactly as if he 544 00:36:19,515 --> 00:36:23,155 Speaker 1: knew where the Maltese falcon is hidden, doesn't, he said Sylvia, 545 00:36:23,195 --> 00:36:27,555 Speaker 1: with a laugh that annoys me. Nevertheless, I pointed out 546 00:36:27,875 --> 00:36:29,835 Speaker 1: you said a little while ago that he probably knows 547 00:36:29,875 --> 00:36:32,035 Speaker 1: about the woman on one four to two. If she's 548 00:36:32,195 --> 00:36:36,275 Speaker 1: just sick, why should they tell the conductor on this train. 549 00:36:37,515 --> 00:36:41,275 Speaker 1: I'll rest more easily when I know that they've actually 550 00:36:41,315 --> 00:36:45,595 Speaker 1: got her. Sylvia kept reading as if she hadn't heard me. 551 00:36:46,595 --> 00:36:48,555 Speaker 1: I leaned my head against the back of the seat 552 00:36:48,595 --> 00:36:53,275 Speaker 1: and closed my eyes. The train was slowing down noisily, 553 00:36:53,315 --> 00:36:58,755 Speaker 1: and a brakeman was yelling can't, can't. When I felt 554 00:36:58,755 --> 00:37:05,155 Speaker 1: a small cold pressure against my shoulder. Oh, the voice 555 00:37:05,155 --> 00:37:07,395 Speaker 1: of the woman in the seat behind me said, I've 556 00:37:07,475 --> 00:37:11,235 Speaker 1: dropped my copy of Coronet under your seat. She leaned 557 00:37:11,235 --> 00:37:15,515 Speaker 1: closer and her voice became low and hard. Get off here, mister, 558 00:37:15,995 --> 00:37:20,275 Speaker 1: she said, We're going to Gaylordsville. I said, you and 559 00:37:20,315 --> 00:37:25,315 Speaker 1: your wife are getting off here, mister, she said. I 560 00:37:25,395 --> 00:37:27,715 Speaker 1: reached for the suitcases on the rack. What do you 561 00:37:27,755 --> 00:37:32,115 Speaker 1: want for Heaven's sake? Asked Sylvia. We're getting off here? 562 00:37:32,355 --> 00:37:35,835 Speaker 1: I told her, are you really crazy? She demanded, This 563 00:37:35,955 --> 00:37:40,435 Speaker 1: is only can't come on, sister, said the woman's voice. 564 00:37:40,875 --> 00:37:43,475 Speaker 1: You take the overnight bag and the beans. You take 565 00:37:43,475 --> 00:37:48,195 Speaker 1: the big bag. Mister. Sylvia was furious. I knew you'd 566 00:37:48,195 --> 00:37:51,075 Speaker 1: get us into this, She said to me, shouting about 567 00:37:51,115 --> 00:37:55,875 Speaker 1: spies at the top of your voice. That made me angry. 568 00:37:56,115 --> 00:37:59,115 Speaker 1: You're the one who mentioned spies. I told her I didn't. 569 00:37:59,915 --> 00:38:02,955 Speaker 1: You kept talking about it and talking about it, said Sylvia, 570 00:38:03,635 --> 00:38:06,035 Speaker 1: come on, get off the two of you, said the cold, 571 00:38:06,155 --> 00:38:10,235 Speaker 1: hard voice. We got off. As I helped Sylvia down 572 00:38:10,275 --> 00:38:14,435 Speaker 1: the steps, I said, we know too much. How shut up? 573 00:38:14,875 --> 00:38:18,595 Speaker 1: She said. We didn't have far to go. A big 574 00:38:18,755 --> 00:38:22,315 Speaker 1: black limousine waited a few steps away. Behind the wheel 575 00:38:22,355 --> 00:38:26,835 Speaker 1: sat a heavy set foreigner with cruel lips and small eyes. 576 00:38:27,795 --> 00:38:31,555 Speaker 1: He scowled when he saw us. The boss don't want 577 00:38:31,595 --> 00:38:35,795 Speaker 1: nobody up there, he said, it's all right, Carl, said 578 00:38:35,795 --> 00:38:38,955 Speaker 1: the woman get in. She told us we climbed into 579 00:38:38,995 --> 00:38:41,235 Speaker 1: the back seat. She sat between us with the gun 580 00:38:41,275 --> 00:38:46,435 Speaker 1: in her hand. It was a handsome jeweled derringer. Alice 581 00:38:46,475 --> 00:38:49,755 Speaker 1: will be waiting for us at Gaylordsville, said Sylvia, in 582 00:38:49,835 --> 00:38:54,715 Speaker 1: all this heat. The house was a long, low, rambling 583 00:38:54,755 --> 00:38:57,515 Speaker 1: building reached at the end of a poplar lined drive. 584 00:38:58,475 --> 00:39:01,435 Speaker 1: Never mind the bags, said the woman. Sylvia took the 585 00:39:01,475 --> 00:39:04,475 Speaker 1: string beans and her book and we got out. Two 586 00:39:04,835 --> 00:39:10,155 Speaker 1: huge matstiffs came bounding off the terrace, snarling. Down Mada, 587 00:39:10,635 --> 00:39:16,155 Speaker 1: said the woman. Down pedro. They slunk away, still snarling. 588 00:39:17,675 --> 00:39:20,275 Speaker 1: Sylvia and I sat side by side on a sofa 589 00:39:20,355 --> 00:39:23,675 Speaker 1: in a large, handsomely appointed living room. Across from us, 590 00:39:23,675 --> 00:39:26,595 Speaker 1: in a chair lounged a tall man with heavily lidded 591 00:39:26,675 --> 00:39:30,595 Speaker 1: black eyes and long sensitive fingers. Against the door through 592 00:39:30,595 --> 00:39:33,995 Speaker 1: which we had entered the room leaned a thin, undersized 593 00:39:33,995 --> 00:39:36,435 Speaker 1: young man with his hands in the pockets of his 594 00:39:36,515 --> 00:39:39,595 Speaker 1: coat and a cigarette hanging from his lower lip. He 595 00:39:39,635 --> 00:39:42,835 Speaker 1: had a drawn, sallow face, and his small, half closed 596 00:39:42,835 --> 00:39:47,515 Speaker 1: eyes stared at us incuriously. In a corner of the room, 597 00:39:47,515 --> 00:39:50,795 Speaker 1: a squat swarthy man twiddled with the dials of a radio. 598 00:39:50,995 --> 00:39:55,435 Speaker 1: The woman paced up and down, smoking a cigarette in 599 00:39:55,475 --> 00:40:00,115 Speaker 1: a long holder weld. Gale said the lounging man, in 600 00:40:00,155 --> 00:40:03,875 Speaker 1: a soft voice, to what do we owe this unexpected visit? 601 00:40:04,795 --> 00:40:11,355 Speaker 1: Gail kept pacing. They got Sandra, she said. Finally, the 602 00:40:11,435 --> 00:40:15,795 Speaker 1: lounging man did not change expression. Who got Sandra, Gail? 603 00:40:16,395 --> 00:40:21,875 Speaker 1: He asked softly. Reagan on one four to two, said Gail. 604 00:40:22,755 --> 00:40:26,515 Speaker 1: The squat swarthy man jumped to his feet. All the time. 605 00:40:26,595 --> 00:40:30,075 Speaker 1: Egypt say kill these Reagan, he shouted all the time. 606 00:40:30,155 --> 00:40:34,515 Speaker 1: Egypt say bomp off this Reagan. The lounging man did 607 00:40:34,515 --> 00:40:38,115 Speaker 1: not look at him. Sit down, Egypt, he said quietly. 608 00:40:38,795 --> 00:40:42,795 Speaker 1: The swarthy man sat down. Gail went on talking. The 609 00:40:42,875 --> 00:40:46,995 Speaker 1: punk here shot off his mouth. He said, he was wise. 610 00:40:48,475 --> 00:40:51,435 Speaker 1: I looked at the man leaning against the door. She 611 00:40:51,715 --> 00:40:57,915 Speaker 1: means you, said Sylvia, who laughed. The dame was dumb. 612 00:40:58,155 --> 00:41:00,355 Speaker 1: Gail went on. She thought the lady on the train 613 00:41:00,515 --> 00:41:05,435 Speaker 1: was sick. Now, I laughed, she means you, I said 614 00:41:05,435 --> 00:41:09,115 Speaker 1: to Sylvia. The punk was blowing his top all over 615 00:41:09,155 --> 00:41:13,715 Speaker 1: the train, said Gail. I had to bring him along. Sylvia, 616 00:41:13,995 --> 00:41:16,715 Speaker 1: who had the beans on her lap, began breaking and 617 00:41:16,795 --> 00:41:21,235 Speaker 1: stringing them. Well, my dear lady, said the lounging man 618 00:41:21,835 --> 00:41:28,235 Speaker 1: a most homely little touch. What's a touch? Demanded Egypt, touch, 619 00:41:28,475 --> 00:41:32,195 Speaker 1: I told him. Gail sat down in a chair. Who's 620 00:41:32,235 --> 00:41:36,715 Speaker 1: going to rub him out? She asked. Fredae said the 621 00:41:36,755 --> 00:41:40,875 Speaker 1: lounging man. Egypt was on his feet again. Nah nah, 622 00:41:40,915 --> 00:41:43,955 Speaker 1: he shouted, not the punk, the punk bomp off the 623 00:41:44,195 --> 00:41:48,955 Speaker 1: last six seven people. The lounging man looked at him. 624 00:41:48,995 --> 00:41:54,035 Speaker 1: Egypt paled and sat down. I thought you were the punk, 625 00:41:54,275 --> 00:42:00,035 Speaker 1: said Sylvia. I looked at her coldly. I know where 626 00:42:00,075 --> 00:42:02,835 Speaker 1: I have seen you before, I said to the lounging man. 627 00:42:02,955 --> 00:42:06,035 Speaker 1: It was at Zagreb in nineteen two twenty seven. Tilden 628 00:42:06,475 --> 00:42:10,195 Speaker 1: took you in straight sets, six loves, six loves, six love. 629 00:42:11,675 --> 00:42:15,475 Speaker 1: The man's eyes glittered. I think I bump off this 630 00:42:15,555 --> 00:42:20,955 Speaker 1: man myself, he said. Freddie walked over and handed the 631 00:42:20,995 --> 00:42:25,115 Speaker 1: lounging man an automatic. At this moment, the door Freddy 632 00:42:25,195 --> 00:42:28,515 Speaker 1: had been leaning against burst open, and in rushed the 633 00:42:28,595 --> 00:42:37,955 Speaker 1: men with the pipe, shouting Gail Gail, Gail Gaylordsville, Gaylordsville 634 00:42:38,595 --> 00:42:42,195 Speaker 1: bawled the brakeman. Sylvia was shaking me by the arm. 635 00:42:42,355 --> 00:42:46,835 Speaker 1: Quit mounting, she said, everybody's looking at you. I rubbed 636 00:42:46,835 --> 00:42:50,235 Speaker 1: my forehead with a handkerchief. Hurry up, she said. Sylvia said, 637 00:42:50,675 --> 00:42:54,395 Speaker 1: they don't stop here long. I pulled the bags down 638 00:42:54,595 --> 00:42:58,755 Speaker 1: and we got off. Have you got the beans? I 639 00:42:58,795 --> 00:43:03,395 Speaker 1: asked Sylvia. Alice Connell was waiting for us on the 640 00:43:03,395 --> 00:43:05,555 Speaker 1: way to their home. In the car. Sylvia began to 641 00:43:05,595 --> 00:43:08,195 Speaker 1: tell Alice about the woman on one four to two. 642 00:43:08,395 --> 00:43:11,955 Speaker 1: I didn't say anything. He thought she has a spy, 643 00:43:12,675 --> 00:43:17,475 Speaker 1: said Sylvia. They both laughed. She'd probably got sick on 644 00:43:17,515 --> 00:43:20,235 Speaker 1: the train, said Alice. They would probably arranging for a 645 00:43:20,275 --> 00:43:22,675 Speaker 1: doctor to meet her at the station. That's just what 646 00:43:22,795 --> 00:43:28,835 Speaker 1: I told him, said Sylvia. I lighted a cigarette. The 647 00:43:28,955 --> 00:43:33,675 Speaker 1: lady on one four to two, I said firmly, was 648 00:43:33,755 --> 00:43:43,115 Speaker 1: definitely not sick. Oh, Lord, said Sylvia. Here we go again, 649 00:43:45,395 --> 00:44:03,875 Speaker 1: the lady on one four to two by James Thurber, Oh, 650 00:44:03,915 --> 00:44:06,515 Speaker 1: how I love that one. I have never gotten on 651 00:44:06,555 --> 00:44:08,795 Speaker 1: a train since the first time I read that one, 652 00:44:09,035 --> 00:44:13,115 Speaker 1: which was probably forty years ago, never gotten on a 653 00:44:13,155 --> 00:44:16,235 Speaker 1: train in summer in the daytime without thinking about the 654 00:44:16,315 --> 00:44:18,635 Speaker 1: lady on one four to two. I've done all the 655 00:44:18,675 --> 00:44:20,795 Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown 656 00:44:20,795 --> 00:44:23,195 Speaker 1: has come to you from the Vin Scully studio at 657 00:44:23,195 --> 00:44:28,235 Speaker 1: the Olderman Broadcasting Empire warled headquarters here in New York Counttown. 658 00:44:28,275 --> 00:44:31,195 Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel arranged, produced, 659 00:44:31,195 --> 00:44:34,755 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Shanelle handled orchestration 660 00:44:34,795 --> 00:44:38,115 Speaker 1: and keyboards. Mister Ray was on guitars, bass and drums, 661 00:44:38,155 --> 00:44:41,475 Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including 662 00:44:41,515 --> 00:44:45,635 Speaker 1: some Beethoven, arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed sports 663 00:44:45,715 --> 00:44:48,475 Speaker 1: music courtesy of ESPN, Inc. It was written by Mitch 664 00:44:48,515 --> 00:44:51,595 Speaker 1: Warren Davis. We call it the Olderman theme from ESPN two. 665 00:44:52,155 --> 00:44:55,475 Speaker 1: Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Faust, 666 00:44:55,515 --> 00:44:58,715 Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was 667 00:44:58,715 --> 00:45:02,115 Speaker 1: my friend Howard Feineman. Everything else was pretty much my fault. 668 00:45:02,515 --> 00:45:04,835 Speaker 1: So that's countdown for this, the one thousand and thirty 669 00:45:04,875 --> 00:45:08,395 Speaker 1: second day since dementia J Trump's first attempted coup against 670 00:45:08,395 --> 00:45:11,715 Speaker 1: the democratically elected government of the United States. Convict him 671 00:45:11,755 --> 00:45:16,395 Speaker 1: now while we still can. The next scheduled countdown is Tuesday. 672 00:45:16,675 --> 00:45:19,155 Speaker 1: Bolton says, the news warrants till then. I'm Keith Oldraman. 673 00:45:19,515 --> 00:45:39,035 Speaker 1: Good morning, Good afternoon, good Night, and good Luck. Countdown 674 00:45:39,115 --> 00:45:42,835 Speaker 1: with Keith Oulderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 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