1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:13,715 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This 2 00:00:13,875 --> 00:00:16,675 Speaker 1: is a bullet edition of the Countdown podcast and it 3 00:00:16,715 --> 00:00:20,955 Speaker 1: is now official. Judge Tanya Chutkins says the scheduled March 4 00:00:21,035 --> 00:00:24,835 Speaker 1: fourth start of Trump's January sixth election subversion trial has 5 00:00:24,995 --> 00:00:30,475 Speaker 1: been postponed, or, to quote her and court terminology vacated. 6 00:00:30,955 --> 00:00:35,915 Speaker 1: The question now becomes vacated until when how well has 7 00:00:35,955 --> 00:00:40,875 Speaker 1: Trump's nonsensical presidential immunity stall worked? How long has he 8 00:00:40,915 --> 00:00:43,995 Speaker 1: delayed what was thought to be the strongest case against 9 00:00:44,075 --> 00:00:46,915 Speaker 1: him and the one most likely to deliver a guilty 10 00:00:46,995 --> 00:00:50,635 Speaker 1: verdict before the election. Remembering that in the Bloomberg poll 11 00:00:50,835 --> 00:00:53,675 Speaker 1: so favorable to Trump in the Swing States this week, 12 00:00:54,035 --> 00:00:57,475 Speaker 1: forty six percent of his voters said they would be 13 00:00:57,635 --> 00:01:00,355 Speaker 1: very unwilling to vote for him if he were to 14 00:01:00,395 --> 00:01:04,195 Speaker 1: be convicted of something by a jury. The issue of 15 00:01:05,195 --> 00:01:08,555 Speaker 1: is in fact the issue of conceivably up to half 16 00:01:08,635 --> 00:01:13,195 Speaker 1: of Trump's support vanishing. The first logjam here, of course, 17 00:01:13,315 --> 00:01:16,755 Speaker 1: is the three judge appeals Court, twiddling its thumbs on 18 00:01:16,835 --> 00:01:20,635 Speaker 1: the ludicrous proposition that no president can be criminally prosecuted 19 00:01:20,795 --> 00:01:23,715 Speaker 1: for crimes he committed so long as he committed them 20 00:01:23,875 --> 00:01:28,675 Speaker 1: while president, something argued against by everybody in American history, 21 00:01:28,715 --> 00:01:33,835 Speaker 1: from Alexander Hamilton to Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. The 22 00:01:33,955 --> 00:01:37,115 Speaker 1: second logjam is how busy the federal court calendar in 23 00:01:37,315 --> 00:01:42,115 Speaker 1: Washington is. To that end, Kyle Cheney of Politico reported 24 00:01:42,195 --> 00:01:46,795 Speaker 1: himself to be the only correspondent in Judge Chutkin's courtroom Friday, 25 00:01:46,995 --> 00:01:50,995 Speaker 1: and quoted her briefly addressing the postponement, and to me, 26 00:01:51,675 --> 00:01:55,755 Speaker 1: she sounds unexpectedly optimistic. Cheney notes that Chutkin had just 27 00:01:55,875 --> 00:02:00,315 Speaker 1: scheduled another January sixth trial of a defendant named Anthony 28 00:02:00,395 --> 00:02:04,595 Speaker 1: mass Danduno to begin on April second. Chutkin has now said, 29 00:02:04,675 --> 00:02:07,635 Speaker 1: according to Cheney, that she has told Massten Duno and 30 00:02:07,715 --> 00:02:10,995 Speaker 1: his lawyers that that trial quote may have to be 31 00:02:11,195 --> 00:02:15,195 Speaker 1: moved depending on other matters, which means we might get 32 00:02:15,235 --> 00:02:18,195 Speaker 1: this thing finally started sometime in April or at the 33 00:02:18,275 --> 00:02:22,635 Speaker 1: latest in May. Trutkin was in court Friday afternoon, in fact, 34 00:02:22,635 --> 00:02:26,115 Speaker 1: to schedule the sentencing of yet another January sixth defendant, 35 00:02:26,355 --> 00:02:29,955 Speaker 1: Antony Vaux. She said she was treading carefully as she 36 00:02:30,075 --> 00:02:33,995 Speaker 1: slated the voe hearing for April tenth. Quote, I do 37 00:02:34,115 --> 00:02:36,755 Speaker 1: not know what my schedule will be in mid April. 38 00:02:36,995 --> 00:02:40,275 Speaker 1: We'll make it work. I will probably be in trial 39 00:02:40,475 --> 00:02:44,835 Speaker 1: one way or the other unquote. In the official record 40 00:02:44,915 --> 00:02:48,995 Speaker 1: of the postponement, the docket text confirming the indefinite postponement 41 00:02:49,075 --> 00:02:52,955 Speaker 1: reads as follows. Minute order as to Donald J. Trump, 42 00:02:53,115 --> 00:02:56,435 Speaker 1: the February ninth, twenty twenty four, administration of a written 43 00:02:56,595 --> 00:03:00,995 Speaker 1: questionnaire to prospective jurors has set forth in the court's order, 44 00:03:01,355 --> 00:03:04,515 Speaker 1: is hereby vacated. In addition, the March four to twenty 45 00:03:04,515 --> 00:03:07,675 Speaker 1: twenty four trials set by the Court's pre trial order, 46 00:03:07,915 --> 00:03:11,755 Speaker 1: as amended, is hereby vacated. The Court will set a 47 00:03:11,915 --> 00:03:16,835 Speaker 1: new schedule if and when the mandate is returned, signed 48 00:03:16,835 --> 00:03:20,675 Speaker 1: by Judge Tanya ash Chutkin on two to twenty twenty four. 49 00:03:21,715 --> 00:03:25,795 Speaker 1: The one advantage to having broken as many laws and 50 00:03:25,915 --> 00:03:29,675 Speaker 1: having been sued as many times as Trump has, even 51 00:03:29,995 --> 00:03:33,195 Speaker 1: just in his civilian life, even before he began to 52 00:03:33,435 --> 00:03:37,155 Speaker 1: try to sabotage this country from within, is that Trump 53 00:03:37,275 --> 00:03:41,595 Speaker 1: knows how to make what Shakespeare perfectly described as the 54 00:03:41,715 --> 00:03:46,115 Speaker 1: law's delay work for him. It has been nearly two 55 00:03:46,155 --> 00:03:49,635 Speaker 1: months since his lawyers filed the presidential immunity motions. The 56 00:03:49,715 --> 00:03:53,515 Speaker 1: concept legally has about as much chance of being validated 57 00:03:53,555 --> 00:03:56,435 Speaker 1: by the Supreme Court as if Trump contended he is 58 00:03:56,475 --> 00:04:00,395 Speaker 1: a deity and therefore immortal and therefore not subject to 59 00:04:00,475 --> 00:04:05,995 Speaker 1: human justice. But if he filed that motion nowsidential deification, 60 00:04:06,435 --> 00:04:08,795 Speaker 1: there would be at least one hearing about it, and 61 00:04:08,875 --> 00:04:11,435 Speaker 1: it would not take place on Monday of next week. 62 00:04:11,435 --> 00:04:13,595 Speaker 1: We would be lucky to have the hearing held two 63 00:04:13,635 --> 00:04:16,395 Speaker 1: weeks from now, and then there would be deliberation, and 64 00:04:16,435 --> 00:04:19,595 Speaker 1: then there would be an appeal. And that's why Jack 65 00:04:19,635 --> 00:04:22,275 Speaker 1: Smith had asked the Supreme Court for cert on the 66 00:04:22,315 --> 00:04:25,795 Speaker 1: presidential immunity case, the legal parlance for cutting to the 67 00:04:25,875 --> 00:04:29,355 Speaker 1: damn chase and getting the damn ruling the entire damn 68 00:04:29,435 --> 00:04:32,875 Speaker 1: legal system knows is going to happen sooner or later, 69 00:04:33,275 --> 00:04:38,355 Speaker 1: the point being for Trump later is a win. The 70 00:04:38,355 --> 00:04:40,835 Speaker 1: rest of this Bolton podcast is a repeat of the 71 00:04:40,875 --> 00:04:44,395 Speaker 1: regular edition for Friday, February two. Very little of it 72 00:04:44,435 --> 00:04:47,155 Speaker 1: has changed, except that wherever I say the delay of 73 00:04:47,155 --> 00:04:51,195 Speaker 1: the Trump trial is unofficial, it's now official. There is 74 00:04:51,235 --> 00:04:54,075 Speaker 1: good stuff in here about how stupid and evil Marjorie 75 00:04:54,075 --> 00:04:56,955 Speaker 1: Taylor Green is. But if you've already heard all that, 76 00:04:57,075 --> 00:05:01,915 Speaker 1: no offense will be taken if you hit stop now. 77 00:05:11,595 --> 00:05:14,675 Speaker 1: The start date of the Trump elections subversion trial in 78 00:05:14,875 --> 00:05:18,875 Speaker 1: Washington has been postponed. It will not start as originally 79 00:05:18,915 --> 00:05:23,395 Speaker 1: planned on March fourth. From the impeccable Scott McFarland of CBS, 80 00:05:23,395 --> 00:05:25,875 Speaker 1: not a surprise, not unexpected, not the end of the world. 81 00:05:25,915 --> 00:05:28,915 Speaker 1: Still not what you want to hear, I quote him. 82 00:05:29,235 --> 00:05:31,835 Speaker 1: Amid the wait for an appeals court ruling on Trump's 83 00:05:31,835 --> 00:05:35,715 Speaker 1: claim of presidential immunity and other potential delays, the Washington 84 00:05:35,795 --> 00:05:40,835 Speaker 1: DC Federal Court no longer lists USA v. Donald Trump 85 00:05:40,915 --> 00:05:45,155 Speaker 1: criminal trial on its calendar for March four, twenty twenty four. 86 00:05:46,275 --> 00:05:49,595 Speaker 1: The reality of the Trump stall working cannot be stopped. 87 00:05:49,595 --> 00:05:52,595 Speaker 1: You can only hope to contain it. As somebody once said, 88 00:05:52,715 --> 00:05:55,995 Speaker 1: there is nothing official on this, only the fact that 89 00:05:56,035 --> 00:05:59,315 Speaker 1: the trial date has dropped off the calendar, and Judge 90 00:05:59,395 --> 00:06:02,115 Speaker 1: Chutkin has said she no longer anticipates that she will 91 00:06:02,155 --> 00:06:06,435 Speaker 1: be overseeing a trial in March. The Washington Post finally 92 00:06:06,515 --> 00:06:10,235 Speaker 1: jumped on the story last night, interpreting this more encouragingly 93 00:06:10,515 --> 00:06:13,075 Speaker 1: that while the stall is in progress in d C, 94 00:06:13,995 --> 00:06:18,275 Speaker 1: this may be allowing Judge Juan Merschan to begin the 95 00:06:18,315 --> 00:06:22,475 Speaker 1: Stormy Daniel's payoff trial here in New York sometime next month. 96 00:06:23,235 --> 00:06:25,635 Speaker 1: But all this is still just the reading of tea 97 00:06:25,715 --> 00:06:30,035 Speaker 1: leaves from the equally impeccable Norm Ornstein on whatever happened 98 00:06:30,075 --> 00:06:35,435 Speaker 1: to that ruling on Trump's presidential immunity stall, and remembering 99 00:06:35,435 --> 00:06:38,875 Speaker 1: that Karen Henderson was elevated to the judiciary by Reagan 100 00:06:39,195 --> 00:06:42,595 Speaker 1: and to the three judge appeals court by George W. Bush, 101 00:06:42,795 --> 00:06:47,155 Speaker 1: the only one not named by Biden quote, there is 102 00:06:47,195 --> 00:06:50,395 Speaker 1: only one plausible explanation for why the three judge panel 103 00:06:50,475 --> 00:06:52,955 Speaker 1: of the d C Circuit has delayed its ruling on 104 00:06:53,035 --> 00:06:58,355 Speaker 1: a slam dunk case involving presidential immunity. Karen Lacraft Henderson 105 00:06:59,315 --> 00:07:05,315 Speaker 1: is emulating Eileen Cannon delaying to help Donald Trump, but 106 00:07:06,675 --> 00:07:09,435 Speaker 1: that there will be a DC trial on the charges 107 00:07:09,475 --> 00:07:13,235 Speaker 1: brought against defendant j Trump by Jack Smith is still 108 00:07:13,275 --> 00:07:16,595 Speaker 1: a virtual certainty. Because the pundits can be wrong, and 109 00:07:16,715 --> 00:07:20,435 Speaker 1: the reporters can be wrong, and the podcasters can be wrong, 110 00:07:20,595 --> 00:07:26,435 Speaker 1: but the bureaucracy is never wrong. The federal government and 111 00:07:26,555 --> 00:07:29,995 Speaker 1: the District of Columbia are also per the sources of 112 00:07:30,035 --> 00:07:35,475 Speaker 1: the Washington Post, busily planning how to secure the Freddyman 113 00:07:35,635 --> 00:07:39,635 Speaker 1: Courthouse for the Trump trial by closing all the streets 114 00:07:39,675 --> 00:07:43,355 Speaker 1: around the courthouse, by closing and or controlling sidewalk access 115 00:07:43,395 --> 00:07:47,675 Speaker 1: for blocks, and by ringing the entire area with metal fencing, 116 00:07:48,115 --> 00:07:52,275 Speaker 1: as they did the Capital after Trump began his attempted 117 00:07:52,315 --> 00:07:57,395 Speaker 1: coup three years ago. So you see Trump isn't lying. 118 00:07:58,795 --> 00:08:05,955 Speaker 1: He does get things built. Meanwhile, down the street, Marjorie 119 00:08:06,035 --> 00:08:09,715 Speaker 1: Taylor Green is the worst person ever to serve in 120 00:08:09,755 --> 00:08:12,195 Speaker 1: the United States House of Representatives. 121 00:08:12,435 --> 00:08:16,355 Speaker 2: This historical evidence is overwhelming that the founding fathers intended 122 00:08:16,395 --> 00:08:20,155 Speaker 2: impeachment to be used to deal with the commission of 123 00:08:20,275 --> 00:08:25,715 Speaker 2: indictable crimes and the abuse of power indictable. 124 00:08:27,315 --> 00:08:29,835 Speaker 1: I'm going to skip the Lauren Bobert jokes and the 125 00:08:29,955 --> 00:08:32,675 Speaker 1: Nancy Mace jokes and the Marge is thinking of her 126 00:08:32,755 --> 00:08:36,915 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden photo album jokes, because there are three important 127 00:08:36,955 --> 00:08:41,835 Speaker 1: things here that have kind of gotten lost behind the sheer, 128 00:08:42,195 --> 00:08:49,115 Speaker 1: infuriating numbness of Marjorie Taylor Green, who resembles and seems 129 00:08:49,155 --> 00:08:54,555 Speaker 1: to have the awareness of the MOI statues on Easter Island. 130 00:08:55,675 --> 00:08:59,235 Speaker 1: The first important thing is this. In October twenty twenty, 131 00:08:59,675 --> 00:09:03,355 Speaker 1: Green blew up at people she called grammar Police and 132 00:09:03,475 --> 00:09:07,995 Speaker 1: spelling Nazis. She put an apostrophe after the eye in 133 00:09:08,155 --> 00:09:13,275 Speaker 1: Nazis and wrote, quote, dyslexia runs in my family. It's 134 00:09:13,315 --> 00:09:18,875 Speaker 1: probably why we are so creative, hardworking, and successful. Of note, 135 00:09:18,915 --> 00:09:22,635 Speaker 1: she never says she has been diagnosed with it. There 136 00:09:22,635 --> 00:09:25,235 Speaker 1: are no further references to it, and it is terrifying 137 00:09:25,235 --> 00:09:29,715 Speaker 1: to contemplate that she thinks she might be creative or 138 00:09:29,795 --> 00:09:35,235 Speaker 1: hardworking or successful. Still, we must give her the benefit 139 00:09:35,315 --> 00:09:39,475 Speaker 1: of the doubt, that she may have dyslexia and deserves 140 00:09:40,035 --> 00:09:44,875 Speaker 1: empathy or did deserve empathy until she said this. 141 00:09:45,395 --> 00:09:48,195 Speaker 3: I mean, this is like, it's so stupid simple. It's 142 00:09:48,235 --> 00:09:53,995 Speaker 3: not even funny. It's stupid simple. But we have retards. 143 00:09:54,075 --> 00:09:56,955 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I know that's an offensive word, and I'm 144 00:09:56,955 --> 00:09:59,475 Speaker 3: not trying to talk down on people with Down syndrome, 145 00:09:59,675 --> 00:10:03,195 Speaker 3: but that's what these people are. These people are so 146 00:10:03,515 --> 00:10:08,235 Speaker 3: stupid and it ignorant. They cannot put something common sense 147 00:10:08,355 --> 00:10:08,915 Speaker 3: in place. 148 00:10:09,875 --> 00:10:16,195 Speaker 1: And that's not dyslexia, ma'am, that's being dickheaded. The second 149 00:10:16,235 --> 00:10:20,835 Speaker 1: important thing lost behind all this, her boundless stupidity, needs 150 00:10:20,875 --> 00:10:24,035 Speaker 1: to be recognized, not just as an insult to her 151 00:10:24,635 --> 00:10:28,195 Speaker 1: and to us, but as a microcosm of why we 152 00:10:28,275 --> 00:10:30,475 Speaker 1: are in the peril we are in today. And I'll 153 00:10:30,475 --> 00:10:33,835 Speaker 1: circle back to this first, the third one. I say 154 00:10:33,835 --> 00:10:39,035 Speaker 1: none of this without empathy. Indict and indicted and indictable 155 00:10:39,595 --> 00:10:45,155 Speaker 1: and indictment are words that to this day I spell 156 00:10:45,195 --> 00:10:49,995 Speaker 1: out phonetically on my scripts, because if I am reading 157 00:10:50,035 --> 00:10:53,235 Speaker 1: them off a teleprompter or even on this podcast, especially 158 00:10:53,235 --> 00:10:56,475 Speaker 1: if I'm reading them cold, especially if I'm reading fast, 159 00:10:57,155 --> 00:11:00,915 Speaker 1: there remains a chance, or at least there remains a 160 00:11:01,035 --> 00:11:04,995 Speaker 1: fear that I'll pronounce it just like it's spelled, like 161 00:11:05,035 --> 00:11:13,355 Speaker 1: she did. So I spell indict, I ndigt. In fact, 162 00:11:13,395 --> 00:11:17,995 Speaker 1: at NBCi reprogrammed my computer to spell correct, indict with 163 00:11:18,115 --> 00:11:22,435 Speaker 1: a C, to indict with a GH. I guess that 164 00:11:22,475 --> 00:11:27,755 Speaker 1: would have to be called spell incorrect. Because phonetic spelling 165 00:11:27,995 --> 00:11:33,835 Speaker 1: is not just an invaluable tool for public speakers, it's 166 00:11:34,435 --> 00:11:37,355 Speaker 1: a really good thing to do. It helps with names 167 00:11:37,395 --> 00:11:41,275 Speaker 1: and names of places and words that don't match the 168 00:11:41,315 --> 00:11:47,355 Speaker 1: way they're spelled. So is pre reading something aloud or 169 00:11:47,435 --> 00:11:53,195 Speaker 1: silently before you say it in congress. These are the 170 00:11:53,235 --> 00:11:59,675 Speaker 1: seat belts of reading aloud your self protection, especially if 171 00:11:59,835 --> 00:12:04,955 Speaker 1: she has dyslexia or any other processing complication, and Marge 172 00:12:04,955 --> 00:12:08,835 Speaker 1: did not wear her seat belt. You cross out the word, 173 00:12:09,035 --> 00:12:12,235 Speaker 1: you write the correct pronunciation above it or near it 174 00:12:12,275 --> 00:12:14,955 Speaker 1: in red. It's great for names, it's great for words 175 00:12:14,995 --> 00:12:18,475 Speaker 1: like that. There's no shame in it. It's a life hack. 176 00:12:19,395 --> 00:12:23,755 Speaker 1: There is shame in solemnly reading something you think buttresses 177 00:12:23,875 --> 00:12:27,875 Speaker 1: your phony maloney impeachment of the Director of Homeland Security 178 00:12:27,915 --> 00:12:33,155 Speaker 1: while your party is stopping a bipartisan deal on the border, 179 00:12:33,635 --> 00:12:37,795 Speaker 1: with your reading glasses perched arrogantly halfway down your nose 180 00:12:38,235 --> 00:12:41,155 Speaker 1: and looking as unused as those of Homer Simpson, your 181 00:12:41,235 --> 00:12:45,435 Speaker 1: index finger moving haltingly across the page, while you insist 182 00:12:46,155 --> 00:12:50,235 Speaker 1: that the founding Fathers support your case as a means 183 00:12:50,755 --> 00:12:57,235 Speaker 1: of indictment. And that's the point. There are a thousand 184 00:12:57,275 --> 00:13:00,475 Speaker 1: turns this nation has taken that has led us to 185 00:13:00,515 --> 00:13:03,195 Speaker 1: the precipice in front of us, the one that the 186 00:13:03,235 --> 00:13:05,875 Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Greens of this world world don't even see, 187 00:13:06,595 --> 00:13:09,275 Speaker 1: in which dozens and dozens of her colleagues have already 188 00:13:09,275 --> 00:13:13,115 Speaker 1: walked over to their metaphorical doom, either because they did 189 00:13:13,155 --> 00:13:16,155 Speaker 1: not see the cliffs edge or they believed the warnings 190 00:13:16,155 --> 00:13:20,035 Speaker 1: about it were just crooked fakes and liberal hoaxes, and 191 00:13:20,155 --> 00:13:25,715 Speaker 1: bad science and rigged scams. But the worst ones have 192 00:13:25,835 --> 00:13:28,915 Speaker 1: been in our educational system, because the blunt fact is 193 00:13:28,955 --> 00:13:31,315 Speaker 1: that in most of it now we do not use 194 00:13:31,515 --> 00:13:34,915 Speaker 1: all the tools we used to use to save one 195 00:13:35,035 --> 00:13:40,035 Speaker 1: time at risk fourth grade readers who will instead be 196 00:13:40,115 --> 00:13:43,075 Speaker 1: celebrating their fiftieth birthdays this spring in Congress by still 197 00:13:43,075 --> 00:13:45,715 Speaker 1: tracing the words they are trying to read aloud with 198 00:13:45,755 --> 00:13:49,515 Speaker 1: their finger and mispronouncing some of them rather than just 199 00:13:49,715 --> 00:13:52,275 Speaker 1: writing in the correct pronunciation like the rest of us do. 200 00:13:53,755 --> 00:13:57,955 Speaker 1: We used to have remedial reading courses and after school 201 00:13:58,075 --> 00:14:04,395 Speaker 1: courses and summer courses and tutors, and if everything else failed, 202 00:14:04,755 --> 00:14:08,075 Speaker 1: we used to leave students back to repeat a school 203 00:14:08,155 --> 00:14:13,155 Speaker 1: year or two or three. And if none of that worked, 204 00:14:13,395 --> 00:14:16,555 Speaker 1: or all of it seemed cruel or to be punishing 205 00:14:16,595 --> 00:14:19,195 Speaker 1: a student who was really trying but was really challenged 206 00:14:19,235 --> 00:14:22,395 Speaker 1: in some processing way, we used to tell the parents 207 00:14:22,435 --> 00:14:25,795 Speaker 1: about this without fear that they would then sue the 208 00:14:25,835 --> 00:14:29,035 Speaker 1: school district, or sue the teacher, or shoot somebody. And 209 00:14:29,115 --> 00:14:31,715 Speaker 1: for a long time, those suffering with processing issues were, 210 00:14:31,755 --> 00:14:35,035 Speaker 1: if not grateful, at least receptive, and they would avail 211 00:14:35,115 --> 00:14:38,315 Speaker 1: themselves of the help, rather than almost boast about a 212 00:14:38,355 --> 00:14:40,235 Speaker 1: problem and daring the rest of us to do or 213 00:14:40,275 --> 00:14:44,955 Speaker 1: say anything about it. I have no idea about Marjorie 214 00:14:44,955 --> 00:14:49,875 Speaker 1: Taylor Green's upbringing. Maybe she has dyslexia, Maybe she is 215 00:14:49,955 --> 00:14:52,835 Speaker 1: lying about it. I have changed my mind on which 216 00:14:52,915 --> 00:14:55,795 Speaker 1: is likely or only about two hundred times since I 217 00:14:55,835 --> 00:14:59,875 Speaker 1: started to write this script. The very thought of her 218 00:14:59,955 --> 00:15:05,435 Speaker 1: upbringing sends shutters down my spine. I'm inferring, and I'm 219 00:15:05,475 --> 00:15:10,795 Speaker 1: inferring backwards. Until twenty sixteen, her personal biography is almost 220 00:15:10,915 --> 00:15:18,035 Speaker 1: blank except for references to CrossFit Then twenty seventeen, correspondent 221 00:15:18,115 --> 00:15:24,035 Speaker 1: for American truth Seekers, a conspiracy news website, twenty eighteen 222 00:15:24,075 --> 00:15:29,035 Speaker 1: correspondent for Law Enforcement Today, a pro police conspiracy and 223 00:15:29,115 --> 00:15:35,355 Speaker 1: fake news website. Twenty nineteen Family America Project Facebook page, 224 00:15:35,395 --> 00:15:40,075 Speaker 1: moderator where other members made death threats against Democrats. Twenty 225 00:15:40,115 --> 00:15:43,475 Speaker 1: twenty ran for Congress, first in the Georgia seventh, switching 226 00:15:43,515 --> 00:15:46,035 Speaker 1: a few weeks later to the Georgia sixth, finally to 227 00:15:46,075 --> 00:15:50,035 Speaker 1: the Georgia fourteenth the rest of it. Since then, she's 228 00:15:50,075 --> 00:15:52,435 Speaker 1: accused every group in America except her own family and 229 00:15:52,515 --> 00:15:56,715 Speaker 1: CrossFit trainers. Of communism and conspiracy and cutting to the chase. 230 00:15:56,795 --> 00:16:01,195 Speaker 1: Yesterday on the House floor, she said indictable. You really 231 00:16:01,235 --> 00:16:04,435 Speaker 1: don't have to be smarter than Marge Green to know 232 00:16:04,515 --> 00:16:10,515 Speaker 1: that uneducated or educationally challenged people support Trump in vast numbers, 233 00:16:11,195 --> 00:16:15,715 Speaker 1: and that they believe conspiracy theories and in QAnon, and 234 00:16:15,995 --> 00:16:21,115 Speaker 1: in guns, and in ignoring warning signs, and in their 235 00:16:21,155 --> 00:16:28,955 Speaker 1: own invincibility talking about precipices. Congressman Rich McCormick was reported 236 00:16:28,995 --> 00:16:31,995 Speaker 1: to the House Sergeant at Arms this week because during 237 00:16:32,035 --> 00:16:34,795 Speaker 1: a tour of the Capitol Dome he saw the sign 238 00:16:34,955 --> 00:16:39,795 Speaker 1: reading no person permitted above this platform under any circumstances, 239 00:16:39,835 --> 00:16:44,315 Speaker 1: so he immediately went above the platform. He got up 240 00:16:44,355 --> 00:16:47,755 Speaker 1: onto a safety railing and straddled it and did pull 241 00:16:47,835 --> 00:16:51,755 Speaker 1: ups on it and pretended to fall or slide over 242 00:16:51,955 --> 00:16:55,395 Speaker 1: and off it. And the railing was two hundred feet 243 00:16:55,395 --> 00:17:02,835 Speaker 1: above the Capitol floor. Representative McCormick represents the sixth District 244 00:17:02,915 --> 00:17:08,955 Speaker 1: of Georgia and he is a member of the Republican Party, 245 00:17:09,835 --> 00:17:12,955 Speaker 1: and two months ago he was accused by another representative 246 00:17:13,075 --> 00:17:18,035 Speaker 1: of violent assault, namely grabbing them by the shoulders and 247 00:17:18,075 --> 00:17:23,235 Speaker 1: shaking them, and the alleged victim was Marjorie Taylor Green, 248 00:17:23,395 --> 00:17:25,715 Speaker 1: And it's just a damn shame she didn't get Congressome 249 00:17:25,795 --> 00:17:28,395 Speaker 1: McCormick arrested so we could have found out if he 250 00:17:28,475 --> 00:17:37,475 Speaker 1: were indeed indictable. I have focused on Green because well, 251 00:17:38,275 --> 00:17:42,715 Speaker 1: she sucks, but also because she does indeed represent the 252 00:17:42,755 --> 00:17:47,275 Speaker 1: true national crisis of our times. Nobody ever said stupidity 253 00:17:47,315 --> 00:17:51,395 Speaker 1: bordering on imbecility was mutually exclusive to success, not even 254 00:17:51,435 --> 00:17:54,355 Speaker 1: in the House. After all, even the founding fathers, who 255 00:17:54,395 --> 00:17:56,275 Speaker 1: may or may not have wondered if they should order 256 00:17:56,355 --> 00:17:59,995 Speaker 1: a new spelling of the word indict We're able somehow 257 00:18:00,035 --> 00:18:07,275 Speaker 1: to rationalize slavery. But Green is not alone. I submit 258 00:18:07,355 --> 00:18:10,435 Speaker 1: the last two days of Robert F. Kennedy Junior. For 259 00:18:10,555 --> 00:18:14,195 Speaker 1: a self admitted recovering addict with a plethora of other problems. 260 00:18:14,235 --> 00:18:18,075 Speaker 1: He sure seems to deny everything everybody has ever accused 261 00:18:18,115 --> 00:18:22,915 Speaker 1: him of doing. An unidentified woman posted a rather unremarkable 262 00:18:23,275 --> 00:18:26,955 Speaker 1: skin photo of herself on TikTok sometime in twenty twenty two, 263 00:18:27,355 --> 00:18:30,795 Speaker 1: sideshot into a mirror, very high short, it's not really exposing, 264 00:18:31,075 --> 00:18:35,915 Speaker 1: but certainly not covering a prominent posterior, and there in 265 00:18:35,955 --> 00:18:40,395 Speaker 1: the comments dated September sixteenth, twenty twenty two is wow 266 00:18:40,675 --> 00:18:44,115 Speaker 1: in capital letters with two face emojis with three hearts 267 00:18:44,155 --> 00:18:46,195 Speaker 1: on them each, and the name on the account is 268 00:18:47,155 --> 00:18:53,595 Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy Junior with a verification symbol. Yesterday, Kennedy 269 00:18:53,635 --> 00:18:58,075 Speaker 1: offered an amazing reply to this to quote it in full. 270 00:18:59,075 --> 00:19:02,355 Speaker 1: Do people really think I was tiktoking in twenty twenty two? 271 00:19:02,675 --> 00:19:05,475 Speaker 1: The TikTok comment and question was made into tenty twenty two, 272 00:19:05,475 --> 00:19:08,435 Speaker 1: long before I ever had a TikTok account. This comment 273 00:19:08,515 --> 00:19:11,955 Speaker 1: now appears on my account because the account was previously 274 00:19:11,995 --> 00:19:15,035 Speaker 1: owned by one of the campaign's young social media managers. 275 00:19:15,235 --> 00:19:17,515 Speaker 1: When I announced my run for the presidency in April 276 00:19:17,555 --> 00:19:20,955 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three, the team wanted it broadcasted on 277 00:19:21,035 --> 00:19:25,555 Speaker 1: every social media platform, including TikTok. However, TikTok does not 278 00:19:25,635 --> 00:19:28,115 Speaker 1: allow live streaming for accounts that have less than one 279 00:19:28,115 --> 00:19:32,435 Speaker 1: thousand followers. The social media manager decided to transfer his account, 280 00:19:32,475 --> 00:19:35,675 Speaker 1: which had around fifteen hundred followers, to me in order 281 00:19:35,755 --> 00:19:42,595 Speaker 1: to stream my announcement on TikTok. Unquote, shew one almost 282 00:19:42,715 --> 00:19:46,395 Speaker 1: wants to applaud my ex friend Bob, even if he's 283 00:19:46,515 --> 00:19:52,875 Speaker 1: lying just for the sheer labyrinthine intricacy of this excuse. 284 00:19:53,555 --> 00:19:57,555 Speaker 1: Maybe it is true. The problem that does not seem 285 00:19:57,595 --> 00:20:00,915 Speaker 1: to have occurred to him, through the wrapping of stupidity 286 00:20:00,915 --> 00:20:04,235 Speaker 1: that has strangled what was once his intelligence, is if 287 00:20:04,275 --> 00:20:07,915 Speaker 1: you are putting your name, or more importantly, if you 288 00:20:07,955 --> 00:20:12,835 Speaker 1: are putting your presidential campaign's name on somebody else's old 289 00:20:13,355 --> 00:20:17,835 Speaker 1: used social media account, does not logic demand that you 290 00:20:18,115 --> 00:20:21,395 Speaker 1: or somebody you trust must go back through all the 291 00:20:21,715 --> 00:20:25,315 Speaker 1: likes and the comments and the reposts by that account 292 00:20:25,395 --> 00:20:31,315 Speaker 1: to make sure that you know your presidential campaign account 293 00:20:31,635 --> 00:20:39,595 Speaker 1: has not just endorsed Tyler Idol's backside. As the philosopher's 294 00:20:39,635 --> 00:20:42,395 Speaker 1: bell Bivdevaux once said, never trust a big butt on 295 00:20:42,435 --> 00:20:48,435 Speaker 1: a smile. Also, never trust Congressman Dean Phillips. As we 296 00:20:48,515 --> 00:20:53,275 Speaker 1: continue our review of the stupid It burns. Wednesday night, 297 00:20:53,355 --> 00:20:57,315 Speaker 1: the Washington Press Club Foundation conducted its annual Congressional Dinner, 298 00:20:57,435 --> 00:21:00,115 Speaker 1: and as in the first seventy seven of them, there 299 00:21:00,115 --> 00:21:02,715 Speaker 1: were a lot of would be stand ups among the representatives, 300 00:21:02,715 --> 00:21:06,195 Speaker 1: but unlike most of those seventy seven, with some really funny, 301 00:21:06,635 --> 00:21:12,555 Speaker 1: really mean, and really true jokes, this year, Minnesota Democratic 302 00:21:12,555 --> 00:21:16,275 Speaker 1: Congresswoman Tina Smith skipped out, did not attend due to 303 00:21:16,315 --> 00:21:19,275 Speaker 1: a case of flu, but instead sent in a one 304 00:21:19,395 --> 00:21:23,835 Speaker 1: minute video. I would feel terrible if I showed up 305 00:21:23,875 --> 00:21:26,795 Speaker 1: and everybody got sick, she told the crowd at the 306 00:21:26,835 --> 00:21:30,395 Speaker 1: dinner via tape. The only way it would have worked 307 00:21:30,755 --> 00:21:33,355 Speaker 1: is if everybody had agreed to get up and leave 308 00:21:33,435 --> 00:21:37,475 Speaker 1: the room when I started talking, you know, kind of 309 00:21:37,595 --> 00:21:47,635 Speaker 1: like a Dean Phillips rally. Oo. Wait, there's more representative 310 00:21:47,675 --> 00:21:52,075 Speaker 1: Smith than added poor Dean. He took a real beating 311 00:21:52,115 --> 00:21:54,515 Speaker 1: in New Hampshire, but he's staying on the ballot for 312 00:21:54,595 --> 00:22:01,035 Speaker 1: South Carolina because you can't spell Dean Phillips with only 313 00:22:01,115 --> 00:22:05,915 Speaker 1: one l. Throw the towel, Throw the towel, Throw the 314 00:22:06,035 --> 00:22:10,635 Speaker 1: damn towel. Now, if you're Dean Phillips, what do you 315 00:22:10,675 --> 00:22:13,955 Speaker 1: do after that? A lot of people would answer, ignore 316 00:22:13,995 --> 00:22:18,235 Speaker 1: it acceptable, but I disagree. You're in the middle of 317 00:22:18,235 --> 00:22:20,795 Speaker 1: a bid for a presidential nomination. It's not much of 318 00:22:20,835 --> 00:22:23,595 Speaker 1: a bid, and you're not gonna get it. But the 319 00:22:23,635 --> 00:22:28,395 Speaker 1: spotlight is on you, and you may have five seconds 320 00:22:28,435 --> 00:22:30,915 Speaker 1: to actually make people aware of what you are trying 321 00:22:30,955 --> 00:22:35,315 Speaker 1: to do. Surprise them. Say you laughed your ass off, 322 00:22:35,875 --> 00:22:40,275 Speaker 1: Say you appreciate people remembering you say thanks to Tina 323 00:22:40,315 --> 00:22:43,675 Speaker 1: Smith because she just doubled the reach of your advertising. 324 00:22:43,835 --> 00:22:48,595 Speaker 1: Those are the smart answers this this is not a 325 00:22:48,635 --> 00:22:52,955 Speaker 1: smart answer quote. Representative Phillips extends his thanks to his 326 00:22:53,035 --> 00:22:55,995 Speaker 1: friends in Congress for their kind words and encouragement. It 327 00:22:56,075 --> 00:22:58,875 Speaker 1: takes real courage on their part to sit back and 328 00:22:58,915 --> 00:23:02,155 Speaker 1: reject democracy in favor of a coronation that will hand 329 00:23:02,195 --> 00:23:05,355 Speaker 1: our country back over to Donald Trump. He looks forward 330 00:23:05,355 --> 00:23:07,715 Speaker 1: to seeing them on Capitol Hill this upcoming week for 331 00:23:07,835 --> 00:23:10,955 Speaker 1: votes and welcomes them to join him for a coffee 332 00:23:11,075 --> 00:23:16,715 Speaker 1: to share their thoughts with him personally. Once again, the 333 00:23:16,835 --> 00:23:20,075 Speaker 1: joke from the British TV series The Young Ones from 334 00:23:20,115 --> 00:23:25,555 Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties applies. Dean give up on the self crucifixion. 335 00:23:25,595 --> 00:23:29,315 Speaker 1: You can never hammer in the last nail yourself. I know, 336 00:23:29,875 --> 00:23:34,795 Speaker 1: I've tried. Dean took a real beating in the Hampshire, 337 00:23:34,795 --> 00:23:37,795 Speaker 1: but he's staying on the ballot for South Carolina because 338 00:23:37,835 --> 00:23:46,795 Speaker 1: you can't spell Dean Phillips with only one L. Holy cow. 339 00:23:49,755 --> 00:23:54,155 Speaker 1: And finally, on this topic of stupidity, we turned back 340 00:23:54,195 --> 00:23:59,235 Speaker 1: to the Rajah of ridiculous, The Ministerio of moronity, the incredible, 341 00:23:59,475 --> 00:24:06,475 Speaker 1: the unforgettable dementia. Jay Trump, he made a clean mistake. 342 00:24:07,675 --> 00:24:10,835 Speaker 1: He made the mistake of taking questions from that group 343 00:24:10,915 --> 00:24:13,235 Speaker 1: of auto workers he had brought together in hopes of 344 00:24:13,315 --> 00:24:16,795 Speaker 1: countering the UAW endorsement of Joe Biden. He made the 345 00:24:16,795 --> 00:24:20,595 Speaker 1: mistake of taking a question from somebody who asked him 346 00:24:20,635 --> 00:24:23,875 Speaker 1: about the penalties from his trials. The eighty three million 347 00:24:23,955 --> 00:24:28,155 Speaker 1: dollars to Egene Carroll and whatever three hundred and seventy 348 00:24:28,195 --> 00:24:30,835 Speaker 1: million is assessed against him in the New York business 349 00:24:30,835 --> 00:24:36,995 Speaker 1: fraud case. And Trump's stupidity is so powerful that he 350 00:24:37,075 --> 00:24:46,355 Speaker 1: believes his own delusions penalties. There are no penalties. They 351 00:24:46,395 --> 00:24:54,475 Speaker 1: have been overturned in the court of Donald J. TRUMPA peel. 352 00:24:54,955 --> 00:25:01,395 Speaker 4: I don't understand on what penalties. I didn't do anything wrong. 353 00:25:01,555 --> 00:25:03,595 Speaker 4: I mean, that's been proven as far as I'm concerned, 354 00:25:03,915 --> 00:25:06,475 Speaker 4: and actually won in the court of appeals. He probably 355 00:25:06,555 --> 00:25:09,155 Speaker 4: saw that that case has been largely won in the 356 00:25:09,195 --> 00:25:13,075 Speaker 4: court of appeals. That was a political case coordinated with 357 00:25:13,155 --> 00:25:15,275 Speaker 4: the White House by the Attorney General, I assume is 358 00:25:15,315 --> 00:25:19,035 Speaker 4: what you're talking about, and we won that case largely 359 00:25:19,075 --> 00:25:24,795 Speaker 4: in the court of appeals. That's a ridiculous case. That 360 00:25:24,835 --> 00:25:29,155 Speaker 4: case is a ridiculous case. We're appealing it is she 361 00:25:29,195 --> 00:25:32,355 Speaker 4: didn't know anything about me, She didn't know when it 362 00:25:32,435 --> 00:25:35,515 Speaker 4: happened with there was nothing. People are looking at that case. 363 00:25:35,555 --> 00:25:37,955 Speaker 4: It's a disgrace. We're appealing that case. We had a 364 00:25:38,075 --> 00:25:41,995 Speaker 4: very hostile judge. We're appealing that case. It's a ridiculous case. 365 00:25:42,275 --> 00:25:46,035 Speaker 1: Trump's mistake was to take those questions from outside his warm, 366 00:25:46,235 --> 00:25:50,995 Speaker 1: encasing bubble of stupidity. It was Newsmax's mistake to take 367 00:25:51,035 --> 00:25:55,115 Speaker 1: those questions live. I believe they are still trying to 368 00:25:55,155 --> 00:25:58,235 Speaker 1: clean up what he just said there and to try 369 00:25:58,275 --> 00:26:05,315 Speaker 1: to not mention that he's so indicted. Thing. Why is 370 00:26:05,355 --> 00:26:08,475 Speaker 1: Trump treating his trials like campaign ads and campaign events, 371 00:26:08,995 --> 00:26:11,835 Speaker 1: Because it turns out he can't afford campaign ads and 372 00:26:11,875 --> 00:26:15,955 Speaker 1: campaign events. The fiscal reporting is out, and so is 373 00:26:16,115 --> 00:26:20,995 Speaker 1: his supply of cash. Two Trump packs spent twenty nine 374 00:26:21,115 --> 00:26:26,595 Speaker 1: million dollars in legal fees and legal consulting just in 375 00:26:26,635 --> 00:26:30,915 Speaker 1: the second half of last year, forty seven million for 376 00:26:30,995 --> 00:26:35,515 Speaker 1: the whole year, just from Save America pack. His Leadership 377 00:26:35,555 --> 00:26:42,235 Speaker 1: pack has five million dollars left total expenditures and income 378 00:26:42,315 --> 00:26:45,515 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three funds raised just under two hundred million 379 00:26:45,595 --> 00:26:49,675 Speaker 1: dollars twenty twenty three funds spent just over two hundred 380 00:26:49,675 --> 00:26:55,155 Speaker 1: and ten million dollars. As Dickens, mister Micawber said, annual 381 00:26:55,195 --> 00:26:59,035 Speaker 1: income two hundred million dollars, annual expenditure one hundred and 382 00:26:59,075 --> 00:27:03,275 Speaker 1: ninety nine million dollars results happiness. Annual income two hundred 383 00:27:03,315 --> 00:27:07,235 Speaker 1: million dollars, annual expenditures two hundred and one million dollars 384 00:27:07,795 --> 00:27:18,235 Speaker 1: result misery. Just for the record, in this episode of 385 00:27:18,275 --> 00:27:24,235 Speaker 1: this podcast, I have quoted Dickens and Belle Bivdevaux. Also 386 00:27:24,275 --> 00:27:27,835 Speaker 1: of interest here, a top conservative polster has the unbeatable 387 00:27:27,875 --> 00:27:31,755 Speaker 1: formula for Trump to again seize power in November. All 388 00:27:31,915 --> 00:27:34,995 Speaker 1: this polster says he has to do is to get 389 00:27:35,035 --> 00:27:38,955 Speaker 1: all of those voters who are African American and have 390 00:27:40,235 --> 00:27:46,595 Speaker 1: three arms. You heard me. That's next. This is Countdown. 391 00:27:48,675 --> 00:28:13,995 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman, still a head on 392 00:28:14,035 --> 00:28:17,915 Speaker 1: Countdown Fridays with Thurber and the best known thing James 393 00:28:17,955 --> 00:28:22,075 Speaker 1: Thurber ever wrote, ever so well known that they made 394 00:28:22,075 --> 00:28:25,755 Speaker 1: it into a movie just eleven years ago. First time 395 00:28:25,755 --> 00:28:27,875 Speaker 1: for the daily roundup of the miss Grants, Morons and 396 00:28:27,915 --> 00:28:33,275 Speaker 1: Dunning Kruger Effects specimens who constitute today's worst worst persons 397 00:28:33,275 --> 00:28:38,515 Speaker 1: than the world world, the brons worse. California Republican senatorial 398 00:28:38,515 --> 00:28:42,435 Speaker 1: candidate Steve Garvey, who expected to be catapulted into office 399 00:28:42,435 --> 00:28:47,115 Speaker 1: based on his baseball career, which ended Check's notes inside 400 00:28:47,155 --> 00:28:52,755 Speaker 1: Baseball Encyclopedia dusts off Baseball Encycle thirty six seasons ago. 401 00:28:54,075 --> 00:28:58,075 Speaker 1: Garvey was profiled by his hometown paper, The Los Angeles Times, 402 00:28:58,275 --> 00:29:00,515 Speaker 1: which used to treat him like a human god even 403 00:29:00,555 --> 00:29:02,595 Speaker 1: after he left the Dodgers to go play for San 404 00:29:02,635 --> 00:29:06,195 Speaker 1: Diego in nineteen eighty three. Will the Times is no 405 00:29:06,275 --> 00:29:09,595 Speaker 1: longer treating him like a human god, as the peace 406 00:29:09,715 --> 00:29:13,755 Speaker 1: was summarized by one analyst. The Times, in a brutal report, 407 00:29:14,875 --> 00:29:18,195 Speaker 1: added that quote Garvey has had no relationship with two 408 00:29:18,195 --> 00:29:20,835 Speaker 1: of his children despite their efforts, and that he cut 409 00:29:20,875 --> 00:29:24,395 Speaker 1: off a third child without explanation fifteen years ago. Though 410 00:29:24,435 --> 00:29:27,915 Speaker 1: the MLB legend calls himself a devoted family man, he 411 00:29:27,995 --> 00:29:32,355 Speaker 1: has struggled with debt, been repeatedly sued, faced a bitter divorce, 412 00:29:32,635 --> 00:29:35,715 Speaker 1: and got two women pregnant before quickly marrying a third 413 00:29:35,755 --> 00:29:38,995 Speaker 1: woman his current wife, in a scandal that briefly made 414 00:29:39,075 --> 00:29:42,515 Speaker 1: him a national punchline in nineteen eighty nine, all of 415 00:29:42,555 --> 00:29:45,195 Speaker 1: which is true. On the other hand, his other one 416 00:29:45,235 --> 00:29:48,355 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy eight kids adore him. Also, there is 417 00:29:48,395 --> 00:29:50,795 Speaker 1: no mention of the Marvin Hamlish sign I told you 418 00:29:50,875 --> 00:29:53,595 Speaker 1: about from the nineteen eighty one World Series, right after 419 00:29:53,995 --> 00:29:57,515 Speaker 1: his first wife, a TV host in Los Angeles, left 420 00:29:57,595 --> 00:30:01,115 Speaker 1: him and started to have a relationship with Marvin Hamlish, 421 00:30:01,155 --> 00:30:05,035 Speaker 1: the composer, the somewhat nerdy composer. A few fans before 422 00:30:05,075 --> 00:30:07,755 Speaker 1: the first game of the World Series at Yankee Stadium 423 00:30:07,795 --> 00:30:11,395 Speaker 1: that year between Garvey's Dodgers and the Yankees unfurled from 424 00:30:11,435 --> 00:30:14,235 Speaker 1: the upper deck as large a banner as I have 425 00:30:14,355 --> 00:30:17,315 Speaker 1: ever seen at a sporting event, and it read simply 426 00:30:17,915 --> 00:30:25,515 Speaker 1: Steve question mark, Marvin Hamlish question mark, the runners up worser. 427 00:30:25,595 --> 00:30:29,755 Speaker 1: Good old Moms for Liberty. You remember their stars, Florida 428 00:30:29,835 --> 00:30:35,235 Speaker 1: GOP chief Chris Ziegler, no longer the head of the GOP, 429 00:30:36,155 --> 00:30:39,875 Speaker 1: the husband of Moms for Liberty co founder Bridget Ziegler, 430 00:30:39,875 --> 00:30:45,955 Speaker 1: who liked to have friends join them for evenings. One 431 00:30:45,955 --> 00:30:49,475 Speaker 1: of the evenings, all right, When I say evenings, I 432 00:30:49,515 --> 00:30:53,075 Speaker 1: mean three ways led to a rape allegation against Christian 433 00:30:53,155 --> 00:30:56,795 Speaker 1: Ziegler and his resignation as head of the GOP. Now 434 00:30:56,955 --> 00:31:00,515 Speaker 1: bridget Ziegler's outfit, the Florida Moms for Liberty branch, has 435 00:31:00,555 --> 00:31:03,555 Speaker 1: gone beyond its previous book banning fascism and to the 436 00:31:03,595 --> 00:31:07,995 Speaker 1: next level. Indian River, Florida's Moms for Liberty chief Jennifer 437 00:31:08,115 --> 00:31:11,955 Speaker 1: Pippen got very upset at the famed Maurice Sendax in 438 00:31:12,075 --> 00:31:15,195 Speaker 1: the Night Kitchen book because there it was in the library, 439 00:31:15,435 --> 00:31:18,195 Speaker 1: and on the cover Sendak had drawn a naked five 440 00:31:18,275 --> 00:31:20,555 Speaker 1: year old boy dreaming that he has to bake a cake. 441 00:31:21,475 --> 00:31:24,075 Speaker 1: Pippin had a novel response to this, and a few 442 00:31:24,075 --> 00:31:27,915 Speaker 1: other novels with naked figures on or in them, like Oh, 443 00:31:28,035 --> 00:31:32,795 Speaker 1: the drawn visible butt of a goblin inside Unicorns are 444 00:31:32,835 --> 00:31:35,995 Speaker 1: the worst. She did not call for these books to 445 00:31:36,035 --> 00:31:39,955 Speaker 1: be banned. Instead, she had volunteers take the books, take 446 00:31:39,995 --> 00:31:46,555 Speaker 1: those illustrations and draw pants on them or bikinis or overalls. 447 00:31:47,355 --> 00:31:50,635 Speaker 1: You wouldn't want your kids looking at a naked drawing 448 00:31:50,835 --> 00:31:56,075 Speaker 1: of a purple goblin. Meanwhile, back at the Ziegler's house, 449 00:31:56,115 --> 00:31:59,355 Speaker 1: Florida investigators have discovered the yin and yang of this 450 00:31:59,635 --> 00:32:02,995 Speaker 1: and of the universe. Indeed, a list of women, apparently 451 00:32:03,035 --> 00:32:07,195 Speaker 1: made by Christian Ziegler under the heading well, the heading 452 00:32:07,275 --> 00:32:12,035 Speaker 1: is a four letter verb beginning with F but our 453 00:32:12,075 --> 00:32:16,595 Speaker 1: winners Echelon Insights and pollster Patrick Raffini, the right wing 454 00:32:16,675 --> 00:32:19,195 Speaker 1: pulling outlet that tries to include an ad for the 455 00:32:19,235 --> 00:32:22,355 Speaker 1: GOP and every poll result, and to promote the GOP 456 00:32:22,475 --> 00:32:25,555 Speaker 1: and every press release and news story. It's not the 457 00:32:25,595 --> 00:32:28,915 Speaker 1: worst in terms of bias, not the worst polster either, 458 00:32:28,955 --> 00:32:34,875 Speaker 1: It's just kind of sloppy house sloppy. Well. There's a 459 00:32:34,915 --> 00:32:38,515 Speaker 1: tweet on Raffini's account that reads, Republican victory in twenty 460 00:32:38,555 --> 00:32:40,955 Speaker 1: twenty four depends on their being able to do this, 461 00:32:41,635 --> 00:32:45,795 Speaker 1: and beneath that two pictures showing two African American men 462 00:32:45,875 --> 00:32:49,715 Speaker 1: wearing the red Maga Dunce cap standing on two different porches, 463 00:32:49,755 --> 00:32:54,435 Speaker 1: apparently registering two older African American men to vote or 464 00:32:54,475 --> 00:32:59,715 Speaker 1: to volunteer or given the new headlines to loan Trump money. 465 00:33:00,155 --> 00:33:03,635 Speaker 1: I don't know something. The guys in the Maga hats 466 00:33:03,715 --> 00:33:07,075 Speaker 1: have clipboards, But what's on the clipboards, what's written on 467 00:33:07,075 --> 00:33:09,755 Speaker 1: the clipboards? You can't tell. And the reason you can't 468 00:33:09,795 --> 00:33:12,235 Speaker 1: tell is that if you zoom in on what's on 469 00:33:12,275 --> 00:33:16,075 Speaker 1: the caps and the shirts. The two apparent black trumpists 470 00:33:16,155 --> 00:33:19,355 Speaker 1: are wearing the lettering on the shirts and the caps 471 00:33:19,355 --> 00:33:23,635 Speaker 1: and everything else. It doesn't actually spell anything. It's gibberish. 472 00:33:23,955 --> 00:33:29,915 Speaker 1: One shirt seems to read groat a gon groat like 473 00:33:29,955 --> 00:33:33,475 Speaker 1: the former baseball player a g g on groat a Gone. 474 00:33:34,355 --> 00:33:36,355 Speaker 1: Lettering on the side of one of the caps seems 475 00:33:36,355 --> 00:33:41,915 Speaker 1: to spell gunar Fran g u n a r f 476 00:33:42,155 --> 00:33:45,875 Speaker 1: r an gunnar Fran. Of course, few who saw this 477 00:33:46,075 --> 00:33:50,435 Speaker 1: pollster's tweet notice any of that literal nonsense because of 478 00:33:50,475 --> 00:33:53,675 Speaker 1: the pictures. The picture on the right, particularly in which 479 00:33:53,675 --> 00:33:56,435 Speaker 1: the African American voter is reaching for the clipboard with 480 00:33:56,475 --> 00:33:59,035 Speaker 1: his right hand and he seems to be holding some 481 00:33:59,115 --> 00:34:01,875 Speaker 1: kind of trump key ring or something in his left hand, 482 00:34:02,275 --> 00:34:05,755 Speaker 1: but he's holding his other left hand by his The 483 00:34:05,835 --> 00:34:11,635 Speaker 1: guy in the picture has three hands and three arms. Yeah, 484 00:34:11,675 --> 00:34:15,675 Speaker 1: the photo is Ai bad Ai. And not only did 485 00:34:15,715 --> 00:34:20,595 Speaker 1: Raffini post it and apparently never notice it and keep 486 00:34:20,635 --> 00:34:23,435 Speaker 1: it posted, but as he got frick asied by the Internet, 487 00:34:23,475 --> 00:34:26,955 Speaker 1: he added his own reply quote. The response to this 488 00:34:27,115 --> 00:34:32,355 Speaker 1: has gotten out of hand. Patrick Raffini and Echelon Insights 489 00:34:32,875 --> 00:34:35,355 Speaker 1: if they really wanted to be self deprecating and make 490 00:34:35,435 --> 00:34:37,635 Speaker 1: the thing kind of a win. Their reply should have 491 00:34:37,675 --> 00:34:42,035 Speaker 1: been the response to this as Grin frickping ognor Fran 492 00:34:42,755 --> 00:34:46,075 Speaker 1: two days, Worse Person's. 493 00:34:46,435 --> 00:34:47,435 Speaker 4: And the World. 494 00:35:07,595 --> 00:35:10,035 Speaker 1: To the number one story on the countdown. It's the weekend, 495 00:35:10,075 --> 00:35:12,395 Speaker 1: so it is Fridays with Thurber, and next week I 496 00:35:12,475 --> 00:35:15,475 Speaker 1: will resume the harrowing tales of my youth and not 497 00:35:15,555 --> 00:35:19,515 Speaker 1: so youth, with things I promised not to tell. Anniversary 498 00:35:19,555 --> 00:35:22,475 Speaker 1: schedule for next week include and this is literally true, 499 00:35:22,915 --> 00:35:26,835 Speaker 1: the story of the day my great grandfather Zelenski suggested 500 00:35:26,875 --> 00:35:31,595 Speaker 1: that an acquaintance of his name his new company, General Motors. 501 00:35:32,395 --> 00:35:34,915 Speaker 1: It's true we didn't get a dime out of it, 502 00:35:35,075 --> 00:35:40,395 Speaker 1: But now Perfection, James Thurber's best known work, best loved work, 503 00:35:40,435 --> 00:35:43,475 Speaker 1: and maybe just best work, has been made into two 504 00:35:43,555 --> 00:35:47,195 Speaker 1: different films, neither of which is really satisfactory, but each 505 00:35:47,235 --> 00:35:50,675 Speaker 1: gives you just a glimpse of what your imagination is 506 00:35:50,755 --> 00:35:55,595 Speaker 1: doing as you hear or read his words. It is 507 00:35:55,635 --> 00:35:58,995 Speaker 1: a universal It is the story of everybody who's ever lived, 508 00:35:59,515 --> 00:36:04,755 Speaker 1: who has ever daydreamed. It is the Secret Life of 509 00:36:04,795 --> 00:36:11,715 Speaker 1: Walter Mitty by James Thurber. We're going through the Commander's 510 00:36:11,755 --> 00:36:15,275 Speaker 1: voice was like thin ice breaking. He wore his full 511 00:36:15,355 --> 00:36:18,355 Speaker 1: dress uniform with the heavily braided white cap pulled down 512 00:36:18,435 --> 00:36:23,435 Speaker 1: rakishly over one cold gray eye. We can't make it, sir. 513 00:36:24,715 --> 00:36:27,515 Speaker 1: It's spoiling for a hurricane. If you ask me, I'm 514 00:36:27,515 --> 00:36:30,475 Speaker 1: not asking you, Lieutenant Berg, said the commander. Throw on 515 00:36:30,555 --> 00:36:33,435 Speaker 1: the power lights. Rever up to eighty five hundred. We're 516 00:36:33,515 --> 00:36:37,995 Speaker 1: going through. The pounding of the cylinders increased to pocket, 517 00:36:38,075 --> 00:36:41,035 Speaker 1: the pocket to pocket, to pocket to pocket. The commander 518 00:36:41,075 --> 00:36:43,635 Speaker 1: stared at the ice forming on the pilot window. He 519 00:36:43,675 --> 00:36:47,035 Speaker 1: walked over and twisted a row of complicated dials. Sweitch 520 00:36:47,035 --> 00:36:52,595 Speaker 1: on number eight auxiliary. He shouted, Switch on number eight auxillary, repeated. 521 00:36:52,595 --> 00:36:56,835 Speaker 1: Lieutenant Berg, Full strength and number three turret, shouted the commander, 522 00:36:57,075 --> 00:37:00,995 Speaker 1: full strength and number three turret. The crew, bending to 523 00:37:01,035 --> 00:37:04,355 Speaker 1: their various tasks in the huge, hurtling eight engined Navy 524 00:37:04,395 --> 00:37:07,355 Speaker 1: high pane, looked at each other and grinned. The old 525 00:37:07,395 --> 00:37:09,755 Speaker 1: man will get us through, they said to one another. 526 00:37:09,835 --> 00:37:13,715 Speaker 1: The old man ain't afraid of hell, not the fast. 527 00:37:14,795 --> 00:37:18,395 Speaker 1: You're driving too fast, said missus Middy. What are you 528 00:37:18,475 --> 00:37:24,155 Speaker 1: driving so fast for? Hmmm, said Walter Middy. He looked 529 00:37:24,155 --> 00:37:27,835 Speaker 1: at his wife in the seat beside him, with shocked astonishment. 530 00:37:28,275 --> 00:37:31,595 Speaker 1: She seemed grossly unfamiliar, like a strange woman who had 531 00:37:31,675 --> 00:37:34,715 Speaker 1: yelled at him in a crowd. You're up to fifty five, 532 00:37:35,235 --> 00:37:37,035 Speaker 1: she said. You know I don't like to go more 533 00:37:37,075 --> 00:37:40,835 Speaker 1: than forty. You're up to fifty five. Walter Middy drove 534 00:37:40,875 --> 00:37:43,875 Speaker 1: on toward Waterbury in silence, the roaring of the s 535 00:37:44,035 --> 00:37:47,195 Speaker 1: N two two through the worst storm in twenty years 536 00:37:47,195 --> 00:37:52,475 Speaker 1: of Navy flying, fading in the remote intimate airways of 537 00:37:52,555 --> 00:37:57,195 Speaker 1: his mind. Your ten step began, said missus Middy. It's 538 00:37:57,235 --> 00:38:00,835 Speaker 1: one of your days. I wish you'd let doctor Renshaw 539 00:38:00,955 --> 00:38:04,435 Speaker 1: look you over. Walter Mitty stopped the car in front 540 00:38:04,435 --> 00:38:06,115 Speaker 1: of the building where his wife went to have her 541 00:38:06,115 --> 00:38:08,915 Speaker 1: hair done. Remember to get those overshoes while I'm having 542 00:38:08,915 --> 00:38:13,475 Speaker 1: the hair done, she said, I don't need overshoes, said Mitty. 543 00:38:14,035 --> 00:38:16,595 Speaker 1: She put her mirror back into her bag. We've been 544 00:38:16,795 --> 00:38:19,915 Speaker 1: all through that, she said, getting out of the car. 545 00:38:20,035 --> 00:38:23,075 Speaker 1: You're not a young man any longer. He raced the 546 00:38:23,115 --> 00:38:26,195 Speaker 1: engine a little. Why don't you wear your gloves? Have 547 00:38:26,275 --> 00:38:29,835 Speaker 1: you lost your gloves? Walter Mitty reached in a pocket 548 00:38:29,835 --> 00:38:31,835 Speaker 1: and brought out the gloves. He put them on, but 549 00:38:32,355 --> 00:38:34,515 Speaker 1: after she had turned and gone into the building and 550 00:38:34,515 --> 00:38:37,035 Speaker 1: he had driven on to a red light, he took 551 00:38:37,155 --> 00:38:41,435 Speaker 1: them off again. Pick it up, brother snapped the cop 552 00:38:41,475 --> 00:38:44,075 Speaker 1: as the light changed, and Mitty hastily pulled on his 553 00:38:44,155 --> 00:38:48,155 Speaker 1: gloves and lurched ahead. He drove around the streets aimlessly 554 00:38:48,195 --> 00:38:50,235 Speaker 1: for a time, and then he drove past the hospital 555 00:38:50,755 --> 00:38:55,355 Speaker 1: on his way to the parking lot. It's the millionaire 556 00:38:55,435 --> 00:39:00,555 Speaker 1: banker Wellington, McMillan, said the pretty nurse, Yes, said Walter Mitty, 557 00:39:00,635 --> 00:39:04,675 Speaker 1: removing his gloves slowly. Who has the case? Doctor Rene, 558 00:39:05,115 --> 00:39:08,875 Speaker 1: Dr Renbow, But there are two specialists here, dtor Remington 559 00:39:08,915 --> 00:39:11,955 Speaker 1: from New York and mister Prichard Mitford from London. He 560 00:39:12,035 --> 00:39:15,875 Speaker 1: flew over. The door opened down a long cool carter, 561 00:39:15,995 --> 00:39:20,395 Speaker 1: and doctor Renshaw came out. He looked distraught and haggard. 562 00:39:20,955 --> 00:39:23,915 Speaker 1: Hello Mitty, he said, we're having the devil's own time 563 00:39:23,955 --> 00:39:26,435 Speaker 1: with McMillan, the millionaire banker and close personal friend of 564 00:39:26,515 --> 00:39:32,395 Speaker 1: Roosevelt obstriosis of the ductal tract tertiary. Wish you'd take 565 00:39:32,435 --> 00:39:37,075 Speaker 1: a look at him. Glad to, said Mitty. In the 566 00:39:37,115 --> 00:39:42,195 Speaker 1: operating room, there were whispered introductions doctor Remington, doctor Mitty, 567 00:39:42,715 --> 00:39:47,275 Speaker 1: mister Richard Mitford, doctor Mitty, and I've read your book 568 00:39:47,275 --> 00:39:52,235 Speaker 1: on scripto thracosis, said Prichard Mitford, shaking hands. A brilliant performance, sir, 569 00:39:53,355 --> 00:39:56,755 Speaker 1: thank you, said Walter Mitty. Didn't know you're in the 570 00:39:56,875 --> 00:40:01,355 Speaker 1: State's Midty, grumbled Remington. Cole's to Newcastle, bringing Midford to 571 00:40:01,395 --> 00:40:04,675 Speaker 1: me up here for a tertiary. You are very kind, 572 00:40:05,515 --> 00:40:10,075 Speaker 1: said Mitti. A huge, complicated machine connected to the operating 573 00:40:10,115 --> 00:40:13,115 Speaker 1: table with many tubes and wires began at this moment 574 00:40:13,155 --> 00:40:18,155 Speaker 1: to go pocket to pocketa POCKETA The new anesthetizer is 575 00:40:18,195 --> 00:40:21,315 Speaker 1: giving way, shouted an interurn. There is no one in 576 00:40:21,355 --> 00:40:23,995 Speaker 1: the East who knows how to fix it. Quiet man, 577 00:40:24,515 --> 00:40:27,395 Speaker 1: said Mitty in a low, cool voice. He sprang to 578 00:40:27,435 --> 00:40:29,875 Speaker 1: the machine, which was now going pocket to pocket, A 579 00:40:29,995 --> 00:40:34,355 Speaker 1: creep pocket to pocket A cuep He began fingering delicately 580 00:40:34,355 --> 00:40:37,515 Speaker 1: a roll of glistening dials. Give me a fountain pen, 581 00:40:37,755 --> 00:40:41,275 Speaker 1: he snapped. Someone handed him a fountain pen. He pulled 582 00:40:41,315 --> 00:40:43,595 Speaker 1: a faulty piston out of the machine and inserted the 583 00:40:43,635 --> 00:40:47,755 Speaker 1: pen in its place. That will hold for ten minutes, 584 00:40:47,995 --> 00:40:51,035 Speaker 1: he said, Get on with the operation. A nurse hurried 585 00:40:51,075 --> 00:40:53,755 Speaker 1: over and whispered to Renshaw, and Mitty saw the man turn. 586 00:40:53,875 --> 00:40:59,195 Speaker 1: Pale coreopsis has set in, said Renshaw nervously. If you 587 00:40:59,235 --> 00:41:03,115 Speaker 1: would take over, Mitty. Mitty looked at him and at 588 00:41:03,155 --> 00:41:07,235 Speaker 1: the craven figure of Ben Oh who drank, and at 589 00:41:07,275 --> 00:41:11,515 Speaker 1: the grave uncertain faces of the two great specialists. If 590 00:41:11,555 --> 00:41:14,635 Speaker 1: you wish, he said. They slipped a white gown on him. 591 00:41:14,635 --> 00:41:17,595 Speaker 1: He adjusted a mask and drew on thin gloves. Nurses 592 00:41:17,635 --> 00:41:21,235 Speaker 1: handed him shiny back it up, Mac, Look God for 593 00:41:21,275 --> 00:41:25,835 Speaker 1: that buick. Walter Mitty jammed on the brakes. Wrong lane, Mac, 594 00:41:26,235 --> 00:41:30,875 Speaker 1: said the parking lot attendant, looking at Mitty closely. Gee yeah, 595 00:41:31,355 --> 00:41:34,595 Speaker 1: muttered Mitty. He began cautiously to back out of the 596 00:41:34,675 --> 00:41:38,835 Speaker 1: lane marked exit. Only leave us sit there, said the attendant. 597 00:41:38,995 --> 00:41:42,195 Speaker 1: I'll put her away. Mitty got out of the car. 598 00:41:42,675 --> 00:41:48,235 Speaker 1: Hey better leave the key, oh, said Mitty, handing the 599 00:41:48,275 --> 00:41:51,595 Speaker 1: man the ignition key. The attendant vaulted into the car, 600 00:41:51,715 --> 00:41:54,715 Speaker 1: backed it up with insolent skill, and put it where 601 00:41:54,715 --> 00:42:00,835 Speaker 1: it belonged. They're so damn cocky, thought Walter Mitty, walking 602 00:42:00,875 --> 00:42:05,235 Speaker 1: along main Street. They think they know everything. He had 603 00:42:05,235 --> 00:42:08,595 Speaker 1: tried to take his chains off outside New Milford, and 604 00:42:08,675 --> 00:42:11,595 Speaker 1: he got them wound around the axles. The man had 605 00:42:11,595 --> 00:42:14,595 Speaker 1: to come out in a wrecking car and unwind them 606 00:42:14,795 --> 00:42:19,595 Speaker 1: a young, grinning garage man. Since then, Missus Mitty always 607 00:42:19,595 --> 00:42:21,835 Speaker 1: made him drive to a garage to have the chains 608 00:42:21,875 --> 00:42:24,835 Speaker 1: taken off. The Next time, he thought, I'll wear my 609 00:42:24,995 --> 00:42:28,275 Speaker 1: right arm in a sling. They won't grin at me. 610 00:42:28,355 --> 00:42:30,235 Speaker 1: Then I have my right arm in a sling, and 611 00:42:30,235 --> 00:42:32,835 Speaker 1: they'll see. I couldn't possibly take the chains off myself. 612 00:42:33,835 --> 00:42:38,475 Speaker 1: He kicked at the slush on the sidewalk. Overshoes, he 613 00:42:38,475 --> 00:42:40,515 Speaker 1: said to himself, and he began looking for a shoe store. 614 00:42:41,475 --> 00:42:43,115 Speaker 1: When he came out into the street again with the 615 00:42:43,155 --> 00:42:45,755 Speaker 1: overshoes in a box under his arm, Walter Mitty began 616 00:42:45,835 --> 00:42:48,035 Speaker 1: to wonder what the other thing was his wife had 617 00:42:48,035 --> 00:42:51,715 Speaker 1: told him to get. She had told him twice before 618 00:42:51,755 --> 00:42:54,875 Speaker 1: they set out from their house for Waterbury. In a way, 619 00:42:54,915 --> 00:42:57,555 Speaker 1: he hated these weekly trips to town. He was always 620 00:42:57,555 --> 00:43:03,555 Speaker 1: getting something wrong. Kleenex, he thought, squibbs razor blades, now 621 00:43:03,755 --> 00:43:10,075 Speaker 1: toothpaste brush by carbonate carborundum initiative referendum. He gave it up, 622 00:43:10,755 --> 00:43:13,635 Speaker 1: but she would remember it. Where's the what's its name? 623 00:43:13,835 --> 00:43:15,955 Speaker 1: She would ask don't tell me you forgot the what's 624 00:43:15,995 --> 00:43:19,115 Speaker 1: its name? The newsboy went by, shouting something about the 625 00:43:19,115 --> 00:43:25,355 Speaker 1: Waterbury trial. Perhaps this will refresh your memory. The district 626 00:43:25,355 --> 00:43:28,195 Speaker 1: attorney suddenly thrust a heavy automatic at the quiet figure 627 00:43:28,235 --> 00:43:30,555 Speaker 1: on the witness stand. Have you ever seen this before? 628 00:43:31,875 --> 00:43:35,675 Speaker 1: Walter Mitty took the gun and examined it expertly. This 629 00:43:36,155 --> 00:43:40,475 Speaker 1: is my Webley Vicar's fifty point eight, oh, he said calmly. 630 00:43:40,595 --> 00:43:43,915 Speaker 1: An excited buzz ran around the courtroom. The judge rapped 631 00:43:43,995 --> 00:43:47,275 Speaker 1: for order. You are a crack shot with any sort 632 00:43:47,315 --> 00:43:51,955 Speaker 1: of firearms, I believe, said the district attorney, insinuatingly objection, 633 00:43:52,515 --> 00:43:55,875 Speaker 1: shouted Mitty's attorney. We have shown that the defendant could 634 00:43:55,915 --> 00:43:58,195 Speaker 1: not have fired the shot. We have shown that he 635 00:43:58,315 --> 00:44:01,235 Speaker 1: wore his right arm in a sling on the night 636 00:44:01,275 --> 00:44:05,195 Speaker 1: of the fourteenth of July. Walter Mitty raised his hand briefly, 637 00:44:05,235 --> 00:44:09,075 Speaker 1: and the bickering attorneys were stilled with any known make 638 00:44:09,115 --> 00:44:13,035 Speaker 1: of gun, He said evenly, I could have killed Gregory 639 00:44:13,075 --> 00:44:19,195 Speaker 1: Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand. Pandemonium 640 00:44:19,235 --> 00:44:22,515 Speaker 1: broke out in the courtroom. A woman's scream rose above 641 00:44:22,515 --> 00:44:24,995 Speaker 1: the bedlom, and suddenly a lovely, dark haired girl was 642 00:44:25,035 --> 00:44:28,755 Speaker 1: in Walter Mitty's arms. The district attorney struck at her savagely, 643 00:44:28,955 --> 00:44:31,315 Speaker 1: without rising from his chair. Middy, let the man have 644 00:44:31,395 --> 00:44:33,715 Speaker 1: it on the point of the chin. You miserable cur 645 00:44:36,275 --> 00:44:40,515 Speaker 1: puppy biscuit, said Walter Mitty. He stopped walking, and the 646 00:44:40,515 --> 00:44:43,235 Speaker 1: buildings of Waterbury rose up out of the misty courtroom 647 00:44:43,235 --> 00:44:46,155 Speaker 1: and surrounded him again. A woman who was passing laughed. 648 00:44:46,675 --> 00:44:49,795 Speaker 1: He said, peppy biscuit, She said to her companion. That 649 00:44:49,915 --> 00:44:54,155 Speaker 1: man said puppy biscuit to himself. Walter Mitty hurried on. 650 00:44:55,075 --> 00:44:56,995 Speaker 1: He went into an a and p not the first 651 00:44:56,995 --> 00:44:58,995 Speaker 1: one he came to, but a smaller one farther up 652 00:44:58,995 --> 00:45:03,875 Speaker 1: the street. I want some biscuit for small young dogs, 653 00:45:04,355 --> 00:45:08,635 Speaker 1: he said to the clerk. Any special brand, Sir, the 654 00:45:08,675 --> 00:45:13,955 Speaker 1: greatest pistol shot in the world. Thought a moment. It says, 655 00:45:15,035 --> 00:45:19,075 Speaker 1: puppies bark for it on the box, said Walter Mitty. 656 00:45:20,595 --> 00:45:23,195 Speaker 1: His wife would be through at the hairdressers in fifteen minutes. 657 00:45:23,515 --> 00:45:25,915 Speaker 1: Mitty saw in looking at his watch. Unless they had 658 00:45:25,955 --> 00:45:29,995 Speaker 1: trouble drying it, sometimes they had trouble drying it. She 659 00:45:30,075 --> 00:45:32,395 Speaker 1: didn't like to get to the hotel first, she would 660 00:45:32,395 --> 00:45:34,995 Speaker 1: want him to be there waiting for her as usual. 661 00:45:35,595 --> 00:45:37,835 Speaker 1: He found a big leather chair in the lobby facing 662 00:45:37,835 --> 00:45:40,275 Speaker 1: the window, and he put the overshoes and the puppy 663 00:45:40,275 --> 00:45:43,075 Speaker 1: biscuit on the floor beside it. He picked up an 664 00:45:43,115 --> 00:45:46,315 Speaker 1: old copy of Liberty and sank down into the chair. 665 00:45:47,435 --> 00:45:51,355 Speaker 1: And Germany conquered the world through the air. Walter Mitty 666 00:45:51,355 --> 00:45:56,955 Speaker 1: looked at the pictures of bombing planes and of ruined streets. 667 00:45:59,275 --> 00:46:02,275 Speaker 1: The Cannonaden has got the wind up in young Rawley, Sir, 668 00:46:02,635 --> 00:46:06,435 Speaker 1: said the sergeant. Captain Mitti looked at him through touzled hair. 669 00:46:06,995 --> 00:46:10,435 Speaker 1: Get him to bed, he said, wearily. With the others, 670 00:46:10,755 --> 00:46:14,915 Speaker 1: I'll fly alone, But you can't, sir, said the sergeant, anxiously. 671 00:46:15,075 --> 00:46:17,395 Speaker 1: Takes two men to handle that bomber, and the archies 672 00:46:17,395 --> 00:46:20,275 Speaker 1: a pounding l out of the air. Von Rickman's circus 673 00:46:20,355 --> 00:46:24,355 Speaker 1: is between here and Solier. Somebody's got to get that 674 00:46:24,435 --> 00:46:28,835 Speaker 1: ammunition dump, said Mitty. I'm going over spot of brandy. 675 00:46:29,275 --> 00:46:31,755 Speaker 1: He poured a drink for the sergeant and won for himself. 676 00:46:32,395 --> 00:46:35,195 Speaker 1: Wore thundered and whined around the dugout and battered at 677 00:46:35,195 --> 00:46:38,075 Speaker 1: the door. There was a rending of wood and splinters 678 00:46:38,115 --> 00:46:41,955 Speaker 1: flew through the room of a near thing, said Captain 679 00:46:41,995 --> 00:46:46,435 Speaker 1: Mitty carelessly. The box barrage is closing in, said the sergeant. 680 00:46:47,395 --> 00:46:50,675 Speaker 1: We only live once, sergeant, said Mitty, with his faint, 681 00:46:50,835 --> 00:46:55,395 Speaker 1: fleeting smile, Or do we He poured another brandy and 682 00:46:55,515 --> 00:46:57,875 Speaker 1: tossed it off. I never seen a man could hold 683 00:46:57,875 --> 00:47:01,475 Speaker 1: his brandy. Lock you, sir, said the sergeant, begging you pardon, sir. 684 00:47:02,075 --> 00:47:05,235 Speaker 1: Captain Mitti stood up and scrapped on his huge Webbley 685 00:47:05,355 --> 00:47:09,675 Speaker 1: Vickers automatic. It's forty kilometers through el, sir, said the sergeant. 686 00:47:10,435 --> 00:47:15,515 Speaker 1: Mitty finished one last brandy after all, he said, softly, 687 00:47:16,275 --> 00:47:19,755 Speaker 1: What isn't The pounding of the cannon increased. There was 688 00:47:19,755 --> 00:47:21,955 Speaker 1: the rat tat tatting of the machine guns, and from 689 00:47:21,955 --> 00:47:25,435 Speaker 1: somewhere came the menacing pucket a pucket to pucket, a 690 00:47:25,475 --> 00:47:30,155 Speaker 1: pucketer of the new flame throwers. Walter Mitty walked to 691 00:47:30,235 --> 00:47:33,875 Speaker 1: the door of the dugout, humming out, prey to my blonde. 692 00:47:34,635 --> 00:47:39,075 Speaker 1: He turned and waved to the sergeant Cheerio, he said. 693 00:47:40,275 --> 00:47:43,195 Speaker 1: Something struck his shoulder. I've been looking all over this 694 00:47:43,275 --> 00:47:46,395 Speaker 1: hotel for you, said missus Mitty. Why do you have 695 00:47:46,435 --> 00:47:48,915 Speaker 1: to hide in this old chair. How did you expect 696 00:47:48,955 --> 00:47:53,515 Speaker 1: me to find you things close in? Said Walter Mitty, 697 00:47:53,595 --> 00:47:57,155 Speaker 1: vaguely what missus Mitty said? Did you get the wat's 698 00:47:57,155 --> 00:48:01,675 Speaker 1: it's name? The poppy biscuit? What's in that box? Overshoes? 699 00:48:02,195 --> 00:48:04,355 Speaker 1: Said Mitty? Couldn't you put them on on the star? 700 00:48:05,835 --> 00:48:08,955 Speaker 1: I was thinking? Said Walter Middy. Does it ever occur 701 00:48:08,995 --> 00:48:12,995 Speaker 1: to you that I am sometimes thinking? She looked at him. 702 00:48:13,435 --> 00:48:15,955 Speaker 1: I'm going to take your temperature when I get you home, 703 00:48:16,875 --> 00:48:19,955 Speaker 1: she said. They went out through the revolving doors that 704 00:48:20,035 --> 00:48:22,875 Speaker 1: made a faintly derisive whistling sound when you push them. 705 00:48:23,515 --> 00:48:26,155 Speaker 1: It was two blocks to the parking lot at the 706 00:48:26,235 --> 00:48:29,075 Speaker 1: drug store on the corner. She said, wait here for me. 707 00:48:29,115 --> 00:48:32,395 Speaker 1: I forgot something. I won't be a minute. She was 708 00:48:32,435 --> 00:48:37,115 Speaker 1: more than a minute. Walter Mitty lighted a cigarette. It 709 00:48:37,155 --> 00:48:40,955 Speaker 1: began to rain, rain with sleet in it. He stood 710 00:48:41,035 --> 00:48:43,755 Speaker 1: up against the wall of the drug store smoking. He 711 00:48:43,835 --> 00:48:47,435 Speaker 1: put his shoulders back and his heels together. To hell 712 00:48:47,475 --> 00:48:50,955 Speaker 1: with the handkerchief, said Walter Middy scornfully. He took one 713 00:48:51,035 --> 00:48:53,915 Speaker 1: last drag on his cigarette and snapped it away, then, 714 00:48:53,955 --> 00:48:58,635 Speaker 1: with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he 715 00:48:58,675 --> 00:49:03,755 Speaker 1: faced the firing squad. Erect and motionless, proud and disdainful. 716 00:49:04,115 --> 00:49:11,595 Speaker 1: Walter Mitty, the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last. The Secret 717 00:49:11,635 --> 00:49:28,875 Speaker 1: Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber. I've done all 718 00:49:28,875 --> 00:49:31,635 Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown. 719 00:49:31,715 --> 00:49:35,075 Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillips Shanelle arranged, produced, 720 00:49:35,075 --> 00:49:38,275 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on guitars, bass, 721 00:49:38,275 --> 00:49:41,875 Speaker 1: and drums, and mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards, and 722 00:49:41,915 --> 00:49:44,915 Speaker 1: it was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some 723 00:49:44,955 --> 00:49:47,795 Speaker 1: of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed by the 724 00:49:47,795 --> 00:49:51,035 Speaker 1: group No Horns Allowed. The sports music is the Olderman 725 00:49:51,115 --> 00:49:54,715 Speaker 1: theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy 726 00:49:54,715 --> 00:49:58,715 Speaker 1: of ESPN Inc. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are 727 00:49:58,755 --> 00:50:02,355 Speaker 1: by Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our 728 00:50:02,395 --> 00:50:05,275 Speaker 1: announcer today was my friend Stevie Banzant, and everything else 729 00:50:05,395 --> 00:50:08,235 Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. That's countdown for this the 730 00:50:08,275 --> 00:50:11,115 Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy eighth day until the twenty twenty 731 00:50:11,115 --> 00:50:16,195 Speaker 1: four US presidential election, and the twenty third day since dementia. 732 00:50:16,275 --> 00:50:19,595 Speaker 1: J Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government 733 00:50:19,635 --> 00:50:23,235 Speaker 1: of the United States. Use the Fourteenth Amendment, use the 734 00:50:23,275 --> 00:50:27,195 Speaker 1: Insurrection Act, use the justice system, use the mental health 735 00:50:27,235 --> 00:50:31,755 Speaker 1: system to stop him from doing it again while we 736 00:50:31,795 --> 00:50:36,395 Speaker 1: still can. The next scheduled countdown is Tuesday, though I 737 00:50:36,475 --> 00:50:39,435 Speaker 1: warn you, although careful editing has concealed much of this, 738 00:50:39,715 --> 00:50:44,155 Speaker 1: if you listen carefully, my voice is shot bulletins as 739 00:50:44,195 --> 00:50:46,915 Speaker 1: the news warrants, although I may just write them out 740 00:50:46,995 --> 00:50:49,595 Speaker 1: rather than try to read them aloud. Till then, I'm 741 00:50:49,635 --> 00:50:52,995 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 742 00:51:05,595 --> 00:51:09,555 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 743 00:51:09,755 --> 00:51:14,795 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 744 00:51:14,915 --> 00:51:16,875 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.