1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:25,195 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. He 2 00:00:25,275 --> 00:00:30,875 Speaker 1: came in through Biden's ridiculous open border policy, Trump writes 3 00:00:31,115 --> 00:00:35,315 Speaker 1: of the man who has purportedly confessed in the Bolder 4 00:00:35,435 --> 00:00:38,995 Speaker 1: flamethrower attack, which has hurt our country so badly he 5 00:00:39,075 --> 00:00:43,675 Speaker 1: must go out under Trump policy. Yeah great, well he didn't. Trump, 6 00:00:43,995 --> 00:00:49,475 Speaker 1: You have blood on your hands for Boulder, Colorado. The 7 00:00:49,595 --> 00:00:53,115 Speaker 1: attack on the weekly march of those remembering the Gaza 8 00:00:53,155 --> 00:00:57,235 Speaker 1: hostages was carried out by a man here illegally, whom 9 00:00:57,315 --> 00:01:01,675 Speaker 1: Trump and his big talking crowd of bullies, losers and 10 00:01:01,875 --> 00:01:05,195 Speaker 1: cowards have had four months to find and removed, and 11 00:01:05,275 --> 00:01:08,635 Speaker 1: have criminally failed to do so because they under phony 12 00:01:08,715 --> 00:01:12,475 Speaker 1: tough guy Tom Homan and dress up Barbie Christinome. We're 13 00:01:12,515 --> 00:01:16,635 Speaker 1: too busy kidnapping mothers and gay hairdressers and kids at 14 00:01:16,635 --> 00:01:20,435 Speaker 1: their high school graduations, and people here legally and immigrants 15 00:01:20,515 --> 00:01:23,995 Speaker 1: dutifully showing up for their hearings the way law abiding 16 00:01:24,075 --> 00:01:29,035 Speaker 1: people law abiding means not like Trump. Law abiding people 17 00:01:29,115 --> 00:01:34,675 Speaker 1: do that. The suspect Mohammad Sabri Solomon was still here 18 00:01:35,355 --> 00:01:40,515 Speaker 1: is the fault of Donald Trump, because the entire Maga 19 00:01:40,715 --> 00:01:45,875 Speaker 1: immigration stunt is a show put on for the racists 20 00:01:45,995 --> 00:01:49,875 Speaker 1: and the xenophobes. It goes after only the soft targets. 21 00:01:50,115 --> 00:01:54,435 Speaker 1: It uses only brutality and force when neither is necessary. 22 00:01:54,675 --> 00:01:57,395 Speaker 1: It is there to terrify one part of this country 23 00:01:57,595 --> 00:02:01,955 Speaker 1: and satiate the sadism of the other part of this country. 24 00:02:02,515 --> 00:02:06,155 Speaker 1: It is the opposite of securing the borders. It is 25 00:02:06,195 --> 00:02:11,195 Speaker 1: a prelude to something called remigration, a term I will 26 00:02:11,195 --> 00:02:14,915 Speaker 1: get to in a moment. And remigration is itself the 27 00:02:14,995 --> 00:02:22,075 Speaker 1: prelude to ethnic cleansing. And the guy here illegally actually 28 00:02:22,115 --> 00:02:27,235 Speaker 1: doing something terroristic does not fit in to the scheme 29 00:02:27,755 --> 00:02:34,355 Speaker 1: of Trump and his henchman, Stephen Miller, the champion of remigration, 30 00:02:34,715 --> 00:02:40,395 Speaker 1: the demented, warped, soulless bastard behind it, Stephen Miller, who 31 00:02:40,435 --> 00:02:43,795 Speaker 1: couldn't wait to turn the Sunday attack into a sword 32 00:02:44,075 --> 00:02:47,995 Speaker 1: with which to again try to butcher this nation's humanity. 33 00:02:48,115 --> 00:02:51,915 Speaker 1: And I mean he couldn't wait, literally, he couldn't wait. 34 00:02:52,115 --> 00:02:55,795 Speaker 1: If he had waited, more people would have realized Miller 35 00:02:56,035 --> 00:02:59,595 Speaker 1: and his gestapo are not the solution to this problem. 36 00:02:59,875 --> 00:03:05,515 Speaker 1: They are its cause. Miller writes, a error attack was 37 00:03:05,555 --> 00:03:09,675 Speaker 1: committed in Boulder, Colorado, by an illegal alien. He was 38 00:03:09,755 --> 00:03:13,115 Speaker 1: granted a tourist visa by the Biden administration, and then 39 00:03:13,155 --> 00:03:17,515 Speaker 1: he illegally overstayed that visa. In response, the Biden administration 40 00:03:17,875 --> 00:03:22,635 Speaker 1: gave him a work permit. Suicidal migration must be fully reversed. 41 00:03:24,395 --> 00:03:30,675 Speaker 1: That's remigration. Incidentally, everything else in there is factually inaccurate. 42 00:03:31,235 --> 00:03:35,595 Speaker 1: Visa was overstayed in twenty thirteen, meaning Trump and Miller 43 00:03:35,875 --> 00:03:38,395 Speaker 1: have not just had the last four months to find 44 00:03:38,715 --> 00:03:42,115 Speaker 1: and remove this creature, but they had the entirety of 45 00:03:42,115 --> 00:03:45,995 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen through the beginning of twenty twenty one to 46 00:03:46,035 --> 00:03:49,275 Speaker 1: do so. They did not act against this man because 47 00:03:49,275 --> 00:03:52,675 Speaker 1: he doesn't fit the profile. He was not a sitting duck. 48 00:03:53,395 --> 00:03:56,715 Speaker 1: He was a real danger. And Miller and Nome and 49 00:03:56,795 --> 00:04:00,275 Speaker 1: Homan and the ice dickwads who are too terrified to 50 00:04:00,275 --> 00:04:04,035 Speaker 1: show their faces in public, let alone pursue a real danger, 51 00:04:04,355 --> 00:04:08,115 Speaker 1: don't want to take any chances with anybody who might 52 00:04:08,275 --> 00:04:15,435 Speaker 1: cause a problem. Miller, blood on your hands, scumbag. There 53 00:04:15,515 --> 00:04:19,115 Speaker 1: are people in this country who should not be There 54 00:04:19,195 --> 00:04:23,075 Speaker 1: are people who should be deported or repatriated or detained. 55 00:04:23,675 --> 00:04:28,075 Speaker 1: Every administration has acknowledged this. Every administration has done this. 56 00:04:28,395 --> 00:04:32,035 Speaker 1: The Obama administration did this at a rate higher than 57 00:04:32,035 --> 00:04:36,555 Speaker 1: the Trump one has, largely because they looked for threats, 58 00:04:36,555 --> 00:04:41,315 Speaker 1: not scapegoats, because they were fairly good at finding them. 59 00:04:41,475 --> 00:04:47,875 Speaker 1: The Boulder, Colorado flamethrower terror attack was hard work to 60 00:04:48,035 --> 00:04:50,915 Speaker 1: find who did it. It would have been harder work 61 00:04:51,155 --> 00:04:54,435 Speaker 1: to find who was going to do it. That they 62 00:04:54,475 --> 00:05:01,235 Speaker 1: didn't try is Donald Trump's fault. And what is to 63 00:05:01,315 --> 00:05:04,675 Speaker 1: come after this is even worse and even more per 64 00:05:04,795 --> 00:05:07,915 Speaker 1: formative and even more confirmational of the fact that Trump 65 00:05:08,115 --> 00:05:12,395 Speaker 1: and Miller and Marco Rubio are not looking for criminals 66 00:05:12,435 --> 00:05:15,515 Speaker 1: to remove. They are looking for innocent people and those 67 00:05:15,555 --> 00:05:20,795 Speaker 1: guilty of misdemeanors or things less than misdemeanors to purge, 68 00:05:21,555 --> 00:05:28,275 Speaker 1: to remove, to cleanse. Got little notice last week, but Rubio, 69 00:05:28,435 --> 00:05:32,115 Speaker 1: rapidly rising to the top of the hypocrisy charts to 70 00:05:32,235 --> 00:05:36,595 Speaker 1: replace even Lindsey Graham for largest percentage of soul sold, 71 00:05:37,475 --> 00:05:41,195 Speaker 1: announced a reorganization of the State Department that would in essence, 72 00:05:41,235 --> 00:05:45,315 Speaker 1: eliminate all efforts inside that department to provide a haven 73 00:05:45,435 --> 00:05:48,915 Speaker 1: here for foreign nationals who have helped this country, like 74 00:05:48,955 --> 00:05:52,435 Speaker 1: the thousands of people in Afghanistan who fought the Taliban 75 00:05:52,515 --> 00:05:56,995 Speaker 1: with us. Before Trump surrendered to the Taliban, it would 76 00:05:57,035 --> 00:06:00,955 Speaker 1: eliminate that department and replace it with quote the Office 77 00:06:01,275 --> 00:06:09,395 Speaker 1: of Remigration. Go look up that word remigration on social media. 78 00:06:10,195 --> 00:06:13,955 Speaker 1: Nearly everything you will find on Twitter x will be 79 00:06:15,195 --> 00:06:20,115 Speaker 1: in German. Sometimes it will have been translated from German 80 00:06:20,435 --> 00:06:25,515 Speaker 1: by some pasty white Englishmen with bad teeth associated with 81 00:06:25,675 --> 00:06:30,915 Speaker 1: Nigel Farage. It is the nice way to say ethnic cleansing. 82 00:06:31,155 --> 00:06:34,435 Speaker 1: It is the word of the decade among the far right, 83 00:06:34,515 --> 00:06:38,395 Speaker 1: Neo Nazis and the Nordic Arians. It is what they 84 00:06:38,435 --> 00:06:43,075 Speaker 1: say is their answer to their great paranoid, lunatic fear, 85 00:06:43,995 --> 00:06:48,515 Speaker 1: the great replacement, the theory that white people are to 86 00:06:48,635 --> 00:06:56,155 Speaker 1: be removed and succeeded by everybody else, by everybody who 87 00:06:56,235 --> 00:07:02,355 Speaker 1: isn't white at the moment. Remigration. It is what Nazis 88 00:07:02,435 --> 00:07:07,795 Speaker 1: do in the twenty first century. Marco Rubio wants to 89 00:07:07,915 --> 00:07:11,755 Speaker 1: introduce it into our country, and he is trying to 90 00:07:11,875 --> 00:07:17,515 Speaker 1: do so. Now, let's just pass on the irony that 91 00:07:17,635 --> 00:07:21,635 Speaker 1: most of the European Arians would look at Marco Rubio 92 00:07:21,715 --> 00:07:25,435 Speaker 1: and say he needs to be remigrated. They haven't told 93 00:07:25,475 --> 00:07:31,115 Speaker 1: Marco that part yet. The whole twisted inside out perverted 94 00:07:31,515 --> 00:07:36,915 Speaker 1: anti American, anti democracy, anti humanity approach of Rubio and 95 00:07:36,955 --> 00:07:40,955 Speaker 1: Miller and Holman and Gnome and Ice and Trump was 96 00:07:41,035 --> 00:07:44,315 Speaker 1: summarized in an exchange printed last week by the news 97 00:07:44,315 --> 00:07:48,915 Speaker 1: site Axios, in which an anonymous current Rubio flunky at 98 00:07:48,995 --> 00:07:53,315 Speaker 1: State claimed that we've had remigration before in this country 99 00:07:54,195 --> 00:07:59,915 Speaker 1: because a bureau doing exactly the opposite thing had the 100 00:07:59,955 --> 00:08:05,195 Speaker 1: same name, quote the way that it worked before. Population 101 00:08:05,395 --> 00:08:10,355 Speaker 1: refugee migration was basically an entire bureau dedicated to bringing 102 00:08:10,395 --> 00:08:14,235 Speaker 1: people into the United States, said the State Department official, 103 00:08:14,235 --> 00:08:18,275 Speaker 1: who spoke on condition of anonymity. It had the migration function, 104 00:08:18,555 --> 00:08:22,475 Speaker 1: it's in the name. We're just reversing the flow of 105 00:08:22,635 --> 00:08:26,155 Speaker 1: migrants who shouldn't be here to go out of the country. 106 00:08:28,035 --> 00:08:32,715 Speaker 1: Consider that for a moment, remigration is fine according to 107 00:08:32,795 --> 00:08:38,155 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio's stooges, because we used to call saving people 108 00:08:38,195 --> 00:08:42,355 Speaker 1: from bad countries and bringing them here is the same 109 00:08:42,595 --> 00:08:45,995 Speaker 1: to the Trump criminal gang as taking people from this 110 00:08:46,155 --> 00:08:52,395 Speaker 1: country and sending them into danger into bad countries. This 111 00:08:52,715 --> 00:08:57,275 Speaker 1: is exactly the same as saying a blood transfusion is 112 00:08:57,355 --> 00:09:02,875 Speaker 1: identical to letting somebody bleed to death because blood keeps 113 00:09:02,955 --> 00:09:06,355 Speaker 1: moving through a little hole in you. In both cases, 114 00:09:06,515 --> 00:09:12,555 Speaker 1: we're just quibbling over which direction it's flowing. It would 115 00:09:12,595 --> 00:09:16,875 Speaker 1: be patently monstrous if it were not first so patently stupid. 116 00:09:17,475 --> 00:09:21,035 Speaker 1: But that is the entire existence of Donald Trump in 117 00:09:21,115 --> 00:09:26,955 Speaker 1: one sentence, isn't it? And this isn't new. They sneaked 118 00:09:26,995 --> 00:09:30,075 Speaker 1: it through amid the other ten tons of shit that 119 00:09:30,155 --> 00:09:33,835 Speaker 1: comes out of Trump's mouth every day. In September of 120 00:09:33,915 --> 00:09:37,275 Speaker 1: last year, in the middle of the usual racist hate 121 00:09:37,595 --> 00:09:42,035 Speaker 1: dressed up as border issues, as Trump escalated it towards 122 00:09:42,035 --> 00:09:45,315 Speaker 1: his neo Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden just before 123 00:09:45,355 --> 00:09:49,435 Speaker 1: the election, Trump wrote of his vow to quote return 124 00:09:49,635 --> 00:09:55,235 Speaker 1: Kamala's illegal migrants to their home countries parentheses, also known 125 00:09:55,995 --> 00:10:02,675 Speaker 1: as remigration. Remigration is farther right than even those Trump 126 00:10:02,715 --> 00:10:07,235 Speaker 1: cultists cheering on the day disappearing of the innocence Advocate, 127 00:10:07,995 --> 00:10:12,515 Speaker 1: and Trump is at its forefront, and Trump is bringing 128 00:10:12,555 --> 00:10:19,115 Speaker 1: it here with his little horror Marco Rubio at the helm. 129 00:10:19,515 --> 00:10:22,715 Speaker 1: And the key thing to remember is, like all good 130 00:10:22,875 --> 00:10:26,835 Speaker 1: ethnic cleansing, it is not about finding people who are 131 00:10:26,955 --> 00:10:30,595 Speaker 1: actual threats, like the man who admitted to creating his 132 00:10:30,715 --> 00:10:35,075 Speaker 1: own flamethrowers, and trying to burn Jews to death in Colorado. 133 00:10:36,275 --> 00:10:39,715 Speaker 1: Those people are too much trouble for the ethnic cleansers. 134 00:10:39,995 --> 00:10:45,195 Speaker 1: Ethnic cleansing remigration is about convincing all the white people 135 00:10:45,675 --> 00:10:49,115 Speaker 1: that you don't actually have to search for threats, or 136 00:10:49,275 --> 00:10:53,875 Speaker 1: investigate for threats, or prepare for threats, or separate those 137 00:10:53,915 --> 00:10:56,235 Speaker 1: people who are threats from those people who are not. 138 00:10:56,955 --> 00:11:00,115 Speaker 1: You just round up all the people who you think 139 00:11:00,275 --> 00:11:07,515 Speaker 1: look like threats. That is remigration, that is ethnic cleansing. 140 00:11:08,075 --> 00:11:13,475 Speaker 1: That is Donald Trump's presidency. And that because you no 141 00:11:13,555 --> 00:11:16,475 Speaker 1: longer bothered to look for people who are guilty or 142 00:11:16,515 --> 00:11:19,795 Speaker 1: who might be planning heinous acts. You just look for 143 00:11:19,875 --> 00:11:25,035 Speaker 1: their skin tone and their names. That is why the 144 00:11:25,115 --> 00:11:30,835 Speaker 1: blood of Boulder, Colorado is on the hands of Donald Trump. 145 00:12:01,795 --> 00:12:04,915 Speaker 1: I said this would be a headline based format for 146 00:12:04,955 --> 00:12:08,715 Speaker 1: this special experimental Tuesday edition of the Countdown podcast. So 147 00:12:09,475 --> 00:12:12,515 Speaker 1: here are some headlines. Good news, big surprise in big 148 00:12:12,635 --> 00:12:16,715 Speaker 1: law at big at least the big vshy law. Wall 149 00:12:16,755 --> 00:12:21,075 Speaker 1: Street Journal reports that Oracle, Morgan, Stanley, McDonald's, and at 150 00:12:21,195 --> 00:12:26,275 Speaker 1: least eight other gigantic American corporations have moved at least 151 00:12:26,435 --> 00:12:32,035 Speaker 1: some of their legal representation away from the cowardly collaborators, 152 00:12:32,035 --> 00:12:34,635 Speaker 1: the ones who folded to Trump and agreed to do 153 00:12:34,755 --> 00:12:37,755 Speaker 1: his bidding for him, if only he would spare them, 154 00:12:38,235 --> 00:12:43,835 Speaker 1: collaborators like Paul Weiss and Scadden Arps now known as 155 00:12:44,075 --> 00:12:51,515 Speaker 1: Scadden Arps scumbag. McDonald's dropped its Paul Weiss litigator on 156 00:12:51,595 --> 00:12:55,515 Speaker 1: the eve of trial. Its litigator was Loretta Lynch, the 157 00:12:55,555 --> 00:12:59,915 Speaker 1: Obama Attorney General, who has not yet had the intestinal 158 00:12:59,955 --> 00:13:04,915 Speaker 1: fortitude to resign from Paul Weiss. Finally, somebody showing some 159 00:13:05,035 --> 00:13:14,675 Speaker 1: guts McDonald's, Morgan Stanley Oracle please note Columbia University. It's 160 00:13:14,675 --> 00:13:16,755 Speaker 1: not just the big money bailing out of those who 161 00:13:17,035 --> 00:13:20,835 Speaker 1: hoared themselves for Trump. Tesla sales in Europe have crashed 162 00:13:20,875 --> 00:13:26,555 Speaker 1: faster than well than a musk rocket. Down nineteen percent 163 00:13:26,595 --> 00:13:30,235 Speaker 1: in Spain, down thirty percent in Denmark, down thirty six 164 00:13:30,275 --> 00:13:33,635 Speaker 1: percent in Holland, down fifty four percent in Sweden, down 165 00:13:33,715 --> 00:13:37,595 Speaker 1: sixty seven percent in France, down sixty eight percent in Portugal. 166 00:13:39,275 --> 00:13:43,195 Speaker 1: But who will pay for Ewon's drugs? Hasn't anybody thought 167 00:13:43,195 --> 00:13:49,715 Speaker 1: about Ewon's drugs? What about Elon's drugs? The price of 168 00:13:49,795 --> 00:13:53,195 Speaker 1: depends will go down as a result of this, and 169 00:13:53,275 --> 00:13:56,675 Speaker 1: while most leading Democrats are still trying to throw everything 170 00:13:56,755 --> 00:13:59,995 Speaker 1: into reverse, looking at you, Gavin Newsom, because they think 171 00:14:00,115 --> 00:14:04,555 Speaker 1: all democracy needs is its own Trump, its own Joe Rogan, 172 00:14:04,835 --> 00:14:09,355 Speaker 1: its own Adolf Hitler. Wes Moore may at least be 173 00:14:09,515 --> 00:14:15,315 Speaker 1: driving in the right direction forward more, according to Politico, 174 00:14:15,475 --> 00:14:19,115 Speaker 1: got the real message out of Trump's success. The real 175 00:14:19,235 --> 00:14:24,195 Speaker 1: lesson cut to the chase with the voters. Quoting the 176 00:14:24,235 --> 00:14:28,875 Speaker 1: Maryland governor from last week, urgency is the instrument of change. 177 00:14:28,915 --> 00:14:32,075 Speaker 1: And do you know who understands that really well? Donald Trump? 178 00:14:33,195 --> 00:14:35,035 Speaker 1: Wes Moore went on. I want to be clear. We 179 00:14:35,115 --> 00:14:38,835 Speaker 1: can and we must condemn Donald Trump's reckless actions, but 180 00:14:38,955 --> 00:14:43,315 Speaker 1: we would also be foolish not to learn from his impatience. 181 00:14:45,315 --> 00:14:50,515 Speaker 1: He's right. The point is to promise change as quickly 182 00:14:50,555 --> 00:14:53,395 Speaker 1: as possible, and then do as much of it as 183 00:14:53,435 --> 00:14:57,835 Speaker 1: you can before they try to stop you. What is 184 00:14:57,875 --> 00:15:02,195 Speaker 1: the lesson of twenty twenty five? Have a game plan, 185 00:15:02,875 --> 00:15:07,955 Speaker 1: don't have a party. Have a game plan. Map out 186 00:15:07,995 --> 00:15:11,315 Speaker 1: your first hundred days down to who you are going 187 00:15:11,355 --> 00:15:14,635 Speaker 1: to indict. We saw what happened when Joe Biden thought 188 00:15:14,675 --> 00:15:17,675 Speaker 1: we could just go back to normal, not understanding that 189 00:15:17,795 --> 00:15:21,675 Speaker 1: normal had been destroyed by Trump. We saw what happened 190 00:15:21,915 --> 00:15:25,475 Speaker 1: when he appointed Merrick Garland, who's still thinking about it. 191 00:15:27,275 --> 00:15:30,635 Speaker 1: We saw what happened when Biden dithered on putting them 192 00:15:30,755 --> 00:15:37,235 Speaker 1: all in jail forever. They didn't go to jail. Democratic 193 00:15:37,315 --> 00:15:41,475 Speaker 1: candidates preparing for twenty twenty eight must now vow to 194 00:15:41,715 --> 00:15:49,155 Speaker 1: prosecute everybody and override any and all Trump pardons immediately 195 00:15:49,555 --> 00:15:55,275 Speaker 1: by whatever means are necessary. You want change, do you maga? 196 00:15:56,035 --> 00:16:03,115 Speaker 1: You want remigration? How about packing up Tom Holman, Christy Nome, 197 00:16:03,395 --> 00:16:07,675 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio and Trump at twelve oh one pm January twentieth, 198 00:16:07,955 --> 00:16:11,395 Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine, and putting them on a cargo flight 199 00:16:11,475 --> 00:16:20,435 Speaker 1: to El Salvador before anybody can stop you. Also of 200 00:16:20,475 --> 00:16:22,995 Speaker 1: interest here on this special edition, I have been challenged 201 00:16:23,035 --> 00:16:27,035 Speaker 1: by professional complainer and America's favorite eighty fifth place swimmer 202 00:16:27,155 --> 00:16:32,155 Speaker 1: Riley Gains to a swimming race of some kind to 203 00:16:32,435 --> 00:16:39,155 Speaker 1: prove she is right about everything she whinds about, which 204 00:16:39,195 --> 00:16:45,435 Speaker 1: is everything. Here is my advice, as a veteran of 205 00:16:45,475 --> 00:16:54,315 Speaker 1: fifty years in sports broadcasting. Bet on her, because I'm 206 00:16:54,835 --> 00:17:00,795 Speaker 1: sixty six and Riley Gains is what fifty fifty five 207 00:17:01,355 --> 00:17:07,995 Speaker 1: something like that. That's next This is Countdown. This is 208 00:17:08,075 --> 00:17:23,675 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Oberman, my crazy friend host scripts to 209 00:17:23,835 --> 00:17:29,675 Speaker 1: the news, some headlines, some updates, some snark, and sometimes, 210 00:17:29,795 --> 00:17:32,915 Speaker 1: like in this edition, some stories that are actually just 211 00:17:33,035 --> 00:17:41,555 Speaker 1: about me, some of them like perhaps all This is 212 00:17:41,595 --> 00:17:45,195 Speaker 1: the Countdown podcast and these are the places where there's news. 213 00:17:46,595 --> 00:17:52,915 Speaker 1: Dateline Brazil. So you heard about that Glenn Greenwald video. Yeah, 214 00:17:52,915 --> 00:17:55,275 Speaker 1: that's all I'm going to say about it, except it 215 00:17:55,355 --> 00:18:00,435 Speaker 1: was hardly the worst Glenn Greenwald video of recent date. 216 00:18:01,275 --> 00:18:03,755 Speaker 1: Just over the last week, in fact, just over the 217 00:18:03,795 --> 00:18:08,355 Speaker 1: past weekend. Yesterday, Glenn Greenwald also did a videotaped interview 218 00:18:08,395 --> 00:18:14,035 Speaker 1: with Tucker Carlson which had far more foot worship and sucking, 219 00:18:15,475 --> 00:18:19,795 Speaker 1: not necessarily of feat. He claimed Biden had been sick 220 00:18:19,875 --> 00:18:22,595 Speaker 1: for a five years, ten years, five hundred years, I 221 00:18:22,635 --> 00:18:26,435 Speaker 1: don't know. And let me tell you a story about 222 00:18:26,475 --> 00:18:30,875 Speaker 1: who Glenn Greenwald is. This is from twenty ten, when 223 00:18:30,955 --> 00:18:35,035 Speaker 1: Glenn Greenwald was with Salon and he was not totally 224 00:18:35,155 --> 00:18:38,995 Speaker 1: nuts yet. Joan Walsh was the editor in chief and 225 00:18:39,075 --> 00:18:42,955 Speaker 1: an occasional guest on Countdown, and I mentioned to Joan 226 00:18:43,035 --> 00:18:48,755 Speaker 1: that Joe Scarborough had gotten our contributor to the Countdown 227 00:18:48,795 --> 00:18:57,315 Speaker 1: program on MSNBC coas Marcos Mulitsis, the hosts of the 228 00:18:57,355 --> 00:19:02,035 Speaker 1: proprietor of the Daily Coast website. He'd gotten Marco's band 229 00:19:02,395 --> 00:19:05,635 Speaker 1: because Marcos had made a vague reference on Twitter to 230 00:19:05,715 --> 00:19:08,835 Speaker 1: the death of the assistant, the woman assistant in Joe 231 00:19:08,875 --> 00:19:12,835 Speaker 1: Scarborough's congressional office. There was a valid point in making 232 00:19:12,875 --> 00:19:17,315 Speaker 1: this reference because Joe had insisted that the Democrats would 233 00:19:17,395 --> 00:19:20,715 Speaker 1: never investigate something bad that had happened to somebody, and 234 00:19:20,755 --> 00:19:23,555 Speaker 1: Marcos was pointing out, Oh, an investigation like what happened 235 00:19:23,595 --> 00:19:27,315 Speaker 1: to your assistant in your office when she died? Well, 236 00:19:27,395 --> 00:19:31,315 Speaker 1: Scarborough accused Marcos of accusing him of murder, went to 237 00:19:31,395 --> 00:19:33,955 Speaker 1: our bosses, and because he and one of my bosses 238 00:19:34,035 --> 00:19:36,915 Speaker 1: used to like to go drinking together, he got him 239 00:19:36,995 --> 00:19:41,675 Speaker 1: to ban Marcos Militsus from my show. So somebody else 240 00:19:42,275 --> 00:19:45,715 Speaker 1: getting one of my regulars banned from my show, which 241 00:19:45,755 --> 00:19:48,235 Speaker 1: made the company one hundred million dollars a year, some 242 00:19:48,315 --> 00:19:52,555 Speaker 1: of which was spent on backstopping the money losing Jaw 243 00:19:52,715 --> 00:19:55,995 Speaker 1: Scarborough program, which has now proved to be what it 244 00:19:56,075 --> 00:20:00,555 Speaker 1: always was at heart, a conservative blowing with the wind. 245 00:20:01,115 --> 00:20:04,315 Speaker 1: He's back to blowing with the Trump wind and you 246 00:20:04,355 --> 00:20:06,955 Speaker 1: can make the next stage of that joke for yourself 247 00:20:07,315 --> 00:20:09,675 Speaker 1: in any event. I mentioned this to Joan Walsh in 248 00:20:09,755 --> 00:20:12,795 Speaker 1: a conversation before or after she was on the show 249 00:20:12,835 --> 00:20:15,355 Speaker 1: one night, and she said, you know, Glenn Greenwald is 250 00:20:15,435 --> 00:20:18,595 Speaker 1: really upset. He'd heard something about this and would love 251 00:20:18,635 --> 00:20:20,515 Speaker 1: to be able to write something, even if you have 252 00:20:20,595 --> 00:20:23,835 Speaker 1: to do it anonymously with him. And I said, well, 253 00:20:23,835 --> 00:20:25,435 Speaker 1: have him give me a call or shoot me an 254 00:20:25,435 --> 00:20:28,595 Speaker 1: email or whatever. And I can't remember if he emailed 255 00:20:28,635 --> 00:20:30,595 Speaker 1: me or shot me a call or what he did. 256 00:20:31,355 --> 00:20:33,515 Speaker 1: I don't remember which way it was, and I don't 257 00:20:33,555 --> 00:20:35,835 Speaker 1: have the records of this anymore, but I do remember 258 00:20:35,875 --> 00:20:40,475 Speaker 1: the conversation, whether it was written or actually oral au 259 00:20:40,635 --> 00:20:45,355 Speaker 1: are al. Glenn wanted to know if this was true, 260 00:20:45,435 --> 00:20:49,475 Speaker 1: if Scarborough had connived to get Malitsus thrown off MSNBC 261 00:20:49,675 --> 00:20:52,155 Speaker 1: on a permanent basis, and I told him what I 262 00:20:52,235 --> 00:20:53,995 Speaker 1: knew about it, and I said, now it has to 263 00:20:54,035 --> 00:20:57,435 Speaker 1: be completely off the record, because I can't I can't 264 00:20:57,475 --> 00:20:59,995 Speaker 1: talk to you about this. I can't reveal this information. 265 00:21:00,115 --> 00:21:02,395 Speaker 1: They could fire me, and I don't want them to 266 00:21:02,435 --> 00:21:05,195 Speaker 1: fire me because I am preparing to quit the place. 267 00:21:05,755 --> 00:21:09,195 Speaker 1: He said, I agree completely I will always keep your confidence. 268 00:21:09,355 --> 00:21:11,435 Speaker 1: I have never given up a source. I have that 269 00:21:11,515 --> 00:21:14,475 Speaker 1: same journalistic standard that you do. I have great respect 270 00:21:14,475 --> 00:21:16,635 Speaker 1: for your work. Blah blah blah blah blah. And he 271 00:21:16,715 --> 00:21:21,075 Speaker 1: published some kind of story about it, citing an anonymous 272 00:21:21,435 --> 00:21:25,115 Speaker 1: NBC source. He didn't even point me out as the 273 00:21:25,155 --> 00:21:27,795 Speaker 1: person who had talked to him, And apparently he had 274 00:21:27,875 --> 00:21:31,235 Speaker 1: many other sources for this story. Not exactly a secret, 275 00:21:31,395 --> 00:21:34,435 Speaker 1: but obviously I would have been the definitive one. Marcos 276 00:21:34,515 --> 00:21:36,555 Speaker 1: knew about it. Obviously too, he'd got in the phone 277 00:21:36,555 --> 00:21:40,115 Speaker 1: call from the MSNBC executive who did this act on 278 00:21:40,195 --> 00:21:45,075 Speaker 1: behalf of his pet, Joe Scarborough. So something happened in 279 00:21:45,115 --> 00:21:47,715 Speaker 1: the ensuing couple of days. And I don't even remember 280 00:21:47,715 --> 00:21:50,955 Speaker 1: what this was, but I was critical of some detail, 281 00:21:51,195 --> 00:21:55,675 Speaker 1: some minor conclusion in a Glenn Greenwald article and said 282 00:21:55,715 --> 00:21:59,915 Speaker 1: so on countdown, and the next thing I knew, Glenn Greenwald, 283 00:22:00,035 --> 00:22:03,115 Speaker 1: I believe, again, was on the phone telling me that 284 00:22:03,195 --> 00:22:06,395 Speaker 1: if I did not rich tacked to my criticism of him, 285 00:22:06,955 --> 00:22:09,955 Speaker 1: he would announce that I was the source for his 286 00:22:10,035 --> 00:22:16,555 Speaker 1: story about Marcos Malitsus being banned in effect by Joe Scarborough. Theoretically, 287 00:22:16,555 --> 00:22:20,795 Speaker 1: at least jeopardizing my employment at NBC and theoretically setting 288 00:22:20,795 --> 00:22:23,475 Speaker 1: me up to be fired for cause for speaking to 289 00:22:23,555 --> 00:22:30,315 Speaker 1: him without permission. That is who Glenn Greenwald was in 290 00:22:30,395 --> 00:22:35,355 Speaker 1: twenty ten. So if you saw what I saw in 291 00:22:35,435 --> 00:22:38,635 Speaker 1: the six or seven seconds I watched of that other video, 292 00:22:38,835 --> 00:22:41,955 Speaker 1: not the Tucker Carlson one. The Tucker Carlson stuff doesn't 293 00:22:41,955 --> 00:22:45,235 Speaker 1: surprise me in the least. Glenn Greenwald has no standards, 294 00:22:45,395 --> 00:22:49,115 Speaker 1: and certainly no standards that are relied upon to exist 295 00:22:49,275 --> 00:22:51,995 Speaker 1: in the same way six months from now, at alone, 296 00:22:52,035 --> 00:22:58,235 Speaker 1: fifteen years from now, Glenn Greenwald dressed up in like 297 00:22:58,315 --> 00:23:04,915 Speaker 1: a sexy French woman maids costume doesn't surprise you. Know. 298 00:23:05,515 --> 00:23:07,995 Speaker 1: It's like, oh, I knew he must have had one 299 00:23:08,035 --> 00:23:14,435 Speaker 1: of those Glenn Greenwald dateline eighty fifth place in some 300 00:23:14,675 --> 00:23:18,795 Speaker 1: swimming pool somewhere. Riley Gaines is back. I happen to 301 00:23:18,835 --> 00:23:21,795 Speaker 1: think this might be the greatest self own of the 302 00:23:21,795 --> 00:23:26,235 Speaker 1: modern social media era. I pointed out once again. I 303 00:23:26,275 --> 00:23:29,275 Speaker 1: think it was this time after Lynda McMahon, the secretary 304 00:23:29,315 --> 00:23:32,075 Speaker 1: of I Don't Have an Education, claimed that one of 305 00:23:32,075 --> 00:23:35,315 Speaker 1: our great Olympic swimmers, Riley Gaines, had had her career 306 00:23:35,395 --> 00:23:38,875 Speaker 1: ruined and something like her Olympic medals denied because she 307 00:23:38,955 --> 00:23:42,075 Speaker 1: had once had to face or she was beaten by 308 00:23:42,355 --> 00:23:46,595 Speaker 1: a transgendered swimmer. In point of fact, Riley Gaines never 309 00:23:46,635 --> 00:23:50,235 Speaker 1: participated in the Olympics because she was a mediocrity. She 310 00:23:50,355 --> 00:23:54,115 Speaker 1: finished fifth, tied for fifth in the race one by 311 00:23:54,195 --> 00:23:57,635 Speaker 1: Leah Thomas, the former male who was swimming as a 312 00:23:57,675 --> 00:24:00,875 Speaker 1: woman for Penn State. Whenever this was in like the 313 00:24:00,995 --> 00:24:04,955 Speaker 1: last known incident of a major sporting event in solving 314 00:24:04,995 --> 00:24:08,155 Speaker 1: a transgender athlete. Because all the time we spend talking 315 00:24:08,155 --> 00:24:10,915 Speaker 1: about this and the Republicans wringing their hands because of 316 00:24:10,915 --> 00:24:13,635 Speaker 1: their secret fear that one day they'll wake up wanting 317 00:24:13,675 --> 00:24:16,595 Speaker 1: to become transgendered, because that's what this is all about, 318 00:24:16,835 --> 00:24:19,355 Speaker 1: just as their hatred of gaye is all about their 319 00:24:19,395 --> 00:24:22,995 Speaker 1: secret desire to be gay. Look it up. In any event, 320 00:24:23,555 --> 00:24:29,315 Speaker 1: the whole thing behind this is they would rather spend months, years, 321 00:24:29,755 --> 00:24:34,195 Speaker 1: decades debating and of course demonizing the people involved, rather 322 00:24:34,275 --> 00:24:37,275 Speaker 1: than spending the same amount of time looking at each 323 00:24:37,435 --> 00:24:41,675 Speaker 1: case individually of there being a transgendered athlete competing against 324 00:24:42,435 --> 00:24:45,875 Speaker 1: women who were born women and saying, well, what kind 325 00:24:45,915 --> 00:24:48,115 Speaker 1: of balance can we make here? It's like the horse 326 00:24:48,195 --> 00:24:51,315 Speaker 1: races if the jockeys are different weights. In a horse race, 327 00:24:51,555 --> 00:24:53,675 Speaker 1: if all the jockeys are one hundred and thirty five 328 00:24:53,795 --> 00:24:55,715 Speaker 1: except for that one guy who weighs only one hundred 329 00:24:55,715 --> 00:24:58,075 Speaker 1: and thirty two pounds, they give him three pounds of 330 00:24:58,075 --> 00:25:00,435 Speaker 1: weights to put in his shoes so he weighs the 331 00:25:00,475 --> 00:25:03,275 Speaker 1: same as the other jockeys. Otherwise, you'd win the race 332 00:25:03,315 --> 00:25:06,155 Speaker 1: based on how light the jockey was, and someday somebody 333 00:25:06,195 --> 00:25:08,715 Speaker 1: would win a race with a forty seven pound kid 334 00:25:09,075 --> 00:25:12,155 Speaker 1: running the race on behalf of the horse owner. So 335 00:25:12,355 --> 00:25:14,995 Speaker 1: you could just do that by I don't know. In swimming, 336 00:25:15,715 --> 00:25:18,675 Speaker 1: add a second to the athlete who had the longer, 337 00:25:19,155 --> 00:25:22,555 Speaker 1: long bones, who had the male physique or part of 338 00:25:22,595 --> 00:25:26,435 Speaker 1: it before they were transgendered. It's not impossible. My friend 339 00:25:26,435 --> 00:25:30,155 Speaker 1: Renee Richards, who happens to be a transgender athlete who 340 00:25:30,235 --> 00:25:32,795 Speaker 1: won a title at the US Open as a woman 341 00:25:33,155 --> 00:25:35,915 Speaker 1: and did not destroy women's tennis in the process, and 342 00:25:35,955 --> 00:25:39,035 Speaker 1: did not beat Martina Navratilova and was accepted in the 343 00:25:39,075 --> 00:25:41,915 Speaker 1: community and did not destroy things, she has suggested that 344 00:25:41,955 --> 00:25:44,995 Speaker 1: perhaps this is the solution. You play a game in 345 00:25:44,995 --> 00:25:48,315 Speaker 1: tennis or a match in tennis, and the transgender athlete 346 00:25:48,355 --> 00:25:52,075 Speaker 1: starts having lost the first game, so that the other athlete, 347 00:25:52,075 --> 00:25:56,115 Speaker 1: the woman in the race, in the game, in the match, 348 00:25:56,675 --> 00:25:59,235 Speaker 1: is already ahead one nothing, and then you start something. 349 00:25:59,475 --> 00:26:03,155 Speaker 1: You could spend a lot of time examining each case 350 00:26:04,195 --> 00:26:08,075 Speaker 1: and reside of it equitably to everybody's belief. In one 351 00:26:08,435 --> 00:26:11,075 Speaker 1: millions of the time that has been wasted, turning this 352 00:26:11,235 --> 00:26:15,035 Speaker 1: into a debate as if the world is filled with 353 00:26:15,195 --> 00:26:19,075 Speaker 1: male athletes who decided to cut off their penises so 354 00:26:19,115 --> 00:26:23,595 Speaker 1: they could win a fricking tennis match. I've said it 355 00:26:23,635 --> 00:26:26,035 Speaker 1: before and I'll say it again. You will find lots 356 00:26:26,075 --> 00:26:28,635 Speaker 1: of male athletes who will joke that they'd cut off 357 00:26:28,675 --> 00:26:32,195 Speaker 1: a testicle to win. You've never heard one say they'd 358 00:26:32,195 --> 00:26:34,835 Speaker 1: cut off something a little bit more important in the 359 00:26:34,875 --> 00:26:40,915 Speaker 1: same general physiological area. In any event, Riley Gaines believes 360 00:26:40,915 --> 00:26:44,475 Speaker 1: her life was ruined by a transgender swimmer. She would 361 00:26:44,515 --> 00:26:47,275 Speaker 1: have finished I don't know, eighty fourth in the Olympic 362 00:26:47,355 --> 00:26:50,155 Speaker 1: trials rather than eighty fifth. She would be a little 363 00:26:50,235 --> 00:26:53,955 Speaker 1: less mediocre without transgendered athletes. Therefore, she has become a 364 00:26:53,995 --> 00:26:57,835 Speaker 1: campaigner against them. Her latest big thing was complaining about 365 00:26:57,835 --> 00:27:01,235 Speaker 1: the University of Maryland selecting as its speaker for its 366 00:27:01,275 --> 00:27:06,155 Speaker 1: commencement address Kermit the Frog. Then, I don't know just 367 00:27:06,715 --> 00:27:10,435 Speaker 1: to throw out a name, Riley Gaines. I think you 368 00:27:10,475 --> 00:27:13,395 Speaker 1: can make the comparison there and understand that Riley Gaines 369 00:27:13,475 --> 00:27:15,955 Speaker 1: is not considered to be as smart as Kermit the Frog. 370 00:27:17,035 --> 00:27:20,555 Speaker 1: Certainly she doesn't sound as unusual as Kermitt the Frog, 371 00:27:21,315 --> 00:27:25,635 Speaker 1: and she has more broad human intelligence than Kermit the Frog. 372 00:27:26,235 --> 00:27:27,955 Speaker 1: In any event, that was the latest thing. And of 373 00:27:27,955 --> 00:27:31,235 Speaker 1: course Kermit the Frog and the creator of the Uppets, 374 00:27:31,315 --> 00:27:35,075 Speaker 1: Jim Henson, have a long standing connection to the University 375 00:27:35,115 --> 00:27:38,315 Speaker 1: of Maryland. There's a statue of them there. There is 376 00:27:38,555 --> 00:27:42,715 Speaker 1: history there. But I digress the self own I promised you. 377 00:27:43,635 --> 00:27:46,635 Speaker 1: I wrote about Linda McMahon making a big deal and 378 00:27:46,675 --> 00:27:49,195 Speaker 1: pointing out that she finished eighty fifth in the Olympic Trials. 379 00:27:49,235 --> 00:27:51,755 Speaker 1: She finished tied for fifth the only race. If there 380 00:27:51,755 --> 00:27:54,555 Speaker 1: had been no transgendered athlete, she might have finished tied 381 00:27:54,595 --> 00:27:59,195 Speaker 1: for fourth. Riley Gaines responded, I'm literally one of the 382 00:27:59,275 --> 00:28:05,235 Speaker 1: fastest Americans of all time. But okay, l lol. If 383 00:28:05,275 --> 00:28:07,195 Speaker 1: you're one of the fastest Americans of all time, how 384 00:28:07,195 --> 00:28:11,515 Speaker 1: come you finished eighty fifth? I'd challenge Keith Olderman to 385 00:28:11,555 --> 00:28:13,835 Speaker 1: a race where the loser puts up money to the 386 00:28:13,915 --> 00:28:16,515 Speaker 1: charity of the winner's choice, but no one wants to 387 00:28:16,515 --> 00:28:23,715 Speaker 1: see him in a speedo. Yeah, deh, this is a 388 00:28:23,715 --> 00:28:28,355 Speaker 1: brilliant idea, though, Riley Gaines. I accept your challenge to 389 00:28:28,475 --> 00:28:32,155 Speaker 1: a race, a swimming race. A sixty six year old 390 00:28:32,195 --> 00:28:36,315 Speaker 1: man who has not been in a swimming pool to 391 00:28:36,595 --> 00:28:41,515 Speaker 1: swim in the swimming sense of the term since nineteen 392 00:28:41,595 --> 00:28:45,395 Speaker 1: seventy one, who has an arthritic left knee with enough 393 00:28:45,435 --> 00:28:48,395 Speaker 1: empty space in it that he could keep his keys 394 00:28:48,675 --> 00:28:53,075 Speaker 1: in it, who has chronic stress fractures in his right foot. Me, 395 00:28:53,595 --> 00:29:00,635 Speaker 1: sixty six year old guy, somebody you could finally beat 396 00:29:01,035 --> 00:29:05,555 Speaker 1: Dateline Tarrytown, New York yesterday, Hackley School, my alma mater 397 00:29:06,075 --> 00:29:10,035 Speaker 1: fifty years ago, which was the last time I actually 398 00:29:10,035 --> 00:29:14,395 Speaker 1: got into a pool to swim competitively. Dear members of 399 00:29:14,435 --> 00:29:17,435 Speaker 1: the Hackley kum Lauday Society, you are cordially invited to 400 00:29:17,475 --> 00:29:21,395 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five Kum Loudi Society Induction Ceremony Jude 401 00:29:21,395 --> 00:29:24,035 Speaker 1: twas two in black Box Theater located in the Center 402 00:29:24,035 --> 00:29:26,555 Speaker 1: for the Creative Arts and Technology at Hackley School. Celebrad 403 00:29:26,595 --> 00:29:28,835 Speaker 1: Hackeys have founded in nineteen oh six. The kum Loude 404 00:29:28,835 --> 00:29:31,195 Speaker 1: Society is an association of three hundred and eighty two 405 00:29:31,235 --> 00:29:33,875 Speaker 1: chapters in the United States and abroad dedicated to honoring 406 00:29:33,915 --> 00:29:37,355 Speaker 1: scholastic achievement in secondary schools. Each chapter is limited to 407 00:29:37,395 --> 00:29:41,195 Speaker 1: electing a maximum of twenty percent of the senior class 408 00:29:41,435 --> 00:29:44,355 Speaker 1: per year. This is at least the fifty fifth ceremony 409 00:29:44,395 --> 00:29:46,875 Speaker 1: at Hackey. It's probably closer to the one hundred and nineteenth. 410 00:29:46,915 --> 00:29:49,315 Speaker 1: I can only refer to the ones I can testify to, 411 00:29:49,435 --> 00:29:51,475 Speaker 1: and it's fifty five years since I got to Hackley, 412 00:29:51,635 --> 00:29:53,275 Speaker 1: so they've been at least fifty five of them. And 413 00:29:53,315 --> 00:29:56,475 Speaker 1: I was invited because I am a member. I was 414 00:29:56,475 --> 00:29:58,835 Speaker 1: one of the seven or eight members inducted to the 415 00:29:58,915 --> 00:30:02,835 Speaker 1: kum Laude Society in nineteen seventy five. A certain grade 416 00:30:02,875 --> 00:30:05,675 Speaker 1: point average based on a percentage of the class is 417 00:30:05,995 --> 00:30:08,475 Speaker 1: set as the cutoff points, and I don't remember what 418 00:30:08,515 --> 00:30:10,555 Speaker 1: it was. It might have been a three point seven 419 00:30:10,675 --> 00:30:12,915 Speaker 1: or three point eight. I don't know, but I had 420 00:30:12,955 --> 00:30:17,795 Speaker 1: it and I was admitted, and I can now reveal 421 00:30:18,195 --> 00:30:21,035 Speaker 1: it's a total fraud. I don't mean it's a total 422 00:30:21,075 --> 00:30:23,395 Speaker 1: fraud in that it helped me get into college when 423 00:30:23,435 --> 00:30:26,155 Speaker 1: I didn't belong there. The college grades on which I 424 00:30:26,275 --> 00:30:29,835 Speaker 1: was judged preceded the events that I'm going to talk about. 425 00:30:30,115 --> 00:30:32,835 Speaker 1: I'm not saying that anybody took money for this, or 426 00:30:32,875 --> 00:30:36,315 Speaker 1: that anybody did anything other than did some common sense here. 427 00:30:36,755 --> 00:30:39,435 Speaker 1: This was not planned and at one of those rare 428 00:30:39,475 --> 00:30:43,595 Speaker 1: events where the law of unexpected consequences turns out to 429 00:30:43,595 --> 00:30:46,995 Speaker 1: be positive for everybody except whoever would have been behind 430 00:30:47,035 --> 00:30:48,755 Speaker 1: me on the list who actually should be in the 431 00:30:48,795 --> 00:30:52,355 Speaker 1: kum Laude Society. As I have said many times again, 432 00:30:52,435 --> 00:30:55,395 Speaker 1: I'd already gotten into my colleges that accepted me based 433 00:30:55,435 --> 00:30:57,075 Speaker 1: on grades that had nothing to do with the cum 434 00:30:57,155 --> 00:31:00,355 Speaker 1: Laude Society. So I didn't need it to get into college. 435 00:31:00,675 --> 00:31:02,795 Speaker 1: I didn't ask for it, I didn't check on it. 436 00:31:02,835 --> 00:31:04,435 Speaker 1: When they said you're going to show up for the 437 00:31:04,435 --> 00:31:07,115 Speaker 1: saraheremony tomorrow, I said, what ceremony? They said? Here in 438 00:31:07,115 --> 00:31:10,115 Speaker 1: the cum Laude Society? And I burst into laughter. Because 439 00:31:10,115 --> 00:31:14,315 Speaker 1: of the following story, I was mistaken as a child 440 00:31:14,395 --> 00:31:16,995 Speaker 1: for a math genius. In point of fact, I just 441 00:31:17,155 --> 00:31:20,995 Speaker 1: liked playing with small numbers. I literally had a box 442 00:31:21,075 --> 00:31:25,315 Speaker 1: full of numbers magnetic numbers, plastic numbers with magnets in 443 00:31:25,315 --> 00:31:27,235 Speaker 1: the back, and I like to play with the numbers. 444 00:31:27,235 --> 00:31:30,275 Speaker 1: And I loved numbers. And my interest in sports originates 445 00:31:30,275 --> 00:31:32,795 Speaker 1: from the numbers on the backs of the baseball cards, 446 00:31:32,915 --> 00:31:35,155 Speaker 1: and the numbers on the backs of the players, and 447 00:31:35,235 --> 00:31:38,155 Speaker 1: all the numbers in the statistics on the baseball cards. 448 00:31:38,275 --> 00:31:41,515 Speaker 1: That's my interest in it. I was a numbers freak, 449 00:31:41,595 --> 00:31:44,395 Speaker 1: but I was not a math prodigy. This was a mistake. 450 00:31:45,275 --> 00:31:49,075 Speaker 1: Several several people were involved in making this mistake, and 451 00:31:49,275 --> 00:31:51,835 Speaker 1: I learned it faster than they did. I was not 452 00:31:51,995 --> 00:31:54,035 Speaker 1: a math prodigy. I just like to sit there and 453 00:31:54,235 --> 00:31:57,875 Speaker 1: you know, add forty seven digit numbers or multiply them, 454 00:31:57,915 --> 00:32:00,675 Speaker 1: just to see if I could do it. That didn't 455 00:32:00,675 --> 00:32:03,955 Speaker 1: imply that I could do anything else, including divide. Once 456 00:32:03,955 --> 00:32:07,795 Speaker 1: we got into I began to flounder, and then later 457 00:32:07,875 --> 00:32:11,355 Speaker 1: on I really hit the wall. I hit the wall 458 00:32:11,395 --> 00:32:14,675 Speaker 1: as a senior in a class called Math five, and 459 00:32:14,835 --> 00:32:17,435 Speaker 1: Math five was taught by the head of the math department, 460 00:32:17,795 --> 00:32:20,995 Speaker 1: Jerry Murphy, a very nice, easygoing guy with a great 461 00:32:21,075 --> 00:32:23,915 Speaker 1: sardonic sense of humor. And when we got into the 462 00:32:23,955 --> 00:32:27,595 Speaker 1: trigonometry problems, he put one up on the board, six 463 00:32:27,715 --> 00:32:31,595 Speaker 1: or eight lines of x's and division marks and square 464 00:32:31,675 --> 00:32:35,795 Speaker 1: roots and equal signs. And I looked at it, and 465 00:32:35,835 --> 00:32:38,195 Speaker 1: then I turned my head upside down, and I looked 466 00:32:38,235 --> 00:32:41,515 Speaker 1: at it upside down, and it looked exactly the same. 467 00:32:42,355 --> 00:32:44,355 Speaker 1: And then I put one hand over my left eye 468 00:32:44,395 --> 00:32:46,755 Speaker 1: and looked at it, and one hand over my right 469 00:32:46,795 --> 00:32:49,035 Speaker 1: eye and looked at it, and it all looked exactly 470 00:32:49,075 --> 00:32:51,835 Speaker 1: the same. And I raised my hand and I said, 471 00:32:51,875 --> 00:32:55,795 Speaker 1: mister Murphy, which part is the question and which part 472 00:32:55,835 --> 00:33:00,435 Speaker 1: is the answer? And he went, oh, you've hit the 473 00:33:00,475 --> 00:33:03,835 Speaker 1: math wall. And I said, I thought I heard something. 474 00:33:04,115 --> 00:33:07,715 Speaker 1: He said, come see me after class. There were three 475 00:33:07,755 --> 00:33:10,555 Speaker 1: of us who went to see him after class, Three 476 00:33:10,595 --> 00:33:14,355 Speaker 1: of us, otherwise intelligent math students who had gotten a's 477 00:33:14,435 --> 00:33:17,675 Speaker 1: and b's in math throughout our high school careers, who 478 00:33:17,715 --> 00:33:21,195 Speaker 1: had suddenly hit that point in which that could have 479 00:33:21,315 --> 00:33:29,315 Speaker 1: been instructions on how to install a humidifier written in 480 00:33:29,475 --> 00:33:33,075 Speaker 1: Chinese up there on that blackboard, as well as a 481 00:33:33,115 --> 00:33:35,475 Speaker 1: math problem. We couldn't have told the difference. And mister 482 00:33:35,515 --> 00:33:38,275 Speaker 1: Murphy said, this is very easy. Don't worry about it. 483 00:33:38,395 --> 00:33:41,155 Speaker 1: I hit my math wall. It's why I'm not doctor Murphy. 484 00:33:41,435 --> 00:33:43,995 Speaker 1: I was on my second day of working one of 485 00:33:44,035 --> 00:33:48,755 Speaker 1: those equations that they would give you in math's college 486 00:33:48,915 --> 00:33:50,995 Speaker 1: that would take two or three days for you to solve. 487 00:33:51,075 --> 00:33:53,835 Speaker 1: And I was so far behind on day two that 488 00:33:53,915 --> 00:33:58,835 Speaker 1: I burst into tears. And my wife said, Jerry, it's 489 00:33:58,875 --> 00:34:01,475 Speaker 1: probably time for you to drop out, and I said, 490 00:34:01,515 --> 00:34:03,315 Speaker 1: you know, you're right. I'll just go become a math 491 00:34:03,315 --> 00:34:06,475 Speaker 1: teacher and teach the stuff I understand and not spend 492 00:34:06,475 --> 00:34:09,075 Speaker 1: the rest of my life trying to understand the things 493 00:34:09,195 --> 00:34:12,955 Speaker 1: I'm not wired to understand. He said, this is what 494 00:34:12,995 --> 00:34:15,395 Speaker 1: I want you to do. Go down to the registrar's 495 00:34:15,475 --> 00:34:20,475 Speaker 1: office and change this class from a graded class ABCDF 496 00:34:20,755 --> 00:34:24,475 Speaker 1: to a pass fail. I will pass you under the 497 00:34:24,475 --> 00:34:30,315 Speaker 1: following circumstances. You and you, and you Olberman, especially you. 498 00:34:30,315 --> 00:34:32,355 Speaker 1: You come in every day and I don't want to 499 00:34:32,395 --> 00:34:34,235 Speaker 1: hear a word out of you. I don't want you 500 00:34:34,355 --> 00:34:37,115 Speaker 1: talking to anybody else. I don't want you egging anybody 501 00:34:37,115 --> 00:34:40,195 Speaker 1: else on. I don't want you Oberman, making any quips. 502 00:34:41,035 --> 00:34:44,555 Speaker 1: I just want you sitting there quietly. You may bring newspapers. 503 00:34:44,995 --> 00:34:47,395 Speaker 1: The only noise I want to hear from you during 504 00:34:47,435 --> 00:34:50,155 Speaker 1: the class is the sound of you passing newspapers. Back 505 00:34:50,155 --> 00:34:54,715 Speaker 1: and forth. If you actually understand something, raise your hand 506 00:34:54,995 --> 00:34:57,515 Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it after the class. Otherwise I 507 00:34:57,515 --> 00:35:00,275 Speaker 1: don't want to know you're here. I'll pass you and 508 00:35:00,315 --> 00:35:01,795 Speaker 1: that will be that. I'm not going to keep you 509 00:35:01,835 --> 00:35:03,995 Speaker 1: from graduating because you hit the same math while I 510 00:35:04,075 --> 00:35:07,995 Speaker 1: did only little earlier. That was great. Annie said, one 511 00:35:08,035 --> 00:35:10,995 Speaker 1: more thing. You guys do this new Money Python series. 512 00:35:11,035 --> 00:35:13,715 Speaker 1: You watch this Monty Python show every night Sunday at 513 00:35:13,755 --> 00:35:16,195 Speaker 1: ten thirty, and you come in talking about it every 514 00:35:16,235 --> 00:35:18,475 Speaker 1: Monday morning. I want you to come into this class 515 00:35:18,715 --> 00:35:22,475 Speaker 1: and reenact as best you can the best skit from 516 00:35:22,475 --> 00:35:24,635 Speaker 1: the latest Monty Python show. Because I go to bed 517 00:35:24,675 --> 00:35:28,475 Speaker 1: at ten o'clock every night. We had met Missus Murphy, 518 00:35:28,515 --> 00:35:30,915 Speaker 1: so we were not surprised by that. In the slightest, 519 00:35:31,235 --> 00:35:33,915 Speaker 1: if anybody could get that class quiet in a hurry, 520 00:35:34,075 --> 00:35:37,275 Speaker 1: it would be when Missus Murphy would stop by. There 521 00:35:37,475 --> 00:35:41,275 Speaker 1: was a reason to consider maybe pursuing math a little bit. Further. 522 00:35:41,995 --> 00:35:46,395 Speaker 1: Missus Murphy liked math guys in any event, so we 523 00:35:46,435 --> 00:35:49,035 Speaker 1: would come in every Monday morning and we did the 524 00:35:49,075 --> 00:35:51,875 Speaker 1: parrot sketch from Monty Python, and then sat down and 525 00:35:51,915 --> 00:35:54,075 Speaker 1: I'd read the New York Daily News which I brought in, 526 00:35:54,115 --> 00:35:55,675 Speaker 1: and one of my friends would read the New York 527 00:35:55,715 --> 00:35:57,715 Speaker 1: Post that he brought in, and the third friend would 528 00:35:57,715 --> 00:35:59,355 Speaker 1: have the Times, and then when we were done, we'd 529 00:35:59,355 --> 00:36:01,275 Speaker 1: just pass it along and then we left and we 530 00:36:01,355 --> 00:36:05,555 Speaker 1: all got passes instead of fails or d minuses. So 531 00:36:05,635 --> 00:36:09,555 Speaker 1: my kum Lauday graduation record, the fact that I was 532 00:36:09,595 --> 00:36:13,115 Speaker 1: invited to the Kumlaude Society and have for fifty years 533 00:36:13,155 --> 00:36:17,675 Speaker 1: been in the Kumlaudee Society is a total unmitigated fraud. 534 00:36:18,595 --> 00:36:21,595 Speaker 1: Thank you, Jerry Murphy, because if you had not committed 535 00:36:21,595 --> 00:36:25,435 Speaker 1: that fraud and I had not participated with you, I 536 00:36:25,435 --> 00:36:28,475 Speaker 1: would not be in the Kumlaude Society. I would instead 537 00:36:28,515 --> 00:36:31,835 Speaker 1: be at Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York, in my 538 00:36:31,995 --> 00:36:36,435 Speaker 1: fifty first year as a senior who had failed math 539 00:36:36,595 --> 00:36:42,915 Speaker 1: five fifty years in a row. Dateline Washington and the 540 00:36:42,995 --> 00:36:45,955 Speaker 1: Washington Post. One of the few remaining assets of that 541 00:36:46,035 --> 00:36:49,595 Speaker 1: newspaper is Philip Bump, especially his Saturday newsletter how to 542 00:36:49,635 --> 00:36:54,435 Speaker 1: read this chart? Imagine my surprise at this. CNN's Ariel 543 00:36:54,635 --> 00:36:58,155 Speaker 1: Edwards Levy has this annoying habit of finding weird, interesting 544 00:36:58,235 --> 00:37:02,115 Speaker 1: poll results that I feel compelled to explore This week, 545 00:37:02,875 --> 00:37:05,555 Speaker 1: Bump went on she for some reason and found twenty 546 00:37:05,595 --> 00:37:09,075 Speaker 1: ten polling from Pew Research Center in which respondents were 547 00:37:09,115 --> 00:37:13,075 Speaker 1: asked whether they knew anyone named Adam Allen Bruce or 548 00:37:13,115 --> 00:37:16,715 Speaker 1: one of nine other options. As it turns out, people 549 00:37:16,795 --> 00:37:21,795 Speaker 1: reported being least likely to know Walters and most likely 550 00:37:21,875 --> 00:37:26,835 Speaker 1: to know Rachel's. In fact, according to the charts, thirty 551 00:37:26,875 --> 00:37:30,155 Speaker 1: four percent knew a Walter, only thirty four percent new 552 00:37:30,195 --> 00:37:33,715 Speaker 1: a Walter, but fifty three percent knew somebody named Rachel. 553 00:37:34,195 --> 00:37:37,755 Speaker 1: At at least ten percent new at least three Rachel's. 554 00:37:38,555 --> 00:37:40,275 Speaker 1: I saw this chart and thought, you know, I have 555 00:37:40,355 --> 00:37:46,035 Speaker 1: to call Rachel and Rachel and Rachel. And here's the punchline. 556 00:37:46,075 --> 00:37:50,795 Speaker 1: The poll, Bump wrote, also asked respondents to identify the 557 00:37:50,835 --> 00:37:54,195 Speaker 1: weirdest name they could think of. The winner, by a 558 00:37:54,315 --> 00:38:01,195 Speaker 1: wide margin, Keith. I have reached out to Ms. Edwards 559 00:38:01,275 --> 00:38:05,075 Speaker 1: Levy and mister Bump for more information on this. I'd 560 00:38:05,075 --> 00:38:08,395 Speaker 1: have to say, the first other human I knew named 561 00:38:08,515 --> 00:38:11,195 Speaker 1: Keith was a couple of years behind me in grammar school. 562 00:38:12,275 --> 00:38:16,035 Speaker 1: I was, I guess eight. I had literally never met 563 00:38:16,075 --> 00:38:19,515 Speaker 1: nor heard of another Keith. I thought I was the 564 00:38:19,515 --> 00:38:21,315 Speaker 1: only one in the world, or at least there was 565 00:38:21,355 --> 00:38:24,915 Speaker 1: a chance of it. The other Keith was best known 566 00:38:24,955 --> 00:38:27,595 Speaker 1: around town for having run into the side of a 567 00:38:27,635 --> 00:38:32,555 Speaker 1: slow moving school bus. Now, anybody can run into a 568 00:38:32,675 --> 00:38:36,035 Speaker 1: bus coming towards them, or in front of a bus. 569 00:38:36,515 --> 00:38:40,035 Speaker 1: But I was there nineteen sixty seven, nineteen sixty eight, 570 00:38:40,635 --> 00:38:46,075 Speaker 1: and this bus was already partially past Other Keith, going 571 00:38:46,195 --> 00:38:50,355 Speaker 1: fairly slowly when he bolted out into the road and 572 00:38:50,595 --> 00:38:55,955 Speaker 1: ran headfirst into the side of it. He bounced off 573 00:38:56,275 --> 00:38:59,235 Speaker 1: in front of the back wheel, and as near as 574 00:38:59,275 --> 00:39:06,675 Speaker 1: I know, did not suffer a scratch. Later I found 575 00:39:06,715 --> 00:39:09,795 Speaker 1: out about Rupert Murdoch and the fact that his real 576 00:39:09,795 --> 00:39:16,875 Speaker 1: first name is Keith, and he prefers Rupert. I was 577 00:39:16,915 --> 00:39:19,635 Speaker 1: going to go on about how I think the weirdest 578 00:39:19,715 --> 00:39:21,715 Speaker 1: name you can think of is Keith, and say the 579 00:39:21,755 --> 00:39:25,635 Speaker 1: fact check was true, when mister Bump blew the whole 580 00:39:25,675 --> 00:39:27,915 Speaker 1: thing by getting back to me and telling me that 581 00:39:28,075 --> 00:39:32,835 Speaker 1: this was in fact a joke that had blown up 582 00:39:32,835 --> 00:39:37,675 Speaker 1: in his face. And I said, now, sir, you know 583 00:39:39,155 --> 00:39:57,755 Speaker 1: how us Keith's feel. I've done all the damage I 584 00:39:57,755 --> 00:40:00,195 Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. Most of our 585 00:40:00,195 --> 00:40:03,355 Speaker 1: countdown music was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray 586 00:40:03,395 --> 00:40:06,795 Speaker 1: and John Phillips Shaneil musical directors have Countdown. 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Everything else was as ever my fault. 595 00:40:37,115 --> 00:40:39,635 Speaker 1: That's countdown for today, Day one hundred and thirty five 596 00:40:40,035 --> 00:40:43,195 Speaker 1: of America held hostage just one three hundred and twenty 597 00:40:43,235 --> 00:40:46,395 Speaker 1: eight days until the scheduled end of Trump's lame duck 598 00:40:46,435 --> 00:40:51,635 Speaker 1: and lame brained term unless Putin removes him sooner, or 599 00:40:51,675 --> 00:40:57,715 Speaker 1: the actuarial tables to, or Leonard Leo does, or we do. 600 00:40:58,755 --> 00:41:03,555 Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. Today's special episode was 601 00:41:03,955 --> 00:41:09,475 Speaker 1: an ex peer meant we'll see if it's feasible long term. 602 00:41:09,635 --> 00:41:13,875 Speaker 1: As always, bulletins as the news warrants, and remember, as always, 603 00:41:14,195 --> 00:41:17,875 Speaker 1: Trump is laying the groundwork now to not leave office later, 604 00:41:18,275 --> 00:41:23,235 Speaker 1: and thus he must be stopped till Thursday. I'm Keith Alderman. 605 00:41:23,315 --> 00:41:44,395 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown 606 00:41:44,475 --> 00:41:48,195 Speaker 1: with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more 607 00:41:48,315 --> 00:41:53,235 Speaker 1: podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or 608 00:41:53,315 --> 00:41:55,115 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.