1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,075 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Timing 2 00:00:22,435 --> 00:00:27,155 Speaker 1: is everything. Steve Bannon has been ordered to go to prison, 3 00:00:27,715 --> 00:00:34,195 Speaker 1: ordered on June sixth, ordered on D Day, D Day 4 00:00:34,235 --> 00:00:40,715 Speaker 1: when we destroyed everything Steve Bannon's predecessors stood for. He 5 00:00:40,755 --> 00:00:43,675 Speaker 1: doesn't get it yet. We will destroy him and what 6 00:00:43,795 --> 00:00:47,315 Speaker 1: he stands for, and all who stand with him and 7 00:00:47,395 --> 00:00:54,315 Speaker 1: Trump we will, We will, we will because timing is everything, 8 00:00:54,795 --> 00:00:58,635 Speaker 1: and the timing will come and after the ruling sending 9 00:00:58,715 --> 00:01:00,635 Speaker 1: him to prison by the first of next month for 10 00:01:00,715 --> 00:01:03,715 Speaker 1: contempt of Congress. As Bannon was boasting to the vapid 11 00:01:03,755 --> 00:01:07,115 Speaker 1: press that know he will destroy us and his fascism 12 00:01:07,155 --> 00:01:10,595 Speaker 1: will subsume America. As he boasted, as he bleeded, as 13 00:01:10,635 --> 00:01:14,435 Speaker 1: he sweated, as he reveled in his perfidy, He learned personally, 14 00:01:14,515 --> 00:01:18,755 Speaker 1: one to always look behind you, because Satchel Page was right, 15 00:01:18,835 --> 00:01:24,635 Speaker 1: something maybe gaining on you. And two that timing is everything. 16 00:01:25,075 --> 00:01:27,435 Speaker 1: There is nothing that can shove me up and nothing 17 00:01:27,515 --> 00:01:28,435 Speaker 1: that will shove me up. 18 00:01:28,515 --> 00:01:29,915 Speaker 2: You're for you fail. 19 00:01:30,595 --> 00:01:31,675 Speaker 3: You're going to jail. 20 00:01:32,275 --> 00:01:34,955 Speaker 1: Is not a person, Bill or jail Bill Delaware will 21 00:01:34,995 --> 00:01:35,515 Speaker 1: show me up. 22 00:01:35,915 --> 00:01:39,715 Speaker 3: Pluck him what damn time. 23 00:01:41,235 --> 00:01:42,315 Speaker 4: You're a cutter. 24 00:01:42,875 --> 00:01:45,275 Speaker 1: No one will ever shut you up, Steve Mannon, except 25 00:01:45,275 --> 00:01:50,395 Speaker 1: that ubiquitous protesting conscience of the nation, Bill Christensen and 26 00:01:51,475 --> 00:01:55,915 Speaker 1: the United States of America. Bannon will make emergency appeals. 27 00:01:55,995 --> 00:01:58,395 Speaker 1: So this is not a one hundred percent lead pipe cinch, 28 00:01:58,475 --> 00:02:00,635 Speaker 1: not yet. But the reason we can say it's a 29 00:02:00,795 --> 00:02:03,795 Speaker 1: ninety nine point nine percent lead pipe cinch is that 30 00:02:03,915 --> 00:02:06,475 Speaker 1: an appeals would have to find fault with the judge 31 00:02:07,315 --> 00:02:13,235 Speaker 1: Judge Carl Nichols, formerly Clerk Carl Nichols at the Supreme Court, 32 00:02:13,635 --> 00:02:20,755 Speaker 1: to a justice Justice Thomas nominated to the DC District 33 00:02:20,795 --> 00:02:26,955 Speaker 1: Court six years ago today by a president. To well, 34 00:02:27,795 --> 00:02:32,555 Speaker 1: cheer up inmate Bannon. At least your prison garb will 35 00:02:32,595 --> 00:02:58,955 Speaker 1: be an upgrade from your usual street attire. So Bannon 36 00:02:58,995 --> 00:03:01,195 Speaker 1: will be in the big House at the same time 37 00:03:01,235 --> 00:03:06,475 Speaker 1: Peter Navarro is and at the same time is still 38 00:03:06,515 --> 00:03:10,315 Speaker 1: no movement towards postponing. Sentencing still scheduled for four weeks 39 00:03:10,355 --> 00:03:14,275 Speaker 1: from yesterday, and the polls continue to drip drip, indicators 40 00:03:14,275 --> 00:03:16,755 Speaker 1: that as much as they threaten, as much as they lie, 41 00:03:17,075 --> 00:03:21,035 Speaker 1: as much as they fabricate, the conviction bump the Trumpsts 42 00:03:21,075 --> 00:03:25,435 Speaker 1: still insist is imminent is not only not happening, but 43 00:03:25,555 --> 00:03:28,195 Speaker 1: it will turn out to be another hole in Trump's 44 00:03:28,235 --> 00:03:32,555 Speaker 1: titanic hull. The only question is how big and how 45 00:03:32,635 --> 00:03:36,275 Speaker 1: much of a seemingly self contradicting mc escher like drawing 46 00:03:36,835 --> 00:03:39,235 Speaker 1: the results, and the hole will turn out to be. 47 00:03:40,035 --> 00:03:44,675 Speaker 1: The Washington Post analyzing Reuter's IPSOS polling from January and 48 00:03:44,835 --> 00:03:48,995 Speaker 1: this week and April and its confusing but encouraging. In April, 49 00:03:49,755 --> 00:03:53,075 Speaker 1: the respondence to that Reuter's poll predicted their responses. If 50 00:03:53,155 --> 00:03:56,555 Speaker 1: Trump were to be convicted, nine percent of Trump voters 51 00:03:56,915 --> 00:03:59,315 Speaker 1: said they would abandon him, and there'd be a two 52 00:03:59,355 --> 00:04:02,835 Speaker 1: point swing to Biden. The early polling in the wake 53 00:04:02,875 --> 00:04:06,235 Speaker 1: of the actual conviction suggests that is low. It's closer 54 00:04:06,235 --> 00:04:08,715 Speaker 1: to a four point swing, and it may grow and 55 00:04:08,755 --> 00:04:14,595 Speaker 1: then presumably inevitably weane with time. But the April Ruter's 56 00:04:14,675 --> 00:04:19,155 Speaker 1: polling also suggested that the numbers for convicted and then 57 00:04:19,395 --> 00:04:24,315 Speaker 1: imprisoned that was an entirely different ballgame. All voters were 58 00:04:24,355 --> 00:04:27,595 Speaker 1: opposed sending him to jail by fifty one to forty six, 59 00:04:27,635 --> 00:04:30,875 Speaker 1: but if he goes, twenty percent of his voters said 60 00:04:30,915 --> 00:04:35,595 Speaker 1: they would abandon Trump. Now the conviction is real and 61 00:04:35,635 --> 00:04:39,955 Speaker 1: the jail time is a tangible possibility probability we don't know, 62 00:04:40,595 --> 00:04:44,635 Speaker 1: and a new Reuter's IPSOS poll shows it's worse for Trump. 63 00:04:44,835 --> 00:04:48,315 Speaker 1: His voter hemorrhage is fourteen percent for the conviction. It 64 00:04:48,355 --> 00:04:52,995 Speaker 1: would be twenty three percent if he gets actual jail time. Again, 65 00:04:53,035 --> 00:04:56,315 Speaker 1: the numbers are fluid, and polls in April and polls 66 00:04:56,355 --> 00:04:59,555 Speaker 1: in June are not votes in November, and people asked 67 00:04:59,675 --> 00:05:03,675 Speaker 1: vaguely about jail time probably are thinking the worst jail 68 00:05:03,715 --> 00:05:06,195 Speaker 1: time ten to twenty breaking rocks, gonna send you to 69 00:05:06,235 --> 00:05:10,115 Speaker 1: sing sing, Getty, sing sing, And they're not thinking the 70 00:05:10,275 --> 00:05:14,195 Speaker 1: likelier outcome of six weeks, and most of that for 71 00:05:14,275 --> 00:05:17,875 Speaker 1: the repeated violations of the gag order. But if Trump 72 00:05:17,955 --> 00:05:21,915 Speaker 1: loses twenty three percent of his support, he could literally 73 00:05:21,955 --> 00:05:25,235 Speaker 1: wind up with less than one hundred electoral votes. If 74 00:05:25,315 --> 00:05:28,435 Speaker 1: Trump loses less than half of that, if he loses 75 00:05:28,675 --> 00:05:32,275 Speaker 1: eleven percent of his support, he still loses in a landslide. 76 00:05:32,915 --> 00:05:36,435 Speaker 1: If Trump loses a quarter of this number, if he 77 00:05:36,475 --> 00:05:40,195 Speaker 1: loses only six percent, that's four million, three hundred and 78 00:05:40,235 --> 00:05:42,995 Speaker 1: twelve thousand votes. And if space correctly even, that is 79 00:05:43,035 --> 00:05:49,595 Speaker 1: a comparative landslide for half a century now I have 80 00:05:49,715 --> 00:05:53,515 Speaker 1: never read numbers aloud without remembering my mentor in college, 81 00:05:53,555 --> 00:05:56,475 Speaker 1: the general manager of the Cornell owned radio station, one 82 00:05:56,475 --> 00:05:59,675 Speaker 1: of the great underrated broadcasters of all time, who lived 83 00:05:59,675 --> 00:06:02,315 Speaker 1: his life happily in a small market because he loved 84 00:06:02,315 --> 00:06:05,675 Speaker 1: the place. Don Martin was his name. He never told, 85 00:06:05,955 --> 00:06:10,115 Speaker 1: he always asked. I was his teaching assistant. We were 86 00:06:10,195 --> 00:06:13,035 Speaker 1: killing time before class, sitting out on the steps of 87 00:06:13,035 --> 00:06:16,915 Speaker 1: the nineteenth century university building, and he said, close your 88 00:06:16,915 --> 00:06:20,035 Speaker 1: eyes a second. I heard you on the air the 89 00:06:20,075 --> 00:06:21,635 Speaker 1: other day. I'm going to read you a piece of 90 00:06:21,715 --> 00:06:24,875 Speaker 1: radio copy. Raise your hand when you feel like you've 91 00:06:24,915 --> 00:06:28,435 Speaker 1: forgotten what the point was. Whatever he read to me 92 00:06:28,755 --> 00:06:33,155 Speaker 1: was full of numbers and percentages and divisions and subtractions, 93 00:06:33,155 --> 00:06:34,875 Speaker 1: and I think my hand went up at about the 94 00:06:34,955 --> 00:06:40,635 Speaker 1: fourth percentage. He then asked, you get my point. The 95 00:06:40,675 --> 00:06:44,755 Speaker 1: point is the numbers read aloud turn the brain to fog. 96 00:06:45,875 --> 00:06:50,075 Speaker 1: The numbers are themselves vague and eminently changeable. The reason 97 00:06:50,155 --> 00:06:52,475 Speaker 1: I have subjected you to so many of them since 98 00:06:52,515 --> 00:06:54,515 Speaker 1: they started coming out a week ago tonight in the 99 00:06:54,515 --> 00:06:57,235 Speaker 1: polls is that they are not as so many have predicted, 100 00:06:57,355 --> 00:07:01,435 Speaker 1: favorable to Trump. They are not Trump martyrdom points. They 101 00:07:01,435 --> 00:07:05,035 Speaker 1: have not had no effect. They have not as news 102 00:07:05,075 --> 00:07:09,435 Speaker 1: outlet after news outlet has stupidly parroted, barely moved the needle. 103 00:07:10,595 --> 00:07:14,475 Speaker 1: Reporters see one percent or two percent, and they say 104 00:07:14,835 --> 00:07:19,595 Speaker 1: two is a really small number. Take this number with you. 105 00:07:19,955 --> 00:07:22,915 Speaker 1: The Reuter's poll says, if Trump actually goes to jail, 106 00:07:23,075 --> 00:07:28,195 Speaker 1: he loses somewhere between four million votes and seventeen million votes. 107 00:07:29,995 --> 00:07:32,675 Speaker 1: Either of those numbers cannot be described as barely moving 108 00:07:32,715 --> 00:07:36,795 Speaker 1: the needle. Even reporters would recognize that four million is 109 00:07:36,795 --> 00:07:40,755 Speaker 1: not a small number, and the lower of the two 110 00:07:40,835 --> 00:07:43,955 Speaker 1: numbers between four million and seventeen million, as we saw 111 00:07:43,995 --> 00:07:47,035 Speaker 1: four years ago and Biden won Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin 112 00:07:47,115 --> 00:07:50,835 Speaker 1: by a total of forty three thousand votes, The smaller 113 00:07:50,995 --> 00:07:54,715 Speaker 1: number does what we used to call on radio, pinning 114 00:07:54,955 --> 00:07:59,635 Speaker 1: the needle. The higher number breaks the needle breaks, the glass, 115 00:07:59,675 --> 00:08:03,155 Speaker 1: breaks the VU meter, and it breaks. Convicted fellon Donald 116 00:08:03,195 --> 00:08:09,155 Speaker 1: Trump speaking of broken temperatures at the Live Trump Words 117 00:08:09,195 --> 00:08:13,555 Speaker 1: Salad Festival in Phoenix yesterday. One hundred and ten at 118 00:08:13,675 --> 00:08:17,035 Speaker 1: least a dozen in line for the fascist rally had 119 00:08:17,075 --> 00:08:20,675 Speaker 1: to be transported to hospitals because of heat exhaustion. It 120 00:08:20,715 --> 00:08:24,955 Speaker 1: may have been dozens heat exhaustion, or maybe because the 121 00:08:24,995 --> 00:08:27,395 Speaker 1: Democratic National Committee put up a billboard across for the 122 00:08:27,395 --> 00:08:31,355 Speaker 1: street there reading in two different languages, convicted felon Donald 123 00:08:31,355 --> 00:08:34,755 Speaker 1: Trump not fit to serve. And these billboards are not 124 00:08:34,795 --> 00:08:38,315 Speaker 1: to be confused with other groups of billboards reading I 125 00:08:38,355 --> 00:08:40,595 Speaker 1: am a former Trump voter, I won't vote for a 126 00:08:40,635 --> 00:08:43,835 Speaker 1: convicted felon, which have been put up there in Phoenix 127 00:08:43,995 --> 00:08:46,115 Speaker 1: and in three other states so far by a group 128 00:08:46,195 --> 00:08:51,275 Speaker 1: called Republican Voters Against Trump. To Trump's fans who did 129 00:08:51,275 --> 00:08:54,835 Speaker 1: not die outside in Phoenix because of the climate change 130 00:08:54,835 --> 00:08:57,955 Speaker 1: he is demanding, he reminded them that whether or not 131 00:08:57,995 --> 00:09:00,435 Speaker 1: he fulfills his threat to invoke the Insurrection Act on 132 00:09:00,635 --> 00:09:04,995 Speaker 1: inauguration day, he will break the Posse Comitatis Act and 133 00:09:05,035 --> 00:09:08,995 Speaker 1: he will send thousands of active troops to serve illegally 134 00:09:09,275 --> 00:09:13,715 Speaker 1: domestically at the border and god knows where else. Oh 135 00:09:13,755 --> 00:09:17,395 Speaker 1: and even though he was indoors, Yeah, he glitched again. 136 00:09:17,675 --> 00:09:21,555 Speaker 4: When I'm president, I will use Title forty two to 137 00:09:21,875 --> 00:09:22,555 Speaker 4: end the trial. 138 00:09:22,995 --> 00:09:25,435 Speaker 1: And we have to do this, Sure we do, goober, 139 00:09:26,595 --> 00:09:29,955 Speaker 1: And before we leave convicted FDT for the moment. This 140 00:09:30,075 --> 00:09:31,875 Speaker 1: is not new, but I had not heard this before, 141 00:09:31,875 --> 00:09:33,555 Speaker 1: and maybe you have not either. And this is from 142 00:09:33,595 --> 00:09:36,915 Speaker 1: that sit down from the weekend Fox Show, and right now, 143 00:09:36,915 --> 00:09:39,155 Speaker 1: if I had to submit one piece of evidence to 144 00:09:39,235 --> 00:09:43,515 Speaker 1: conclusively prove he's nuts, it would be this question and 145 00:09:44,075 --> 00:09:48,235 Speaker 1: this answer. The host reads him an inquiry from a 146 00:09:48,315 --> 00:09:54,555 Speaker 1: viewer in Alabama who is asking about how he prays, prays, 147 00:09:54,675 --> 00:09:57,595 Speaker 1: and how his relationship with God is and what it's like. 148 00:09:57,675 --> 00:10:00,995 Speaker 1: And he cannot stop himself long enough to even give 149 00:10:01,315 --> 00:10:06,035 Speaker 1: a good phony answer. He cannot stop himself long enough 150 00:10:06,195 --> 00:10:09,355 Speaker 1: to be fake, reverential, not for a second. His answer 151 00:10:09,435 --> 00:10:13,915 Speaker 1: is immediate and it's insane, and it's about his relationship 152 00:10:13,955 --> 00:10:17,195 Speaker 1: with God, as proven by poll numbers. 153 00:10:17,555 --> 00:10:21,035 Speaker 4: What's your relationship with God like? And how do you pray? 154 00:10:21,515 --> 00:10:24,355 Speaker 4: That's Sharon from Alabama. Okay, so I think it's good. 155 00:10:24,955 --> 00:10:29,475 Speaker 4: I do very well with the evangelicals. I love the evangelicals. 156 00:10:29,515 --> 00:10:32,915 Speaker 4: And I have more people saying they pray for me. 157 00:10:34,035 --> 00:10:35,395 Speaker 4: I can't even believe it. 158 00:10:35,835 --> 00:10:36,555 Speaker 3: And they are so. 159 00:10:38,075 --> 00:10:42,675 Speaker 4: Committed and they're so believing. They say, sir, you're going 160 00:10:42,715 --> 00:10:45,355 Speaker 4: to be okay. I pray for you every night. I 161 00:10:45,395 --> 00:10:49,795 Speaker 4: mean everybody almost. I can't say everybody, but almost everybody 162 00:10:49,795 --> 00:10:52,635 Speaker 4: that sees me, they say it. It's such a beautiful thing. 163 00:10:52,795 --> 00:10:55,195 Speaker 4: You know. What's a beautiful thing too, when you look 164 00:10:55,235 --> 00:10:57,955 Speaker 4: at all of this bad stuff going on. They have 165 00:10:58,075 --> 00:11:00,275 Speaker 4: nothing to look up to. They have no God, they 166 00:11:00,355 --> 00:11:05,035 Speaker 4: have no anything. They kill people, they beat people, push 167 00:11:05,115 --> 00:11:06,155 Speaker 4: people into subways. 168 00:11:06,475 --> 00:11:10,115 Speaker 1: Asked about his relationship with God, and your or my 169 00:11:10,235 --> 00:11:12,715 Speaker 1: belief or non belief is irrelevant for the moment here. 170 00:11:13,075 --> 00:11:16,595 Speaker 1: Asked about his relationship with God, Trump explains, there is 171 00:11:16,635 --> 00:11:20,475 Speaker 1: no God and he doesn't have a relationship with one. 172 00:11:21,235 --> 00:11:23,435 Speaker 1: I'd like to see Reuter's hipsos to a new poll, 173 00:11:23,515 --> 00:11:25,355 Speaker 1: asking his voters if they'll still vote for him if 174 00:11:25,395 --> 00:11:26,955 Speaker 1: he goes to jail. And oh, by the way, if 175 00:11:26,995 --> 00:11:29,235 Speaker 1: he goes to jail and he only talks about God 176 00:11:29,435 --> 00:11:34,195 Speaker 1: to impact his own polling numbers. And here's another clip 177 00:11:34,235 --> 00:11:36,155 Speaker 1: that slipped through the cracks, but only for a moment. 178 00:11:36,235 --> 00:11:39,355 Speaker 1: This was Newsmax. This was the interview where Trump just 179 00:11:39,435 --> 00:11:43,075 Speaker 1: kept talking and talking and talking, and even poor dumb 180 00:11:43,195 --> 00:11:47,555 Speaker 1: Greg Kelly glazed over as he listened. And Trump said 181 00:11:47,835 --> 00:11:51,555 Speaker 1: his big takeaway from the New York trial was that 182 00:11:51,715 --> 00:11:57,275 Speaker 1: none of the jurors smiled at him. The light bulb 183 00:11:57,315 --> 00:12:00,075 Speaker 1: went off over my head. This is far more important 184 00:12:00,275 --> 00:12:03,075 Speaker 1: than it could possibly seem at first Blush. 185 00:12:03,115 --> 00:12:05,755 Speaker 2: I never saw a glimmer of a from the jury. No, 186 00:12:05,915 --> 00:12:09,755 Speaker 2: this was a venue that was very unfair. It's a 187 00:12:09,795 --> 00:12:14,395 Speaker 2: tiny fraction of the people are Republicans, and it's very unfair. 188 00:12:14,675 --> 00:12:19,635 Speaker 1: Oh my god, did I have a flashback there. I 189 00:12:19,635 --> 00:12:22,315 Speaker 1: have had the misfortune to meet Trump in person four times, 190 00:12:22,555 --> 00:12:26,475 Speaker 1: the first late in nineteen eighty three, and each time 191 00:12:26,555 --> 00:12:30,555 Speaker 1: I saw the exact moment that his face went from 192 00:12:30,635 --> 00:12:36,995 Speaker 1: an emotionless, almost lifeless, certainly non human mask to a beaming, 193 00:12:37,355 --> 00:12:42,315 Speaker 1: phony smile. That's who he is, That's what he thinks 194 00:12:42,515 --> 00:12:48,195 Speaker 1: is his asset, an irresistible smile. You and I look 195 00:12:48,195 --> 00:12:51,155 Speaker 1: at him and see a face of evil and debauchery, 196 00:12:51,515 --> 00:12:53,315 Speaker 1: and mostly a guy who claims to be rich and 197 00:12:53,355 --> 00:12:56,635 Speaker 1: yet clearly buys his makeup at the cheap end of 198 00:12:56,635 --> 00:13:00,875 Speaker 1: the notions department at Filin's basement. But he really thinks 199 00:13:01,075 --> 00:13:04,915 Speaker 1: he can sell anybody anything, and somewhere early in life 200 00:13:05,035 --> 00:13:07,955 Speaker 1: he decided his means of doing that was to mimic 201 00:13:08,315 --> 00:13:11,995 Speaker 1: a human smile and really make it as big and 202 00:13:12,035 --> 00:13:15,475 Speaker 1: as preposterous as possible. And he's done this now for 203 00:13:15,515 --> 00:13:21,155 Speaker 1: at least seventy years, from his childhood dementia to this dementia. 204 00:13:21,275 --> 00:13:25,435 Speaker 1: And the way he registers a sail with people, His 205 00:13:25,635 --> 00:13:30,035 Speaker 1: receipt for convincing them to do his bidding is their 206 00:13:30,395 --> 00:13:33,835 Speaker 1: smile in return. So the jury didn't smile at him, 207 00:13:33,875 --> 00:13:36,435 Speaker 1: so the jury was biased against him. So the jury 208 00:13:36,515 --> 00:13:38,675 Speaker 1: was corrupt, so the trial was rigged. So when he 209 00:13:38,755 --> 00:13:41,035 Speaker 1: says these crazy things, there is a part of him 210 00:13:41,115 --> 00:13:44,555 Speaker 1: that truly believes it is rigged because they are, as 211 00:13:44,555 --> 00:13:49,035 Speaker 1: the kids say, not buying what he's selling. He believes 212 00:13:49,315 --> 00:13:52,755 Speaker 1: life is a transaction, and when he gives you his smile, 213 00:13:53,155 --> 00:13:55,995 Speaker 1: you have to give him yours, and then he owns you. 214 00:13:58,675 --> 00:14:00,715 Speaker 1: I met him in the lobby of the apartment building 215 00:14:00,755 --> 00:14:04,155 Speaker 1: I used to live at here, the no longer Trump 216 00:14:04,315 --> 00:14:07,675 Speaker 1: Palace US. I saw him first, then he saw me. 217 00:14:07,755 --> 00:14:10,235 Speaker 1: Then he whispered to one of his flunkies. I'm guessing 218 00:14:10,275 --> 00:14:12,635 Speaker 1: he was double checking it was me. Then he stared 219 00:14:12,675 --> 00:14:15,435 Speaker 1: at me for a moment. Then when he thought I 220 00:14:15,595 --> 00:14:19,155 Speaker 1: was first looking at him, his dead face turned immediately 221 00:14:19,195 --> 00:14:23,595 Speaker 1: into that fake smile. Remember the Cinco de Mayo Taco 222 00:14:23,755 --> 00:14:27,515 Speaker 1: Bowl tweet from twenty sixteen where he says, I love Hispanics, 223 00:14:27,555 --> 00:14:30,155 Speaker 1: like there were actual Hispanics in the Taco Bowl and 224 00:14:30,195 --> 00:14:34,915 Speaker 1: he was eating them that fake smile. But his eyesight 225 00:14:34,995 --> 00:14:36,915 Speaker 1: is not as good as he lets on, so he 226 00:14:36,955 --> 00:14:42,355 Speaker 1: doesn't know that you have seen him first. He had 227 00:14:42,355 --> 00:14:45,515 Speaker 1: done the same thing twice in the lobbies of thirty 228 00:14:45,595 --> 00:14:49,155 Speaker 1: Rock at NBC, once stopping just to shake hands, once 229 00:14:49,235 --> 00:14:52,515 Speaker 1: actually stopping to tell me how good countdown was, and 230 00:14:52,555 --> 00:14:55,795 Speaker 1: how pissed off his buddy Bill O'Reilly would get whenever 231 00:14:55,875 --> 00:14:59,035 Speaker 1: he told him how good countdown was, and then striding off. 232 00:14:59,035 --> 00:15:01,995 Speaker 1: And I watched to see if I could see that 233 00:15:02,075 --> 00:15:05,715 Speaker 1: fake smile that had appeared so suddenly Van Justice suddenly, 234 00:15:05,715 --> 00:15:10,235 Speaker 1: but his back was turned to me. However, December fifteenth, 235 00:15:10,315 --> 00:15:13,235 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three, CNN sends me to cover a New 236 00:15:13,315 --> 00:15:18,115 Speaker 1: York Post sports forum where owner George Steinbrenner of the 237 00:15:18,115 --> 00:15:20,995 Speaker 1: New York Yankees, owner Fred Wilpond of the New York Mets, 238 00:15:21,075 --> 00:15:23,155 Speaker 1: Sonny Werblin of the New York Rangers, and Nixon, this 239 00:15:23,635 --> 00:15:26,635 Speaker 1: real estate hump Trump who owned the sort of pro 240 00:15:26,675 --> 00:15:29,355 Speaker 1: football team in New Jersey. They would speak and do 241 00:15:29,475 --> 00:15:32,435 Speaker 1: interviews and meet fans and whatever, and I interviewed them 242 00:15:32,475 --> 00:15:35,075 Speaker 1: all briefly, and when it came time to interview this 243 00:15:35,155 --> 00:15:38,515 Speaker 1: Trump guy, he stood there and looked at me like 244 00:15:39,355 --> 00:15:43,635 Speaker 1: he was trying to guess my weight. Then we put 245 00:15:43,675 --> 00:15:45,675 Speaker 1: the camera light on and there it was this big 246 00:15:45,755 --> 00:15:48,275 Speaker 1: fake smile out of nowhere, and I asked some questions 247 00:15:48,315 --> 00:15:50,595 Speaker 1: about the new Jersey generals, and he boasted he was 248 00:15:50,675 --> 00:15:53,475 Speaker 1: hiring a new name coach who used to coach the Jets. 249 00:15:53,515 --> 00:15:55,675 Speaker 1: Only turned out he hadn't hired him yet, and he 250 00:15:55,715 --> 00:15:57,595 Speaker 1: spent a week cleaning up that mess. And when I 251 00:15:57,595 --> 00:15:59,555 Speaker 1: said thank you, when we turned the light off, he 252 00:15:59,635 --> 00:16:03,035 Speaker 1: turned off the big fake smile zap. It was gone, 253 00:16:03,435 --> 00:16:07,675 Speaker 1: and the blank look repeat it in his eyes. A 254 00:16:07,715 --> 00:16:09,755 Speaker 1: couple of years ago, on a cold night, I turned 255 00:16:09,755 --> 00:16:12,835 Speaker 1: a corner here and a familiar but older face shouted Keith, 256 00:16:13,315 --> 00:16:16,795 Speaker 1: And suddenly I realized it's a CNN cameraman I haven't 257 00:16:16,835 --> 00:16:19,275 Speaker 1: seen in thirty years. Remember when we covered Trump with 258 00:16:19,355 --> 00:16:22,355 Speaker 1: that sports thing, he says, And I realized he was 259 00:16:22,435 --> 00:16:25,595 Speaker 1: the cameraman that day at the post thing. Remember what 260 00:16:25,675 --> 00:16:28,475 Speaker 1: you said about him? And I didn't, And he laughs 261 00:16:28,515 --> 00:16:30,275 Speaker 1: and he says, we were walking back to the truck 262 00:16:30,995 --> 00:16:33,955 Speaker 1: and you didn't say anything, and that worried us, because 263 00:16:34,315 --> 00:16:36,195 Speaker 1: when have you ever shut up for five minutes? And 264 00:16:36,235 --> 00:16:38,315 Speaker 1: so finally I say, what's bothering you? And you stopped, 265 00:16:38,355 --> 00:16:39,955 Speaker 1: and you turning, You looked at me and Jimmy, and 266 00:16:39,955 --> 00:16:43,555 Speaker 1: you said that last guy we interviewed Trump, what the 267 00:16:43,755 --> 00:16:54,155 Speaker 1: f is wrong with that guy? All right, let's go 268 00:16:54,235 --> 00:16:57,115 Speaker 1: back to the Supreme Court again, and that old boss 269 00:16:57,155 --> 00:17:00,155 Speaker 1: of that judge who just sent Steve Bannon too the slammer. 270 00:17:00,875 --> 00:17:03,555 Speaker 1: A couple more numbers too. But the mind reels at 271 00:17:03,555 --> 00:17:05,275 Speaker 1: these numbers. And I do not think you will go 272 00:17:05,355 --> 00:17:07,235 Speaker 1: blanket the sound of them. In fact, you may just 273 00:17:07,315 --> 00:17:11,075 Speaker 1: hit that little rewind thirty seconds thing. There is a 274 00:17:11,115 --> 00:17:14,635 Speaker 1: watchdog group called Fix the Court, and it has now 275 00:17:15,075 --> 00:17:17,995 Speaker 1: hung a price tag off the corruption that has befouled 276 00:17:17,995 --> 00:17:21,955 Speaker 1: the Supreme Course. And guess which fish stinks the most expensively. 277 00:17:22,915 --> 00:17:28,235 Speaker 1: Total number of verified gifts to Supreme Court justices, confirmed 278 00:17:28,355 --> 00:17:33,195 Speaker 1: hard evidence reported gifts in cash or in items of 279 00:17:33,275 --> 00:17:36,675 Speaker 1: value since January first, two thousand and four is just 280 00:17:36,875 --> 00:17:41,235 Speaker 1: under three million dollars. Three million dollars in gifts to 281 00:17:41,355 --> 00:17:44,755 Speaker 1: Supreme Court justices. And who got eighty percent of all 282 00:17:44,795 --> 00:17:47,955 Speaker 1: of them? Who got two million, four hundred and two thousand, 283 00:17:48,235 --> 00:17:51,955 Speaker 1: three hundred and ten dollars worth of gifts. Well, you 284 00:17:52,075 --> 00:17:54,955 Speaker 1: already knew the answer in your heart, didn't you, Clarence, 285 00:17:55,115 --> 00:17:58,435 Speaker 1: Man of the people. Thomas two million, four hundred and 286 00:17:58,475 --> 00:18:02,475 Speaker 1: two thousand dollars worth of gifts. And those are just 287 00:18:02,515 --> 00:18:05,835 Speaker 1: the confirmed ones. Fix the Court said there are ninety 288 00:18:05,875 --> 00:18:12,635 Speaker 1: more likely gifts Thomas Scott worth another million, eight and 289 00:18:12,755 --> 00:18:16,035 Speaker 1: one more number. The number of subpoenas by the Democratic 290 00:18:16,075 --> 00:18:20,475 Speaker 1: controlled Senate Judiciary Committee relating to the Supreme Court. Why 291 00:18:20,515 --> 00:18:24,115 Speaker 1: that's still stuck at zero. And just to infuriate you 292 00:18:24,155 --> 00:18:26,075 Speaker 1: a little bit more, I'd like to pass along a 293 00:18:26,155 --> 00:18:30,275 Speaker 1: suggestion somebody made. Not only should Dick Durban be subpoenaing 294 00:18:30,435 --> 00:18:34,595 Speaker 1: Samuel Alito right now, he should also be subpoenaing Martha 295 00:18:34,675 --> 00:18:40,035 Speaker 1: and Alito. Apparently, Dick and the Senate Judiciary Democrats met 296 00:18:40,075 --> 00:18:43,035 Speaker 1: again Monday night. That's punch Bowl News reporting that, and 297 00:18:43,155 --> 00:18:46,835 Speaker 1: basically they gave up and they said they would do nothing, 298 00:18:47,155 --> 00:18:49,435 Speaker 1: but they would do it with stern looks on their face, 299 00:18:50,995 --> 00:18:54,395 Speaker 1: quoting the report. For now, Democrats strategy is to continue 300 00:18:54,435 --> 00:19:01,155 Speaker 1: to raise public awareness while at the same time tempering expectations. Quote, 301 00:19:01,395 --> 00:19:03,795 Speaker 1: there are precedents as to what we can and cannot do. 302 00:19:04,315 --> 00:19:05,795 Speaker 1: But I think I think the American people have a 303 00:19:05,835 --> 00:19:10,395 Speaker 1: clear understanding of some of the unethical conduct of several justices. 304 00:19:10,795 --> 00:19:15,835 Speaker 1: Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, said, sure, 305 00:19:16,475 --> 00:19:24,195 Speaker 1: it's front of mind, clear understanding nationwide of unethical conduct. 306 00:19:25,435 --> 00:19:33,955 Speaker 1: This is a country that elected Trump. Good work, Dick. Meanwhile, 307 00:19:33,955 --> 00:19:36,675 Speaker 1: here's somebody else they should subpoena, but won't. Brett Kavanaugh, 308 00:19:37,035 --> 00:19:40,715 Speaker 1: who yesterday had somebody leaked to Axios that he is 309 00:19:40,795 --> 00:19:49,395 Speaker 1: writing his memoirs. His memoirs are they about assaulting women? 310 00:19:50,435 --> 00:19:58,515 Speaker 1: Asking for a democracy? Also of interest here, there are 311 00:19:58,595 --> 00:20:01,235 Speaker 1: hints contained in legal documents that there is video or 312 00:20:01,275 --> 00:20:05,195 Speaker 1: audio tape of Fox News hosts sounds like the fired 313 00:20:05,275 --> 00:20:09,675 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, probably maybe Hannity as well, maybe Ingram, maybe others, 314 00:20:10,035 --> 00:20:15,155 Speaker 1: absolutely vivisecting Trump and the entirety of Trump's claim that 315 00:20:15,195 --> 00:20:19,355 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election was rigged tapes. Imagine the impact 316 00:20:19,355 --> 00:20:23,635 Speaker 1: of actual video of Sean Hannity saying, of course Trump 317 00:20:23,675 --> 00:20:27,755 Speaker 1: lost in twenty twenty. Wow. And what is the Biden 318 00:20:27,835 --> 00:20:30,995 Speaker 1: Department of Justice trying to do with this video. It's 319 00:20:31,195 --> 00:20:36,235 Speaker 1: trying to return it to Fox because at least when 320 00:20:36,275 --> 00:20:40,955 Speaker 1: we're all Trump's slave labor, we can take heart that 321 00:20:41,155 --> 00:20:47,395 Speaker 1: Merrick Garland followed all the effing rules. That's next. This 322 00:20:47,475 --> 00:21:15,195 Speaker 1: is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead 323 00:21:15,235 --> 00:21:18,195 Speaker 1: on this initiative countdown. Hey, did you notice I've been 324 00:21:18,195 --> 00:21:23,115 Speaker 1: talking about fake news and bad news reporting today? Just 325 00:21:23,195 --> 00:21:27,675 Speaker 1: like every other day. Well it's not like every other day. 326 00:21:27,715 --> 00:21:30,715 Speaker 1: It's Friday, so it's time for Fridays with Thurber and naturally, 327 00:21:31,195 --> 00:21:34,675 Speaker 1: one of his greatest stories is about how fast things 328 00:21:34,715 --> 00:21:37,355 Speaker 1: can go to hell in a handbasket when you believe 329 00:21:37,635 --> 00:21:41,515 Speaker 1: news that isn't true and could not be true, and 330 00:21:41,595 --> 00:21:45,075 Speaker 1: comes from a source you know is never true. Next, 331 00:21:45,715 --> 00:21:48,715 Speaker 1: but first, as ever, there are still more new idiots 332 00:21:48,755 --> 00:21:51,515 Speaker 1: to talk about. The daily roundup of the miss grants, morons, 333 00:21:51,675 --> 00:21:57,035 Speaker 1: dunning Kruger Effect specimens who constitute today's worst persons in 334 00:21:57,075 --> 00:22:02,155 Speaker 1: the world the runner up worse. We may have finally 335 00:22:02,235 --> 00:22:07,995 Speaker 1: hit the basement on sports team names. After nearly three 336 00:22:08,035 --> 00:22:11,115 Speaker 1: decades of abject failure in Phoenix, the National Hockey League 337 00:22:11,435 --> 00:22:15,315 Speaker 1: yanked its franchise out of there gave the owner an 338 00:22:15,395 --> 00:22:18,635 Speaker 1: expansion team to be named later if he can ever 339 00:22:18,675 --> 00:22:22,675 Speaker 1: build an arena and move the extant Arizona team to 340 00:22:22,875 --> 00:22:25,915 Speaker 1: Salta Laca City, where they have been running a Name 341 00:22:25,995 --> 00:22:28,755 Speaker 1: that Team contest. And they have now reached the final 342 00:22:28,795 --> 00:22:33,635 Speaker 1: stage with six final choices, and they are terrible. They 343 00:22:33,675 --> 00:22:38,635 Speaker 1: are the Utah Mammoth just the one, just the one, 344 00:22:38,715 --> 00:22:48,435 Speaker 1: mammoth mammoth something mammoth elephant. The Utah Outlaws ooh, original 345 00:22:49,155 --> 00:22:52,795 Speaker 1: first sports team in history called the Outlaws, except for 346 00:22:52,795 --> 00:22:57,915 Speaker 1: the other thirty eight. The Utah Venom. Hey, the Utah Venom. 347 00:22:58,235 --> 00:23:02,395 Speaker 1: They suck Get somebody to suck out the venom. The 348 00:23:02,555 --> 00:23:08,475 Speaker 1: Utah Yetti in Seattle, the Seattle Kraken are very annoyed 349 00:23:08,515 --> 00:23:12,955 Speaker 1: by this idea, The Utah Blizzard in Denver, the Colorado 350 00:23:12,995 --> 00:23:17,435 Speaker 1: Avalanche must be considering legal action, and the Carolina Hurricanes 351 00:23:17,475 --> 00:23:21,235 Speaker 1: are going what come on what? And worst of all, 352 00:23:21,795 --> 00:23:28,155 Speaker 1: Utah HC. The HC is supposed to stand for hockey club. 353 00:23:28,995 --> 00:23:31,515 Speaker 1: And if that construction sounds vaguely familiar to you, it's 354 00:23:31,515 --> 00:23:34,835 Speaker 1: because that's what the cheesier pro soccer teams in this 355 00:23:34,915 --> 00:23:39,275 Speaker 1: country call themselves. Here FC Kansas City the FC being 356 00:23:39,315 --> 00:23:43,715 Speaker 1: for football club, so they can pretend there the famous 357 00:23:43,795 --> 00:23:51,275 Speaker 1: Spanish team FC Barcelona or FC. I don't know, FC, FCU, 358 00:23:51,755 --> 00:23:54,795 Speaker 1: I don't know, except hey, guess what Utah HC. You 359 00:23:54,875 --> 00:23:58,755 Speaker 1: aren't a football club and you aren't in Barcelona. And 360 00:23:59,155 --> 00:24:04,595 Speaker 1: HC for hockey club means the Montreal Canadians hockey club, 361 00:24:05,155 --> 00:24:13,675 Speaker 1: the Canadian What about the Utah marbles tall marbles? Anybody? No, Well, look, 362 00:24:13,715 --> 00:24:17,275 Speaker 1: it's not as dumb as Utah YETI or Utah HC, 363 00:24:17,435 --> 00:24:22,075 Speaker 1: I mean the prospects for subbing in what Utah HC 364 00:24:22,395 --> 00:24:28,275 Speaker 1: stands for? What's HC stand for? House of Commons? Hi colonic? 365 00:24:29,315 --> 00:24:32,755 Speaker 1: Don't do any of those names. Don't call them, call 366 00:24:32,795 --> 00:24:38,035 Speaker 1: them the Arizona Coyotes again. The runner up worser Senators 367 00:24:38,035 --> 00:24:41,395 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio, Tim Scott and JD. Vance and Governor Doug Bergham. 368 00:24:41,795 --> 00:24:45,635 Speaker 1: They and maybe Ben Carson, Byron Donald's and Elise Stefanic 369 00:24:45,995 --> 00:24:49,675 Speaker 1: have reportedly received vetting forms to fill out to be 370 00:24:49,795 --> 00:24:55,435 Speaker 1: considered as Trump's running mate. Why them, because Charles Manson 371 00:24:55,555 --> 00:24:58,955 Speaker 1: is dead. I mean, I've known a lot of politicians 372 00:24:58,955 --> 00:25:00,995 Speaker 1: in the last twenty six, twenty seven years, and I 373 00:25:01,035 --> 00:25:04,675 Speaker 1: get it. They have a few extra weird split chromosome 374 00:25:04,715 --> 00:25:08,115 Speaker 1: homes that control their bodies whenever the prospect of being 375 00:25:08,155 --> 00:25:11,075 Speaker 1: one heart beat away from the presidency is pitched to them. 376 00:25:11,075 --> 00:25:14,955 Speaker 1: But honest to God, they almost hanged the last guy 377 00:25:15,755 --> 00:25:20,715 Speaker 1: with Trump's encouragement. I mean, if I'm Marco Rubio, I'm 378 00:25:20,715 --> 00:25:23,715 Speaker 1: thinking I'm so small and I weigh so little that 379 00:25:23,755 --> 00:25:26,395 Speaker 1: i don't even have the off chance of surviving because 380 00:25:26,435 --> 00:25:32,715 Speaker 1: the makeshift gallows breaks. Holy cow, but the winner the 381 00:25:32,995 --> 00:25:37,835 Speaker 1: worst your United States Department of Justice. I'll just read 382 00:25:37,875 --> 00:25:41,915 Speaker 1: this as is from Puck News the Fox News files. 383 00:25:42,155 --> 00:25:44,435 Speaker 1: As strange as it may be for the Biden administration 384 00:25:44,515 --> 00:25:47,555 Speaker 1: to protect Fox News, that's exactly what's happening in the 385 00:25:47,555 --> 00:25:51,875 Speaker 1: case of Tim Burke, a freelance journalist who faces charges 386 00:25:51,955 --> 00:25:56,875 Speaker 1: under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Burke surreptitiously accessed 387 00:25:56,915 --> 00:26:01,875 Speaker 1: a live Fox stream and leaked Tucker Carlson's unedited anti 388 00:26:01,875 --> 00:26:05,995 Speaker 1: Semitic rant leaden interview with Kanye West. The government is 389 00:26:06,035 --> 00:26:10,635 Speaker 1: currently seeking Puck News reports to return materials it took 390 00:26:10,675 --> 00:26:13,355 Speaker 1: from Burke when the FBI raided his house last year, 391 00:26:13,395 --> 00:26:17,955 Speaker 1: including presumably more unaired Fox footage, but prosecutors want a 392 00:26:17,995 --> 00:26:24,715 Speaker 1: protective order to ensure Burke doesn't release them the other items, 393 00:26:25,635 --> 00:26:28,475 Speaker 1: quoting again, Burke has objected that such restrictions would hinder 394 00:26:28,475 --> 00:26:32,955 Speaker 1: his ability to publish stories of significant public interest, including 395 00:26:33,115 --> 00:26:38,915 Speaker 1: the possibility of quote candid on air but unbroadcast conversations 396 00:26:39,515 --> 00:26:44,195 Speaker 1: regarding Fox News commentator's opinions about the twenty twenty allegations 397 00:26:44,235 --> 00:26:48,275 Speaker 1: of election fraud. A hearing is slated for June twenty 398 00:26:48,275 --> 00:26:53,355 Speaker 1: sixth in Tampa, Florida, and puck News quote, Okay, he 399 00:26:53,435 --> 00:26:56,875 Speaker 1: used to work for dead Spin. I've corresponded with Tim Burke. 400 00:26:57,115 --> 00:26:59,035 Speaker 1: I think I helped him on a story or two. 401 00:26:59,355 --> 00:27:04,035 Speaker 1: And this is prosecution of a journalist for disseminating news 402 00:27:04,835 --> 00:27:07,955 Speaker 1: that benefited the public and the nation and revealed Kanye 403 00:27:08,035 --> 00:27:11,275 Speaker 1: West to be the anti semi schmuck that he is. 404 00:27:11,795 --> 00:27:15,475 Speaker 1: And more importantly that last part, Burke is coyly hinting 405 00:27:15,475 --> 00:27:19,875 Speaker 1: that he might just have candid on air but unbroadcast 406 00:27:19,995 --> 00:27:24,075 Speaker 1: conversations regarding Fox News commentator's opinions about the twenty twenty 407 00:27:24,075 --> 00:27:28,195 Speaker 1: allegations of election fraud what they knew was true and 408 00:27:28,195 --> 00:27:31,715 Speaker 1: wouldn't say on the air, presumably Ingram and Moore, Tucker, 409 00:27:31,795 --> 00:27:35,035 Speaker 1: Carlson and Hannity and all of them, and the Biden 410 00:27:35,195 --> 00:27:41,555 Speaker 1: doj is prosecuting him and hoping to suppress that news. 411 00:27:43,115 --> 00:27:45,835 Speaker 1: Are we at least giving him on June twenty sixth 412 00:27:45,875 --> 00:27:49,475 Speaker 1: in Tampa, Florida, the Eileen Canon treatment so that it 413 00:27:49,515 --> 00:27:52,515 Speaker 1: takes like eight to ten lifetimes before he actually winds 414 00:27:52,595 --> 00:27:55,715 Speaker 1: up in court. I mean, I appreciate the fact that 415 00:27:55,755 --> 00:27:59,875 Speaker 1: the bureaucracy always self protects, but this, President Biden, this 416 00:28:00,035 --> 00:28:03,635 Speaker 1: is insane. The stuff on that tape could win you 417 00:28:03,755 --> 00:28:07,515 Speaker 1: the election. Just pretend for once that this is a 418 00:28:07,555 --> 00:28:10,635 Speaker 1: war as serious as the Second World War. Only the 419 00:28:10,715 --> 00:28:14,315 Speaker 1: Nazis are here in the country, use the weapons at hand. 420 00:28:14,715 --> 00:28:17,155 Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna get killed as a result of this. It's 421 00:28:17,195 --> 00:28:20,475 Speaker 1: a freaking piece of videotape. And Tim Burke has it, 422 00:28:21,275 --> 00:28:25,515 Speaker 1: Grandam a pardon the Department of Justice. Okay, now there 423 00:28:25,515 --> 00:28:30,715 Speaker 1: are two seventeen reasons we need to fire Merrick Garland 424 00:28:30,755 --> 00:28:35,475 Speaker 1: today the Department of Justice. Today's worst persons in. 425 00:28:35,995 --> 00:28:54,275 Speaker 3: The world release the type. 426 00:28:55,035 --> 00:28:58,515 Speaker 1: Not every James Thurber's story still holds up, but for 427 00:28:58,595 --> 00:29:01,635 Speaker 1: a surprisingly large percentage of them, the point of the 428 00:29:01,675 --> 00:29:04,435 Speaker 1: story is as topical now as it was when he 429 00:29:04,675 --> 00:29:07,715 Speaker 1: wrote it, or when it happened. When it happened, which 430 00:29:07,755 --> 00:29:11,755 Speaker 1: in this case is the year nineteen thirteen. The Day 431 00:29:11,795 --> 00:29:14,835 Speaker 1: the Dam Broke is from his essential masterpiece, My Life 432 00:29:14,875 --> 00:29:17,395 Speaker 1: in Hard Times, And if it is about anything, it 433 00:29:17,435 --> 00:29:22,195 Speaker 1: is about people believing and acting upon nonsense in the 434 00:29:22,195 --> 00:29:24,195 Speaker 1: face of science, in the face of common sense, in 435 00:29:24,195 --> 00:29:26,955 Speaker 1: the face of you could just ask somebody, they will 436 00:29:26,995 --> 00:29:30,795 Speaker 1: almost always avoid those solutions and choose instead to believe 437 00:29:31,155 --> 00:29:34,755 Speaker 1: whatever the hell they want to believe, which results in 438 00:29:34,795 --> 00:29:39,235 Speaker 1: things like The Day the Dam Broke by James Thurber. 439 00:29:40,475 --> 00:29:42,995 Speaker 1: My memories of what my family and I went through 440 00:29:43,075 --> 00:29:47,115 Speaker 1: during the nineteen thirteen flood in Ohio I would gladly forget. 441 00:29:47,675 --> 00:29:51,115 Speaker 1: And yet neither the hardships we endured, nor the turmoil 442 00:29:51,155 --> 00:29:54,235 Speaker 1: and confusion we experienced, can alter my feeling toward my 443 00:29:54,355 --> 00:29:57,475 Speaker 1: native state and city. I am having a fine time 444 00:29:57,555 --> 00:30:00,635 Speaker 1: now and wish Columbus were here. But if anyone ever 445 00:30:00,675 --> 00:30:03,635 Speaker 1: wished a city was in hell, it was during that 446 00:30:03,715 --> 00:30:07,315 Speaker 1: frightful and peril afternoon in nineteen thirteen when the dam broke, 447 00:30:07,875 --> 00:30:12,035 Speaker 1: or to be more exact, when everybody in town thought 448 00:30:12,475 --> 00:30:16,715 Speaker 1: the dam broke. We were both ennobled and demoralized by 449 00:30:16,755 --> 00:30:21,035 Speaker 1: the experience. Grandfather especially rose two magnificent heights which can 450 00:30:21,115 --> 00:30:24,315 Speaker 1: never lose their splendor for me, even though his reactions 451 00:30:24,315 --> 00:30:28,035 Speaker 1: to the flood were based upon a profound misconception, namely 452 00:30:28,075 --> 00:30:31,475 Speaker 1: that Nathan Bedford Forest's cavalry was the menace we were 453 00:30:31,475 --> 00:30:35,155 Speaker 1: called upon to face. The only possible means of escape 454 00:30:35,195 --> 00:30:37,515 Speaker 1: for us was to flee the house, a step which 455 00:30:37,555 --> 00:30:42,235 Speaker 1: Grandfather sternly forbade, brandishing his old army saber in his hand. 456 00:30:43,035 --> 00:30:48,795 Speaker 1: Let the sungevil ver come, he roared. Meanwhile, hundreds of 457 00:30:48,795 --> 00:30:52,395 Speaker 1: people were streaming by our house in wild panics, screaming, 458 00:30:52,595 --> 00:30:56,155 Speaker 1: go east, Go east. We had to stun Grandfather with 459 00:30:56,195 --> 00:30:59,315 Speaker 1: the ironing board, impeded as we were by the inert 460 00:30:59,395 --> 00:31:01,755 Speaker 1: form of the old gentleman. He was taller than six 461 00:31:01,795 --> 00:31:04,915 Speaker 1: feet and weighed almost one hundred and seventy pounds. Were 462 00:31:05,035 --> 00:31:09,395 Speaker 1: passed in the first half mile by practically everybody else 463 00:31:09,435 --> 00:31:12,835 Speaker 1: in the city. Had Grandfather not come too at the 464 00:31:12,875 --> 00:31:16,395 Speaker 1: corner of Parsons Avenue in Town Street, we would unquestionably 465 00:31:16,435 --> 00:31:20,595 Speaker 1: have been overtaken and engulfed by the roaring waters. That is, 466 00:31:21,675 --> 00:31:25,635 Speaker 1: if there had been any roaring waters. Later, when the 467 00:31:25,675 --> 00:31:28,555 Speaker 1: panic had died down and people had gone rather sheepishly 468 00:31:28,635 --> 00:31:31,915 Speaker 1: back to their homes and their offices, minimizing the distances 469 00:31:31,955 --> 00:31:34,995 Speaker 1: they had run, and offering various reasons for running, City 470 00:31:35,035 --> 00:31:39,075 Speaker 1: engineers pointed out that even if the dam had broken, 471 00:31:39,635 --> 00:31:42,395 Speaker 1: the water level would not have risen more than two 472 00:31:42,435 --> 00:31:47,035 Speaker 1: additional inches in the west side. The west side was 473 00:31:47,155 --> 00:31:50,995 Speaker 1: at the time of the dam scare under thirty feet 474 00:31:50,995 --> 00:31:54,595 Speaker 1: of water, as indeed were all Ohio River towns during 475 00:31:54,635 --> 00:31:58,435 Speaker 1: the Great Spring floods of twenty years ago. The east side, 476 00:31:58,875 --> 00:32:01,915 Speaker 1: where we lived and where all the running occurred, had 477 00:32:01,915 --> 00:32:05,435 Speaker 1: never been in any danger at all. Only a rise 478 00:32:05,595 --> 00:32:09,235 Speaker 1: of some ninety five feet could have caused the floodwaters 479 00:32:09,275 --> 00:32:12,315 Speaker 1: to flow over High Street, the thoroughfare that divided the 480 00:32:12,315 --> 00:32:14,315 Speaker 1: east side of town from the west and engulfed the 481 00:32:14,355 --> 00:32:17,555 Speaker 1: east side. The fact that we were all as safe 482 00:32:17,595 --> 00:32:21,915 Speaker 1: as kittens under a cookstove did not, however, assuage in 483 00:32:21,995 --> 00:32:27,315 Speaker 1: the least the fine despair and the grotesque desperation which 484 00:32:27,435 --> 00:32:30,195 Speaker 1: seized upon the residents of the east Side when the 485 00:32:30,275 --> 00:32:34,075 Speaker 1: cry spread like a grass fire that the dam had 486 00:32:34,315 --> 00:32:39,315 Speaker 1: given way. Some of the most dignified staid cynical and 487 00:32:39,355 --> 00:32:43,115 Speaker 1: clear thinking men in town abandoned their wives, stenographers, homes, 488 00:32:43,155 --> 00:32:46,875 Speaker 1: and offices, and ran east. There are few alarms in 489 00:32:46,915 --> 00:32:51,115 Speaker 1: the world more terrifying than the dam has broken. There 490 00:32:51,195 --> 00:32:53,915 Speaker 1: are few persons capable of stopping to reason when that 491 00:32:54,035 --> 00:32:57,555 Speaker 1: clarion cry strikes upon their ears, even persons who live 492 00:32:57,555 --> 00:33:00,675 Speaker 1: in towns no nearer than five hundred miles to a dam. 493 00:33:01,995 --> 00:33:05,795 Speaker 1: The Columbus, Ohio Broken Dam room began, as I recalled, 494 00:33:05,835 --> 00:33:09,515 Speaker 1: about noon of March twelfth, nineteen thirteen. High Street, the 495 00:33:09,555 --> 00:33:13,115 Speaker 1: main canyon of trade was loud, with the placid hum 496 00:33:13,195 --> 00:33:20,075 Speaker 1: of business and the buzzing of placid businessmen arguing, computing, wheedling, offering, refusing, compromising. 497 00:33:20,875 --> 00:33:24,595 Speaker 1: Darius Cunningway, one of the foremost corporation lawyers in the 498 00:33:24,595 --> 00:33:27,475 Speaker 1: Middle West, was telling the Public Utilities Commission in the 499 00:33:27,515 --> 00:33:30,955 Speaker 1: language of Julius Caesar, that they might as well try 500 00:33:31,035 --> 00:33:36,035 Speaker 1: to move the northern star as to move him. Other 501 00:33:36,115 --> 00:33:38,835 Speaker 1: men were making their little boasts and their little gestures. 502 00:33:39,235 --> 00:33:43,555 Speaker 1: Suddenly somebody began to run. It may be that he 503 00:33:43,595 --> 00:33:45,995 Speaker 1: had simply remembered, all of a moment, an engagement to 504 00:33:46,035 --> 00:33:48,555 Speaker 1: meet his wife, for which he was now frightfully late. 505 00:33:49,275 --> 00:33:53,115 Speaker 1: Whatever it was, he ran east on Broad Street, probably 506 00:33:53,115 --> 00:33:55,635 Speaker 1: toward the Marramoor Restaurant, a favorite place for a man 507 00:33:55,635 --> 00:33:58,795 Speaker 1: to meet his wife. Somebody else began to run, perhaps 508 00:33:58,795 --> 00:34:02,875 Speaker 1: a newsboy in high spirits, another man, a portly gentleman 509 00:34:02,915 --> 00:34:07,995 Speaker 1: of affairs broken. Inside of ten minutes, everybody on High Street, 510 00:34:07,995 --> 00:34:11,075 Speaker 1: from the Union Depot to the courthouse was running a 511 00:34:11,155 --> 00:34:16,315 Speaker 1: loud mumble, gradually crystallized into the dread word dam. The 512 00:34:16,435 --> 00:34:20,515 Speaker 1: dam has broke. The fear was put into words by 513 00:34:20,515 --> 00:34:22,675 Speaker 1: a little old lady in an electric or by a 514 00:34:22,755 --> 00:34:26,235 Speaker 1: traffic cop, or by a small boy. Nobody knows who, 515 00:34:26,355 --> 00:34:30,955 Speaker 1: nor does it now really matter. Two thousand people were 516 00:34:30,995 --> 00:34:34,235 Speaker 1: abruptly in full flight. Go east, was the cry that 517 00:34:34,315 --> 00:34:38,115 Speaker 1: arosed east, away from the river, east to safety. Go east, 518 00:34:38,395 --> 00:34:44,035 Speaker 1: Go east, Go east. Black streams of people flowed eastward 519 00:34:44,075 --> 00:34:46,995 Speaker 1: down all the streets leading in that direction. These streams, 520 00:34:47,395 --> 00:34:50,515 Speaker 1: whose headwaters were in the dry goods stores, office buildings, 521 00:34:50,635 --> 00:34:54,395 Speaker 1: harnessed shops, movie theaters, were fed by trickles of housewives, 522 00:34:54,475 --> 00:34:57,835 Speaker 1: children's cripples, servants, dogs and cats slipping out of the 523 00:34:57,835 --> 00:35:01,435 Speaker 1: houses past which the main streams flowed, shouting and screaming. 524 00:35:02,155 --> 00:35:05,955 Speaker 1: People ran out of homes, leaving fire burning and food cooking, 525 00:35:05,995 --> 00:35:10,435 Speaker 1: and doors wide open. I remember, however, that my mother 526 00:35:10,955 --> 00:35:13,075 Speaker 1: turned out all the fires, and that she took with 527 00:35:13,155 --> 00:35:16,595 Speaker 1: her a dozen eggs and two loaves of bread. It 528 00:35:16,675 --> 00:35:20,035 Speaker 1: was her plan to make Memorial Haul just two blocks 529 00:35:20,075 --> 00:35:22,275 Speaker 1: away and take refuge somewhere in the top of it, 530 00:35:22,555 --> 00:35:25,075 Speaker 1: in one of the dusty rooms where war veterans met, 531 00:35:25,315 --> 00:35:28,595 Speaker 1: and where old battle flags and stage scenery were stored. 532 00:35:29,275 --> 00:35:33,355 Speaker 1: But the seething throngs shouting go east, drew her along, 533 00:35:33,555 --> 00:35:36,515 Speaker 1: and the rest of us with her. When Grandfather regained 534 00:35:36,515 --> 00:35:39,955 Speaker 1: full consciousness at Parsons Avenue, he turned upon the retreating 535 00:35:39,995 --> 00:35:43,075 Speaker 1: mob like a vengeful prophet, and exhorted the men to 536 00:35:43,155 --> 00:35:46,795 Speaker 1: form ranks and stand off the rebel dogs. But at 537 00:35:46,835 --> 00:35:49,355 Speaker 1: length he too got the idea that the dam had broken, 538 00:35:49,395 --> 00:35:53,115 Speaker 1: and roaring go east in his powerful voice, he caught 539 00:35:53,195 --> 00:35:56,275 Speaker 1: up in one arm a small child and in the 540 00:35:56,315 --> 00:36:00,235 Speaker 1: other a slight clerkish man of perhaps forty two, and 541 00:36:00,275 --> 00:36:03,235 Speaker 1: we slowly began to gain on those ahead of us, 542 00:36:03,835 --> 00:36:07,515 Speaker 1: a scattering of ironmen, policemen, and army officers in dress uniforms. 543 00:36:07,675 --> 00:36:09,355 Speaker 1: There had been a review at Fort Hayes in the 544 00:36:09,395 --> 00:36:12,795 Speaker 1: northern part of town added color to the surging billows 545 00:36:12,875 --> 00:36:16,595 Speaker 1: of people. Go east, cried a little child in a 546 00:36:16,635 --> 00:36:19,475 Speaker 1: piping voice as she ran past a porch on which 547 00:36:19,555 --> 00:36:23,235 Speaker 1: drowsed A lieutenant colonel of infantry. Used to quick decisions, 548 00:36:23,355 --> 00:36:26,315 Speaker 1: trained to immediate obedience, the officer bounded off the porch, and, 549 00:36:26,395 --> 00:36:30,635 Speaker 1: running at full tilt, soon past the child, bawling, Go east. 550 00:36:31,715 --> 00:36:34,075 Speaker 1: The two of them emptied rapidly the houses of the 551 00:36:34,115 --> 00:36:36,315 Speaker 1: little street they were on. What is it, What is it? 552 00:36:36,355 --> 00:36:39,515 Speaker 1: Demanded a fat waddling man, who intercepted the colonel. The 553 00:36:39,555 --> 00:36:43,035 Speaker 1: officer dropped behind and asked the little child what it was. 554 00:36:43,795 --> 00:36:48,035 Speaker 1: The damn has broke, gasped the girl. The damn has broke, 555 00:36:48,435 --> 00:36:53,915 Speaker 1: roared the colonel. Go east, Go east, Go east. He 556 00:36:53,995 --> 00:36:57,155 Speaker 1: was soon leading, with the exhausted child in his arms, 557 00:36:57,435 --> 00:37:00,515 Speaker 1: a fleeing company of three hundred persons who had gathered 558 00:37:00,515 --> 00:37:04,115 Speaker 1: around him from living rooms, shops, garages, backyards and basements. 559 00:37:05,955 --> 00:37:09,155 Speaker 1: Nobody has ever been able to compute with any exactness 560 00:37:09,195 --> 00:37:11,755 Speaker 1: how many people took part in the Great Route of 561 00:37:11,875 --> 00:37:15,275 Speaker 1: nineteen thirteen for the panic, which extended from the Winslow 562 00:37:15,355 --> 00:37:19,875 Speaker 1: bottling works in the south end to Clintonville, six miles north. 563 00:37:20,555 --> 00:37:24,195 Speaker 1: Ended as abruptly as it began, and the bobtail and 564 00:37:24,355 --> 00:37:28,675 Speaker 1: ragtag and velvet gowned groups of refugees melted away and 565 00:37:28,795 --> 00:37:34,235 Speaker 1: slunk home, leaving the streets peaceful and deserted. The shouting, weeping, 566 00:37:34,395 --> 00:37:37,875 Speaker 1: tangled evacuation of the city lasted not more than two hours. 567 00:37:37,875 --> 00:37:40,835 Speaker 1: In all. Some few people got as far east as 568 00:37:40,835 --> 00:37:45,035 Speaker 1: Reynoldsburg twelve miles away. Fifty or more reached the Country 569 00:37:45,035 --> 00:37:47,715 Speaker 1: Club eight miles away. Most of the others gave up, 570 00:37:47,955 --> 00:37:53,155 Speaker 1: exhausted or climbed trees in Franklin Park, four miles out. 571 00:37:53,595 --> 00:37:56,395 Speaker 1: Order was restored and fear dispelled finally by means of 572 00:37:56,435 --> 00:38:00,755 Speaker 1: militia men riding about in motor lorries bawling through megaphones. 573 00:38:01,275 --> 00:38:06,315 Speaker 1: The dam has not broken. At first, this tended only 574 00:38:06,355 --> 00:38:08,635 Speaker 1: to add to the confusion and increase the panic from 575 00:38:08,635 --> 00:38:13,275 Speaker 1: many stampeders thought the soldiers were bellowing. The dam has 576 00:38:13,395 --> 00:38:18,235 Speaker 1: now broken, thus setting an official seal of authentication on 577 00:38:18,275 --> 00:38:23,035 Speaker 1: the calamity. All the time, the sun shone quietly, and 578 00:38:23,075 --> 00:38:26,675 Speaker 1: there was nowhere any sign of oncoming waters. A visitor 579 00:38:26,675 --> 00:38:30,115 Speaker 1: in an airplane looking down on the straggling, agitated masses 580 00:38:30,155 --> 00:38:32,555 Speaker 1: of people below would have been hard put to it. 581 00:38:32,715 --> 00:38:35,795 Speaker 1: To divine a reason for the phenomenon, it must have 582 00:38:35,955 --> 00:38:39,235 Speaker 1: inspired in such an observer a peculiar kind of terror, 583 00:38:39,795 --> 00:38:42,955 Speaker 1: like the sight of the Marie Celeste abandoned at sea, 584 00:38:43,035 --> 00:38:46,715 Speaker 1: its galley fires peacefully burning, its tranquil decks bright in 585 00:38:46,755 --> 00:38:51,675 Speaker 1: the sunlight. An aunt of mine, Aunt Edith Taylor, was 586 00:38:51,675 --> 00:38:54,035 Speaker 1: in a movie theater on High Street. Went over and 587 00:38:54,075 --> 00:38:56,715 Speaker 1: above the sound of the piano in the pit, a 588 00:38:56,795 --> 00:39:00,475 Speaker 1: william S Hart Cowboy picture was being shown. There arose 589 00:39:00,595 --> 00:39:05,395 Speaker 1: the steadily increasing tramp of running feet. Persistent shaft rose 590 00:39:05,515 --> 00:39:08,955 Speaker 1: above the trumping. An elderly man sitting near my aunt 591 00:39:09,595 --> 00:39:11,795 Speaker 1: mumbled something, got out of his seat and went up 592 00:39:11,835 --> 00:39:16,235 Speaker 1: the aisle to a dog trot. This started everybody. In 593 00:39:16,275 --> 00:39:19,235 Speaker 1: an instant. The audience was jamming the aisles. Fire shouted 594 00:39:19,275 --> 00:39:21,275 Speaker 1: a woman who always expected to be burned up in 595 00:39:21,315 --> 00:39:25,155 Speaker 1: a theater, but now the shouts outside were louder and coherent. 596 00:39:25,235 --> 00:39:30,195 Speaker 1: The damn has broke, pried somebody, go east, screamed a 597 00:39:30,235 --> 00:39:32,875 Speaker 1: small woman in front of my aunt. And east they went, 598 00:39:33,475 --> 00:39:37,195 Speaker 1: pushing and shoving and clawing, knocking women and children, down, 599 00:39:37,795 --> 00:39:43,035 Speaker 1: emerging finally into the street, torn and sprawling. Inside the theater, 600 00:39:43,115 --> 00:39:46,555 Speaker 1: Bill Hart was calmly calling some desperadoes bluff, and the 601 00:39:46,555 --> 00:39:49,555 Speaker 1: brave girl at the piano played Row Row row loudly, 602 00:39:49,595 --> 00:39:54,355 Speaker 1: and then in my harem. Outside, men were streaming across 603 00:39:54,395 --> 00:39:58,235 Speaker 1: the State House yard. Others were climbing trees. A woman 604 00:39:58,315 --> 00:40:01,675 Speaker 1: managed to get up onto These are My Jewels statue, 605 00:40:02,195 --> 00:40:06,035 Speaker 1: whose bronze figures of Sherman Stanton Grant Sheridan watched with 606 00:40:06,155 --> 00:40:10,315 Speaker 1: cold unconcern the going to pieces of the capital city. 607 00:40:12,035 --> 00:40:15,275 Speaker 1: I ran south to State Street, east on State to Third, 608 00:40:15,395 --> 00:40:17,875 Speaker 1: south on Third to Town, and out east on Town. 609 00:40:18,395 --> 00:40:21,435 Speaker 1: My aunt Edith has written me. A tall, spare woman 610 00:40:21,475 --> 00:40:24,595 Speaker 1: with grim eyes and a determined chin ran past me 611 00:40:24,675 --> 00:40:27,275 Speaker 1: down the middle of the street. I was still uncertain 612 00:40:27,275 --> 00:40:28,995 Speaker 1: as to what was the matter. In spite of all 613 00:40:28,995 --> 00:40:32,275 Speaker 1: the shouting. I drew up alongside the woman with some effort, 614 00:40:32,355 --> 00:40:34,195 Speaker 1: for although she was in her late fifties, she had 615 00:40:34,195 --> 00:40:36,715 Speaker 1: a beautiful easy running for him and seemed to be 616 00:40:36,715 --> 00:40:40,395 Speaker 1: an excellent condition. What is it? I puffed. She gave 617 00:40:40,395 --> 00:40:42,755 Speaker 1: me a quick glance and then looked ahead again, stepping 618 00:40:42,835 --> 00:40:46,595 Speaker 1: up her pace a trifle don't ask me, ask God, 619 00:40:46,795 --> 00:40:50,235 Speaker 1: she said. When I reached Grant Avenue, I was so spent. 620 00:40:50,275 --> 00:40:53,475 Speaker 1: The doctor h R. Mallory. You remember doctor Mallory, the 621 00:40:53,475 --> 00:40:56,115 Speaker 1: man with the white beard. It looks like Robert Browning. Well, 622 00:40:56,155 --> 00:40:58,195 Speaker 1: Doctor Mallory, whom I had drawn away from at the 623 00:40:58,195 --> 00:41:01,555 Speaker 1: corner of Fifth in Town passed me. It's got us, 624 00:41:01,675 --> 00:41:04,515 Speaker 1: he shouted, and I felt sure that whatever it was, 625 00:41:04,955 --> 00:41:07,235 Speaker 1: it did have us for you know what conviction, doctor 626 00:41:07,275 --> 00:41:10,075 Speaker 1: Mallory statements always carried. I didn't know at the time 627 00:41:10,075 --> 00:41:12,315 Speaker 1: what he meant, but I found out later. There was 628 00:41:12,355 --> 00:41:14,835 Speaker 1: a boy behind him on roller skates, and doctor Mallory 629 00:41:14,835 --> 00:41:17,715 Speaker 1: mistook the swishing of the skates for the sound of 630 00:41:17,795 --> 00:41:22,595 Speaker 1: rushing water. He eventually reached the Columbus School for Girls 631 00:41:22,635 --> 00:41:24,635 Speaker 1: at the corner of Parsons Avenue in Town Street, where 632 00:41:24,635 --> 00:41:29,155 Speaker 1: he collapsed, expecting the cold, frothing waters of the Sciota 633 00:41:29,275 --> 00:41:33,155 Speaker 1: to sweep him into oblivion. The boy on skates swirled 634 00:41:33,155 --> 00:41:35,595 Speaker 1: past him, and doctor Mallory realized for the first time 635 00:41:35,635 --> 00:41:38,995 Speaker 1: what he had been running from. Looking back up the street, 636 00:41:38,995 --> 00:41:41,635 Speaker 1: he could see no signs of water, but nevertheless, after 637 00:41:41,715 --> 00:41:44,755 Speaker 1: resting a few minutes, he jogged on east again, he 638 00:41:44,835 --> 00:41:47,755 Speaker 1: caught up with me at Ohio Avenue, where we rested together. 639 00:41:48,355 --> 00:41:51,115 Speaker 1: I should say that about seven hundred people past us. 640 00:41:51,635 --> 00:41:55,075 Speaker 1: A funny thing was that all of them were on foot. 641 00:41:55,515 --> 00:41:57,715 Speaker 1: Nobody seemed to have had the courage to stop and 642 00:41:57,795 --> 00:42:02,035 Speaker 1: start his car. But as I remember it, all cars 643 00:42:02,075 --> 00:42:04,315 Speaker 1: had to be cranked in those days, which is probably 644 00:42:04,315 --> 00:42:08,275 Speaker 1: the reason. The next day the city went about its 645 00:42:08,315 --> 00:42:11,955 Speaker 1: business as if nothing had happened. But there was no joking. 646 00:42:12,675 --> 00:42:16,355 Speaker 1: It was two years or more before you dare to 647 00:42:16,395 --> 00:42:20,155 Speaker 1: treat the breaking of the dam lightly, and even now 648 00:42:20,195 --> 00:42:23,395 Speaker 1: twenty years after, there are a few persons like doctor 649 00:42:23,435 --> 00:42:27,515 Speaker 1: Mallory who will shut up like a clam if you 650 00:42:27,675 --> 00:42:33,035 Speaker 1: mentioned the afternoon of the Great Run, the day the 651 00:42:33,155 --> 00:42:50,195 Speaker 1: dam broke by James Thurber. When QAnon is your source 652 00:42:50,355 --> 00:42:54,755 Speaker 1: for damn break news, or when Fox is your source, 653 00:42:55,435 --> 00:42:57,355 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 654 00:42:57,355 --> 00:43:01,235 Speaker 1: you for listening again. Please send your link or a 655 00:43:01,275 --> 00:43:04,195 Speaker 1: copy of this or a copy of the video or 656 00:43:04,275 --> 00:43:07,515 Speaker 1: something to somebody who does not listen to this podcast. 657 00:43:08,435 --> 00:43:12,355 Speaker 1: They might need it. Countown. Musical directors Brian Ray and 658 00:43:12,475 --> 00:43:16,035 Speaker 1: John Phillip Schanel arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. 659 00:43:16,315 --> 00:43:18,955 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. Mister 660 00:43:18,955 --> 00:43:23,035 Speaker 1: Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. It was produced by Tko Brothers. 661 00:43:23,355 --> 00:43:26,475 Speaker 1: Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, arranged and 662 00:43:26,555 --> 00:43:29,635 Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 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So that's countdown 668 00:43:47,235 --> 00:43:49,795 Speaker 1: for this the one hundred and fifty third day until 669 00:43:49,795 --> 00:43:53,955 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four presidential election and the two hundred 670 00:43:53,955 --> 00:43:57,395 Speaker 1: and forty eighth day since convicted fellon Donald Trump's first 671 00:43:57,435 --> 00:44:01,315 Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 672 00:44:01,795 --> 00:44:05,835 Speaker 1: Use the July eleventh sentencing hearing, use mental health system, 673 00:44:06,275 --> 00:44:11,875 Speaker 1: use presidential immunity, use the Tim Burke tapes to stop 674 00:44:11,995 --> 00:44:17,995 Speaker 1: him from doing it again while we still can. The 675 00:44:18,035 --> 00:44:21,955 Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is Tuesday. Bulletins as the news warrants 676 00:44:22,195 --> 00:44:25,675 Speaker 1: till then I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, 677 00:44:26,515 --> 00:44:46,315 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production 678 00:44:46,555 --> 00:44:51,835 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 679 00:44:51,915 --> 00:44:55,315 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.